No one said the road to becoming a professional digital filmmaker was an easy one; like many other arts-based careers, it takes dedication, commitment, drive and above all passion. Passion to make you get up early in the morning when the light is just right for shooting, passion to push you onward when film school gets tough, passion to look away when doubters tell you that you will never make it in the sea of others scrambling for the same goal; to MAKE it.

We at College for Arts and Technology know that our grads have this mix of skill and attitude and we love it when all of their hard work and passion come to fruition. Recently a group of CAT students embarked on a film journey, with the goal of producing a unique short film with a twist; it’s a musical!  CAT Digital Filmmaking Alumni, Benjamin Musgrave is the writer, cinematographer and director of this ultimately collaborative piece that will hit the film festival circuit in summer 2016.

The film centers on a young man searching for a life beyond the confines of his prairie home. The protagonist is a dreamer, seeking a life filled with “more” but is struggling to find the balance between expectation and reality. This carefully laid out film includes themes of family, expectation, and generational gravity that eventually explodes into a sequence of song and dance; dream and ambition.

The production of this film included the expertise of over a dozen CAT alumni, current students and staff and all actors cast in the film were sourced from the Kelowna area. The film, title “Late Harvest” was shot on location in Lloydminster, Albert with a few scenes shot in CAT’s on-campus film production studio.

Director and CAT Alumni, Benjamin Musgrave is described on the Late Harvest website as

“Thematically intrigued by the subjectivity of desire and the grasping pursuit of one’s bliss,

Benjamin Musgrave’s style is best defined as ambiguous.

Genres are melded to off-beat originals; story structure is subservient to atmosphere,

mood and emotion. Music is the inherent influence of his life and the centre from which all other expression originates.”

All of us at CAT are exceptionally proud of Benjamin and his team and we look forward to seeing the final, full length piece. College for Arts and Technology supported this initiative by kitting out the crew from the school’s equipment inventory. A list of staff and student credits can be seen below:

Writer / Cinematographer/Director                            Benjamin Musgrave (CAT Alumni)

Producer                                                                   Natasha Howes (CAT Instructor)

1st Assistant Director                                                Gary Potzkai (CAT Alumni)

Lighting Director                                                        Gary Potzkai (CAT Alumni)

Best Boy                                                                    Katie Rabb (Current student)

Location Audio                                                           Brandon Cardinal (CAT Alumni)

Script Supervisor                                                       Katie Rabb

Music composed by                                                   Benjamin Musgrave (CAT Alumni)

Music Co-composed by                                             Tyler Devon Gillis (Current student)

Music Engineered by                                                 Taylin Simmonds (CAT Alumni)

Recorded at                                                               College for Arts & Technology, Kelowna.

Mixed at                                                                     Blue Label Records (Anthony Mansour – CAT Alumni)

Sound Effects    Artist                                                 Brendon Nilsson (CAT student)

ADR Recordist                                                            Tony Gort (CAT instructor / Emmy award winning sound engineer)

ADR Assistant Recordist                                             Samuel Agecoutay (CAT student)

Recorded at                                                                College for Arts & Technology, Kelowna

Re-Recording Mixer                                                    Tony Gort

Graphic Design & Credits                                            Steffanie Mackie (CATGrad)