My Sweet Filet

This is Filet.

She's from the first film I made together with Tina and our production company Silent Millennium Films. The film is called Trout to Lunch and we made it in December of 1999. Four days in a freezing warehouse with tons of donated fish bits; heads, skeleton and tails. What a stink!! Tina directed and together we produced it and I was one of the leads. I was also in charge of choreography as the film is a modern day silent film. No dialogue, and choreographed to music. It's not dance, it's not mime, it's movement storytelling.

In 1997 I was lucky enough to be a part of a new play called The Overcoat (above). It's now touring as part of the CanStage family but back then it was originally produced by The Vancouver Playhouse. 22 actors, 2 directors and a ton of creativity. I had been a part of a movement play back in school but this was the first of its' kind on the main-stage. Coming from this kind of a background, the next logical step seemed to be putting the art form on film.

Tina's my bestest friend from Vancouver. We went to theatre school together starting in 1992 and have been around the world and back since then. There's not enough space in this blog to even touch on what we've been through together!!! We started making films together because she needed to have a produced short film for an application to the Canadian Film Centre. Trout to Lunch was a play in the early stages of development that we quickly translated into a film project. We became known as "the fish girls" by all our crew members working tirelessly for free. We were so blessed!

I'm posting this today because due to the diligent hard work by Tina (applying for finishing funds, getting the film an original score AND doing a final edit) Trout to Lunch is finally festival ready. Six short years later, Tina is sending it off to The Toronto and Vancouver Film Festivals. Keep your fingers crossed folks and I'll let you know if we make it to the big screen!!!