Category Archives: Videos

Canadian Comedy, Season 2

Here’s the first batch of 6 episodes from Canadian Comedy, Season 2, produced and directed by Simon Fraser …

E01 Ass Dave
featuring The Imponderables with Matt Hoos and Brad Fox
E02 Dog Sweaters
featuring Nikki Payne and Emilio Estevez
E03 300
featuring Bob Kerr
E04 No Boundaries
featuring Naomi Snieckus
E05 Cameltoe Cougar
featuring Shelley Marshall
E06 SPARKS=MC²
featuring Ron Sparks

Click here for Season 1, featuring Shaun Majumder, Craig Lauzon, Diana Frances, Bruce Clark, David Merry, Cory Mack, Cole Osborne, Andy Hull, Ron Sparks, The Doo Wops, Norm Sousa, Harry Doupe, Toby Berner, Mike Wilmot, Warren Bates, Sandy Jobin-Bevans, Paul Constable, Picnicface, Al Rae, Kenny Robinson, Renée Percy, David Ivkovic, Peter Anthony, Tim Steeves, Seán Cullen and Laurie Elliott.

Bocche Fresca

Web promo for the Bocche Fresche Comedy Show – August 6th, 2010 in Montreal.

Directed/edited by Simon Fraser; produced by Daniela Saioni; written by Sandra Battaglini and Daniela Saioni; cinematography by Emerson John; sound recording by Kathleen Shattock; hair/makeup by Maia Nicole Mitchell; music by Jim Clayton; starring Sandra Battaglini, Raffaella Diana, Daniela Saioni, Mark DeBonis, Marco Bernardi.

The 30-second spot plays on local Montreal TV in the weeks leading up to the event.

Blew

A cocaine deal gone awry. Produced for PROJECTproject’s Doppelganger Video Project, in which teams of improvisers shoot unfinished scenes which are then completed by different teams of improvisers in a live performance. BLEW was shot in 90 minutes on May 26, 2010; edited in 9 hours; and screened on May 27, 2010, as part of the Combustion Festival.

BLEW was improvised by Conor Bradbury, Jason DeRosse, Jet Eveleth, Mark Little and Taz VanRassel; directed & edited by Simon Fraser; music from “Permutation” by Amon Tobin.

The War at Home

Produced for PROJECTproject’s Doppelganger Video Project, in which an improvised short is screened and live improvisers must continue where the short left off. This video was shot in 90 minutes and edited in 6 hours. It was screened at The Comedy Bar on November 4, 2009.