Geek and Fandom Events in BC and Washington State
The Georgia Straight has posted an interview with one of the performers in the Video Game Burlesque Show, taking place at the Canadian Legion this Friday, February 10th. Tatiana Pirogovskaia aka Malvina Masvino will be giving the burlesque re-enactment of Portal, focusing on the tragic love story between the protagonist and her companion cube. Hit the link below to read on!
Source: Straight.com.
In a new Synopsis released last week, Battlestar Galactica Alumnus Katie Sackhoff will be appearing in the new “Chronicles of Riddick” movie. She will be part of a team of mercenaries trying to hunt down Vin Diesel’s Riddick Character on a hostile alien world. No details yet on how this will relate to the previous Riddick movie, but I think we all just want to see Vin Diesel creatively killing people again.
Source:Science Fiction.com.
Sakura-Con has just announced their main musical guest for 2012. Stereopony is an all-girl J-rock band formed in Okinawa in 2007. They are best known to anime fans as the artists behind Bleach’s 17th ending theme, “Hitohira no Hanabira” and “Namida no Muko”, the 2nd opening theme for Gundam 00’s 2nd season. This is not Stereopony’s first sojourn to the states, as they rocked out at the Texas SXSW festival in 2009 to a standing ovation.
Source: Sakura-Con Website.
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Filmmaker Dan Wang has produced what seems to be the prettiest Halo Fan film ever. Halo: Helljumper follows the life of one ODST soldier as he makes his way from boot camp to the front lines of the convenant war. The dialogue is a little “on the nose”, but the lighting, visual effects, and editing are pitch perfect. If they can get this kind of production value from a fan film, it’s a wonder that Microsoft doesn’t finance, produce and distribute the Halo film instead of having to deal seven levels of development hell.
Source: Halo Helljumper
The entries for the Sakuracon 2012 Commercial Contest have just been posted on Youtube! Head over to the this link to check out all of the entrants. Best of luck to everyone! It’s going to be tough to top Girugamesh!
With the success of games like Farmville and The Sims Social, it’s only natural that the students at the Vancouver Film School’s Game Design program would want to take a crack at Facebook gaming glory. The game is called Zombie-Kiri, where you play a hoverboard-riding Ninja looking to rescue your friends from a zombie apocalypse while they perform an annoying dance for you. Look, just play the game, okay?
Source:Vancourier.com
According to the Hollywood Reporter, film and television production in Canada was at a record high in 2011 for a total of $5.49 billion across the country. BC’s production volume was up by 20% to 1.7 billion, but it was edged out by Ontario, where production values surpassed the 2 billion mark. Vancouver still holds the crown for foreign service location productions. Over 73% of all foreign-based productions shot in Canada were filmed in BC.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Vancouver City Council voted on Tuesday to petition the BC government to allow the Rio to keep its liquor license and stay open. The venue has not been able to show any films because although its liquor license allows for alcohol at live events, it doesn’t cover the screening of movies. It’s so insane its almost not worth getting enraged about. It’s as if the government needs to do this kind of thing because they can’t just come out and ask for bribes outright in the first place. Oh well. If City Hall can see the light, maybe Victoria can too.
Source: The Straight
You might be swooning at the idea of meeting Tom Felton aka Draco Malfoy. You might have a conniption over getting Kristen Bauer’s (True Blood) Autograph. But fellow Raingeeks, the true pinnacle of this year’s Vancouver Fan Expo will be a chance to meet the one and only Dynamic Duo. Adam West and Burt Ward aka 1960s Batman and Robin will be coming to our city’s first major comic convention, and that makes for one hell of a start.
Source: Vancitybuzz
This March, the Other Vancouver in Washington gears up for its 14th annual GameStorm Convention at the Hilton Hotel. Special Guests include Andrew Hackard and Samuel Mitschke of Steve Jackson Games and Jason Bulmahn of Paizo Games. The event will feature 24-hour gaming goodness including board games, tabletop role playing games and even Live-Action Role-playing. Tickets are $45 at the door, register before March 7 to save!
Source: GeekDad
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