Monday Night Film Series kicks off the fall season schedule with The Grand Seduction, see below.	Women in Film and Television - Atlantic (WIFT-AT) will present the world premiere of Relative Happiness at the 34th Atlantic Film Festival.

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BUZZ WORTHY - 2014 SILVER WAVE FILM FESTIVAL LAUNCH! 

WIFT-AT PRESENTS RELATIVE HAPPINESS AT 34TH ATLANTIC FILM FESTIVAL

Newfoundland Director Deanne Foley’s bright screen adaptation of the best-selling novel by Cape Breton author Lesley Crewe stars Australian actress Melissa Bergland. Set and shot in Nova Scotia and with a talented cast of Bluenosers and Newfoundlanders--including Susan Kent, Joel Thomas Hynes, Rob Wells and Jonathan Torrens--Relative Happiness locates the soul of the East Coast through humour, emotion, and a great soundtrack of contemporary Atlantic artists.

There is outstanding representation of WIFT-AT members throughout this year’s festival program. The CBC Atlantic Shorts Gala on Sunday Sept. 14 will feature films by New Brunswick’s Cayman Grant (Butterflies) and Nova Scotia’s Leah Johnston (Some Things Won’t Sleep), Lisa Rose Snow and Lora Campbell (When Fish Fly). In addition to the CBC Atlantic Shorts Gala, the crowd favourite Atlantic Shorts programs will present films by Heather Young (Howard and Jean), Allison White (Cancergirl), Gwyneth Christoffel (The Last Leaf), Jenna Marks (Wake), Nicole Steeves (Playing House), Siloën Daley (Sun Tower), Martine Blue (Me2), Tamara Segura (Song for Cuba), Stephanie Young (Masculins), Ariella Pahlke (What You Did Before You Were Born and Strategies of Hope), Ruby Boutilier (Ken Fucks Up trilogy) and Dawn George (Negative Nature)!

Relative Happiness screens at Cineplex Cinemas Park Lane on Saturday Sept. 13 at 7pm. To buy tickets for this film and all others, please visit http://atlantic.festivalgenius.com/

The 34^th Atlantic Film Festival runs from September 11-18. For more information on the festival visit www.atlanticfilm.com 

WIFT, an international organization with 40 chapters and more than 13,000 members, was founded in 1973. It is committed to advancement for women in professional development and achievement in film, video and other screen-based media. WIFT-AT was founded in March 2009 as part of the international movement.

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For interviews, or more information, please contact:

Sarah MacLeod, Co-Chair

Women in Film & Television - Atlantic

sarahamacleod@gmail.com

902-877-5307 cell

FREDERICTON'S MONDAY NIGHT FILM SERIES RETURNS!

Dear Cinephiles,

Hope everyone is having a great summer! The team at the Monday Night Film Series is looking forward to serving you this fall, and we’re pretty excited about the lineup of films coming up. Our opening night is Monday September 8th at 7:30pm in Tilley Hall, Room102.

For the 2014/2015 season, we will be keeping our prices for memberships and admissions the same as last year. 

Annual Memberships (Sept 2014 – April 2015) are  $30 regular and $18 (students, seniors, NB film co-op members)

Half year memberships (Sept 2014 – Dec 2014) are $20 regular and $12 (students, seniors, NB film co-op members)

Admission prices: Members $4.00 and General admission $7.00

We invite those of you who would like to purchase their memberships in advance of the first screening to do so starting on Tuesday August 19th between 10:30am and 5:30pm weekdays at our office in the Charlotte Street Arts Centre, 732 Charlotte Street, Room 131. Doing this will really help us reduce lineups at the first couple of screenings. We will have programmes and posters available.

Please check out the film lineup on our website:  http://www.nbfilmcoop.com/exhibition/monday-night-film-series

You can download the PDF Here: CLICK HERE fmnfs_fall_14_2.pdf

Phone 455-1632 and email: info@nbfilmcoop.com.

See you at the movies!

Tony, Cat and John

September 8, 2014 - 7:30pm at Tilley Hall, UNB Campus

THE GRAND SEDUCTION

A favourite among Film Circuit audiences, Jean-François Pouliot’s 2003 La grande séduction was a box-office smash in Quebec and wowed critics at that year’s Cannes Film Festival. Now, a decade later, the classic Canadian tale returns to the screen as an English-language remake directed by the brilliant Don McKellar (Childstar, Last Night) and adapted by Michael Dowse (The F Word, It’s All Gone Pete Tong) and Ken Scott (Starbuck), who wrote the original.

Substituting the quaint charm of a fishing village in rural Quebec with the rugged beauty of a tiny coastal community in Newfoundland, The Grand Seduction charts the lengths to which the community will go to enchant a visitor from the city. Like many affected by the collapse of the fishing industry, residents of this once-thriving village are driven to seek employment in the city or, worse, queue for government assistance. The future looks brighter, briefly, when a plastics company proposes building a factory in the village—until the villagers learn that they need to secure a full-time doctor to serve the community’s needs, which is easier said than done. Enter Dr. Christopher Lewis (Taylor Kitsch, television’s Friday Night Lights, The Bang Bang Club), a young, cosmopolitan plastic surgeon banished to the physician-starved seaside due to a previous misdeed. In a hilarious attempt to charm him—without revealing their plan—the villagers take up the doctor’s beloved cricket and fall over themselves trying to persuade him that he has come to the most fascinating, desirable place in the world.

Gentle, whimsical and poignantly funny, The Grand Seduction is brought to life through tremendous performances from Ireland’s Brendan Gleeson (Albert Nobbs, Gangs of New York) and Newfoundland-born Canadian icon Gordon Pinsent (Away From Her, Saint Ralph). Shot on location in Trinity Bay, the film marvelously captures the colour and vibrancy of Newfoundland’s coastal landscape, and is certain to delight even the saltiest cynic.

A charming crowd-pleaser and a rare remake that exceeds the original. —Peter Howell, The Toronto Star