Activities

Scripts OutLOUD is an initiative by the NB Film Co-op and New Brunswick Film to assist screenwriters in the province of New Brunswick. 

Please contact Cat LeBlanc at info@nbfilmcoop.com for further details about this new initiative.

2nd Scripts OutLOUD Contest Winners to be spotlighted at 2008 Silver Wave Film Festival

For immediate release
December, 2007

As part of a new initiative in 2006, the New Brunswick Filmmakers’ Co-operative created a new contest called Scripts OutLOUD.

The contest highlights a special and intensive workshop/lab session for two chosen short scripts to be read out loud by NB actors and workshopped by an award winning script writer/editor. Fredericton based writer Bunthivy Nou’s script, The Goddess, The Ogre and the Hermit and Shediac based writer Ralph Pritchard’s script, Narrow Escape were the two winning scripts chosen.

The first workshop/lab happened on April 23, 2006 at the Film Co-op’s studio space at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre in Fredericton.

“This has been an excellent chance for scriptwriters to see their scripts acted out by professional actors and to have their work critiqued and workshopped in a private lab setting”, says Bunthivy Nou who lives in Fredericton. Bunthivy is eager to move forward on her script draft and develop it for production within the next two years. "It's a wonderful opportunity for emerging filmmakers and I'm very excited to be able to flesh out my screenplay with industry professionals."

Shediac based writer, Ralph Pritchard was also very excited about the opportunity he has been given through Scripts OutLOUD. “No matter where you live in New Brunswick, the NB Film Co-op is the organization to be involved with if you want to work in film and video. I knew that a recognized and talented screenwriter would be part of the OUTLOUD lab, but when I found out that staff, Margo Flewelling, and Raynald Couturier from New Brunswick Film and a well known casting director (Donna Rae Gibbs), and several actors affiliated with ACTRA Maritimes would be participating, it was like icing on the cake for me”, Ralph says.

Your Scripts OutLOUD Instructor for 2008

Christine McLean

After a ten year stint as host and writer of the arts segment for CBC New Brunswick's TV supperhour news, Christine began working in the world of independent documentary production. She wrote and directed two one-off documentaries for CBC's national performance series, Opening Night: "Flying on the Moon" and "Practice, Practice, Practice". Both of these shows won awards at the Columbus International Film and Video Festival. (Photo to the right - Karine Wade Image)

Christine wrote and directed many episodes of Discovery Canada's popular "Frontiers of Construction" co-produced by Moncton's Fiddlehead Entertainment. She also wrote and/or directed several episodes of another Discovery Canada series, "Stones of Fate and Fortune" co-produced by Connections Productions and Sam Grana Productions, both of Moncton. She really enjoys working as a narrator and is a member of ACTRA. 

Her most recent project was voicing the documentary "Edith Butler: Acadian Icon" for Connections Productions.

Christine's "Unraveled", her adaptation of the book "I Cry for Innocence" by Riverview's Theresia Quigley, led to her acceptance in the intermediate screenwriting program at the Summer Institute of Film and Television in Ottawa last summer. Her script was among the top ten in the Inspired Scripts competition for the 2006 Atlantic Film Festival.

When she is not researching documentary proposals, she teaches English at Universite de Moncton. 
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