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Part 1: Meet Brad

Part 2: Burns Bog

Part 3: September 2008 Update

Part 4: Boating With Brad

Part 5: The Construction Begins (Burns Bog Revisited)

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Dare to Care Inc.
This 15 minute promotional video showcases Dare to Care Inc.’s most recent program “Take the Time”.  The program is designed to educate school administration and students about the lasting effects of bullying in elementary schools across western Canada.  The video follows the two facilitators as they interact with Elementary students in a small rural community.  www.daretocare.ca

Project SNO
Project SNO was produced  by Shelter Productions and Ecstatic Designs as a 5 segment series which played throughout the five days of B.C. Fashion Week.  This series brought the fashion of the local ski hills to the runways of B.C. Fashion Week.

Building Cariboo
This short EPK goes behind the scenes on the AMC film Broken Trail starring Robert Duvall and follows the film crews as they build an entire western town from the ground up.

Aids to Navigation
This educational DVD was produced by Shelter Productions in conjunction with the Canadian Power and Sail Squadron.  The video outlines the skills necessary to identify and understand the various navigational systems encountered while boating.
Shell Albian Sands Update Series
This series of DVDs follows the development and construction of the Albian Sands Project through 2006 and 2007.  Each production includes a mix of on-site interviews, aerial footage and informational graphics to outline the scale of this 13 billion dollar construction project.

Pennant Energy, Universal Wing Geophysics, Jacques Whitford Ltd.
From 2006 on we have edited a series of promotional web and DVD videos for these companies.

Clients and collaborators

•    AMC (American Movie Classics)
•    AMEC COLT Joint Venture
•    Shell Canada
•    Legal Education Society of Alberta
•    Pennant Energy
•    Universal Wing Geophysics
•    Jacques Whitford Ltd.
•    Vancouver Film School
•    Dare to Care Inc.
•    Canadian Power and Sail Squadron
•    Ecstatic Designs
•    British Columbia Fashion Week
•    Bird Construction
•    JV Driver
•    Ledcor Pipelines/ Underground
•    Atco Structures
•    Atcon Construction
•    North American
•    Horton CBI
•    Cessco Steel
•    Canadian Water Technologies
•    Flint Energy
•    Clark Builders
•    Waiward Steel Fabricators

STORY

At a remote Arctic research station, four ecology students discover the real horror of global warming is not the melting ice, but what’s frozen within it. A prehistoric parasite is released from the carcass of a Woolly Mammoth upon the unsuspecting students who are forced to quarantine and make necessary sacrifices, or risk infecting the rest of the world.

BEHIND THE SCENES

Behind the Scenes of The Thaw from Mike Lewis on Vimeo.

REVIEW from Amazon.com:

This movie was quite a satisfying ‘isolation / paranoia / suspense / gore’ movie! It’s not a classic but it is very well done and should meet (and in some cases exceed) viewers’ expectations. Inevitable comparisons to John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’ will arise (and indeed the initial setup is similar to ‘The Thing’), but hopefully people won’t attack this film because of that, as that wouldn’t be entirely fair. The movie plays out differently than ‘The Thing’ and some of the sequences are truly unnerving in their own right. There is a major ’squirm’ factor that permeates the movie with the parasites really ‘getting under your skin’ during some of the more disturbing infestation shots. It remains sufficiently suspenseful and unpredictable all the way to the satisfying conclusion. Val Kilmer is great as the obsessed scientist but he isn’t in the movie very much, however this isn’t a hinderance to the movie because the rest of the cast are quite capable themselves. The ‘making of’ documentary is entertaining and reveals many scenes that were apparently more difficult to shoot than they appeared in the film. Overall it was exactly the kind of movie I was expecting. Not a classic but very good and entertaining.

Andy and Saxon on location of The Thaw

Last Stand In Windermere Valley

LAST STAND IN WINDERMERE VALLEY is the story about a young man named Martin who stuck in the doldrums of working for an international delivery company. When a damaged package arrives it reveals an ancient ceremonial dagger. Martin’s greed gets the better of him and he suddenly finds himself in over his head. With two psychopathic hit men sent to retrieve the dagger for an unstable millionaire, Martin enlists the help of some longtime and loyal friends to make a mad dash for freedom.

Shelter Productions worked closely with the Port Moody Power and Sail Squadron to create Aids to Navigation—An Introduction. This award winning 12 minute video outlines an introduction to the aids to navigation for beginner boaters. It breaks down the central systems of navigation into the following categories:

• The Lateral System
• The Cardinal System
• Special Buoyage System
• Range Lights and Daybeacons

The video is intended to create a safer boating environment on our waters. We saw a need to create a learning tool that boaters can take home with them to share with their friends and families. Our production team of Canadian Power Squadron volunteers consists of local boating instructors and enthusiasts. The message from this video is clear—let’s work together to inform people about boat safety and perpetuate a safe and enjoyable boating environment.

PROJECT SNO

Project SNO was produced by Shelter Productions and Ecstatic Designs as a 5 segment series which played throughout the five days of B.C. Fashion Week. This series brought the fashion of the local ski hills to the runways of B.C. Fashion Week.