- New Image College of Fine Arts
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New Image College of Fine Arts Address 15th Floor - 510 West Hastings Ave.
Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B1L8, CanadaInformation Type Private Established 1980 President Charie Van Dyke Campus Urban Website http://www.newimage.ca/ New Image College of Fine Arts is a PCTIA-accredited[1] private academy for acting, make-up artistry and aesthetics, located in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia.[2] New Image has recently expanded into independent filmmaking under the banner of production company New Image Entertainment.[3]
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History
New Image College of Fine Arts was founded by Bill and Charlotte Dyck in 1980. The mantle later passed to their daughter, actress and model Charie Van Dyke, and her partner John Craig. The school moved locations around Vancouver several times before its establishment in the downtown core, bouncing back after a fire destroyed one location in 1988.[2]
Currently
The New Image College campus occupies a 9,000-square-foot (840 m2) penthouse in a heritage building in downtown Vancouver. The school focuses on three distinct fields of study, training actors for theatre, film and television, beauty and special effects make-up artists, and professional aestheticians.[2]
Faculty
New Image faculty members include Gemini Award-winning special effects master and film director Ryan Nicholson, who schools his students both in class and on full-length independent features in a unique work experience program.[4][5] New Image acting instructors include Gemini Award-winning film actor Philip Granger, "one of Canada's premier actors."[6] Other faculty (as of 2011) include Vancouver-based actors Raugi Yu and Sarah-Jane Redmond.
Community
New Image has been profiled in the media for its adult education programs.[7] The academy has also been noted for its community contributions to Vancouver. The school frequently offers up its time to community events such as fashion and talent shows,[8] musical productions,[9] and seasonal events with "pro- quality makeup jobs".[10] New Image has also been known to stage its own highly public demonstrations in Vancouver and other locales,[11] as well as make appearances at media conventions in Vancouver and elsewhere.[12]
New Image Entertainment
New Image College of Fine Arts has recently taken to producing feature-length independent films utilizing the talents of their students, staff and faculty under the banner of New Image Entertainment.[3] One of these features, Bleading Lady, has been released internationally on DVD, and several more films, primarily comedies and effects-driven horror films such as the upcoming Famine,[13] are on the way.
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Notes and references
- ^ "PCTIA Details". PCTIA. http://www.pctia.bc.ca/search/647.htm. Retrieved May 5, 2011.
- ^ a b c "Article 2: All Fired Up". The Vancouver Sun. http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=86e2b4ad-468b-4176-987a-1a7bcf9ac93e. Retrieved May 3, 2011.
- ^ a b "Article 3: School's Out". The Vancouver Sun - Business News. http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=3aa5ed96-376d-4ca8-ad30-dd3ccd8cb083. Retrieved May 3, 2011.
- ^ "The Believability of Severed Eyeballs". The Capilano Courier. http://www.capilanocourier.com/2009/11/believability-of-severed-eyeballs.html. Retrieved May 3, 2011.
- ^ "Yikes! Does this mean Halloween is coming?". Surrey Now News - Local. http://www.thenownewspaper.com/Yikes+does+this+mean+Halloween+coming/3465111/story.html. Retrieved May 3, 2011.
- ^ "Philip Granger Bio". Webster Talent Agency. http://webstertalent.com/?p=50/. Retrieved May 3, 2011.
- ^ "After Thirty Years on the Job, Back to School to Become an Actor". Vancouver Observer. http://www.vancouverobserver.com/blogs/onthejob/2010/12/02/after-thirty-years-job-back-school-become-actor. Retrieved May 3, 2011.
- ^ "Glee in Burnaby: Show Your Stuff to Become Part of the Metropolis Glee Club". Burnaby Now. http://communities.canada.com/vannet/blogs/inthespotlight/archive/2011/03/07/glee-in-burnaby-show-your-stuff-to-become-part-of-the-metropolis-glee-club.aspx. Retrieved May 3, 2011.
- ^ "My Dream of Gene fulfilled on Halloween". Surrey Now. http://www.thenownewspaper.com/Roses+Rotten+Tomatoes/2971315/dream+Gene+fulfilled+Halloween/3759374/story.html?id=3759374. Retrieved May 3, 2011.
- ^ "Chainsaw Charlie & Other Creeps". The Royal City Record. http://www.royalcityrecord.com/life/Chainsaw+Charlie+other+creeps+11th+year+Bear+Creek+Park/3711170/story.html. Retrieved May 3, 2011.
- ^ "Scary Stuff". The Now (Tri-Cities News). http://www.thenownews.com/entertainment/Scary+stuff/3114253/story.html?id=3114253. Retrieved May 3, 2011.
- ^ "Horror Convention Vancouver : Press Release". BadBird.tv: Marketing Creative Culture. http://www.badbird.tv/press-release. Retrieved May 3, 2011.
- ^ "Ryan Nicholson's Famine". Shu-Izms Horror News. http://www.shuizmz.com/trailer-ryan-nicholsons-famine-2011/. Retrieved May 3, 2011.
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