Hand Cut Films Film/Video Editing and Post-production Services in Vancouver, BC

Catching Up: Past, Present and 2009

Computers love me, but I don't love them. I do my best to stay off the machines as much as possible when I'm not working. Therefore updates to my site are quite rare. Instead I prefer to occasionally rattle off a summary of activities since my last entry. This time I let nine months lapse without a post. For shame!

Since then, many projects have come through these hands:

• Viral video coinciding with an international grassroots campaign urging China to open a diplomatic dialogue with Tibet, leading up to the 2008 Summer Olympics in China
• 6-minute demo for a documentary being produced by the National Film Board of Canada
• Promotional video for the city of Powell River, BC
• Feature documentary, shot on Super 16mm, telling 'the legend of the dolphins' in an original, poetic narrative form
• Story-driven music video for the artist RUMI, shot on the RED One
• Short Biopic on visual artist David Pirrie
• Teaching at Tony Papa's film school in Powell River

This may seem like a lot of work, but I've had more down-time than usual, due of course to the recession. 2009 is definitely looking up though, and I'm getting excited about a number of projects on the horizon.