“Trolls” wins an honorable mention at Clermont-Ferrand in the International Competition!! 6 Feb 2010, 6:42 pm
Tonight at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival Ceremonies “Trolls” received an honorable mention from Alanis Obomsawin for the International Competition.
Alanis Obomsawin is a recognized Canadian Indigenous Filmmaker from Quebec. Go team!
The Audience in the Cocteau Theatre which seats 1400 people...it was full!!
Here are the Awards 2010
Download the full list of awards Awards 2010 (pdf)
I got an amazing email when I got home tonight! Here it is!
“I’m french and I live and study in Clermont Ferrand. I’ve seen Trolls yesterday evening and I just wanted to show you my support ! I absolutely LOVED Trolls! I really hope you get a price tonight! Your story is great and the young actors you picked are amazing (it’s funny I watch the Fringe episode in which plays Sierra Pitkin only 2 days before I watched Trolls). I had so much fun watching Trolls! The hole audience laughed a lot.
Anyway, I just wanted to say that I loved your work and trust me, I’m not the only one !
Congratulation on a great short film ! I wish you to get the success you deserve.
I’m looking forward to see what you’re going to do next!
Marina.”
A bit of press in the Edmonton Journal! 30 Jan 2010, 2:49 am
Click to read the Article about “Trolls” going to France here. Or copy and paste this link to spread the love!
Dawson Dunbar (or Billy as we know him) Has Been Work-work-Working! 25 Jan 2010, 4:04 pm
Dawson Dunbar who stars in “Trolls” as Billy – the nine-year-old who is just beginning to figure out that a little something called sex exists – has been involved in a variety of recent film projects including everything from horror films, to faux infomercials and music videos.
Dawson on the TV series Supernatural (Before"Trolls")
Here are links to a few of them.
Most of Dawson’s videos can be found at www.dawsondunbar.com however you can get some of the highlights below!
“Vessles” (2010), Horror Film Trailer – A glimpse into the like and dramas of a good family. Festivals TBA
"Rouse Your Bones" - Broadcast 2000
Dawson starred in Broadcast 2000’s music video “Rouse Your Bones” (2010). Dawson’s brother Talon is also in this music video! Do we have some siblings rising to superstardom? Dawson is in the leapord print hat!
"What About Me" - Ryan Knorr
Dawson is the Principal in Ryan Knorr’s music video “What About Me” (2010). The video is really well made and has a great twist at the end, not to mention how awesome Dawson is in it! The video is on YouTube where you can also find free downloads of all Ryan Knorr’s songs (Yes I took advantage of this 
)
The quirkiest of Dawson’s recent projects in the student infomercial “The Domestickator” (2009). A Domestickator is a device “To temporarily incapacitate your child’s movement.” They only have 5000 so order now!………. (By the way this is not real in case you really wanted one)
In addition to all of this, Dawson recently completed filming a couple of UBC student productions including, “Haunt”, and “Little Big Kid” which will be playing at the UBC Persistence of Vision (POV) Festival in April 2010.
The short film “Donor” (2010) just wrapped and Dawson will grace the screen in it once again. The film is expected to screen at the Vancouver International Film Festival in 2010.
Dawson also just finished filming “Spelling Bee”, which is a short film that will air on Knowledge Network at the end of April 2010 as well as on the First Nations website.
Dawson stepped into the commercials world once again with a “Captains Cove Marina” ad which will appear on their website early this year.
Dawson’s mom Marnie said “You think this is alot! There are more projects that Dawson has wrapped but the info on trailers, release dates and all that jazz just hasn’t been released yet!”
Congrats Dawson! And good job Marnie for keeping up and supporting this budding star.
More on Dawson Dunbar at www.mediakidvids.net
Sierra Pitkin (or Genevieve as we know her) is dancing along! 13 Jan 2010, 4:53 pm
Sierra has been as busy as a bee since “Trolls” wrapped production last year.
She landed a few professional gigs!
Sierra had a guest appearance as LITTLE GIRL in the TV series “Hiccups”, in Episode 5 titled, “Autograph Hound”. This episode will air in 2010 on CTV.
On the set of "Trolls": Corey Poluck, Dawson Dunbar and Sierra Pitkin
Sierra plays the principal role of Mary Black, who is the daughter of Detective Black, played by Dylan Neal, in the feature film “Mr. Nobody”. Val Kilmer stars as the title character. “Mr. Nobody” is in post-production and release dates are TBA. The film is directed by Michael Oblowitz. You can find out more at www.imdb.com
The series “Fringe”, which stars Joshua Jackson, John Noble, and Lance Reddick (to name a few) cast Sierra in the principal of Jordan! Catch Sierra’s episode (Ep. 213) “
The Bishop Revival”, when it airs next week on January 28!
Keep up with Sierra’s work on IMDB
Outside of filming Sierra is still an 8 year old kid. She no longer is in Karate but she is now doing hip hop along with ballet and tap, which she loves tap the most. Sierra is also busy practicing her skills as a skater and her swimming strokes.
After Sierra’s mom Tracy mentioned all this success she said, “That’s about it.”
Great work Sierra! Can’t wait to see your episodes!
“Trolls” is Heading to Vegas! ….Well outside Las Vegas…. 1 Jan 2010, 5:37 pm
It has been an awesome week for “Trolls”! The Dam Short Film Festival in Boulder City, Nevada, has invited “Trolls” to screen. The festival runs February 11-13, 2010.
I have never been to Vegas, but maybe February is the month. I will be just getting back from France, then Vegas and then Ottawa for a filmmakers networking conference! Crazy
Dam Short Film Festival 2010
Invitation to the Reel Shorts Film Festival in Grande Prairie, Alberta 1 Jan 2010, 5:30 pm
Reel Shorts Film Festival
“Trolls” has been invited to screen at the Reel Shorts Film Festival in Grande Praire ALberta by programmer Terry Scerbak.
The Festival runs April 19-25 2010.
“Trolls” is heading north!
Screening times To Be Announced
Screening Times for Clermont-Ferrand Announced 30 Dec 2009, 11:37 am
“Trolls” will screen at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival as part of the International Competition a total of SEVEN TIMES!
The screening times and Theatres are as follows.
Theatre: Petit Vélo 30/01/10 – 14:00,
Theatre: Capitole 31/01/10 – 19:00,
Theatre: Gergovia 1/02/10 – 13:00,
Theatre: Jaude 2/02/10 – 16:00,
Theatre: Cocteau 3/02/10 – 18:00,
Theatre: Capitole 4/02/10 – 21:00,
Theatre: Jaude 5/02/10 – 22:15
“Cocteau” is the main theater (1,400 seats).
If you are in Clermont- Ferrand, France please come to the screenings! If not, check back for a full update on how it all went!
“Trolls” will screen seven times at Clermont-Ferrand 16 Dec 2009, 9:31 pm
An update arrived from Clermont-Ferrand. “Trolls” will be screened 7 times all along the Festival, January 29- February 6 2010. Screening dates will be confirmed in early January.
Some interesting facts about the festival.
Clermont-Ferrand is the world’s first international short film festival, which started in 1979, and the world’s premiere festival of cinema dedicated to short films. In 2009 the festival attracted 137,196 to the city and over 2,800 professional delegates. This year close to 5000 films were submitted to Clermont-Ferrand’s International Competition and about 70 were officially selected to attend. Attending this festival is an opportunity that, under no circumstances, should be missed!
The fans are going nuts for Trolls! 10 Dec 2009, 4:18 pm
Here is a fan video in support of all the Festival Invitations for “Trolls”!!!
Check out the video HERE
Best of The 36th Northwest Film & Video Festival 9 Dec 2009, 4:27 pm
“Trolls” has been chosen from all the the short films screened at the 36th Northwest Film & Video Festival to go on tour as part of The Best of The 36th Northwest Film & Video Festival!
Which means we are going on tour! The tour starts in Spring 2010 and runs for a year until Spring 2011.
Tour dates and cities TBA.
Find out more HERE.
Other films selected for the tour are as follows.
EROS
DAMIAN AND ENDE
