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 NBFC member actor Gary Belding on his most recent project with director and fellow member Pierre Huard.
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 SWFF Lead/Filmmaker Bunthivy Nou always makes success happen with her strategic planning and effective strategies in filmmaking and on Silver Wave. (Photographer: Denis Duquette, Makeup Artist: Bastarache Beauty |
BUZZ
FREDERICTON FILM DIARY - ACTOR GARY BELDING
This past summer has been a busy time for NBFC actor Gary Belding.
Gary continues to work with first time entrepreneurs and small business operators in exploring financing and navigating through government departments and banks when seeking financing but also assisting with corporate tax returns as well as sometimes, the tricky HST returns. www.beldingsolutions.com
Gary has also been busy writing articles in Risk & Business Magazine which has national circulation. Recent articles include Preparing Your Business Plan, the Role of the Public Sector in Economic Development, Small Business Financing and most recently, his 6th submission Reducing Red Tape for Business. This summer also included two film projects. In Bad Behaviour, Gary played a prison warden in a youth facility, how out of character can you get? The film is part of a web series with the Centre for the Arts and Technology. Gary also played a school principal in Michel Guitard and Pierre Huard’s recent film, Standing Up.
Both were great projects and fun to do, as always looking forward to seeing the final product.
The next project is the return of AHA (Actors Helping Actors) with co-lead Colin Smart. The group took a year off to gather from its experience and revise the format which is still being finalized. AHA is a member driven group that is a part of the NBFC ongoing activities, where both new and veteran actors come together to sharpen existing skills, learn new techniques and share experiences.
AHA has been running since Jan 2008 and although the faces have changed over its tenure, everyone is a better artist as a result. Gary is looking forward to the upcoming session, so stay tuned. Email info@nbfilmcoop.com if you would like to join AHA.
SPOTLIGHT ON YOUTH AT SILVER WAVE 2014
Enter our Silver Wave Contest to co-host the Youth Screening Showcase at SWFF! Anyone between 8 and 16 in NB is welcome to enter this contest and French submissions are welcome but they must be subtitled in English. The winner will receive a full pass to SWFF and their winning trailer may be show at the festival!
Create a short trailer, between 30 second and 1 minute in length, showing us in a serious or funny way, why you think you would be a terrific SWFF Youth Co-host.
PLEASE EMAIL ALL SUBMISSIONS TO:
info@nbfilmcoop.com (we request online private links on Vimeo and Youtube).
2013 SWFF Youth Screening Host
Sophia Thomson had a great time at the 2013 SWFF Youth Screening Showcase co-hosting with Carleejc. Carleejc not only hosts the screening each year, she and her family are generous sponsors of this special youth screening programme!
Sophia has attended NBFC Film camps and has a blast both in front and behind the camera. She loves acting and has appeared in short films, TNB theatre school productions and UNB summer theatre productions.
Mom, Dad and Big Sister Olivia (below) are used to Sophia’s entertaining antics around the house, and know she is a natural on stage. Sophia loves painting, reading, writing stories, making people laugh, and the colour yellow. Sophia also has discovered Instagram and has been enjoying taking, editing and posting her photographs. We have a feeling she will be submitting a new video this year to see if she gets to host again.
CALLING ALL ACTORS
Short Film Venture Grant recipient film "The Midnight List", a Christmas tale with a twist, is now in pre-production and looking for talent.
Male 8-12 years old
Female 8 - 12 years old
Male 13 - 17 years old
Female 13 - 17 years old
Male late 50s and up (the role of Santa Claus) Female 25-35
Please feel free to contact:
Tracey Lavigne
tllavign@nb.sympatico.ca357-1820
This project was made possible thanks to the Short Film Venture Grant Program which is administered by the NB Film Co-op with financial support from the province of NB.
A SILVER WAVE LEAD'S STORY - BEHIND THE SCENES
I’ve been involved with the organizing committee of the Silver Wave Film Festival since it was called Tidal Wave Film Festival. So I’ve seen the festival take shape over the years. It occurred to me several years ago that, apart from our SWFF commercials, we weren’t using videos at all to promote SWFF… and then it struck me – “We’re filmmakers, why aren’t we using videos to promote ourselves?â€
So I put together a one-page proposal and emailed it off to Cat and Tony to see what they thought and their response was “Great idea, go for it!â€
Woo! Green light – zing!
Initially, we piloted our YouTube SWFF Channel at 2010’s festival which did well, but there were room for improvements. When SWFF 2011 rolled around, we were better prepared. We recruited super keen volunteer videographers – most of them film students from the Centre for Arts and Technology and their first time at the festival.
We then had a strategy meeting prior to the festival to figure out who was covering what and what we wanted to achieve. I basically played a coordinating role to make sure things were happening, that everyone knew where they’re supposed to be, help connect them to filmmakers and contacts, and edit/post the footage online.
The more recent SWFF YouTube efforts were no doubt successful because of the team of dedicated volunteers we had on board. Our goal was simple – to help promote the festival and the filmmakers.
The Silver Wave Film Festival is such an important cultural event in New Brunswick because it provides a venue to showcase NB filmmakers and NB stories, and I’m so lucky to be involved in this special event.
FREDERICTON'S MONDAY NIGHT FILM SERIES RETURNS!
Dear Cinephiles,
Hope everyone had 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 now that we have screened our first one.
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 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 22, 2014 - 7:30pm at Tilley Hall, UNB Campus
THE RAILWAY MAN
Jonathan Teplitzky
Australia/United kingdom, 2013
English
116 minutes
Principal Cast: Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Hiroyuki Sanada
Marking the first collaboration between two of contemporary cinema’s most acclaimed and admired actors—Academy Award winners Colin Firth (Magic in the Moonlight, The King’s Speech) and Nicole Kidman (Grace of Monaco, Stoker)—The Railway Man recounts the incredible true story of Eric Lomax, a British soldier who endured gruelling conditions as a forced labourer on the infamous “Death Railway†between Bangkok and Rangoon after being captured by Japanese troops during World War II.
A quiet, middle-aged radio and railway enthusiast, Lomax (Firth) meets Patti Wallace (Kidman) on a Scottish train in 1983. After a whirlwind courtship, the couple are married— but on their wedding night, and for many nights to come, Eric is gripped by paralyzing nightmares that he refuses to explain |to his new bride. Confused and hurt by her husband’s remoteness, Patti turns to Eric’s friend Finlay (Stellan Skarsgård, Melancholia), who finally reveals Eric’s harrowing story. Along with thousands of other British soldiers captured by the Japanese army, Eric was forced to work on the construction of the Thailand-Burma Railway, which claimed the lives of more than 10,000 Allied POWs and 90,000 enslaved civilians during the war—and in addition to the memory of this torment, Eric still bears the psychic scars of his brutal torture at the hands of a Japanese officer. Realizing that there is only one way to save her marriage, Patti sets out in search of this man whose shadow still haunts her husband’s mind and soul.
Featuring exquisite performances from its three leads, and a deeply affecting turn from Hiroyuki Sanada as Nagase, the object of Patti’s search, The Railway Man is a vital story of hope and redemption for a world often overcome by violence and hatred.
Beautifully acted, The Railway Man is profoundly moving.-David Hiltbrand, Philadelphia Inquirer
Martine Blue