VancouverIAM.com, a new local website, is establishing the I AM Network Fund to assist local Web-TV series producers with $200 to $1,000 per episode, according to George Fleming, CEO of SoMedia Networks Inc., which owns the site.

The Vancouver chapter of the Association for Computer Machinery’s Special Interest Group for Computer Graphics will host an iconic guest at its fifth-anniversary celebration on Wednesday (May 14)-Blade Runner’s visual futurist, Syd Mead.

On Saturday (May 10), as part of Pangea Day, four hours of short films will play simultaneously in thousands of locations around the world as the result of a wish.

The silver screen hasn’t always been kind to psychiatry, according to Dr. Harry Karlinsky, a UBC psychiatrist and director of the Frames of Mind Mental Health Film Festival, which takes place May 8 to 11 at the Pacific Cinémathèque.

The full slate of Leo Award nominees was announced on April 21, as a follow-up to the first round of announcements on April 9.

Brandon Lee’s death in 1993 could have been avoided. So could the death of Jon-Erik Hexum in 1984.

After eight days of filmmaking madness that began on April 17, the final eight films from the Crazy8s filmmaking challenge will be shown at 7 p.m. on Saturday (April 26) at the Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts (777 Homer Street).

In a country as vast as ours, when you’re trying to bring together movie lovers, how do you get them all in one room? The Internet.

Two B.C. screenwriters snagged top spots at the 12th annual Canadian Screenwriting Awards given out at Brant House in Toronto on April 14.

Meanwhile, Normal also showed up in the first round of Leo Awards nominees, announced on April 9. The film will compete against Battle in Seattle, They Wait, Crossing, and Elijah for best feature-length drama.

Northern lights will shine in Vancouver tonight (April 17) with two screenings of shorts by Yukon filmmakers. The Yukon Film Society is releasing a new DVD, Picturing the Yukon—9 Short Films, which it’s distributing in Geist magazine’s spring issue.

The makers of the short film “Following Foster”, which came second in the 5 Minutes to Change Your World short-documentary film contest, have pulled their work from the competition’s Web site and are re-editing it to address concerns raised by a family member.

Peter Chrzanowski was 14 when he first went to Peru, 17 when he organized a ski adventure there, and 21 when he helped produce a movie called Ski Peru. In 1979, he fell 800 metres off a Peruvian precipice and was saved by a local climber, thus earning the nickname Peter Peru. An avid filmmaker and athlete, he has led expeditions to many other locations.

The Coalition of Progressive Electors, Building Better Neighborhoods, Jim Hamm Productions, and the SFU Public Interest Research Group are showing two progressive films at the Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie Street). Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, made in 2005, will be screened on Monday (April 14). The Take, a 2004 Canadian documentary by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis about locked-out Argentinean auto-plant workers taking over a factory, will be shown next Thursday (April 17).

CBC Radio One host and Voluntary Service Overseas volunteer Priya Ramu knew she had become part of the Bangladeshi brothel community when she was left taking care of a baby in a slum neighbourhood of Patuakhali.