The CN Centre will be the place to be in Prince George this weekend as the 2025 edition of Northern Fancon takes over the arena.
“I am, personally, super excited to meet Graham Greene,” said Northern Fancon Founder Norm Coyne.
“Graham Greene, for folks who maybe don’t know, is an Oscar-nominated, Grammy Award-winning, Indigenous filmmaker and actor. That’s the thing about Fancon, you get these chances to meet people you never would have had in any other circumstance.”
A full list of guests for this years’ convention can be found here.
“On the docket this weekend, we’ve got our regular amazing cosplay and cosplay contest,” Coyne said.
“We’ve got a couple of the girls from Shoresy, one of which is Keilani Rose who is a homegrown talent from Prince George, we’ve got our workshops that are always a hit with folks.”
Coyne said there will be a new item that he’s expecting to be popular, a new contest called Speak Up.
“What Speak Up is going to be, it’s a voice-acting competition where folks get up on stage and they read from some scripts that we’ve got selected, led by Story Institute’s Michael Coleman, and one lucky winner is going to get a bit of a contract for some voice work,” he explained.
“It was piloted at Island Fancon in Langford just this past March, and it was so huge that we jumped at the opportunity to bring it to Prince George.”
In addition to Fancon this weekend, Coyne said there will be a screening of a World War II film that was recently shot in Prince George.
“It’s a bit of a fundraiser, because we’re going to have to do a Kickstarter for some post because this projects is [expletive] insane, when you see it, it’ll blow your mind,” he said.
“The bullets and the tanks and all that stuff ended up costing a little bit more than we thought, but it is going to be a full cut of the film, just without some of the visual effects.”
The screening will take place at the PG Playhouse starting at 7:00 tomorrow (Thursday) night, with admission by donation.
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