Author: Kenji Maeda

Kenji is the President & CEO of Production Heads Network Inc, which runs both ProductionHeads.com and VancouverActorsGuide.com. He is passionate about youth engagement and community development and has experience facilitating more than 300 presentations to youth and adults. The session topics have ranged from sexual health, experiential and participatory education methods, group facilitation, and capacity building. Kenji is also an actor, an Associate Producer with Boca del Lupo Theatre, and sits on the Board of Directors for the DOXA Documentary Film Festival.

How To Have a Great Audition from Casting Director, Bernie Telsey

May 28, 2010
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New York Casting Director, Bernie Telsey has experience casting film and stage productions since the 90′s. Some of the films he and his company has cast include Sex and the City, Across the Universe, Rent, and Finding Forrester.  Some of the Broadway and off-Broadway shows include the original cast of Rent, Hairspray, Little Shop of [...]

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RIP Babz Chula | Mar 12 1946 – May 7 2010

May 8, 2010
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If you hadn’t heard, I announce with a heavy heart that multiple-award winning actor, Babz Chula died yesterday after battling cancer for many years. She was first diagnosed in 2002 with Breast Cancer and had a mastectomy. Unfortunately the cancer came back in 2008 while she was also battling non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma of the blood which [...]

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Reel 2 Real Film Festival for Youth returns for 2010

April 8, 2010
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Friday, April 9 2010 marks the opening of this years Reel 2 Real Film Festival for Youth. I will again have the honour to be the Master of Ceremonies for the Opening Night Gala and Award Presentation as well as at Sunday’s Young Filmmakers Showcase and Award Presentation. One of the reasons why I choose [...]

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“Actors are a very important part of society.”

March 30, 2010
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The GVPTA (Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance) linked this video over on Facebook in honour of World Theatre Day on the weekend. I just had a chance to view it and thought it was really captures the importance of not only actors in society but the whole arts and culture sector. In the video, Patsy [...]

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Oscar Winning Film Trailer

March 7, 2010
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Over on the VAG Forum, withoutaboat shared a link to a video. I thought it fitting to post it here seeing that tonight marks the 82nd Academy Awards, also known as The Oscars. The video speaks to how formulaic a film tends to be to win an Oscar. It’s embedded below fr your viewing pleasure. [...]

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ANNOUCEMENT: BC Tax Credits for Film and Interactive Digital Media

February 3, 2010
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Yesterday we wrote about the recent call out from the NDP and Shawn Williamson of Brightlight Pictures to the provincial government to do something to keep the BC Film industry competitive. Today Finance Minister Colin Hansen announced a proposal to make that happen.  If it’s approved by the legislature this would help to compete with [...]

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The state of BC’s film industry

February 2, 2010

Back in November members of Vancouver’s film industry gathered to discuss many of issues about the state of our local industry and the impact tax credits and the olympics would have (Read our coverage of the event).  A few months later and the olympics around the corner means that many projects are hitting pause on [...]

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Coming to Canada to Act?

January 19, 2010
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A bunch of emails come in over at the Vancouver Actor’s Guide from international (mostly from the USA) actors asking about working and auditioning here in Canada. And really, the main thing to consider is whether you have the paper work to legally work here. You need to contact the office of Citizenship and Immigration [...]

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