Local film maker featured at upcoming festival
By Boundary Sentinel
The work of local film maker, Nik Green, will be one of the featured films at the upcoming documentary film festival in Grand Forks. Along with his feature, Rebuild filmed in Nova Scotia, Green’s last year has been filled with shooting footage in the Boundary for three other films.
Two of the films are promotional videos that will be used in local marketing efforts as the tourist season begins this year. Green used his time spent in the Boundary last summer to shoot two kinetic films highlighting the areas’ assets to potential visitors.
The filming is largely in a first person perspective to give the viewer the feeling they are already here.
“I wanted to make the visitor feel as though they’re part of an experience not just a spectator when watching it,” said Green.
Both films are being posted on the HelloBC website for Grand Forks and Christina Lake while the West Boundary footage will follow. Green partnered with the City of Grand Forks, Community Futures Boundary and the Regional District of the Kootenay Boundary to bring the project to life.
The chance to act as a tourist in his hometown was the main appeal of creating the films.
“You can have a lot of fun here if you plan it right, and its even more fun with a HD camera strapped to your head,” Green added.
Green and business partner Edan Marshall shot a similar video for the City of Revelstoke as well.
“Now that was an adventure,” Marshall commented.
Green noted that Revelstoke is a city to watch as far as how the area welcomes tourism and promotes itself. In 12 hours of compressed shooting the pair managed to take a helicopter ride for aerial shots, zipline through trees 60 feet off the ground, swim, hike, mountain bike and plummet from a 50 foot descender at Sky Trek Adventure Park.
“Every single business or attraction welcomed us with open arms when we showed up, knowing that promotion is key,” said Marshall.
“I can’t believe we referred to that as work,” joked Green.
The duos’ company Global Authority hooked up with journalist Mona Mattei last fall to start work on a documentary aimed toward television and festival screenings. The story includes locally shot footage of Allan Piche and the ongoing story of the “marijuana bears” as they have become known.
The crew decided Piches’ story was a great hometown component to include in the film Fierceheart which looks at alternatives to killing animals that enter populated areas. The local aspect is a portion of a story that will take the crew to various locations around North America and is expected to be complete this year. A trailer for the environmentally themed film is now online at www.globalauthority.ca.
