What's happening everyone. I have been on this forum for several months so I thought it was about time to introduce my self. My name is Mike Cuthbertson from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Canada). I am a young lad with the passion to suceed. my career all started with a school band trip. We were riding to Regina (Nearby city) in horribly foggy conditions. One of my friends suggested that it would be cool to a make a movie in these conditions. All though it was not the most rational idea it did start something big for me. i decided to make movies. I started by working with a friend using his camcorder to make a few short films. They of course were horribly ameteur but the rush I got out of them made me want to get serious about filmmaking. So this spring I put out some flyers and started painting fences. i quickly wearned enough money for a JVC camcorder. nothing fancy but it does the trick. I have since worked on several more short films and am currently involved with my first feature-length production. I am also reading up a lot on filmmaking and doing almost everything I can top succeed. I used to get tired at the old cliche' "If you put your mind to it you can accomplish anything you want". however now I use this mantra to keep me going. I will soon be putting up a website. I will get the URL on the forum when it is finished. I also may put a project on this site soon. Thanks for taking the time to read about a young mans journey in filmmaking.

If you wanna see an "interesting" North Western Canadian point of view I recammend seeing my film on this site, "Entre to Exis" (the link is at the bottom/my sig), hope you can find time to see what another Canadian filmmaker is churnin' out, and yeah put ur stuff up on the net id love to see some work from another area I've visited many times over the years

wow! canadians everywhere! awesome!

hey hdk, i dont get ur film, did america go nazi on everybody's *sses? did we blow the world? is that what that final sequence from dr. strangelove is for?

well i'll take each of ur questions one at a time

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i dont get ur film

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me neither, and i made it

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did america go nazi on everybody's *sses?

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yeah, it was set in the future where the world is low on resources and so they start taking over other countries for resources (like the japs in the south pacific in WW2, but after there was nothing left the american gov't went underground into bunkers and left the ppl to fend for themselves so they started eating ppl from other countries like canibals to stay alive so thats why the two characters are hiding out

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did we blow the world?

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not really in a physical sense, its meant to be metaphorical of a self destructive world and how even such destruction can create a form of beauty in itself, like mushroom clouds

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is that what that final sequence from dr. strangelove is for?

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well, its not the adsact same fottage from dr. strangelove, but its similar nuke footage. in this case though its not meant to be satiracle, just metaphorical, the nukes just went well with the feelings i was trying to prevent through the main characters. and although i am a big kubrick fan, it wasn't meant to be any kind of homage or tribute or rip-off of strangelove (which had the song "we'll meet again) while mine was supposed to me "the man who sold the world" (until i got original music))

***disclaimer*** for any of u americans out there dont take this story personally, i mena my explanation for having america as the enemy is like that of "Raiders of the Lost Arc" - Nazis and the James Bond Films - Russians/USSR in that it is the only logical enemy, had it been set in the past i would have chosen the appropriate corresponding identifiable "empire of evil." because this is set in the future/post apocalyptic, and canada is just north of america (one of the largest borders too i believe) it was only logical to have an enemy of some sort for the audience to identify with, dont take it personally, without u guys down south we wouldn't have those great american made cartons for our eggs

nah nah i know...like "air force one" and all those real crappy terrorist movies.

well coincidently ive made a film where canada is secretly building giant space mutant robot leaf-shooting hockey players underground and takes over north america w/ plans for the rest of the world. my brazilian heroes sing the theme song to the mickey mouse club at the end (as they had taken back only florida, and had a long couple of countries ahead of them) to represent their nostalgic ambitions to have things back the way they were.

im fine w/ america being a bad guy in movies sometimes (its only fun and art), but did u really have to include that nazi footage? trying...to...hint at something...eh?

oh yes, and welcome stuart

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but did u really have to include that nazi footage?

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sorry, i like to draw parralels

ok. well. a nazi has got to be one of the most horrible things one can be short of a person who stabs babies in their sleep....even if it is just a movie....

i mean i wasn't offended by making america a bad guy in a fictional film, but a NAZI? i mean a self-rightous jerkoff hebrew-hating NAZI?

anyway that's all ill post since the last time i went off topic in one of these threads i got yelled at by every jerk w/ a mouth signed up at sf.com

oh yes and welcome again stuart sorry ur intro took such a bad turn.

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oh yes and welcome again stuart sorry ur intro took such a bad turn.

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Ya thats what happens when ppl like me make posts

Welcome

I hate you for making that movie HDK! I never wanna talk to you again!

Nah, seriously, we need to be the bad guys every now and then. Personally, I think we should annex puerto Rico and you guys. Let's just get it over with! Just Kidding!

But I think taking it to the Nazi level was a little too much. But hey, your movie.

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But I think taking it to the Nazi level was a little too much. But hey, your movie.

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yeah, I would agree that that was possibly an unnesecary aspect to the film, but you have to understand that I wrote the screenplay sitting in a Vancouver hotel room in April (I think) 2003, just as the bombs started to drop on Bagdhad on TV right in front of me and I was a little pissed off at well, everything. So I was watching "Apocalypse Now" to get away from it and I realized how much I loved the conversations and confrontations between Willard and Kurtz and used it as a basis for what kind of film I wanted, that and the current political climate lead to the screenplay. It wasn't until a yera later until I actually started production of the film. All the same, I stand by my film, hope you can pull something out of it.

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Originally posted by Forsakenproductions:
Personally, I think we should annex puerto Rico and you guys. Let's just get it over with! Just Kidding!

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I'm sorry, but did anyone else immediately think of the movie "Little Giants" where one of their plays was entitled "The Annexation of Puerto Rico," which, coincidentally, won the game for them.

Come on! You KNOW you watched it when you were a kid!

"A pitch to Johnny? You can't pitch to Johnny! I'm Johnny!"

hey where is the moderator to yell at U GUYS for going off topic!

[Q UOTE] hey where is the moderator to yell at U GUYS for going off topic! [/QUOTE]
Hey man, this is a "Filmmaker Introductions" thread and we are introducing this filmmaker to great american cinema so step off

sorry hdk, wait... what? i was talkin bout all this nazi talk...

As far as I know, there are no rules against getting off topic. But hey, what do I know?

awww what is that! i get in trouble for going off topic in another thread and suddenly look like a jack*ss in this one cause i was reporting people going "off topic"

i mean wtf!!!