Its been a while! so much has been happening..

First off No Fun City won BEST DOCUMENTARY at the Victoria Film Festival. This is a really proud moment for me. Thanks so much to VFF for supporting emerging filmmakers and independent local film. Also stay tuned for more BIG NEWS on the NFC front!!!!



I am also currently back on Season 2 of The Devil You Know - the gritty True Crime doc series that I love working on. Last year we did an episode on the green River Killers Wife that still brings tears to my eyes and shivers down my spine. Its a compassionate show that explores the secondary victims of crime often focusing on women that were deceived by murderous husbands. Its set to air on W soon I will post the link to air dates/times.
Read about it!

Trailer for a film I worked on recently.. pretty gripping account of a group of canadian students whose tall ship capsized in the middle of the ocean last year! Airs on CBC DocZone Feb 10th at 9pm. I also helped design their site www.theconcordia.ca Check it out!

Here is a promo video I made for Ron Reyes bday bash. What a great guy and the show was amazing! Will post video of the event soon.

I was recently interviewed about Shake Rattle & Roll and No Fun City on a national talk show called P3 - here is the segment:

One of a few stories I produced, shot and edited for L Univers Musiqueplus. This aired on Oct 29 7pm censored and 9pm uncensored and bloody.

I have recently been working on a campaign to remind young women to get pap tested. Join us!

We are going into post for NFC right now and are very excited. The project will be completed by Spring 2010 (just in time for the Olympics!). Thanks to all our friends and contacts who have helped us along the way you fuckin rock... the city needs you and the world needs you to keep our culture alive!
Link to article:

Video for new Robb G single Kinda Pregnant from new album Shufflebanger.
Video: me / Dancing girls: Prelinger

Vancouver bands come out to support kids in the Downtown Eastside with a community concert and fundraiser to help provide musical instruments to disadvantaged youth.
Featuring Twin Crystals and Brasstronaut.
VJ: Sarah Westwood Shoot/Edit: Melissa James
Additional shooting: Kate Kroll and Felicia
More info: www.rockandrollisgoodforkids.com

Music: DJ MYAGI
video: Melissa "Liss" James
Thanks again Mr. Prelinger

Interview with No Fun girls in the Westender

I am so stoked by the recent wave of support for the doc, proving this really is an issue that is important to our community. Thanks to everyone who reposted, blogged or wrote about us. Stay tuned for CBC Radio 3 interview today at 3pm.
NFC in Georgia Straight
NFC in Guttersnipe
NFC on Winnie Cooper
NFC on CBC Radio 3

Trailer for No Fun City documentary
by Melissa James & Kate Kroll.
Shoot/Edit: Melissa James
Track: Adjective - Integer
GFX: Bella Lugosi
Additional filming: Mark Atkins
More info: nofuncity.org

www.nofuncity.org from melissa on Vimeo.

Video for Rock for Insite 2, a benefit at the Railway Club for Insite Safe Injection Site in Vancouver, BC. Includes live event footage, band interviews and performances including The Pack A.D., The Furies, Swank etc..

Video: Melissa James and Kate Kroll
Edit: Melissa James

www.nerdy-frames.org
and...
www.noiseporn.com

In RiP A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.

I am really looking forward to the Vancouver screening. I have also been helping the Doxa Festival with postering and flyering.

hawt!

Track: Robb G
Visuals: Me
Lawsuit: Coming soon ;)

My family has recently relocated from England to Singapore and my little sister Ellie (age 11) has taken up blogging as a means of entertainment while she waits for school to begin. She is writing a Michelin guide to the candy world, despite the fact that chewing gum is illegal in Singapore. Such a rebel! Be sure to consult her witty and informative site before you go Valentine's Day shopping for your sweet tart ;)
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The inspiration for the name came from the notion that some people are cute on the outside but nasty on the inside - like a Panda who seems cuddly but if you tried to pet it, would probably scratch your face off. A Reverse Panda however is the opposite and looks something like this:

Sooo cute! The caption on the original image reads: "Is it a feeling of throb today of the reverse panda? God size!" ...what's a feeling of throb? and why is it God sized? Poor Panda.

I was recently lucky enough to be invited by Danny B. Harvey to join him at the Head Cat show in Seattle. Featuring Lemmy (Motorhead) on vocals, Slim Jim Phantom (Stray Cats) on drums and the legendary Danny on guitar, if you like rocknroll this is the ultimate band to see. Check out their myspace www.myspace.com/headcat

Wickedly funny blogger Betty Blozan is a talented filmmaker as well as witty and topical writer who actually always manages to make me laugh out loud. Thanks for the update! canada-ironic-update-melissa-awesome-ad-for-a-punk-rock-vancouver-politician

Lil' vid for notorious Toronto breaks DJ Robb G.
Directed/Edited by your humble narrator and Pete K (Dec 2008)
Video from http://www.archive.org/details/Destinat1956
More to come soon!