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SILVER WAVE FILM FESTIVAL LAUNCHES PROGRAMME ON OCTOBER 14TH, ALL WELCOME!!

NB Film Co-op marks 16th Anniversary of Silver Wave Film Festival in celebration of New Brunswick Filmmakers

Silver Wave runs November 3-9, 2016

Please join the NB Film Co-op organizers as they launch the Festival programme for Silver Wave 2016!

Silver Wave annually spotlights the province's rich film talent and cultural legacy in film. The festival draws its inspiration from New Brunswick's extraordinary and diverse collection of films, created by filmmakers from every age group and walk of life. The festival exists to engage fans of all ages in the art of cinema.

 A significant element of the festival includes the NB Shorts which are the focal point of the event, and draw large crowds. Laid out around the NB shorts, is a visual feast of local and international shorts and documentaries with several carefully chosen features highlighted in key programming slots.

Hundreds of independent and commercial filmmakers and producers will also take a break from film watching during the fest to mix and mingle at the Silver Wave Industry Series, an exciting annual industry day with panels, roundtables and a special producer's reception.

"Silver Wave is always a proud moment for all of us who've had the privilege of volunteering on the festival annually," said Tony Merzetti, NB Film Co-op ED and Silver Wave Co-organizer. "This year's festival is designed to bring back longtime movie lovers and fans, and to engage new audiences with our programming line-up."

When: 12 noon, October 14, Friday. 

Where: 732 Charlotte Street, Charlotte Street Arts Centre, Upstairs Auditorium, Fredericton.

Refreshments will be served.

This is a great opportunity to celebrate and support film in NB. Mix and mingle and see the 2016 Silver Wave promo trailer!

The Festival would not be possible without its major sponsors and supporters: 

Platinum Sponsors: Province of New Brunswick, City of Fredericton, Centre communautaire Sainte-Anne, Equifilm, CBC Television and Radio, Crowne Plaza, University of New Brunswick's Faculty of Arts, Nick Wilson Videography, East Coast Camera Rentals, The Canada Council for the Arts, Telefilm Canada, Picaroons, and the New Brunswick Filmmakers' Co-operative, 

Gold Sponsors: Don Chapman, Let em Laugh Productions

Silver Sponsors: Arrowhead Electric Ltd., daVinci College

Bronze Sponsors: Carlee JC, IATSE 849, Frictive Pictures, Robert Simmonds Clothing, Insurmountable Sounds, imagineNATIVE, Hemmings House, CinéRelève, Cinema Politica, MediaNB, Grid City Magazine, WIFT-AT, and all its dedicated supporters and volunteers.

2016 SILVER WAVE FILM FESTIVAL UPDATES

Dear Silver Wave Sponsors, Filmmakers and Supporters,

Silver Wave is just around the corner it seems, and the weather is beautiful....

Silver Wave happens November 3-6 this year.

If you are from out of town and are coming to spend time with us at the festival, book your room(s) soon and get a sweet Silver Wave rate at the Sponsor Hotel: the Crowne Plaza Lord Beaverbrook Hotel before the hotel fills up, and it will soon!

Silver Wave room rate special.

Reserve your room today by calling 1-866-444-1946 or email: reservations@cpfredericton.com

The Crowne Plaza is ready to roll out the Red Carpet for Silver Wave!

Crowne Plaza Fredericton Lord Beaverbrook Hotel and James Joyce Pub are proud to be the host hotel and Platinum level sponsor of the 2016 Silver Wave Film Festival. Call now to reserve your room as  festival delegate. Stop in at the James Joyce Pub for New Brunswick’s largest selection of local craft brews.

“I can't wait to see everyone and mingle. It’s like a wedding for filmmakers. That one time we can all get together once a year.” Kirk Pennell, NB filmmaker & alumni NBFC member.

The passes and delegate bags are ready for pick-up starting on November 2, Wednesday (between 10am - 5:30pm)

www.swfilmfest.com

November 3-6, 2016

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: Ryan Evans (Sussex), Semra Yüksel (Fredericton), Larry Tannahill (Fredericton), Kenneth Drake (Oromocto)

THANK YOU TO THE MEMBERS FOR HELPING THE NBFC

Thank you to the Directing Actors participants for helping to clean up following the workshop, you all rock! 

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

SILVER WAVE NEEDS VOLUNTEERS! SUBMIT YOUR VOLUNTEER FORM TODAY!

Volunteering with the annual NB Silver Wave Film Festival is a rewarding experience and a great way to support the Festival!

It's no secret that Silver Wave is bursting with pride over its filmmakers and its volunteer community. Friendships and great films continue to bring together a community of volunteers dedicated to planning and producing a world-class grass roots film festival.

A Message for Returning Volunteers. Please come back to us!

 A Message for New Volunteers 

Volunteering with the Silver Wave Film Festival is a rewarding experience and a great way to support the Festival!  Once you have applied, you will receive an acknowledgement email from us. It will give you some instructions that will help us keep in touch with you about your status.  Please note that we receive more applications than we are able to find placements and therefore there is NO GUARANTEE that applying to be a volunteer means you will be a volunteer. We will have our volunteer meeting and begin placing volunteers into their roles mid October once the festival programme and website are launched on October 14th. 

Volunteer Areas:

Technical - assist main fest tech heads

Stills Photography (must have own stills camera

Venue Managers 

Signage

Drivers (must have car)

Ticket Booth installation (must have truck)

Guest Hosts (do not have to feed, just house)

Videography - (must have own video camera)

Ticket taking 

Cashiers

PAs (programme & poster distribution, errands etc)

To apply to be an Apprentice volunteer (13-17 year olds), please complete an application form. We will need  your parents permission for you to volunteer with us.  

What Do We Expect?

As members of our Festival community, we all play an important role in the success of the Silver Wave Film Festival. We bear a responsibility to ourselves, to others and to the organization to uphold the following Standards of Conduct: 

We treat everyone with respect (responsibility for oneself)

- be kind and positive, to each other and the public

- contribute to healthy discussion and remain open to other points of view

- focus on solutions rather than problems

- adhere to all general Participant Responsibilities at the Festival

- work as a team (responsibility to others)

- share views and information proactively

- offer help when needed 

- engage in collaborative problem-solving

- express appreciation for the collective efforts of all

 ****We are ambassadors of the Silver Wave Film Festival (responsibility to the organization)

- contribute to the organization's mission and vision

 - represent the organization in a positive way, and encourage this positive behavior in others

 - respect the property and information of the organization

 - celebrate, share and spread the SWFF feeling at the Festival and year-round

We also have a very limited number of year-round volunteer opportunities with a specific time commitment.

In addition to these Standards of Conduct, we ask the following of all of our volunteers:

- Smile and have fun

- Know what's expected of you and do your job to the best of your ability

- Fulfill all volunteer responsibilities

- Be prepared for all conditions as well as any specific requirements for your job

- Arrive on time or early for meetings and scheduled shifts ready to work

- Wear your volunteer t-shirt and volunteer pass while you are on shift

- Ensure that you have eaten before your shift

- Not be under the influence of alcohol or drugs while on duty

- Drink responsibly while off duty

- Refer media questions involving policy or sensitive issues to the two core Festival organizers

What Do We Offer in Return?

We offer a great benefits package to our volunteers that includes:

- The opportunity to be part of creating a magical experience for over 3,000 people.

- A chance to be part of a volunteer community and make new friends.

- Great work experience and networking

- A Volunteer T-shirt.

- Access to festival events and screenings and the private volunteer party post festival

Download the volunteer form for SWFF for 2016 here: volunteer-at-silver-wave-2016.pdf OR email info@nbfilmcoop.com and ask for a volunteer form to be emailed to you. 

2016 SILVER WAVE AWARDS

Saturday, Nov 5, 2016

Le Centre communautaire Sainte-Anne

Start Time - 9:15 pm

The Silver Wave Awards are sponsored by: Le em Laugh Productions, Equifilm, Nick Wilson Videography, East Coast Rentals, Robert Simmonds Clothing and CBC Television and Radio.

(Party following awards at James Joyce Pub in the Crowne Plaza Hotel downtown)

To celebrate the achievements of this year’s filmmakers, you are invited to join them and special guests and sponsors right after the NB Shorts Gala Program on a Saturday night that promises to be entertaining and full of surprises. The Annual Silver Wave Awards will recognize excellence in the cinematic arts and significant contribution to the development of the film/video/television community. To be eligible for the Silver Wave Awards, films/videos must have been accepted for screening at the 2016 Silver Wave Film Festival and be in eligible categories. It’s time again to reward New Brunswick filmmakers and filmmakers from away in the below award categories for 2016!

The Silver Wave Award Statues

are Sponsored by: Equifilm

1) Best NB Short Drama OR Comedy

(Open to all eligible short NB dramatic/comedic films/videos)

2) Lex Gigeroff Excellence in Screenwriting in a NB Short Drama OR Comedy

(Open to all eligible short NB dramatic/comedic films/videos)

3) Best Low-Budget NB Documentary (for Under $20,000)

(Open to all NB documentary films/videos of any length)

4) Excellence in Cinematography in a NB Short Film

5) Excellence in Art Direction in a NB Short Film

6) Excellence in Sound Design in a NB Short Film

7) Excellence in Picture Editing in a NB Short Film

8) Excellence in Music Composition in a NB Short Film

9) Outstanding Performance by a NB Actor in a Short Drama OR Comedy

10) Outstanding Performance by a NB Actress in a Short Drama OR Comedy

11) Outstanding Performance by a NB Supporting Actor in a Short Drama OR Comedy

12) Outstanding Peformance by a NB Supporting Actress in a Short Drama OR Comedy

13) Best Experimental OR Animated Short Film (Open to all short films/videos)

14) Recognition Award for a person, group or organization who has contributed significantly to film and video in a professional capacity

15) Picaroons Recognition Award for a person, group, or organization who has contributed significantly to film and video in New Brunswick in a volunteer capacity. ($500.00 cash award)

16) Best Youth Short Film (Isaac ‘THE PUMA’ Miller Award)

17) Best Student Short (dependent on number of submissions)

18) Best Documentary (open to all documentaries of all lengths)

19) Best Canadian or International Short

20) Best Horror/Sci-Fi Short

21) East Coast Camera Rentals Award

1 Week feature film equipment services ($5000,00 value)

• Choice of 1 camera

• Choice of 3 lenses

• Kessler slider with head or DJI Ronin

• Kessler jib 8/13 with tripod

• 4 c-stands, 1 light kit, flags set, apples boxes sest, sandbags, shotgun mic, blimp & boom pole, field recorder (Rental Insurance Required)

22) Jane LeBlanc Filmmaker Award ($1880.00 value) (for first or secon time Filmmakers)

• $200 in workshops/training from the NBFC (2017)

• $600 cash from The LeBlanc Family and generous donations

• $1000 in equipment and post services from NBFC

• $80 (full membership for two years) from the NBFC

• Workshopping of winning screenplay

Presented by the New Brunswick Filmmakers’ Co-operative & the LeBlanc Family

23) CBC/New Brunswick Joy ($18,500)

• $2,000 in cash from CBC

• $1,000 in cash from New Brunswick Filmmakers’ Co-operative

• $10,000 in equipment resources from Equifilm

• $5,500 in equipment or facilities from the New Brunswick Filmmakers’ Co-operative

24) Viewer’s Choice Award

Chosen by the fest audience and announced after the festival.

FREDERICTON'S MONDAY NIGHT FILM SERIES!

Dear Cinephiles,

Hope everyone is having a great fall! 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!

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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LOVE & FRIENDSHIP

WHEN: Monday October 10th at 7:30pm in Tilley 102, UNB  

92 mins, IRELAND/NETHERLANDS/FRANCE/USA, 2016, English

Writer-director Whit Stillman departs from the milieu of the contemporary New York upper crust that he so memorably explored in such films as Damsels in Distress, The Last Days of Disco and Metropolitan for this sharp-tongued and riotously funny examination of 18th-century polite society. Adapting Jane Austen’s long-unpublished epistolary novella Lady Susan, Stillman creates a period piece whose spirit is unmistakably modern.

Love & Friendship revolves around the beautiful and cunning Lady Susan Vernon (Kate Beckinsale, The Aviator, The Last Days of Disco), a recent widow who engineers  all manner of wonderfully devious plots to bend the world to her will and land herself a wealthy new husband. Taking up residence at Churchill, her in-laws’ estate, she sets her sights on the dashing Reginald De Courcy (Xavier Samuel, Fury, Anonymous), and soon has him wrapped around her little finger. However, her plans are derailed when her beautiful daughter Frederica (Morfydd Clark, Madame Bovary) turns up at Churchill after being dismissed from boarding school. Fearing that Frederica will turn Reginald’s head, Lady Susan sets out to obtain her daughter a suitor of her own. Enter Sir James Martin (Tom Bennett), a well-meaning but witless older man who is utterly confounded by the fact that there is neither a church nor a hill at Churchill.

Brilliantly played by Beckinsale, Lady Susan possesses a confidence, audacity, and unapologetic dishonesty (“Facts are horrid things,” she laments after being caught in a lie) that paradoxically endow her with a winning charm, and make her an Austen heroine to rival Elizabeth Bennett and Emma Woodhouse. If you’re looking for a smart, fun, and scruple-free romp, Love & Friendship is definitely your cup of tea.

With his love of fine clothes and finerr diction, Whit Stillman proves an unsurprisingly intuitive fit for Austen, but he also knows just how to give her pointed social satire an extra stab of wink-wink postmodern drollery without breaking the spell. —Justin Chang, Variety

This year, 30 limited release, independent foreign & Canadian films will be shown. Admission is $7/film, but a yearly $18 student film society membership reduces admission cost to $4/film. The series is open to all. Memberships are available at Tilley 102 every Monday night.

For further info, contact NB Film Co-op 455-1632  info@nbfilmcoop.com http://www.nbfilmcoop.com/exhibition/monday-night-film-series

The NB Film Co-op in partnership with the UNB Faculty of Arts and the Toronto Film Festival presents the series.

OWL RIVER IS COMING HOME!

Owl River Runners Producer Elaine Shannon

Finally, a much anticipated return home for the Owl River Runners cast and crew as they head to Hampton NB, a special place in the hearts of those who called it home for two weeks back in August of 2014.

It has been a long road for the NB Indiecan10K feature film project that screened in festivals here in Maritimes, across the country, and as far as Louisiana and California.  The makers are preparing for its official release with Juice Worldwide and IndieCan Entertainment starting October 11th.

We are forever grateful for the town of Hampton who accommodated with open arms, admits Director and Producer Danny Thebeau.  They welcomed us into their homes, closed down their streets, provided accommodations, meals, coffee  and so much more… they were all so amazingly eager to partake in the experience even if meant waiting around in the blistering heat.  It was not difficult to select Hampton as an ideal place to shoot simply for its picturesque views and generosity of its residents says Elaine Shannon.

The film was written by Sussex playright and screenwriter Chris Fulton, Directed by Danny Thebeau, Produced by Elaine Shannon, Danny Thebeau, and André Goguen with Executive Producers Avi Federgreen, Gia Milani, and Tony Whalen.  Directors of Photography by Matt Brown and Armand Landry with crews from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick..  Original Music by Gary Stackhouse, Alex Good.  The cast: T. Thomason, Ryan Barton, Ariana Marquis, Xavier Gould, Clayton Thompson, Josh Linton, John Mick, Tracey Carney (Brown), Susan Thompson, Joceline Paczoski, Danny Thebeau and a good representation of local Hamptonites. Many NB Film Co-op members were involved in this production.

It tells the story of Jaime, who joyrides the back roads of Owl River on a borrowed 4-wheeler, trying to outrun questions about her future. When an ex-con from her departed grandfather's past shows up looking for a stash, the aimless teen needs to chart a path.

The screening event will take place at Hampton High School in Hampton NB at 7pm on October 14th followed by a Q&A with cast and crew.  Tickets are available online at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/owl-river-runners-hampton-screening-tickets-...

And at the Pharmasave in Hampton.

See you at the movies

AUTHOR UNRAVELS TALES OF ADVENTURE IN NEW BOOK

Author and historian Melynda Jarratt holds a copy of her new book entitled Letters from Beauly.

MICHAEL STAPLES/THE DAILY GLEANER

Fredericton author, historian and NB Film Co-op member Melynda Jarratt has done it again.

Jarratt, known for her extensive research into the history of Canada’s war brides, has written a new book on the Canadian Forestry Corps, entitled Letters from Beauly.

The publication focuses on correspondence sent from the Scottish town to Canada by Bathurst native Patrick (Pat) Hennessy, who served as camp cook with 15 Company of the Canadian Forestry Corps.

“It tells the story of Pat’s experience as a logging camp cook in New Brunswick through the depression and how he joined the Forestry Corps, like so many others in the Second World War - 7,000 of them,”Jarratt said in an interview. “It tells how he came to know and become very good friends with many Scots, who he encountered in his travels in Scotland and into Ireland, as well.”

The Canadian Forestry Corps, according to canadiansoldiers.com, provided lumber for the Allied war effort by cutting and preparing it in the United Kingdom and on the continent of Europe in both the First World War and the Second World War.

“During the Second World War, hundreds of New Brunswick woodsmen joined the Canadian Forestry Corps to log the Scottish Highlands as part of the Canadian war effort,” noted promotional material on the book.

Hennessy, a middle-aged New Brunswick farmer and lumberman with a third-grade education, saw more of the world than he had ever dreamed of, visiting ancient battlefields he had learned about as a child, travelling to his ancestral Ireland, and attending a course of lectures in British history at Oxford University, further noted the promotional material.

“Drawing from this unique collection of more than three hundred letters, as well as hundreds of archival documents and photographs, Melynda Jarratt provides a rare glimpse of what life was like for Canadian servicemen overseas and for their relatives at home.”

Letters from Beauly is volume 23 in the New Brunswick Military Heritage Series. It’s co-published with the University of New Brunswick’s Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society and Goose Lane Editions.

Hennessey, who is Jarratt’s grandfather, joined the Forestry Corps because economic conditions at the time were less than ideal.

The woods was a difficult place to be in during 1930s New Brunswick, Jarratt said, and, when the war broke out in 1939, a lot of people signed up.

Jarratt said it’s important for society to have a book such as Letters from Beauly because it tells stories of New Brunswickers who took part in both wars that were never previously told.

“The Canadian Forestry Corp is virtually unknown in the annals of Canadian military history. This, I hope, will soar an interest in historians, students, PhD candidates who can follow up and sort of uncover the threads that I loosened from the tapestry of history. I really hope that it captures the imaginations of New Brunswickers.”

Letters from Beauly will have its official launch Oct. 12 at 7 p.m., at the Provincial Archives, located on the UNB Campus at Dineen Drive.

The event is open to the public.

CASTING CALL! PAID ACTOR LABOUR