The NB24 film is a community collaborative film project created by residents of the North Burnaby neighbourhood as a visual document representing their perspective and the things they cherish from this community. Working collaboratively with support from project facilitators Grant Withers and Yunuen Perez Vertti, participants produced a 24-minute film spanning 24 hours in North Burnaby in which each hour of the day is condensed into 1 minute on screen. The movie was filmed in December 2020, as our lives’ most challenging year was coming to an end. The film’s music score was created by Jeff Tymoschuk, a North Burnaby neighbour and accomplished composer.
Facilitators
Yunuen Perez Vertti is a filmmaker, digital media artist and community builder. She is passionate about using art as a tool to bring the community together.
By facilitating the NB24 film project, she connected a lot of what she is passionate about; filmmaking, sharing her knowledge and skills with others and bringing the community together through making art. She is thrilled with the results, and she can’t wait to share them with the rest of the North Burnaby Community.
STRIDE co-chair Grant Withers is an accredited professional photographer and Craftsman of Photographic Arts with the Professional Photographers of Canada. He has shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions and his art is in private collections and the PPOC Loan Collection which showcases the best of Canadian photography each year. Grant is an avid supporter of the arts in his community, having helped coordinate Burnaby’s Living Room Art in the Heights project, Heights Art Crawl and the 2021 STRIDE Festival of the Arts.
Shooting since he was a teenager armed with his father’s Pentax SLR he fell in love with B&W darkroom work and Kodachrome 64. Now he embraces the creative potential of the digital darkroom and has developed a reputation for his revolutionary shooting and presentation techniques which challenge conventional definitions of photography. Grant is always pushing his craft, striving to be a leader in Canadian photographic art.
Filmmakers
Mela Brown
Mika Coulombe
Yannick Cudennec
Gustavo Hinojos
Dorothy & Tyler Kim
Melissa Knol
Rajeev Kumar
Karen Lowe
Gloria McKale
Julia McRitchie
Peter Perry
Sharon & Julia Ramsey
Jammy Smith
Joshua Staiger
Lesley Staiger
Composer
Jeff Tymoschuk is a Vancouver based composer for film, television, and games.
Since 1999, he has scored over 100 movies, including the science fiction thriller Altitude for Foundation Features, the action film The Marine 4: Moving Target for WWE Studios, and in 2013 he scored Leprechaun: Origins, the reboot of the classic horror film franchise.
On television, Jeff was the composer on the Aurora Teagarden Mysteries starring Candace Cameron Bure, writing music for twelve films in the series. He also scored the Murder She Baked series starring Alison Sweeney, and multiple entries in The Gourmet Detective series with Dylan Neal and Brooke Burns.
In addition to working in film and TV, Jeff has written extensively for video games, starting in 2002 with the Electronic Arts’ James Bond franchise in 007: Nightfire, and contributed music to the follow-up James Bond: Everything or Nothing and Radical Entertainment/Vivendi Universal’s The Simpsons: Hit and Run.
This project was funded by a Neighbourhood Small Grant from the Vancouver Foundation