SURREY — This is a big week for "Welcome to Surrey," the film project that could win a pair of Surreyites $50,000 and inter-provincial bragging rights.
The 11-minute comedy video was created by Kashif Pasta and Shyam Valera as part of a Telus-backed Storyhive contest, a community-powered funding program for emerging content creators in B.C. and Alberta.
Makers of the winning web series will be given $50,000 to fund production of a full season that will be broadcast online and also on Optik TV.
Voting began at noon Monday and continues until Friday. CLICK HERE for details.
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Pasta and Valera were featured in a Now story in June. CLICK HERE to read that story.
There are 30 teams with pilots in the competition — 15 from B.C. and 15 from Alberta.
Here's the official description of "Welcome to Surrey": "Five friends becoming adults in a world where culture, identity, life and love are constantly in flux.
"When Suneet comes home to Surrey, Kashif's matchmaking forces Suneet and Shyam to have a conversation they were putting off for too long."
Scenes for the video were filmed several weeks ago at Old Surrey Restaurant in Newton and other places around Surrey.