NBFC E-news - Thursday, March 25, 2010
Spotlight
NBFC MEMBER CREW AND CAST DATABASE ONLINE
Cat has created a new film/television crew database for Film Co-op members.
Go to this link to check it out: http://www.nbfilmcoop.com/crew.htm and check out some of the crew profiles online now....more to come! Please do check out the instructions very carefully.
Any questions: email Cat at info@nbfilmcoop.com and get her your credits.
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NEW MEMBERS NEW MEMBERS NEW MEMBERS
DAVID PATEY - OROMOCTO
Years spent in the service have cultivated the rare ability to regurgitate my biography on command, but my experience in movies is confined to the movie theatre, so I will spell out my lack of experience with world experience. Maybe it will make up for lost time?
Grew up in Newfoundland--the greatest tragedy of my life is the fact that I am devoid of the charming Newfoundland accent that most women love.
Performed as a children's party magician and balloon twister, so the next logical step was to join the infantry. Four and half years go by and the world is looking different. Spent days doing push-ups and seeking outlets. Rediscover the therapeutic joy of writing while visiting Super Happy Fun Land, also known as Afghanistan. Came in contact with a soldier who has insatiable love of cinema and zombies; we conspire to make a short film. And here we are.
Young man seeking people who know more than him. Will volunteer for knowledge.
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ALLEN GALLOWAY - FREDERICTON
Hi my name is Allen Galloway. I've been a member of the NB Film Co-op for 3 years now and have worked on quite a few films. I primarily work
as a gaffer or assistant camera, but I'm also learning to the ropes as both a Director and Director of Photography. I've recently directed my
first film through the Film Co-op as well as did the cinematography.
It was a great learning experience. Outside of film I'm finishing my
Computer Science degree this summer at UNB and I also work for the university in tech support.
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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 at this time as it's now close to March. You can renew in person at the Film Co-op, by snailmail or by paypal by going to this link on the Film Co-op website: http://www.nbfilmcoop.com/members.htm
MEMBER RENEWALS FOR 2010
Corena Walby (Marysville), Jeff Hackett (Fredericton), D.J. Sweet (Moncton), Tracey Carney (Riverview)
NEW MEMBERS FOR 2010
Normand P. Robichaud (Dieppe), Matthew Bauckman (Riverview), Jared Carney (Fredericton), David Patey (Oromocto), Gerry Ramier (Oromocto)
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NB FILM CO-OP ACTIVITY: THE SCREENWRITER’S CAFÉ
FADE IN:
INT. COFFEE HOUSE - EVENING
Eight screenwriter’s sit around a table drinking coffee, discussing their scripts and giving each other tips on how to improve those scripts.
Do you like screenwriting?
Would you like to meet and consult with other screenwriters?
Have you taken a screenwriting course or workshop and need more practice?
Have you ever wondered, how can I improve my screenwriting abilities and polish my screenwriting skills?
If so then we have the group for you:
The NB Film Co-op is launching it’s new screenwriting group called The Screenwriter’s Café and we would like you to be a part of the group.
To become a member of this new and illustrious writing circle you will need to contact Cat at The NB Film Co-op and she will email you a form to fill out and email back to the Co-op.
We also have a few requirements which are listed below:
1. Participants have to be full or associate a members of the NB Film Co-op.
2. Participants have to have taken at least 1 NB film Co-op screenwriting workshop or an equivalent to that workshop elsewhere.
3. Participants can be emerging, intermediate or experienced screenwriters and they have to have a keen interest in the art and science of screenwriting.
4. Participants have to be open and friendly to the idea of critiques or constructive criticism.
5. Participants must be able to attend at least 60% of the scheduled meetings or sessions.
6. Participants must have a friendly, open and positive attitude.
7. Participants will have to fill out a membership form listing their experience, interests, training and reasons for wanting to be a part of the screenwriter's group.
NOTE: We only have enough room in the group for eight people. Only those of you who are selected by the groups Lead Facilitator will be contacted. Those of you who drop off their forms to late will be put on a waiting list. So get your forms in quickly or you could miss out on a great opportunity.
For More information please contact Cat at the NB Film Co-op at: info@nbfilmcoop.com
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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)
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THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
- Thank you to Bun Nou, BronweN, Dan Thebeau and Ralph Pritchard for volunteering their time to be leads on AHA Fredericton and AHA Moncton.
- Thank you Colin Smart for volunteering to lead the Screenwriter's Cafe in Fredericton.
- Thank you to D.J. Sweet for volunteering to start up and lead a Screenwriter's Group in the Moncton area.
- Thank you to Jeremy Robinson and Tim O'Neill for volunteering their time to start up an AHA group in Saint John.
- Thank you to all the members who give so freely of their time to help other members with their scripts and their films.
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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, Saint John and Moncton workshop series website links are now online at: click here and Registration is open.
www.nbfilmcoop.com/training.htm
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). Only full members can access resources. 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 ROLLS CLOSER!
10th ANNIVERSARY FOR SWFF
(Photo - NBFC member and well known documentary filmmaker Kevin Matthews at SWFF 2004 at the premiere of his film Forbidden Forest)
Win a full all access pass to Silver Wave 2010 by guessing what filmmaker Cat likens Kevin Matthews to?
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The Festival 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.
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Pierre Huard, host for the SWFF Midnight Screening Program, is issuing a challenge to all NB Filmmakers to produce a short trailer UNDER 3 minutes and it must be a fictional horror, suspense or sci-fi film (we do not want a movie just a really freaky trailer) for Silver Wave 2010.
All submissions must be submitted using the festival guidelines and application form by the Festival deadline, August 3, by 5pm to Festival Programmer Cat LeBlanc, P.O. Box, 1537, Fredericton, NB, E3B 4Y1 or they can be dropped off to Cat at the Film Co-op office at 732 Charlotte Street.
All submissions will be considered to be played during the annual horror-suspense part of of the festival this year but only the best will be selected.
Time to put your thinking caps on and sharpen up the chainsaw!
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SWFF MYTH BUSTERS SHED LIGHT
Every film submitted to SWFF each year gets in and if the film is by a NB Film Co-op member, it always gets in.
FALSE
Just like any other festival (Atlantic, Montreal, Toronto etc..), only so many films get accepted into SWFF each year. For example, In 2009, 20 films were rejected and didn't get into SWFF. Some of them were NB films and some of them were Film Co-op member films. It is never a good idea for any filmmaker to tell people that they plan to screen their film at SWFF or any other Film Festival as this is never a surety. The proper way to describe it is to say that you submitted your film to SWFF or another festival and hope to see it accepted into the festival. Don't assume anything.
Like other festivals, there are invited films and sometimes special screening programs that may happen at SWFF each year and that is different and outside the normal submission process.
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The Arts
SAINT JOHN - Third Space Gallery
2010 Call for New Media Art Submissions
third space gallery, in cooperation with the BANG collective, a new media arts association for the growth and promotion of new media art in Atlantic Canada, wish to invite artists to submit proposals for diffusion in the fall of 2010. Please send proposals for new media arts exhibits/events/performances that suit a public park, vacant lot, abandoned building or storefront window . In an aim to bring art out of the gallery and directly to the streets, we are interested in performances, installations or other projects that take a creative and adaptive approach with new media elements.
With the city of Saint John New Brunswick celebrating its 225th anniversary and having been designated a Cultural Capital of Canada for 2010, third space gallery wishes to add to the celebrations with an initiative of new media art. The gallery will look to use a citywide gallery hop to highlight the work of a selection of artists that exemplify the facets of new media.
third space gallery is sometimes located in a floor-to-ceiling window vitrine, roughly 6'(d) x 10'(h) x 10'(w). Or sometimes located in a second floor office space roughly 14’(d) x10’(h) x 12’(w). Submit to us and we’ll find a venue. The gallery will make every effort to assist selected artists integrate their work into the community. third space gallery pays artist fees in accordance with, or really, really close to, CARFAC recommendations.
SUBMISSIONS CRITERIA:> Email submissions only! tiersespace (at) gmail.com
Please include:
* a clear and concise description of project (MAXIMUM 500 words)
* MAXIMUM 10 images (JPG files less than 1MG each please)
* Artist CV (MAXIMUM 3 pages)
In your cover letter please indicate if you can offer an artist-talk, workshop or presentation, and to what age groups (include brief outline of topic or lesson plan if applicable). Saint John is home to one university that does not have a fine arts program, thus third space gallery strives to fulfill a critical pedagogical role towards the diffusion of contemporary art.
Please note that submissions must arrive NO LATER than midnight on April 2, and that special consideration will be given to early applicants (the early bird gets the worm!). Selected artists will be given provisional notification in April 2010 and final notification (pending other funding requests) in August 2010. The new media event is scheduled to occur in October, 2010.
Third Space Gallery / Galerie Tiers Espace
42 Princess Street, 2nd floor [Brodie Building]
Saint John, NB E2L 1K2
http://www.thirdspacegallery.ca
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Fredericton - Downtown Gets Flooded …with local fashion design
That’s right, it’s officially spring and that means flooding, in this case, an annual event to celebrate.
The Annual Celebration of Fashion is taking over the shops of downtown Fredericton. Graduating students in the Fashion Design Studio at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design have been busy redesigning shop windows and filling them with their own creations, thanks to the generosity of downtown store owners who are donating prime window space for two weeks to encourage the art makers and give them a public venue for their creations.
You can window shop from March 24 – April 7, 2010 to see what’s new with these young, emerging designers.
It’s also a great opportunity to take a sneak preview of what you will see strutting down the catwalk at the 12th Annual Fashion Show in the Grand Ballroom at the Delta Hotel May 1st at 7pm.
Styles range from sci-fi to romantic eveningwear, back out to skater chic. Find new fashion ideas at Strange Adventures, Eastern Furriers, Casa Elegante, Owl’s Nest, East Side Board Supply, Bejewel by Trudy Gallagher, and The Towne Shoppe.
It’s time to get back outside and enjoy strolling around to see what the downtown has to offer, and for the next two weeks, brand new ideas from 7 talented designers.
Business owners are working with students to create a mutually beneficial promotional activity celebrating spring, fashion and the great downtown with The Annual Celebration of Fashion, March 24 – April 7, 2010.
For press information, contact
Craig Schneider
29410284104
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Biz & Indie Film News
Wally MacKinnon Starring in a "Skin Flick"! Wait a sec! It's a Play!
TNB production of Norm Foster's hilarious play starts tonight, March 25th at the Fredericton Playhouse
By Jim Lavoie
I have known Wally MacKinnon for a few years now but prior to actually meeting him, his name kept coming up in discussions. I would be talking film, Wally. Theatre, Wally, music, teaching designing the internet well maybe not the last one, although!
My first encounter with Wally was on the set of the NBFC Training Program project Diplomatic Relations. Wally was an easy going, laid back type of guy until "Action" was called and in a flash he was in character. I would see this again and again while working with him on a later film, American Sunset where he played a policeman (great scenes with Corey Haim) and when he played a priest counseling award winning actress Sarah Ketcheson in filmmaker Bunthivy Nou's award winning short film A Lion's Tale .
Wally has great cadence, presence and runs the full gauntlet on the emotional scale.
I wanted to talk to him about his major role in the play Skin Flick and in calling him, (used to be a phone interview but now we "chat") I was aware somewhat that he had a prolific background but was about to have my eyes and ears opened even further: ....Click here for full article
Click here
for Daily Gleaner reporter Lori Gallagher's article on Wally
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48 HOUR FILM COMPETITION AWARDS NIGHT A GREAT SUCCESS
It was a good night for filmmaking at the 48 Hour Competition Gala Screening and Award Event this past Sunday at the Garrison District Ale House.
The top three films as chosen by the judges were screened and multiple awards in film were given out.
The Film Co-op and Professor Rob Gray hope to hold 48 Hour Film Competitions in Saint John and Moncton in 2011 to bring the fun to more people in NB.
http://www.meetup.com/Fredericton-Film/
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ROOTS/RACINES FILM AND DIGITAL MEDIA CHALLENGE
I wanted to update you on the Roots/Racines film & digital media challenge, because we are now onto the popular vote phase of the competition!
All videos have been received and have been posted on the website, and now it's time for viewers to have their say. Over the next 3 weeks, people can view and vote for their favourite short films/multimedia projects to make it to the finals. Each week, you can vote twice in French and twice in English. Prizes for the popular vote include a brand new iMac computer and a 64 gig iPod Touch. On top of that, voters have the chance of winning an iPod just for voting!
The popular vote finals will take place during the week of April 8, and all winners will be announced on April 15. This includes the jury's selection as well, who, on their end, are currently reviewing the videos to crown the grand prize winners.
Since you posted about the competition, we included you under our list of web partners for the project (we linked to your group on our main page under "Web Partners" at http://roots.rcinet.ca ). I figured you might also be interested in spreading the word for people to check out the films and vote!
You can check out http://roots.rcinet.ca/ (English) and http://racines.rcinet.ca/ (French) to vote. I've also attached our voting web-video if you want to post it or feel anyone in your networks would be interested.
Let me know if you have any comments!
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COMPUTER ASSISTANCE AT WINNING PRICES
I am happy to mention that until March 31st, 1 on 1 Computers will be providing services to Chamber of Commerce members for only $35.00 / $25.00 Per Hour for Consulting Services (Virus Removal, Speed-up PC, Networking, & more).
So if your Charity or any of your staff or members are in need of computer assistance I would be more than happy to offer my services to NB Filmmakers Co-operative.
Garth Duguay, Owner
1 on 1 Computers
Phone: [506] 476-9348
Email:
garthd@rogers.com
2-270 Connaught Street
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CASTING CALL - VOLUNTEER
Sparrowhock Productions is looking for volunteer actors to work on a short film shot May 7, 8, 9 and
14, 15, 16. It will be shot in Moncton and Fredericton, with carpool options available.
Actors required:
Cora – 19-25 – female lead – girl geek and hopeless romantic. D&D character is a human sorcerer
David – 19-25 – male lead – handsome and clueless about women. D&D character is a human fighter
Alex – 19-25 – supporting – accident prone. D&D character is an elf druid
Mike – 22-27 – supporting – serious and dry sense of humor. D&D character is a human rogue
Jon – 22-27 – supporting – Dungeon master who enjoys tormenting his players
Ashley – 19-25 – supporting – Cora's best friend and confidant
Monster – any age – no lines but active on screen – the second monster the heroes fight in their campaign
Auditions will be at 732 Charlotte Street in the resource room (basement, next to the cafe) on March 27 from 1:00pm to 4:00pm and on March 31 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm. Sides will be provided at the audition and each actor will have a few minutes to prepare before entering the audition.
For further information contact Britany Sparrow at britsparrow@gmail.com
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MEMBER ACTOR NEEDS DEMO DONE - PAID WORK
NB actor would like to get a demo done of their work. Will pay for services. Contact if interested.
Thanks, Elizabeth Stevens in Sussex, NB
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CALLING ALL SCREENWRITERS - GREATER MONCTON AREA
Are you a screenwriter or interested in becoming a screenwriter and live in the Greater Moncton area? If yes, you might be interested in a new writers/critique group forming in the area. Want advice and constructive criticism on your writing or just someone to check for spelling and grammar mistakes on your latest script? Are you interested in networking and meeting other ambitious writers in the area? Eager to learn the craft of screenwriting? Or maybe, you just want to hang-out and chat with people with similar interests.
If so, contact Moncton Film Co-op member Denis Sweet at den.sweet@gmail.com to get further information and express an interest. An information session will be held on Saturday March 20th at 6:30 PM at 22 Woodstone Cres. Moncton NB and is free for everyone to attend. No experience necessary, everyone from absolute beginner to veteran writer is welcome..
Please come to the information sessions.
Thank you, hope to see you all there.
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DRIVER AND CAMERA PERSON NEEDED FOR ADVENTURE
A British adventurer named Dominic Gill (domgill@hotmail.com ) needs someone to drive an RV and film a trans-American bicycle trip, starting in California in June and ending on the east coast an estimated 4-5 months later. He's serious - a few years ago he tandem cycled from Alaska to the southern tip of South America, picking up strangers and making friends along the way to help him cycle. He filmed that journey, produced an incredible short film and will soon release a book about that journey. For more information on this summer's trip for a man he met during the first trip, please take a few minutes to read Dominic's latest blog post http://www.takeaseat.org/blog/?p=66