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It was my birthday. We were early for the movie so we grabbed a coffee. While sipping my drink I glanced at the day's newspaper. Three soldiers had been killed, "100 Soldiers Dead" read the headline.In black and white newsprint, the photos could have been from another time. But these are not the soldier boys of yesteryear, they were the faces of men. Career soldiers fighting a war that had gone

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Commissioned as part of Re-Live Vancouver the film loop Training A Fool Is Not A Joke will be shown as a video installation in the street window of Satellite Gallery at 560 Seymour St. (aka the old A&B Sound building) from September 9th to October 22nd. Re-Live Vancouver is an art show where emerging Vancouver artists were invited to make a piece inspired by the work of one of Vancouver's

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Belated post but the 2011 edition of Swarm is happening now! Check this link for more info on this weekend's events as part of this festival of Vancouver artist run spaces.

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When legends insult legends you get the 30 harshest filmmaker insults in history.

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The August 1st deadline for the Northwest Film Festival is fast approaching. Its free to enter! So no excuses!

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The 2011 edition of Signal & Noise starts tomorrow! Check out the website for more information on screenings & venues.

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Inspired by the release of the J.J. Abrams spectacle Super 8, the Smithsonian published a pair of articles this month on the history of amateur film gauges and their use in documentary work.

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The Vancouver Courier, published an article this week on the recent closures of video rental stores around the Vancouver area (and North America in general). Of course you've been probably been too busy downloading features to have notice this...

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With seating for 24, we packed 40 unpaid customers into the micro-cinema at the Cineworks Annex for the highly anticpated event Terminal Cinema II. The after party went past midnight as attending filmmakers: cj brabant, Brian Lye and John Woods met with the audience and discussed their projects.Many thanks to all who volunteered!

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Props to Alex Zhang Hungtai of Dirty Beaches who have been profiled in this weeks Georgia Straight. Alex co-wrote the music for Dubbio.

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Baguette crony Aaron Moore, recently re-relocated back to New Brunswick, was interviewed by the New Brunswick Film Co-op and discusses life, film, cheap rent and tax incentives.

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Startling but sadly beautiful collection of photos of 75 abandoned American theatres.

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Be sure to check out the official site for all your TC II needs!

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Terminal Cinema returns in 2011 with a new lineup of films from the fringe.Who: YOU!What: Terminal CinemaWhen: Doors 8pm, Show 9pm, Party 10pmWhere: Cineworks Annex (235 Alexander St. aka the basement of the Ironworks building)Why: It will be more fun than The Fast and the Furious Five!How: By any means necessary.As the line up is solidified and other details spring up please check out the

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Working from his fortress of solitude in central Alberta, Baguette crony Aaron Moore, has hunkered down for the winter to edit Amy, his bloody directorial debut about the gruesome, murder-revenge exploits of the title character. When asked about what inspired his recent move to the director's chair he was too the point. "Well in my recent collaborations I hated how the editing turned out, and the

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A new addition to the 2010 funding list! The Canadian Short Screenplay Competition has announced the Short Film Fund, read all about it here!

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Riboflavin! continues to rack up fall screenings with the latest happening at John Oliver Secondary School on the edge of Vancouver's Little India. The short screened at 9:30am and precedes the feature How She Move. Following the screening there was a Q&A with maverick director No One Famous and his consortium of producers. The screening was part of an event put on by Reel Canada, a traveling

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Riboflavin! screens in Seattle on October 3, at 5pm as part of the Local Sightings Film Festival.

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In September, Dubbio (aka Doubt), will screen in Hungary as part of the Szeged Super 8mm Festival.Then The Strange Case of Dr. Victor Von Dictor will screen this October in Seattle as part of the Northwest Film Forum's 13th annual Local Sightings Film Festival.

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Last week a trailer was quietly released for Dàle Brèdèson's long-in-the-making epic, A Quiet Death. While the release did not exactly set the Blogosphere on fire, it was a stunning development. The first officially released footage after nearly 3 years of production. Reached yesterday at a press conference/bacchanal, the self-styled enfant terrible of the Nouvelle Baguette announced the

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A new trailer for Dàle Brèdèson's A Quiet Death can be enjoyed in the Videothèque.

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The National Screen Institute recently posted this handy list of Canadian short film financiers. They also have an interesting article on film festival strategy. Good luck!

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An all star gala was held inducting two new members to the growing Baguette membership! Jean-Pierre la Noix d'Or and Louisia le long à Jambes are now full fledged members. Jean-Pierre comes hot on the heals of a busy week pitching a feature length documentary at Hot Docs. Louisia recently arrived in Vancouver after studying in Montreal and also boasts a strong documentary background.

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Sean MacPherson's lo-fi feature, Happy To Be Here, debuts in the Big Smoke tonight! Head down to the Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles, 7pm. Other info on screenings and the film can be found here.

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Baguette photographer, Petite Binoche , is pleased to announce an upcoming gallery showing for her co-production of Tetris Portrais as part of Good Idea Collective's Play Time. The show happens on June 4th at 156 West Hastings.

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Two blistering days of shooting wrapped quietly and on time late Sunday afternoon. Saturday concentrated on the daily life of the henchmen at their lair/clubhouse. The production survived a near-tragic shattering of a full maple syrup bottle. Popsicles were popped and cigarettes were smoked at a rate unseen outside of a Humphrey Bogart movie.Sunday's work comprised shooting the un-elaborate fight

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Journeyman Dàle Brèdèson is set for Phase 2 of his epic, years-in-the-making Henchmen. Avid readers will remember that almost two years ago the wonderkind commenced shooting on this project as part of his Doc Shcmock project. With photography of that phase focusing on the escapades of the 'hero', The Wasp. We are stunned to announce that Phase 2 will commence shooting in less than week! This

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The epic DVDVD is here! The split DVD of The Strange Case of Dr. Victor Von Dictor and Dubbio is rolling off the presses as fast as the Chinese factory can produce them! Featuring nearly an hour of bonus content for two short films running barely 20 minutes this special edition DVD represents excessive and unnecessary bonus content to the extreme! Each film is digitally mastered and comes with

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Media content for the upcoming limited edition Obsessive Compulsive Collector Edition DVD release for The Strange Case of Dr. Victor Von Dictor and Dubbio is nearly complete and copies should be ready for April.Both films will be on the disc and like all collector edition dvds, will be loaded with features you'll either ignore or watch once but still feel strangely compelled to own. There will be

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Pre-production has begun on Henri de la Baguettes latest short and entry into the feature length short film compilation, I HEART REGINA. Shooting will occur on Jan 30 and 31. The short film is tentatively entitled HANSON AND GRETA, and is an updating of the Hansel and Gretel story - this time set in Regina's North Central neighbourhood (made famous by the Maclean's Magazine article that called it

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The Strange Case of Victor Von Dictor will screen this March at the 18th Annual $100 Film Festival which is run by the Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers.

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February 12th and 13th at the Vancouver Island Short Film Festival.

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After a glorious premiere, a bawdy crowd rubbed shoulders with the cast & crew at St. Augustines Pub before dispersing into the night.Amongst other happy news, the Rio Theatre premiere had an article in the Vancouver Courier.

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Come to the Rio Theatre on Decemeber 15th at 9pm and bear witness to the Vancouver premiere of Sean MacPherson's lo-fi feature Happy to Be Here! Get all the happy details here.

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Experience noonefamous.net! Now pimping: Riboflavin! Pimping soon: dvds and other cooler stuff!

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Riboflavin! screens this weekend in the Whistler Film Festival. The film screens at the desirable slot of 1:15pm on December 4th. A full truck of dignitaries will head up to the mountain on the morning of the 4th and will return on the 6th. All cast, crew, cronies and journeymen are invited to come up but there is very limited hotel space, mooches should talk to the distinguished director, No One

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Sunday, December 13, 2009Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pmLocation: The Rio Theatre on BroadwayKINOFEST 2009: A Short Film ShowcaseA collection of short films from Local Vancouver Filmmakers. A multi-genre film program featuring the following:SLIPPING AWAY (5 min)RIBOFLAVIN! (10 min)MARION BIGSBY (10 min)WHEELS (10 min)FLUSH (10 min)THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. VICTOR VON DICTOR (12 min)THE MECHANIC (10

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A handful of behind the scenes stills from the set of Dubbio can be enjoyed in the foto section.

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Amor de Fromage's entry Dubbio was granted the Jury Prize of Honourable Mention at last nights Bloodshots 2009 screening. An award we are very happy to be presented. The big winner of the night was Chloe & Attie which was a brilliant piece, with quite a professional touch. Many thanks to the cast and crew, especially Marylis for doing some of the best makeup of the night (yes even better than the

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is the name of La Nouvelle Baguette's entry in the 2009 Bloodshots Canada. The film will debut at the Celluloid Social Club this Wednesday at 7:30pm. Be sure to get there early as the Club regularly sells out and with 25 teams in the contest... well you do the math.The film will be uploaded to YouTube for online voting for the Audience Choice Award after the screening. Its been decided that we'd

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Tub Cine Lab will open its doors again after a hiatus of a few years. The award winning B&W film laboratory (Acid Movie and Jouez Avec Ca, Henri) will re-open under special request for the upcoming Bloodshots Canada 2009 48 hour horror film contest.Tub Cine Lab will be working in conjunction with Bright Light Transfers for Amor de Fromage's entry in the long running fast film contest.

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The Strange Case of Dr. Victor Von Dictor and Ribflavin! will both screen next month at the Silver Waves Film Festival in Fredericton, NB. Riboflavin! will also screen in December at the Whistler Film Festival.

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Petite Binoche's medium format photo series Memory of a Memory is featured at the Havana Gallery, 1212 Commericial Drive, from October 11-24. Opening party is October 11, 4-7 pm.

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Riboflavin isn't just one of the essential nutrients in milk, it's also a movie about one of the essential nutrients in milk! Milk, cereal & causality crisis, its all part of an unbalanced breakfast in this buddy comedy by No One Famous. The opening film for 2009 Crazy 8's has now landed on DVD for the cast & crew. The DVD is not available in any stores, you can't get it on Amazon, you won't find

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Exiled Baguette Chancellor Guy Tainment's explosive return to filmmaking, The Devil's Blueprint, has proven so hot that no one will touch it! After unsatisfactory discussions with suppliers and location managers, Guy has decided to push shooting until the fall. Principal photography had been scheduled to begin on August 1 but restrictive, last-minute demands by the location owners plus a lack of

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In a dubious double bill at the fabulous former Wosk mansion & hosted by Journeyman Dàle Brèdèson, cast and crew will lay eyes upon The Strange Case of 'Dr.' Victor Von Dictor and Riboflavin! The films will screen under the stars in an exclusive outdoor theatre. The yard opens around 8pm this Friday, July 24th. The screening will show around 10pm. BYOB.

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The latest issue of SPLICE, the official print organ of the Saskatchewan Filmpool Collective features an article on the fast filmmaking adventures of Terry Mialkowsky and John Woods (who also co-wrote the article). “Manic - Reflections on Fast Filmmaking” is a candid and entertaining collection of reminiscences about the creation of ten fast films between 2001 and 2003 - starting with digital

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Word is that the young journeyman, Dàle Brèdèson, has nearly completed A Quiet Death his long gestating murder mystery. Only work on the sound mix is left. There is even a possible cast & crew screening within the next 2 months. Yes, it is possible!

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Festival submission season is in high gear, here is a short list of festivals we've got our eyes on that have upcoming deadlines for their short film categories, you feature filmmakers will have to do your own work to determine those fees/deadlines. Calgary InternationalDeadline – June 12Dates – Sept. 25 thru Oct. 1Fee - $20Chicago Underground Film FestivalDeadline – June 15Dates – Sept 10 -

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Henri win's 2nd place in the prestigious 24 Hour Playwriting Competition. No word on just how the judges prevented any of the contests from doing any writing on the works prior to the contest but you can read more about it here.Based on a true story about a murderer hiding out at an elderly couple's home, casting the play will be difficult as the jaw dropping final act requires full frontal

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You can only see the complete Riboflavin! tonight at the Vogue, but the curious (and the thrifty) can watch the teaser trailer here:

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The notorious Jambon Burglaire Grimace completed his Crazy 8s film, Riboflavin! today. It took Producer Aaron Moore 6 years to bring it to the contest and it was done after 8 sleepless days. Aaron is now considering applying his diligence to other productive measures like his education. An extravagant screening happens at the Vogue this Saturday night.Further details and pictures can be found in

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Is looking for short films less than 20 minutes. Deadline is May 31st. Cost: $0.00.Read more here! Or browse their official website.

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Hello Underground Cinema Fan,Remember how great it was making all those crazy fast films? No sleep. Mass confusion. Inept directors. Well, we’d like you to mine those memories for golden nuggets, and help create a cautionary tale/fond reminiscence of those days.Amor de Fromage and Henri de la Baguette are preparing an article for the magazine Splice on the sordid history of the 24 and 48 hour

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Il Jardino and Henri de la Baguette's Bill Seaton's C.L.E.A.N. Filmmaking Guide will screen in the comedy section of the 2009 edition of the prestigousYorkton Film Festival, Canada's longest running film festival. See the list of all the other films here.

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Exiled chancellor, Guy Tainment, has been plotting his return to the Baguette with a script titled The Devil's Blueprint that he has personally adapted from a one act play. Details are sketchy but he's considering a June shoot and the script centers around a police officer's interrogation of a murder suspect.

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Henri de la Baguette's experimental Super 8 film Belt Buckle, Quonset Hut screened in Winnipeg recently where it was seen by the Winnipeg Film Group who are interested in helping distribute it. Controversially, Henri has re-cut the film for this revival run, removing the bulk of the unintentional but memorable ending. A smart move? Only time will tell...

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Congratulations to Jon Ornoy and our friends at Animal Mother Films for recently winning a Bravo!Fact award for Plastic Bottles, 2007, a short documentary profiling artist Chris Jordan.

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Check out this preview of some of the works screening. The show happens tomorrow at 7:30 at the Cinematheque.

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Jambon Burglaire Grimace has decided to pitch Riboflavin for this year's Crazy 8s contest.

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Amor de Fromage and Baguette crony Sean MacPherson have films in the upcoming New Cineworks 2009 group showing of Cineworks member's works from 2008. In addition to having a short film in the show, MacPherson will also be debuting the trailer for his recently completed feature film Happy to be Here. Come see a great selection of local work on March 10th, 7:30 OM at the Pacific Cinematheque (1131

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The Baguette's famed resident expert on stimulants, Jean Luc la Roche, has produced an amusing Red Bull spec commercial be sure to check out the version in glorious HD!

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Long suffering Baguette crony Aaron Moore has recently revived the corpse of his long gestating project, Riboflavin, with mercenary director Jambon Burglaire Grimace signed on to direct and produce, with Moore executive producing.Loyal readers will recall that the film was days away from shooting back in the summer of 2005 when difficulties arose in the schedule that derailed the film. His fate

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Journeyman Baguette memember Dàle Brèdèson recently shot several sketches for his "Clickability" project, his epic plan to creat 500 viral YouTube videos. He was able to get about two or three done Sunday afternoon, good luck with the rest amigo!

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A cryptic message was left in our inbox yesterday. Our computer techs traced the e-mail back to a hacked Hotmail account used from an IP address belonging to a cyber cafe in the Whalley district of Surrey. Is this from a group aligned with the recently exiled Baguette Chancellor Guy Tainment?He wants you to know that he's ready to make a move and he's got some big players behind him. His own

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Zero for Conduct Flick Harrison's cool new zine dedicated to Vancouver underground film.

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Saskatchewan authorities have placed Henri & Elle Jardino under house arrest in their secluded rural manor after being implicated in a bizarre head-shrinking plot. The glamorous couple have been accused of purchasing a head shrinking spell from a Voodoo Priest while on a recent trip to the Dominican Republic. The intention was to use its power to regain control of an unscrupulous West Coast media

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Is Monday, March 2nd!Click here for all the info!

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One of the most popular topics amongst filmmakers is "Where did you get the money?" and to help with that here is a small list of sources. Typically the deadlines are in the spring (ie March/April) or fall (September/October). "How did you get it?" is usually the next question. There is no secret password, its a combination of your proposal, track record and the jury's opinion and instincts. I

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Just a reminder...

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Guy Tainment deposed as Chancellor & exiled to Surrey! State of anarchy declared!TC goes ahead in 2009!Carmelle de la Chat inducted!Naming ceremony: Pierre Petite Génoise Individuelle!

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Enquiring minds might like to know that the National Film Board has finally launched their archives on the interweb, many of the shorts have been available for years on YouTube, but they do have quite a few prominent features to watch at their site.

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Baguette Summit 2009, this Sunday (aka tomorrow!), 2pm at "The Mansion". Topics on the table will include the 2009 TC Screening. A preview of the Victor Von rough cut is threatened.

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Cineworks, Vancouver's first independent filmmaker's society, is expanding. The coop has acquired a large basement space in the Railtown area and is opening an analogue filmmaking studio. This analogue studio is being designed as an open space, focusing on optical printing, film processing/printing, film post production, mixed media and animation. Cineworks has acquired several film processors

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Prairie Threat Entertainment has entered into a development deal with the prestigious Canadian pay-tv pioneer, Superchannel. Henri won't say just what they are developing but claims it will not be one of the channel's famed erotic thrillers, disappointing subscribers all over the nation.

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Henri and Il Jardino's legendary One Take Super 8 Event short film, Belt Buckle, Quonset Hut comes to the Pacific Cinematheque, Monday January 19th at 7:30, as part of a compilation of One Take greats. All the films are edited in camera and shot on a single 50ft reel of Super 8 film.Shot in 2006, the film has toured with the other One Take films all over North American and even inspired a

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By popular request:

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It was a slow day at the Baguette offices. Staff were gathered in the conference room playing an explosive game of Magic the Gathering when this reporter recieved a text message. It was from a blocked number and told me to meet them at the bench in the Southeast corner of China Creek park. I was intrigued by this and immediately assumed that my ad on Adultfriendfinder finally paid off. I quickly

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The first music video for the Cripple Creek Fairies, "Convoy Creep" was directed by Henri de la Baguette.

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Words Don't Mean The Same Thing To You...

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The Strange Trailer of 'Dr.' Victor Von Dictor

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A Strange Case has been made and all the evidence has been collected and sent off to highly educated experts in monochromatic motion pictures. The jury is still out but our field reporters intercepted a telegram this afternoon stating "Print All Save Tail".

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Henri reports:"My Bill Seaton film screened last night, and it was an utter disaster! Guytainment's camera might have finally bit the biscuit. It was all over exposed, as if it was wide open the entire time. I shot on Auto and confirmed with the internal meter that it was reading around F11, but it looked like F2 the whole way. Very little could be made out, and the intertitles were almost

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Henri de la Baguette wrapped production today on "Bill Seaton's C.L.E.A.N. Filmmaking Guide" for the One Take Super 8 Event. A satirical take on the pitfalls of the governement supported filmmaking culture. Each competing filmmaker is given the same limits: 50 ft of Super 8 film, all edits done in camera, and no chance to review the film until the day of the screening.The film will be screened on

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Buffalo Farm will screen next month in Swazilandas part of the Golden Lion Film Festival as part of their documentary night on October 16, 2008.

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Ginger wonderkind Dàle Brèdèson wrapped up production this weekend of Phase 1 of his ambitious Doc Schmock project. Phase 2 will be completed in the late fall after an exhaustive search for a key location for the climactic fight scenes. Secretive and quite paranoid, when interviewd by this reporter on Sunday, Monsieur Brèdèson would only say "Doc Schmock is a show about docs but they aren't real

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8/8/08Night 1El Borracho crashed the party at this year's Project8 Film Festival, a penetrative full frontal supersonic balls deep assault of Super 8 films from Canada. Packed with film geeks, hipsters, scenesters, punks and RCMP spooks, people had to sit on the floor to make room at the VIVO Media Arts Centre.In previous years the event showcased just the films made in their spring workshop but

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The center building of Woodlands Hospital burned to the ground yesterday. Originally constructed in 1878, the hospital had been home to mental health patients for over a hundred years before being closed amid cutbacks in the 1990s.In the years since closing, the grounds had been used extensively as a film location. Some say most famously by The X-Files, others say more famously in Henri de la

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Ahht lahhst! The trailer for Ahh, Youth!

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Buffalo Farm screened this week as part of the DOXA Film Festival and garnered this great review.

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Journeyman Dàle Brèdèson has called for a meeting at his château to take place at 2pm today. Come one, come all.

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Elle Jardino and Henri de la Baguette, invite you to share their experience at the Cannes Film Festival on their blog!

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Prairie Threat Entertainment Inc. Presents:www.pthreat.ca

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Facebookers can join the DOXA group and check out the new trailer for Buffalo Farm and many other documentaries that will screen later this month.

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May 13, 2008 – CBC, British Columbia Film and New Media BC today announced the BC winners of the first Digital Development Lab.Interactive Entertainment AwardThe winner of the $10,000 CBC Development Award in this division is ComaState, an interactive drama developed by BC writers and producers Dwayne Beaver, Rudy Thauberger and Ed Hatton. ComaState is a layered drama with a rich range of web

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Buffalo Farm will screen at this year's Montreal Underground Film Festival on May 17th as part of their Through the Windshield program. Learn more here.

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Amor de Fromage is bemused to announce that his latest borefest, Buffalo Farm, will sedate audiences at the DOXA film festival in Vancouver next month. To read all about it, click here!

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In a streak of unprecedented 'success', Baguette maestro J.P. Lombier has successfully received a Telefilm fellowship at this years Banff World Television Festival. Using his powers of persuasion, black mail and rampant cronyism J.P.'s application was approved. The fellowship promises all sorts of exciting opportunities to further develop his ambitious reality TV program "When Paint Drys".Read

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