NBFC E-news - Thursday, July 29, 2010
Spotlight
NEW BRUNSWICK - PICAROONS CELEBRATES SWFF 2010 WITH A GOLD SPONSORSHIP!
AN INTERVIEW WITH 2010 SWFF SPONSOR SEAN DUNBAR OF PICAROONS
Cat: How did the business Picaroons come into existence? Was the journey you have been on since then everything you thought it would be? What has it been like?
Sean: Picaroons began as an idea brought forward by a friend of mine from law school. In my wildest imagination, I could not have come up with the twists and turns of operating a small brewery. At the time, it just sounded like a fun thing to be a part of as an investor. Little did I know I would end up investing heart and soul as well as money. It has been and continues to be quite an adventure. Once you become comfortable with the notion that your life is always going to be lived somewhat on the edge, the excitement replaces the terror.
Cat: What would you say is the biggest life lesson that you have learned from going into business for yourself?
Sean: There is a lot of joy to be had from the joy of others.
Cat: What are three words that come to mind when you think of beer?
Sean: Hard, wet, work. That’s today, at this instant. In a few minutes, the words will be different. That’s the beauty of the beer business. It’s not static.
Cat: Why has it become so important for you to sponsor Silver Wave each year and what would you say to those businesses or organizations that are considering sponsoring Silver Wave?
Sean: For us, connecting with society is what it’s all about. Beer is vital to social intercourse and discourse. Beer brings us all closer together and helps us learn about ourselves as a society. That is also what art is all about for me. I believe festivals like Silver Wave are vital to society and need to be supported and encouraged. As part of the business community, I think happy, balanced people with their brains fully, thoughtfully engaged make great employees and customers. Art, in general, and film, in particular, not only makes people happy, but provokes us and forces us to think.
Cat: The Films on Tap Contest that you and Tony Merzetti spearheaded is very supportive to independent NB filmmakers, why is that so important to you?
Sean: New Brunswick has such a wealth of talent in so many areas. Making art can feel like such a lonely and thankless task sometimes and if we can provide some encouragement for independent filmmakers, perhaps that will be the little spark that will put them over the next “why am I doing this” hump and on to the next project. The work these folks are doing matters, not just to them, but to all of us, whether we know it or not. This contest is really our little part of society saying “Thanks for doing what you do, and please keep doing it.”
Cat: You make a point of sponsoring multiple cultural events ongoing in NB each year. What does culture mean to you and why are the different cultural events so important to you?
Sean: I’ve likely said it in not so many words in the previous answers. Culture is what makes us real, authentic human beings. Culture goes to our soul and that is really the basis for us as a society. Everyone is moved within by film, by music, by written word and art in its various forms of expression. At the end of the day, that’s the most important thing of all. If we can help the cultural community with its role, we’re helping to keep our society alive. That’s why we make beer.
Cat: What are your top 5 beers to drink?
Favourite beers are ever-changing. If I had to name five right now, I’d go with:
Rodenbach Grand Cru
Picaroons Yippee IPA
Any good cask conditioned English Bitter, in an English pub
Dogfish Head 90 minute IPA, alone, at home, with the lights off and soft music playing
Allagash White, with a big plate of mussels and frites
Cheers, Sean
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NBFC MEMBER CREW & CAST DATABASE ONLINE
Cat has created a new film/television crew database for Film Co-op
members across New Brunswick. Go to: Click Here
and check out some of the crew profiles online now....more to come!
(Film Kitty is going to hold her breath until she gets more crew forms sent her way, keep her happy, send in your crew/cast credits!)
Please do check out the instructions very carefully.
Any questions: email Cat at info@nbfilmcoop.com Let's promote New Brunswick Crew and Cast! We need to tell everybody WHO is out there working hard in the creative film and video sector whether they are volunteering or being paid, it all counts. Non-members can be listed as well in the database for a annual fee of $10.
Get your credits to Cat! This way, people will no longer have to call the Film Co-op for crew and cast info. Everybody will have the info at their finger tips at any time on the world wide web.
Latest Credits online: Dan Thebeau and Christine LeBlanc
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THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
- Thank you Tim and Nathalie Rayne for all that they do to help out.
- Thank you to Rob Gemmell or Robello as Cat likes to call him, for all his volunteer crew labour helping out members in production and post, Rob you are a machine!
- Thank you to Jennifer Chiasson for helping out Gallery Connexion Visiting Artist Suzanne Caines
- Thank you to Thea Shaw for her feedback on website page layouts and other things.
Thank you to Colin Smart for his good humour and his active involvement and help.
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TIME TO RENEW FILM CO-OP MEMBERS!
Hi Members, if you have not already, please contact Cat and renew your membership or talk to her about it. Membership Renewals are annual and should be paid by February/March each year at the latest but the Film Co-op loves you and will still take your money and take you back into the NBFC fold with a smile. You can renew in person at the Film Co-op, by mail or by paypal by going to this link on the Film Co-op website: http://www.nbfilmcoop.com/ members.htm
If you can't remember if you renewed, ask Cat.
NEW MEMBERS FOR 2010
Donnie Temblay, Jake Martin (Fredericton)
RENEWED MEMBERS FOR 2010 - JULY
Peter Deurloo (Fredericton)
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NEW BRUNSWICK FILMMAKERS CO-OPERATIVE MEMBER PRODUCTION CALENDAR
(Refresh web page if info does not show up on Calendar)
member film shoots and activities are added on an ongoing basis.
(Click on below shaded dates to get information on scheduled member film and video shoots for 2010)
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Training & Development
The NBFC annual workshop series provides hands-on practical film and video training for members & non-members alike. The program is now finished for this year. If instructors are available, Film Co-op staff can set up one-on-one sessions with members and instructors for a fee.
www.nbfilmcoop.com/training.htm
For more information you can call Cat at: 506-455-1632 or email at info@nbfilmcoop.com
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Festivals
(Photo - Writer Jean Bertin)
SILVER WAVE 2010 WILL ROLL INTO NB!
10TH ANNIVERSARY FOR SWFF
The Festival now has a $10 submission fee again to help with increased administrative costs
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.
Register to become a SWFF volunteer!
SWFF 2010 volunteer registration is now open!
SWFF is always looking for enthusiastic and dedicated people to volunteer during Festival week - it takes anywhere between 40 - 60 volunteers to run the Festival. From ticket sellers and ticket takers to security. hosting, venues, awards show, tech support and many more, there's a position for everyone!
It's up to you!
To register to become a Harvest volunteer, visit http://swfilmfest.com/volunteer-e.html
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SPOTLIGHT ON SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
It will be important for anyone submitting to SWFF this year to submit on time or you package will not be accepted for programming consideration. No allowances will be made, no exceptions for any reason. Any questions, email cat at: info@nbfilmcoop.com
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NEW BRUNSWICK -
ST. ANDREWS FILM FESTIVAL
Saint Andrews Film Festival is currently accepting film submissions of all genres with the deadline being August 15th. And for more info they can check out
www.saff.ca
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The Arts
FREDERICTON - UNDER THE STARS: CLASSIC FILM SERIES!
July 25, 9:15pm (Barracks Square by the Craft College)
Short Film Presentation:
The Chestnut Canoe
Producer/Director/Writer: Pierre Huard
Length: 6:00
Contact:
pierrehuard1@hotmail.com
Screening Format: HD
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, 2009
Archival material, personal interviews and beautiful nature footage
weave together the story of the Chestnut Canoe.
Produced through Fredericton: A Cultural Capital Film Project
Feature Film Presentation: The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
102 minutes
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland
Author: bkoganbing from Buffalo, New York
Although my personal favorite among Errol Flynn's films is The Sea Hawk, most will argue that his career role was this one in The Adventures of Robin Hood. It certainly has a deserved enduring popularity that's lasted for generations.
Just about every version of the Robin Hood legend from Douglas Fairbanks's silent classic to the one in 1997 with Kevin Costner, deals with the same story facts. A young nobleman, deprived of his lands and title by Prince John and his cohorts, takes to Sherwood Forest and gathers a band which practices their own form of financial leveling. Robbing from the rich and giving to the poor until the day comes when good King Richard the Lionhearted comes back from the Crusades and sets things right.
Were there ever a more attractive and idealistic a pair of young lovers on the screen than Errol Flynn and Olivia DeHavilland? If there were, I'd be hard pressed to name them. They did eight films together from 1935 to 1941 and this one is probably the best. Errol all dash and charm and shy and retiring Olivia who just lights up the screen with beauty and romance.
Directors Michael Curtiz and William Keighley photographed this in some gorgeous technicolor. And they put together an almost perfect cast. You can't tell at all which scenes were directed by Curtiz and which by Keighley so seamless is the film's fabric.
The small roles are truly memorable. The best comic moments in the film come from Melville Cooper, the not quite so bold Sheriff of Nottingham and from Herbert Mundin and Una O'Connor as Much the Miller's Son from Robin Hood's band and DeHavilland's maid. Herbert Mundin was the first one in this cast to die, he was killed in an automobile accident just two years after this film was finished. He was a funny little man who played nervous types, a kind of English Don Knotts. But in what was probably his career role, he literally decides the fate of English history here in a superb act of bravery. We expect bravery and courage from the Errol Flynns on the screen, but Mundin's performance shows the virtue can be found in some of us you wouldn't expect. His is my favorite performance apart from the leads.
Basil Rathbone and Claude Rains make a superb pair of villains as Prince John and Guy of Gisborne. Rains covets the throne and Rathbone covets Olivia. They both provide the right touch of menace and make their performances real.
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fREDERICTON - NotaBle Acts Summer Theatre Festival, July 23-August 1: 10 days, 13 new plays!
The ninth annual NotaBle Acts Summer Theatre Festival has been filling the streets and stages of Fredericton since last weekend, presenting thirteen new plays by New Brunswick dramatists. Highlights of the festival’s final week include:
Taking it to the Streets: the five winners of NB Acts’ 2010 ten-minute playwriting contest presented as an hour of free lunchtime theatre. Fun, funny, and strange, this year's plays offer comedy, romance, suspense, and mystery! Featuring Body in the Barracks by John Ball, The Peanut Butter Formula by Dennis Poirier, Sadie Meets Her Match by Kathy Mac, Train Ride by Michael Milech, and Clown College by Chris Nyarady. July 26-30, noon, Barracks Square.
Acting Out: the two winners of the NB Acts one-act playwriting contest presented as a twin-bill. July 30-August 1, 8 PM, Memorial Hall, UNB. This year's plays: Hardwire by Chris Fulton and Christmas Break by Michael Milech.
Christmas Break: Janet, a Jewish housewife, is awakened late on Christmas Eve by a red-suited home invader. What begins as something that seems to be the setup to farce turns both hilarious and dark as two lonely souls find companionship under strange and forced circumstances, in a play full of surprising and moving twists.
Hardwire: Walt, hopeless neurotic and perpetual loser in love, prepares to defend his thesis on biologically determined gender behaviour (topic: why do women always spurn the intellectual, sensitive type in favour of bad boys), even as his reality begins to break down, and visitors from the Pleistocene era take him back in time to challenge his well-wrought arguments. Surreal comedy for hunter-gatherers.
Play Out Loud: free readings of four new plays in development. July 28-29, 8 PM, Beaverbrook Art Gallery. Featuring Never Drive East Before Noon by Jenny Munday and The Devil's Advocate by Ted Boothroyd (July 28), along with The Third Life of Eddie Mann by John Spurway and The Perfect Woman by Bruce Allen Lynch (July 29).
Tickets $15/$10, with some performances pay-what-you-can. For full show and ticket details, visit www.nbacts.com or phone 458-7406.
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NB FILM CO-OP YOUTH OUTREACH ACTIVITIES
FREDERICTON - NBFC KIDS FILMMAKING SUMMER CAMPS 1, 2 & 3
For further details, check out the below websites and email Cat at:
info@nbfilmcoop.com
Photo by Michel Guitard
(Charles, Nat and Curtis check out the camera before their shoot through the NBFC Kids Film Camp)
STILL SOME SPOTS LEFT IN THE AUGUST CAMP!
http://www.nbfilmcoop.com/KidsCamp/KidsCamp/Welcome.html
http://www.nbfilmcoop.com/KidsCamp2/Welcome.html
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Biz & Indie Film News
SPOTLIGHT ON SAINT JOHN ACTOR SHIRLEY MCLAUGHLIN
Female
Non-Union Actress
Blonde Hair
Blue Eyes
Enjoy traveling, camping, musical events, open mike etc...
- Extra in the film
Sticks And Stones
in Saint John N.B.,
- Extra in Chris Cummings Video,
Welcome Back
with Filmmaker: Greg Hemming, Saint John NB
- Extra in the film
Leo-Huff
in Miramiche NB
- Acting and speaking role in the film
Killing Ruth
with filmmaker Doug Sutherland, Quebec.
- Extra in the film
Paint Box
with filmmaker Allen Galloway, Fredericton, NB
- Extra in the film D&D: A Love Story with filmmaker Britany Sparrow, Fredericton, NB
Tel: 506 635-1165
Email Shirley
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CASTING CALL - PAID LABOUR
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Casting for Plaster Rock: The Vengeance
1- Character - Mimi, A showgirl looking person, About 5'5'', long hair if possible.
2-Character - Brigitte, tall athletic type, This is a strong character, who will have to stand toe to toe with our other lead, Roger Cormier.
3-Daily's - Police lieutenant, police officer, 2 police detectives (O'Brien and other), real estate person, and fisherman.
For more info: email benoitmartin707@hotmail.com
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FREDERICTON - ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS - CENTRE FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY
The Centre for Arts and Technology is still accepting applications for their October intake. Seats are filling up fast and applications must be received 6 weeks prior to the program start date.
Nine programs will be running in October; 3D Animation, 3D Game Animation, Audio Engineering, Digital Filmmaking, Digital Photography, Event & Promotions Management, Graphic & Digital Media Design, Interior Design and Network Security Specialist. For more information about the Centre and their programs, visit their website at www.digitalartschool.com
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NEW BRUNSWICK - ACTOR NEEDED
Physical Description
Male. 5-8 years old. African American.
(Height and physical appearance is not of too much importance. This is a none speaking role.)
Scene Description
It’s a stormy ocean in the sunny summer day. There are many people on the beach - mostly families. A 5 YEAR-OLD BLACK BOY is the only one who is in the water playing with the huge waves of the ocean. A young CAUCASIAN WOMAN IN HER 30’S is standing on the shore and calling the boy, gesticulating energetically. She looks a little scared and happy at the same time.
Project Background
The entire story takes place in one single bedroom with one window, with only one exception – the family’s favorite memory on a beach. **This is the scene with the child version of the male character** In that scene everything is bright: the sun, the intense blue color of the ocean, the sky… with his projection I want to show happiness to its maximum. This happiness especial only to them and nobody else; they are alone. A paradise made only for them.
We are not only looking for one African American boy, for the role, but an understudy as well. In case of emergency, this would be very helpful in the event of a change. He must also be very similar to the 5-8 year old African American boy we will use for the scene. If they could both swim that would be useful, but we do not need them to as the scene only requires shallow water.
Contact Information:
Giselle Mapp - Casting Director
Email:
giselle.mapp@gmail.com