Telus STORYHIVE fund has been helping filmmakers launch their careers for years now – but mainly for those in the documentary world. But this year, they’ve branched out and awarded 40 individuals in BC and Alberta $20,000 each and invited them to be part of the TELUS STORYHIVE Scripted Edition! Those chosen will also receive…
The people spoke, and the theatres listened. The world’s very first feature film written by ChatGPT was scheduled to launch in London this past week, but the new technology is facing some real world problems even AI didn’t predict. When publicity began announcing the premiere, the Prince Charles Theatre began receiving complaints (over 200, to…
If you’re anything like me, when you watched The Matrix, you assumed that the green stringy things were some advanced level of code. Maybe a complicated algorithm. If that’s true, then I’m about to burst your bubble and possibly ruin your Friday. The reality is that a production designer scanned symbols from his wife’s sushi…
You may not have seen the 1992 iconic horror film, Candyman, but no doubt you’ve at least heard of the bee scene, where approximately 200,000 living bees were used. In that scene, the bees coming out of Candyman’s mouth and chest are real, and apparently, Tony Todd was paid $1,000 for each sting he received!…
Don Corleone wasn’t always supposed to be stroking a cat during his tete a tete with Bonasera. Rather, director Francis Ford Coppola spotted the animal on the set and decided to include it in the scene.“The cat in Marlon [Brando]’s hands was not planned for,” Coppola said according to Time. “I saw the cat running…
The first full-length Documentary Film was produced in 1922. It was called “Nanook of the North” and is said to be the first in the Canadian industry.
Did you know that in the Okanagan-Similkameen Boundary region last year, we filmed 31 productions (not including animation) ? Well now you do.
The longest film ever made, according to Guinness World Records, is “The Cure for Insomnia” (1987), directed by John Henry Timmis IV. The film lasts 85 hours and is considered an extraordinary achievement in the film industry.
The Roundhay Garden Scene was the very first moving picture, and was produced in 1888. The French inventor, Louis Le Prince, filmed his family prancing around in a circle in an extraordinary two second clip. It might not seem like much now, but that innovation is what lead to the commercialized cameras and motion pictures…
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