And the award goes to... Selwyn House

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And the award goes to... Selwyn House

Selwyn House bow tie on the red carpet at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. From left: Co-producers Evren Boisjoli (left) and Marley Sniatowski 2007 (right) with Brielle Robillard, one of the actors in the film.

‘My life has been a little crazy recently,” admits a jetlagged Evren Boisjoli 2008. “We just had our world premier today and received an overwhelming love from the audience, with a five- to seven-minute standing ovation, something that is apparently not the norm!”

Evren is talking about We’re Still Together, a short film he co-produced that received a rave response at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in Prague in early July. An IndieWire reviewer described the film as “a smart and sensitive microbudget drama” that “muscles its way above the masses on the strength of its unpredictability.”

Evren isn’t the only Selwyn House Old Boy who has recently become a rising star in film production. One of his coproducers on We’re Still Together is Marley Sniatowski 2007.

Evren also recently worked last December on a music video project with Nic Cabana 2006 that was nominated for the Much Music Video Awards and for the Young Director’s Award at Cannes Lion. Nic led a small team of artists to create the visual effects and computer generated robot for the music video for a recording by Kaytranda. The video made the Staff Picks at Vimeo, as well as being featured on many major blogs.

Nic has been getting a lot of work on high-profile films recently “Last spring I left Montreal for Vancouver to help wrap Jurassic World, which was a dream of mine,” he says. “I was part of the raptor crew.

“Today I’m back at Moving Picture Company as a senior, where I just wrapped on X-Men: Apocalypse.

“Samer Sallman 2006 recently joined us at MPC to work on Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (the next installment in the Harry Potter Universe). He and I will be working together on the film, a first for us!”

On July 19 it was announced that his team would pick up an award for best post-production on a video for Majid Jordan entitled “Every Step Every Way” at the 2016 Much Music Video Awards.

All these accomplishments in an exploding industry can be traced back to Selwyn House, Nic says. “I think it’s a fantastic example and testament to the relationships we build at Selwyn.”