Adam Reider’s disturbingly funny short film Dog Sitter played at the Fantasia Film Festival last night. The screening had a great big crowd of genre loving filmgoers who loved the selection of movies. The weekend of short Quebec films was put on for free which was a really nice touch by the festival and the sponsors.
Director Adam Reider and producer Faisal Lutchmedial
Emmanuelle Francoeur in Dog Sitter
“Dog Sitter” (13 min, 2011) will be playing at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal on August 6th, at 9:30 pm at the Hall Cinema at Concordia University. The short was directed by Adam Reider and produced by Faisal Lutchmedial through Rail City Media. Look here for the details on the Fantasia site.
Synopsis: Kelly is a beautiful teenage girl trying to keep up appearances. When she gets a part time job babysitting the neighbor’s dogs, Kelly decides to help them become better dogs. After working on a World War II project for school, Kelly decides to take influence from her project to train the dogs to be more popular and make more friends.
Montreal Mirror called the film “disturbingly funny” which I think hits the nail right on the head. Director Adam Reider to attend screening. Details found at the official website: http://www.mascara-popcorn.com/
Emmanuelle Francoeur and Bourbon the Bulldog from Dog Sitter (2010)
“Dog Sitter” a short film directed by Adam Reider which I produced will play at the Tromodance film festival in New Jersey April 22-23, 2011. Congrats to Adam, who is very excited to have his first film play at a film festival, and to the entire cast and crew who worked on the project. More details to come once the festival works out their schedule.
Its been a couple of weeks since we finished shooting but we are only getting into the editing now. Reason is, it took a very long time for my almost five year old computer to transcode the footage from the raw RED files to offline editable files I can work with, as well as converting all the 5D files into prores too. This has been thus far a learning experience for me, and something I am not used to, since usually I am the tech on shoots and know exactly how everything works – from camera capture through all of post production. On this shoot, I only learnt how to turn on the RED (I should say boot the camera) halfway through the shoot.
Thankfully, the RED workflow isn’t hugely different on FCP to the P2 workflow that I am very familiar with. But the process did make me think about how much technical information I have picked up over the years simply because I was making my own films. This time though I liked not knowing it all on set because if there was a problem other people were there to solve it, rather than me taking up the time I should have been thinking about directing. On the set of my previous short, Useless Things, we shot on my own HVX200 (along with a Cinevate Brevis 35mm adaptor) and I knew more about how that all worked than anyone on set. Consequently, when we had more serious technical issues I was pulled away. That was definitely distracting, especially considering I was acting in the film too…
Emmanuelle Francoeur and Bourbon the Bulldog from Dog Sitter (2010)
Speaking of Useless Things, it will be playing at a screening at the Cinema du Parc this Saturday the 21st of August at 1pm. The screening was set up by Rail City Media to showcase the newly completed Dog Sitter by director Adam Reider, and produced by me. We’re showing a number of great shorts at the screening, including Eva Cvijanovic’s Play (winner of the 2008 Air Canada enRoute Achievement in Animation award). Eva also did the animation for Useless Things – and I can’t wait to start showing people her stop motion work in Mr. Crab. So, back to editing then!
