Ernie Tomlinson
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Highlights
• Thirty years in management, design & construction for theatre, exhibits and film
• Strong management, supervisory and interpersonal skills
• Design capabilities in sets, set dec, special effects/gadgetry, interactive exhibits & graphics
• Creative, dedicated and versatile
• Highly literate and effective communicator, enthusiastic problem-solver
• Thorough technical knowledge including special fx, construction and other depts. needs
• Can build or fix just about anything, able to effectively drop in to fill nearly any need
** As of 2004, returned to film industry after long single-parenting hiatus

Film Industry
(Worked in industry only occasionally from 1987 to 2004)

Director/Editor
Docs for Access Alberta & CBC in 70s, 3 shorts 94 - 98; 14 concert videos & 3 docs 04-08 Editor three docs 2008.

Director of Photography
Search, ubuntu productions, 2006
Villages Connected teasers, ubuntu productions, 2008 (in development)

Production Design
Eaux Troubles series for Quebec's Canal D with Red Letter films - 4 seasons 2006, 08 - 10
(Art Director) Sam's Lake, feature film, 2004
Boy Soldiers, dramatic short, 2004
Sylvia for Theatre One, Nanaimo, 2002
The Puppetmaster of Lodz, Theatre Inconnue, Victoria, 2001
Encore Moncton, Centennial stage extravaganza with cast of 800, 1991
The SnakeEater, feature film, Carota Films Ltd., 1991
Vendredi Soir & amp; Promenade, Théâtre l'Escaouette, Moncton 88, 89
The Bell Ringers, half-hour period drama, Screen Star Inc. 1990
Madame LaTour, one-hour historical drama, Carota Films Ltd. 1987

Prop Master & Special FX
BBC one-hour drama, Fire Mountain (June - July 05)

Location scout/manager
1994 to present - many locations for feature films, commercials and film commissions ñ
know this coast, and know Vancouver Island locations inside out. Recent projects include
scouting and then location management for Ford Mustang & Eddie Bauer Spring Catalog
07, scouting for Career Builders commercials & several MOWs in Victoria.

Early Career
1982 to 1987 – Owner/Manager/Designer - The Scene Shop, a 6,000 sq. ft. design and fabrication shop in Edmonton: Set design & production for 50-plus theatre, 20-plus television productions; exhibit planning, design &/or fabrication for numerous museums & nature centres, 88 Olympics, Expo 86

Special effects (79-87)
  Scanners, David Cronenberg
Happy Birthday to Me, Cinepix
Nighthawks, Sylvester Stallone
Latitude 53, John Juliani
Design and fabrication of practical robot for Access TV children's series
Several theatre productions & TV drama


1973 to 1982 - Full time freelance film production - nearly 100 productions, including:

  81-84 Set design and fabrication Numerous productions for Access Network, Edmonton
  1981 Art Director (dept head) Edmonton Chronicles, six 20-min. docudramas
  78-82 Props (+ some special effects)

"Wizard" (2nd camera + +)
several feature films and television productions
Inaputiam, Challenge: the Canadian Rockies, industrials
  1978 Art Director (dept head) Bush Pilot, National Film Board, Edmonton
  1975 Producer/Director several documentaries for Access Network, Edmonton
  73-74 Unit Production Manager TV Ontario, several series in English and French, budget responsibility approximately $1,000,000

Exhibit Design
From the mid-80s to present, have concentrated on the planning,
design, management and fabrication of interactive educational exhibit centres, signage programs and galleries from coast to coast and in the US including award-winning science exhibits and personally inventing the Imagine Cedar portable display system, manufactured here and distributed world-wide.

Education
  1971 Arts and Film Production, University of Waterloo, Ontario (1st year)
  1973 York University Film Program, (3rd year BFA) Toronto
  1984 Technical Drawing, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Edmonton
  1990 Certificate in Museum Studies, Association of Museums of New Brunswick
(Education, conservation, collections management, organization, design)
  1993 Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Malaspina College, Nanaimo
  2006 Spanish for Travelers, Malaspina University College

Personal Data
Member of ACFC Local 2020
Health: excellent
Languages: English; français, langue seconde

References
On request because because publishing others' contact info on the web is not a good idea!


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