Written by Jon OrnoyIt’s funny how little choices you make in a time and place that seem inconsequential and end up having huge impacts on your life. Back in 2019, when I happened to see an ad for a run of shows that two-time world champion magician Shawn Farquhar was hosting in my hometown of Vancouver and decided it would be a fun thing to do for my birthday. There’s no way that I could’ve guessed back then how just how profoundly that impulse would shape the last five years of my life, but I’m so happy that it did. I’d seen Shawn on TV before, but there’s something entirely different about having all of these incredible, impossible things happening right in front of your face, especially when he seems just as amazed by what’s happening as you are, so, emboldened, I reached out to him a few days later to invite him for a drink. The rest is history. I didn’t have any big expectations for where these initial meetings were going to go, but the opportunity to pick the brain of one of the best magicians in the world was one I wasn’t going to pass up and somehow it all culminated in our recently completed feature documentary called Lost in the Shuffle. - YouTube www.youtube.com As a fourth-generation magician who was immersed in the art from an early age, Shawn’s route to this collaboration couldn’t be further from my own and I think it’s summed up well...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Tuesday, 15 October