With next month’s release of the Mad Max reboot, Game of Thrones going strong and a Twin Peaks remake in the works, the arrival of Disrien is perfectly timed. The icing on the cake for Sooke-based creator Simon Norton Game is that his science-fiction fantasy web series also just won some prestigious industry awards.
Its directors of photography, Daniel Carruthers and Ian McAllister, were recently honoured at L.A. Webfest, where Disrien — which doubles as a cautionary tale about the consequences of environmental abuse — won the prize for Outstanding Cinematography in a Drama Series. The series, co-produced by Game’s Pioneer Filmworks, also won the Best Special Effects award and was nominated as Best Fantasy at the Vancouver Web Fest.
The first two episodes of the series Game pitched in 2013 as “a dystopian Twin Peaks” to local writer and philosopher M.E.J. Powell were less than 10 minutes each, but it has taken two years to get it off the ground.
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