NBFC E-news - Thur, Jan 3, 2008
Spotlight!
Open Casting Call for Diplomatic Relations
Casting Sessions for the four part anthology dramatic series Diplomatic Relations will take place in Fredericton, Saint John, & Moncton on January 12th & 13th from 10:00a.m. to 5:00 p.m. each day. Fredericton Casting will take place at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre. Please contact the NB Film Co-op for casting locations in Saint John and Moncton.
Diplomatic Relations is a series of four 15-20 minute shorts which all take place at different points in the night at the same 24 hour restaurant. This project will be shot and completed on High Definition and will complete the inaugural Film Co-op Certificate Programme in Film & Television.
We are looking for all age groups in both males and females. Please bring a headshot and resume.
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CALL FOR VOLUNTEER CREW FOR DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
Seeking interested persons for volunteer crew positions on upcoming 4-part episodic production "Diplomatic Relations". Principal shooting is scheduled to start mid-February 2008. "Diplomatic Relations" is the production created by the NB Filmmakers' Co-op specifically for the Certificate in Film and Television Programme as part of its training practicum. Crew positions are not restricted to Certificate participants only.
Shoot is planned in 4 blocks of 3 days each starting mid-February. If you're interested could you please specify shoot date availability and if you're available to commit to 6 days (2 - 3 day blocks).
If interested please forward all contact info to:
cft@nbfilmcoop.com
John Christenson
Director of Professional Development
NB Filmmakers' Co-op
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Training & Development
ANNUAL NBFC WORKSHOP PROGRAMME TO NOW START UP IN MID-MARCH 2008
Due to the Film Co-op's Film and Television certificate programme productions being shot in February of this year, the New intro/intermediate workshop program will not start up until Mid March. The new workshop schedule will now be unveiled in mid February instead of mid January
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Festivals
Vision du Réel Documentary Festival (Switzerland)
To be held in Nyon from april 17 to 23, Visions du Réel is a unique international Festival providing an overview of the best of cinema du réel. It is the most important in French-speaking Switzerland, and as one of the three main festivals in Switzerland (along with Soleure and Locarno) to be recognised by the Confederation, it features among key international events.
DEADLINE: January 5, 2008
Info:
www.visionsdureel.ch
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Hot Docs (Toronto)
Hot Docs accepts submissions of documentaries of all lengths and subject matter. The Festival Programming Team decides in which program a film will be presented, and includes this information on the official invitation. Hot Docs features two competitive programmes, Canadian Spectrum and International Spectrum, and several non-competitive programmes. All feature films selected for Hot Docs are eligible for the Audience Award.
DATE LIMITE: 10 janvier 2008 (final)
Info:
www.hotdocs.ca/industry/2008festival/submitfilm
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AL media arts curating projects for 2008-2009 (Ottawa)
Available Light Screening Collective (AL for short) is an Ottawa, Ontario-based volunteer organization committed to curating and presenting experimental film and video artworks within the local community. From its inception in 1995 as a Super 8 production group, AL has functioned as a non-incorporated artists' collective, a democratic and flexible form of governance in keeping with the shifting character of the dynamic experimental media artworks it is dedicated to presenting. Available Light Screening Collective is currently seeking written proposals for media arts curating projects for its 2008-2009 season. The series
is scheduled to begin in September 2008 with most programs presented at our primary exhibition venue in Ottawa, Club SAW at Galerie SAW Gallery.
Proposals for other venues in the region, including outdoor sites, will also be considered. A professional curator’s honorarium, as well as individual artists’ fees for each work screened, will be paid upon the successful completion of the project. Successful applicants should consider the current goals of the Available Light Screening Collective as they compile their applications, which are:
- to establish and sustain the regular exhibition of experimental film and video artworks not otherwise accessible to audiences in the Ottawa national capital region;
- to provide a discursive context and forum for the discussion of experimental time-based media and artist-run culture;
- to cultivate and support Canadian curators of experimental film and video artworks, in particular within Ottawa’s arts community; to serve current audiences and to build new audiences for time-based experimental media art; to screen the works of local artists alongside national and international artists;
- to create thematic bridges between various time-based media and to revive interest in historical works by pairing them with contemporary works;
- to develop collaborative relationships and projects with arts organizations in other parts of the province and country, with an emphasis on artist-run dissemination organizations;
- and, to pay artists and curators appropriately for their professional work. Please send written proposals along with a current CV and cover letter to: Available Light Screening Collective, C/O Arts Court Building, 2 Daly Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 6E2.
DEADLINE: January 15, 2007
Info:
availablelightcollective@gmail.com
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Arts in NB
SAINT JOHN - UPCOMING FILM PIX SCREENING
Join the Film Pix audience on Tuesday, January 08, at 7 PM, at host venue Empire Studio 10, for the truly compelling documentary, MY KID COULD PAINT THAT, presented by BMO Nesbitt Burns. For tickets, the movie trailer, and other information, www.filmpix.ca Advance tickets at Quality Convenience/Thai Hut on King Street.
PINT SIZED PICASSO or 4-YEAR OLD FRAUD? When a tiny four year old girl sold over $300,000 worth of her own modern art paintings in just a few months, heads snapped. Little Marla Olmstead became an overnight sensation, snared in a media circus populated with supporters as well as cynics, who accused her parents of exploiting her for financial gain. Enter major corporations, hoping to sign endorsement agreements with the photogenic preschooler, and a documentary filmmaker, named Amir Bar-Lev, with his own gift; that of seeing a good story.
While the pint-sized painter did seem to possess an artistic complexity that rivaled the masters, it became evident no-one had ever seen her actually complete a work; a point made clear by the investigative television show 60 Minutes, which had mounted numerous video cameras in the family home. As they recorded, things took a curious turn, and, in a world obsessed with celebrity, Marla’s Dad, night manager at the local Frito Lay plant, and her Mom, a dental assistant, became trapped in a vise of publicity, propaganda and paranoia, moving them faster than they could think. With too many questions that didn’t have answers, the market for Marla’s art collapsed, and filmmaker Bar-Lev had one of the most challenging ethical dilemmas of his life; what to say in his film.
What is art? And, what, or who, determines the value of it? Is the path of creation the measure of greatness? Or is it the creation itself? Have we taken the culture of celebrity too far by involving innocent children? And what responsibility should the news media have for how and what it reports?
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FREDERICTON - MONDAY NIGHT FILM SERIES SWINGS INTO ACTION IN 2008
Jan 14, 2008, 8pm
LARS AND THE REAL GIRL
Director: Craig Gillespie
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider
Run Time: 106 minutes
Country: USA
Year: 2007
Language: English
Making its world premiere at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, Craig Gillespie‘s sweetly off-kilter debut feature film of , LARS AND THE REAL GIRL, has already received overwhelming critical acclaim, with Ryan Gosling delivering another dazzling performance in the title role. This perfectly composed first film is the perfect marriage of impeccable performance and incredible script, and a potent delicacy for the heart and mind.
Set in a Midwestern small town during a typically snowy winter, Lars Lindstrom (Gosling, THE NOTEBOOK, HALF NELSON) is an awkward young man who lives in the garage beside his deceased father's house. With a brother and sister-in-law who would like to see him settled down and raising a family (especially after years of living under the shadow of his taciturn widower father), Lars' social life consists primarily of attending church. Lars' family is obviously overjoyed then, when he makes the announcement that has found a special friend. Delight turns to panic, however, when the new girlfriend arrives.
Although lovely in her own way, the fact that Bianca is a realistic full-sized doll with an elaborate back story (charmingly recounted by a boisterously in-love Lars) leads Lars' family to believe Lars has finally gone off the deep end. At the urging of Dagmar (Patricia Clarkson, DOGVILLE, ALL THE KING'S MEN), a kind but slightly loopy doctor, his worried family is told to go with the flow and pretend that Lars's lady friend is real, in the hope of helping him work through his issues. The local community ultimately responds with surprising compassion in welcoming the new couple as Bianca goes bowling, starts a career as a model, and is embraced as a member of the community.
At times both hilarious and heartbreaking, LARS AND THE REAL GIRL is a gently naughty comic melodrama of love found and lost. The film boldly addresses how a damaged person comes to terms with past traumas and grows into adult responsibilities when faced with death, loneliness and even abuse. Both Gosling's exceptional - indeed - revelatory - performance and the impressive direction of Craig Gillespie evoke overwhelming empathy for a man and the past he struggles to leave behind.
"Ryan Gosling is once again outstanding in this offbeat but exceptionally accomplished film. Starting off as funny and quirky, Lars and the Real Girl gradually becomes a riveting yet never heavy-handed psychological portrait of a lost soul who thinks no one loves him" - Peter Brunette, Screen International
Call 455-1632 or visit: http://www.nbfilmcoop.com/fs.htm
The Monday Night Film Series takes place at Tilley Hall, UNB Campus.
Tickets and memberships for the Monday Night Film Series are available at the door, Tilley Hall, Room 102 at each scheduled screening. Regular admission is $7 per screening, $3 for members. Regular half-year memberships are $20; $12 for students, seniors (65 years and up) and NB Film Co-op members. Memberships are now available at the NB Film Co-op, 732 Charlotte Street, Fredericton, 506-455-1632.
MEDIA CONTACT: Tony Merzetti, New Brunswick Film Co-op, 506-455-1632; info@nbfilmcoop.com
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The NB Film Co-op experimental fILM pROGRAMME Presents: Experimental Film & Video Art
When:
Friday January 11th, 2008, 7pm
Where:
Charlotte Street Arts Centre, 732 Charlotte Street, Fredericton, NB - upstairs room
Cost:
FREE! ALL ARE WELCOME!
Join us for a screening of experimental shorts!
Here is an opportunity for those who wish to broaden their appreciation of film art, or who would like to pick up creative ideas on how to play with the filmic structure and content of their own narrative films.
From the handmade art films of Stan Brakhage and Carl Brown, to the video art and contemporary works of Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof and Barabara Sternberg, we will be screening a wide selection of short films by Canadian Filmmakers.
To check out the NB Film Co-op experimental film program website: http://www.nbfilmcoop.com/Experimental%20Film/index.html
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The NB Film Co-op experimental fILM pROGRAMME Presents: Visiting Filmmaker Barbara Sternberg
When:
Saturday Jan 19,
Time:
2pm - 5pm
Where:
Charlotte Street Arts Centre, 732 Charlotte Street, Fredericton, NB, upstairs room.
Cost:
FREE! ALL WELCOME!
Please join us for a workshop on experimental filmmaking by renowned Canadian filmmaker Barbara Sternberg.
Through screenings of her work from the past 30 years, Sternberg will be discussing both the creative and practical processes of making experimental film.
"Film is the greatest medium- it has inexhaustible possibilities! And its most basic properties, light and time, inherently connect film to how we perceive reality: in passing, in light and in shadow, through repetition, bodily."
Barbara Sternberg has been making films since the mid-seventies. Her films have been screened widely in North America and Europe in artist-run centres and galleries, including the prestigious Museum of Modern Art in New York, George Pompidou Centre in Paris, and Ontario Cinematheque in Toronto. Sternberg has also participated in gallery exhibitions with mixed media installations, performance art and videos.
Sternberg was co-founder of Struts Gallery in Sackville, New Brunswick, was a founding member of Pleasure Dome: Film Artists Exhibition Group in Toronto, and taught in Film and Visual Arts at York University.
To check out Barbara's Website: http://www.barbarasternberg.com/index.htm
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Biz News
MOBILE STORIES
Just a quick email to let you know that our Mobile Stories website has been launched! www.mobilestories.ca features commissioned dramatic short films along with a complete Mobile Filmmaker Toolkit that includes 7 filmmaker tutorials and helpful links, release forms, and everything else needed to make a great mobile short.
Now we invite your members to create and upload their own short film in response to one of the commissioned shorts...creating a virtual dialogue...told by film.
The benefits to your members are numerous:
- Member's work is presented and promoted on websites and wireless platforms where innovation is married with creative excellence. (Some of our commissioned filmmakers are Oscar nominees and winners).
- $1000 will be awarded to the best user-generated film on April 5, 2007. The prizewinner will also be showcased at the Worldwide Short Film Festival in June.
Sincerely,
Kevin O'Keefe
Producer, Mobile Stories
ph: 647-722-0371
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Advertise
Film Co-op member Joe Blades is looking to see if anyone taped the Film, Sticks and Stones which premiered on CTV on January 1. Joe acted in the film and would like to view it in its entirety! Please email Cat at info@nbfilmcoop.com if you have taped the film and can loan it to Joe to watch.
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Short Film looking for additional crew
Pray, My Children (January 12/13, 2008 in Whites Cove, NB) - we are currently seeking a 2nd Assistant Director, a Script Supervisor, a Stills Photographer and some Production Assistants. If interested, please contact Jonathon Driscoll at 357-7027 or jrdrisco@hotmail.com
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SEEKING CINEMATOGRAPHER
Filmmaker seeking talented Cinematographer for feature length production to be shot in 2008/2009. Must have demo reel for viewing. Contact scineaste@hotmail.com for further information.
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CAMERA FOR SALE
Panasonic DVX100 with 395 hours on it and in great condition
Comes with 2 batteries, one is a 6 hour battery and other is a 2 hour battery. Also included is original accesories, charger, power adapter, and manual.
Located in Fredericton and looking to get $2100 or best offer.
Contact Jesse.Anthony at: jesse.anthony@gmail.com for pictures or more info on the camera