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 [...]
Once the Christmas Tree is decorated, it's up to the cat of the house to ... well ... finish it. Oh Tannenbaum? More like, Oh Tannen-BOMB, amirite? Please enjoy the latest annual DB&P holiday special. Merry Ho!Ho! from us to you. Special thanks to Emre Cords and Paul McCart for the dope music and [...]
It's Halloween 2021 and you know what that means - Dropbear & Panda are hiding out at home because it's an absolute horror-show outside. It's been one heck of a year, and it doesn't need to be Halloween to be terrifying out there. Special thanks to everyone who stepped up and added their voice [...]
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 is doing her ultimate best to stay sane during isolation, so she's been playing games with Newton. Newton doesn't seem to care one way or the other but for Panda this is all or nothing! It's an all out war of the wills and Panda's will is strong but will it be strong [...]
