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 NBFC/IMAGINENATIVE ANNUAL INCUBATOR PROGRAM: CALL FOR APPLICANTS IN NB

DEADLINE: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2017

Are you an emerging Indigenous media artist living in New Brunswick? Do you have an innovative and exciting idea for a 5-minute short film?

Explore Digital or Bolex filmmaking through the New Brunswick Film Co-operative’s workshops, equipment and facilities. Shoot and edit your project to completion and then see it on the big screen at the 19th annual imagineNATIVE film + media arts festival in Toronto! Your film may also be shown at the 2018 Silver Wave Film Festival in New Brunswick in November (November 8-11, 2018).

You will be provided with a full NBFC Membership and be eligible to enroll in a number of training workshops offered during their Winter and Spring 2018 calendar of workshops. You will be helped by NBFC’s knowledgeable staff and an indigenous producer will act as your mentor, providing advice and assistance through the development, production, post-production and distribution stages of your project. 

The participant will receive the opportunity to use the NBFC’s extensive equipment and facilities for their film. As every film is unique, equipment and facilities access will be established in the development phase at the NBFC’s discretion.

The successful applicant will receive a $1,000 CAD bursary for a commission fee and towards production costs. The funds will go directly to the Producer (Lisa Jodoin) who will manage them through all phases of the project, as part of the mentorship. All other additional equipment, facilities, and production costs will be the responsibility of the participant.

Upon the completion of the project, the mentorship recipient’s film will premiere in Toronto and the recipient will be provided with an Artist Delegate Pass to attend all of imagineNATIVE’s festival programming, social and professional development activities, should they be able to attend (travel and accommodation not provided). 

Please Note: Projects must be realistic in scope and subject matter for the resources provided, as they must be completed and sent via digital file format by September 11, 2018. The NB Film Co-op will assist the artist with this. Film information and stills for publications will be required by the end of July 2018. The successful applicant will be asked to sign an agreement contract for their participation in the mentorship program.

Eligibility Criteria:

This call is open to emerging media artists and filmmakers (director and writer) of Indigenous (status and non-status First Nations, Métis, Inuit or any international Indigenous Nation) heritage living in New Brunswick

Candidates must commit to attending the NBFC training workshops from February–July, 2018. We strongly encourage applicants who are deadline-driven and self-starters

Individuals who will be working on existing commissions received by or through imagineNATIVE for the 2018 festival are not eligible to apply for this project

Preference will be given to artists who have not yet had the opportunity to work in film (Note: you do not have to be a youth, but youth may also apply)

You must live in NB within commuting distance of Fredericton in order to access NBFC workshops and equipment. Travel subsidy and cost of living are NOT covered by this mentorship

Your Application Must Include:

One-page short film idea that details the story you want to tell and how you want to tell it (visual style). Your film idea can fall under any genre: drama, documentary, experimental, music video, animation. Please include a schedule of how you plan to complete the project by the required delivery date

A half to one-page statement on why you would like to participate and how you would benefit from this mentorship program

*Please Note: with the spirit of Indigenous oral storytelling in mind, the first two (2) components of this application can alternatively be submitted as a 5 min (max) video via a private YouTube or Vimeo link*

Your bio (no resumes or CVs please). Please be certain to indicate your past experience with film, video and other artistic mediums, if any, and your Indigenous heritage

List of and CVs of additional crew other than the applicant, if applicable (must receive final approval by NBFC and imagineNATIVE before confirmation of production)

Contact info including e-mail, mailing address and phone number

Please e-mail all application materials to info@nbfilmcoop.com

The NBFC will also purchase a new WIFT-AT membership for the winner of this grant to give them the opportunity to network with a great organization. To find out more about WIFT-AT: http://wift-at.com/

PAYPAL LINKS ARE UP FOR NBFC MEMBERSHIP AND RENEWALS FOR 2018! 

Membership renewals are due in Jan/Feb annually.

If you email Cat to ask for her help with anything filmic, the first thing she will ask you to do is renew as her focus is the co-op members in good standing. The paypal links for memberships for 2017 are up on the co-op website - http://nbfilmcoop.com/content/renew

BUZZ 

NB FILM CO-OP PRESENTS: WAPIKONI, CINEMA ON WHEELS TOUR 

WHEN: Sunday, November 19, 2017, 2PM

WHERE: UNB Tilley Hall, room 102, UNB Campus (9 MacAulay Lane)

FREE TO ATTEND

The Wapikoni, Cinema on Wheels tour is part of “Wapikoni From Coast to Coast: Reconciliation Through the Media Arts”, a project under the patronage of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO and supported by the Government of Canada.

From April to November, a caravan equipped with exterior projection equipment and staffed by two facilitators will travel west to east, covering 10 Canadian provinces and stopping in 100 Indigenous communities and 50 cities. The screenings will be in English, French and Indigenous languages.

“One of Wapikoni’s most cherished dreams has come true: Making the voices of Indigenous youth who we have worked with for over 13 years echo throughout Canada, establishing a dialogue between communities of all origins through their films. These works are a unique part of Indigenous cultural heritage,” says Manon Barbeau, Executive Director of Wapikoni.

Trailer of the tour Wapikoni, Cinema on Wheels: https://vimeo.com/209573738

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wapikoni/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/wapikoni

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wapikonimobile/

For information on the screening, please feel free to contact Tony Merzetti at 455-1632 or info@nbfilmcoop.com

MONDAY NIGHT FILM SERIES: SEPT-DEC, 2017

Dear Cinephiles,

The team at the Monday Night Film Series is excited about the line-up of films!

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 $5.00 and General admission $8.00
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
Email: info@nbfilmcoop.com concerning memberships please.

See you at the movies!

Tony, Cat, John and Trish

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NOVEMBER 19 (Sunday) & 20 (Monday) 2017 7:30pm at Tilley Hall, UNB Campus

LOVING VINCENT

Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman

UK, Poland, 2017 

English 

95 minutes 

Principal Cast: Aidan Turner, Saoirse Ronan, Eleanor Tomlinson, Chris O’Dowd, Robert Gulaczyk

A feature film about the life and mysterious death of Vincent Van Gogh. 

Loving Vincent is the first fully painted biographical animated film. Each of the film's 65,000 frames is an oil painting on canvas, using the same technique as Van Gogh, created by a team of 115 painters. 

In summer 1891 Vincent Van Gogh died of a gunshot wound. Why did this ambitious young artist kill himself just as he was creating some of his finest work? What was the state of his mental health, and what was going on in his private life? He didn't leave a suicide note; he didn't write a letter; there's no first-hand evidence given by Doctor Gachet [his physician]. Vincent and his brother Theo spent several hours together before he died, and Vincent was fully lucid. But Theo never relayed in writing anything about the conversations that they had." 

They came up with a noirish detective story (featuring real people Van Gogh knew), set a year after the artist's death. The film takes in the various conflicting accounts given by residents of Auvers. It also explores the not-impossible theory that Van Gogh was murdered by René Secrétan, a local 16 year-old who enjoyed ridiculing the quiet, anti-social artist, and went as far as admitting to having given him the gun. His tragic death has long been known, what has remained a mystery is how and why he came to be shot. Loving Vincent tells that story.

Brings a poetic sense of tragedy to the last act of van Gogh's life, and fresh insight into the kind of man he was. Peter Debruge, Variety

This term, 15 limited release, independent foreign & Canadian films will be shown. Admission is $8/film, but a half-yearly $12 student film society membership reduces admission cost to $5/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.