About Dirt City
(Above: Trevor Anderson at work. Good directors hold coffee and point.)
Dirt City Films is the production company of filmmaker Trevor Anderson, based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (a.k.a. Dirt City).
Email: trevor@dirtcityfilms.com
Phone:
About Trevor Anderson
photo credit: Sean Dennie
Trevor Anderson is a filmmaker, musician and theatre artist who lives and works mostly in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. His short films RUGBURN and ROCK POCKETS have screened at dozens of international film festivals. RUGBURN has been broadcast in the USA as part of "The Click List: Best in Short Film" on the Logo Network, owned by MTV. In 2007, Trevor won the inaugural Lindalee Tracey Award at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival in Toronto, presented to "an emerging Canadian filmmaker working with passion, humour, a strong sense of social justice and a personal point of view."
Trevor recently completed his third short film, DINX, produced through the Drama Prize program at the National Screen Institute - Canada. He is now in production on his fourth short film, THE ISLAND, produced by Julia Rosenberg of January Films with the assistance of a Bravo!FACT award and a FAVA 2Bits Commission.
Trevor has won an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award for Excellence in the Theatre for the original children's musical NAMI NAMERSSON, THE VIKING WHO LIKED TO NAME THINGS (book and lyrics by Trevor, music by Bryce Kulak). Trevor has been awarded the Edmonton Artists' Trust Fund and the 2005 Enbridge Emerging Artist Award at the Mayor's Evening for the Arts. He has been nominated for several Canadian Comedy Awards for his work with Edmonton's nationally celebrated improv troupe DIE-NASTY, which he directed for five seasons. He has been nominated for an Alberta Motion Picture Industry Association Award, the Alberta Centennial Award for Best Short Film, and three Golden Sheaf Awards at the Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival. He won first place in the Alberta Theatre Projects 24-Hour Playwriting Competition. He has been honoured with a Pride Citation, presented by Edmonton's LGBT community.
The music of his rock 'n' roll band THE VERTICAL STRUTS charted in the top ten on college radio across the country, and received good reviews in the mainstream (Exclaim!, NOW, Toronto Star) and queer (OUT Magazine) press. The music of his new band THE WET SECRETS recently charted at number two on CBC Radio 3, with CBC Radio 3 podcast host Grant Lawrence naming their song "Secret March" his number one favourite song of 2007. Their album ROCK FANTASY is tentatively scheduled for release to campus and community radio stations across North America sometime before hell freezes over.
links
affiliates
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre - International distribution of Trevor Anderson's short films is handled by the CFMDC.Film and Video Arts Society - Alberta - Edmonton's film and video co-op.
collaborators
Wes Doyle, C.S.C. - Director of Photography on Rugburn and DINXKobot Industries - Bryan Kulba designed this very website.
Whitey Houston - Whitey Houston's music is featured in Rugburn.
Vernois Constellation - Vernois Constellation's music is featured in Q&A.
Wolf Willow Sound - sound on Rugburn, Rock Pockets and DINX
Zardex - website of photographer Fish Griwkowsky
Zebra Society / 378 - website of Dr. Hope, Rock Pockets collaborator
