2010 Tax Time. Use It To Your Advantage.

February 21, 2010
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Taxes.  Every year I learn something new I wish I had known years prior. And this year is no exception. During a very in depth interview with Mark Yoshihara, CA of Backspin Entertainment Business Services, we discuss what you can and cannot expense and a few tricks to stretch those expenses further. So grab yourself [...]

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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 Canada [...]

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Casting Director, Candice Elzinga: How To Make A Good Impression

December 17, 2009
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Found this great clip which Anastasia Bandey posted over on her Actorworks Vancouver site.
Vancouver Casting Director, Candice Elzinga answers a question asked of her: What can an actor do to stand out amongst others in an audition? Candice has a lot of experience in this industry having worked on more than 200 films or TV [...]

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How To Use or Lose Those Nerves For Audition Success

October 4, 2009
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Most auditions that fall apart and do not resemble what the actor had in mind when rehearsing things in their living room comes down to one word… Nerves.
Here are some thoughts and advice on how to eliminate or better yet “use” the nerves to your advantage. Different scenes and characters can utilize these feelings differently.
For [...]

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Exercise: What Makes A Good Audition?

August 27, 2009
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I was doing my usual browse across some websites people were sending me recently and came across a site for a film project called, The Baby Cliff.  The project, “a series of fictional comedy shorts,” is collaborative in nature.  The public has the opportunity to participate in three different ways:

Vote on what lines to include [...]

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Ask Questions To Find The Right Photographer

August 19, 2009
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Like many of us in the arts, we didn’t wise up to what we really wanted to do some several years and well traveled career paths later and Michael Ford is no exception. His love for photography started as a hobby in high school and it wasn’t until falling in love with Paris, France through [...]

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Actors: Work With Your Allies – Part Two

July 27, 2009
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Continuation from Part 1, Work With Your Allies where Talent Agents and Casting Directors were brought up.  Here are other allies you work with every day that you want to reconsider your approach when working together:
READERS
This is your scene partner in an audition. You wouldn’t do a scene on set or in a scene study [...]

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Actors: Work With Your Allies – Part One

July 22, 2009
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The working actor in Vancouver has far more people on their team than they generally utilize to their fullest potential. Too many actors eliminate the “business” from “Show Business.” Successful businesses are efficient and use every tool at their disposal to the maximum in order to separate themselves from competitors locally and worldwide.
The professional actor [...]

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