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The Rip-Off is the Hulu Audience Favorite.

From. http://thehulureview.blogspot.com/2009/05/announcing-hulu-award-for-best-dramatic.html

After 20,000 audience votes, the audience favorite was "The Rip-off," with a definitive 79% of the vote. The director of this excellent short is Mr. Kun Chang, a friend of the Hulu Review. Kun wrote us that he was "excited" about the distinction, and you can read more about his past and current projects on his site, here.

WE DIDN’T WIN, BUT WE GOT 79 PERCENT OF THAT AUDIENCE THAT VOTED FOR US...79 PERCENT!!!!

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Commercials, commercials, commercials

The end of The Movie Network Mamma Mia commercial.

The end of The Movie Network Mamma Mia commercial.

I’m working on ...depending on how you look at it, either...8 or 9 commercials at the moment. All of them are sooo cool. I’m definitely in “the Zone” at the moment. Two of them, the picture above, were one takes done with Spy for The Movie Network on a huge soundstage (11k) in Toronto.

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Hellboy 2 Concept Art

Hellboy 2 is out today. I did the concept drawings for the opening scene (with the puppets) Here is one of the drawings I did.


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Commercials

I’m working on 2 commercials for Gatorade for BBDO Mexico, 1 for Zobo Beer for BBDO Moscow and another one for the Museum of Civilization in Quebec. Lots of work, lots of fun

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Osmos - at the Independent Games Festival

Osmos is a game I worked on with a friend: Eddy, that is currently being submitted to Microsoft for Live Arcade. I did the graphics.

It was also submitted to the Independent Games Festival but unfortunately didn’t make it to the finals.

Here are some of the nice words we got from the 2008 Independent Games Festival Judge:

“Osmos scored best in:  Visual Art 

And scored worst in:  Technical

“After playing this, I felt like I’d sat through one of those PBS documentaries on cellular mitosis. OK, that didn’t come out the way I’d intended. The whole notion of absorbing enemies (and using bits of your structure to propel yourself) worked amazingly well. A unique take on the simple, yet difficult to master action game. A good deal of fun. In some ways, it reminded me of Flow. And like that game, I do want to point out that the choice of audio for Osmos is perfect in setting the vibe.”
“Very cool game. I like the simplicity of it, and especially like the levels where you are propelled around a large mass.”
“I’d love to see it adapted to gamepad.”
“I hate flow, and I like this. I think the varying objectives are a big part of what make this work as a game.

Presumably it’s been tried and rejected, but having to jam the mouse button to propel feels antithetical to the rest of the slow and ambient style — was holding down the button for a boost too difficult to control? I might like to try it with analogue propulsion.

Otherwise, apart from it being occasionally a bit too easy to get into a really rough situation with the other cells gaining their own size advantage, the idea and the slowed sound are elegant, the style is nicely done, and fantastic choices for the music (yay for Loscil!). —-”

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I’m shooting Bedtime Stories!

The first two days of shooting are done. 4 more to go. We are getting amazing material and I have a feeling this might be a very, very good first feature film - we’ll see...

Félicia Schulman and Dan Bierne in the story Mum and Pup.

Félicia Schulman and Dan Bierne in the story Mum and Pup.


Next up are Martin Laroche and Julie le Breton - starting in a week and a half.

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Commercials and Shorts

Friday the 16th I’m shooting a commercial for Recyc-Québec. Watch out - it is going to be “something else”.

Next up is Bedtime stories - a series of improvised shorts. Shooting begins end of November until the third week of December - very exciting.

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The Rip-Off, Upcoming Film Festivals

•London Film Festival, London, England. Oct. 17 - Nov.1

•Cornwall Film Festival, Falmouth, England, Nov 8-11

•Festival du film court de Victo, Victoriaville, Quebec, 6 Nov (Sp. Screening),

•23rd International Short Film Festival Interfilm, Berlin, Germany Nov 6-11

•Prague Shorts, Prague, Poland, Nov 14-18

.•       Cinema de Québec à Paris, Paris, France, Nov 22-28

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The Rip-Off at Cannes Short film Corner

The Rip Off will be part of the 60th Cannes Film Festival and will be presented in the “Short Film Corner”

 

From Qui Fait Quoi.

 

Pour la 3e année, les courts métrages de toutes les régions du monde ont vitrine sur la Croisette au Short Film Corner durant le Festival de Cannes. La plateforme permet aux jeunes créateurs de prendre part au festival, rencontrer leurs pairs et se faire connaître des acheteurs. 

 

La production québécoise au Short Film Corner n’est pas négligeable cette année, alors que près d’une vingtaine de films brefs ont été inscrits dans la sélection officielle. On retrouve côte à côte des œuvres comme «Madame Tutli-Putli» de Chris Lavis et Maciek Szczerbowski, sélectionnée à la Semaine internationale de la critique, et «Birth of the Smoked Meat» de Jeanne Pope et Zoe Mapp, un des quatre films issus du programme Emerging Filmmaker de Kodak. 

 

Les autres titres sont «2 Strangers and a Foosball» (Les films de fantaisie) de Eduardo Soto-Falcon, «Complex Model» et «Recess» (Quirk Productions) de Maude Michaud, «Deaddolls» de Jean-François Pilon, «Eau Boy» d’Éric Gravel, «Glitch» (Afro Films) de Peter Ricq, «Jrauomesn» de Alessandro Cassa, «Le lac» de Charles Boivin, «Les eaux mortes» (Métafilms) de Guy Edoin, «Moi» (NewVision Films) de Yan England, «Neuf» (Locomotion Films) de Martin Talbot, «La nuit toutes les souris sont grises» de Caroline Calloch, «The Ripp-Off» de Chang Kun, «A Sexy vom it break» de David Latreille, «Souviens-toi de m'aimer...» (Korsair Films) de Bertrand Weissgerber, «Stuff» (KRH films) de Karl R. Hearne et «A Surreal Phantasy» de Frédéric Elalouf. 

 

L’an dernier, la section a projeté 900 films de 30 pays et favorisé 13 000 consultations. 1 100 participants y ont été accueillis. On peut télécharger le programme officiel de l’édition 2007 au www.shortfilmcorner.com <http://www.shortfilmcorner.com/planning_sfc07.pdf>

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