For the past two years Coquitlam multidisciplinary artist / promoter, Tracy Schaeffer has been running the Frantic Breeze Short Film Competition in Port Moody. The competition brings together a number of production teams who are given the task of incorporating a number of given mystery elements into their films that must be produced within a 72 hour period.

Tri-Cities Film Studios in Coquitlam and the Arts and Culture Committee of Port Moody sponsored the competition. While the competition was open to production teams from around the lower mainland, expectations were that the films would be shot in Port moody and an award was given to the team that did the best job of featuring port Moody in their final production.

The competition had eleven teams that took part, many of which actually came from Port Moody which should not be too surprising as it bills itself as "City of the Arts".

The winning team "Neighborhood Productions" was actually from port Moody and won for their film "Unpacking". Neighborhood Productions team was primarily comprised of a group of recent high school graduates who were friends that had a shared interests in film production in one capacity or another. A number of the teams members indicated that taking part in the competition had a profound effect on them and that they are all the more interested in a career in the production industry or. at the very least, a career where they are able to express themselves creatively.

This years and last years Frantic Breeze Short Films can be seen by going to ;

https://www.youtube.com/@franticbreezefastfilmcompe2866?app=desktop