Student Success
Here is what some of our recent graduates and students are up to.
Congratulations to writer/director Camille Mitchell; representing one of six teams winning the 2012 Crazy 8's film competition. Films will screen for the industry Spring 2012.
Stephen Coderre and his production team were selected as one of thirteen semi-finalists in this year's Vancouver Crazy 8's filmmaking competition.
Ira Cooper is in post production on a short zombie drama and has recently launched a web based travel series and blog.
Greg Masuda traveled to Uganda to crew on a film for Paperny Films. Greg received a Filmmaker Assistance Program (FAP) Grant for his student film Surviving in the Cracks. He also participated in the NFB Cookin Creative Emerging Filmmaker’s Program. In 2010, he completed a project for the Kidsafe Project Society and taught digital storytelling to the Assembly of First Nation Youth Council in Ottawa.
Trorry Wong is currently working with SIM Vancouver. Digital Film Production student Trorry Wong won 1st place in the Matrix Video Competition with his piece
Hey Jude Baby Spoof. The grand prize was $3,000 cash and $1,0000 in rental credit.
Nilufer Rahman's short drama Foreign Film has been selected to screen at The Bay Street Film Festival (Thunder Bay) and at STIFF Short Toronto Indie Film Festival. Alumni
Saira and Nilufer Rahman filmed in Inuvik, Northwest Territories for a documentary film "Arctic Mosque" :A little mosque overcomes great odds during its 4000 km journey by road and water from Winnipeg to a small arctic town where a community eagerly awaits it. The mosque represents a new phase for Inuvik Muslims; it symbolizes settlement, a sense of permanence and a carving out of identity.
Laura Robertson set up Vancouver's first DSLR film festival with sponsorship from Langara's Digital Film Production Program. Laura is currently employed as a cameraperson and editor on programs for SHAWTV includingThe Express.
Several student films have broadcast on Shaw Cable 4's One World television series including Windows: a film in 5 Acts by Andres Salas.
Alumnus, Kelvin Eisses documented his jouney across North and South America. Screen video clips of the adventure in progress: www.ratheroddjourney.ca
Saira Rahman's short drama, Grad Day was selected for the 2010 National Screen Institute Online Film Festival.
Congratulations to Chris Bevacqua, Andres Salas and Greg Masuda Langara Documentary Program alumni and recipients of the 2010 Hot Docs Astral Media Emerging Documentary Filmmaker's Scholarship Program.
Sonal Bakshi, Laurie Kindiak, Greg Musada, Toshomi Ono, and Saira Rahman's films were all chosen for inclusion in the 2010 Women in Film Short Film Festival:
Sonal Bakshi, Those Ten Minutes (short drama)
Laurie Kindiak, Pigeon Park Savings (short documentary)
Greg Musada, Surviving in the Cracks (short documentary)
Toshomi Ono, When I Grow Up (short documentary)
Saira Rahman, Grad Day (short drama)
Robert Fullerton won the prestigious Fall 2009 Praxis Screenwriting Feature Film competition for The Boy with One Ear.
Julie Tanas has been working as a Lamp Operator on numerous films including DGC Kickstart short: L'Oiseau Mort, ACFC Feature: Butterfly on a Wheel and the Independent Feature film Stranger Game.
Cameron Gardner began working in the Locations Dept on the Film Addicted, and the TV shows Battlestar Galactica and To Love and Die in LA.
Rob Taylor has become Director of Fund Development and Marketing for Osiris Films working on a Documentary Feature The Star People Prophecy starring Peter Coyote, Canadian Gordon Tootoosis and Wallace Black Elk. He also began working as AD on set.
Richard Olak
Winner of numerous Canada wide awards for best student film It Haunts Me Writing a Feature Film for a New York Based Production Company now in development. He finished the documentary film Lot 429 .
Scott Estes
Editor and occasional Camera Operator on VIVA for Channel M, Asst Editor on America: The Insular Empire. Horse Opera Productions. Asst Editor for another documentary, as yet untitled, Rave Films.
Brandon Brockman
Camera and Editor for Bumps and Stumps Production Company
Rachel Schmidt
has set up her own production company -www.girledgefilms.com
Guy Judge
received a Crazy 8 award for his dramatic short All In which broadcast on City TV.
Caesar Rodrigeuz
began as Assistant Editor on “The Creative Native” for ATVP Television and then moved on to Post Production Editor for Elite Fighting Federation TV.
Anna Russell
Inside the Tango Documentary Film screened at Cinetango International Film Festival. She also completed a documentary film for the BC Labour Movement.
Rick Wong
completed an internship with Shaw TV’s Production Crew Training Unit.
Bob Rogers
worked with X-men 3 and Rogue feature films followed by Fantastic Four as a PA. He is on the DGC permitee program.
Rhys Lloyd
began working for Brightlight Pictures in the Post Production Department and as a Post Production PA Editor on Bloodrayne 2.
Bongani Ngugama
received an internship with The National Film Board of Canada and began running her own Editing Company.
Aaron Cumming
began working as an Assistant Editor for Paperny Films.
Natalie Indra
is currently an Editor at Masterworks.
Scott Eastlick
Writer. A Very Merry Daughter of the Bride (2008) (TV) Teleplay. Currently in post production.
Clayton Goodfellow
is currently working with Blink Media.
Luis Alamazan
is Assistant Editor at Rugged Films
Suresh Patel
High Ball film screened at the 2nd Annual Filmmaker's Showcase in Vancouver.
Walter Ricarte
A Table for One film screened at the 2nd Annual Filmmaker's Showcase in Vancouver.
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Testimonial
"I took the Digital Film Production Program with the intention of producing a short film I could successfully enter into a few film festivals. It was an intense four months and a sharp learning curve, but I not only graduated with a film which was officially selected by five different festivals around the world, I learned the fundamentals of filmmaking. I gained the confidence to pursue my dream of filmmaking."
Saira Rahman
DFP Graduate
Her graduation film "Grad Day" has won numerous film awards.
