Tuesday
Apr052022
Tribal Police Files: season 3
APTN 13 x 1/2hr series
Series Producer, Director - Marin de Valk, Chiaro Productions
A OCM3 Production with Producer and Director Steve Sxwithul'txw Kwassen Productions.
Entries by Chiaro (18)
Thursday
Mar122020
Wheeler's Everest
Feature Dcumentary the documenatry channel (CBC)
Produced, Directed and Edited by Martin de Valk
A Chiaro Productions Presentation with the Documentary Channel now showing on CBC GEM
Twitter Martin de Valk (@Chiaro_Prods) / Twitter
Synopsis
A century ago on March 18, 1921 the first expedition to Everest departed from Darjeeling, India to Tibet on a 360 mile trek to find a route to the world's highest mountain. On this all-British Expedition was a lone Canadian: WWI veteran, surveyor and climber Major Oliver Wheeler.
Now put yourself in Jeff Wheeler’s hiking boots…
What happens when you realize you are the great grandson of one of the most courageous and intriguing Canadians that few Canadians have heard of? And, what if, one of today’s most heralded explorers, Wade Davis, could open a door into a world history has overlooked? What would you do?
WHEELER’S EVEREST is a rich, multi-layered story - part history, part biography, but mostly, it is a personal and intimate journey taking Jeff Wheeler, Oliver’s great grandson, on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure that will reveal a forgotten part of Canadian history, highlighting the brave man behind the discovery of the ‘doorway’ to Everest in 1921 and the first mapping of the mountain and the surrounding Himalayan massif.
Join Jeff and world famous author Wade Davis as they travel in Oliver Wheeler’s footsteps from the halls of London’s storied Royal Geographical Society to the French battlefields of WWI, to the green mountains of Darjeeling, India and, even higher, to a climactic trek through Tibet’s legendary Rongbuk Valley. There, retracing that first Everest expedition of a century ago, they will rediscover a brave but almost forgotten Canadian’s incredible adventures and achievements.
Monday
Mar172014
TRUNK: The Movie
Feature Film
Produced, Directed and Edited by Martin de Valk
Screenplay by Keith Digby and Brian Paisley
Story by Keith Digby, Martin de Valk and Brian Paisley
Distributed by Chiaro Productions
Cop or killer? She’s convinced he murdered her daughter, and today is payback. His pleas of innocence fall on deaf ears. Lies are useless, mind games backfire, the truth doesn’t work. In the end, the only way he can stop this death-ride could kill them both.
A Claustrophobic Thriller
A MAN shakes the hurt and dizziness from his head. Things come slowly into focus. Coming around with a mighty pain - a whack from a baseball bat - prove to be the least of his problems. He’s also locked in the stifling, almost airless trunk of a fast-moving rust-bucket of a car.
Then…
A WOMAN’S VOICE tells him this is his living coffin. She tells him this is where he starts to pay for his evil. He’s being driven to the abandoned boathouse where he tortured and killed her ‘baby girl’. She tells him that when they reach their destination, he will die a very nasty death.
Fighting the panic that will undoubtedly make his death inevitable, he persuades her to talk to him.
He’s not the killer, he tells her. He’s an undercover cop— the only one in the force who still cares about her ‘baby girl’, the only one still working the case long after it has gone cold… the only one able to bring her daughter’s murderer to justice… If she kills him, they both lose. If he dies, so does the case, so does the last chance of making sure that the true killer pays.
Almost at the abandoned boathouse now, but he’s close to success. He’s persuaded her that he’s not the one who deserves to die a pain-wracked death… but he can bring her the one who does.
As the trunk lid slowly opens, his eyes adjusting to the piercing blue light of the sky that promises him freedom, he says that one thing too many, and the lid slams shut on his hopes.
Now, his fate is sealed, unless he can succeed with a desperate plan that is do-or-die for both of them.
Ten minutes of terror later, after a frantic, last-ditch effort, after a scream of tearing metal, air filled with choking smoke and the smell of burning rubber… a body floats out from the lakeshore.
Update on Friday, March 21, 2014 at 12:19AM by
Chiaro
Chiaro
TRUNK REVIEW for Premiere
Here is the link to the FB Page
Articles
Time Colonist Article April 16 2014
Times Colonist Article Jan. 14 2013
Monday
Mar172014
The Fantastic Logic of Eternity
1 x 1hr
Produced by Asterisk Productions
Vision TV
EDITED by Martin de Valk, Chiaro Productions
What do we mean when we invoke the ‘eternal’? This one hour program explores the concept of eternity, as expressed in art and pop culture, and by writers, physicists, religious scholars, and historians.
Update on Friday, March 21, 2014 at 12:22AM by
Chiaro
Chiaro
The Fantastic Logic of Eternity
https://vimeo.com/89551382