Sweet news: Vancouver Canada International Film Festival

Congratulations! Trophy has been chosen to receive the Rising Star Award for Excellence in Filmmaking at the 2010 Canada International Film Festival. The Festival will take place March 19 – 21, 2010 in Vancouver, Canada. 2010 Canada International Film Festival.

…Our judges felt that your film was among the very best of the several hundreds of films submitted from over 30 countries around the world and deserving of special recognition. Only a maximum of 10 films per competition category are selected to be honored with this prestigious award.

You are invited to accept your award in person at the Closing Night Awards Ceremony at the 2010 Canada International Film Festival.

Kafka

“A book should serve as an ice-axe to break the frozen sea within us.” ~ Franz Kafka

I guess in many ways Kafka’s quote applies to Trophy.

Trophy’s script was simple, beautiful, thoughtful, layered with meaning  and was what drew many talented people to the project. It appealed to the issues of post colonialism and challenged political correctness on a very uncomfortable but I feel necessary level. If you watch Trophy and feel uncomfortable, I would say we have succeeded to plant the necessary questions.

If you do get a chance to see Trophy in a festival I hope you will vote,  give us feedback and carry on the dialogue either here or visit the links under spotlight: have your review published on B-side and IMDB!

Peace,

Stefanie

Producer

Sunburnt Eyeballs

I think that will go down as the most unique experience of the entire event.  The people were fun, interesting, and challenging, the locations were spectacular, the physical environment was also challenging, the hours ridiculous, but the sunburnt eyeballs were a brand new experience for me.

I noticed after a sunny day of filming on the lake that my eyes were bloodshot, as if I had partaken of some extracurricular smoking, beyond what was required in the film.  I chalked it up to being tired, until Tom was filming in the truck while I was driving into the sun.

He wanted me to put up the visor so that the sun would shine on my face for better light.  As soon as the sun shone on them I understood that this wasn’t just tired eyeballs, and I put the visor back down very quickly accompanied by a short whine.

Which begs the question, does anyone manufacture sunscreen for eyeballs?  Sun glasses would have been good, but they weren’t part of the wardrobe.  Contact lenses simply weren’t in the budget, and they wouldn’t have covered the whites of my eyes anyway.

Maybe this is something I could suggest to the company that makes Visine?  I can see it now, Visine with SPF 15.  Of course my Scottish blood and red roots generally require SPF 30…

Owen Stairs

So we made a film…

Welcome to the Blog about Trophy.

Ideally we would have blogged as the production unfolded, but dial up and the great wilderness consumed any such noble intentions. We still would like to have a blog though as we find it is a useful space to address the issues about identity, alcoholism, general implications of the actions by man and woman in the film Trophy.

We hope you respect this space and share your thoughts and feelings with the aim of coming to a deeper understanding of who you are as a viewer in a community of viewers.

Just as the film has a life of its own, the blog is a chance for us to engage with the cast and crew’s experiences of being on set and for you to engage with them if you have burning questions you would like answered.

We’re currently sending the film off to festivals, so you may not get to see it until September.

Producer

Stefanie Tan