Upcoming Projects & Recent Work

Well, it's been a while since I last posted anything, so I'm gonna start off by saying that I hope everyone had a great New Year, and a Happy Holiday Season.

We're embarking on some pretty exciting times now, and I'm happy to say that we're finally going to shoot Deep River, it's been three long years in the planning, and we've finally got a final draft of the pilot episode completed. The final draft is a simplified and rearranged version of the first two episodes that Ryan and I wrote back in the winter of 2007, before we shot A Life Less Gone.

I decided to revive the project, because I was sick of sitting on it. I've been in love with the idea since it's inception, and we've just been so busy trying to get The Dead going that I had forgotten about it.

But now that we're putting The Dead on hold for creative reasons (mostly writer's block) I decided to give Deep River another go. So Adam and I sat down for a two day no holds barred writing session in the middle of a massive snow storm, and got it all done.

So last week we started casting, and we've got some great submissions so far. We've also put up a little teaser trailer, it's really nothing much, it literally took me longer to drive to the location than it took me to shoot it, and edit it together. But here it is:


Deep River : Teaser from Jason Lupish on Vimeo.

We've also been working on a few other projects, another commercial for the Niagara Ice Dogs, which I am happy to say that I giggle with joy, like a school girl every time I watch it. It's just so fast, and impactful that it makes me wet just thinking about it.

We're also just finishing up a series of 15 second spots for White Haut, a high class Toronto-style nightclub that has recently opened up in Downtown St. Catharines. This place is very cool, check it out, I feel like I'm stepping into Toronto every time I go in there.

Back before Christmas we shot a few small things, one was a 2 minute piece for the Reach Out Centre For Kids (R.O.C.K.) in Halton. It was a series of three spots that highlight a troubled child in a situation that gets resolved by ROCK's intervention. I'm particularily proud of these spots because of the fact that each spot was a single shot each. I'm a big fan of the "oners" so when they agreed to let us shoot them this way I was happy. The result was a great video that they are going to be using for their fundraisers, and I believe on their website as well, but I'm not sure about that.

Also back in December, we shot a short commercial for Niagara Vintage Wine Tours. Chris is a wine expert, and tour guide who specializes in customer service and satisfaction. His tours are pretty unique in that they are very hands on, customizable and personable. His evening tour is my favorite, visits to multiple wineries, topped off with dinner at Casa Mia restaurant in Niagara Falls, you can't beat that.

Last night we finally got out to shoot some night icewine harvesting for our video for Pillitteri Estates Winery. What a night, we spent about 8 hours putting the finishing touches on the Ice Dogs video, then get a call at 10pm from Jamie saying he's headed out to do the icewine harvest, so we bundle up, grab the gear and head out. Luckily everything was charged.

We got out there and shot some pretty unique shots, I just hope we had enough of the light we did have to make the shots work. This Pillitteri video is definitely going to be one of my favorites, it's going to be pretty unique, can't wait to finish it.

J