Megan Jones
A Touch of Noir
August 15, 2014I don’t know what it is about film noir, but it holds a special som’thin’ som’thin’ for a lot of people in Vancouver. For instance, this spring, the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage hosted the world premiere of Helen Lawrence, a mixed-media presentation from Stan Douglas and Chris Haddock with a film noir take on Vancouver politics in 1948. Then in June, the film noir short Under the Bridge of Fear, from Mackenzie Gray, received eight nominations at the Leo Awards. Gray, meanwhile, was inspired to create his short, in part, after reading the book Vancouver Noir: 1930-1960 by Diane Purvey and…
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The True Heroines are super ladies on a special mission
June 23, 2014As film and television move into new media, high quality web-based interactive and multiplatform storytelling is finally getting due recognition at Canada’s film and television awards. The Canadian Screen Awards (Geminis) recognized digital media in 2010, and the Leos followed…
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Co. Erasga presents the return of Colonial
June 9, 2014Dennis Gupa, theatre director behind Colonial, Co.ERASGA’s provocative exploration of the colonization of the Philippines, is sitting in a plastic chair, watching Alvin Erasga Tolentino reconstruct a section of the performance. A multi-media dance piece conceptualized by the two,…
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The Leo Awards celebrate the best of BC film and television
June 9, 2014The Leo Awards, celebrating excellence in British Columbia film and television, kicked off on Friday, May 30 and filled the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver with the province’s most talented, adventurous, and dedicated artists. The awards ended on a pure note…
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Ts’msyen Transforming shapes the past into high art
May 26, 2014Morgan Green shows me a fierce tattoo of an eagle with its wings spread along the length of her right arm. It’s crafted in the distinct formline of Northwest Coast Art. “I’m the eagle,” she says, meaning the crest…
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