Below picture of 2008 Silver Wave Awards Show Organizers and Hosts
NBFC E-news - Thur, November 27, 2008
Spotlight!
Post Silver Wave Thank You!
Thank you to everyone at Silver Wave. What an amazing weekend. I can't believe that it's over. You are a great group of people and I am very glad that I could be there and be associated with the history of such a dynamic and talented organization. Thank you, thank you thank you.
Chris Campbell, Wolfville, NS, Past NB Film Co-op President, Filmmaker, Editor and Teacher (Moderator of the documentary panel at Silver Wave 08 and introduced a documentary matinee programme)
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Hi All,
I can not thank you enough!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
Rachel Bower, Halifax, NS, NB Joy Winner and Filmmaker of Time Apart: A History of Hope which screened at Silver Wave 08 (Rachel was also a guest filmmaker on the documentary panel at Silver Wave 08)
Check out Rachel's website at: willowproductions.ca
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Great work on the Fest this year everybody at the NB Film Co-op!
(Photo by Jeff Crawford - Jason holding shovel)
Jason Shipley (Born in NB, now living and working in film and television in NS as an AD). Jason screened his film (shot in NB with support from the NB Film Co-op) entitled
Blood Shed
at Silver Wave 08 to a huge crowd at the midnight screening programme.
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(Photo by Jeff Crawford)
Dear Cat, Tony and all who are involved in the Silver Wave Film Festival,
Kent and I had a wonderful time in Fredericton at the Silver Wave Film Festival last weekend! We feel truly honoured to have received an award for our documentary NORM considering all the wonderful films that screened at the festival. As Norm was born and raised there it made it very special for us to be able to celebrate with you all. Congratulations for another great year!!
All the best,
Teresa and Kent
(Norm won for Best Documentary at the 2008 Silver Wave Film Festival)
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MEMBERSHIP STUFF, MEMBERSHIP STUFF, MEMBERSHIP STUFF
NEW MEMBERS: Things you can do to get your required volunteer hours in for Nov 27 Through Dec 4: For new members specifically who need to get their volunteer hours in: Check in with Cat about volunteer work on member shoots coming up.
Click here to send Cat the volunteer hours you have put in so far as a member of the Film Co-op.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
Thank you to Jennifer Mersereau and her daughter Rose for coming in yesterday to tidy up the Film Co-op for Cat and Tony.
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MEMBER VOLUNTEERS HOURS PUT IN
St. Andrews based filmmaker member Sarah Bood: Worked on Gia Milani and Tony Whalen's CBC 3-2-1 shoot.
We started at 5:30 pm on Friday and went till 6 am (12.5 hours) and then Saturday we started at 4 pm and went till 6 am again (14 hours). On Sunday I worked another 6 hours (2 til 8). It was super fun!!
Click here to send Cat your volunteer hours put in so far as a Film Co-op member.
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Training & Development
The New Brunswick Film Co-op annual workshop program will start up again in Feb of 2009 . Stay tuned for the launch of the new schedule in January of next year.
Anyone interested in one-on-one workshops with instructors for a fee, contact cat at: info@nbfilmcoop.com
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Festivals
GO CHECK OUT THE ONLINE 2008 SWFF PHOTO GALLERY AT: WWW.SWFILMFEST.COM
Photos being added every day!
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SILVER WAVE 09 IS GETTING ALL REVVED UP!
The 2008 Silver Wave is now becoming a more distant gleam in everybody's eyes now as work on Silver Wave 09 gets All Revved Up (pardon the pun Dan Thebeau).
SPOTLIGHT ON SILVER WAVE FILM FESTIVAL 2009
Opportunity for youth filmmakers in NB to be involved and attend Silver Wave next year.
Teachers and Students in New Brunswick! Here is your chance to win, win, win and have you and your class or individual students involved in Silver Wave 2009! The Silver Wave Film Festival is putting out a call to all classrooms and students in New Brunswick to submit youth videos in French (with English Subtitles) or English 2 minutes in length in any genre, covering any topic. This contest is open to youth between 8 years and 15 years old.
Students can do: drama, documentary, music video, animation, claymation, experimental or an actual trailer for Silver Wave! If the videos submitted are accepted they will be screened in the Silver Wave 09 Youth Screening Showcase and the group of youth filmmakers will get a SWFF t-shirt, bag and a special pass to all SWFF workshops and of course the youth screening program at next year's festival as well as any other youth screening events that are appropriate for youth viewing.
Please mail DVD submissions to: NB Film Co-op/Silver Wave P.O. Box 1537, Fredericton, NB E3B 4Y1, Deadline: June 1
Have questions, email Cat at: info@nbfilmcoop.com
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The Arts
GAGETOWN - 13 ANNUAL CHRISTMAS IN THE VILLAGE
Good afternoon everyone,
I would like to invite you at the Village of Gagetown's 13th Annual Christmas in the Village from 10:00 am - 5:00 pm this weekend; November 29 & 30. I will be at Peters House located at 5 Mill Rd, same place than last year. I have new pictures and of course new stories. Come to see what are my discoveries this year.
Take this opportunity to visit many studios, shops, homes. Unique pieces and creations by various artists and crafters. Enjoy hot chocolate, fresh cider, and delicious foods. Take a tour of the village by horse and wagon and enjoy the festivities.
Hope to see you there to celebrate the holidays with us.
Cambridge Narrows Film Co-op member Brigitte Noel
bebite@nbnet.nb.ca
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FREDERICTON - MONDAY NIGHT FILM SERIES
BRICK LANE
December 1, 8pm at Tilley Hall, UNB Campus
Director: Sarah Gavron
Cast: Tannishtha Chatterjee, Satish
Kaushik, Christopher Simpson
Run Time: 101 minutes
Country: United Kingdom
Year: 2008
Language: English
Distributor: Mongrel Media
Brick Lane, which screened to popular acclaim at the 2007 Toronto
International Film Festival®, is an adaptation of Monica Ali’s celebrated British novel that is as insightful and moving as the story was on the page.
In the film’s breathtaking opening scenes, Nazneen (Tannishtha
Chatterjee) recalls her childhood in Bangladesh. Her village had an idyllic beauty, but its oppressive social landscape sent her mother to seek her own death. Nazneen is married off to a man she has never met and flown to London’s Brick Lane neighbourhood to meet her new husband.
Although she is told to be grateful for having married an educated
man, she still finds Chanu (Satish Kaushik) a callous stranger. Cursed with a need to inflate his own importance, Chanu ignores his wife’s needs and presents the humiliations he experiences while trying to find work as evidence of his superior qualities. When he finally lands a menial job, he announces “I have become the driver of Kempton Cars!” as though he’d been appointed to the House of Lords.
Director Sarah Gavron makes the most of everything Ali’s novel gives her. When Nazneen pushes to start her own sewing business in their home, it signals the beginning of her autonomy. And when the attractive young Karim (Christopher Simpson) walks in, it marks the beginning of danger.
Gavron balances these intimate moments against the increasingly tense atmosphere in Brick Lane, as the tightly knit Muslim community reacts to the events of September 11, 2001, and their aftermath.
“Brick Lane is beautifully acted and written... so its themes are
touched upon glancingly rather than with full force.”
– Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
This will be the last film before Christmas.
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SAINT JOHN - FILM PIX SCREENING OF AMAL
7 PM, Tuesday, Dec 02
“Sometimes, the poorest of men are the richest.”
Film Pix, Greater Saint John’s volunteer-driven film series and film scholarship program, in association with presenting sponsor BMO Nesbitt Burns, is proud to provide to Greater Saint John audiences, an exclusive, one-time screening of the Richie Mehta film, AMAL, at 7 PM, Tuesday, Dec 02, Empire Studio 10 Cinemas!
The setting > Exotic India. The streets of New Delhi. Modern day.
The characters > A humble rickshaw driver. A disillusioned billionaire and his outrageous family. A tiny street girl. A lawyer.
The result > Head-on life collisions as a ‘low on the caste pole’ rickshaw driver abruptly encounters a street girl, followed by a dying, disillusioned billionaire who is seeking some semblance of goodness in his world… somewhere… anywhere. With a fortune at stake, the flames of resentment are fanned, and a simple man becomes a flashpoint between an ungrateful family and a lawyer, working feverishly against time, to carry out final wishes.
Advance Tickets > Available now - $9 at Thai Hut, 38 King Street Uptown and 473 Millidge Avenue North, and at West Side Variety and Video, 21 Main Street West: http://www.filmpix.ca/tixadvvendors.htm for location maps.
Rush tickets > If still available - $10 at the door, immediately before the film.
www.filmpix.ca for movie trailer, tickets, scholarship information, and more!
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FREDERICTON - DANCE FREDERICTON DANSE EVENT
Dance Fredericton Danse and sponsors Fredericton Community Foundation, the City of Fredericton and Investors Group wish to invite children young and old to their seasonal dance presentation, "The Nutcracker Suite & Friends."
Dance Fredericton's Performance Ensemble, with featured guest artists from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School will sweep you away to "The Land of the Sweets" on a wondrous excursion guaranteed to put a smile on your face. Delightful original choreography by Johanne Gingras from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School makes this a truly unique experience.
Join our performers from Dance Fredericton with special guests Erin Brennan and Jesse Fraser from The Royal Winnipeg Ballet School Saturday, December 6th at 2 pm and 7 pm at Le Centre Communautaire Saint-Anne.
Tickets are available at Dance Fredericton by calling 457-2538, Westminster Books, Owl's Nest Book Store or at the door. Ticket prices are $15 for Adults and $8 for Children and Students. Dance Fredericton invites you to stay after the performance to enjoy "sweets" and meet and greet our dancers and guest artists.
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Biz & Indie Film News
INTERNATIONAL SONGWRITING COMPETITION
I wanted to give you an update (if you weren't already aware), that the International Songwriting Competition (ISC) has extended its submission deadline until December 1, 2008. ISC will continue to take online, mail-in, and MySpace entries until this date. All entries must be postmarked or uploaded online on or before December 1, 2008. So, if you have not already entered ISC and wish to do so, you still have time to enter. ISC has 20 different categories to enter your music into, the most prestigious judges for any songwritng competition and gives away over $150,000 in cash and merchandise!
Each year ISC is privileged to assemble an outstanding judging panel, and the 2008 competition is no exception. Tom Waits, Darryl McDaniels (Run D.M.C.), Ray Davies (The Kinks), Loretta Lynn, and Jerry Lee Lewis, among others, have all signed on as ISC judges; the panel consists of highly respected recording artists and some of the most influential executives in the music industry. See below for a complete list of judges.
New this year is a Music Video category, and ISC has included the following prestigious industry executives as judges: Amy Doyle (Sr. VP of Music and Talent at MTV) and Rick Krim (Executive VP of Talent and Programming for VH1).
ISC accepts original songs from musicians, artists, groups, and songwriters at every level from amateur to professional. Go to http://www.songwritingcompetition.com to enter songs via mail or online.
The complete list of 2008 ISC judges include:
Recording Artists
Rob Thomas (Matchbox 20); Chaka Khan; Tom Waits; KT Tunstall; Robert Smith (The Cure); Ricky Martin; Loretta Lynn; Neil Finn (Crowded House); Buckcherry; James Cotton; Jerry Lee Lewis; Craig Morgan; Ray Davies (The Kinks); McCoy Tyner; T-Pain; Darryl McDaniels (Run DMC); Mario; Pittbull;Michael W. Smith; Chris Hillman (The Byrds); John Scofield; Black Francis (The Pixies); Youssou N'Dour; John Mayall; DJ Tiësto; Paul Van Dyk; Jon Secada; Natalie Grant; Jeremy Camp; Matt Thiessen (Relient K); Angelique Kidjo; Sandra Bernhard; "Weird Al" Yankovic; and David Brenner
Music Industry Executives
Monte Lipman (President, Universal Records); Nick Burgess (Head of A&R, Virgin Records UK); Angel Carrasco (Sr. VP of A&R, Latin America Sony BMG and President, Discos 605); Cameron Strang (President, New West Records); John Echevarria (President, Universal Music Latino); Rick Krim (Executive VP Talent and Programming, VH1); Amy Doyle (Sr. VP of Music and Talent, MTV); Kim Buie (VP of A&R, Lost Highway); Jon Pikus (Director of A&R, MySpace Records); Mitchell Cohen (VP of A&R, Verve Music Group); Bruce Iglauer (Founder/President, Alligator Records); Dan Storper (President, Putumayo World Music); Rene
Bell (Executive VP A&R, Sony BMG Nashville); Peter Strickland (Senior VP, Jack Records/Warner Bros.); Steve Lillywhite (Producer - credits include U2, The Rolling Stones, Morrissey, Peter Gabriel, and more); Douglas C. Cohn (Sr. VP, Music Marketing & Talent, Nickelodeon); Cory Robbins (Founder/President, Robbins Entertainment); Betty Pino (DJ, WAMR Miami); Paul Majors (CEO/Founder Majors Music); Leib Ostrow (CEO, Music for Little People); and Dr. Demento (Radio Host of The Dr. Demento Show)
You may enter your songs into which ever category(s) you wish, and the complete list for this year includes: Pop/Top 40, AAA (Adult Album Alternative), Rock, R&B/Hip-Hop, Country, Americana, Gospel/Christian, Blues, Folk/Singer-Songwriter, Jazz, Latin Music, Instrumental, Dance/Electronica, Comedy/Novelty, World Music, Children's Music, Lyrics Only, Teen, Performance, and Music Video.
For more information, please go to http://www.songwritingcompetition.com
Thanks for taking the time to read about this opportunity, and we wish you all the best in your music.
Jim Morgan
ISC
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Advertise
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE OPPORTUNITIES IN QUEBEC
PRIM is looking for indie media arts artists to propose a residency stay in our center in Montréal.
Through the reciprocal residency program of the New Brunswick Arts Board (artsnb) and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ), independent media artists are invited to use PRIM’s equipment and facilities to create a work in film, video, sound or new media.
We would propose to an NB indie artist to apply for this program grants a one- to three-month creative and professional development residency in Québec. The residency’s objectives, parameters and conditions will be defined by the artist.
The deadline is April 1, 2009. Ask Cat to email you the info we have prepared.
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SAINT JOHN - CHECK OUT OUR LATEST WORK
Hello friends, family, colleagues, et al.
Below is a link to one of newest videos that I wanted to share with you all. It was a video we made to raise awareness about affordable housing. Right click on the link and save the file to your desktop, then, enjoy.
Thank you for your support.
Saint John based NB Film Co-op filmmaker members Steve et al.
Stephen Foster
Business Manager | Producer
P.O. Box 591
Saint John, New Brunswick
E2L-4A5
CANADA
(001) 506.642.0872
(001) 506.333.1049
www.hemmingshousepictures.com
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FILM EYES
After being so immersed in a project for so long, it’s easy for a typo to slip by unnoticed, especially in the wee hours of the morning. It happens to the best of us. I want to help you make your best first impression on those Hollywood producers and investors who may be sitting in the audiences of the film festivals where your film will be screened! I’m offering my fresh set of eyes for FREE to help anyone in proofreading credit rolls, subtitles, graphics and any related print/web materials. I have an 11 year background in the IT industry where accuracy and detail is vitally important. If you’re interested, my contact information is as follows:
Jen Mawhinney
Fredericton, NB
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HALIFAX - FOR SALE
I HAVE A WIRELESS MICROPHONE THAT I PUT ON KIJIJI, BRAND NEW - THEN I THOUGHT MAYBE ONE OF YOUR MEMBERS NEEDS A MIC, REALLY GREAT DEAL (IT COST ME 850, AND I HAVEN'T USED IT!) I WILL NEGOTIATE BUT NOT THAT MUCH LOWER!
$650
Sennheiser Wireless EW112-P
Frequency Range 518-550 MHz
Body Pack Transmitter
Omni Lavalier Microphone ME2
Bodypack Receiver EK 100
Line Cable CL1
Brand new, retail value $850
Email Rachel Bower at: rachelabower@gmail.com
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WANTED - LOCATION
A medium sized, windowless room with minimal furniture as a photoshoot location for a local model and fashion designer.
please contact Andy at 300andy@gmail.com, or 476-2825
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LOOKING FOR VINTAGE FILM FOOTAGE ON ROAD CONSTRUCTION
My name is Brad MacDonald and I'm currently studying filmmaking in Nova Scotia. I have begun to do research for a documentary I plan to produce and am in need of vintage (1900-1980) film footage of road construction. I am aware that film footage is quite scarce and still photo's from those era's are much more common but as of right now, I am looking for motion footage. I would appreciate any help whatsoever!!! Thank you very much,
Brad MacDonald, macdonald.inc@hotmail.com