Bleeding Art Industries
Encyclopedia
Bleeding Art Industries is an award-winning special effect
s, custom fabrication and film production company based in Calgary, Canada. The company is known for its work in the film
, television
, performing arts
, themed exhibit, and live event industries. Bleeding Art Industries was founded by Leo Wieser in 2002.
The company recently expanded into film production and is currently creating its first short film Skeleton Girl, using a stylistic blend of 3D stop-motion animation and traditional special effects.
Special effect
The illusions used in the film, television, theatre, or entertainment industries to simulate the imagined events in a story are traditionally called special effects ....
s, custom fabrication and film production company based in Calgary, Canada. The company is known for its work in the film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
, television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
, performing arts
Performing arts
The performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...
, themed exhibit, and live event industries. Bleeding Art Industries was founded by Leo Wieser in 2002.
Achievements
- Air CanadaAir CanadaAir Canada is the flag carrier and largest airline of Canada. The airline, founded in 1936, provides scheduled and charter air transport for passengers and cargo to 178 destinations worldwide. It is the world's tenth largest passenger airline by number of destinations, and the airline is a...
StampedeCalgary StampedeThe Calgary Stampede is an annual rodeo, exhibition and festival held every July in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The ten-day event, which bills itself as "The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth", attracts over one million visitors per year and features one of the world's largest rodeos, a parade, midway,...
Parade Float – designed and fabricated by Bleeding Art Industries – winner of the Celebrities Choice Award (2010) and the Best Corporate Float (2010). - L. Wieser, Juror – Saskatchewan Motion Picture Industry Association Awards (2009)
- IAAPA (International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions) - First Place, Best Exhibit (2008).
- AMPIA (Alberta Motion Picture Industries Association) Awards - Best Special Effects, Broken Trail (Nomadic Pictures) (2007)
- AMPIA (Alberta Motion Picture Industries Association) Awards - Best Special Effects, Ginger Snaps: Unleashed (49th Parallel/Combustion) (2004)
- L. Wieser, Nominee – Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award (2004)
History
Founded in late 1994 and incorporated in 2002, Bleeding Art Industries originally focused on theatrical design work, with Founder Leo Wieser working as a sole proprietor, designing costumes, sets, and lights for theatre and performing arts companies across Canada, and touring worldwide with award-winning puppeteer Ronnie Burkett. After working for a local pyrotechnics company, where he designed and implemented pyro displays, Wieser began doing the special effects on films. BAI has since specialized primarily in special effects including pyrotechnics and other atmospheric effects, and has expanded over the years into providing creature and character effects, themed exhibits, custom props, and sculptures. The company also has a sales and rentals division, selling film production supplies, special effects make-up, and selling and renting special effects equipment. BAI has established itself as a provider of special effects services and expendables for the Canadian market.The company recently expanded into film production and is currently creating its first short film Skeleton Girl, using a stylistic blend of 3D stop-motion animation and traditional special effects.
Films
- 2010 The Last Rites of Ransom PrideThe Last Rites of Ransom PrideThe Last Rites of Ransom Pride is a 2010 action-western film starring Lizzy Caplan and Scott Speedman in the title role.-Plot:Juliette Flowers is on a mission: to find the remains of her outlaw lover, Ransom Pride...
(special effects) - 2009 Screamers: The Hunting (special effects)
- 2009 Creepy Jesus (prop maker)
- 2008 Flirting with FortyFlirting with FortyFlirting with Forty is a 2008 Lifetime movie, starring Heather Locklear and Robert Buckley. The movie premiered on December 6, 2008.The movie focuses on a 40-year old mother named Jackie who goes to Hawaii for her 40th birthday and meets a young male surfing instructor named Kyle . The two flirt...
(special effects) - 2008 Mayerthorpe (special effects)
- 2008 Freezer Burn: The Invasion of Laxdale (special effects)
- 2007 Big City (special effects)
- 2007 Lost Holiday: The Jim & Suzanne Shemwell StoryLost HolidayLost Holiday: The Jim And Suzanne Shemwell Story is a 2007 Lifetime Television movie, starring Jami Gertz and Dylan Walsh.-Cast:*Dylan Walsh : Jim Shemwell*Jami Gertz : Suzanne Shemwell*Aaron Pearl : Blake Thompson...
(special effects) - 2007 Badland (special effects)
- 2007 Hush Little Baby (special effects)
- 2007 ScarScar (film)Scar is a horror/crime thriller film. It stars actress Angela Bettis, known for starring in the remake of the horror classic horrorfilm Carrie...
(special effects) - 2007 Decoys 2: Alien SeductionDecoys 2: Alien SeductionDecoys 2: Alien Seduction is the sequel to the film Decoys. It was originally titled as Decoys 2: Rebirth, with its North American DVD release title being Decoys: The Second Seduction....
(special effects) - 2006 Broken TrailBroken TrailBroken Trail is a 2006 Western miniseries that originally aired on American Movie Classics as their first original movie. It stars Robert Duvall and Thomas Haden Church, and was directed by Walter Hill....
(special effects) - 2006 Android ApocalypseAndroid ApocalypseAndroid Apocalypse, also known as Facing Extinction, is a 2006 science fiction film starring Scott Bairstow and Joseph Lawrence. The film was written by Karl Schiffman and directed by Paul Ziller for Sci Fi Channel as a television film...
(special effects) - 2006 Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas StoryPrairie GiantPrairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story is a CBC Television miniseries first aired in two consecutive parts on March 12 and March 13, 2006. It dramatizes and fictionalizes the life and career of Tommy Douglas, the Canadian politician who oversaw the legislation of Canada's first public healthcare...
(special effects) - 2005 Santa's SlaySanta's SlaySanta's Slay is a 2005 Christmas Black comedy horror film that stars former professional wrestler Bill Goldberg as Santa Claus. The movie was written and directed by David Steiman, a former assistant to Brett Ratner....
(special effects) - 2005 TidelandTideland (film)Tideland is a 2005 British-Canadian fantasy thriller film co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam, an adaptation of Mitch Cullin's novel of the same name. The film was shot in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and surrounding area in the fall and winter of 2004...
(special effects) - 2005 Fugitives Run (special effects)
- 2005 The Lazarus ChildThe Lazarus ChildThe Lazarus Child is a 2004 American drama film directed by Graham Theakston. It was filmed in Canada and the United Kingdom. Entitled The Last Door in Canada.-Plot:...
(special effects) - 2004 Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson StoryMan In The Mirror: The Michael Jackson StoryMan in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story is a 2004 biographical telefilm produced for VH1. The biopic stars Flex Alexander as Michael Jackson, and follows his rise to fame and subsequent controversial events. The film takes its title from one of Jackson's songs, "Man in the Mirror".The film...
(special effects) - 2004 Ginger Snaps Back: The BeginningGinger Snaps BackGinger Snaps Back: The Beginning is the prequel to Ginger Snaps and Ginger Snaps II: Unleashed. The final part of the Ginger Snaps trilogy takes place in 19th century Canada, following the exploits of the antecedents of the Fitzgerald sisters of the two previous movies: Ginger and Brigitte , who...
(special effects) - 2004 Family Sins (special effects)
- 2004 Try to RememberTry to Remember (TV Movie)Try to Remember, is a 2004 Mystery Television movie based on a novel by Mary Higgins Clark that was shot back in 2003 on location in Moose Jaw & Saskatchewan of Canada.-Cast:...
(special effects) - 2004 It Must Be Love (special effects)
- 2004 Ginger Snaps 2: UnleashedGinger Snaps 2: UnleashedGinger Snaps 2: Unleashed is a 2003 Canadian horror sequel to Ginger Snaps, written by Megan Martin and directed by Brett Sullivan...
(special effects) - 2003 Picking Up & Dropping OffPicking Up & Dropping OffPicking Up & Dropping Off is a TV movie starring Scott Wolf and Amanda Detmer. It premiered on ABC Family in 2003 on their 25 Days of Christmas programming block.-Plot:...
(special effects) - 2003 ord of Honor (2003 film)|Word of Honor (special effects)
- 2003 12 Mile RoadTwelve Mile RoadTwelve Mile Road is a 2003 drama film based on the book Mystery Ride by Robert Boswell. It was directed and written for teleplay by Richard Friedenberg...
(special effects) - 2003 Shanghai KnightsShanghai KnightsShanghai Knights is a 2003 action-comedy film. It is the sequel to Shanghai Noon. It was directed by David Dobkin and written by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar.-Plot:...
(special effects) - 2002 Tornado Warning (special effects)
- 2002 K-19: The WidowmakerK-19: The WidowmakerK-19: The Widowmaker is a movie released on July 19, 2002, about the first of many disasters that befell the Soviet submarine of the same name. The film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow...
(special effects) - 2002 Duct Tape ForeverDuct Tape ForeverDuct Tape Forever is a 2002 comedy film based on The Red Green Show. It was written by Steve Smith, the actor who plays Red Green.-Plot:...
(special effects) - 2001 Knockaround GuysKnockaround GuysKnockaround Guys is a 2002 gangster film starring Barry Pepper, Vin Diesel, John Malkovich and Dennis Hopper.- Plot :Matty Demaret is the son of a mob boss, but he is used as little more than an errand boy...
(special effects) - 2000 One Kill (special effects)
- 2000 LoserLoser (film)Loser is a 2000 American romantic comedy film starring Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari and Greg Kinnear. It is about a small town teenager who is accepted into New York University and must cope with the pressures of college life and the big city...
(special effects) - 1999 Held Up (special effects)
- 1999 The Sheldon Kennedy Story (special effects)
- 1996 Portraits of a Killer (special effects)
Television
- 2008 The Englishman's BoyThe Englishman's BoyThe Englishman's Boy is a novel by Guy Vanderhaeghe, published in 1996 by McClelland and Stewart. It won the Governor General's Award for English language fiction in 1996, and was a nominee for the Giller Prize...
- 2008 Work Safe Alberta - Bloody Lucky TV Commercials
- 2007-2010 HeartlandHeartland (Canadian TV series)Heartland is a Canadian television drama series which debuted on CBC Television on October 14, 2007. The series is loosely based on the Heartland books by Lauren Brooke....
- 2007 Saving GraceSaving Grace (TV series)Saving Grace is an American television crime drama series which premiered on TNT on July 23, 2007 and ran until June 21, 2010. The show stars Academy Award-winner Holly Hunter in her first television series, as well as Leon Rippy, Kenny Johnson, Laura San Giacomo, Bailey Chase, Bokeem Woodbine,...
– Pilot Episode - 2007 Im Tal der wilden Rosen – Triumph der Liebe Episode
- 2004 The MountainThe Mountain (TV series)The Mountain is an American television series that was broadcast on the WB Television Network for one season, from 2004 to 2005. The show received very low ratings and was canceled after only thirteen episodes. The theme song, "I Miss You" is sung by blink-182.-Plot:The plot centers on a ski resort...
- 2003 Before We Ruled the EarthBefore We Ruled The EarthBefore We Ruled the Earth is a two-part documentary television miniseries that premiered on February 9, 2003 on the Discovery Channel. The program featured early human history and the challenges human beings faced thousands of years ago...
- 1998 Big Bear
Performing Arts
- 2011 Kung Fu Panties (Ground Zero Theatre and Hit & Myth Productions)
- 2011 The Inventor (Calgary OperaCalgary OperaThe Calgary Opera is a Canadian professional opera company in Calgary, Alberta, originally known as the Southern Alberta Opera Association. It performs in the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, accompanied by the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and the Calgary Opera Chorus...
) - 2010 Don Giovanni (Calgary OperaCalgary OperaThe Calgary Opera is a Canadian professional opera company in Calgary, Alberta, originally known as the Southern Alberta Opera Association. It performs in the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, accompanied by the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and the Calgary Opera Chorus...
) - 2010 The Midnapore Cycle (St. Mary’s University)St. Mary's University College, CalgarySt. Mary's University College is a private Catholic liberal arts institution in the city of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The college officially became a university college on June 16, 2004, and granted its first degrees on September 25, 2004. The founding Governors were Mr. Justice Frank Quigley,...
- 2009 Evil Dead: The Musical (Ground Zero Theatre and Hit & Myth Productions)
- 2009 The Lieutenant of InishmoreThe Lieutenant of InishmoreThe Lieutenant of Inishmore is a black comedy by playwright Martin McDonagh, first produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London in 2001.-Plot:...
(Ground Zero Theatre and Hit & Myth Productions) - 2008 Faust (Calgary OperaCalgary OperaThe Calgary Opera is a Canadian professional opera company in Calgary, Alberta, originally known as the Southern Alberta Opera Association. It performs in the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, accompanied by the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and the Calgary Opera Chorus...
) - 2008 Tosca (Calgary OperaCalgary OperaThe Calgary Opera is a Canadian professional opera company in Calgary, Alberta, originally known as the Southern Alberta Opera Association. It performs in the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, accompanied by the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and the Calgary Opera Chorus...
) - 2007 Frobisher (Calgary OperaCalgary OperaThe Calgary Opera is a Canadian professional opera company in Calgary, Alberta, originally known as the Southern Alberta Opera Association. It performs in the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, accompanied by the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and the Calgary Opera Chorus...
) - 2006 Cinderella (Calgary OperaCalgary OperaThe Calgary Opera is a Canadian professional opera company in Calgary, Alberta, originally known as the Southern Alberta Opera Association. It performs in the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, accompanied by the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and the Calgary Opera Chorus...
) - 2005-2010 A Christmas Carol (Theatre CalgaryTheatre CalgaryTheatre Calgary, theatre company in Calgary, Alberta, established as a professional company in 1968.-History:The origin of the company dates back to the 1940s, when students of Betty Mitchell, a drama teacher at Calgary's Western Canada High School, established an amateur group known as "Workshop...
) - 2005-2010 The Nutcracker (Alberta Ballet)Alberta Ballet CompanyThe Alberta Ballet is located in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta. It is Canada’s third largest dance company. Alberta Ballet has developed a distinctive repertoire and performance quality that has brought it to the forefront of national and international stages.- Creation :The Alberta Ballet was...
Live Events
- 2011 Calgary Comic Expo (Pyro and fog effects for William ShatnerWilliam ShatnerWilliam Alan Shatner is a Canadian actor, musician, recording artist, and author. He gained worldwide fame and became a cultural icon for his portrayal of James T...
’s appearance, and for The GuildThe GuildThe Guild is an American comedy web series created and written by Felicia Day, who also stars as Cyd Sherman . It premiered on YouTube on July 27, 2007. Subsequent webisodes premiered on Microsoft's Xbox Live Marketplace, Zune Marketplace, and MSN Video. The webisodes were later made available on...
). - 2011 Calgary StampedeCalgary StampedeThe Calgary Stampede is an annual rodeo, exhibition and festival held every July in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The ten-day event, which bills itself as "The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth", attracts over one million visitors per year and features one of the world's largest rodeos, a parade, midway,...
’s 2011 Grandstand Show props (oversized stylized heads and oversized horse heads, shields and swords).