Kryshan completes directing principal photography for the web series pilot DRAGONLY, an environmental action series produced by Julia Dordel and Anita Reimer with additional support from the David Suzuki Foundation. The show is currently in post-production and will be completed by the end of September.

JACK was an audience favorite at North America's biggest genre festival Fantasia, winning the Audience Choice Award for Best Short Film - Silver category (second place). More info here.

The short horror film JACK was a critical favorite at Toronto's CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival, garnering many strong reviews from such publications as CityTV News, Exclaim! Magazine, Rue Morgue Magazine, Toronto Film Scene, Examiner.com and The More The Merrier Arts Radio; as well as recommendations from The National Post and Panic Manual. JACK has also just been invited to screen at Montreal's Fantasia Festival in July.

The multi-awarding winning short horror film JACK has been requested to screen at Toronto's CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival, midnight June 4 at the Cumberland 3 theatre. A new page on the site has been created for JACK: kryshanrandel.com/jack.

Kryshan recently completed writing, directing and editing a new online commercial for the environmental social networking site Globalforce, to see it go to MyEcomart.com and click on Making A Living Making A Difference. See the previous commercials here.

Kryshan is in Mexico until mid-May as Visiting Professor for the Digital Arts Program at CEDIM, teaching the basics of filmmaking to all program classes at the Monterrey art and design university.

Directors reel freshly updated for 2010. Click on View Reel in the top right corner, or see the full-screen YouTube version here.

ARTLESS, a 30 second PSA created to fight B.C's proposed 92% funding cuts, is now online here. ARTLESS has received thousands of hits since its YouTube premiere a few days ago, and has been spotlighted on the Facebook and Twitter pages of many of BC's top entertainers. It is currently being screened in classrooms, movie theatres and TV stations across the province.

JACK won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2009 Bloodshots competition, judged by Dan O'Bannon (creator/writer of ALIEN, writer of TOTAL RECALL, writer/director of RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD). O'Bannon acclaimed the film's effective blend of humor and horror. The new cut of JACK was also completed today and being submitted for a 2010 festival run.

JACK received several awards at the 2009 Bloodshots competition: the Audience Choice Award, Best Death and Best Script for writer Marilyn Thomas. JACK is currently eligible for the Grand Jury Prize judged by Dan O'Bannon (writer of TOTAL RECALL, creator and writer of ALIEN), which will be announced in mid-November.

GLIMPSE has been awarded the National Screen Institute's $2,500 A & E Short Filmmakers Award, which recognizes outstanding works in the NSI Online Short Film Festival. "Glimpse's universal story of break-up with an almost science fiction twist permitted the short drama, great comedy and a "Will She Find 'The One?'" hook. With strong performances, great directing, interesting visual devices and a complete story, Glimpse rose to number one for us quite quickly and easily," said the jury, who were unanimous in their decision. Full press release here.

After being removed from several other sites, THE BULLY SOLUTION is once again online! The twisted and controversial "after school special" is now viewable at the Dailymotion site.

See GLIMPSE online here as part of the National Screen Institute Online Film Festival.

Kryshan's tribute to giallo films THE SECRET LIFE OF CASSANDRA BROWN is being brought to the Cannes Short Film Corner by producer Paul Armstrong ("Moving Malcolm", "The Celluloid Social Club"), who will be screening the film and seeking a distributor at the popular festival.

TALENT TIME launches their new website www.talenttime.tv, complete with a brand new trailer, clips and episodes highlighting the best of the first season, and much more. Also check out the excellent WestEnder cover story.

GLIMPSE has been acquired by Ouat Media for worldwide distribution; see the GLIMPSE page for future updates.

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Vancouver's premier short film-related event Crazy8s has hired Kryshan as their Associate Producer and Podcast Producer / Director. Kryshan will be co-ordinating sponsorship, doing grassroots publicity and directing a series of behind-the-scenes Podcasts and an official ten year anniversary documentary, 6.8.10. For more info and to see the Podcasts and documentary, check out the Crazy8s website.

Kryshan is co-directing with Trevor Carroll a series of commercials for the environment-focused social networking website GlobalForce; see the Why We Exist page for the first of the series.

Kryshan is producing and directing Paul Anthony's half hour comedy/variety show series TALENT TIME, airing twice daily, 11pm and 1:30am, on Novus TV Channel 4. For more information go to www.123presents.com.

After being banned from YouTube for its violent content, THE BULLY SOLUTION is back! The twisted and controversial "after school special" is now viewable on the new local website www.VancouverIAM.com.

Kryshan completes directing the principal photography for the TV pilot demo PROMOTER, about the high-stakes world of Vancouver stock-market promotion. Series creators are Gemini Award winning Ken Craw (writer on "Robson Arms", writer / producer of "Ben Johnson, Drugs & the Quest for Gold") and Michael Hamilton (producer of "The Journey" and "The Millennials"). The show is currently in post-production and will be completed by the end of May.

Kryshan is hired to direct the new television series THE REAL ESTATE MINUTE, focusing on various Vancouver real estate topics, and hosted by the experts themselves. The bi-weekly series will be airing on Novus Television beginning mid-April.

Kryshan's puppet music video for Spygirl's song TODAY is now online at the KryshanRandelFilms YouTube page.

THE BULLY SOLUTION screens at 8 p.m. The Pacific Cinematheque on Tuesday April 1, as part of Terminal Cinema, a night of underground short films.

Kryshan is hired to teach filmmaking part-time beginning in April at Kaleidoscope a film program for youth.

Kryshan finished his latest short film LEROY JENKINS, a dark comedy about video game obsession produced as part of Vancouver Film School's Portfolio Shorts program. The film will be screened in late March; date TBA.

The Great Canadian Commercial Contest launches their new website - www.thecommercialcontest.com. Executive producers working with Kryshan on the upcoming event are Ian Imrie, Martin Prihoda and Travis Junck.

Kryshan in partnership with Dave Roncin begin producing a weekly event called Film School, for which films new and old (and often obscure) are screened in a movie theatre on DVD or Blu-Ray formats followed by a brief analysis / discussion, every Tuesday evening. Join the Facebook group, keyword "Film School", to receive updates about the Tuesday night films and guest hosts.