NB
takes center stage at the Silver Wave Film Festival
NBFC E-news - Thur, Nov 8, 2007
Spotlight!
Silver Wave Film Festival 2007 -
New Brunswick Shorts I
Bathroom Etiquette
Sorry I love You
Father Time & the Lady
Slipper
Changed Fortunes
Waiting for Myra
Daddy Why?
The Year You Were Born
Dry Noodles
Dare to Dream
Breakdown
Overkill
Date/Time: Fri, Nov 9, 7:00 pm
Venue: Le Centre communautaire Sainte-Anne
$9.00 adult
$8.00 student / senior (65 plus)
(Tickets sold at the door only on the night of the screening). Ticket
price includes entrance to Latino Fiesta Included with NB Shorts I, Latino Feature (Imitation), and US Feature (Rescue Dawn) ticket purchase or Pay $9.00 at the door.
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Latino Fiesta - Music! Dancing! Food!
Date/Time: Fri, Nov 9, 9:30 pm
Social Venue: Le Centre communautaire Sainte-Anne - downstairs cafe
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Feature Film (Latino)
- Imitation
Date/Time: Fri, Nov 9, 7:00 pm
Venue: Tilley Hall, UNB Campus
$9.00 adult
$8.00 student / senior (65 plus)
(Tickets sold at the door only on the night of the screening). Ticket price includes entrance to Latino Fiesta
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Feature Film (International)
- Rescue Dawn
Date/Time: Fri, Nov 9, 9:30 pm
Venue: Tilley Hall, UNB Campus
$9.00 adult
$8.00 student / senior (65 plus)
(Tickets sold at the door only on the night of the screening). Ticket price includes entrance to Latino Fiesta
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Midnight Screening
(Nightmares That Come True)
- Dead to the World
- 2nd screening of They Didn't Make It
Date/Time: Fri, Nov 9, 11:45 pm
Venue: Tilley Hall, UNB Campus
$3.00 general admission (Tickets sold at the door only on the night of the screening)
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Canadian & International Shorts
How to Survive a Fall
from 35,000 Feet
The Lullaby of Mike
Bossy
Halley's Comet
Yggdrasll, The World Tree
News
Zombie vs Samurai
Lemon Tree
Dottie: The Little Girl with
the Big Voice
Soup Ladle
Hobo with a Shotgun
The Occupant
Date/Time: Sat, Nov 10, 12:00 pm
Venue: Charlotte Street Arts Centre
$5.00 general admission (Tickets sold at the door only on the day of the screening)
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Feature Film (Canadian)
- Away from Her
Date/Time: Sat, Nov 10, 2:00 pm
Venue: Tilley Hall, UNB Campus
Social Venue: James Joyce Pub
$5.00 general admission (Tickets sold at the door only on the day of the screening)
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NFB Documentary Matinees
- Buried at Sea
- Damage Done
Date/Time: Sat, Nov 10, 2:00 pm
Venue: Charlotte Street Arts Centre
Social Venue: James Joyce Pub
$5.00 general admission
(Tickets sold at the door only on the day of the screening
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"Reel Youth" (Films made by young people from around the world)
- Selected Films
Date/Time: Sat, Nov 10, 2:30 pm
Venue: Le Centre communautaire Sainte-Anne
$2.00 general admission (Tickets sold at the door only on the day of the screening)
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Documentary Matinees (This & That)
Grave Concerns
An Iron Fist in Velvet
Glove
Hannah's Story
A Life of Death
Date/Time: Sat, Nov 10, 4:00 pm
Venue: Charlotte Street Arts Centre
Social Venue: James Joyce Pub
$5.00 general admission
(Tickets sold at the door only on the day of the screening
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New Brunswick Shorts II
Swan Pond
Abort
Monologue
The Perfect Cliché
As the Sun Casts No
Shadow
She Lost Her Marbles
The Amazing Adventures of Captain Awesome
Avarice
Date: Time: Sat, Nov 10, 6:00 pm
Venue: Le Centre communautaire Sainte-Anne
$9.00 adult
$8.00 student /senior (65 plus)
(Tickets sold at the door only on the night of the screening). Ticket price includes entrance to Silver Wave Awards
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Shorts III & Silver Wave Awards and Reception
Dog Boy
Simon Hunter
The Official Guide to
Watching a Saturday
Night Hockey Game
(For Intermediates)
Song for the Home Front
My Immortality
Double Trouble
A Day's Grace
Date/Time: Sat, Nov 10, 8:00 pm
Venue: Le Centre communautaire Sainte-Anne
$9.00 adult
$8.00 student /senior (65 plus)
(Tickets sold at the door only on the night of the screening). Ticket price includes entrance to Silver Wave Awards and Reception.
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NB Documentary Matinees
(Fascinating People)
- Anthony Flower: The Life and Art of a Country Painter
- The Maritime Violin of Jasper Wood
FREE
Date/Time: Sun, Nov 11, 12:00 pm
Venue: Charlotte Street Arts Centre
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Feature Film French Screening
- Au bout du chemin
FREE
Date/Time: Sun, Nov 11, 1:00 pm
Venue: Le Centre communautaire Sainte-Anne
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Feature Film (International)
- The White Masai
Date/Time: Sun, Nov 11, 2:00 pm
Venue: Tilley Hall, UNB Campus
$5.00 general admission
(Tickets sold at the door only on the day of the screening).
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Documentary Matinees
(Social & Cultural Change)
Hope for the Future
In the Same Boat
Sharing the Waters: Saint John, NB
FREE
Date/Time: Sun, Nov 11, 2:00 pm
Venue: Charlotte Street Arts Centre
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French Showcase
The Neighbour/La Voisine
Marie Claire Blais: Illumination/Au-delà des apparences - Portrait de Marie-Claire Blais
FREE
Date/Time: Sun, Nov 11, 3:00 pm
Venue: Le Centre communautaire Sainte-Anne
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Documentary Matinees
(Personal Stories)
Dolls on Film
Ciao Montelibretti
Don Gorman: Bass
Builder
How I Got Busted
FREE!
Date/Time: Sun, Nov 11, 4:00 pm
Venue: Charlotte Street Arts
Centre
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Closing Night Gala Film
Canadian French Feature
- On the Trail of Igor Rizzi/Sur la trace d'Igor Rizzi
Date/Time: Sun, Nov 11, 7:00 pm
Venue: Tilley Hall, UNB Campus
Gala Reception: James Joyce Pub
$9.00 adult
$8.00 student /senior (65 plus)
(Tickets sold at the door only on the night of the screening). Ticket price includes entrance to Closing Gala Reception at James Joyce Pub
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Screening Venue Locations:
- Le Centre communautaire Sainte-Anne (CCSA):
715 Priestman Street, Fredericton, N.B.
- Charlotte Street Arts Centre Auditorium (CSAC):
732 Charlotte Street, Fredericton, N.B.
- Tilley Hall, Room 102: University of
New Brunswick Campus, Fredericton, N.B.
Social Venue Locations:
- Le Centre communautaire Sainte-Anne:
715 Priestman Street, Fredericton, N.B.
- James Joyce Pub: (Crowne Plaza Lord
Beaverbrook): 659 Queen Street
- Doodles Café & Charlotte Street Arts Centre
Auditorium (CSAC): 732 Charlotte Street,
Fredericton, N.B.
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FESTIVAL PRICES:
Festival Passes: $50.00
(includes all screenings, workshops and galas).
Tickets at other venues will be sold at the door (cash only). Festival passes are available at the NB Film Co-op only for purchase now (cash or cheque).
Festival pass holders must be present 30 minutes prior to a screening to ensure seat availability. Festival crew reserves the right to sell all seats after that time.
**Please note that all Films are for adults (except for indicated children and youth screening programmes). Please call (506) 455-1632 for more information or email info@nbfilmcoop.com
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Presenting: the 2007 Silver Wave Awards Jury Members
Semra Yüksel - Fredericton
Semra Yüksel is a sociologist, researcher, documentary filmmaker and president of her own film production company, Acrolect International Inc. She has produced numerous compelling documentaries about people from diverse backgrounds in different parts of the world.
Semra has taught numerous workshops on different topics. She was the Recipient of the 2004 Silver Wave Award in recognition of her professional contribution to film in New Brunswick. Her most recent project is a documentary on the world famous Sabian family and she has several other projects in development stage.
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Connell Smith - Quispamsis
Connell Smith was born in Campbell River, BC. He grew up in Keswick Ontario, and for the past twenty years has been based in Quispamsis, New Brunswick where he works as a filmmaker and journalist. Connell trained as a Journalist at Humber College in Toronto and has a BA (Philosophy) from the University of New Brunswick. His short films include Animating Mr. Saint John (Tidal Wave Film Festival 2002) and Searching for Daniel Baldwin (Saint John One Film Festival Audience Choice award in 2003). Connell is an Associate Producer with CBC Radio in Saint John. To make How I Got Busted, his first feature documentary, he teamed up with producer Peter Atkinson.
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Christine McLean - Moncton
After a ten year stint as host and writer of the arts segment for CBC New Brunswick's TV supperhour news, Christine began working in the world of independent documentary production. She wrote and directed two one-off documentaries for CBC's national performance series, Opening Night: "Flying on the Moon" and "Practice, Practice, Practice". Both of these shows won awards at the Columbus International Film and Video Festival. (Photo to the right - Karine Wade Image)
She wrote and directed many episodes of Discovery Canada's popular "Frontiers of Construction" co-produced by Moncton's Fiddlehead Entertainment. Christine also wrote and/or directed several episodes of another Discovery Canada series, "Stones of Fate and Fortune" co-produced by Connections Productions and Sam Grana Productions, both of Moncton. She also enjoyed working as a narrator voicing the documentary "Edith Butler: Acadian Icon" for Connections Productions.
After taking a NB Film Co-op workshop with instructor Gretchen Kelbaugh, she ventured into screenwriting. "Unraveled", her adaptation of the book "I Cry for Innocence" by Riverview's Theresia Quigley, led to her acceptance in the intermediate screenwriting program at the Summer Institute of Film and Television in Ottawa. Her script was among the top ten in the Inspired Scripts competition at last year's Atlantic Film Festival.
When Christine is not researching documentary proposals, she teaches English at Universite de Moncton.
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Training & Development at Silver Wave 07
New Brunswick Industry Series -
Telefilm Canada Industry Day
Café Telefilm Canada
Friday – November 9, 2007
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Venue: Doodles Café - Charlotte Street Arts Centre
(732 Charlotte Street), basement
Jump-start your day with delicious coffee and morning nibbles at an informal meet-and-greet session hosted by Telefilm Canada at 9:00am on Friday, November 9th.
Gordon Whittaker and Patricia Voogt of Telefilm Canada's Atlantic regional office will be on hand to meet and talk with members of New Brunswick's film community.
Cost: No charge
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By Appointment - One on One Sessions with Telefilm Representatives
Guests: Gordon Whittaker and Patricia Voogt from Telefilm Canada
Gordon Whittaker and Patricia Voogt will be available for pre-scheduled one-on-one meetings with those interested in discussing a specific project. Please contact Cat Leblanc at 455-1632 to book an appointment or email her at info@nbfilmcoop.com
Biography - Gordon Whittaker (Telefilm Canada)
As Director, Atlantic Region, Gordon Whittaker is a member of Telefilm Canada's senior management team and responsible for operations in Atlantic Canada. Located in Halifax, Telefilm’s Atlantic office serves the region’s film and new media sectors. Over the past two years, the office has experienced significant growth in activity and currently manages a diverse portfolio of projects.
Born and raised in Toronto, Mr. Whittaker has enjoyed a 15 year career in Canada’s media industry. Upon graduating with an MBA from UBC, he worked in Vancouver’s burgeoning film and TV industry. After moving to Halifax in 1996, he was hired as Executive Director of the Atlantic Film Festival where he led the festival through a period of unprecedented growth, including the creation and launch of Strategic Partners in September 1998. Prior to entering the MBA program, he was a brand manager at a major packaged goods company.
Since joining Telefilm, he has worked with regional clients on a number of successful films including: Black Eyed Dog, Three Needles, Poor Boy’s Game, Trailer Park Boys: The Movie, Shake Hands with the Devil, Down to the Dirt and Just Buried.
Biography - Patricia Voogt (Telefilm Canada)
A graduate of the TV Broadcasting program at Algonquin College in Ottawa, Patricia Voogt (then Quesnel) worked for TFO in Toronto for six years as a production secretary as well as in visual research and network promotions. In 2002 Patricia moved to Halifax and almost immediately started working for Telefilm Halifax as an office administrator, and in December 2003 she took over the role of Project Coordinator. Since then, Pat won the 2005-2006 Atlantic MVP award and more recently joined Telefilm’s Industry Development Sector as the Atlantic Region’s Officer.
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Canada Feature Film Panel - Case Study -
Growing Op
Friday – November 9, 2007
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Venue: The Charlotte Street Arts Centre
(732 Charlotte Street), Upstairs Auditorium
Guest Speakers: Gordon Whittaker (Telefilm Canada), Michael Melski (Writer/Director), Monique LeBlanc (Producer), Rick Warden (Producer)
Gordon Whittaker will lead this case study into the upcoming feature film Growing Op produced through Telefilm Canada's Canada Feature Film Fund. This feature film was shot around Moncton and Tracadie this past summer.
This session is aimed at producers and filmmakers who are planning or have thought about putting together a feature film project with support from Telefilm Canada. It will also be of interest to unit production managers, casting directors, directors, production accountants, lawyers and filmmakers.
Biography - MICHAEL MELSKI is an award-winning writer/director who has achieved success in film, television, and theatre. His many plays, including HOCKEY MOM, HOCKEY DAD, THE FLY FISHER'S COMPANION, and JOYRIDE have been published and produced to acclaim across Canada. Michael's writing credits for television include such Gemini-nominated series as STRAIGHT UP, BLUE MURDER, and SNAKES AND LADDERS. He also wrote the screenplay for the multi-award-winning feature MILE ZERO which has screened at festivals worldwide. Michael's short films as director include the award-winning SERENADE and FOCUS GROUP THERAPY, and he's also directed for CTV's hit series ROBSON ARMS. In 2007, Michael directed his first feature film GROWING OP, starring Rachel Blanchard, Rosanna Arquette, and Wallace Langham, in Moncton and Tracadie NB, and he is currently in post-production.
Biography - A graduate of Carleton University's School of Journalism, Rick worked at the Canadian Film Centre (CFC) as Executive Assistant to producer Peter O'Brian (THE GREY FOX, MY AMERICAN COUSIN, ONE MAGIC CHRISTMAS) and Programme Coordinator. After producing the short dramas HALF NELSON, NO MYSTERY and NOT ALONE, he returned to the CFC to attend the Producers' Lab in 1997.
Rick completed a development placement at Alliance Pictures before being hired as Business Affairs & Development Officer at Temple Street Productions (QUEER AS FOLK). At the same time, Rick partnered with renowned cinematographer Thom Best (GINGER SNAPS, MEN WITH BROOMS, QUEER AS FOLK) to produce Thom's feature directorial debut, ICE MEN. While ICE MEN was in post-production, he was asked by the CFC's Feature Film Project to produce writer/director Chris Philpott's FAIRYTALES & PORNOGRAPHY.
Since moving to Halifax in the spring of 2004, Rick has executive
produced Michael Melski's short film, FOCUS GROUP THERAPY, and eight short films through the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperatives Film 5 program. Rick managed Strategic Partners, Canada's premier international co-production market, for its 2005 and 2006 editions. At present, he is a producer on Melski's feature directorial debut, GROWING OP.
Biography - Award-winning director/writer/producer Monique LeBlanc, president of CinImage, draws upon 20 years experience in broadcast and film production. Born in Richibucto, N.B., her most recent project Growing Op, a feature film by Micheal Melski which she co-produced with Paranoid Pictures of Nova Scotia.
She has written and produced several documentary series for Radio-Canada and ARTV which were then sold to Bravo, Global and APTN. As a writer-director she received accolades for her NFB documentary, Cigarette, which earned the Rex Tasker Award for best Atlantic documentary at the 1998 Atlantic Film Festival. She earlier won Best Director at the festival for another NFB production, The Acadian Connection, which also won Best Cinematography and Best Sound. Her last feature length documentary Les chemins de Marie-On the road with Mary, co-produced with the NFB-ONF was received very positively by critics.
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BANKING AND ACCOUNTING ISSUES FOR PRODUCERS AND FILMMAKERS
Friday – November 9, 2007
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Venue: The Charlotte Street Arts Centre
(732 Charlotte Street), Upstairs Auditorium
Guest Speakers : Christene Hirschfeld, Partner, Boyne Clarke, Barristers and Solicitors & Nan MacDonald, Relationship Manager, Media & Entertainment, Royal Bank of Canada.
Christene Hirschfeld has been a frequent speaker at the Silver Wave Film Festival on the legal aspects of producing for film and television. This year for the first time Nan MacDonald from the Royal Bank, also a loyal Silver Wave Festival supporter and attendee, will join Christene in a presentation that will look at some banking and accounting issues relevant to producers and filmmakers. After the session, they will be available to speak to producers.
Biography - Christene is a partner at the law firm of Boyne Clarke in Nova Scotia, and lives in Queensland, Nova Scotia. Her practice focuses on commercial law, with an emphasis on entertainment and technology law. Christene is a lecturer at Dalhousie University Law School, an Associate of the Law & Technology Institute, an Affiliate of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, past Chair of the Canadian Bar Association’s National Intellectual Property section, past Chair of the Nova Scotia Chapter of Canadian Women in Communication, and a past director of the Information Technology Industry Alliance of Nova Scotia.
Biography - Nan MacDonald Senior Account Manager, Media & Entertainment has provided interim financing to numerous Canadian film industry projects including feature films, television series, documentaries and animation programming; as well as complex international co-productions.
Nan brings a wide and diverse range of skills to her position. Before joining RBC, she was the Director Business Development for Discovery Centre in Halifax and spent 14 years as a Forensic Scientist in Ontario.
Nan holds a Bachelor of Science from St. Francis Xavier University and a Masters of Business Administration from Saint Mary's University.
About RBC Financial Group: Royal Bank of Canada (RY: TSX, NYSE) uses the initials RBC as a prefix for its businesses and operating subsidiaries, which operate under the master brand name of RBC Financial Group. Royal Bank of Canada is Canada's largest bank as measured by market capitalization and assets, and is one of North America's leading diversified financial services companies. It provides personal and commercial banking, wealth management services, insurance, corporate and investment banking, and transaction processing services on a global basis. The company employs 60,000 people who serve more than 12 million personal, business and public sector clients through offices in North America and some 30 countries around the world. For more information, please visit www.rbc.com
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New Brunswick Industry Series -
NB Film Industry Day
Saturday – November 10, 2007
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Venue: Le Centre communautaire Sainte-Anne: 715, Priestman Street, Fredericton, N.B.
Room # B-234A (ask for location of room at reception area)
Q & A with the DGC - Atlantic Regional Council
Guest Speaker: Tim Storey, Business Agent, DGC - Atlantic Regional Council.
Join Tim Storey, Business Agent for Directors Guild of Canada - Atlantic Regional Council as he answers any questions you may have concerning the Directors Guild of Canada and it's role in the film and television industry in the Atlantic region.
Biography - Tim Storey has been engaged in the Motion Picture Industry in Canada for 17 years. Working principally in Toronto in the Production Department, Tim worked his way from office assistant to being one of the most respected Production Coordinators in the city. During his time in production, he worked on several television series (Witchblade II, Little Men), a variety of Movies of the Week, as well as a number of Feature Films (Dracula 2000 -starring Gerry Butler and Christopher Plummer; The Ref - starring Dennis Leary and Judy Davis; The Scarlet Letter - Demi Moore and Gary Oldman, Avenging Angelo - Sylvester Stallone and Anthony Quinn).
In 2003, Tim joined the staff of I.A.T.S.E. Local 411, the union representing Film Production Office staff in the Province of Ontario. As a founding member of the Local and active on the Board and numerous committees, he believed passionately in the efforts of the union and stepped away from production in order to continue to serve his friends and colleagues on a full time basis.
2004 saw Tim sworn in as the newly elected Business Agent for I.A.T.S.E. Local 411. During his tenure as B.A., he organized two previously un-represented groups in the industry, developing and negotiating contracts for each, increasing the membership to almost double what it had been. Along with a dynamic Executive Board, Tim updated and revitalized all aspects of the life of the Local. Serving on several Industry bodies while BA, Tim increased the profile and respect for the group both locally and nationally.
Coming to the end of his term in office at Local 411, Tim decided to leave Local 411, and seeking new challenges, he became the Business Agent for the Directors Guild of Canada, Atlantic Regional Council, as of January 07.
Packing up lock, stock and a vast collection of art and books, Tim barrelled down to Halifax and has been excitedly discovering and learning about his new home city, the surrounding region and the Motion Picture Industry it supports.
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DOCUMENTARY ROUNDTABLE
Saturday – November 10, 2007
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Venue: Le Centre communautaire Sainte-Anne: 715, Priestman Street, Fredericton, N.B. Bon temp Room (ask for location of room at reception area)
Guest Speakers: Kent Martin, (National Film Board of Canada Producer), Don Chapman (Lost Canadians), Jonathan Collicott (Anthony Flower), Connell Smith (How I Got Busted), Kent Nason and Teresa MacInnes (Hope for the Future).
Join us for what promises to be a dynamic session with filmmakers who produce films that both raise social consciousness and are relevant in our modern world. Films that deal with citizenship, people in NB who left a lasting impact, marijuana use in Canada and NFB Documentaries that have bite and flavor will be on the table. Everyone is invited to sit down for a frank and illuminating discussion.
Biography - Kent Martin is Executive Producer and Director for the National Film Board’s Atlantic Regional Office. An accomplished documentarian whose directorial credits include the Gemini Award-winning Donald Brittain: Filmmaker, Kent has been bringing great stories to the screen for nearly three decades. Kent's recent productions include the acclaimed NFB documentary Westray, which garnered the Genie for Best Documentary, as well as The Spirit of Annie Mae. He also served as NFB producer on the Genie-nominated co-production Men of the Deeps, which aired nationally on CTV. New releases include the NFB feature documentary Animals and the timely NFB co-production Teaching Peace in a Time of War.
Biography - In 1868 Canadian legislation was introduced declaring that married women, minors, lunatics, and idiots were to be classified under the same disability for their national status. Don, born in Vancouver, the son of two Canadian parents, his father a Canadian officer in WWII, his Great, Great Uncle one of the Fathers-of-Confederation, despite all that, he’s still not a Canadian citizen. Apparently that old discriminatory law stripped not only Don of his citizenship, but its huge tentacles are still reaching well into the 21st century. What began as his individual struggle decades ago, has now blossomed into a David & Goliath story, affecting every Canadian on the planet. Is your citizenship safe? Don’t be so sure.
Biography - Alumus NB Film Co-op member Jonathan Collicott has been working in the Film and Television industry since 1997 and has worked with History Television, The National Film Board of Canada and CBC Nature of Things. He also does freelance work for various independent production companies such as Fredericton's Atlantic Media Works and Outreach Productions. He works in both documentary and dramatic films, focusing on Writing, Directing and Shooting. Anthony Flower is his first full-length documentary.
Biography - Connell Smith was born in Campbell River, BC. He grew up in Keswick Ontario, and for the past twenty years has been based in Quispamsis, New Brunswick where he works as a filmmaker and journalist. Connell trained as a Journalist at Humber College in Toronto and has a BA (Philosophy) from the University of New Brunswick. His short films include Animating Mr. Saint John (Tidal Wave Film Festivla 2002) and Searching for Daniel Baldwin (Saint John One Film Festival Audience Choice award in 2003). Connell is an Associate Producer with CBC Radio in Saint John. To make How I Got Busted, his first feature documentary, he teamed up with producer Peter Atkinson. Connell has never been charged with a criminal offence.
Biography -
Born and raised in New Brunswick, Canada; Kent Nason began his film making career with Crawley Films
Ltd in Ottawa in 1969. He joined the National Film Board of Canada in 1973 as a cinematographer and participated in the formation of an NFB film production studio in the Atlantic region. He has photographed well over one hundred films in his career and has been a freelance cinematographer and videographer for the last ten years. Kent has also edited, directed and produced documentaries. He has traveled all over the world shooting films that have been broadcast internationally and screened at major film festivals. Many of these programs have been nominated for and have won numerous awards. He received a Gemini in 1997 for
best cinematography for the documentary series The Human Race hosted by Gwynne Dyer. Kent has photographed a number of award winning documentary series for television and enjoys shooting drama as well as documentary.
Biography - Born and raised in Vancouver, B.C. Teresa came to the film and television industry from a background in social work and psychology. While completing her Bachelor of Arts degree at Simon Fraser University in 1988, she became involved in filmmaking. Working as an independent producer and director Teresa has gone on to direct a dozen documentaries for television including; Generation XXL (2007) Hope for the Future (2006) Teaching Peace in a Time of War (2004); Learning Peace: A Big School with a Big Heart (2002) Waging Peace: A Year in the Life of Caledonia Junior High (2001) Lost (1999) The Other Side of the Picture (1998); Under Wraps; (1996); A Rough Crossing (1995); Teen Rebel/Teen Mom (1994). Her films have aired nationally and internationally and have garnered top awards at many film festivals, including New York, Yorkton, Columbus, Sprockets, ViewFinders, Houston WorldFest and the National Educational and Video Festival.
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DRAMATIC FILMMAKERS PANEL
Saturday – November 10, 2007
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Venue: Le Centre communautaire Sainte-Anne: 715, Priestman Street, Fredericton, N.B. Bon temps Room (ask for location of room at reception area) Bon temps Room (ask for location of room at reception area)
Guest Filmmakers: Joel Thompson, Fredericton (They Didn't Make it/Waiting for Myra/Breakdown), Danny Thebeau, Moncton (A Days Grace/Father Time and the Lady Slipper), Steve Doiron, Saint John (Avarice), Dawn Boyd, Grand Barachois, (Daddy Why?/Dog Boy), Michael Aronson (Doisey Films)
Join us for what promises to be a dynamic session with filmmakers who produce dramatic films with punch in different areas of New Brunswick. From films that terrorize and creep us out to films that tantalize the funny bone and the brain.
Biography - Joel M. Thompson was born in Nova Scotia but has lived in New Brunswick the majority of his life. His interest in film began at the young age of 10 when his father bought a home video camera to film family occasions. Needless to say the camera wasn't used much for family videos. Since then he has been making short films and has had a camera in his hand whenever he gets the chance. He joined the Film Co-op in 2001 and that same year acted in an award winning film that was screened in Winnipeg. He has since directed his first independent feature horror film (They Didn't Make It) and has many other projects in the works.
Biography - Danny Thebeau lives and works in Dieppe New Brunswick. His early interest in video and film began by producing little league sports videos, promotional videos, and a music video. He appeared as an extra on The Trailer Park Boys, as well as the feature Film Black Eyed Dog. A member of the NBFC since 2005 and an alumni of the Summer Institute for Film and Television, A Day's Grace is Danny's directorial debut.
Biography - Working independently out of Saint John, NB, Steven Doiron has written, produced and directed three short films and two music videos under his self-started company "Dark Night Pictures". He recently received funding under NB Film's Short Film Venture Program to produce his latest project titled "My Selfish Life" which is in post-production. My Selfish Life is a love story about second chances, and will be ready for festivals in Summer 2008. Also in the works is a dramatic television pilot that will be filmed throughout Saint John in spring 2008, as well as inspirational Christian videos, which he promotes and sells online.
When not producing his own projects, he assists with video and multimedia at the church he currently attends, and is an active member of the New Brunswick Film Cooperative, where he is enrolled in the Advanced Television and Film Certificate Program. All this while he assists with a weekly children's ministry program, takes part in a weekly small discussion group for young adults, and works full time for the New Brunswick Government. Sleep is tough to come by. If you notice his nodding off while you speak, he asks that you please do not take offense, and would appreciate a quick slap to the face to stay awake.
Biography - Dawn Boyd is originally from Saint John and has just moved back to NB after 20 years in Nova Scotia. Most of those years were spent in as a production artist in advertising, but eventually she began to branch into video editing and animation. Her animated piece, Heino, won first place at the 2003 Garrison Big Break Ad Challenge.
She directed her first live-action short film, The Fishing, in the summer of 2005, which became an official selection of the Dragoncon Film Festival in Atlanta, Georgia. She attended the Nova Scotia Community College Screen Arts Program, graduating with the Highest Achievement Award and the William F. Whites Industry Award. In the summer of 2006, she taught a Screen Arts workshop to a group of teen girls for the Women in Media Foundation. In 2006, she directed Daddy Why?, again selected for the DragonCon Film Festival 2007.
Dawn is now living happily in Grand-Barachois with husband and collaborator Michael Aronson and cats Bruce Willis and T-Bone.
Biography - After dropping out from the journalism program at Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto, Aronson fell into a career as an advertising writer, winning him international acclaim. In 2004, his commercial Kids for the Canadian SPCA was honoured at the London International Advertising Awards. In that same year a television campaign for the Atlantic Jewish Film Festival was included in the curriculum of the Jewish Media Studies course at Denmark's University of Aarhus.
Recently, Aronson has gone back to journalism, having had an interview with celebrity actor Lucy Liu published in Canada's national newspaper The Globe & Mail. His cover story about Canadian adult video star Steven Ziegal was published in Halifax's The Coast for whom he also documented a very personal medical procedure.
Aronson's attentions have also turned to writing and producing for television and film, partnering with director/producer Dawn Boyd to form Doisey Films, under whose banner he has written the short films The Fishing and Daddy Why?, and the television pilot for illusionist Jeremy Bennett's Believe.
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Panel de Cinéastes Dramatiques - (En français)
Samedi - le 10 Novembre 2007
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Lieu: Centre Communautaire Sainte-Anne: 715, Rue Priestman Fredericton, N.B. Chambre# B-234A
Cinéastes invités: Pamela Gallant, (La Voisine), Samuel A. Caron
Joignez-vous à nous pour une rencontre dynamique avec des cinéastres francophones qui produisent des films dramatiques dans différents endroits du Nouveau Brunswick.
Join us for what promises to be a dynamic session with Francophone filmmakers who produce NB dramatic films with punch in different areas of New Brunswick.
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Biography - Prince Edward Island native Pamela Gallant has been working in the film industry for more than 20 years. In the mid-80's she produced and directed three independent short fictions and one documentary that won awards at The Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax and The Canadian International Annual Film Festival in Barry, Ontario. Since her independent filmmaking days, Pamela has directed television documentary series episodes and has edited more than fifty documentaries broadcast in Canada and in Europe for stations such as: Discovery, Télé-Québec, Oxygen (UK), Life, Canal Vie, CBC, Radio-Canada, FR3, Space, TV5, APTN, BRAVO! and Artv. Recently, Pamela wrote, directed and edited the half-hour fiction La voisine produced by Phare-Est Productions which won ''Best Atlantic Short'' at the 2007 Atlantic Film Festival this fall and has just completed shooting a new short film called "Liberty's Beach".
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Native de l'Île-du-Prince-Edouard, la réalisatrice et monteuse Pamela Gallant travaille dans l'industrie du cinéma et de la télévision depuis plus de vingt ans. Dans les années 80 et 90 elle réalisa trois courts-métrages et un documentaire indépendants qui lui on méritées des prix au Atlantic Film Festival d'Halifax et au Canadian International Annual Film Festival de Barry en Ontario. Depuis ces années de réalisation indépendante, Pamela a réalisé une douzaine d'émissions de séries documentaires et a monté plus d'une cinquantaine de documentaires diffusés au Canada et en Europe aux chaînes de: Discovery, Télé-Québec, Oxygen (UK), Life, Canal Vie, CBC, Radio-Canada, FR3, Space, TV5, APTN, BRAVO! et Artv. Plus récemment, Pamela a écrit, réalisé et monté la dramatique d'une demi-heure, La voisine, qui a remporté le prix ''Best Atlantic Short'' au Atlantic Film Festival cet automne et elle vient de compléter le tournage d'un nouveau court-métrage intitulé "Liberty's Beach".
Biography -
It is through writing, his first love, that Samuel-Alexandre Caron came to direct his film. With the feature film length, "Au Bout du Chemin" which he wrote, directed and edited, the young artist wanted to create a reflection and a discussion around subjects that touched people. He wanted to speak to the young people in this film which he has done with great success.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nsgrdpre/documents/communiques/
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Biographie - C'est par l'écriture, son premier amour, que Samuel-Alexandre Caron est arrivé à la réalisation. Avec le long métrage Au bout du chemin pour lequel il a effectué la scénarisation, la réalisation et le montage, le jeune artiste a voulu susciter une réflexion et une discussion autour de sujets qui touchent les gens. Il a voulu parler aux jeunes dans ce film et il a réussi son pari. http://www.rootsweb.com/~nsgrdpre/documents/communiques/
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Festivals
NB 2007 SILVER WAVE FILM FESTIVALNovember 8-11, Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Register Online to be a Festival Volunteer Today by Clicking Here!
New Brunswick Silver Wave Awards 2007
Presented by: NB FILM - Click Here for more Details!
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Arts in NB
FREDERICTON - MONDAY NIGHT FILM SERIES
Nov 12, 2007, 8:00pm (NEW DATE!)
PIERREPOINT: THE LAST HANGMAN
Director: Adrian Shergold
Cast: Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Eddie Marsan
Runtime: 90 minutes
Country: United Kingdom
Year: 2007
Language: English
Distributor: Odeon Films
Ratings: ON NR / BC NR / AB NR / SK NR / MB NR / PQ NR / Maritimes NR
PIERREPOINT: THE LAST HANGMAN – an award-nominated film that had its premiere at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival® – chronicles the fascinating, macabre life of Albert Pierrepoint (Timothy Spall, VANILLA SKY, THE LAST SAMURAI). A large, somewhat awkward and simple-mannered working-class fellow at the film’s outset, Pierrepoint soon interviews at the local prison to become a hangman. According to Pierrepoint’s mother, the same job had turned his father into an alcoholic and hustled him into an early grave, yet Pierrepoint feels he has the unique skills to succeed.
The job requires strong statistical abilities in order to judge the drop required to snap a prisoner’s neck without ripping off his head. Larger inmates sometimes require a different rope density; certain personalities demand more finesse in leading them from their cell to the execution room. Pierrepoint is concerned not with the morality of execution, but with ensuring a quick and humane death. If the state has determined that a given criminal should be hanged, it is not his place to judge. He rises quickly through the ranks; his extraordinary work in dispatching hundreds of prisoners of war makes him a media star in Britain. But gradually, he becomes increasingly unsure of his moral imperatives at the same time that abolitionists begin a fierce campaign to end hanging.
One of Britain’s most impressive actors, Spall gives a breathtaking performance as Pierrepoint, Great Britain’s best-known public executioner and last official Chief Hangman. He captures the man’s gradual change from confident and capable to wiser and conflicted with extraordinary subtlety. Juliet Stevenson is a lovely counterpoint as his wife; her tough response to Pierrepoint’s evolving dilemma delivers a chilling reminder that human life consists of considerably more than statistics. At a time when frontier justice seems to be making a comeback, this gentle reminder of the burden of conscience that the death penalty places on society is most welcome indeed.
“This rivetingly watchable re-creation of Pierrepoint’s career features an outstanding performance from Timothy Spall as the hangman….” – Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian.
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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. Regular admission is $7 per screening, $3 for members. Regular full-year memberships are $30; $18 for students, seniors (65 years and up) and NB Film Co-op members. Memberships are now available as well 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; e-mail: tony@nbfilmcoop.com
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Biz News
Grads come together at Film Summit
When recent graduates of the Canadian Film Centre and the American Film Institute gathered to compare North America's different filmmaking systems earlier this week at the University of Toronto, sparks should have flown. Instead, the moderator and six panelists mildly criticized Telefilm Canada's vague funding criteria, while offering muted applause to Hollywood's mercenary approach to feature films.
Click here for the full story
http://www.playbackmag.com/articles/daily/20071025/cfc.htm
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BACK UP MAN GOES WEST!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THE BACKUP MAN opens in Montreal November 2 for a one week engagement at Guzzo Cinemas' Mega-Plex Spheretech 14 in Ville St. Laurent (3500 Cote Vertu, north of the Met).
Many of the film's Montreal- area actors will be in attendance for the Montreal premiere - Isabelle Cyr, Patrizio Sanzari - who's flying in from Vancouver to help promote the picture - Constantine Kourtidis, Susan Corbett, Marty Daniels, Chuck Halliday, Danielle Berthiaume, and John Thomas. Farther afield, of those cast members who haven't seen the THE BACKUP MAN yet, are Freya Ravensbergen (Toronto), Daniel Stringer and Jack Messenger (Ottawa) and Farland Dowell (Los Angeles).
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November 22
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SONGWRITING COMPETITION
ISC is one of the most prestigious and respected songwriting competitions in the world. ISC welcomes original songs from musicians, artists, bands, and songwriters at every level from amateur to professional. ISC gives away over $150,000 in cash and prizes, including an Overall Grand Prize package of $25,000 (US) in cash -- the largest cash Grand Prize in any songwriting competition. ISC winners also benefit from extensive press, publicity, and increased exposure.
ISC's phenomenal judging panels include some of the most legendary recording artists, most popular current performers and writers, and some of the biggest names in the music industry. There are 19 categories that cover all major genres of music, so if you're interested in different genres, click on the link below to see the list of judges for all categories, including our new comedy category (with "Weird Al" Yankovic and Arrested Development's David Cross judging).
The ISC deadline for the 2007 competition is only a few weeks away. All entries must be postmarked on or before November 19. This is your last chance to enter this year's competition. The deadline will not be extended beyond November 19. Entry forms and instructions for entering are available on our website, or call us at 615.251.4441 for more information. You may enter online or by mail.
For more info and to enter, go to: http://www.songwritingcompetition.com
Don't have time to upload your MP3s? ISC is always looking for ways to make it easier for our entrants to enter the competition, so we are excited to announce that ISC is the first major songwriting competition to allow you to enter your songs directly from MySpace.com. This means that if you already have your songs posted on your MySpace page, you can simply include the link to your page on the entry form - instead of having to send a CD in the mail or upload your songs. This will save you a lot of effort and time (so you now have more time to write songs)! Of course, you can also enter via the mail (with a CD or tape) or online (with an MP3).
For more information on this news, please visit the ISC myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/isc
Please feel free to pass this information on to anyone else who might be interested. If you have any questions about the competition, feel free to contact me at any time.
All the best,
Jennifer Bair
ISC
1307 Eastland Ave
Nashville, TN 37206
615.251.4441
http://www.songwritingcompetition.com