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

Award-winning production designer Arianna Martinez 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.

PRODUCTION DESIGN 101

(Intro - Theory)

Instructor: Arianna Martinez

February 28, Thursday, 6 pm - 10 pm

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

Fee: $25 For Film Co-op Members

$35 For Non-Members

Class Limit: 12

(Film Co-op Members are required to take this workshop before they direct/produce their own projects through the Film Co-op) 

The Production Designer conceives and creates the overall look, mood and style of the film, working in close conjunction with the Director and the DOP. This can mean adapting existing locations to ones purpose, or creating new ones from scratch.

This workshop will look at the stages of practical preparation and production on a film, dealing with restrictions of money, time and resources. 

INSTRUCTOR BIOGRAPHY

Arianna is a filmmaker, theatre artist, and educator living in New Brunswick. Her most recently screened work was Full Circle, which screened at the 2017 Silver Wave Film Festival. Her work on Rob Gray’s short film My Husband’s Jump won her the award for Excellence in Art Direction at the 2017 Silver Wave Film Festival. Her film the The Wakefield Will, which she wrote and produced also won the award for Excellence in Art Direction at the 2016 Silver Wave Film Festival.

Arianna is also one of the three 2017 recipients of the Short Film Venture Program.

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 Saint John based member Scott Brownlee for renewing his membership early for 2018! Thank you to Nick Staples from Saint John who just joined for 2018 as a brand new member for the first time. Nick received a FILM PIX scholarship a few years back that allowed him complimentary entrance into the Saint John workshop program. Now he is a member and we are pumped!

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 11, 7:30pm at Tilley Hall, UNB Campus

THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE

Aki Kaurismäki

FINLAND/GERMANY, 2017 

Finnish, English, Arabic, Swedish w/ English subtitles 

100 minutes 

Principal Cast: Ville Virtanen, Tommi Korpela, Kati Outinen 

The Monday Night Film Series presents THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE on Monday December 11th at 7:30pm in Tilley 102, UNB. 

Returning with his first feature in six years since his Film Circuit arthouse favourite Le Havre, Finnish master Aki Kaurismäki (The Man Without a Past) delivers what can be considered the second chapter of his Port Cities Trilogy. In his distinctive anachronistic, yet tonally rich style, Kaurismäki paints the unlikely bond between a Syrian refugee and a middle-aged menswear salesman. 

Khaled (newcomer Sherwan Haji) worked as a mechanic in Aleppo before fleeing in a coal ship container and accidently landing on the shores of Helsinki. He emerges from his hid­ing place covered head to toe in black dust, an alien in an unfamiliar town. Wikstrom (Sakari Kuosmanen, The Man without a Past), deeply unsatisfied with his life, leaves his prickly, alcoholic wife and offloads his remaining stock of men’s shirts to fund a career change. After taking a risk at a high-stakes poker game, Wikstrom is presented with a new breath of life that eventually connects and collides both men in an unpredictable friendship.

Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at this year’s Berlinale, The Other Side of Hope demonstrates the height of Kaurismäki’s auteurial form. Deftly mixing tragedy and wry humour, Kaurismäki builds a story of an unlikely community coming together under difficult circumstances. This idiosyncratic fable on the refugee crisis could not be more humane and timely.

“This is a world that reeks of cigarette smoke and cheap vodka, yet as always in the work of Finland's maestro of droll melancholy, the perfume that lingers longest is empathy.”

David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter

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/