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Cara aka Weirdgrrl

About Me

Although my formal education focused on veterinary medicine, I have been a writer my entire life. I transitioned into film in 2006 when I attended the Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers' 16mm Film School, during which I wrote and directed my first short workshop film, "No Time Like the Present." I went on to be accepted into Herland's IN:Camera Workshop, a juried, 10-day intensive film production workshop. My IN:Camera workshop film, "Persephone," was later screened at the Herland Film and Video Festival in 2007. My first independent short, "Coda in G Minor," screened at the $100 Film Festival in 2008. (Check out my "Coda" blog .)

So this is where you can read about my film life. But if you want to read about my day-to-day life, check out Limes with Orange .

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Creative, think-outside-the-box types. Plus anyone who inspires me or anyone who is inspired, in turn, by my work. (Hmm, I think it's safe to say that the second group is probably a subset of the first.) Oh yeah... and Sarah Polley, so that I can give her my feature to read and see if I she would be interested in directing it! I was posting Eventful demands here, for musicians that I would like to see play in Calgary. But for now, here's a poster for my screenwriting instructor's film, "Walk All Over Me." A film whose cast includes people that I was certainly thrilled to meet at the gala after party, including Tricia Helfer and Lothaire Bluteau.

My Blog

Revisting Coda

Seeing "Coda in G Minor" on the big screen at the $100 Film Festival back in March left me wanting to re-edit it; I thought I'd figured out how to use the extra footage that I'd shot. But after spendi...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:54:00 GMT

Updated Goals for 2008

In "My Film Life in Review," I listed my film-related goals for this year:- Take editing workshop with Ken Filewych- Finish post-production on "Persephone"- Find music, special effects editor and soun...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:41:00 GMT

New Coda Blog Posts

As I posted previously, I started a blog specifically for "Coda in G Minor." But I figured since this is my main film blog, I should give a heads up here when the "Coda" blog has been updated. So he...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:25:00 GMT

Coda Screening

Just wanted to announce that "Coda in G Minor" will be screened at the $100 Film Festival on Friday, March 14, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. at the Plaza Theatre (Calgary, Alberta).I've also started a blog for Co...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:14:00 GMT

Grant Writing

I submitted my very first grant application yesterday. Yay me! Actually, yay us! Because it's for a film project that I'm working on with one of my herland comrades. And I've decided on my first grant...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:21:00 GMT

My Film Life in Review

I'm currently taking a couple of weeks to hibernate so that I can start my sleep restriction program. This has become necessary as my health has deteriorated to a worrisome point and my insomnia has g...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:47:00 GMT

Coda Finished and Submitted to $100 Film Festival!

I finally have a finished film! Mind you, the finished product of "Coda in G Minor" looks somewhat different than the rough excerpt of raw footage that I uploaded previously... but I'm pretty happy w...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:18:00 GMT

Deco Dawson Editing Workshop

I was fortunate to have the opportunity to take the editing workshop with Deco Dawson while he was the artist-in-residence at the CSIF. This wasn’t your basic learn-this-editing-software type of...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:07:00 GMT

Doc School

I realize it's been absolute ages since I've posted but I have been doing film stuff, I swear! I took the long format screenwriting workshop at the CSIF that will be wrapping up next weekend (I'll be ...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:03:00 GMT

Lessons Learned the Hard Way

Lesson learned during my Handmade Film workshop...Why you should not use a knife to open a cartridge of Super 8 film:And that's after one week of healing, so just imagine how nasty it was at first! Ok...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:57:00 GMT