Dramatic Video Production
Ping  -  2006
Made by: Mason Abou, Larae Ashlee Dumais, Richelle Rain, Chloe B.B. Mustooch
Description: Informal clip about the dangers of online predators.

  
Length: 4:32

parfaire l'amour  -  2006
Made by: Neil Turley, Samuel Cassidy, Vera Zyla
Description:

In Parfaire L'Amour (Perfecting Lovemaking) the filmmakers invite the audience to explore more fully the zest (or lack thereof) in their sexual lives. Are you getting enough, and more importantly, are you doing it in the most unusual , exotic places? This film will arouse new ideas for you and your partner and hopefully bring heightened satisfaction well beyond the conventional bedroom of boring "meat and potatoes" all the time.



  
Length: 6:05

Parfaire L'Amour  -  2006
Made by: Roch Gosselin, Jeff Lutes
Description: Docu-comedy that revolves around the question: "Where is the most unusual place you have made love?" Through interviews, visual imagery and visual manipulation, the question is answered in often funny and expanding ways.

  
Length: 5:38

Bloodlines  -  2006
Made by: Frena Gray-Davidson, Randi Stordal
Description: "Bloodlines" is a touching human drama about 3 women searching for lost connection with mothers, and daughters seperated by adoption.  Adele, 65, is still trying to find her mother.  Kelsey, 25, and her mother Janet are trying to find each other.


  
Length: 6:58

Shattered Paths  -  2006
Made by: Ken Kabatoff Timothy Garner Guilherme Rosales Rachel Coe
Description: A tragic drama about letting go of a friend.

  
Length: 6:25

Snatched  -  2006
Made by: Emily Richardson Matthew McLaren Kay Stalker Christina Saba
Description: Snatched is a dramatic short film about the tense relationship between a briother and sister.

  
Length: 4:26

Hit  -  2006
Made by: Oliver Brooks Marie Masuno David Whyte Bahara Underwood
Description: Hit is a short, dramatic film about the power and importance of decision making and their potential consequences

  
Length: 5:23

Acid Lady  -  2006
Made by: Ryan Allan Jessica Knowles Mike Maekelberger
Description: Trailor trash meets japanese horror flick in this drug induced trip. Filmed in color at the Gulf Islands Film and Television School.


  
Length: 7:20

No Place for Dreamers  -  2006
Made by: Inbar Sofri, Ira Johnson, Nadir Abu Dalu, Saad Mahmoud
Description: A video exploration of a romantic relationship between a Palestinian man and an Israeli woman. Using visual glimpses into their relationship, the film adresses issues in the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

  
Length: 7:55

(mis)interpretation  -  2006
Made by: Nadav Dan Goor, Bénédicte Etienne, Maoz Nagauger, Razan Abdel Rahman, Ellis Tregidgo
Description: This film is a non-linear drama that takes us into the world of assumptions and presumption.

  
Length: 4:36

Caped in Mist  -  2006
Made by: Sol Kauffman, Saray Yehiel, Alex deBoer, A?asem Abu Shtia
Description: A short dramatic film about Israeli and Palestinian youth coexisting peacefully on a secluded island. They live in ignorance until a shipwrecked teenager arrives to reveal the historical conflict between their peoples.

  
Length: 6:25

The Assignment  -  2006
Made by: Ivana Djordjevic, Dylan Riches, Riley Janzen, Erik Baldwinson
Description: The Assignment is an action thriller.

  
Length: 5:02

Fadey Away  -  2006
Made by: Lucas Bonnemaison, Erik Baldwinson, Austin Smith, Ingrid Raudsepp
Description: Fadey is a troubled and misunderstood child who runs away and finds himself stuck in the surreal world which manifests his anger, while lost in the wilderness.

  
Length: 5:51

MAFIA  -  2006
Made by: Wyldie Maxwell, Artyom Poliakov, Christopher Scott Nichols, Kasper Smits
Description: A drama about an ordinary Joe who gets on the wrong side of a mafia boss, this film moves toward a startling conclusion.

  
Length: 7:14

The Case  -  2006
Made by: Joshua Greenberg, Lucas Bonnemaison, Miles Pal Smith, James Knipe
Description: Our movie is a modern cutting-edge murder mystery.

  
Length: 6:18

Dude Where's My Fish?  -  2006
Made by: Kody Marks, Nigel Sayers, Sam Switzer, Tynan Hartzell
Description: A guy named Nick has his fish stolen by a group of outlaws and goes through episodes of hilarity as he tries to retrieve it.


  
Length: 6:24

Passing  -  2006
Made by: Ahmet Karadag, Matthew Cleary
Description: A Solemn account of a young man's confrontation with the terminal illness of his best friend, both in reality and dreams.

  
Length: 7:18

Six Falling Stars  -  2006
Made by: Helena Fleming
Description: This suspenseful drama is a beautiful and hopeful look at the challenge we all contend with in the face of death and loss.

  
Length: 6:37

Loser  -  2006
Made by: Louis LaRose, Eagle Gorup-Thrasher, Joshua Alfred, Jonathan Hanuse
Description: Ron gets picked on at the first day of camp, because he shows that he loves his mom. When Pat is dropped off, the film shows that her parents really despise her. Pat kills everyone, while framing Ron and calls him a "loser".

  
Length: 6:09

I did it for Lily  -  2006
Made by: Sakonohontsiawi Elijah, Tiffany Joseph, Nazarene Hill
Description: "I did it for Lily" is a short drama about a family of three generations who have been abused by the same man, "Uncle Larry". When Josh learns of his little sister, Lily, being abused, he comes to realize that he too had been abused by their grandmother's brother. Josh had blacked out this awful memory.


  
Length: 5:59

Jimmy the Ghost  -  2006
Made by: Randy Northrup, Tara Sue Greco, Nadine Jim, Jocelyn Mitchell, Curtis Baker
Description: Our film is about a girl named Tiffany and a boy named Jimmy. It kills Jimmy with them not liking each other, but finds that they become friends in the end.

  
Length: 6:33

Leonard's Rainbow  -  2006
Made by: Curtis Baker, Jonathan Wilson, Danny Jim, Lennessa Wells
Description: A film about a recovered alcoholic telling the story of his recovery to another person struggling with addiction.

  
Length: 6:23

Indian Princess Dream Girl Part2  -  2006
Made by: Arlin Baptiste, Raven Planes, Ian Charleson, Teresa Spalding, Cindy Edmonds, Thorin O?Brian
Description: Is about a young native man who is choosing his dream girl from within the forest until he wakes up and discovers it was all a dream . He then realizes that he has to stop thinking about girls so much.


  
Length: 6:05

Advanced Drama
Blind Hands  -  2006
Made by: Stephanie Nilles Marie Doig Ottilie Short Robert Phillips
Description: A student sees a mysterious boy in the forest and they form an intriguing connection.

  
Length: 6:00

Documentary
To Know One  -  2006
Made by: Cindy Johnson, Glen Michell, Katie Gray, Suzi Bekkattla
Description: The story of eight youth on a journey of empowerment towards voice & vision, caught in a lens to share with future generations to come.

  
Length: 5:13

Born Into Bodies  -  2006
Made by: Debbie Koenig, Helena Mahoney, Sue Turner, Nin Tewsley, Marianne Pengelly
Description: Born into Bodies speaks for itself; a short gorgeous dancing poem.  It was truly a piece of collaboration and inspiration and dedication.  Group creation has never been such a process to be endured and is well worth creating.


  
Length: 6:22

In Our Hands  -  2006
Made by: Amity Skala Marie Masuno Rajdeep Singh Gill
Description: An experimental documentary about the power and beauty of Mother Earth and our active participation in her desecration.


  
Length: 2:37

Heated Issues  -  2006
Made by: Annika Gummer Paul Haysom
Description: One Canadian filmaker and one British filmaker travel to Galiano Island to look at the remains of a recent forest fire. The two speak of their thoughts and feelings towards the charred tree graveyard and the bigger picture.

  
Length: 4:05

On the Line  -  2006
Made by: Pirouz Nemati, Alaa Abu Dawoud, Ragheb Askari, Yana Galfrin
Description: A short doc about real friendship between two teenagers, one Israeli and one Palestinian who met in peace camp in Canada. Later, they meet at a checkpoint, one is an Israeli soldier, the other a Palestinian trying to pass.


  
Length: 7:50

sweet like chocolate  -  2006
Made by: Kelsey Smith, Hadil Yasin, Nir Ayalon, Nadav Strumtza
Description: Abstract visions are intertwined with future hopes. Sweet Like Chocolate captures testimonies exploring peace, freedom and fear.

  
Length: 5:24

An Unfortunate Blessing  -  2006
Made by: Vincent Smuda, Benjamin Porcher, Kaleigh Fairweather
Description: This Documentry captures the intensity and community effort surrounding the Galiano forest fire (07/23/06). This film portrays how the island's community was brought together in the face of an emergency.

  
Length: 12:24

Hair Style  -  2006
Made by: Judy McKinley , Samantha Wilde
Description: Hair Style is a short documentary about hair as a celebration of individuality.

  
Length: 7:25

Final Cut  -  2006
Made by: Joseph Cederwall, Michael Parrish, Andrew Morrison
Description: "The Final Cut" is a short documentary about hair, exploring the issues relating to the importance of hair in defining a person. Using diverse images and a diverse breakbeat laden soundtrack, this movie attempts to form a flowing narrative commentary on hair-related issues, asking the question: "How does hair define you?"

  
Length: 6:52

the lost art of tree climbing  -  2006
Made by: Rachel Plotkin, Ken Madsen, Scotty Wilson, Zoe Poole
Description: The lost art of tree climbing explores human-tree relationships fostered by tree climbing.


  
Length: 6:22

Food for Thought  -  2006
Made by: Jonas Salzberg, Heather Turnbull, Andrea Langlois, Kevin Ward
Description: What's on your plate? Do we know where every morsel of food that we chew comes from? In an attempt to deconstruct the origins of our food, this documentary explores whether our food source is either sustainable or secure. Donna, a back to the land farmer and Daniel, the owner of the local corner store illustrate the juxtapostion of modern society on an island. Whether we are called to the wild or thirsty for a german beer, we question just how holy is our food!!



  
Length: 7:31

Let it Rot  -  2006
Made by: Nathan Gaylor, Odin Scholz, Keith Erickson, Kimberly Lisgo
Description: This short film captures, in succinct style, 4 years of restoration taking place on Galiano Island. It is a brief history of forestry on the small island culminating with the innovative approach the Galiano Conservancy is taking to heal a Douglas fir plantation.


  
Length: 6:36

broom vroom  -  2006
Made by: Nicholas Walkley, Masafumi Hoshino, George Sranko, Marie-Josee Willson
Description: This film explores the invasive characteristics of Scotch Broom and draws parallels with the opportunistic tendencies of modern society.

  
Length: 6:04

Clayoquot Sound Resistance and Renewal  -  2006
Made by: Bonnie Glambeck, Michelle Atkins, Tom Fortington, Diego Garcia
Description: What does it take to make change happen? Through the eyes of those that were there, this film explores the ramifications of the 1993 Clayoquot blockades. Is Clayoquot Sound really, truly saved?

  
Length: 6:13

G'abaa G'abaa Gawats  -  2006
Made by: Luke Leeson, Julie VanTunen, Crystal Bright
Description: This film is about the otter story, it explains how it relates to everyday life, like booze and drugs


  
Length: 5:03

G'abaa G'abaa Gawats  -  2006
Made by: Jesse VanTunen, Marika Swan
Description: This film reflects on how the otter myth from the Nisg'aa and Wetsuweten nations can relate to our lives today.

  
Length: 4:52

Why Am I Still Here  -  2006
Made by: Art Sampson, Deanna Daniels, Loni Solomon, Tina Grenier, Deloris Charters
Description: The question is why are we still here? Which is what it is about to bring us our culture.


  
Length: 5:24

Beauty to Me  -  2006
Made by: Angelica Alfred, Jackie Brown, Gary Benson, Mary Suchell
Description: Beauty to Me is a documentary, made up of four individuals, on what beauty is.


  
Length: 4:48

Visual Effects and Animation
Never Gonna Fade  -  2006
Made by: Marty McCook, Matthew Sylvio House, Alvin Dick
Description: Promoting native empowerment and cultural pride: a finished recording and video written and produced by Alvin Dick (Sewn-Up), Mason Abou (Muse), Marty McCook (Skillz) and others who assisted us with the camera work, recording etc.


  
Length: 4:19

I Made This Film  -  2006
Made by: Serena Haire, Maria Constandinou
Description: Maria Constandinou

  
Length: 3:29

So Many Fade Away  -  2006
Made by: v064404
Description: Nightmares fade away,
So many dreams do come true.

  
Length: 7:06

Can you dance?  -  2006
Made by: Natasha Vargek
Description: Clips of people put on a green screen and they pretty much just dance and we put 'em on some cool backgrounds, and that's pretty much it.

  
Length: 2:28

XIWHU  -  2006
Made by: Tim Kulchyski, Thomas Hukari, Maria Constandinou, Tizot Olsen
Description: A film documenting Indigenous Nations' difficulty in maintaining traditional methods or harvesting sea urchins; XIWHU. Considered SLHEXUN (medicine), the narrator tells of the difficulties in obtaining this medicine for his grandmother.

  
Length: 8:42

these are my peelings  -  2006
Made by: Haneen Abu-libdeh, Naama Avitzur, Chloe Edbrooke, Majdi Saleh Hafi
Description: How both the Palestinian and Israeli sides look at the conflict from their own perspectives. Onions represent the multiple layers behind every person.


  
Length: 3:33

The Carrot  -  2006
Made by: Gideon Scanlon, Maya Sharon, Muhammed Shaura, Ofir Vaknin
Description: An animation about what is going on in the middle east. The two rabbits, one from Palestine and one from Isreal, fight over a carrot. As the battle wages, the carrot isn't important anymore, it is all about who's winning the fight

  
Length: 1:29

A Stream of Consciousness  -  2006
Made by: Lindsey Brumm, Christina Bialik, William Ross, Graham Scott, Devan Scott, Preston Ossman, Christina Logan
Description: A series of scenes revolving around a body of water.

  
Length: 3:19

Claymation
The Rolling Head  -  2006
Made by: Dana Rockstoh, Nicholas Fullbrook, Severn Bowen
Description: This claymation film is about the journey of a disembodied head rolling down a hill. He encounters many creatures and vehicular objects. Sad ending, this would make the sqeamish cringe.

  
Length: 3:22

Computer / 3D Animation
World Of Dununder  -  2006
Made by: Tito Martin-Nemtin
Description:

You are Helen, an average high school student with extensive credits in track and field. It's the start of the weekend, so school's out and you're heading home to take care of your bedridden mother. When you arrive home, however, you find a slight disturbance in the force. Could it be that someone has broken in? Maybe your friends came over without tell you. Or could it be that the footsteps in your mother's upstairs bedroom aren't hers at all but rather some mysterious creature? Your Questions will ead you, eventually, towards the basement and into the world of Dununder.



  
Length: 1:00

Shock to the System  -  2006
Made by: Tchadas Leo, Dustin Johnson
Description: The spiritual delay that is mainstream television is conforming natives and all people to become mindless drones and passive recipients of the corporate consumerism "culture". In such a plastic exsistance, collective and individual freedom deserve to be liberated.

  
Length: 2:27

Super 8 Filmmaking & Hand Processing
Elle  -  2006
Made by: Caitlin Vliet Michaela Manson Sidney McMillan Erin Green
Description: why can't the crayfish grow without molting?

  
Length: 4:05

Troika  -  2006
Made by: Wayne Robinson Dylan Caldicott Caitlin Vliet
Description: An experimental non-linear short shot on 8 mm film that combines scratch animation, contact printing, and painting on film. Our protagonist is souless as he leaves a notebook on a beach that attracts "lost" souls such as his.

  
Length: 4:40

Journal of a Heartbroken ex  -  2006
Made by: Brock Littlejohn
Description: A music video shot in super 8/experimental film. A mans journey on a regular day.

  
Length: 3:15

Sorry, I was eating my noodles  -  2006
Made by: Dylan Caldicott Brock Littlejohn Michaela Manson Sidney McMillan Wayne Robinson Caitlin Vliet
Description: cameraless animation

  
Length: 3:05

Game Design Program
Happy Bunny Land  -  2006
Made by: Samuel Kramar
Description: You are an evil ghost that rules a kingdom of evil people, and everyone is very happy. Until, an army of facist bunny rabbits invade, time to get your sword ready. Let the slaughter begin.


  
Length: 1:00

Zombie Castle  -  2006
Made by: Andrew Fraser
Description: You are a retired soldier who is kidnapped by an Evil wizard. You must use your trusty spear to fight through an army of ravenous zombies, defeat the evil wizard and get back to your grand children.


  
Length: 1:00

Tree Bugger  -  2006
Made by: Christopher Ooms
Description: You play as Joe Trugges, a super granola smoking hippie who goes to a forest known as forest song woods to get rid of the weird new threats that the evil alien bug overlord Buggy has brought to earth. You must walk all over their plans in the psychadelic adventure to foil his invasion to destroy all plants.


  
Length: 1:00

Life of a Ninja  -  2006
Made by: Nicholas Martinez
Description: Life of a Ninja is an action adventure where you play as a ninja and have to fight your way through a city filled with enemies and collect all items in your wife's shopping list to reach home. Graphics have all been animated and are visually appealing.


  
Length: 1:00

Crack Down  -  2006
Made by: Nick Hill
Description: A soldier returns home to find the city at the mercy f a cruel crime lord and sets out to free the city. This game is a fast and frantic shoot 'em up side scroller


  
Length: 1:00

Shadow Escape  -  2006
Made by: Scott Nuttall
Description: You are a skilled archer escaping a prison cell high inside of a castle. Rich graphics, catchy music and an immersive game experience makes Shadow Escape a classic.


  
Length: 1:00

Chronicles of Leap  -  2006
Made by: Michael Boston
Description: You are Leap, a young boy who has fallen off a ship and washed up on an extremely strange island which is inhabited by undead creatures. Your goal is to avoid or defeat the creatures and collect many magical keys so that you may power a magical ship and escape from the island and find your way home.


  
Length: 1:00

Drama for Actors
Drama for Actors  -  2006
Made by: Zoe Walter, Sean Decter, Skylar Felix-Honeyman, Miles Morrison, Stuart Hodgson, Erik Frankson
Description: Scenes from Austin Powers, Clerks and Napolean Dynamite.

  
Length: 8:07

Professional Development
Vermilion Theatre  -  2006
Made by: Cindy Millar
Description: PSA of the new joint venture. A program to introduce drama for grades 9-12. This will be a practical application of the drama skills to produce a live theatre production.

  
Length: 6:02

How to Light a Fire  -  2006
Made by: Annelies Groen, Rachel Basaraba, Rachael Corneil, Ruth Lamb
Description: This film within a f ilm describes the processes involved from brainstorming to postproduction, in creating a instructional film. The audience watches a team of actors go through the phases of developing a story based on the simple process of lighting a fire. By doing so, every element involved in film making is demonstrated. This video was intended to be used as a teaching too for middle to highschool students.

  
Length: 5:13

IMPP Super 8 Filmmaking
Lovers Leap  -  2006
Made by: Brock Littlejohn
Description: The last two robots on Earth are on the run from "friendly/vicious" hunter, who will stop at nothing to kill them.


  
Length: 2:50

Today Is The Day  -  2006
Made by: Benjamin Cheung
Description: "Today Is The Day" is a film about finding the strength to overcome all our fears - from miniscule to colossal - that we face everyday.


  
Length: 3:27

Driveways  -  2006
Made by: Christa Grace-Warrick
Description: A poetic view of the significance of Gulf Island driveways. One minute, shot in fuzzy focus and black and white.


  
Length: 2:32

feel  -  2006
Made by: Peter Rose
Description: Emotions are an integral part of daily life, yet few of us barely recognise their improtance. This Super8 film explores our emotions and asks the fundamental question of "what are they?" through scratch animation and frame painting. Shot on 8mm film, 16mm film was also used to help us look at our inner emotions and what they do.


  
Length: 2:13

Footsteps  -  2006
Made by: Denise Calderwood
Description: An exploration of life thru footsteps.


  
Length: 1:37

Haiku  -  2006
Made by: Frena Gray-Davidson
Description: Haiku is a symbolic journey of a woman's life, using a japanese setting and theme for this meditative and lyrical super 8 short.


  
Length: 3:35

Driving  -  2006
Made by: Ian Charleson
Description: Thoughts about the life of driving.


  
Length: 1:59

Am I Real?  -  2006
Made by: Gabriela Reuben
Description: A doll who is addicted to heroin, undergoes a journey through the forest and discovers she's real.


  
Length: 2:15

True Love  -  2006
Made by: Stuart Smith
Description: True love is a message to the grave of Stuart's late soulmate who met when they were as young as five and at 16 she commited suicide and this film was made not even two weeks after.


  
Length: 1:56

100 years of solitude da movie  -  2006
Made by: Tobias Brooks
Description: Look and See...


  
Length: 1:33

Nerdly in Love!  -  2006
Made by: Chiyume Sugawara
Description: "Nerdly in Love!" is a Super8 scratch narrative short film about a very happy unique couple who fall madly and nerdly in love. It is the expression of emotions that one goes through when falling in love at first sight.


  
Length: 2:37

IMPP Group Project
The Delicate Art of Hula Hooping  -  2006
Made by: Brock Littlejohn
Description: A documentary that asks the question: Does hula hooping bring you back to your childhood?


  
Length: 5:39

Smother  -  2006
Made by: Peter Rose, Gabriela Reuben
Description: Through the personification of mother nature, Smother takes a look at our environment and what we're doing to it. By contrasting the peaceful tranquility of nature to the harsh city, the video is meant to wake people up to whats around them. Because a larger portion was shot in the city, the 2 group members also starred in the film.


  
Length: 6:37

Surprised by Peacocks  -  2006
Made by: Frena Gray-Davidson, Stuart Smith
Description: This heartfelt and beautiful short film shows a newly-widowed woman's consolatory journey with a flock of feral peacocks who become her neighbours. Set on beautiful Galiano Island, British Columbia.


  
Length: 8:05

Detour  -  2006
Made by: Benjamin Cheung, Chiyume Sugawara, Frena Gray-Davidson, Nina Tewsley, Tobias Brooks
Description: This film is about a young man named Simon who begins to confront his fears about his homosexual relationship with Philip. He comes to learn powerful life lessons about overcoming social pressures, He must decide whether to accept how love has come into his life and follow through with his own life decisions.


  
Length: 6:20

The World Hula Hoop Championships  -  2006
Made by: Brock Littlejohn
Description: Brock Kentman takes us on a journey into the interesting world of hula-hoop tournaments.


  
Length: 9:00

Zombified  -  2006
Made by: Ian Charleson, Kaile Archibald, Michael Parrish, Stuart Smith
Description: A man is slowly turned into a zombie from media influences and self image beliefs that people commonly have these days.


  
Length: 8:58

Three Artists  -  2006
Made by: Christa Grace-Warrick
Description: Each August, a local collabrative exhibition gives a window into the work of three Canadian landscape painters. This 10 minute video documentary shows the artists at work and at home in the Gulf Islands.


  
Length: 10:46

You Can't See Me  -  2006
Made by: Ian Charleson
Description: An experimental documentary


  
Length: 8:16


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