TIFF’s TOP TEN: Kaveh Nabatian’s Vapor

TIFF announces its top 10 short Canadian films of 2010.

Kaveh Nabatian’s arresting Vapor made the top ten.

Here’s what the jury said about his film: “With spare, powerful images and an assured structure, Vapor tells its story like a dance piece. No image is wasted, no moment overplayed. Vapor stays with you long after you’ve left the theatre.”

TIFF flew the filmmakers to Toronto for last night’s event.

And Kaveh says it was pretty cool to share the stage with Guy Maddin.

Congrats to all Canadian filmmakers.

And special props to Halima Ouardiri who also made the top ten for her beautiful Mokhtar.

Mashup of Patrick Boivin’s Best Shorts

Incidentally, the Iron Baby clip featured in this reel is part of Youtube’s second annual New Year Countdown of the year’s most memorable videos.

The program runs through December, revealing a new video every day on a special New Year landing page.

The winner’s to be decided December 31st.

This is cool.

And good luck to all finalists!

Woolf + Lapin Welcomes Tinywatch Productions

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Tiny Watch Productions (of IPhone 4 vs HTC evo fame) is an up & coming writing and production team based in Kansas City, Missouri. They create animated and live action content for the web, television, movies and books on tape using a variety of tools and techniques found on the Internet.

Or just plain not.

Tiny Watch was formed in 2009 and to date has been featured on ABC, NBC, and FOX, in Bloomberg BusinessWeek magazine and online in at TechCrunch, Gizmodo and countless other websites.

Tiny Watch’s YouTube channel has accumulated over 10 million hits to date and has shown short films at numerous film festivals, including New York City’s Friar’s Club Annual Comedy Film Fest in 2010.

Today Tiny Watch continues to develop web shorts as well as upcoming, larger projects.

We are very happy to welcome them. And certainly anxious to see what they’ll come up with next!

Here’s a sample of their brand of work, which in this case was done using animation tools from GoAnimate.

Paul Laberge : Lancement de Zik & BD

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Paul Laberge en pleine dédicace au Café de l’Usine C hier lors du lancement de Zik & BD.

Zik & BD c’est “quand la bande dessinée rencontre la chanson québécoise…”

Pierre Bourdon, vice-président du Groupe Homme, dit que ce genre de métissage BD et chanson avait déjà été fait en France, notamment avec des textes de Serge Gainsbourg et George Brassens.

Mais qu’au Québec, il s’agit bien d’une première.

De cette compilation de bandes dessinées, voici parmi nos préférées : Jimmy Beaulieu sur des paroles de Malajube, Zviane sur des paroles des Trois Accords, Pascal Blanchet sur des paroles de Pierre Lapointe et Denis Rodier sur des paroles de Coeur de Pirate… pour n’en nommer que quelques unes.

Un beau livre.

Cool et bien fait.

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