Ilona Beiks

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Insight in on Tortured

The busy B.C. company is working on four thrillers this spring, including three MOWs for Lifetime and the Laurence Fishburne feature Tortured

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Boys and Arms lead Leo race

The annual awards gala for B.C. projects gives high marks in its nominations to Dragon Boys and Robson Arms, while Fido faces off against Unnatural & Accidental for best movie

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New media bands together in B.C.

A task force fronted by the lobby group New Media BC wants to keep the province’s new media-makers competitive on a world level, ‘so we’re not just for-hire’

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How did they do that? Rainmaker goes for comic Glory

Vancouver: In DreamWorks’ comedy smash Blades of Glory, Will Ferrell and Jon Heder perform cutting-edge figure skating moves on the ice, but the most challenging lifts happened behind the scenes at Vancouver’s Rainmaker Visual Effects.

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Make Believe commits Murder

Fact and fiction converge in True Pulp Murder, a documentary TV series shooting in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

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Make Believe commits Murder

B.C. production house pairs crime novelists with re-enactments of the real thing in True Pulp Murder

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B.C. producers step up for CTF

Group tables five recommendations ahead of CRTC review of the Canadian Television Fund, stressing copyright and reliable contributions from cable and satellite operators

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Boll market

Run an Internet search on filmmaker and occasional boxer Uwe Boll and you’ll find pages and pages of sites, blogs, and message boards all ‘Boll bashing’ his various video game adaptations including House of the Dead and BloodRayne.

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Sarin realizes movie dream

Vancouver: When Partition opens on 30 screens across Canada on Feb. 2, veteran director and cinematographer Vic Sarin will realize a lifelong dream.

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Happy wins at Whistler

Whistler, BC: Hit with a record-breaking early snowfall, the sixth annual Whistler Film Festival rolled out the white carpet to host four days of 90-plus flicks, and at its Dec. 3 finale handed its $15,000 Borsos award to first-time screenwriter/director Stéphane Lapointe for La Vie secrète des gens heureux (The Secret Life of Happy People).

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Insight eyes sci-fi

Vancouver – Insight Film Studios wants to expand its client base and is hoping an ogre will help them do it. The Vancouver company is moving on from its recent spate of MOWs for Lifetime (Mind Games, Family in Hiding) to shoot a monster project for the Sci Fi Channel.

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Shuffle at Force Four

Vancouver: Three longtime staffers of Force Four Entertainment have inked a deal with founders Hugh and Debra Beard to take ownership of the Vancouver-based prodco and its parent company.