Director Patrick Kalyn Joins Woolf + Lapin

Woolf+Lapin signs young director and VFX specialist, Patrick Kalyn. See his second and quite visionary short, Hybrids, produced by Gabriel Napora at Triton Films of Neill Blomkamp fame.

Here is the synopsis: In the wake of an alien infestation, an ex-special forces soldier’s daughter is killed in an alien attack. Seeking revenge, she leads a team deep into alien territory to a quarantined lab.

Soon, she discovers the aliens aren’t alien at all, but a failed government experiment to create a bio-hybrid soldier. She must then expose the government’s cover-up and save the last standing city in the quarantined zone from falling.

Needless to say we are very excited about this new collaboration.

Woolf + Lapin’s Patrick Boivin Signs With Maker Studios

Maker Studios pegs itself as the company that redefines how content is developed, seen, and shared.

We’ve had an opportunity to speak with some folks at Maker. Their approach is much like ours : talent-first.

Maker goes beyond simply spotting online trends, they help their Youtube artists create them.

The cornerstone of their business model is their network community and their approach to channel growth.

It’s nice to see other companies, besides Google, taking advantage of YouTube’s advertising opportunities.

Maker may very well be the leader in its field right now.

Back in December, Time Warner’s investment arm helped to pump $36 million into Maker. Other big investors include Robert Downey actor Robert Downey Jr.’s investment company, Downey Ventures.

Maker will bring yet more notice to Patrick Boivin. And we’re quite alright with that.

Duncan McDowall’s PAINTED at Lincoln Centre

Director Duncan McDowall’s screendance piece PAINTED just played at New York’s Lincoln Center as part of the Dance on Camera Festival. “It was terrific to be part of it as well as to be featured on the cover of the festival’s program,” Duncan says.

Choreographed and starring dancer Dorotea Saykaly, the film was selected to screen in the festival’s upcoming Dance on Camera Tour, February 23-24, and then will be heading to Amsterdam to be part of the prestigious Cinedans 2013.

PAINTED will then swing back to Montreal for its first hometown screening as part of the Festival des Films sur l’Art in mid-March.

Duncan is working on a few other things, namely the premiere of his short narrative fiction The Horse Latitudes at the upcoming RVCQ (One of Woolf+Lapin’s favorite film fests) on February 25th, followed by its inclusion in the NSI Short Film Fest as of April 29th.

Since screening The Horse Latitudes as part of last year’s Not Short on Talent delegation at the Cannes Film Festival, Duncan has been busy wrapping another screendance film, casting another narrative short, and scripting a feature-length.