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March 30, 2006
His Own "Agenda" - Filmmaker Deric Olsen's HD
Shakedown Coming Soon...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Alberta – March 30, 2006 –
After months in post-production on his latest film THE PHOENIX
AGENDA, Deric Olsen, a graduate film student at The University
of Regina, is starting to get anxious. And for a filmmaker
who's used to controlling the ebb and flow of a shoot, it's
not a new sensation, but it's one that's got him, well, excited.
You see, the film is almost done.
A native of Mountain View, Alberta and graduate of the New
Media program at the University of Lethbridge, Olsen's feature
length espionage-thriller will be ready for a Summer 2006
premiere in Regina, SK. The graduate student film is a ground
breaking endeavor to utilize a High Definition (HD) digital
production workflow normally reserved for big budget movies.
After shooting over 30 hours of (HD) footage in the summer
of 2005 on the University of Regina campus, in numerous other
Regina locations and in the picturesque foothills and mountains
of Southwestern Alberta, Olsen has spent months in the editing
suite. He has turned down freelance jobs on numerous productions
to stay focused on the task at hand, and is now on the brink
of completing a film that many people told him would be impossible
to complete.
"During every stage of this production, I really had
to step back periodically and look at the big picture and
not get bogged down in the details, and that was hard for
me with my background in design. I like the details,"
said Olsen, who founded Alberta-based Northbound Studios.
"Before we began shooting, I had been concentrating on
scheduling, locations, availabilities and budget - that sort
of stuff. But when we were shooting, it was surreal. Aside
from a few minor problems, it all came together the way I
wanted it to and everyone worked so well together. The cast
and crew I had were amazing!"
Now that a final cut of the film is almost done, coming
in at approximately 100 minutes, the work isn't over yet.
The sound mixing and music composition still need to be completed,
but Olsen has already begun planning for the premiere screening,
and the eventual DVD release. The project really is the synthesis
of Olsen's creative and technical skills, utilizing his expertise
in New Media to augment his Graduate Thesis film, "The
film is professional and I'm really proud of it and it's really
a pay off to be able to give the film a completely professional
image from designing the posters to authoring the DVD's,"
says Olsen. "It's the whole project, from beginning to
end, that fascinates me and I think that all this extra work
provides a context for the film. It's also a way of rewarding
all the hard work that went into the project, to see the film's
poster on the marquee or hold the DVD in your hand gives the
film a life beyond the 2 hour experience in a darkened theatre,
and that's what I promised my cast and crew."
Regina will host the premiere screening this summer and will
be the first stop on a Screening Tour that Olsen hopes to
organize through independent theatre owners in Saskatchewan,
Alberta and B.C. before he submits the film to the festival
circuit. For more information visit the film's official website
www.thephoenixagenda.com.
Press Contacts
Deric Olsen
Northbound Studios
403.308.9745
press@northboundstudios.com
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