Members

Adrian

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Adrian was born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, and moved to the west coast in 1997 to pursue a degree in fine arts. While completing his BFA at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design (1998-2001) he received a Helen Pitt Award (2000) and began exhibiting work in Vancouver and Toronto. He became involved with the local art collaboration ‘T&T’ (Tony Romano and Tyler Brett) and created videos for Tyler’s solo band ‘The Dept.’ In 2005, Adrian directed and produced a limited release DVD featuring a selection of these videos entitled The Dept. Five videos by Adrian.

While pursuing his art practice he began working in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (2001-2005) as a community outreach worker. His debut short film, Cardboard Cutout, was created directly after he was forced to leave his job due to an incident with a violent patron. His respect and compassion for the DTES community and the plight of those on the margins of society are at the heart of this film.

Films

• Kill your mother. Kill your father. Kill your heart.
  90 min., 35mm, 2009

Paul Armstrong

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Paul is a film, television and theatre producer. Recent feature film credits include Producer on Moving Malcolm by Benjamin Ratner starring Elizabeth Berkley (Showgirls); Executive Producer on See Grace Fly and Co-Producer on Ill-Fated starring Peter Outerbridge. Most recently he produced the Director_s Guild of Canada, Bravo!FACT 35 mm short film Break A Leg, Rosie starring Carly Pope and Ian Tracey, a music video for Jim Byrnes and a television commercial for Storyeum, all three directed by Tara Hungerford. He produced the LEO Award nominated music video for Jessie Farrell, Don_t Even Try, directed by Tara Hungerford and the much acclaimed LEO award winning short B&W 35 mm film Mon amour mon parapluie directed by Giada Dobrzenska and starring Tara Hungerford, William Gibson and Douglas Coupland with music by Nick Lloyd Webber. Paul is co-founder and Co-Producer of The Celluloid Social Club, a monthly screening series for independent films.

Films

• Break a Leg Rosie
  11 min., 35mm, 2005

Jack Beatty

• Vice President - Board of Directors
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Jack Beatty has been an experimental photographer for almost thirty years and has extensive knowledge of analog technology. As the control analyst for Technicolor (formerly Alpha Cine) he has known Cineworks since its early days and assisted many members with their work. He is Vice President and as Chair of the Facilities and Equipment Advisory Committee he has been instrumental in the development of the planned analogue film workshop facilities.

Allison Beda

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Allison Beda's last film was the feature length documentary HOW TO BE A MODEL, which did the festival circuit and airs on CBC 'Roughcuts' She has made a number of award winning experiemental shorts films including KNOW YOUR ALPHABET which toured Europe with the likes of Stan Brackhage. She is developing, with Telefilm Canada, the feature comedy THE TAKE OUT GIRL, written by Lara McKinnon. FALLEN, her first narrative short will premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival. She graduated from SFU with a BA in Film and has a MFA in film production from UBC. Allison is a member of Cineworks, Women In Film, and has been a member of IASTE 669 (camera local) for 10 years. She has taught film production at UBC and is currently teaching Cinematography at Emily Carr Institute.

Films

• Fallen
  16min. 35mm (Shooting Format)/HD, Digibeta (Screening Format), 2005

Jürgen Beerwald

• Equipment Coordinator
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Jürgen Beerwald attended Simon Fraser University and has worked on countless films as a gaffer and grip. As the gate-keeper for all of Cineworks gear, he also performs routine maintenance and repairs and provides members with technical information and advice.

Justine Dancy Bizzocchi

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Justine Bizzocchi is a Technology Manager for the University-Industry Liaison Office at Simon Fraser University in Surrey, BC. She works with faculty researchers specializing in new media and e-learning development. Justine is a graduate of the University of Michigan in Film and Television. She has over 25 years experience working in film, television and new media both independently and with such organizations as the Banff New Media Institute (HorizonZero), the National Film Board of Canada, KCTS Television, the Centre for Image and Sound Research and the BC Institute of Film Professionals. She was a key member of the start-up team for both Vancouver Coop Radio (1974-75) and Cineworks (1980).

Megan Bodaly

• Digital Media Coordinator
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Megan is infatuated with all things film. With an unnatural attraction
to captured light, shadow and the smells of photographic chemicals,
she claims to be an editor but secretly is just trying to touch film
as often as possible. Megan comes to Cineworks with over 10 years
experience working in post production. With 5 years spent teaching at
Vancouver Film School, she is excited to be back in a position to help
film makers tell their stories.

Chris Brabant

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C.J. Brabant is a film artist who works with all formats of the motion picture. After receiving a BFA with honors in film from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, C.J. came to Vancouver to continue his work with experimental cinema. Currently, Mr. Brabant works as a lab technician for Technicolor Creative Services as he continues to develop new forms of film printing and chemical processing. Though working only with "the hands", themes of unknowing intentions are brought forth through the re-workings of the material elements of film.

Films

• The Fall
  6 min., 35mm, 2009

Vince D'Amato

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Vince was born in Vancouver, B.C. sometime back in the Seventies. Though Vince completed a condensed curriculum of the creative writing program at Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University in 1993, he is a self-taught filmmaker, editor, and screenwriter.

His filmmaking bug really began in 1998 when he became involved in an independent production titled The Faculty in Austin, Texas, where he had a chance to meet and work with producer Elizabeth Avelan (Spy Kids 1 & 2) and director Robert Rodriguez (From Dusk Till Dawn, Sin City). In the fall of 1998, Vince began to shoot his own independent film, an unfinished vampire opus titled Jenny Jacks. Having never attended film school, Vince had a professional camera operator teach him how to use & operate the 16-millimeter Arriflex film camera. In 2001, Vince worked briefly as a volunteer and representative for the independent schlock-movie company TROMA in Cannes, Santa Monica and Victoria (yes, Victoria, B.C.)

Using all this erratic filmmaking and film-marketing experience as a launching pad, Vince has since produced, written, edited, shot, and directed three commercial feature films in the horror genre – Vampires vs. Zombies, Human Nature, and Hell Hath No Fury, all of which have received worldwide video and television distribution. Since 2004, Vince also directed two music videos, an environmental documentary, and has been hired to write and/or edit several other projects – including videos for the popular American metal band Necrophagia and the upcoming horror feature from Plotdigger Films in Vancouver, Live Feed. He has also written over 200 film/DVD reviews for the Vancouver media website hollywoodnorthreport.com.

Films

• Hell Hath No Fury
  113 min., DV, 2005

Rena del pieve gobbi

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rena del pieve gobbi has lived in Vancouver, Canada since 1994. She is an alumni of Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design.

In 2002 she received grants from Cineworks, a Vancouver Independent Filmmakers Society, and The B.C. Arts Council to make the film, 'interception'.

Her influences include Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage and David Rimmer.

A body of work including three abstract films depicting violent sexual assault through the closed eyes of the victim.

The films depict the emotive content of sexual violence and deconstruct the position of the viewer as a voyeur. Evoking memories causing each viewer to translate the narrative out of personal memory.

Films

• Interception
  5min., 35mm. 2003