Overtime Studios

07/03/2026

Can creating art outdoors change the way we experience a place?

I spent the day at Saskatchewan Landing with ceramic artist , where beachgoers traded towels for clay and gathered around an ancient bonfire to watch their creations transformed by fire.

What began as a pottery workshop became something more—a chance to slow down, and experience the prairie in a different way.

I’m excited to share this new episode of Backroad Stories with you soon.

06/23/2026

What a wonderful weekend! Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 2026 Spring Meet in Swift Current and helped us celebrate the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP).

A special thank to the for the hospitality on Friday evening, Sodcap Inc. for their help with tours and presentations, George Tsougrianis with Overtime Studios for the interesting Saturday evening presentation and all of the volunteers that help make these events as special as they are.

Remember to save the date for the 2026 Fall Meet-we are heading to Meadow Lake, September 18-20!

06/11/2026

What happens when we slow down long enough to simply pay attention?

Recently, I collaborated with South African musician and artist David Kantey on Enchanted Forest, a short cinematic meditation that combines David's music and landscape paintings with footage captured in the natural world.

The project grew from a shared interest in stillness, attention, and the ways nature can help us reconnect with ourselves.

In a culture that often encourages us to move faster and do more, Enchanted Forest is an invitation to pause for a few minutes and simply be present.

As you watch, I'd love you to consider this question:

What place helps you remember who you are?

It might be a forest, a prairie, a lake, a mountain trail, or a quiet corner of your backyard. It may be a place you've returned to for years or somewhere you visited only once but have never forgotten.

Feel free to share your answer in the comments. I'd love to hear about the places that have shaped your life.

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05/20/2026

I realized today that my journey as person is an important part of my story as a filmmaker. The good and the not so good.

05/18/2026

I thought I’d share this poster from my friend staci she is offering a unique online course exploring our relationship with nature. I always have such engaging conversations with her about nature and how it informs my filmmaking.

04/10/2026

There are fewer than 200 Greater Sage Grouse left in Canada.

Once, their spring mating dance was a defining part of life on the prairie. Today, it’s close to disappearing.

In Grasslands National Park, people are working to restore the habitat—bringing back native grasses and rebuilding something that took generations to form.

Spending time out there, it makes you think…

how easy it is for things to slip away—
and how much effort it takes to bring them back.

Not just in nature, but in our own lives too.

A couple of years ago we visited the park and we given access to the restoration work. The result is this short film.

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03/06/2026

Movement on the prairie.

I recently spent two days in Grasslands National Park with dancer Robin Poitras of New Dance Horizons exploring a pivotal scene for my upcoming short film, The Perfection of the Morning, inspired by Sharon Butala’s Number 1 selling memoir.

The exploration helped shape how this transformation moment will ultimately be filmed directly on the prairie landscape.

Grateful to SK Arts for supporting this work.

To see more of the photos and find out a bit more about the project you can visit https://www.patreon.com/cw/overtimestudios

Photos by James R.Page

12/03/2025

Here's our latest Backroads Story taking us into the heart of Grassland National Park.

Explore Grasslands National Park and experience the thrill of encountering rattlesnakes in their natural habitat.

11/27/2025

Where does the work really come from?
Not the camera. Not the gear.
But the quiet place inside…

Lately I’ve been learning to open differently.
To soften, listen, and let the work move through me.

If you’re someone who loves the inner side of creativity —
intuition, reflection, the part we rarely talk about —
this is for you.

I wrote a new reflection about opening to the work.
Read it on Patreon → https://www.patreon.com/cw/overtimestudios