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JANE LEBLANC FILMMAKER AWARD - APPLY!

(Jane LeBlanc at her sister Cat LeBlanc's wedding in 1995.)

Formerly known as the Members Give Back Award, the NB Film Co-op proudly announces the annual Jane LeBlanc Filmmaker Award. In honour of a woman who lived life to the fullest and courageously took action in making her dreams a reality. A message that will hopefully inspire the winner of this award in realizing his/her dream of making films a reality.

(Our 2018 Recipients were Upper Kingston based Brenda Malley and Saint John based Cori Brownlee) 

Jane LeBlanc Filmmaker Award ($1880.00 value) (for first or second time filmmakers)

• $200 in workshops/training from the NBFC (2020)

• $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, and the LeBlanc Family with donations from the LeBlanc family and the public. Special thanks to Film Co-op member Jan Thompson who donates every year to this award.

Submit a 4-7 page script (can not be longer) for video poem, experimental, drama or comedy along with a short paragraph talking about your hopes and dreams; what the project means to you and why the grant is important for you to apply to by October 23th, 2019, midnight to info@nbfilmcoop.com

 The New Brunswick Filmmakers’ Co-operative is a registered charity with a charity number as well as a non-profit and you will receive a charitable tax receipt by snail mail when you donate. Please consider donating to this very worthwhile filmmaker award. 

If anyone wishes to directly donate to this special award, they will receive a charitable tax receipt and mention in the award literature.

Consider donating to this every important award!

CLICK HERE to donate!

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BACKGROUND ON THE AWARD

The Jane LeBlanc Filmmaker Award sponsored by The NB Film Co-op and the LeBlanc family is in honour of NB Film Co-op Staff member Cat LeBlanc's only sister Jane who passed away in 2010 just before the Silver Wave Film Festival. Jane was a huge supporter of the NB Film Co-op and Silver Wave.

Jane was a true adventurer who lived her life to the fullest every day. Always an entertainer she was extremely popular all through school and was a champion pitcher as a teenager. Jane studied French at Collège St- Louis in Edmundston, NB for a year and then when she was 19 years old, she flew to Paris to be a nanny. Once there, she also studied French and other subjects at University. After finishing her work as a nanny, she travelled all over Europe, making friends as she went. She became an excellent sailor & photographer sailing across the Atlantic. Skydiving, ballooning, extreme water rafting, she did it all. Jane came back to Miramichi, NB and took a 6 month Travel Agency Course and then traveled by land from Texas to British Columbia.

Soon after that, she moved to Fredericton and went to St. Thomas University. After graduating from STU, she went to work at NB Liquor where she remained for many years up until her illness didn't allow her to work anymore.

Jane became very ill in 1999 just before she turned 35, and was rushed to the hospital immediately; just weeks after her father had suffered a debilitating stroke. She was operated on after it was discovered she had a brain tumour. 3 brain surgeries and 11 years later after living with Cat and Tony, after her celebration of life party, she finally lost her struggle with the disease at her mother’s home surrounded by friends and family at her bedside, she had just turned 46.

This filmmaking award is in honour of a person who did it all and always kept going without a complaint. Jane was and continues to be a true source of inspiration to her family and friends and those who met her at Silver Wave.