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 SWFF AWARD WINNER TO TEACH DIRECTING IN 2018 NB FILM CO-OP WORKSHOP PROGRAM

Award-winning filmmaker Tracey will be teaching one of the required workshops in the 2018 NB Film Co-op workshop program in Fredericton. There are three workshop programs hosted by the NB Film Co-op annually (Fredericton, Moncton and Saint John). The Fredericton workshop program will start in late February, and the Moncton and Saint John workshops will roll out in early April of 2018.

THE DIRECTOR’S PERSPECTIVE

(Intro)

Instructor: Tracey Lavigne

March 14, Wednesday, 6 pm - 10 pm

Location: New Brunswick Film Co-op, 732 Charlotte Street, basement resource centre, Fredericton 

Fee: $25 For Film Co-op Members/$35 For Non-Members

(Film Co-op Members are required to take at least one directing course before they direct/produce their own projects through the Film Co-op)

Class Limit: 12

Using a combination of presentation, discussion and practical exercises, the workshop will cover filmmaking from the director’s perspective. This workshop will also cover working with actors and how to elicit the best performance from them.

The workshop is especially useful for those new filmmakers who are interested in writing, producing and directing their own material. 

INSTRUCTOR'S BIOGRAPHY

Tracey was a recipient of the Jane LeBlanc Award in 2016 for the script for her directorial debut, "Glitter". "Glitter" won multiple awards at the 2017 Silver Wave Film Festival, including Best Short Drama, Excellence in Screenwriting, Excellence in Editing, and the Viewer's Choice Award, as well as nominations in every category.

IN MEMORY - ISAAC 'THE PUMA' MILLER

Isaac and his sisters 

Recently the NB Film Co-op remembered our beloved Isaac 'The Puma' Miller who left us far too soon at a very young age. (he would have been 18 recently. Isaac passed away when he was 14)

Isaac was a 14 year old brilliant lad, creative in filmmaking and the master of his domain in skateboarding. We knew him as Isaac ‘The Puma’ Miller.

Isaac was into music and photography as well and many other things, creative soul that he was. Many in the NB Film Co-op community loved having him involved. He so enjoyed taking NB Film Co-op workshops, making films in the NBFC Kids Film Camps, doing the annual Fredericton 48 Hour Film Competition, and shredding it up on his skateboard. He is now making things happen in that big film studio/skate park in the great beyond. We had talked to him about joining the Film Co-op when he was 16 years old and alas, it is not to be, and it is our great loss.

A grade 9 student at Fredericton High School, Isaac was the son of Dr. Jane Touchie and Andrew Miller (stepmom - Deanna Musgrave) and the much-loved younger brother to Lucy and Ella Miller.

Isaac was born in Fredericton and enjoyed life to the fullest in all his pursuits. Isaac's travels led him to Halifax, numerous locales in New Brunswick and Maine and as far as South Carolina where he would seek out and enjoy skateboard parks. Isaac was a beloved member of the Quaker community.

Isaac loved time with his family and spent time camping and enjoying his family cottages at Grand Lake and on Ram Island, Maine. Isaac defined his own style and was known for doing everything in his unique, creative way. He showed incredible passion, intensity and dedication to his diverse interests. He was a popular young man with many friends who appreciated his artistic and athletic skills. It was his joy to debate any topic his easy smile, humour and wit. He was known as the Puma to his friends and the fans of his videos.

His mother Jane knows that his kind, loving personality will be remembered by all who knew him. Wherever he went, and with whomever he met, Isaac always brought smiles and happiness. Isaac was a force of peace, kindness and joy in the world.

“Isaac's first genuine passion was skateboarding, through which he learned the values of perseverance, skill, patience and style. To share and document this activity, Isaac began making skate videos. Through this initial experience he began to furiously learn everything he could about the art-form, branching to photography and more sophisticated film projects. He was a friendly and social fellow and loved the team aspect of working on dramatic films, his visually-oriented personality was well suited to DP and his perfectionism came in handy when editing. Isaac's personality was fairly laid-back, but he was very meticulous about his approach to filmmaking right from the beginning. As he grew a little older and became a young man, his sense of humour and irony matured, he had many interesting (some bizarre) film ideas for the future.” (Andrew Reid Miller, Isaac’s father, Deanna Musgrave, Isaac’s stepmom)

Remembrances

“Isaac 'ThePuma' Miller, that is how he introduced himself that first day we attended the NBFC film class together in Saint John. My first though was oh great...now I have to sit here with a kid who was the same age as my son and how was I ever going to get what I wanted from this class. Well was I surprised.This kid had talent, was articulate, knew way more than I did about filmmaking and had much better equipment to make those films...I was in awe of this young filmmaker and his technical skills and his love for film and sharing his skateboard videos. He taught me so much through his presence at those courses. I am so sorry for your loss... What I want you to know is that Isaac left an imprint on my heart, we were both starting on a journey of film making although at different ages, I was 46 at the time and Isaac was 13. Those were fun days in class and Isaac made them richer.”

— Elaine Shannon, Saint John based NB Film Co-op member filmmaker

Happy Birthday Isaac.

Video the Co-op produced in his memory in 2014: https://vimeo.com/85946151

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

Thank you to Pamela Gallant (Moncton) and Laura Turnbull (Tobique First Nation) for renewing early for 2018!

BUZZ 

MAMMOTH DOC/WEB SERIES LAUNCHES INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN

CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT THE FILM: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-capital-project-a-music-documenta...

THEIR VIDEO: https://vimeo.com/245050231

After an exhausting year of filming, RayneMaker Productions have entered the final stages of production for The Capital Project, a film and web series that is both a documentary on Fredericton’s vibrant music scene and a broad overview of the support networks and diversity that exist in scenes from coast to coast.

To date, director Tim Rayne, producer Arthur Thompson and their mobile film crew have captured performances and interviews from dozens of Fredericton musicians past and present across several genres.

The project received initial funding through Telefilm Canada with help from the Province of New Brunswick. But since that time, Rayne and Thompson have watched the project evolve into something much larger than they originally anticipated.

“Our original funding was based on producing eleven 7-minute episodes for a web series,” said Rayne, “but once we got started, I found the story that needed to be told is much bigger.”

The project’s reach stretches far beyond Rayne, Thompson and the artists they’ve featured. To date, the company has employed close to 40 people as members of the film’s production crew hiring local camera operators, sound technicians, admin staff as well as various temporary location staff. They have also worked closely with several local businesses including Signature Sound, Theatre New Brunswick, Ginger Design, The Recordery and Atlantic Media Works.

“The Capital Project has expanded significantly from what was originally projected,” said Rayne. “Instead of covering 10 bands, we have covered 100 interviews and performances. We have also interviewed many important contributing members of the music scene, past and present, to tap into some of the rich history and culture of the Fredericton/New Brunswick music scene.”

The full documentary film is scheduled to premiere at The Fredericton Playhouse on April 20, 2018, with a web-series beginning in early 2018 through Grid City Magazine.

“Much of the work left includes shooting some key interviews, some documentary footage, and a great deal of video and sound editing,” said Rayne.

To help move the project through the final stages of development, The Capital Project team have launched an Indiegogo campaign and are seeking the support from the public.

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 DECEMBER 5TH, 7:30pm at Tilley Hall, UNB Campus

DIVINE ORDER

Petra Volpe

SWITZERLAND, 2017 

German, English, Italian, Swiss German w/ English subtitles 

96 minutes 

Principal Cast: Marie Leuenberger, Maximilian Simonischek, Rachel Braunschweig

The Monday Night Film Series presents THE DIVINE ORDER on Monday December 4th at 7:30pm in Tilley 102, UNB. 

Switzerland, 1971: Nora is a young housewife and mother who lives with her husband and their two sons in a peaceful little village. Here, in the Swiss countryside, little or nothing is felt of the huge social upheavals that the movement of May 1968 has caused. Nora's life, too, has been unaffected; she is a retiring, quiet person, well liked by everyone - until she begins to campaign publicly and pugnaciously for women's right to vote, an issue that will be put before the male voters on February 7th, 1971. 

The long-fought battle for women’s suffrage in America ended in 1920, but it wasn’t until 1971 that Switzerland granted its female population the right to vote. “The Divine Order” revisits this fight for equality through the fictional lens of a housewife in one of the country’s remote villages, where her mounting desire for autonomy and actualization is opposed by backward-thinking cretins of both genders. Petra Volpe’s cine-history lesson remains a mainstream crowd-pleaser adept at inspiring and amusing in equal measure.

No prior knowledge of Switzerland’s political evolution is necessary, and thanks to its director’s sturdy guidance and Leuenberger’s fine lead performance as Nora, whose resolve is colored by doubt and trepidation, the film never feels stilted or preachy; rather, it radiates an infectious admiration for the courage shown by its heroines in the face of immense obstacles.

The Divine Order tells a story of belated female emancipation. A timely reminder of the long, hard-fought battles women have waged throughout history   Economist

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.

 ANONYMOUS ZOMBIE TO PREMIERE IN SAINT JOHN

Fresh From Berlin, Germany,  where it WON BEST FEATURE, and after it's New Brunswick premiere at the 2017 Silver Wave Film Festival, horror film Anonymous Zombie will now have its SAINT JOHN premiere on DECEMBER 16th, SATURDAY.

Anonymous Zombie, stars James Mullinger, Jesse LaPointe, Courtney Arsenault & Kyle Wills. The Film is directed by NB Film Co-op member Richard MacQueen and written by Adam Bunce. It is produced by MacQueen and fellow co-op member Nathan Savage.

The film plays Saturday December 16th @ 7 PM. Doors open at 6:30 PM . TICKETS available on TICKET PRO or at SJTC, 112 Princess Street, Saint John.

To get tickets and for more information on the Screening,

https://www.facebook.com/events/1959144484407550/

SAINT JOHN SHORT FILM SCREENINGS - CANADIAN & INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS

Canada Shorts 2017 is delighted to invite you to two free screening events on Saturday Dec 9th in Saint John (N.B.) of an outstanding selection of award winning Canadian and International short films.

The shorts being screened are best-of-category and award winners at Canada Shorts. They include short films from Canada, United States, Chile and Belgium.

The screenings will take place in the elegant Mary Oland Theatre of the New Brunswick Museum.

The screenings will be in two blocks on Saturday Dec 9th:

(a) Block #1 ... Dec 9, 11am to 1pm

These shorts will be screened during this block:

Grand Prize: The Swan by Jonas Karasek

Best Drama: Spinosaurus by Tessa Hoffe

Best Action: Rescue Before Dusk by Samuel Lee

Best Suspense: Save by Iván Sáinz-Pardo

Best Comedy (tie): In a Dream by Edina Kishonthy

Best Comedy (tie): Hell Of A Gap by Caitlin English

Best Horror (tie): The Cop Cam by Isaac Rodriguez

Best Horror (tie): The Jitterman by Alex Mathieson

(b) Block #2 ... Dec 9, 2pm to 4pm

These shorts will be screened during this block:

Best Canadian Short: Twice Upon a Time by Vojin Vasovic

Best Documentary (tie): Being Change by Toni Houston

Best Documentary (tie): Human Portraits by Mark Pimentel and Porfirio

Fernando Castillo

Best Experimental Film: In-Shadow by Lubomir Arsov

Best Cinematography: Diana Yifei Dai for If

Best Score: Armando Fierro & Tobias Bartsch for Iridescence

Tickets are free and available here:

Tickets for Block #1

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/canada-shorts-2017-canadian-and-internationa...

Tickets for Block #2

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/canada-shorts-2017-canadian-and-internationa...

All films will be screened in English, or utilize English sub-titles when appropriate.

Some shorts may not be suitable for children.

For additional details see the Canada Shorts website:

http://canadashorts.com/2017.php

The Mary Oland Theatre is located in the New Brunswick Museum, 1 Market Square, Saint John, NB E2L 4Z6.

Adam Fairchild, Director of Programming

Canada Shorts

http://CanadaShorts.com/