Tag: Vancouver

Vancouver’s Geek Community has two huge fandom parties on April 19th!

By Ed Sum (The Vintage Tempest)

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Fan Expo Vancouver has two after parties taking place on Saturday night, April 19th, each starting at the same time, at 9pm. The official FEV party will take place at Vistas 360 at the top of the Renaissance Vancouver Harbourside Hotel, with a bar and perhaps some catering, but very little information have been released about this show. Updates will occur as Otaku no Culture receives them.

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Don’t Get Shrek’ed with the Musical, A Review

By Ed Sum (The Vintage Tempest)

shrekmusicalShrek the Musical debuted to audiences in Seattle in 2008, and after it moved to Broadway, it played there for three years. In 2009, a show was recorded for video release, but it was delayed until now. Released on Amazon.com Sept 17 as a digital download and on Oct 15 to disk, this show showcases the talent known as Brian d’Arcy James (Shrek), Sutton Foster (Fiona), Christopher Sieber (Farquaad) and Daniel Breaker (Donkey). Amazingly, this musical production improves upon the source and the video release is a must-see for how it adds to DreamWork’s now retired product.

The Blu-ray release offers a behind the scenes construction of the musical, and both releases include a songbook for fans to sing along to. If this release can help Shrek return for some direct-to-video piece, fans can rejoice!

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Even the Dead Have Rhythm

There’s a very funny commercial that aired recently and it’s promoting the Vancouver International South Asian Film Festival. The film festival takes place in Vancouver, British Columbia between the dates of October 25 – 27, 2013. It presents every year a collection of recent feature, short, documentary and animated films from the South Asian family of nations: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan and the Maldives.

The commercial is influenced by Michael Jackson’s 1983 Thriller music video directed by John Landis.

Starring: Arvind Johal, Arsha Tahir, Kaitlyn Adair and Daniel Joseph.

Director: Raj Aheer
Assistant Director: Daniel Joseph
Video Producer: Raj Aheer
Audio Producer: Score Sound
Written by: Daniel Joseph and Raj Aheer
Executive Producers: Daniel Joseph and Raj Aheer

Source(s): YouTube account visaff filmfest