Official Premiere!

It is officially official: A Land That Forgets will have its Canadian premiere in late September at this year's Okanagan Film Festival in beautiful Kelowna, BC!

It's pretty exciting considering the role the Okanagan landscape has played in this little project. We're really happy to have it start off its festival run at such an appropriate venue.

Come check it out if you can!

The end is near!

Hello again!

We at Glass Curtain Pictures are proud to announce that our latest short film A Land That Forgets is now in its final stages of post-production!

It's been a challenge and an adventure, but it's time to get this one off of our hard drives and onto the screen. And so, without further adieu, we would like to extend to you an invitation to our celebratory screening at the Western Front on Tuesday, May 17th.

In addition to the film screening we will be joined by our fantastic musical guest: Andrew Lee of In Medias Res for a solo performance that you won't want to miss! And after the screening join us for drinks and mingling. It's going to be a great night and we would love to see you there.

Once again that's:

Tuesday, May 17th at The Western Front (303 East 8th Avenue, Vancouver), from 8-10pm, musical performance at 8:30pm, screening at 9pm sharp.

Thank you again from all of us at Glass Curtain Pictures.

Sincerely,

Kathleen Hepburn, Meghan Armstrong and Gorrman Lee

Winter shoot a success!

Well that's that! We just returned from the winter wonderland that is Cawston BC, where our skeleton crew spent the weekend picking up the final scene of A Land that Forgets. Equipment has been returned, files have been backed up, and beers are in hand.

No more heavy lifting for this shoot! Hurrah!

Anyway, it was amazing up there, as you can see below. I won't say much more than that. Here's a little sneak peak at how things went:

Tyler shooting some behind the scenes super8...

Mennell. Man of many knots.

Portage.

Not bad eh?

Thats all for now!

All quiet on the eastern front.

Well it's been a while!

So I thought I might give you folks an update. Update is: we're still at it!

The hardest part about editing this movie is that it all looks so damn good, it's really hard to know what to cut. This is the first time I've strayed from 16mm in a very long time, and I was hesitant. I still wonder what it would have looked like had we had that option... But man, Red looks good. We got to use these new Japanese 35mm lenses that are basically a cheaper equivalent of the Cooke S4i's and I have nothing but rave reviews for them. They're sharper than Zeiss Superspeeds and are 100% colour matched! Amazing.

Anyway, enough geek talk. I'm editing slowly, in part because I'm simultaneously working on my master's degree, and in part because I think if you do things slowly enough you often make decisions that surprise you in exciting ways... does that make sense? It takes time to get to know a film at this point. You really have to dig deep and figure out where the heart is.

Thats my excuse anyway!

That's all I have to say for now. Hope all is well with you and I'll keep you posted! (no pun intended)

In case you were wondering how the footage looked...

Well, its been a few weeks since the shoot and I'm sure you've all been on the edge of your seats wondering how it went...

So I'll give you an idea. Here are a few quick frame grabs... Not bad if I do say so!

Featured above is our lovely Mrs. Takeda (played by Theresa Laverty). Who performed tremendously, and put up with all of us like a saint as we slogged through the longest and hottest day.



It was not the easiest shoot. It was hot and we had a lot a lot of shots. But with our amazing cast and outstanding crew, we got through it without so much as an epi-pen incident, and things are looking smashing.


Our little rising star Caleb Surface turned out to be a real gem. A master of improv and a real ladies man to be sure!


And of course, our young lead, Dagan Nish, the most considerate and talented actor we've ever had the pleasure of working with, did us all proud as you will all soon see :)


That's all I can tell you for now. Stay tuned.

Similkameen Valley, who woulda known?

With locations like these how can we go wrong? I have resorted to my cheap point and shoot digital camera for these most recent location pics and even so, they still look great.

Here are two examples of where we will be shooting a couple of the scenes in the film. It's always an adventure to source out locations, and these were no exception. The bottom one was especially challenging, but here it is! And isn't it wonderful?

The look of the film is constantly changing as we go from concept to reality, dreams to practicality, but one thing is for sure, it's going to be beautiful.

You may have noticed that our locations have moved from Bella Coola to the Similkameen Valley. This has mostly been due to financial and logistical reasons, but in the end the arid feel of the Okanagan re-enforces the scripts undertones in a way that is actually quite wonderful.

Bella Coola is a magical place though and someday I will find the right script for it.

Wow! Our new canoe is being built!!!

The thing I love about filmmaking is that no matter what the film is about there is always one task that must be surmounted where you find yourself figuring out how to do something you would never have done otherwise.

And this film is no exception. One of the biggest challenges and most wonderful parts of this film is that the secondary protagonist is a cedar strip canoe. Now this canoe must not only be beautiful, but it must go from being derelect and worn out to being restored all within 5 days of shooting. Or so it would seem... But AHA, you say, what if you had two canoes?!

And that is what we shall have. This is the secret reason that I wrote this film, to see this process unfold. I am in love with these canoes. And hopefully soon you will be too.