Here are a few things that have been going on with us:

– Award-winning actress Carinne Leduc (pic above) signs with Woolf + Lapin as writer.

– Writers Christopher Giardino and Robyn Burnett launch their new company website Autumn   Storm Films.

– Woolf + Lapin pairs up with LA-based manager Samantha Slan from Slanted Wheel   Management.

– Signing of writer/producer Jeremy Morris (we’ll run a special article) as well as Art Director Camille Parent.

– Tean Schultz inks deal with Carpediem for the project Divorcing Jesus.

– Jérémie Saindon’s short l’Anniversaire is submitted to Cannes.

It’s the new Numéro# clip. Bonzai Studio did the VFX. They of course put a lot of stuff that wasn’t there in the first place. At any rate, the clip is cholk full of atmosphere as are Numéro#’s songs.

Bonzai’s new web site is in the works, but here’s a sneak peek.

It’s always a good time to come to California. If you look hard enough you can feel the remnants of Bukowski, of Carver, of Dogtown, heck even Mr. Hubble if you go high enough into the hills.

LA is always special because it’s about the pinnacle of sacrifice and achievement. It’s about high how high you can go and stay there. Doing it your own way. Getting noticed. Breaking out.

It’s not such a stretch to say that’s why astronomers came here and perfected the art of star gazing. Because those who came here say California offers a unique view to the universe. Unlike any other, in fact.

Like Hubble and his study of the stars, we look to the movie-making machine that makes stars all the way down here. And at the end of the day when the sun goes down all over this city, there’s something unavoidably dreamy and magic about it.

But what if there’s another dream out there? Another kind of magic? A whole new universe to play with? That’s why Woolf + Lapin is in California.

Accompanied by Patrick Boivin, Woolf + Lapin went through the usual rounds of meetings with LA’s top producers.  But also visited  San Francisco to meet up with Google and Youtube. We can’t say what they’re brewing up, but it’s gonna blow the socks right off every one.

Here’s Monsieur Monsieur Boivin at Google posing with the emblems of the different development phases of the Nexus One phone.

For his part, Patrick has a few more things in the works. We can’t say what quite yet. But it’s that magic we’re talking about.

Yeah, it’s always a good time to come to Cali.

3 Saisons has been nominated for 3 Awards: best editing, best actress and best film at the 2010 Genie Awards, the Canadian Academy of Cinema and Television’s annual gala for Canadian film.

3 Seasons from Jim Donovan on Vimeo.

“I am extremely honored and excited to be invited to the awards ceremony on April 12th in my new hometown of Toronto,” says director Jim Donovan. “I am especially proud to accompany Carinne, for whom this is a first film…” Quite right. Her performance is especially noteworthy.

Here’s more on the 2010 Genies in the Toronto Star.

Good luck and congrats, Jim and Carinne!

Wired magazine recently interviewed director Patrick Boivin who they rightly say has YouTubed his way to Hollywood.

Here’s the pretty cool storyboard he made to prepare for the stop-motion Ninja Unboxing of Google’s Nexus One phone. When the process is this good…

In the interview, Patrick Boivin talks about how he came under the influence of moody French illustrator Moebius and, at age 16, began drawing cartoons.  He has since directed many TV shows and shorts.

These are the same shorts Patrick Boivin put on his YouTube channel. “They were not popular at all,” Boivin says. “The short dramas had plenty of poetry but not a lot of punch, garnering only 200 views after six months.”

So Boivin turned to stop motion.

His video game-inspired hit Street Fighter, his funny clip Iron Man vs. Bruce Lee and his recent martial arts spoof, Ninja’s Unboxing, commissioned by Google to promote its new cellphone, have all racked up millions of views on YouTube.

Patrick Boivin and his own brand of DIY has made him a Youtube success story. But uploading your work on YouTube is not everything. Users must respond to it. And in the case of Patrick Boivin they did by the millions. 56, in fact.

That’s when Hollywood came knocking.

Now, and we’ve said it here before, Circle of Confusion is the LA-based management team that is taking care of finding directing gigs for Patrick.

In the Wired piece, he cites the work of Paul Thomas Anderson and Wes Anderson as prime influences. But Duncan Jones’ Moon was the last movie he saw that really touched him. “This is the kind of picture I would like to make: it uses science fiction to talk about something else.”

It’s just a matter of time as Patrick is heading out west in a week…

The Wired article goes into some detail on how he made the Ninja video, but there’s more DIY stuff in the interview Patrick gave to YouTube’s Creator’s Corner.