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NBFC E-NEWS, JAN 26, 07
Spotlight
Arts News
NB Workshops
Advertise
Stories/Updates
Silver Wave Fest
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SPONSORS
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all the cool links and info on the NB Film Co-op resource link!
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chronicles 100 years of film sizes used for film-making
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table of film formats
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personal website containing images of old cameras and projects
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information about this interesting film format
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independent film information, festival news, digital film-making
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festival information on various things and submitting your films
Nonprofits and Volunteers: A growing economic force in Canada
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FUNDING
Federal government says spending cuts affecting the
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Charitable giving for Canadians motivated by generosity
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SOCIAL ENTERPRISE
Banking on entrepreneurial spirit
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New approaches to social entrepreneurship research
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POLICY AND PLANNING
New Brunswick task force to examine challenges facing
nonprofit sector
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LEADERSHIP
Encouraging connection and
cooperation rather than competition?
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STAFFING
A wish list for the workplace
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Survey: Federal jobs continue to grow in capital region
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SPOTLIGHT
NB FILM CO-OP MEMBER RENEWALS
For those of you who have already renewed in these recent days of January...thank you. For those of you who renewed in December, a big thank you! If you have any questions about your membership and whether it is due or not...email Cat at:
info@nbfilmcoop.com
and she will be happy to help you out. The memberships run from January 1 to December 31 annually.
Recent New Co-op Members:
Steve Doiron, Saint John, Full Membership
Recent Renewals for 2007:
Ralph Pritchard, Moncton, Michael Hayes, Moncton, Britany Sparrow, Fredericton, Tracey Carney, Moncton, Heather Brown, Fredericton, Jeff Picka, Fredericton, Josh Linton, Fredericton, Wallace Brown, Fredericton, Pierre Huard, Fredericton, Jim Lavoie, Fredericton, Colin Smart,
Fredericton
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU
- Fredericton member
Roger Harley for donating items towards the Film Co-op production first aid kit.
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Saint John member
Gretchen Kelbaugh for donating additional monies to the Film Co-op when she renewed her membership.
- Fredericton member
Denis Sweet for dusting and sweeping the Co-op studio space.
- Fredericton members
Gia &Tony and their wonderful daughter for hosting the Co-op Board Retreat.
NBFC RENEWING
CO-OP MEMBERS
I have been working sporadically (with help from the NB Film Co-op) to upgrade and digitize myself and a bunch of old 16mm,
so as to reconstruct or complete them from the rough-cuts.
We also spent five weeks in Nepal before Christmas on vacation visiting our son and since then I have been editing the video
I shot. As this included an hour’s flying in an ultralight aircraft around the foothills
up to 11,000 feet and a commercial tourism flight past Mount Everest at 25,000 feet, as well as spying on tigers and
rhinos, we had a good time and got some neat pics.
Fredericton Co-op member W. Franklin G. Cardy
Renewed Film Co-op member Glendon McKinney has contributed a drawing to the Stuts Gallery 'Sweetest Little Thing' art auction on February 14. Glendon says he enjoys this little exercise as a diversion from his usual activities of eating bonbons and flipping through expensive magazines.
FIRST AID
The First Aid Kit
that is used on NB Film Co-op member film and video shoots
is looking barren. Many of the essential items are either now missing or
in short supply. If anyone can donate any of the items below it would be
greatly appreciated. Who knows, maybe the next time you sever an artery on
a shoot, you can rest assured that there will be something to soak up the blood because you donated them. Some things needed are:
Gauze
Bandages
Tension wraps
Peroxide
Tape
Safety Pins
Additional items that would be found in a
first aid kit
.
Email Cat at:
info@nbfilmcoop.com
if you want to help out.
Barcodes, Barcodes, Barcodes!!
Back in December at the Silver Wave Volunteer party, Tony told me about the ordeal he had to go through to track
down a missing digital video projector remote control that wasn't returned. I volunteered to develop a
barcode based resource management system, since I had experience developing a similar system for a video rental store a few
years ago in Moncton.
All new membership cards will be equipped with a barcode and as well as all equipment, books, magazines, dvds, software, pencils, remotes, dust bunnies, wires, coffee cups etc. The barcodes will be scanned when you sign stuff
out (just like blockbuster, only better). Once the system is up and running if you don’t bring something back, We will
know and be able to tell you that you forgot something even before you leave.
Oh yeah and Big Brother is watching so if you frequently sign out instructional videos like “how to melt the Prime Minister’s igloo” or “how train your pet polar bear to kidnap the Premier” we’ll have to turn you in to the RCMP eh.
- Fred Beels, Moncton Member
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ARTS
NEWS
FREDERICTON - MONDAY NIGHT FILM SERIES
Jan 29, 2007, 8:00pm
DRIVING LESSONS
Director: Jeremy Brock
Cast: Julie Walters, Rupert Grint, Laura Linney, Michelle Duncan, Tamsin Egerton, Nicholas Farrell, Jacques Kerr
Run Time: 98 minutes
Country: United Kingdom
Year: 2006
Language: English
Distributor: Mongrel Media
Distributor Estimates Availability As: Current
Video: N/A
Ratings: ON NR / BC NR / AB NR / SK NR / MB NR / PQ NR / Maritimes NR
The crowd-pleasing directorial debut from acclaimed screenwriter Jeremy Brock (writer of MRS. BROWN
and CHARLOTTE GRAY and cowriter of THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND), DRIVING LESSONS is a sweetly comic
coming-of-age story that was an audience favourite at the Edinburgh Film Festival and won acting
awards for its two leads at the Moscow International Film Festival.
Based largely on Brock’s acquaintance, as a teenager, with legendary British actor Dame Peggy Ashcroft,
the film follows shy, awkward seventeen-year-old Ben (Rupert Grint, HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE)
as he struggles to escape from the domineering bosom of his uptight, Christian charity-worker mother,
Laura (Laura Linney, KINSEY, MYSTIC RIVER). No longer content delivering food to elderly shut-ins, helping
to accommodate his mother’s latest live-in charity case or turning a blind eye to her obvious affair with
a New Age curate, Ben takes a job as a personal assistant to self proclaimed “Dame” Evie
Walton (Julie Walters, WAH-WAH, HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE, CALENDAR GIRLS), a boozy,
foul-mouthed and wildly eccentric over-the-hill actor who urges Ben to find his own voice and embrace his independence.
After Evie tricks Ben into driving her from London to Edinburgh, where the lovely Bryony (Michelle Duncan)
helps bring him further out of his shell, a maternal battle of wills ensues between Laura and Evie that
forces Ben to assert himself at last – if he can muster the courage. Reminiscent of such popular, character-driven
British comedies as BILLY ELLIOT and ABOUT A BOY, DRIVING LESSONS charms audiences with its pitch-perfect
performances and heartwarming script. Grint builds on the sweetly befuddled persona he honed to perfection
in the HARRY POTTER movies, while Linney, an outstanding American actor convincingly
playing British, conveys a depth of sympathetic humanity beneath her character’s overbearing exterior.
But the movie in many ways belongs to the veteran Walters, whose hilariously flamboyant performance fills the screen.
“One of the finest British films of the year….” – Joe Utichi, filmfocus.co.uk
The Film Series lineup is available on the NB Film Co-op website at:
http://www.nbfilmcoop.com/fs.htm
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 half-year memberships are $20; $12 for students, seniors (65 years and up) and NB Film Co-op members. Memberships are also available at the NB Film Co-op,
732 Charlotte Street, Fredericton, 506-455-1632.
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WORKSHOPS.....WORKSHOPS.....WORKSHOPS
The New Brunswick Filmmakers' Co-operative will be kicking off it's annual workshop series soon....please contact cat for a PDF of the intro/intermediate workshop lineup! info@nbfilmcoop.com
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ADVERTISE
FREDERICTON - JOB HUNTING
I am looking for a regular part-time job, preferably on the Southside in Fredericton. I am a university honours
graduate (UNB Computer Science) with 3 years of related experience, was a former president of the students' union
at UNB, and have experience working in the film industry and on sets for CBC, Discovery, etc.
If you have a lead feel free to contact me at
milan.chotai@gmail.com
Thanks,
Oromocto Film Co-op member Milan Chotai
SAINT JOHN - MOVIES AT THE MUSEUM.
Sun, Jan 28, 2 pm. Mary H. Oland Theatre, New Brunswick Museum, 1 Market Square. This week’s two films focus on Canadian art and artists. Driven to Abstraction looks at the emergence of Canadian Abstraction in the conformist 1950s. Spirit Helpers: The Masks of Ned Bear, is a fascinating look at this New Brunswick artist and his creations.
After viewing the films, see examples of this art in the Museum galleries. Free with regular admission. (506) 643-2300.
SAINT JOHN - MONDAY NIGHT MOVIE SERIES
THIRD SPACE GALLERY, Mon, Jan 29, 8 pm. Third Space Gallery, 2nd floor, Brodie Building,
42 Princess Street. (506) 644-9670.
www.thirdspacegallery.ca
FREDERICTON - LOOKING TO PURCHASE
The Film Co-op is looking to purchase a Canopus RTL ADVC 55 or higher that is NTSC compatible. This
equipment is used to capture analogue video onto a computer using firewire: http://www.canopus.com/products/ADVC55/index.php
Estimated Price is $200. If anyone knows where the Co-op can purchase this item, please email cat at:
info@nbfilmcoop.com
SAINT JOHN'S FILM PIX TO SCREEN DIXIE CHICKS DOC!
Death threats. Large, public CD burnings. Radio boycotts. Americans went on a witch-hunt after Dixie Chicks front
woman Natalie Maines’ admission that the Chicks were “...embarrassed the president of the United States is from Texas”.
This, at a time when America was preparing to invade Iraq and George W. Bush had a soaring approval rating. A vicious
period of persecution followed for the Chicks, who were told to ‘just shut up and sing’. Sing they did. Shut up, they did
not. Instead, they documented the fear, outrage, and the attacks, t
hrough Academy-Award winning filmmaker, Barbara Kopple.
BMO Nesbitt Burns Film Pix is proud to present this extraordinary film for a one-time screening on Tuesday,
February 06 at 6:30 PM. Advance tickets now available at Quality Convenience/Thai Hut on King Street. See the trailer,
learn more, and get tickets online at www.filmpix.ca.
www.4frontfilmservices.com
for the Film Front Online
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STORIES/UPDATES
BATHURST - NB FISHING MUSICIANS TRAVELING FAR AND WIDE
Hi There, it's Glen, host and producer of the Fishing Musicians television series inviting you to visit our website
www.fishingmusicians.com
and check out what is happening with our show.
Season three has started on a couple of our broadcasters and a full list is on our site.
This season sees us travel to the Amazon rain forest in Brazil, Australia, British Columbia, Labrador,
Newfoundland and New Brunswick. This is our third season, we have completed 38 episodes in total and have filmed in 10 countries.
We have an international broadcaster list with the shows airing several times weekly from the far north to the
Carribean islands and everywhere in between. If you should require any further info please feel free to contact us at anytime 506-548-1800
A huge thank-you to all our sponsors and supporters, please take the time to visit them on
www.fishingmusicians.com
Also, please pass this on to all friends and media as we can always use the support of the New Brunswick Film and
Television community!!
All the best
Thank-you,
Glen Ferguson
www.fergusonaudio.ca
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SILVER WAVE.....SILVER
WAVE
"COME
TO THE 2007 NB SILVER WAVE FILM FESTIVAL, I'LL BE THERE!" says Moncton based NB Film Co-op member filmmaker Dan Thebeau.
Whether you are a volunteer OR an attendee at the New
Brunswick Filmmakers’ Co-operative’s 7th annual Silver Wave Film Festival
in 2007, you will have the opportunity to experience and be a part of what
has now come to be known as one of the most outstanding events for New
Brunswick. Whether you’re interested in meeting great people, learning
about the film and television business, or watching a fantastic collection of
films and videos, Get Involved!
Register
Online to be a Festival Volunteer Today by Clicking Here!
2007 SILVER WAVE FILM FESTIVAL
November 8-11, Fredericton, New Brunswick - Email Cat at: info@nbfilmcoop.com
if you have any questions.
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"It's so difficult to do indie and commercial films on a small budget in NB. The Film Co-op membership & workshop fees are so low compared to what you would pay in Halifax or Toronto. All the benefits you receive from the Organization ongoing are amazing considering the low fees".
Terry Blake,
Miramichi Co-op member/filmmaker
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NBFC ONLINE ORIENTATION
If you want to learn more about the Film Co-op, click here to go through an online orientation with Cat LeBlanc, Co-op Membership Services.
What's new in the Co-op resource centre!
Monday Night Film Series Schedule for January-April, 07
What's Hot & in Demand from the NBFC Video Library!
"My First Kiss" by Saint John Film Co-op member Andrew Tidby.
American Cinematographer
(click
here) to email your Headshot to the Film Co-op and to find out
who this above Actor from Fredericton, NB is!
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