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 SILVER WAVE & WIFT-AT GIVE OUT FIRST NB SALUTE TO A WOMAN WORKING IN FILM IN NB

NB Film Co-op member Nancy Lynch was awarded the first Silver Wave Salute this year at the festival. The Salute sponsored by Women in Film and Television Atlantic acknowledges a woman working in film in New Brunswick. 

Nancy is a director and screenwriter based in Fredericton NB. The last couple of months have been very busy and exciting for Nancy. In October she attended the Screenwriters Retreat in Georgetown PEI and had the opportunity to  network with other screenwriters from Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. The retreat gave her the opportunity to work on her feature film script with well-known screenwriter, producer and story editor Sharon Buckingham.

Also in October, Nancy’s short film, Side of the Road screened at the Parrsboro Film Festival and in November at the Silver Wave Film Festival.  It was an amazing night for Nancy. Side of the Road was nominated for the Lex Gigeroff Excellence in Screenwriting Award; Excellence in Cinematography; Outstanding Performance by a New Brunswick Supporting Actor and Award Winner for Outstanding Performance by a New Brunswick Actress.  

“I’m very thankful to the New Brunswick Filmmakers Co-operative and the Short Film Venture Grant Program for their financial support and to my great cast and crew for their dedication and energy. We’ve had an amazing response to the film. I am looking  forward to working and learning from other women in film. I see great things happening in 2018." Nancy Lynch

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 

UNIVERSITY OF NB STUDENTS, STAFF AND FACULTY HAD A STRONG SHOWING AT THE 17TH ANNUAL SILVER WAVE 

By UNB

Two of the three films nominated for Best New Brunswick Short Drama or Comedy were from UNB alumni or faculty, while other films received multiple nominations.

UNB Saint John bachelor of arts alumna Tracey Lavigne premiered her first film to great acclaim. Ms. Lavigne’s Glitter won Best NB Short Drama or Comedy and awards for screenwriting and picture editing along with several other nominations. It finished the weekend by winning the Viewer’s Choice Award.

Media arts & culture alumna Ashley Phinney was nominated for Excellence in Cinematography in a NB Short Film for her work on Glitter, and one of the film’s producers is another UNB alumna, Annick Blizzard. Ms. Blizzard also helped produce Cabby, which won Best Horror/Sci-Fi Short.

The festival, organized by the New Brunswick Filmmakers’ Co-operative, ran from Nov. 2 to Nov. 5, 2017, with screenings at different locations across the city, including the Charlotte Street Arts Centre,Tilley Hall on the UNB campus, and the Fredericton Boyce Farmers’ Market.

Also receiving accolades for UNB include:

Dr. Robert Gray, professor, department of English, premiered his new short film My Husband’s Jump, adapted from Newfoundland writer Jessica Grant’s Journey Prize-winning short story by English master of arts graduate Brittany Lauton. The film was co-produced by English and education alumnus Jon Dewar and Dr. Matt Rogers, an assistant professor in the faculty of education. The film won awards for Excellence in Art Direction in a NB Short Film, Excellence in Music Composition in a NB Short Film and Excellence in Cinematography in a NB Short Film, which went to Dr. Rogers. It was nominated for the Excellence in Picture Editing in a NB Short Film award, Outstanding Performance by a NB Supporting Actress in a Short Drama or Comedy and Best NB Short Drama or Comedy;

Kaitlyn Adair, bachelor of nursing alumna, captured the Jane LeBlanc Filmmaker Award for her project March 2.4;

Business administration alumnus Gordon Mihan premiered his new short film Coached, co-written with arts alumnus Thomas Wilson. The film offers an existential reflection on recreational hockey’s early morning practices and was nominated for Outstanding Performance by a NB Actor in a Short Drama or Comedy, Excellence in Sound Design in a NB Short Film, the Lex Gigeroff Excellence in Screenwriting in a NB Short Drama or Comedy and Best NB Short Drama or Comedy;

Media arts & culture alumnus Ryan O’Toole premiered his deft exploration of modern life and isolation in his short film A Ways Away, in which “an ex-socialite couple hide in a suburban mansion, avoiding the city, their old life and an unspecified threat.” It was nominated for the Excellence in Picture Editing in a NB Short Film.

The award-winning Fredericton High School student film Sticks and Stones, produced in bachelor of arts and masters in education alumna Amy Bourgaize’s English class, as part of professor Matt Rogers’ What’s Up Doc program, also had its festival premiere and was nominated for Best Student Short.

A number of students from UNB’s media arts & cultures program screened films to the festival, including Ty Giffin’s Roles, Carlee Calver’s The Pub, Kelly Soong’s What We Hide, Mackenzie Keirstead’s Help and In the Moment, produced by students in UNB professor Tony Merzetti’s film class.

Bachelor of philosophy in interdisciplinary leadership alumna Julie Frigault, bachelor of arts alumna Camille Coulombe, PhD candidate Lisa Jodoin, certificate in film production alumnus Rich MacQueen, former student Geordie Joseph and and bachelor of arts alumnus Benjamin Hayward also showcased films at the festival.

Students from UNB’s faculty of arts and Renaissance College – who worked as assistants for Dr. Gray and Dr. Rogers last summer – presented and contributed to the editing of Rogers’ short documentary Pay with a Poem, which premiered at the festival.

Media contact: Hilary Creamer Robinson

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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MONDAY NOVEMBER 27, 7:30pm at Tilley Hall, UNB Campus

TULIP FEVER

Justin Chadwick 

UNITED KINGDOM/USA, 2017 

English 

107 minutes 

Principal Cast: Alicia Vikander, Christoph Waltz, Dane DeHaan, Judi Dench 

The Monday Night Film Series presents TULIP FEVER on Monday November 27th at 7:30pm in Tilley 102, UNB. 

Based on the novel by celebrated author Deborah Moggach (These Foolish Things), Tulip Fever tells the tale of a torrid romance between a painter and a beautiful, young married woman at the height of tulip mania in 17th-century Amsterdam. Drawing from an adapted screenplay by playwright Sir Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love, Anna Karenina), director Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl) once again employs his masterful eye for detail to bring this period drama to vivid life. 

When wealthy merchant Cornelis (Christoph Waltz, Big Eyes; Inglourious Basterds) commissions a portrait of his beautiful wife Sophia (Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl; Testament of Youth), an irre­pressible passion begins to bloom between Sophia and the talented young artist (Dane DeHaan, Two Lovers and a Bear; Devil’s Knot) hired to commit her beauty to canvas. As the young star-crossed lovers hinge their future together on an investment in the risky tulip market, tensions build and deceptions abound as the stakes grow higher. 

Beautifully shot in muted palettes reminis­cent of Vermeer, Tulip Fever features quietly powerful performances from its two leads, as well as another wonderfully ominous turn from the Academy Award–winning Waltz. Dame Judi Dench also brings her infamously dry wit to the role of a surprisingly cheeky abbess. 

Tulip Fever interweaves the narrative of one of the most astonishing economic events in European history with a deeply intimate tale of desire, betrayal, and perilous ambition. As the young lovers become ever more daring in their commitment, both to each other and towards a shared future, we are reminded of that universal truth: the course of true love never did run smooth.

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.