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SJ Film Series Coordinator & Bartender Needed
The Somerset is seeking a film history genius who also happens to be a fantastic bartender to curate our Monday Night Film Series.
The Somerset is located in the north end of Saint John, close to UNBSJ.
The series has been running for 1 ½ years with an emphasis on classic films (foreign and domestic) This week’s film is Fritz Lang’s “M”.
Films are shown in DVD format via multimedia projector on a 10 ft screen. The venue currently seats 70 – 80 people.
Duties would include:
- Developing and promoting programming
- Hosting the Monday Evening event – including a pre-film introduction
- Liaising with local film community
- Developing special ‘mini festival’ events
Generating and Maintaining e-mail database
- General bar duties for the evening.
The successful applicant should be
- A self-starter
- Familiar with the Saint John film community
- Web savvy
- Creative in terms of guerilla marketing
For more information please contact Stephen Tobias:
stt@nbnet.nb.ca
506-634-8959
Stephen Tobias, Artistic Director
Saint John Theatre Company
House for Rent
Just wondering if any of you knows anyone that is looking to rent a very nice furnished 3 bedroom house in the Moncton area. It is close to ABU and Evergreen School in Moncton North. If you do, please have them call 871-7755 for more info. Thank you so much for your help and have a wonderful day.
Shima Barrett
Film to Sell?
I am looking for short ends of Kodak Double-XX 5222 B&W 35mm negative film. Anything between 100 and 500 ft. Is anyone looking to sell some of their leftovers? Will pick up in Southern NB.
Ken Doody
realfilmfotos@hotmail.com
Still Photographer looking
for New Faces
"Headshots, etc., on time-for-prints/CD basis. Still photographer looking for new faces. Free headshots, character shots, etc. in exchange for your time. I shoot mostly B&W but will shoot color if you need it. Sharing studio space in Saint John.
Ken Doody realfilmfotos@hotmail.com
NotaBle Acts
Hi everyone,
NotaBle Acts is looking for volunteers for front of house/box office. We need two volunteers a night selling tickets at the door.
The dates are: July 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 for Lifedream at the Playhouse
July 29, 30, 31, and August 1st for Futures at the Playhouse
August 3, 4 and 5 for Acting Out at Memorial Hall, UNB.
If you decide to volunteer, you get free admittance to that night's show!
If you're interested email me, Annick, at
nbacts@unb.ca
or give me a call at 453-5030
Please pass this along to anyone who'd be interested!
Thank you,
Annick
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Weekly e-news - Thursday - July 19, 2007
Tribute - Errol Williams - Filmmaker and Gentleman
Errol Williams was so very generous and such a great person to be around.
He had a gift for telling stories and would always seek out new and interesting ones. He also recognized the potential in us all and gave so many of us a chance to realize and develop the gifts that we have. Errol was always involving new people in filmmaking and would help whenever he could.
Errol, Tony and I worked together so often and after a while it didn't seem like work and we just would spend such wonderful time together. So it was appropriate that the last road trip that Errol and I took was to come to the Silver Wave Film Festival last November. We shared memories on the way up and the way back and the highlight was being able to spend time with so many of our friends.
Errol was a great friend and he connected us all together as if we were
part of a beautiful quilt that covered the world. With Errol it didn't matter if he just met you or had known him for decades, his easygoing
manner, warm smile and delightful laugh would put you at ease. Errol travelled often and he was never travelling to places, but to people. So many people and so many stories.
While we were working on editing "When Voices Rise..." Errol moved in to our house in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and I spent pretty much every waking moment with him for almost 6 months. We would stay up late talking and then head off to bed. Errol had a hard time sleeping through the night and I would hear him quietly moving around the house in the early hours, reading and making notes before he went back to bed. I would get up, make coffee and he would come downstairs and in his lovely voice say, "Good morning" and we would share coffee and breakfast as we began to talk about what we were going to do
that day. Then after a shower (separately, of course) we'd head downstairs to the editing suite to begin editing.
My son John was in daycare a few days a week and he would often stay in with us, on my lap or Errol's. He'd feed John if I was on a roll with editing and would always have time for him. We'd work for a few hours or until we weren't making progress and then would take a walk downtown to have some lunch. We talked constantly while walking and having lunch and did so much work that way. Then it was back to the house and we'd continue on until we were hungry or when "Seinfeld" came on. When my daughters Emily and Caitlin would come home from school Errol would talk with them to find out how their day went. When
Carolyn arrived home Errol would always greet her and they would talk. Often in the evening we'd watch a film or do a bit more editing if we had a burning idea and always end the day by talking.
Errol would come and go over the years and you were never sure when you'd talk with him or see him as plans would change often. But it was always a joy to be with him and to have someone who cared so much about what he did and the people around him.
Chris Campbell, Past Film Co-op President and active member filmmaker
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Errol's funeral will be tomorrow, Friday, July 20 at 2:00pm at the
Cathedral in Bermuda.
Prayers & cards can be sent to
swilliams@digivision.bm
Email Cat with your tributes for and stories about Errol
at:
info@nbfilmcoop.com
as a website is being created in his honour at the Film Co-op.
Spotlight
NEW Film Co-op MEMBER!
Neerja is a poet, author, translator, journalist, painter, sketcher, musician, cook, computer person and filmmaker.
She authored a book titled, "Shraddhanjali", meaning "Tributes" which was for the Indian Army in 1997. Her book was released by Dr. Kiran Bedi, India's first Indian Police Service Lady Officer, who worked in the UN Police and is a Commissioner now. The book was circulated in all regiments of the Indian Army, Airforce, Naval Forces, CRPF and BSF.
She then started her own patriotic magazine, and entered the world of book printing. She an enthusiastic Sitar player and has discovered that when the first string of Sitar speaks it touches your soul. She feels that when you need courage to move forward in life you must listen or learn to music.
The Sitar is a plucked stringed instrument. I
t uses sympathetic strings along with a gourd resonating chamber to produce a very lush sound. Predominantly used in Indian Classical Music, it has been ubiquitous since the middle ages. This instrument is used throughout the Indian Subcontinent. The Sitar first became popular in the west when the pop group, "Beatles " used it in their songs.
Neerja has produced 4 films. Her first film was for a reputed College in India and film was exhibited in London. Later she made films for the Indian Army. She has been awarded by an Indian Army Chief at a National Level. Her Film "An Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove" was screened on Indian Army Day in 2006.
She then was married and came to Canada. In 1997, She was given the title by Dr. Kiran Bedi, "Daughter of India". So, this Indian Daughter is also a Canadian Bride now and she is determined that she will make Canada proud as she did for India.
Training & Development
NB Film Co-op Training Workshops
The Bolex Bootcamp due to happen on July 21/22 has been postponed until September
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SPECIAL EFFECTS MAKE-UP
Intro - Hands-on
July 28, Saturday, 11 am - 5 pm
Majestany Institute (120 Westmorland Street)
Fee: $20 for Film Co-op Members
$30 for Non-Members
Number Limit: 20 (only 3 spaces left)
Learn how to create burns, scars, cuts, bruises for your next film, for the stage, Halloween or just to scare your friends!!
Special effects have become an increasingly important part of both film and theatre production. With storylines becoming more sensational and technology more sophisticated, the market for high-quality special effects is huge. This workshop will provide step-by-step guidelines for achieving a wide variety of grotesque and outlandish effects.
INSTRUCTOR BIOGRAPHY
Paul Angers has been a member of St-John Ambulance for 18 years. During this time, he took a course to be able to do special effects make-up to enable first-aid competitors to see the injuries they would be treating. He has been doing specialty make-up work for ten years and has been a first-aid/CPR instructor for five years.
Paul had a walk on role in the feature fi lm Frozen with Fear starring Bo Derek and Wayne Rogers. Through the Film Co-op, he has done make-up for Tim O’Neil’s Short Film Venture Film, Unseen Enemy and most recently Joel Thompson’s low budget feature, They Didn’t Make It.
The NB Film Co-op Certificate in Film and Television is a professional development programme which provides workshops, mentors, and on-set training to New Brunswickers who wish to pursue a career in the film and television industry. The Partners on the programme are NB Film Co-op, NB Film and Post-Secondary Education, Labour and Training.
Festivals
THE 2007 NB SILVER WAVE FILM FESTIVAL
2007 SILVER WAVE FILM FESTIVAL, November 8-11, Fredericton, New Brunswick
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Arts in NB
NotaBle Acts Raises the Curtain from July 23 to August 5
My fellow provincial Arts supporters,
The curtain is about to rise on the 2007 NBActs Theatre Festival. Last year my short play "Manic Chiropractic" was staged along with four other shorts
for a noon-hour of street-theatre at the 2006 festival. Being a theatre neophyte, I decided to catch the other festival offerings and was blown away (figuratively, of course) by the quality of the 100% home-grown plays.
Below is this year's festival schedule. Catch a few performances - not only will you be entertained, but you'll get to feel all philanthropic and altruistic-y by supporting local theatre. And now for the side-order of shameless self-promotion: catch my modest offering for this year's festival, "Gamers' Manifesto", which will be part of the free noon-hour street theatre.
See you at the theatre,
Chris Fulton, Fredericton based Film Co-op Member
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From July 23rd to August 5th the NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival will be presenting their 2007 line-up of 100% New Brunswick plays. Fourteen new plays by Eleven established and emerging New Brunswick playwrights will be produced.
The World English-language Premiere of LIFEDREAM, by Herménégilde Chiasson, an award-winning playwright and New Brunswick's Lieutenant-Governor, opens July 23rd to 27th FUTURES by Len Falkenstein returns from the Victoria Fringe Festival opens July 29th to August 1st.
Acting Out features two prize-winning one-act plays, SCREEFING THE ROGUE WILDS by Kathleen Brown and BLACK SWAN by Matthew Leslie opens August 3rd to5th.
Taking it to the Street, five short scripts of free, noon-hour theatre, performed at Barracks Square runs from July 30th to August 3rd.
Play Out Loud at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre offers free, public readings of 5 plays from the province-wide playwriting contest on July 28th and August 2.
For more information and tickets visit
www.nbacts.com
or call 506-458-7406.
We look forward to seeing you at the Shows!
The Board of Directors,
NotaBle Act Theatre Festival
Fredericton, New Brunswick
Len Falkenstein and Colleen Wagner
Co-Artistic Directors
NotaBle Acts Theatre Company
717 Aberdeen Street,
Fredericton, NB
E3B 1S7
http://www.nbacts.com
Biz News
Acclaimed filmmaker memorialized as true champion for the underdog
Errol Williams took plight of African- Canadian NHL player Willie O'Ree to the silver screen
By SHAWN BERRY
Published Thursday July 19th, 2007 in the Daily Gleaner
Errol Williams, an inspiring documentary filmmaker who championed underdogs and earned acclaim for his narrative on the NHL's first African-Canadian player, died Saturday. He was 56.
Williams, a respected storyteller who grew up in Fredericton after emigrating from Guyana in his teens, was devoted to his craft. He moved to Bermuda in his early 20s and returned to live here in the late 1980s while his wife was furthering her education.
Williams worked up until two weeks ago when he fell ill and was admitted to hospital in Barbados.
He had been receiving treatment for leukemia.
Tony Merzetti, head of the NB Film Co-op, met Williams in 1987 when he walked in the door, eager to get involved. From the first meeting, he left an indelible mark.
"From the way he spoke and the things he knew, you could tell he was someone who would do deep films, films with relevance
and deep social impact," said Merzetti.
It didn't take long for the man to catch on. He made his first dramatic film, Driftwood, in 1988. It's the story of an aging Caribbean man who moves to Canada at his grandson's urging only to be locked in a basement and live like a prisoner.
Driftwood was the co-op's first big success. It was shown at festivals as far away as Burkina Faso and Martinique,
"Up to that point, we really didn't have any star filmmakers," said Merzetti.
And Williams was just as devoted to helping others shine.
"He was a real inspiration," Merzetti said.
"He would help other filmmakers, give them advice, he'd help with their scripts and had a real sense of storytelling. From relative obscurity, he was able to go on to something."
Williams is probably best known in New Brunswick and the States for his film
Echoes in the Rink: The Willie O'Ree Story.
The film told the story of O'Ree's overlooked struggles as the first black player to play in the NHL. O'Ree, a Fredericton native, played two games with the Boston Bruins in 1958. He played 43 more in 1961.
In a 1998 interview, Williams said he was driven to direct the O'Ree film because of his own experience as a youngster learning the game of hockey in Fredericton.
"As an immigrant to Canada in the late sixties, one of the things that fascinated me the most about this country was the game of hockey. I wished I could skate, so I could play. I would really fit in then," Williams told The Daily Gleaner.
"Hockey is Canadian, I wanted to be Canadian. But where were the black players?"
In a 1992 interview with the New York Daily News, Williams said he was drawn in by O'Ree's personality.
"He was a fighter -- in every sense of the word," Williams said.
In his adopted home of Bermuda, he was known for his film, When Voices Rise, about the end of segregation on the island.
Some in Bermuda found it remarkable that it took a man from Guyana, and raised in Fredericton, to tell their story.
Merzetti said there's no surprise there.
"He could go somewhere, see a story, turn around and do the research and then work with a group of people in a very co-operative manner to get the story done."