Ah, the magical world of community theatre. Where dreams are big, budgets are small, and the drama is both on and off the stage! But fear not, dear audience, for amidst the chaos and sequined costumes lies a beacon of recognition and celebration - the CAT AWARDS SHOW! It’s been 20 years since the [...]
Holy jingle bells it’s Jesus’ birthday again and Santa has come bearing gifts. What do you get the Son of a God who has everything? Heck, he’s already had Frankincense, myrrh, and a drum solo. WRITTEN BY Jennifer MacLean JESUS Michael Dean Dargie SANTA Jennifer MacLean Cinematography by Colleen MacLean Edited By Michael Dean [...]
Aah, the Halloween Classics. Grainy discoloured film, lakeside camps, nighttime terror. The perfect, time-honoured tradi... wait. Do the villains plan this out on purpose? Do they use a shopping list? WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Jennifer MacLean KILLER 1 Michael Dean Dargie KILLER 2 Jennifer MacLean CAMP COUNSELLOR 1 Zachary Friesen CAMP COUNSELLOR 2 Nolan [...]
Auditions are generally stressful at the best of times, but what if auditions are... not... quite what you'd expect... for anyone?!? Please enjoy Act 1, 2 and 3 of Dropbear & Panda's "Audition Hell: Hamlet Edition"; filmed for and screened at the 2022 CAT Awards (Calgary's Community Theatre Awards.) Thank you to all involved, [...]
Historical Accuracy Is Our Thing It's Queen Victoria's birthday and many of her friends from across the land have brought her gifts to show their admiration. Will she be amused? It's a history lesson the only way Dropbear & Panda can tell it... historically (in)accurate! "Dropbear and Panda have done it [...]
A Dropbear and Panda Annual No-Budget Halloween Short Film It's Halloween 2020 and Panda needs to get to the studio at cSPACE King Edward. But wait, is she being followed? Safety is four stories away. Will she make it? PROJECT DETAILS It's one take and one shot. It's like 1917 but more complicated and [...]
Dropbear (Michael Dargie) was recently interviewed by Calgary Arts Development in their ongoing series about 'Living a Creative Life'. He talks about moving the studio to cSPACE King Edward—a creative hub in Calgary's SouthWest—the variety of film and creative projects he and Panda are working on, and life in general as a creative person [...]
Re-Discover the extraordinary beauty that is Canada this Canada Day. Immerse yourself in lush greenery, blue skies, gentle rolling hills, wondrous wildlife, and stunning colours in just 43.66 square metres–new kind of Travel Canada Commercial for 2020. Canada: Keep Exploring - your own backyard - and visit the relatives via Facetime on the back [...]
Panda's triumphant return from her sooper secret acting gig Panda is back and she is fired up! Two weeks ago The Panda of Wonder™ left to parts unknown for a top secret acting gig that has her sworn to secrecy ... or does it? From the exciting world of Internet trickery we talk about fake [...]
Luke Saber, VR Games, and Barbecue Secrets Panda is still away on a sooper-secret acting mission so Dropbear —left to his own devices— invites Luke Saber over to talk about life, the universe, and everything ... particularly video games and his most secret (not anymore) barbecue secrets and baking bacon. What else do you need [...]
