Raju's Blind Date

Jay Rao wrote and directed Raju's Blind Date and his sister Priya produced and acted as the 2 girls in it. Priya also works on the staff of the Worldwide Short Film Festival. The short will be shown on the CBC and has been shown on Air Canada flights and will be made into a comedy series that will be broadcast on the Comedy Network soon.

 

Phantasmagoria

This project was a quick two day shoot. I was referred to the production by the lead actress Cherie whom I had worked with at the Reel World Film Festival. Cherie is the volunteer co-ordinator for the festival and the former host of several shows that were on the Telelatino Network. It was at TLN that she met the Director of Phantasmagoria, Sean Cisterna. We had a great time working on this project; the two days were easy and fun.

 

Drop Dead Roses

Drop Dead Roses stars Brian O'Hallorhan from Clerks and Eddie McGee from Big Brother I. It also stars Brian's real life girlfriend Diana Devlin as his love interest in the film. The film was directed by Jessica Hudson and Produced by Tracey Ogonoski. Eddie, Jessica and Tracey also worked with me on the pilot "Scream Sessions", the stories of hauntings in the Niagara Region.

Jessica Hudson is now working on getting the funding for her new project called "Bust" and Tracey is a producer at the Naked News.
 

Sweet 16

Sweet Sixteen, the story of a girl that is a clone of her dead sister, was shot in 10 days. Daniel Oron was the director. He directs children's shows at the CBC. It takes place in the 80's and current day so I had to do the make up for both eras and also age 3 characters to have them be seen in the 80's and current time. I also had to do the same tattoo on 2 different actors as well as adding a scar on the face of one that also had to be aged. The head hairstylist is now my hairstylist Lisa of Redd Hair Salon.

 

Ghosts

I got a last minute call to work on this film, filling in for another makeup artist that couldn't be there. It was the last day of shooting and I had to recreate the old age makeup of a ghost character. The location was in an old farm house somewhere up north of the city. I only knew one crew member on this shoot but ended up having a really great time with the team that were helping me. The young man in the near left photo was in the film but didn't appear this way. We had a little fun with him and some makeup at the end of his shoot. He is pictured here with the producer and director of the film.