The NBFC takes center stage at Silver Wave Film Festival
NBFC E-news - Thur, Oct 25, 2007
Spotlight!
Silver Wave Film Festival 2007
Facts and Figures
by Intrepid Silver Wave Publicist Jim Lavoie
As we head into the 7th Annual showcasing of NB film talent and the organization that brings it all into the spotlight (New Brunswick Filmmakers’ Co-operative), it is important to point out some facts and figures that you should know prior to the November 8-11 Silver Wave Film Festival this year.
Option One: SWFF 2007 Festival Passes
The price is $50.00 (What a Deal!) and includes all screenings, workshops and galas at Silver Wave 2007.
Passes are available now at the NB Film Co-op only (732 Charlotte Street, Fredericton) (Call: 455-1632 or email: info@nbfilmcoop.com) and are in limited supply. NB Film Co-op Office Hours Mon-Friday 10 am - 6 pm
(Cash or Cheque only)
• Festival Pass holders must be present 20-30 minutes prior to a screening to ensure seat availability. Festival Staff do reserve the right to sell all seats after that time.
Option Two: Single Film Event Tickets
Silver Wave 07 Ticket prices range from $9.00/$8.00 for Gala Films and Parties to $5.00 for Documentary Matinees and some of the Feature Films, $3.00 for the Midnight Screenings, $2.00 for Reel Youth Screenings as well as many free of charge Documentary Matinees on the final day of the festival.
THERE ARE NO ADVANCE TICKET SALES. Tickets are sold at the door only at each screening. Pass Holders will be seated prior to box office opening up to others.
*Please note that the Silver Wave is adult orientated with adult themes although we do offer specific children’s screenings throughout the festival.
Festival Venue Locations:
Le Centre communautaire Sainte-Anne: 715, Priestman Street, Fredericton, N.B.
Charlotte Street Arts Centre (CSAC): 732 Charlotte Street, Fredericton, N.B.
University of New Brunswick Campus, Fredericton, N.B.
(Tilley Hall, Room 102 - Auditorium)
Festival Social Locations:
Doodles Cafe & upstairs auditorium, Charlotte Street Arts Centre (CSAC): 732 Charlotte Street, Fredericton, N.B.
Le Centre communautaire Sainte-Anne: 715, Priestman Street, Fredericton, N.B.
James Joyce Pub: 659 Queen Street, Fredericton, N.B. (in Crown Plaza Hotel)
Have a great time interacting with the festival organizers, provincial and out of town filmmakers, sponsors, supporters and many others. Plan ahead, Taxis and designated drivers will make it a fun and safe Festival for all.
If you have any question or concerns please call Cat at 455-1632 or email her at: info@nbfilmcoop.com
For more information, please contact:
Jim Lavoie, Publicist and Cat LeBlanc, Membership Services
NB Film Co-op/Silver Wave Film Festival
Tel: 506-455-1632
Website: http://www.swfilmfest.com
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FREDERICTON - NEW MEMBER!
New full NBFC Moncton based member Russell spent his early years in Goose Bay, Labrador, where he seemed to always get involved in school plays as a narrator.
Throughout high school his involvement in the drama class guided him into creative writing for plays as well as narration.
A few years later after migrating to New Brunswick, he found himself volunteering with a local channel starting out as a camera operator. He became involved with co-writing and directing weekly productions, sometimes even lending his voice for narration.
He has kept up his creative works, with writing stories as well as learning various software for graphics and attempts at animation.
Email Russell at: rmunday@gmail.com
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Training & Development
Advanced Picture Editing
(Theory)
October 27/28, 10am - 6pm
Instructor: KATHY WEINKAUF
Location: New Brunswick Film Co-op
(732 Charlotte Street, Fredericton)
Charlotte Street Arts Centre, Auditorium
Fee: $75 for Film Co-op Members
$100 for Non-Members
It’s been said that a film is actually written three times: once at the script stage, once during production, and again in the editing room. A film can change entirely in terms of tone and feel depending on what is done with the picture edit. Because the job entails a mastery of both the creative and the technical, there are few jobs in the entire filmmaking process that are as demanding and important as the picture edit.
This Picture Editing workshop is designed to give trainees a fundamental understanding of the theoretical aspects of cutting a film creatively. Trainees will examine editing concepts and a case study will be done on two films that the instructor worked on/is working on.
This is not a technical workshop.
INSTRUCTOR’S BIO – KATHY WEINKAUF
Kathy Weinkauf is an award nominated film editor working in Toronto for the past ten years. The range of her projects includes feature films, documentaries, TV series, short films and music videos. Films she has edited have won awards around the world. They include Monkey Warfare (Grand Jury Award, TIFF 2006), Small Town Gay Bar (Best Documentary, LA Outfest), the multi-award winning film Interviews with my Next Girlfriend (Best Short Film, 2001 Inside/Out Festival), as well as the multi-award winning film Evelyn, the Cutest Evil Dead Girl (Grand Jury Award Best Short, 2002 No-dance Festival). She was nominated for a Golden Sheaf Award for Best Editing in 2006 for her work on Santa Baby.
She also edited 19 Months (Think Films) which opened in theatres across Canada to rave reviews in the spring of 2004, as well as Portage which premiered at the Atlantic Film Festival in September 2007. She has edited numerous documentaries including Grandmothers: The Heroes of Africa which premiered at the World AIDS conference in August 2006, the award winning documentary Surfing the Seal (Best Adventure Film, Waterwalker Film Fest 2003), the feature documentary Better Off In Bed (Whistler Film Festival 2004), the feature documentary The Dude (Proteus Entertainment) and she was one of the editors on the feature documentary Edgecodes (Amsterdam Film Festival 2004) which explores the history and importance of editing within cinema.
She has also edited various TV series including the highly acclaimed first season of Rick Mercer’s Monday Report as well as What It’s Like Being Alone for the CBC, It’s Me…Gerald for Showcase, Tell it like it is for WTN, How Do They Do It for Discovery International and she just finished a TV pilot for Fox called Sell.
Her education includes a degree in Film and English from Carleton University, an apprenticeship at Sound By Deluxe and a diploma in Digital Editing from the Academy of Design. She is also a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre’s Editor’s Lab 2000. She’s currently editing the feature film Toronto Stories.
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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
Oct 29, 2007, 8:00pm at Tilley Hall, UNB Campus
ONCE
Director: John Carney Cast: Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglova Runtime: 85 minutes Country: Ireland Year: 2007 Language: English Distributor: Fox Searchlight Distributor
After the critical success of his 2001 film OVER THE EDGE, filmmaker John Carney returns as writer and director of the charming and poetic ONCE. A breakthrough hit at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, ONCE captivated the hearts of many before winning an Audience Award. Heralded as a modern-day musical, ONCE tells the beautifully simple story of two strangers (their names are never revealed) who are drawn, over a few days, into each other’s world’s.
“Guy” (played by Glen Hansard, lead singer of the Irish band The Frames) is a street musician, and “Girl” (arrestingly portrayed by musician Markéta Irglova) is a classically trained pianist. Girl becomes enchanted one morning when she hears Guy singing his heart out along the busy streets of Dublin. Together they compose several songs, which, through the course of the film, act as a mirror of their relationship. Their lyrical love story, however, is neither conventional nor simple. Hansard’s character is talented, funny and haunted by the love he has lost, while Irglova’s continues to wonder what to do about the husband she left back home in the Czech Republic. His songs are earnest and full of heartbreak, a melodic lament for wounded lovers. Where he gives the songs heart, she gives them a struggling and questioning soul. And while there is an evident spark of attraction between them, their relationship is first and foremost defined by a creative partnership that develops by chance, and that deepens with their musical collaboration.
With ONCE, Carney has created a film that explores the role music plays in the cinema, and that – like the brilliant 1964 French film THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG – ultimately challenges the traditions of the mainstream musical. Partially autobiographical – inspired by Carney’s own long-distance relationship – and employing the talents of real-life singer-songwriters Hansard and Irglova, the film is more realistic than it is fanciful and in which the characters’ connection to one another is unmistakably due to the magic of their songwriting. An exceptionally moving work, ONCE guides the viewer on a journey into the human heart. At turns uplifting and heartbreaking, it invokes the possibly unanswerable question, “How many times in a lifetime will you meet the right person?”
“[This] winningly unpretentious tale uses a wispy romantic narrative as a vehicle for attractive original tunes. [The film’s] charm seems so offhand one might not notice the skill with which helmer John Carney pulls it off….” – Dennis Harvey, Variety
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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PREMIERE MARITIME TOUR - KIM BEGGS
Yukoner Kim Beggs' infuses sweet old-time roots
country with dark tales of Northern life during her premiere
Maritime Tour.
Western Canadian Music Awards 2007 Nominee for
Outstanding Solo Roots Album! Canadian Folk Music Awards 2007 Nominee for Best New/Emerging Artist!
Special guest performer on CBC Sunday Edition 500th
Show Celebration with Michael Enright! November 2007
Oct 24th Fusion, Woodstock NB 8pm tix $5
Oct 25th Charlotte Street Arts Centre (732 Charlotte St.), Fredericton NB 8pm tix $12
Oct 26th TBA
Oct 27th Sessions St John NB tix $12 or donation
Oct 28th TBA
Oct 29th Seahorse Halifax, NS 8pm tix $12
Oct 30th TBA
Oct 31st TBA
Nov 1st TBA
Nov 2nd Little Folk Club, La Have NS 8pm tix $10
Nov 3rd Mersey, Liverpoole NS 8pm tix $10
Nov 4th Struts Gallery, Sackville NB 8pm tix $12
Nov 5th Arena Theatre, St Andrews NB 8pm tix $12
check website for added shows.
Accompanying Beggs on this tour, will be Juno Award
winning producer and performer, multi-instrumentalist
Bob Hamilton.
PS: Kim is looking for a camera person to film one of the
shows on this tour for uploading onto youtube. Two
comeras would be best and she will edit it. She doesn't have
much of a budget but can pay some the person something.
Kim Beggs
po.box 31262
Whitehorse, Yukon
Y1A 5P7
buy it from: http://cdbaby.com/cd/kimbeggs2 for Wanderer's Paean
buy it from: http://cdbaby.com/cd/kimbeggs for Streetcar Heart
http://myspace.com/kimbeggs
http://www.kimbeggs.com
http://sonicbids.com/kimbeggs
alt email: kim@kimbeggs.com
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Biz News
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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CONTEST FOR FILMMAKERS!
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From the producers and financers of 'Bend it Like Beckham,' 'Buena Vista Social Club,' 'Kill Bill 2,' and 'Hero,' comes the Filmaka.com contest! Filmaka.com is a contest site where filmmakers get to submit their short films for viewing, voting, and selection. Jury includes big panel of Hollywood personalities like Colin Firth & Bill Pullman and directors Neil LaBute, John Madden, and Paul Schrader.
We are providing platform to the filmmakers to grow and evolve in skills, talents and values. This is the only contest that presents an opportunity to filmmakers by filmmakers worldwide. It's a contest based on a particular theme. Make a film not more than 3 minutes. First 20 winners would get a 500$ cash prize and 1000$ for a follow up film and can also win a Feature film contract with Hollywood filmmakers and runner up wins $5000 cash. Log on to www.filmaka.com for complete contest rules and deadlines.
We are honored to welcome diversity, creativity and profundity from the filmmakers worldwide. At Filmaka, quality is the watchword, energy flows, innovations surface and potential and talent is coupled with legend Hollywood Hallmarks and vivacious platform endeavours towards all rounds development of all its members.
Please Note: Membership is free for film students all over the world.
This month's contest is "Extra Curricular Activities At The Office". Uploading will end on 31st October
In this context, we would be obliged by your esteem guidance for reaching out to film Students/professionals of your company/institute.
And please forward this information to interested people.
Wishes to involve with us and through us.
Will wait for your reply,
Saloni Jain
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VOLUNTEER CREW CALL FOR NBFC MEMBER SHOOT
Co-op member is directing a volunteer music video production in the greater Saint John area and is looking for Film Co-op member crew in that area for the following positions: Experienced Camera Operator, Key Grip, Production Assistant, Craft Services
Contact scineaste@hotmail.com for further information.
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CASTING CALL - Christmas@ The Playhouse
Everyone’s favourite Christmas show returns for another year! A huge local cast of remarkable talent sings, plays and narrates contemporary and traditional seasonal fare in this dazzling revue. This year's show has been built around a traditional musical theatre format and has incorporated new writing by a number of notable Fredericton writer's.
There are parts this year for singers, dancers and actors.
The creative team will be holding Auditions for the following roles:
WIFE: (Early-mid 20's) overwhelmed by a difficult transition to life as an early settler in
Fredericton. Act and sing. Lead.
YOUNG BOYS X2 (8-11 yrs.) Tease each other and tattletale. Act/sing a little. Supporting.
FATHER (Mid 40's - mid 50's) Recounts Christmas classic to children. Act only. Lead.
MOTHER (Early-mid 40's) Teases her husband. Act Only. Supporting.
YOUNG CHILDREN X3 (7-10 yrs.) Question their father's story. Act only. Supporting.
SOLDIER (early 20's) Recounts monologue in form of letter. Act and Sing. Lead.
MOTHER (Early-mid 40's) Proud & concerned for son. Act/Sing a little. Lead.
SON (Late teens) Coming of age, making difficult decision. Act/Sing a little. Lead.
DAUGHTER (Late teens) Smart mouth teasing her brother. Act/Sing a little. Supporting.
DAUGHTER (Mid teens) Trying to fill mother's shoes. Good comic timing. Act/Sing a little.
MOTHER (late 30's-early 40's) touching call home to daughter from away. Act only. Lead.
COUPLES X3 (late teens, early 20's) Couples at a dance. Act a little/Sing and Dance. Leads.
SON (8-11yrs.) Questions Father about Christmas. Member of First Nation's community.
Lead.
Scripts will be made available at the auditions with time given to prepare.
PLEASE NOTE: You will be able to read for one role that you feel best suited for but may be considered for other parts. Auditions will be videotaped for the benefit of director Caleb Marshall who is currently in England. Associate Director Tania Breen and Musical Director Michael Doherty will run the auditions. If you have not already attended the general musical auditions and are auditioning for a role that requires
singing please be prepared to sing a Christmas carol of you choice without accompaniment. For those who have undergone the musical auditions and are auditioning for parts with a solo you may be asked to work briefly with the Musical director on that song.
Black Box Green Room, Sir James Dunn Hall
Saint Thomas University
SUNDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 28TH
6-7pm Child Roles, 7-9pm Teen & Adult Roles