Here’s a sample of what I can do.

Faisal Lutchmedial Editing Demo from Faisal Lutchmedial on Vimeo.

Three short clips from documentary projects I’ve edited.

1) Burgundy Jazz “Vice”. Part of the award winning interactive web series for Radio-Canada, produced by Catbird Productions. This clip has some fun motion graphics integrated with the interviews, putting live video “inside” the newspaper archives.

Winner – Digi Awards
Winner – Prix Boomerang
Winner – Prix Numix
Nominee – Canadian Screen Awards
Nominee – Prix Gémeaux
Nominee – Rockie Awards (Banff World Media Festival)
Nominee – Interactive Design Awards
Nominee – Webby Awards

2) Boogeymen “Lagarfljótsormurinn”. 1 hr doc series about tourist destinations where “monsters” reside. Aired on Evasion, a travel network in Quebec. I edited 5 episodes of this show, and assisted on a number of others.

3) Burgundy Jazz “Trains & Porters”. Another clip from this series about the history of Jazz culture in the Little Burgundy neighbourhood of Montreal.

The Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival is highlighting films from Canada this year. Director Faisal Lutchmedial will be attending, showing off Mr. Crab and doing a Q&A after one of the screenings. In fact, Mr. Crab has the honour of playing five times throughout the 2 week long event!

To check out the schedule: http://www.ttfilmfestival.com/2012/09/canada-focus/

Mr. Crab’s showtimes in Trinidad are now published on the Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival website. Director Faisal Lutchmedial will be attending the last three screenings (on the 29th and then the two on the 30th), with a Q&A on the 30th! Please come and support diverse cinema and caribbean stories.

The TTFF2012 runs between the 19th of September and 2nd of October. It is the largest event of its kind in the English-speaking Caribbean, continues to evolve and expand in celebrating expression and empowerment through film. The Festival screens the best films from from Trinidad+Tobago and the Caribbean, the Caribbean Diaspora, and Latin American countries in the Caribbean Basin. The ttff also seeks to facilitate the growth of the Caribbean film industry by hosting workshops, panel discussions, seminars, conferences and networking opportunities.

Wed 19 Sept, 3.30pm, MovieTowne POS
Sat 22 Sept, 11.00am, MovieTowne POS
Tue 25 Sept, 7.00pm, Mayaro
Sat 29 Sept, 3.00pm, MovieTowne Tobago
Sun 30 Sept, 11.00am, MovieTowne POS
Sun 30 Sept, 6.00pm, MovieTowne POS, Q&A

http://www.ttfilmfestival.com/film-synopsis/mr-crab/

Sound recordist / sound editor of Mr. Crab Emory Murchison fuels up during the shoot.

Mr. Crab will be visiting London for the Caribbean Film Corner which runs alongside the Portobello Film Festival in London. It’s playing on the 6th of September, and tickets are FREE. As it says on the site, seats will go faster than Bolt in the 100m final.

http://www.caribbeanfilmcorner.com/#!films

Reserve your seating now, just put in the date (6th) and select # of seats: The Tabernacle, 35 Powis Square, W11 2AY. http://caribbeanfilmcorner2012-es2.eventbrite.com/?rank=1

The program is very strong, with great shorts like Pothound and Fish, both great T&T films that have to be seen. You should also check out Hand Full of Dirt if you haven’t yet, made by Barbadian filmmaker Russell Watson and starring Alwin Bully.

Normally this isn’t the site for such things, but mobile and internet technology is incredibly important to the media industry, and for too long giant companies have had too much control over pricing by just buying out or destroying the competition. This is good for them, but bad in fostering all the other industries that rely on their services. This petition, put forth by Open Media (.ca) asks Canadians if they want to see more competition. Personally, I do. Much like the stop the meter campaign, this is about fair pricing – and stopping the gouging that has been going on for far too long.

Useless Things, which will be premiering this Sunday (24th of July) at midnight on Canadian Reflections (CBC), was made a couple years before the HD DSLR revolution we are still living in. It’s possible that if we made it later, we would have shot on a 5D, or more likely a RED, but we were able to accomplish quite a bit with the HVX / Cinevate Brevis combo that is featured in the “making of” below. In fact, after a screening in Toronto (for the ReelWorld Film Festival) a Kodak rep asked if we shot on film, which to me was one of the best compliments we could have gotten.

I have my issues with HDSLRs, mostly because of the codec and compression, but the images you can get with them can definitely be spectacular.  I think the key is know your camera well, no matter what you might be shooting with.