{"id":5072,"date":"2019-06-10T19:44:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T00:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sisleridm.com\/?p=5072"},"modified":"2019-06-10T19:44:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T00:44:08","slug":"hollywood-by-way-of-redwood-winnipeg-freepress-june-7-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sislercreate.com\/Animation\/2019\/06\/10\/hollywood-by-way-of-redwood-winnipeg-freepress-june-7-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood, by way of Redwood – Multi-media students are making their mark – not only in the growing film community here but in Canada\u2019s digital epicentre of Vancouver."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sisler High School teacher creates successful, evolving digital-training program to take Winnipeg students to film school, video-game development, advertising and\u00a0beyond<\/h2>\n

By: Randall King<\/a>\u00a0 | Posted: 06\/7\/2019 7:00 PM<\/p>\n

source: \u00a0https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/arts-and-life\/entertainment\/movies\/special-fx-by-sislerhollywood-by-way-of-redwood-510971822.html<\/a>
\nVANCOUVER \u2014 It\u2019s an inevitably cloudy April day in Vancouver\u2019s Downtown Eastside. Here and there, the sun breaks through.
\nIt feels like a good day for a make-or-break, career-defining presentation.<\/p>\n

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Former Sisler student Kyle Castro found success at the Vancouver Film School. (Randall King \/ Winnipeg Free Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Water Street occupies a zone in the neighbourhood where the grunge of East Hastings is mitigated by the tourist-friendly trappings of Gastown. (Gassy Jack! The steam clock!)
\nLook closer throughout this district and you\u2019ll see many old buildings operated, renovated and reinvigorated by the Vancouver Film School, eight in total.
\nIn one such building, a nattily attired motion-design student named Kyle Castro is pitching a special project to a trio of design professionals (Frank Palmer, Bob Stamnes and Malcolm Levy).
\nThe ad displayed on a flat-screen in the cosy pitch room is titled Mission Vega, touting a made-up set of state-of-the-art headphones \u2014 Vega \u2014 for a made-up company called Lyra. Castro is not selling the product. He is selling his own acumen in creating this elegant, tech-heavy, one-minute film.
\nA lot is riding on this presentation, especially because Vancouver Film School students aren\u2019t graded in any traditional way. They simply come away from their intensive year-long courses with experience, a portfolio (or more likely a reel) and, hopefully, the tools they need to succeed in their chosen field of study, which ranges from film production, animation (3D and classical), acting, makeup design, sound design, game design and \u2014 Castro\u2019s chosen field \u2014 digital design.
\nAlongside his project partner Tiffani Santos, Castro presents as cool and weirdly professional, belying the fact he\u2019s a 19-year-old from Winnipeg\u2019s North End. Stamnes, of the Vancouver advertising\/design company Elevator Strategy, is impressed. He commends the professional quality of the ad with four precious little words:
\n“That spot could run.”<\/p>\n