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CONNECTING MEMBERS - TIM RAYNE, FREDERICTON

NB FILM CO-OP: Can you give us the background on how this whole idea/concept came to be, and why you decided a web series would be the best way to present your story?

TIM: The concept for The Capital web series came from my interest in the local film and music scene. I believe there is some major talent in the Atlantic region, but I think Fredericton has a special synergy happening where many artists from various backgrounds and interests work together regularly to make eclectic works of art. In particular, the Fredericton music scene has a diverse range of styles and genres and the quality of the work is substantial and extremely impressive. I believe it should be shared and experienced by people beyond the local community. I knew I wanted to showcase the Fredericton scene to a greater audience, so I decided to work towards an idea that would allow me to integrate the LIVE experience within a fictional world based on actual experiences.

The original concept for the project was conceived as a feature film; however, after a while, it made more sense to make it a web series. It was always meant to be a narrative made up of moments rather than a whole so, breaking it up into 10-minute episodes worked out well.    

NB FILM CO-OP: Describe your story to us? Are there any hooks or highlights which set it apart from other web series out there.

TIM: It is less about traditional story structure and arcs because of the short format approach by doing a web series. It is more about atmosphere, style, tonal continuity over episodes in some ways. There will be moments in the series that cross over but mostly; each episode is designed to stand alone. There will inevitably be overlap between episodes, but I am trying to make each episode self-contained.

To be honest, I haven’t watched a lot of web series because I want to keep a fresh perspective without any subconscious influence or preconceived notions of the format. Obviously, there will be influences, but the influences will stem mostly from film and television.

NB FILM CO-OP: When did you decide to submit to the Telefilm Micro-Budget Program and why?

TIM RAYNE: I wasn’t thinking about applying until I spoke with the Telefilm representative at last year’s Silver Wave Film Festival. I happened to be at the Film Co-op speaking with Cathie when the Telefilm representative approached me and asked if I would like to hear about the program. After speaking with her, I realized that some of my creative ideas would fit nicely within their program, so I applied shortly after the initial meeting.

NB FILM CO-OP: What does receiving the Telefilm Micro-Budget grant mean to you?

TIM RAYNE: Receiving the Telefilm Micro Budget means a lot; especially since I have been working on developing my filmmaking skills for close to twenty years. In some ways, I have been working towards this opportunity for most of my life. To be able to get funding to produce a major production has always been a dream but I always knew that it’s all about timing – and this my time.

NB FILM CO-OP: Can you tell us a bit about your core creative team and why you picked them to work on this project with you?

TIM RAYNE: My core team is many of the people who I have worked with and have known for years. I work with people who are creative, passionate, and dedicated to making the best work possible. The team is made up of incredible filmmakers, and I am very lucky and honoured to be working with such talented people.  Everyone who is working on it was invited in because I value their work, collaboration, and positive vibes. Positivity is important. The budget is low, so it takes a special type of person to commit and dedicate their time to such an ambitious project.

NB FILM CO-OP :You are a filmmaker, but music is also a large part of your life. Describe how music flows in real time and theme wise through this story and its characters.

TIM RAYNE: Music is a big part of my life. Over the years, my experience with film has been both academic and production oriented to the point where some of the original mystery that I enjoyed so much about ‘the movies’ has somewhat disappeared. Music is the art form that still manages to hold some mystery for me. It can be a relaxing experience and a challenging one depending on my mood. I love the inherent abstraction of music and its many forms. I love film but music has a special place in my heart that is very personal and rewarding.

The soundtrack for The Capital will be pressed on vinyl which is very exciting to me; by crossing old and new technology, analog and digital, there will be a post-modern relationship which I so enjoy – a mashup of sorts. The relationship between studio recording and off the floor recording (LIVE) is an important component in the development of the series.

NB FILM CO-OP: You have a location (The Capital) which is central to your story, why did you pick this specific location?  

TIM: The Capital Complex has been the venue of choice for many touring bands and local bands for years so it occurred to me that it would be the perfect set piece to share stories and to celebrate the local music scene.  Luckily, The Capital Complex has been supportive of the idea from the beginning, so building ideas and approaches based on location has been extremely helpful creatively.

NB Film Co-op members Arthur Thomson and Tim Rayne make a great creative team in film.

(Photo by Nathalie Rayne)

MEMBERSHIPS

Ashley Phinney doesn't want to bust any heads, time to get your membership renewed for the year if you are in arrears...it's August. Memberships are due in Jan/Feb annually. 

New and Renewed Members: Caitlyn Campbell (Fredericton), Ken Jordan (Fredericton), Nicolas Despres (Moncton), 

THANK YOU TO THE MEMBERS FOR HELPING THE NBFC

Thank you to Ashley Phinney and her sister who cleaned up the co-op's resource centre and storage space recently!

HELP NEEDED!

Members, here is your chance to get your volunteer hours in. Email Cat at info@nbfilmcoop.com if you would like to volunteer on a member production or on any co-op activity. Lots to do, don't be shy! You can help out in any area your live in, in NB.

BUZZ

NEW BRUNSWICK PRODUCER'S ASSOCIATION

SUBSCRIPTION CAMPAIGN

We have launched our subscription campaign two weeks ago. It’s a priority for our organization to increase our membership. We need voting members that have a production company now. You have to invite all your employees and partners to join Media NB. We need your accountant, your editor, your soundman, your actors or scriptwriter. Everyone who touches our industry in one way or the other must become members to give us more weight. The provincial issue is our challenge and we need a united front to rise up to it. Our provincial program has to improve and the general public must become aware of who we are et what we’re doing. It’s time for action. Our AGM will be held on next September 17. We have an opportunity to influence the government to reconsider this year and we need to talk with one voice and it needs to be stronger. Please help Media NB to help you.

To subscribe visit: http://www.medianb.ca/membership/

Thanks for your participation.

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Association des producteurs du Nouveau-Brunswick/

CAMPAGNE DE SOUSCRIPTION

Média NB a besoin de votre aide ! 

Nous avons lancé notre campagne de souscription il y a deux semaines. Il est impératif pour notre organisation d’augmenter notre membriété. Nous avons besoin de vous, les compagnies de production qui sont déjà membres votants maintenant. Vous devez inviter tous vos employés et partenaires à joindre Média NB. Votre comptable, votre monteur, votre preneur de son, vos acteurs ou scénaristes. Tous ceux qui touchent à notre industrie de près ou de loin doivent devenir membre pour nous donner plus de poids. Les enjeux provinciaux sont notre défi et nous devons être unis pour le relever. Notre programme provincial doit être amélioré et le public doit être sensibilisé à qui nous sommes et à ce que nous faisons. C’est le temps d’agir. Notre AGA se tiendra le 17 septembre prochain. Nous avons une opportunité afin d’influencer le gouvernement à se raviser cette année, mais nous devons parler d’une seule voix et elle doit être plus forte. Svp aidez Média NB à vous aider. Pour s’inscrire visitez : http://www.medianb.ca/membres/

Merci de votre participation.

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Hey friends! As part of our Media NB Agm, we are hosting a demo show for a few member producers to share the work they have been up to, AND we have three kick ass guests to speak to us! 

Mark Bishop from Marble Media in Toronto, Josée Vallée - Sphère Média from Quebec, and Stéphane Cardin, CMF VP, Industry and Public Affairs at Telefilm! 

Here is more info! 

2016 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING INVITATION

22 August 2016

Dear Members,

You are cordially invited to the Annual General Meeting of Media NB on September 17 at 9: 00 AM in the Bernard Leblanc Room of the Aberdeen Cultural Centre at 140 Botsford Street in Moncton.

This year the Board offers an exciting new event in conjunction with the AGM. The Media NB Demo Show will give our members the opportunity to showcase their work to other Media NB members, the media, and the general public. The Demo Show will begin on Friday evening (Sept 16) and end after the conference dinner on Saturday afternoon. The Demo Show schedule showing the available time slots will be sent to you shortly. Before confirming the schedule we hope to secure the participation of the Hon. John Ames, the new Minister for Tourism, Heritage and Culture.

We hope to receive the confirmation of your presence as soon as possible and preferably before September 7. We need you and urge you to attend.

The Media NB Board

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 line-up of films coming up soon!

For the 2016/2017 season, we will be keeping our prices for memberships and admissions the same as last year. 

Annual Memberships (Sept 2016 - April 2017) are $30 regular and $18 (students, seniors, NB film co-op members)

Half year memberships (Sept 2016 - Dec 2016) 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

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

See you at the movies!

Tony, Cat and John

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September 5, 2016 - 7:30pm at Tilley Hall, UNB Campus

THE MEDDLER

Lorene Scafaria

100 mins

USA

2015

English

Cast: Susan Sarandon, Rose Byrne, J.K. Simmons

Striking a winning balance of insight, heart, and laugh-out-loud hilarity, the second feature from Lorene Scafaria (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World) stars the magnificent Susan Sarandon (The Lovely Bones) in one of her richest roles yet. Foregrounding a character typically relegated to the comic-relief sidelines, The Meddler is about that force of nature known as the doting mother.

For Marnie Minervini (Sarandon), motherhood is not a familial duty - it's a vocation. A compulsive advice-giver, the recently widowed but ceaselessly cheerful Marnie cannot stop texting, calling, and showing up unannounced (and with bagels in tow) at the home of her daughter Lori (Rose Byrne, TV’s Damages). Desperate to gain some control over her life following a messy breakup, Lori attempts to establish some boundaries with her mother, only to inadvertently unleash Marnie’s persistent meddling across the greater Los Angeles area. Whether out of habit or as an unconscious strategy to avoid dealing with her grief, Marnie can’t stop being a mom to everyone she meets, whether it’s funding the wedding of one of Lori’s acquaintances or driving a young Apple Store clerk to college classes. But a chance encounter with a charismatic, chicken-raising rent-a-cop (J.K. Simmons, Whiplash) offers Marnie the opportunity to leave her supporting role behind and finally become the star of her own life.

Scafaria’s whip-smart storytelling and observations on relationships, ethnic ties, and the nuances of sixty something dating provide the film with a pervasive warmth and authenticity, while Sarandon’s exceptional talents are on full display in one of the veteran actor’s most memorable creations. Alternately maddening, lovable, and delightful, Marnie is both The Meddler’s emotional heart and its greatest triumph.

The Meddler serves as a lovely valentine not just to Scafaria’s mom, Gail, but to mothers everywhere — including the luminous Susan Sarandon in a role that seems to come naturally. - Peter Debruge, Variety

NB FILM CO-OP SWFF SCREENING TOUR HITS THE ROAD AGAIN!

 Outside the Box: New Brunswick Film Tour - NEXT STOP - ST. ANDREWS! 

 (CHECK OUT THE SCREENING PROGRAMME FOR ST. ANDREWS! -  nbfc_film_tour2016_saint_andrews_.pdf

Outside the Box: New Brunswick Film Tour: A selection of outstanding films screened at the Silver Wave Film Festival

Origin of the Silver Wave Film Festival

Due to a lack of exhibition opportunities for local media artists to showcase their work, the New Brunswick Filmmakersʼ Co-op launched a provincial film screening event in 2001 called the Silver Wave Film Festival. The initiative received universal acclaim from participants delighted at the audience engagement with their work and the collegial nature of the gathering of filmmakers from around the province.

Call for Submissions process

The programming for the festival takes place in several phases. A call for submissions is sent out 8 months prior to the event. In addition to the submitted films, programmers also invite films to be part of the festival. The mission of the festival is to showcase the best New Brunswick films, and at least 50% of the films screened each year are produced within the province. Although it might be more advantageous to invite celebrated films from away and build an audience from films that already “sell themselves”, the Silver Wave takes pride in celebrating our own local stars, and nurturing a culture of “local films first”. This strategy has taken hold, as the most popular films at the festival are not the films from away, but rather the locally made works. The programming for the past few Silver Wave Film Festivals has included a diverse selection of films from across the Province including short dramas, comedies, documentaries, animations and experimental films.

Film Tour Project

Outside the Box is a provincial film tour comprised of the best films screened at the Silver Wave Film Festival over the past 5 years. The tour has been made possible by a grant from the Province of New Brunswickʼs Department of Tourism, Heritage and Culture and through the generous support of local sponsors in the communities hosting these screenings with us. 

New Brunswick Filmmakersʼ Co-op

Besides undertaking the annual Silver Wave Film Festival, the Film Co-op is also involved in many other filmic activities. It offers film-training workshops in Fredericton, Saint John and Moncton. It houses a full range of professional filmmaking equipment available to its membership base, which spans the entire province. It carries out several production programs including a 48 hour film competition and provides cash grants and equipment deferrals to projects year-round. Based in Fredericton, the Co-op is eager to help emerging and established filmmakers produce locally-based films, and see the development of thriving communities in all corners of the province.

(NBFC ED Tony Merzetti at the recent Bathurst Screening on the tour)

FREDERICTON - UNDER THE STARS: FILMS IN THE PARK