HELLO FROM MONTREAL

It has been an incredible journey to swap over my life from Toronto to Montreal. But what has been most unexpected to me was the very sudden support and opportunities that have come my way. I’ve been blessed to have worked on some seriously fun projects and although I do not have any actual video to show you, I’d like to tell you a little bit about some of what I’ve been up to.

Two weeks after my arrival in MTL, I began working on a Radio-Canada show called “30 Vies”. The show aired in prime time at 7pm Monday to Thursday and was a blockbuster success for SRC. Boasting over 800,000 viewers per day and a market share of over 40%, 30 Vies has solidified itself as a lock in that time spot. I worked on this show as the data wrangler, which is unusual for me who is more accustomed to a lead-editor or director position. But my knowledge of tapeless formats and post-production needs proved valuable to Radio-Canada and the 30 Vies crew and the project eased me into a MTL life so I jumped in!

We produced 60 episodes in 4 months and we shot an average of 25-30 pages of text per day. 30 Vies is on hiatus for the summer but you can catch all the shows on www.tou.tv

Another exciting project I have been working on is a new series being launched on ESPN and ESPN3.com called the “Global Rallycross Championship”. This is a new race series with big dreams and big time interest. Two-time world rally champion Marcus Gronholm, BMX and X GAMES legend Dave Mirra, Top Gear host and Formula Drift champion Tanner Foust and RedBull and Hyundai supported Rhys Millen have all jumped on the series. Adding to that, DC shoe founder and WRC star Ken Block is expected to run some of the series and X Games star and founder of the me Metal Mulisha founder Brian Deegan has a deal in place to run the rest of the series. Sponsored by Codemaster's DIRT3 and Best Buy, this series is expected to grow and is the feeder series to get to the X GAMES in L.A.

I was fortunate enough to have been asked to join the production team as Feature Director and how could I say no?! Although these are not my work, feel free to check out some of the highlights HERE or visit GRC’s website for all the information.

To be on board for the start of some pretty exciting projects has been really great and with my MTL contact list growing and my outlook as positive as ever, I can’t wait to tell you about whatever comes next!