Hello interwebz! As you can see, the site has had a bit of work done to it. We’re in the middle of renovations, both virtually and physically and Janin decided to give the website a bit of an overhaul. In the next few weeks we should have more information updated in various sections such as [...]
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Welcome to Montage Pictures
Welcome to the home of Montage Pictures!
There are a lot of new changes happening and there are a lot sections still under construction but we’re working on it and trying to keep everything updated as quickly as we can. So feel free to poke around!
Check out the BLOG for more news or details on upcoming projects as well as for blog updates from almost ALL of Team Montage. We will also be launching a separate blog section so that each member can blog about anything they can think of!
You can also click here for our Demo reel which is now available for your viewing pleasure!
And below are some of the new areas to the site that have been updated and being worked on as we speak…er as you read.
Feel free to drop us a line at info@montagepictures.com OR if you’re lazy like me, go on down to our handy new Contact form and send us any questions, or comments or suggestions for the site!
Thank you for visiting Montage Pictures.
MEDIA
Video for the masses!
The Media section is the springboard to some of the films Montage Pictures has created over the years.
PROJECTS
The Think Tank
The Projects page lets you see what we’ve been working on and what we’re gearing up to work on next!
About
All things Montage
The history of Montage Pictures for those who might be curious.
The History – How it all began
In early 2009 the founders of Montage pictures began work on production of the company’s first film Darkest Before Dawn. They quickly found that they shared not only and affinity and passion for the art and industry, but a kindred spirit and a desire to tell true and beautiful tales. The decision to start the company and begin creating art was simple.
Naming it was a bit of a different story.
Many names were tossed around until one day, at a production meeting; one of their peers suggested a way to conquer the problem of developing a love story in such a short time. “Why don’t you show them meeting a few times? Like a montage.”
Immediately, the would be producers began to sing in unison, “we’re gonna need a montage…” With that, the company was truly born.
A company founded on humor, but one dedicated to a single remarkable goal, to take the moments where life truly exists and capture their beauty on film.
The teams first film Darkest Before Dawn took home the “Audience Choice” award at Langara College’s Unlock the Vault film festival in 2009, which they followed up with Missing Link, which took home the same award at the following years festival, and Teddy Bear Teddy Bear, Say Goodnight, which is currently featured on zombiesdrule.com.
Over the course of 2010 Montage’s focus was on further developing Darkest Before Dawn for the festival market, as well as adapting it into a feature length script for future production. Darkest is now twenty minute short film about the beauty of loss, and the life that still exists within it.
For the 2011 Montage Pictures production schedule, the team finalized production of a second short script entitled Rayne in the Mexican Mud, a film about a heroin addict battling back from bottom as well as a third, “Tea Party”.
From there, the team at Montage plans to continue developing the feature length script of Darkest Before Dawn, as well as setting their sights on more short films and assorted web-series for 2012.
All members of Montage Pictures continue to expand their knowledge and reputation within the film industry as individuals as well as under the company logo. Like the technique from which they procure their name, Montage Pictures is a basic, often light-hearted essential part of the modern film industry.
Latest From The Blog
Ramblings and meanderings...
Hello friends! We here at Montage Pictures have been keeping very busy lately, with post-production on our last film, “Rayne in the Mexican Mud”, early pre-production on a brand new webseries (conceived by Koichi Izumi and penned by Jordan Keith), a super top secret surprise that we won’t be telling ANYONE about until the end [...]
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Films and other media projects of the past, present and future
Welcome to the projects page. Here you can read up on any of the short films and/or other media that Montage Pictures has created. From individual to group projects, here you find information on what we’re currently working on or what we’re planning to work on in the near future. We also have the completed section that goes into more detail of each individual project.
*Note: As some of these projects are ‘works in progress’, some information may change such as titles, characters and/or storylines.
Current Projects
Various ideas in the pre-production phase.
Future Projects
Ideas and concepts on the radar.
Completed Projects
Finished projects available online or making their rounds in the festival circuit.
“Sometimes the last thing you are looking for is the one thing you need to find.”
Darkest Before Dawn’s central theme is one of redemption. It is less a depiction of loss than the life that succeeds in spite of it.
It’s 2 AM and Claire Belmont is jogging of a cheating ex-boyfriend. In the same ocean-side park Arthur Kremlack, dressed all in black, is preparing to cross skinny-dipping off his things-to-do-before-you-die list. Arthur is in the late stages of terminal cancer and is preparing to say goodbye to the world and simply disappear. The two meet, and though startled at first, Claire allows Arthur to walk her home. Through this chance meeting and the night’s conversation the two find in each other the thing they’d been missing, and the something they never knew was gone. Though it is Arthur’s last days, he and Claire form a bond to define a lifetime.
In teaching her the courage to love that, which she knows she must lose, Arthur gives Claire the strength to let go of the past that stands in the way of her rebuilding her future. In having the daring to do so, Claire shows Arthur that it is never too late to leave your mark.
“This one’s about loss… hope you find it.”- Daniel Greaves
Cast
- Rebecca Strom
- Joshua Larsson
Producers
- Rebecca Strom
- Jordan Keith
- Janin Palahicky
Screenplay
- Jordan Keith
Cinematographer
- Janin Palahicky
Director
- Janin Palahicky
Trailer on Vimeo and Youtube
“Forever is a long time to regret.”
Every saga has to start somewhere, the Zombie saga is no different.
This is where it begins.
After a long search, Ted’s journey has finally led him to the cave he’s been seeking. Contained within it is the key to unlocking our past.
Krang and Luna, two prehistoric lovers alone in the forest are attacked by creatures in the night. Their glowing eyes pierce the darkness. Barely escaping their grasp, Krang hides Luna in the cave in attempt to save her from these mysterious creatures. Injured in fending off their attack, Krang feels an evil growing inside him as he stumbles into the cave to his lover.
The tragic story of this prehistoric couple is painted on the walls for Ted to find, but unbeknownst to him there is also something dark waiting inside the confines of those rock walls, awaiting it’s chance to escape.
Missing Link is not as much a zombie film, as it is a prehistoric tragedy that simply exists within the danger and suspense of a zombie reality. It uses it’s supernatural elements to illuminate it’s universal, human messages of regret, loss and undying love.
UPDATE: Missing Link was selected to screen at the 2010 Whistler Film Festival.
Cast
- Jason Vaisvilla
- Melissa Oei
- Barry Haggis
Producers
- Jordan Keith
- Erik Hofmann
Screenplay
- Erik Hofmann
Cinematographer
- Janin Palahicky
Music
- Cary Pratt
- Derek Filippo
Director
- Jordan Keith
TRAILER on Vimeo and Youtube
“Sometimes, all you need is love. But for Rayne, that time has run out.”
Rayne in the Mexican Mud is about looking into the darkness and praying to find light.
Rayne wakes up in her boyfriend’s arms on a morning much like any other. Rayne is a junkie and she’s got that itch. The only problem is that she has promised Brian that she has already quit.
She heads out, alone, to her dealer for her fix. Broke and out of options she trades herself for heroin, but catching Carter with his pants down, literally, she takes all that she is worth and all that she can get her hands on.
Barely escaping his rage, and unable to go home, with a bag of drugs, Rayne must risk a night alone on the dark, unforgiving streets of the Vancouver addict. But if the streets don’t swallow her up and she can make it back to Brian, what will be waiting for her?
He can forgive the lies, he can forgive the drugs, but can he forgive what she had to do to get them?
“Just like a whore… can I say that word? All the other words in here are just really beautiful.”- Ryan Adams
Cast
- Eva Montgomery
- Ryan Dunning
- Jason Coleman
- Jason Vaisvilla
- David Quast
Producers
- Rebecca Strom
- Jordan Keith
- Janin Palahicky
- Koichi Izumi
Screenplay
- Jordan Keith
Cinematographer
- Janin palahicky
Director
- Jordan Keith
Teaser 1 and Teaser 2 on YouTube
The entire world is crumbling. A sickness characterized by cannibalistic hunger and and uncontrollable rage is sweeping across the population. It is the only thing displayed of every television station as the numbers of infected sore. But, Erin doesn’t need to watch the news to know all about it.
Ever since she was bitten, she has felt it taking over. Now she is in a race against what little time remains to save her daughters from the same fate. Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, Say Goodnight is a gripping look at the lengths a mother will go to protect her children from a fate worse than death.
Cast
- Rebecca Strom
- Jordyn Ashdown
- Taylor Ashdown
- Jordan Keith
- Melissa Oei
- Paula Burrows
Producers
- Janin Palahicky
- Jordan Keith
- Rebecca Strom
Screenplay
- Jordan Keith
Cinematography
- Janin Palahicky
Director
- Janin Palahicky
Trailer on YouTube full Film on Vimeo
Montage Picutres DEMO Reel
Our first Demo reel showcasing for 2011
Here is our first Montage Pictures demo reel for 2011
Excerpts from our films:
- Darkest Before Dawn
- Missing Link
- Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear….Say Goodnight
- Rayne in the Mexican Mud
And clips from the following concerts:
- Dan Mangan live at the Vogue Theatre in Vancouver, May 2010
- Kina Grannis live at The Media Club in Vancouver, October 2010
Music used: Holocene by Bon Iver
Edited by: Koi
Media
Where the moving pictures go
Here you are, links to some of our films out there roaming the vast wastelands of the big assed world wide interwebz.
Darkest Before Dawn
“Sometimes the last thing you’re looking for…is the one thing you need.”Now available for online viewing.
*COMING SOON*
Leaving Home
Langara College Film Arts 2010 short film by Jordan Keith. Written by Robyn Thomas. Produced by Jordan Keith, Robyn Thomas and Paula Burrows.
*COMING SOON*
Watch NowTeddy Bear Teddy Bear…Say Goodnight
Independent short film by Janin Palahicky. Written by Jordan Keith. Produced by Janin Palahicky, Jordan Keith, Koichi Izumi and Rebecca Strom.
Contact
Maybe you need a montage?
Drop us a line
Have a question? Then give us a shout!
Contact info
New Westminster
Canada
E-mail: info@montagepictures.com
Website: www.montagepictures.com
Around the internet
You can find us on a few other sites as well.