NBFC MEMBER CORENA WALBY LOVES WORKING IN FILM
NBFC E-news - Thur, July 17, 2008
Spotlight!
IN MEMORY
The NB Film Co-op wishes to extend it's deepest condolences to Film Co-op member Janice Wright Cheney who recently lost her husband Craig to colon cancer.
CHENEY, CRAIG WILLIAM - Craig William Cheney, died July 13, 2008 at the Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital, Fredericton of colon cancer. Born in Toronto December 29, 1959. Survived by his wife, Janice Wright Cheney; sons, Thomas and David; mother, Joy Cheney; sister, Dixie Cecile (Robin); sister-in-law, Joanne Wright (Donald Wright) and father-in-law, Eric Wright (Anne Reynolds).
Devoted uncle to Harriet and Frances, Tara, Ryan and Jordan. Predeceased by his father, Kenneth Cheney. Craig will be fondly remembered by extended family, business associates, and a wide circle of close friends.
A visitation was held on Wednesday evening from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at McAdam's Select Community Funeral Home, 160 York Street, Fredericton.
The funeral will take place today, Thursday, July 17th at 3 p.m. at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, Charlotte Street, Fredericton, Reverend Douglas Gordon officiating. In lieu of flowers, donations to the David Suzuki Foundation would be greatly appreciated. www.mcadamsfh.com
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NB FILM CO-OP WEBSITE HAS A NEW LOOK
When you get a moment, take a look at the newly designed Film Co-op website. Cat is on the lookout for more actor headshots and info to upload to the newly minted actor links.
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MEMBER UPDATES, MEMBER UPDATES, MEMBER UPDATES
FREDERICTON FILM CO-OP MEMBER MICHELLE LOVEGROVE THOMSON
I'm back in town after 6 weeks in Toronto taking Bruce Elder's avant-garde film theory course at Ryerson. Bruce's class was a continuation of the lecture he gave as part of the Experimental Film Program at the Film Co-op in March, and focused on early Soviet cinema, as well as defining cinema as an synesthesic art.
While in TO I attended a few film-related events. Mike Hoolboom launched his new book of interviews "Practical Dreamers: Conversations with Movie Artists" published by Coach House Books ( http://www.chbooks.com ). The launch included short screenings by Su Rynard, Jubal Brown, and my favourite Richard Fung. Many of the filmmaker's included in the book have work up on www.fringeonline.ca
I also attended a fundraising screening for the Images Festival (Toronto's major fringe film festival) at the Royal. Guy Maddin provided live narration for his new film "My Winnipeg." While the film will appeal mostly to Maddin acolytes, I found the humour and playfulness genuinely enjoyable (not to mention the haunting image of horses frozen in the Red river...) and I recommend seeing it.
Since returning I helped put on last night's successful Arts Auction for Choice at the Palate. The event was sold-out and we thank everyone who attended for their support. I'm currently working on a short film, and will be teaching a course on Canadian Cinema this fall as part of UNB's 'No Limits' program.
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MEMBERSHIP STUFF, MEMBERSHIP STUFF, MEMBERSHIP STUFF
NEW MEMBERS: Things you can do to get your required volunteer hours in for July 17 Through July 24: Tidying up Co-op, typing, creating video jacket covers, watering the plants, redoing the library # sticker labels on videos, updating the production forms/workshop handouts/film and video production info binders and more!
Contact Cat at: info@nbfilmcoop.com
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Training & Development
Check out the Intro/Intermediate Workshop Schedule for 2008 on the Film Co-op website by going to our activities link at: http://www.nbfilmcoop.com/activities.htm
THE SPECIAL EFFECTS MAKEUP WORKSHOP WILL BE RESCHEDULED AND ADVERTISED SOON FOR A WEEKNIGHT
Email Cat at: info@nbfilmcoop.com to register for the below workshop as we are taking limited numbers.
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Festivals
SILVER WAVE FILM FESTIVAL 2008
November 13-16, Fredericton
Call for Submissions!
(Intrepid Silver Wave volunteers Craig Chouinard and Carmel Teasdale working hard at SW 07 - Photo by John Calver)
The 8th annual Silver Wave Film Festival (SWFF) is now accepting submissions. This year's festival takes place from November 13th to November 16th, 2008.
SWFF is the annual film and video festival presented by the New Brunswick Filmmakers' Co-operative. It has both curated and competitive streams, as well as a solid line-up of social activities and workshops that get the town buzzing.
This year, we are celebrating our 8th year with some new programming approaches and again we’ve waived the submission fee for filmmakers submitting so, it promises to be a good year. Save the dates and plan to attend!
Film and video projects that are accepted for screening into the SWFF and created by New Brunswick Filmmakers residing in the province and those filmmakers from away will be considered for the Silver Wave Awards.
The deadline for submissions is August 3rd, 2008, 5pm Atlantic Standard Time.
Incomplete applications and applications received after this deadline will not be accepted under any circumstances.
The following items must accompany the application:
· Completed Application form, on CD in an MS Word or .rtf type document;
· List of credits;
· 3 DVD pre-screening copies of the finished project for jury consideration for awards; (NOTE: only Mini DV, Beta SP and 35 mm will be screened at the Festival. DVDS will not be accepted)
· Productions stills, in jpeg format at 300dpi resolution, on CD to be used in festival promotional materials;
· Press Kit (if available of past festival/special screenings of film/video);
· Director's Bio and headshot;
· Poster representing the film or documentary (if available);
NOTE: Submissions materials will not be returned to you by the SWFF. Please email:
info@nbfilmcoop.com
if you have any questions. You will be advised whether or not your submission has been accepted for screening in advance of the festival.
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Arts in NB
FREDERICTON - SILVERFISH PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION
This is a quick note to let you know about the SilverFish Photography Exhibition Opening this Saturday and running until the end of August at Old Government House.
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Perhaps the most ambitious exhibition so far at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre opens this Friday.
Approximately 25 artists have responded to the theme of Order/Chaos. Their work encompasses painting, pottery, glasswork, sculpture, photography, jewelry and installation. Their approaches are philosophical, humorous, graphic, political, whimsical, personal, reflective and experimental - not necessarily all at the same time. The scale is equally broad, from works a few inches across to six feet wide to a multi-level site-specific installation.
The theme resonated with a range of established and emerging artists, and the response necessitated impaneling a jury to select works for the exhibition. Order/Chaos is the second theme exhibition for the Charlotte Glencross Gallery at the Centre, located at 732 Charlotte Street.
The exhibition will continue until the end of August, with an opening reception Friday, July 18 from 5 to 7 p.m.
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FREDERICTON - UNDER THE STARS, FILMS IN THE PARK
Join our community for a movie night under the stars in a National Historic Site. Sundays at dusk, Barracks Square. Refreshments available.
Admission is free
Schedule: July 13 - 3:10 to Yuma (Glen Ford) 1957 Western, July 20 - That Touch of Mink (Doris Day, Cary Grant) 1962 Comedy/Romance, July 27 - The Thomas Crown Affair (Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway) 1968 Drama/Romance, August 3 - Casablanca (Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman) Drama/Romance, August 10 - James Bond: From Russia with Love (Sean Connery) 1963 Action/Adventure, August 17 - Lost Horizon (Ronald Coleman, Jane Wyatt) 1937 Adventure/Fantasy, August 24 - Houseboat (Cary Grant, Sophia Loren) 1958 Comedy/Romance, August 31 - DOUBLE HEADER - - Gidget Goes Hawaiian (Sandra Dee) 1961 Comedy & The Man Who Knew Too Much (Doris Day, James Stewart) 1956 Suspense
July 20
Short Film
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Waiting for Myra
Director/Writer: Joel M. Thompson
Co-Producers: Joel M. Thompson, Jesse Anthony
Cast: Jim Lavoie, Whitney Illsley, Josh Kole Linton
Length: 4:50
Contact:
joeltdmi@gmail.com
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, 2007
When young Alec Michael meets Myra Keats, it's love at first sight, but then she disappears from his life as quickly as she appeared.
July 20
Classic Feature Film
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That Touch of Mink
1962
Length: 99 minutes
A rich businessman and a young woman are attracted to each other, but he only wants an affair while she wants to save herself for marriage.
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FREDERICTON - NOTABLE ACTS THEATRE FESTIVAL
July 22-August 2
The 2008 NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival opens July 22 and runs through August 2 at four venues in Fredericton. This year's festival features thirteen new plays by New Brunswick dramatists, including three main stage productions, free daytime street theatre, and free public readings of new works in development.
Opening the festival on July 22 and running nightly through July 26 at 8 PM at the Black Box Theatre, STU, is Chapel Arm by Step Taylor. Chapel Arm is a darkly complex and challenging drama, surprising both in its philosophical scope and emotional resonance. Dodi, a lawyer living in Toronto, returns to her childhood home of Chapel Arm Newfoundland, only to discover her ex-boyfriend engaged to a brutish woman. To make matters worse, her favorite uncle has burnt her family's old house to the ground. Feeling more than a little estranged, Dodi tries to understand how the town still seems
to hold such a strange power over her, one that makes her remember, one that makes her unable to leave.
Chapel Arm is directed by Montreal-based Rose Plotek, recent graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada directing programme, and stars Fredericton actors Robbie O'Neill, Marissa Robinson, and Leah Holder, along with Montreal's Greg Gale.
The festival's second week stages the winners of this year's NotaBle Acts playwriting contest. Acting Out, a double-bill of the two winners of the one act category of the contest, takes the stage at Memorial Hall, UNB, July 30-August 2, featuring Our Mouths
Are Filters by Kathleen Brown and Someone Else's Dream by Jeff Lloyd. Taking It To The Streets stages the five winners of the festival's ten minute play contest as an hour of free lunchtime theatre. Taking it to the Streets runs daily at noon in downtown
Fredericton's Barracks Square July 28-August 1 and features plays by Chris Campbell, Jordan Dashner, Jeremy Gorman, Chris Nyarady, and Brad O'Donnell. And Play Out Loud, running at 8 PM at Brewbakers Restaurant July 28 and 29, will feature free public
readings of five new plays.
Tickets for main stage shows are $15, $10 for students. For full schedule and ticket information, visit www.nbacts.com or call (506) 458-7406.
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Len Falkenstein and Ryan Griffith
Co-Artistic Directors
NotaBle Acts Theatre Company
717 Aberdeen Street,
Fredericton, NB
E3B 1S7
www.nbacts.com
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Biz News
canada - CFC NFB Feature Documentary Program
Successful applicants will be experienced Canadian (citizen or landed immigrant) documentary directors with the drive and desire to fully immerse themselves in the program. Applicants must have previous documentary credits and demonstrate directorial confidence and originality.
Directors must make themselves available for each of the 4 CFC residency sessions, as the Feature Documentary Program is designed as an immersive experience.
During periods of supported inquiry, when the participant is not attending residency workshops, he/she is expected to work on the creative development of their project. This includes finessing their own ideas, continuing to write, to collaborate with their mentors and other residents and to prepare their projects for presentation to peers and to the marketplace of distributors and funders beyond.
They must come to the CFC NFB Feature Documentary Program with a well-defined film idea (a 5 page documentary proposal will be required upon application).
If you are interested in applying for the CFC NFB Feature Documentary Program, please download the CFC NFB Feature Documentary Program Application Package at click here
Application deadline is August 29, 2008.
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SCREENPLAY COMPETITION
THE MOVIE DEAL! Screenplay Competition Deadline is fast approaching! August 15th is the deadline but July 25th is your last chance to save $10.00 on your submission!
Use the PROMO code: SB7158 on the 'Enter Now' page at www.TheMovieDeal.com to save today!
New INDIE screenplay competition offers an exciting PRODUCTION DEAL to the grand prize winner.... The winning writer of The Movie Deal! Screenplay Contest will receive an honest-to-gosh PRODUCTION DEAL, plus airfare and accommodations to the set of their own film.
Independent filmmakers Craig James Pietrowiak & Scott Prestin, currently in pre-production on the $4 million feature starring Ving Rhames, William Forsythe, Armand Assante and John Gries, have launched The MovieDeal! Screenplay Contest to find their next INDIE script! The goal is to produce a hit bigger than 'Project Greenlight' ever dreamed of. We're looking for an original, innovative, yet marketable idea that could garner the success of the hits 'Napoleon Dynamite,' 'The Blair Witch Project,' or 'Open Water.' It doesn't matter what genre, it just has to be INDIE and INTERESTING!
You don't need AGENCY representation to enter. We want the best scripts in the market, which as independent filmmakers we know usually comes from up-and-coming talent, just like you!
Entries to The Movie Deal! are invited in 10 categories for feature length genres, as well as TV pilots, and short films. For submission details and other information, please visit:
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Advertise
SAINT JOHN - JOB OPPORTUNITY
Saint John, NB: Third Space Gallery is looking for a coordinator to oversee the transition to a new window vitrine exhibition space. This space is a 72 square feet 5'd x 10'w x10'h and exhibitions will be on view only from the street 24/7. This is a 1-year contract, part-time position (15-20 hours per week) that will begin in September, 2008. Salary and exact tasks to be negotiated.
Working with the board of directors and Artistic Director the Coordinator will:
* Manage all aspects of current and future exhibitions
* Write programming and operational grants as well as seek out other forms of funding
* Participate in Board-directed fund-raising campaigns
* Synchronize members and volunteers
* Liaison with the public, elected officials, government representatives and the media
The ideal candidate will:
* understand the complicated and often uncertain milieu of contemporary visual art
* possess incredible organizational skills and be highly self-motivated
* be skilled in standard office-related computer software as well as graphic design, publication layout and website
* be independent and able to work from mobile locations or from home, and enjoy clarity of vision with clear expression
* have good interpersonal, communication and writing skills
* develop creative solutions to budgetary constraints
Interested candidates should forward an email letter of introduction and CV before August 1, 2008 to:
Third Space Gallery / Galerie Tiers Espace
42 Princess Street, 2nd floor [Brodie Building]
Saint John, NB E2L 1K2
http://www.thirdspacegallery.ca
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FREDERICTON SHAMBHALA CENTRE LOOKING FOR HARVEST VOLUNTEERS
The New Brunswick Filmmakers Co-op will not be doing security at the festival this year as a group. If you were looking forward to doing security during the festival you can volunteer with my group. I am recruiting people to do security as a fundraiser for the Fredericton Shambhala Meditation Center. Feel free to contact me by email dterry@rogers.com
http://www.fredericton.shambhala.org/
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FREDERICTON - NOTABLE ACTS LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS
We need volunteers to work the door at our main stage, Chapel Arm, from the 22nd to the 26th of July. We'll need two volunteers for each night and volunteers should show up at 7pm at the Black Box Theatre at St. Thomas University.
We'll also need volunteers for Acting Out on July 30th, 31st, August 1, and 2. Volunteers should show up at about 7pm also at Memorial Hall, on the UNB campus.
We'd also like to have on or two volunteers help out with our Street Theatre down at Barracks Square at 11:30am. The dates are July 28th to August 1st.
If you're interested in volunteering, please email me or give me a call at 458-7406.
Thanks,
Annick
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Len Falkenstein and Ryan Griffith
Co-Artistic Directors
NotaBle Acts Theatre Company
717 Aberdeen Street,
Fredericton, NB
E3B 1S7
http://www.nbacts.com
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VOLUNTEER SOUND PERSON NEEDED FOR INDIE SHOOT
We are looking for someone with experience in sound to come to Cape Breton for a three week shoot from Aug. 1st - 21st. We are willing to pay travel, lodging, food, and the pay is deferral.
Contact - Ash Young - ash_young80@hotmail.com
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WANTED - SET DECORATION ITEMS
WANTED: odd-shaped & coloured liquor, liqueur & wine bottles for "student dorm" set dec for Britany Sparrow's The Morning After Short Film Venture film. The bottles would not be returned. Please contact Art Dept. Assist. Joe Blades @ 454-5127 or joeblades@nb.aibn.com to arrange drop-off in downtown Fredericton or, possibly, limited collection by 15 July.