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ADVERTISE
Original Music Needed!
Saint John
Looking for someone to score or create music for my latest film. The film is a horror/thriller which centers around Greed. If you have experience in music production and would like to be credited on a very exciting
production, contact me at the below address ASAP. The films picture edit is
complete so you could begin immediately. Thanks a lot.
Steven Doiron
Dark Night
Productions
stevendoiron@hotmail.com
Casting Call!
Fredericton
Centre for Arts and Technology students are shooting a short and they
are in need of actors.
They are holding a casting session on Wednesday May 30th from 9:00 am until
10:45 am at the Centre for Arts and Technology 415 King Street, Fredericton,
New Brunswick.
Three volunteer actors are needed for a two day shoot. Two men age 22-30
and one woman age 22-30.
Casting Call
Short Indie Film
Shooting in Fredericton!
SEEKING VOLUNTEER ACTORS for a short dramatic indie film, “A Lion’s Tale”. The film will be shot over two weekends in August 2007 on location in Fredericton. A Lion’s Tale is Film Co-op member Bunthivy Nou’s directorial debut and a 2007 NB Film and NB Film Co-op Short Film Venture project.
Logline: A worn-out single mother confesses to killing her son’s school bully.
Synopsis: One fateful night, Marla, a worn-out single mother makes a grisly confession that changes the lives of everyone around her. A Lion’s Tale is a modern, stylized character drama about forgiveness and redemption.
Character Breakdown:
(Principal) Marla Gender: Female Age: look (30s-40s)
(Principal) Davis, Marla’s son Gender: Male Age: look (13-17)
(Principal) Father Holden, Priest Gender: Male Age: look (30s-50s)
(Actor) Jason, bully Gender: Male Age: look (13-17)
(Actor) Big Joe, bully Gender: Male Age: look (13-17)
(Actor) Police Officer Gender: Male/Female Age: look (20s-40s)
Auditions will be held at:
Where:
Fredericton Public Library
When:
Friday, June 8 (6-8 pm). Callbacks for Friday, June 15 (6-8 pm).
NOTES: Actors please bring a photo and resume to the audition if possible. Off-script is appreciated if you receive sides in advance.
For more information, please contact: Casting Director, Dennis Poirier at dennis.poirier@aliant.ca or (506) 455-4584.
Film Script Contest
www.moviescriptcontest.com
info@moviescriptcontest.com
Purpose: To locate, acknowledge and promote new writing talent in the
form of short scripts. Open to anyone as long as they own the work submitted and it hasn't been produced or is under option,
Deadlines and fees: $29 by by June 15, $44 by July 15.
"Home of the Golden Brad Awards"
Contest Coordinator: Jason Zimmatore
What's new in the Co-op resource centre!
"Unseen Enemy" by Saint John based Co-op member Tim O'Neill
What's Hot & in Demand from the NBFC film/video Library!
All the great Shorts from Silver Wave 2006!
Film News Sites
"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder." ~ Alfred Hitchcock
Movie analysis, history, and commentary. Cinema
Filmmakers.com
Articles on various topics.
Mr. Cranky Movie Reviews Meaner than Ebert!
Wallywood
Looking at funny moments in movies.
Film Info
Magazines
Film journal featuring articles on narrative, documentary and independent film.
Film North America's most authoritative academic film magazine.
Filmmaker In-depth interviews with leading filmmakers.
Copyright
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Weekly e-news - Thursday - May 24, 2007
The NB Film Co-op is a non-profit, charitable organization involved in the production of 16mm and digital films. It is into its 28th year of operation!
The Co-op provides broad-ranging support (workshops/training, creative support and mentoring, grant writing assistance,
equipment, human resources, socials, informal writer/director/actor labs. It also presents diverse quality films and videos through its
annual provincial Film Festival.
The Co-op also seeks to give a voice to, and develop the talents of, artists that would not
otherwise have the opportunity to express their views in film and video.
Spotlight
2006 Silver Wave Nominated Film Gets into Festival
Deer Island Filmmaker/ Co-op member Jeff Comb's short film Seeds been accepted into the Creation Arts Film Festival in Edmonton, it has been chosen as the "Best Student Video." It will be screened July 6th in Edmonton.
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New Members Volunteering Their Time
A very special Thank You to new Co-op members
Terry Oakes, Jeff
Hackett
and
Amanda Hachey who took time out of their busy schedules to put in volunteer hours at the Film Co-op!
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NB
Film Co-op Spring Fling Social!
It's that time of year again when all the film/video lovers get that special gleam in their eyes. Yes, the NBFC Spring Fling Social is in the works!
WHEN:
Friday, JUNE 1 - 7:30pm
WHERE: NB Film Co-op (732 Charlotte Street, Fredericton, NB)
WHY: So all the creative people in the province and the people who support them can get together and gab and be merry as the days grow longer and and the artistic genius in the province overflows in all the major cities.....Plus, It's Spring Time and Winter Hibernation is over!
Need a host for the night out of town Film Co-op members when you come into town from elsewhere? Call: (506) 455-1632 or email:
info@nbfilmcoop.com
and the Co-op Staff will try their best to take care of your needs.
Training
REVEALING FILM TECHNIQUE:
EDUCATING YOUR EYES
May 26, Saturday, 11am-5pm
New Brunswick Film Co-op
(732 Charlotte Street, Fredericton, downstairs resource centre)
Fee: $20 for Film Co-op Members
$30 for Non-Members
This is NOT a production seminar!
From the smallest independent film to the largest block-buster release, movies can teach us a great deal about how to achieve our own goals as filmmakers to create a mood, characters, a story, an atmosphere, a pace. But films are very complicated, involving hundreds, thousands of details. The plot, if there is one, is merely the skeleton of the film, the rest of it fleshes out and colours what we experience. If we educate our eyes and ears, we can learn while watching.
This seminar will investigate the many features which construct a film: script and writing, actors, credits, production design, costume design, sound, editing, and music: all these are part of the whole, each operating as part of the puzzle which makes up the complete picture. By close viewing of selections of a wide variety of films, this seminar will help you to look at and understand how a film achieves its ends.
INSTRUCTOR'S BIOGRAPHY
Glendon McKinney studied film at York University. As well as writing and directing his own works, Glendon has worked as a production and/or costume designer on numerous productions including Tim McDonough’s “The Strings Attached” and Jon Collicotts’ WW II story, “A Song for the Homefront”. His film, “They Only Come Out at Night”, won the Best Short Drama award at the 2005 Silver Wave Film Festival. His short film, “We Two Boys Together Clinging”, was commissioned by and streamed online by the Struts Gallery in Sackville.
He also teaches film history and aesthetics at the Centre for Arts and Technology in Fredericton. Glendon hopes someday to live amongst the depraved luxury of Von Sternbergs’ “The Shanghai Gesture”.
Email Cat info@nbfilmcoop.co
to register in advance please.
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35MM CAMERA
June 2/3, Saturday/Sunday, 10am-6pm
Location: Musiplex, 15 Cityview Ave
Fredericton (on Northside behind Home Hardware and Canadian Tire)
Fee: $75 for Film Co-op Members
$100 for Non-Members
For film purists, nothing can surpass the look of a film shot on 35mm film stock. Many of the major features films shot today still use 35mm camera equipment and so mastering the nuances of shooting with these cameras is critical.
The 35 mm advanced workshop is designed to give trainees the fundamentals of shooting with these cameras as well as practical experience in the various roles within the camera department. Trainees will learn how to use 35mm motion picture camera equipment while learning the procedures and techniques of a camera assistant on a feature film or television series. Trainees will receive indepth hands on technical training in the assembly and operation of a 35mm camera system. As well, trainees will get hands on practice shooting scenes with a 35mm camera. Their techinque will be critiqued by the instructor and the
other trainees.
People who take the 35mm camera advanced workshop will emerge with the following skill sets:
• Identifying principles in shooting on 35mm film
• Identifying key features and capabilities of the 35mm cameras
• Loading and unloading film stock
• Pulling focus
• Completing accurate and professional camera reports
• Slating
• Changing lenses
INSTRUCTOR'S BIOGRAPHY
Budapest-born Les Krizsan is an accomplished Canadian cinematographer who wears the title of dean of cinematographers in the Atlantic provinces. In a story worthy of a screenplay, Krizsan has worked his way to the top of his profession through sweat, ingenuity, sheer gall and a sense of humour.
Growing up in Budapest, Les was an amateur still photographer who learned how to process film from his next door neighbour. He was 16 and attending technical school when the Hungarian revolution was crushed by the Soviet Union in 1956, and he and his friend Louis, decided to escape to Austria. From there they chose to go to Canada as refugees. Les ended up in Halifax because the boat landed there.
With extensive experience in television, documentaries, commercials, MOW's and films, Les brings a wealth of experience to every production he works on. In more recent years, Les has worked on the big budget project Lexx: The Dark Zone miniseries and Lexx: The Series as well as New Waterford Girl and numerous other projects.
Festivals
"COME TO THE 2007 NB SILVER WAVE FILM FESTIVAL, I'll BE THERE!" Says, Co-op Alumni Chris Campbell!
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!
DEADLINE FOR FILM SUBMISSIONS IS AUG 3RD.
Contact Cat at
info@nbfilmcoop.com
Register
2007 SILVER WAVE FILM FESTIVAL, November 8-11, Fredericton, New Brunswick
www.swfilmfest.com
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CALL FOR ENTRIES
Music Video Artists are Invited!
Tiburon -- CA: The Tiburon International Film Festival would like to invite the filmmakers from all over the world, who have made Music Videos, or know someone, an artist, a musician, a studio...who has made a music video within the last two years for its upcoming film festival, to be held March 20-28, 2008.
We encourage the filmmakers and artists from any nation to participate in this competition. The best video will receive an award specially designed for this category.
The deadline is: December 1, 2007. So send your music videos right now!
To enter your submission, please click here:
http://tiburonfilmfestival.com/submitFilm.php
Tiburon International Film Festival
Phone: (415) 381-4123
Fax: (415) 388- 4123
info@tiburonfilmfestival.com
www.tiburonfilmfestival.com
1680 Tiburon Boulevard, Tiburon, CA 94920 USA
Arts in NB
FREDERICTON -
1st Annual "Pay It Forward" To The Shelters!
Featuring The Downtown Blues Band
FRIDAY, MAY 25TH
DELTA FREDERICTON
Cocktails 8:30pm
Dance 9:00pm to 1:00am
TICKETS $25
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FREDERICTON - "Words of the World" Poetry Reading
Fredericton International Simultaneous "Words of the World" Poetry Reading
Everyone is invited to participate or to listen to the multilingual Fredericton International Simultaneous "Words of the World" Poetry Reading on 28 May 2007, Monday, at 5 pm, at Ingrid Mueller Art + Concepts gallery at 117 York Street. The reading is free.
This multilingual reading coincides with Palabra del Mundo at the Basilica of the Franciscan Convent, Old Havana, Cuba. Poets in fifty Cuban communities have joined this event and they have invited poets in other cities around the world to join in by organizing an event in their own cities. The Havana reading is within the context of the XII Festival Internacional de Poesía de La Habana, 2007.
Simultaneous readings are happening in: Asunción (Paraguay), Bologna and Lanusei (Italia), Dolores, Luján and Morón (Argentina), Douglas and Fredericton (NB), Guadalajara, México City, and Pachuca (México), Magdalena (Perú), Málaga (España), Recife (Brasil), San José (Costa Rica), San Salvador (El Salvador), Saskatoon, and other places around the world.
The Fredericton reading is sponsored by Capítulo de Fredericton, Academia Iberoamericana de poesía, Nela Rio and the Registro Creativo (Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas), revue ellipse mag & Festival Side by Side, BS Poetry Society, Broken Jaw Press Inc., and Ingrid Mueller Art + Concepts.
Poets reading in all languages are welcome to participate. Please email your lead poem and your intent to participate in the Fredericton reading to: Joe Blades:
joeblades@nb.aibn.com
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FREDERICTON - MIDDLE SCHOOL FILMMAKING
SUMMER CAMP!
On July 2-6, the New Brunswick Filmmakers' Co-operative is hosting a Filmmaking Summer Camp for middle school students, coordinated by Co-op member Filmmakers Jonathan Collicott and Jeremy Robinson. Cost is $150 per student with some subsidies available to students who require financial assistance.
Program Outline
script writing
production management
directing
shooting and recording sound
picture, sound editing and music placement
distribution of your finished project
Only 25 spaces available and registration is open now! Don't miss out on this incredible experience! Please contact Cat Leblanc at:
info@nbfilmcoop.com or (506) 445-1632 to register.
INSTRUCTORS PROFILES
Jonathan Collicott
has been working in the NB Film & Television industry since 1997 and has worked with such organizations as History Television, The National Film Board of Canada, CBC Nature of Things, Bravo! and SCN. He also does freelance work for various independent production companies such as Egg Films, Hudson Design, Atlantic Media Works and Outreach Productions.
Jon produces documentary and dramatic films, with a strong focus on Writing, Directing and Shooting. He has also been a member of the NB Filmmakers' Cooperative since 1995 and has taught workshops on cinematography and editing.
Jonathan is also very busy on the independent filmmaking scene with his production company Dark Blue Horizons. As writer-director, he is currently in Post Production on a period musical fantasy entitled A Song for the Home Front for which he received a Short Film Venture grant from New Brunswick Film and the NB Film Co-op.
Jeremy Robinson
graduated from the Video and Television Production program at NBCC Woodstock in 2000 and then went on to work at the Film and Television Workshops in Rockport Maine as a teaching assistant and a member of the tech crew. He returned to New Brunswick in 2001 and joined the NB Film Co-op where he has worked on numerous productions doing everything from sound recording, editing, camera work, and lighting.
Jeremy is an instructor at The Centre for Arts and Technology where he teaches Video and Film Techniques. He will also be graduating from the University of New Brunswick this winter with his BA/BED. Through the NB Filmmakers' Cooperative he has taught workshops on location sound and post-production sound editing.
Jeremy is currently co-producing a documentary on the history of Blues Music in the Maritimes as well as preparing to direct a short film entitled Misdirection for which he received a Short Film Venture grant from New Brunswick Film and the NB Film Co-op. Misdirection is a comedy about an actress who does not trust her pretentious high art theatre director.
Biz News
SAINT JOHN - Making the Media Work for You
Tue, May 29, 7 pm.
Opera Bistro, 60 Prince William Street.
Performing Arts NB (PANB) is pleased to present a distinguished panel of guest speakers in a roundtable discussion exploring the relationship between the media and the arts. Hear the latest trends for getting your event noticed! Learn what to say and when you are saying too much. Find out how to do this all on a tight budget! Panelists are: Bob Mersereau, Arts Producer, CBC TV New Brunswick; Judith Mackin, Founder, PUNCH Productions, Saint John, NB; Nelson Hansen, Featured Columnist with HERE Magazine; and, Kate Wallace, Entertainment and Lifestyles Editor, Telegraph-Journal. A catered reception will follow.
Admission is free. Everyone welcome. (506) 635-8019.
www.performingartsnb.ca