Atlantic Film Festival!!

GCP is proud to announce that A Land That Forgets will be screening at this year's Atlantic Film Festival!  If you happen to be on the east coast in September, or have any east coast friends, you can find our screening time and dates here.  We do have some free passes to give away, so do let us know if you can make it.

And in celebration of this lovely news, we have a little clip to share. Wonder how we got the canoe under all that ice? Take a look at some top secret behind the scenes footage of the very talented Chris Mennell working his magic. Shot on super8 by post-supervisor extraordinaire Tyler Hagan.

Behind the Scenes ALTF from Glass Curtain Pictures on Vimeo.

P.S. As you can tell, our new website is now up and running!

Website renos

So it seems that our previous web host is no longer functioning so we are currently transitioning to a new one. Please be patient with us as we work out the nuts and bolts of it all.

We should be back up and running shortly :)

In the meantime come visit us at our Vimeo page:

www.vimeo.com/glasscurtainpics

MIFFEST!

Just a quick announcement to say that ALTF (a new abbrev I'm trying out) will be screening here in Toronto at this year's Moving Images Festival on October 15th!!

It will be a part of the Moving Image Showcase category, which I'm really grateful for, because it allows the film, sorry, I mean the video to be viewed in an alternative context (a more appropriate context I believe, for this particular work, than that of your standard short film program).

This, the context, is something my co-producer Meghan and I have been thinking about with regards to our work... you know, what influence does it have on our perception... We'll soon find out how this particular framing alters audience reaction, or if it does at all.

Anywho, I don't know too much about this festival, but I really love their mandate, and I'm excited to see how our little film is received in the big TO.

The exact screening time is not yet announced but I believe it will be in the Annex Live Theatre at 296 Brunswick Ave. More details to come.

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)