Director: Daniela “Danto” Tovar
DoP: Dick Chua
Producer: Alexander Joho
Editor: Moira Connor

The second round of our final projects at Vancouver Film School meant the use of one of my favorite cameras, the Arri SR2 16mm film camera. And for this round I was selected as the 1st camera assistant. I was stoked to get this position because it allowed me more hands on the film camera. I was also able to help play with lens choice to distance ratios and even more important loading all the 400 foot mags.

This production was a drama about voodoo, chickens and freaks. A very super picture from director Daniela Tovar. The set that was built for this final project was very well done which made lighting and filming quite fun.

Having the ability to work with film one last time was important to me for a few reasons; the first being that film was wonderful to work with, secondly was that digital was now pushing forward hard. And making great progress against the film world, to the dismay of the old school die-hard film guys and gals.

We are beginning to see a very fundamental shift in the technology used to capture film today and it has only begun to brush the surface. From the advancement of DV to the advent of HDV to future of HD and chip size we are in for an exciting ride in digital video capture.

Feast Camera Crew at the wrap party in Vancouver, BC