MOVIES

It was a great year for movies and in 2014, we supported films across all genres and studios.

Among the films we supported this year were Top Five, The Gambler, Interstellar, The Theory of Everything, St. Vincent, The Best of Me, The Judge, Men, Women & Children, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Hercules, Lawrence & Holloman, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Fed Up, Down River, Cheap Thrills, Labor Day, and Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.

Thank you to the Biz family of customers for entering our contests and attending screenings to show your support for new films.

INTERVIEWS

Our interviews this year included Rupert Wyatt (The Gambler), Thor Diakow (Breakfast Television Vancouver), Taylor Hill (Leap 4 Your Life), Jim Gordon (CTV and The Travel Guys), Jennifer Copping (Good People), Ins Choi (Subway Stations of the Cross), Pippa Johnstone (The Rainmaker), Paul Armstrong (Lawrence & Holloman), Dakota Daulby (Black Fly), Suzanne Ristic (Poor), Laura Adkin (I Wanna Date U), Daniel Arnold (Lawrence & Holloman), Charie Van Dyke and John Craig (New Image College of Fine Arts), Robert Salvador (Espresso), Derek Lee and Clif Prowse (Afflicted), Ben Ratner (Down River), Maxwell McCabe-Lokos (The Husband), and Pat Kiely (Three Night Stand).

EVENTS

2014 marked our first foray into pop-up stores with BizPop.1 and BizPop.2 at Go Studios! We had so much fun that we’re excited to do more in 2015.

We also celebrated local industry events like Stage to Screen – In Conversation with David Auburn, Phrike FilmFest, and The Vancouver Actor Symposium and theatre productions like Hamlet and Poor at the Fringe and Subway Stations of the Cross, Espresso, and The Rainmaker at Pacific Theatre.

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Thank you to everyone who made 2014 such a wonderful year for us at BizBooks.net and we look forward to doing it all over again next year!

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1. What was were the elements that drew you to be part of this production?

I saw the play about 10 years ago and was extremely impacted by it. That was early on in my acting career and Espresso was one of a small number of plays that helped galvanized my love of theatre.

2. Can you share some of your creative process in preparing for the role from the initial planning of the production all the way through to opening night?

Well, a lot of my preliminary work is centred on dialect study, Getting the Italian rhythms and pronunciations comfortable in my mouth. There is a certain musicality and passion that I am striving to embody for this production.

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3. Are there any books or specific authors that have been influential to you so far in your creative journey?

The short stories of JD Salinger were a big influence on my younger creative self. They came into my life when I was asking some very big questions. At one point a good friend and I were interested in his stories written from war time Europe for magazines (which had not been published in book form) and we copied a bunch of them and made ourselves little handbooks. Also, for the craft itself, I love a book called Tips for Actors by Jon Jory. It’s a brass tacks look at the work of an actor in a voice that I really respond to. It’s my field guide for any role.

4. What were the biggest challenges for you as an actor in preparing for this production and how did you deal with them?

One of the biggest challenges is simply my love of the previous production… I do not want to just try to recreate something that was beautiful to me. I want to allow this role and this production to be a wholly new thing. I am trying to come at the script with new eyes, and so am making reading the play over and over a priority. As I read i am asking the question, what information do I NOT know? Looking for the details, the circumstances, the questions that will have to inform MY choices.

5. What can you share about any future projects that are in development?

Next season I will be in the 1st show of Pacific Theatre’s season, The Rainmaker. I’m very excited about that!

Espresso is on now at Pacific Theatre until June 14th. For tickets, please visit PacificTheatre.org.

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