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BREAKING THE BAND is the latest addition to my slate of feature film projects. It’s a comedy being written by Mark Slutsky. Aisling Chin-Yee will be producing with me.

The project was selected for Telefilm Canada’s Feature It! Program. Mark, Aisling and I just completed the 4 day Telefilm workshop in Montreal, and with Telefilm’s financial support, Mark is now going to start writing the first draft.

We’ve completed post-production on File Under Miscellaneous. Many thanks to SODEC, BravoFact & the NFB FAP program for their support. I’m really happy with the final result. I’ve started showing the film to funders and festival programmers and we’ve been getting very good feedback. We’ll be premiering it on the festival circuit in late summer / early fall, followed by it’s TV premiere on Bravo.

Les Grands Penseurs is nearing the tail end of it’s festival run. We’ve played over a dozen fests, including Clermont Ferrand, Big Sky Montana, Rendezvous de Cinema Quebecois (winner of Prix Tele-Quebec jeunesse), Rome International, IndieLisboa, FIFEM, etc. We’ve also been nominated for a Yorkton Golden Sheaf award for best youth program. Oddly enough, we’re up against Degrassi.

Check out the new Prospector Films store page! The first film for sale is Morbidly Obese, a documentary produced by John Christou and directed by Alec Mathewson. Buy it now for $25 (shipping and handling included). Morbidly Obese is a documentary about the lives, struggles and metamorphoses of three morbidly obese people who undergo weight loss surgery (bariatric surgery).

After a 4 day shoot in December, we’ve wrapped production on Jeff Barnaby’s File Under Miscellaneous.

We had to contend with cold weather – the heating malfunctioned at both of our interior locations and it got as cold as – 25 C the one day we shot outside. We shot on the RED camera, and i was really happy with how it responded to the conditions. It captured some beautiful images for us.

I’d like to thank the cast and crew for a wonderful job and I’d also like to thank SODEC and BravoFact for their financial support.

We’ll be starting post-production in the new year and hope to release the film on the festival circuit in late Spring or early Summer.

Les Grandes Penseurs is now live. This animated / documentary web series is directed by Karina Garcia Casanova and illustrated / animated by James Braithwaite and Darren Pasemko.

A new episode will be posted everyday this week (Nov. 2nd to 6th). Click here to watch.

In September i spent a week in the eastern Nevada desert with the The Long Now Foundation. We camped at Mt. Washington, the proposed site for the main 10 000 year clock. I got to spend a fair amount of time discussing the project with Danny Hillis, Stewart Brand, Alexander Rose and the rest of the team.

It really opened my imagination to all the possible story lines, scenes and images for my film.

I also took about 800 photos.

This year I’ve been asked to blog for TIFF.net for the length of the Toronto International Film Festival. Please check out my posts here.

I’ve signed on to executive produce a new documentary by Sebastian Lange and Loaded Pictures. The film is tentatively titled Transformation. It is about David Lynch and his role as chief ambassador of the Transcendental Meditation movement in the wake of the death of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in February 2008.