NBFC E-news - Thursday, Jan 28, 2010
Spotlight!
End of the Line COMBINES COLD WITH COMEDY
“End of the Line” is a dark comedy about small town outdoorsman, Butch Comeau, who tries to get a head start on a local ice fishing tournament, by heading out onto the lake after a night of drinking at the town legion. This foolhardy idea sends him crashing at high speed into a pedestrian trying to walk across the ice.
This project will, in many ways, be an experiment for Film Co-op member filmmaker Michel Guitard. He plans to explore cadence, distance and time by interweaving a custom made soundtrack, with a cut for cut, pre-planned shot list. With the help of other co-op members on his crew, as well as his Musical Producer, Bruce LeGrow, he wants to create a soundtrack based on this overriding theme, before ever rolling the camera.
Cadence, or timing, will be explored throughout the script and accentuated with musical tempo. It is because of timing that Butch has been able to get away with his crime, and this theme of non-accountability is central to why the film can be considered comical, while still containing rather harsh visuals. Distance will be presented with a little help from nature. Michel will be shooting the film on Grand- Lake, NB's largest inland body of water, where he grew up. The landscape of the location provides for kilometers of open ice in all directions.
The cinematography hopes to heighten the sense of wide open spaces by having panoramic shots representing helplessness and struggle versus close confining shots during the mutilation scenes intended to make the audience extremely uncomfortable.
Time is the main theme of this specific project. Actions and events move the story forward, not dialogue or voiceover. This is why Michel felt that it was so crucial to pre-plan the soundtrack with the shot list. Everything seen and heard will have a very “set in stone” feel about it. It is this inevitability, this unstoppable inertia about time that will be apparent in the finished film, and, ultimately represents the major theme of Butch using the unstoppable force of time to his advantage.
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CO-OP MEMBER PRODUCES SPECIAL PROJECT
Filmmaker Rodrigo Gutierrez and his business partner, Sebastian MacLean, at PixaTale Media decided to support a local charity led by the O'Leary family (owners of the GM Pontiac and Hyundai dealerships) to raise funds for Haiti earthquake relief. They have been working with orphans in Haiti for the past 10 years and run their own orphanage near Port-au-Prince.
With the help of their children the two men were able to produce a movie that would be used to intensify the O'Leary Campaign in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Please pass this video around to help the O'Learys and the people of Haiti.
http://www.pixatalemedia.com/haiti
Rodrigo Gutiérrez Hermelo PixaTale Media 66, Charlotte ST. Fredericton, NB, Canada. E3B 1K9 www.pixatalemedia.com rodrigo@pixatalemedia.com (506) 454-4149 (506) 449-3629 (cell) (506) 454-3321 (fax)
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DEAD TO THE WORLD ON CBC
Saint John based Film Co-op member Richard MacQueen's short film Dead to the World episode 2 will air on CBC late Friday, Feburary 5th at 4am. It will also be available online on CBC's Maritime Program, Download.
This one-off was funded by CBC and NB Film
You can also follow Richard MacQueen on Facebook at: Richard MacQueen's Film/TV Series Casting Room
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IMPORTANT THINGS for MemberS of the NBFC to do!
- Renew membership (contact cat)
- Put in required volunteer hours (contact cat)
- If goal is to create a film in the future through the Film Co-op, take the 5 required workshops through the annual film co-op workshop series starting up in February. (contact cat)
- If goal is to more so assist other members on shoots in different non-technical roles, chat with cat about what is possible.
(Directing, 1 Screenwriting, Production Management, Picture Editing, Digital Camera and Lighting). New members have to wait 5 months before they can access equipment as well.
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MEMBER RENEWALS FOR 2010 -
Jennifer Chiasson (Fredericton), Peter Evanchuck (Minto) Glen D. Ross (Fredericton), Bunthivy Nou (Fredericton) Peggy Humby (Moncton), Randy Pelleiter (Fredericton), Phillip Greenlaw (Saint John), Marcella Laaper (Fredericton), Bernard C. Cormier (Moncton), Jillian Acreman (Fredericton), Sarah Ketcheson (Fredericton Junction), Bruce LeGrow (Fredericton), Carol Ann Hanley (New Maryland), Jeff Picka (Fredericton)
NEW MEMBERS FOR 2010 -
Susan Thompson (Fredericton), Matt Belyea (Fredericton/Saint John), Stephen Belyea (Fredericton), Joanna Saunders (Fredericton), Melissa Kolody (Fredericton), Hélène Daigle (Saint-Joseph de Madawaksa), Jordan Best (Moncton)
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NEW MEMBERS/NEW MEMBERS/ NEW MEMBERS
MATTHEW BELYEA
Name: Matthew J. Belyea
Born: March 13th, 1988
City: Saint John, New Brunswick
Education: St. Thomas University BA. English & Philosophy
Matt has always been interested in digital imagery. He has an extensive knowledge of Photoshop and Flash as well as experience in filming and editing. Matt is currently in his fourth year at St. Thomas University in Fredericton with a degree in English and Philosophy.
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RENEWED MEMBERS/RENEWED MEMBERS
PHILLIP GREENLAW
Saint John based Phillip Greenlaw is involved in community council and environment protection. He is organized and takes the lead on many jobs he is involved in.
An easy going fellow, his hobbies include horse back riding, riding in rodeos, hunting and sport fishing.
Phillip is heavily involved in music and the entertainment industry doing stage performances, camp grounds, and benefits.
He was an extra in Sticks and Stones , Leo Huff and the Chris Cummings video Welcome Back. He acted in Killing Ruth and Chris Giles' Cultural Capital production, Venus In Flames.
Phillip has a new C.D. out called Greenlaw The Outlaw: Taking It Back and was a Grand Finalist in Canada's Got Talent.
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RENEWED MEMBERS/RENEWED MEMBERS
STEPHEN E. BELYEA
From an early age, Stephen has been fascinated with Film, Animation, Writing and Photography. From his first access to a video camera, he has shot or animated hundreds of comedy, horror and action shorts.
Now, armed with a Broadcast Journalism degree, Stephen can often be found wrestling that narrow line between fact and fiction film-making with his writing, directing and editing.
With a wide range of work under his belt (from a fund-raising production for the John Peters Humphrey Foundation, to documentary/news features in college, to shooting live music with Hemmings House Pictures, to a contract aboard a luxury cruise ship working broadcast and a/v, to various funny and satirical YouTube shorts, to teaching a course in travel photography), Stephen E. Belyea is fit and eager to tackle any production on any level. He lives just across the downtown bridge in Fredericton, now, and can typically be found working on any number of written, musical, satirical, or photographic projects.
Contact Stephen
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NEW BRUNSWICK FILMMAKERS CO-OPERATIVE ACTIVITY CALENDAR
(Refresh web page if info does not show up on Calendar)
More member film shoots and activities to be added as they are confirmed.
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THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
- Thank you to all the active members who give so much of their time to help out the co-op (workshop instructors who volunteer to teach, members who are constantly volunteering to assist other members, members who donate monies each year to the Film Co-op above and beyond their membership fee, members who go out of their way to help out in Fredericton or in other cities where they live to build up the Co-op community and nurture it).
VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES FOR NEW MEMBERS
- Web Research (for out of town members)
- Office work
- Organization of Co-op book/magazine library
- Cleaning up and Organization of Co-op Film library
- Helping Cat to finish up organization and cleaning of downstairs area
- Helping with organization of Co-op Member party to happen in Moncton area this year.
- Helping with organization of Co-op Member party to happen in SJ area this year.
- Helping with organization of Co-op Member party to happen in Fredericton this year.
- SWFF Volunteer work (helping to organize all SWFF materials/stuff from last year for storage in one place)
- Looking for a member with at least 2 well done shorts under their belt to assist SWFF HR to create a short protocol video for all SWFF volunteers to watch. Cat, Jillian and Britany will meet with any members interested to discuss what is needed for content and to choose the best candidate. Person or persons (can be a team of 2 or three as well) must be Co-op members in good standing and able to write, shoot, work with actors, edit and deliver a finished project. Must be a team player and be open to input. info@nbfilmcoop.com
Great opportunity to get more involved with the Film Co-op and SWFF! On project completion, chosen person (s) gets a full all access pass to SWFF 2010!
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VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES FOR ALUMNI MEMBERS
- Helping with organization of Co-op Member party to happen in Moncton area this year.
- Helping with organization of Co-op Member party to happen in SJ area this year.
- Helping with organization of Co-op Member party to happen in Fredericton this year.
- Script Critiques (only for those deemed qualified please)
- Looking for a member with at least 2 well done shorts under their belt to assist SWFF HR to create a short protocol video for all SWFF volunteers to watch. Cat, Jillian and Britany will meet with any members interested to discuss what is needed for content and to choose the best candidate. Person or persons (can be a team of 2 or three as well) must be Co-op members in good standing and able to write, shoot, work with actors, edit and deliver a finished project. Must be a team player and be open to input. info@nbfilmcoop.com
Great opportunity to get more involved with SWFF! On project completion, chosen person (s) gets a full all access pass to SWFF 2010!
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Training & Development
The NB Film Co-op annual workshop series provides hands-on practical film and video training for members and non-members alike.
The 2010 Fredericton workshop series website link is now online at: Click Here and Registration is open.
Open Registration for the 2010 Moncton and Saint John Workshop Series will begin on Friday, February 12 and the workshop website link for those workshops will go up the night before.
The workshops to be offered in Moncton: Set Etiquette 101, Screenwriting, Directing, Acting, Picture Editing - Premiere Pro, Production Management, Production Design, The AD's Role.
The workshops to be offered in Saint John: Screenwriting, Directing, Production Management, The AD's Role, Digital Camera and Lighting.
Formally registering and paying in advance is the only way to ensure you will have a seat in any of the offered courses. Pay on arrival is not an option.
Register in person at the NB Film Co-op or email to ask if there is space and pay by paypal) or by mail (Cheques and Money Orders only).
There are always limited spots available for all workshops so please call or email staff to see if there are available spots before you send your payment OR pay via PayPal please. You can put your name on the waiting list for workshops already full. For more information you can call Cat at: 506-455-1632 or email at info@nbfilmcoop.com
For any members wanting to do short digital dramatic, comedic, documentary & experimental projects: You must have your 5 required workshops (Screenwriting, Directing, Production Management, Picture Editing, Digital Camera & Lighting) in and your volunteer hours (30 hours) and you must be a full member (associate members can upgrade). As well, more importantly, you have to be a member of the Film Co-op for at least 5 months before you are deemed eligible to do projects.
For members who want to use specific co-op equipment themselves and be specialty trained in it for a crew role, further workshops would be required to access those specific resources they want to directly use (Assistant Camera for 16mm, HD Shooting, Sound Editing, Grip, Dolly, Mini Jip, Red Rock).
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Festivals
SILVER WAVE 2010 IS COMING!
10th ANNIVERSARY FOR SWFF! (Photo by John Calver Photography - 2009 Silver Wave Award Winner Chris Fulton)
Click Here (View PDF of SWFF 2010 Call for Submissions)
Click Here (View PDF of SWFF 2010 Application Form)
SWFF does not return festival materials and master screening copies to filmmakers. Please enclose a pre-paid envelope to get your tape and any other materials back after SWFF.
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The Arts
FREDERICTON - FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION
Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex and Power in Music Video by Sut Jhalley will be screened on Wednesday, February 3, 7 p.m. at the UNB Art Centre.
Dreamworlds 3 examines the stories contemporary music videos tell, showing how these narratives shape and reflect individual and cultural attitudes toward gender, sexuality, and race. A discussion will follow the film.
The film runs in conjunction with two exhibits at the UNB Art Centre
focusing on domestic violence: the Silent Witness Project and Voices. The exhibits continue through February 26. Admission is free and everyone is welcome.
The UNB Art Centre, located at Memorial Hall, 9 Bailey Drive, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, is open Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
For more information please call 453-4623.
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Biz & Indie Film News
JUMPSTARTING AND FAST TRACKING
Jason Nicholson Leads On
By Jim Lavoie
In everyone’s life clarity of vision/direction, when acted upon, is a force that may well change one’s life path dramatically. An optimist believes that this is so while the pessimist doubts its very existence. In the case of emerging filmmaker/actor Jason Nicholson it may well be a special calling that had to be answered. How else can one explain his creative climb in just nine months? As a newcomer in film he recently became one of the leads in the low budget feature film Plaster Rock (Global Universal Pictures Inc.); which was shot in Riley Brook, New Brunswick this past December.
Nicholson who hails from Nash Creek, NB attended Dalhousie University. He has completed 2 years of a BAA degree that he wants to change to Anthropology now to further his studies with the goal of obtaining a PHD down the road. His reason for the educational change is his true fascination with people.
“I always wanted to be in films. I had a teacher in High School who I admire tell me to go for it. But, due to a lack of confidence at the time, I didn't pursue it. It was last March 2009 that I woke up one day and told myself that I was going to live my dream. It was the right decision to make,” said Nicholson.
“Acting is something I love and Plaster Rock was a great way to break the ice. I am grateful that Director Jackie Giroux gave me my first lead role and also grateful to Producers Giroux and Ben Martin for the script they wrote,” says Nicholson. “I am grateful to Michael Masucci for giving me my first IMDB credit on American Sunset and then coaching me on the set of Plaster Rock . The crew and cast of Plaster Rock were fantastic...Click here for full article
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NFB Hothouse 6: Call for Submissions
Deadline: February 19, 2010
Program Dates: April 05 – June 25, 2010
Theme: Inside Out
Tell it in a minute. Do it in 3 months. Make it Stereoscopic 3D.
The National Film Board of Canada seeks submissions from emerging filmmakers (young and not-so-young), and artists intrigued by animation art, for the 6th edition of Hothouse, a 12-week paid apprenticeship in full-on, all-inclusive, real-world animation filmmaking.
A new dimension this year -- and a giant experiment -- Hothouse 6 will be produced in stereoscopic 3D!. No need to dust off your red and blue glasses or script elaborate face-poking scenes; this is about using space as an essential story device and expressive tool (intimacy, fantasy, paradox, etc).
Hothouse is about making animation faster and more flexibly, embracing animation’s many possibilities while maintaining creative and technical excellence. We’re looking for six new talents who are willing and able to jump head-first into this intensive, immersive experience.
For more information contact Maral Mohammadian at hothouse@nfb.ca or 514-283-2510
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MONCTON - A STAR IS BORN - KIDS ON CAMERA ACTING WORKSHOP #2
Come and learn the fundamentals of acting for the camera
from Gemini-nominated Casting Director, Donna Rae Gibbs. The first workshop was a big success and the feedback was excellent.
When: Sunday, February 21st, 2010
10:00 AM until 5:00 PM
Where: Moncton, NB - specific location TBD
Ages: 10 yrs to 14 yrs
Cost: $200 includes lunch and a DVD of each student's individual performances (tax receipt provided).
Kids will learn things like:
" who does what and how things work on a movie/TV set;
" what should be on a resume;
" the best kinds of headshots;
" various styles of acting;
" how to present oneself at an audition and;
" listening :
Focus will be on 'on-camera' scene work and having FUN!
Students will be coached through audition-style sides from film and television projects while working with a professional reader.
Call 506-388-3696 or
email
drgibbs@canadafilm.com
to register kids in the workshop.
Information is also available on upcoming teen and adult classes!
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MY CANADA IS...
Canadian Heritage is pleased to announce the official launch of the
CANADA DAY POSTER CHALLENGE 2010
Each year, students aged 5 to 18 are invited to take part in the Canada Day Poster Challenge by designing a theme-based poster that illustrates their pride in Canada and in being Canadian. This year's theme is My Canada is...
Your poster design could win you great prizes including becoming the official poster for Celebrate Canada!
The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2010.
LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION!
And, new this year is an exciting new video contest! You will have a chance to get behind the camera by creating a video with the theme: My Canada is...
For more information, visit the Poster Challenge website or contact the Canadian Heritage Enquiry Centre toll free by phone or email:
http://www.posterchallenge.pch.gc.ca
1-866-811-0055
mailto:info@pch.gc.ca
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CALL FOR INDY FILMS FROM THE ATLANTIC REGION
Hello Fellow Atlantic Film Co-ops,
As part of the Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival (April 12-17), AFCOOP will be presenting a "Best of Atlantic Canada" showcase screening. We have issued a Call For Entries and I am wondering if each of you could share the information about the call with your members.
Here is a link to more information about the screening: http://afcoop.ca/node/460
Best regards,
Greg Morris-Poultney
ATLANTIC FILMMAKERS COOPERATIVE
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Advertise
EMERGING FILMMAKERS NEED HELP
Emerging filmmakers Vivi Reich and Jean-Francois Arseneau need your help to bring to the screen a short story of hope, written by Vivi Reich, about a woman struggling with homelessness who must learn to trust once more.
Volunteers are needed for the following roles listed below. As a reward, you will get food, your name in the credits, and some experience making a film.
Any questions and applications should be sent to casting@33janvier.com
Resume and list of relevant experience would be appreciated with applications. Please include a picture of yourself.
Acting Roles
Director of Photography, AD, Hair and Make-up, Foley Artist, Production Assistants, Props Master, Gaffer, Grip, Location Manager, Sound Recordist, Boom, Camera Operator.
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FREDERICTON - CASTING CALL
Songbird follows a 30 something married couple who are part of a ECMA nominated family Christian band. The Christian band is nominated for an unusual cross over hit song that plays on constant rotation on National mainstream radio. Coming from a patriarchal environment, Ruby, the singer songwriter for the song is suddenly pushed into the spotlight causing a major rift in her family.
This is a volunteer shoot for crew and cast.
Leads
Ruby - a woman in her late 20s to mid 40s woman.
Chris - a man late 20s to mid 40s.
Secondary Characters
Jennifer - a woman in her late 20s to mid 40s.
Mark - a man late 20s to mid 40s
Sides will be made available through email to those who wish to try out. Please contact Tim Rayne at rayne.tim@gmail.com
The auditions will take place this Saturday, Jan. 30th, between 1:00-4:00 at the Public Library on 12 Carleton St. in downtown Fredericton, in the board room on the first floor .
Please email Tim if you have any questions and/or want to set up a time.
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NOW PLAYING ON NEWS-CAST.COM MOVIES
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No Cost, No Commercial Interruptions
A KILLING AFFAIR
Starring Kathy Baker, Peter Weller, and John Glover. Dark, sexy thriller about a woman who becomes involved with the drifter who murdered her husband. Directed by David Saperstein.
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FREDERICTON FILM CALENDAR
Calling all Fredericton film lovers, cinephiles, movie buffs.
Now your independent, world, festival, and alternative screenings
can be found in one place: www.meetup.com/Fredericton-Film/ UNB
Fredericton's English Department has created an online group and calendar to coordinate all film events in Fredericton. Sign up to be kept current on all the screenings happening in Fredericton. Post discussions or add links to discussions about documentaries or films you've seen and find screenings of rare international films at the universities. If you're organizing a local film event you can publicize it here too at no cost. Please spread the word and
become a member today! It's free! For more information contact Robert Gray at robgray@unb.ca