The Kingston Canadian Film Festival has been an annual event in Kingston, Ontario for the last 16 years. From the website: The Kingston Canadian Film Festival is the largest festival in the world dedicated exclusively to Canadian film. My husband’s company, Fusix Corp, has been a sponsor of the festival for many years as well. I […]
Background Acting at Kingston Pen – Alias Grace
I was lucky enough to spend 3 days as a background actor in a mini series filming here in Kingston. Emma and I attended the casting call in late September for Alias Grace – a 6 episode series being distributed by CBS and Netflix. I think it’s going to be shown on CBC but […]
Why I Started Blogging
This blog has been up for 2 months or so. I love it. It’s giving what I need, or almost. I have an older blog that I started a little over a year ago, and I loved it too, but now that I’ve refocused and upgraded to a blog that gives me more control I […]
My Newly Acquired Drive To Be An Actor
When I decided to re-craft my blog during my move from Blogger to WordPress I chose some categories that I thought would be the most useful for my mom’s lifestyle blog. When I chose to call one “acting/modelling” I was pretty sure it would be used to follow Emma, my eldest daughter, in her trials […]
Acting – Can I Do It?
I’ve acted in the past. In elementary school I was in a play – as a main character even! I never really thought I could act (well) in any version of my life. Acting is something talented people do, right? Two years ago a big Hollywood movie filmed 2 scenes here in Kingston. I applied […]