PAST VIDEO PRODUCTIONS

Established in January of 2000, Island Bound Media Works is a production company that creates documentary, educational, and select promotional videos. IBMW has been producing quality digital video using a Canon GL 1, Apple G3 computer, and editing software. A local sound studio provides original musical and sound compositions as well as sound engineering facilities. Skilled actors are used to provide narrative tracks. Island Bound Media Works focuses on issues that will make this world a better place for all by providing public education through the media.

Video Work Produced by Island Bound Media Works

Defend the Upper Walbran Valley
View this entire Video on Line at: wildernesscommittee.org

The Upper Walbran Valley is threatened by logging. This area is outside of the Provincial Park know as Carmanah/Walbran but is designated as a Special Management Zone by the now defunct Forest Practices Code. Weyerhaeuser and TimberWest are both building roads, logging, and hauling at a feverish pace while they still can. They are now monitoring themselves with no regard for the fish, wildlife, ancient forest, and watershed. This video's narration explains the situation while graphically
illustrating the contract between the wilderness and industrial zones.

Format: 15 minute Digital Video Produced for: Western Canada Wilderness Committee - Victoria Chapter
Application: Posted on Website, Public Screenings, Copies available to Public
Available by special order through: wildernesscommittee.org

Forward House - Demystifying Mental Illness

Forward House is a psyco-social rehabilitation program working in partnership with 50 adults with serious mental health issues, their families, caregivers, and other service providers in the mental health community. They are dedicated to the enhancement and celebration of individual strengths and development of community in Parksville, British Columbia.

Format: 15 minute Digital Video Produced for: Forward House - Parksville, BC
Application: Educational for Health Care Workers & Nursing Students, Public Screenings, Copies available to Public
Available by special order through: http://forwardhouse.com

Turkish Coffee House

Belly Dancers from 15 Troupes come together to share their talents with the public in the Errington Hall with over 25 individual performers. Their dances were taped so that they would pass beyond that one evening.

Format: 70 minute Digital Video Produced for: Tiaya Curl
Application: Private, Public, & Instructional Screenings

Cathedral Grove

With the help of a biologist this film looks into the sensitive nature of the ecology of this internationally renowned park. Cathedral Grove is only 156 hectares compared to Vancouver's Stanley Park: 400 hectares and Victoria's Beacon Hill Park: 75 hectares but is host to over 850,000 visitors each year. Weyerhaeuser owns the surrounding land and at every opportunity is cutting down the forest. This fact is hidden by the company and ignored by Park officials. Western Canada Wilderness Committee looks at issues around wind tunnels created by logging which cause blow downs inside the park, preserving the park by expanding its boundaries, and the need for alternative access points to help
diversify the use of the forest by the public.

Format: 15 minute Digital Video Produced for: Western Canada Wilderness Committee - Mid-Vancouver Island Chapter
Application: Private, Educational & Public Screenings - Broadcast on Shaw Cable
Available by special order through: ISLAND BOUND MEDIA WORKS

Little Qualicum River Floodplain

A fish hatchery, wells for the town's drinking water, a Culturallyrelevant area for 1st nations complete with archeological sites,potential for a park inside the town limits, are all being compromised by Weyerhaeuser who wants to log and develop the floodplains of this river. Local opposition is strongly in favor of preservation. A public celebration of BC River's Day is combined with a message to the town council of Qualicum Beach and Weyerhaeuser.

Format: 10 minute Digital Video Produced for: Neighbours of the Little Qualicum River & Western Canada Wilderness Committee - Mid-Vancouver Island Chapter
Application: Private, Educational & Public Screenings - Broadcast on Shaw Cable
Available by special order through: ISLAND BOUND MEDIA WORKS

Kathok Gonpa

Tibetan Buddhist Monks have established a temple in exile from their homeland. Their new home is in Coombs (Famous for the goats on the roof) on Vancouver Island. Touring Monks create a Sand Mandela, Ceremonies filled with Chanting & Music, Buddhist Teachings, Lectures, and much more fill this colourful Temple with joy.

Format: 15 minute Digital Video Produced for: Kathok Gonpa Buddhist Society
Application: Private, Educational & Public Screenings
Available by special order through: ISLAND BOUND MEDIA WORKS

Arrowsmith Biosphere Reserve Grand Opening

Biologists, Government officials, 1st Nations celebrate this dedication in Parksville, BC.

Format: 60 minute Digital Video Produced for: Gathok Kompa Buddhist Society
Application: Private, Educational & Public Screenings - Clips Broadcast on Shaw Cable

Dancing Flame

Fire dance artist performance in the wilderness. Combining the art of bellydancing with the danger of a twirling staff that is engulfed with flame on both ends this performance artist becomes a wonder to behold.

Format: 7 minute Digital Video Produced for: Private Artist
Application: Private, Educational, Promotional & Public Screenings

Breaking it up!

Competition between breakdancers in Victoria, BC promoted by DARE through the RCMP. From 8 years old upto their mid-twenties these dancers tear up the floor with their moves.

Format: 10 minute Digital Video Produced for: Private Artists
Application: Private, Educational, Promotional & Public Screenings

Notable works as a Cinematography using 16mm Film and Beta SP video

The Street - A film with the Homeless

Six years in the making, THE STREET is an intense, rugged and intimate study of three homeless men in Montreal. Made with the homeless, the film gives voice and vision to a segment of society which is disenfranchised and stereotyped. Building upon a foundation of honesty and trust, the filmmakers are neither voyeurs nor judges. THE STREET is a moving non-fiction feature with all the power and process of good narrative storytelling. Its characters live through vicious cycles of addiction, hope, recovery and despair. But they also rise above the street - with their own sense of dignity, humanity and community. The film is set in a context which sees the social safety net disintegrating, crumbling beneath the weight of the economic agenda. With the collapse of our civil society, we are awakened to the frightening realization that we are all but a few steps away from being
claimed by the street. THE STREET bridges the gap between compassion and action -between 'us' and 'them'.

Awards:
*People's Choice Award - Hot Docs! Canadian Film Festival
*Special Jury Award - Vancouver International Film Festival
*Aired on CBC(Nationally), TV Ontario, and Radio Canada

Format: 78 minutes 16 MM color film Produced by Necessary Illusions - Montreal, Quebec
Director: Daniel Cross
Associate Director & Cinematographer: Richard Boyce
Application: World Wide Film Festival Screenings ,Multiple National Broadcasts on CBC
For copies and new DVD Release: eyesteelfilm.com
Interesting Subject? PLEASE CHECK OUT: homelessarchive.org

A Chronicle

A woman crosses the USA searching for a man sent to Vietnam in 1966 by the army. Her journey takes her through her past while living through the present. She arrives at Memorial Wall in Washington DC after driving across the country from Vancouver, BC. This film was shot in 17 day over 12,000 km with two principle actors.

Format: 24 minutes 16 MM color film Produced by Tamarac Productions - Vancouver, BC
Director: Alyson Drysdale
Cinematographer: Richard Boyce
Application: World Wide Film Festival Screenings

Bananas of the Sahara Desert

Shot on location in Western Sahara & Morocco. Banana plantation in the Sahara Desert drawing water 1000 meters from an underground aquifer below phosphate rich sand. Rich foreign investors take advantage of the fact that a United Nations referendum has not been held to decide the
fate of the Saharii People who have lived, fought, and died under military occupation from Morocco since 1975. These nomadic people now live in refugee camps controlled by the army.

Format: 54 minutes Beta SP Video Produced by Metaphor Film - Paris, France
Director: Brice Emil
Cinematographer: Richard Boyce
Application: World Wide Film Festival Screenings
National Broadcasts in France

HOLOCAUST IN PARADISE - The Struggle for East Timor

Refugees from the military forces of Indonesia speak of their occupation in East Timor. The connection between Canada and the financial support for the military regime that brutally killed 350,000 Timorese is outlined and explored. This film helped to embarrass the Canadian government to the point that they reversed their policy towards East Timor which, after more massacres and international intervention is now a free state who have elected as their leader a man who was imprisoned for twenty years for being a freedom fighter.

Awards:
*Best Political Documentary - Hot Docs! Canadian Film Festival
*Special Jury Award - Vancouver International Film Festival
*Aired on CBC(Nationally), TV Ontario, and The Woman's Channel

Format: 54 minutes Beta SP Broadcast Video
Produced by Snapshot Productions - Vancouver, BC
Director: Elaine Briere
1st of Several Camera Operators: Richard Boyce
Application: World Wide Film Festival Screenings, Woman's Channel, Multiple National Broadcastson CBC,

The Queen's Hotel

Explores the sense of loss inside a building under demolition.

*Special Commendation for Cinematography Montreal Festival
*Aired on PBS, CBC, and Radio Canada

Format: 6 minutes B&W 16mm Film
Produced by SpenCro Productions - Montreal, Quebec
Director: Daniel Cross
Cinematographer: Richard Boyce

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Web sites where our video work is posted.

homelessnation.org   |   Cathedral Grove    |    wildernesscommittee.org