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Horror in Media Resources as
local film students slash their
way to the top

Quiet on the set!

Students in the Media
Resources program
at Capilano College
practise their skills
during the taping ofa
program at the North
Vancouver campus’s
television studio.

Pa Lussier, a 1986 graduate Although they may not have met yet,
of Capilano College’s Media Patrick and Evan Fisher have a lot in
Resources program, knew what he common. Evan graduated in 1991 from
wanted when he graduated; he wanted the College’s Media Resources
to edit films. program and he, too, is living in L.A.
He started work at Poste Haste But wait, there’s more ... . Evan also
Productions in Vancouver, working cuts horror flicks! He has edited the
his way up through the editing suite scary Tales from the Crypt series,
on such series as MacGyver and starring Billy Zane.
Highlander. He caught the eye of Los So what is it that turns nice quiet
Angeles slasher film director Wes Media Resources film students into
Craven and eventually moved to the -crazed slicers of slasher films? Could it
city of angels to edit such films as be the m-o-n-e-y? Or maybe it’s the full
Vampire in Brooklyn and New screen editor credit? Nah, it’s probably
Nightmare. just L.A.
Patrick then hit the editing jackpot
with Craven’s Scream and Scream 2. Submitted by Peter Kellington

Scream was a huge box office hit and
Scream 2 is pulling in the big bucks,
too!

For the birds
— and the
Squamish
campus

his centrepiece, called Tweet

Dreams, was donated by Elliott
Insurance as part of a recent auction at
the annual meeting and president’s
banquet of the Squamish and Howe
Sound Chamber of Commerce. The
proceeds of the auction benefit the
Chamber’s endowment fund for
students from the region to attend
Capilano College’s Squamish campus.

This year, 24 centrepieces were

donated by local businesses and more
than $2,700 raised. This is the third
year of the auction for endowment
program. Former Capilano College
board member, Linda Carney, bought
the above piece for $250.

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Vol. XX No. 2
February 20/98