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XS-NRG Documentary Screening
Four ultra-marathon runners attempt to conquer the 180 km Sunshine Coast Trail, non-stop. Produced by Creative Writing MFA Shay Wilson.
 
Event Details:
Vancouver Screening: Saturday May 1, 6:00 pm to 7:00pm, with Q&A to follow and prizes to be won!
H.R. MacMillan Space Centre Auditorium, 1100 Chestnut Street.
Tickets $15 in advance from www.xsnrg.tv. They will also be available at the door, but we recommend advance purchase to avoid disappointment!

For more info email shayjwilson@gmail.com

ANNOUNCING our new film produced by Peter Prince,
with interviews with Monika Ullmann, Eve Lazarus, Claudia Cornwall, Peter Haase & Mona Fertig.

You can watch it here:
http://vimeo.com/10732232

2010 WOMEN IN FILM FESTIVAL
OPENING NIGHT SCREENING and RECEPTION

Event Details:

Saturday, April 17 at 7 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM
at Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour St (at Davie) Vancouver, BC
Members: $30, Non-Members: $25 (taxes/service charge included/complimentary appetizers)

Tickets: http://www.womeninfilm.ca/WIFF_2010_Tickets.html

Come out and support WIFTV by kicking-off our 5th annual film festival with Penelope Buitenhuis’ A WAKE on Saturday, April 17 starting at 7pm. Stay and toast the winners of this year’s Legacy Awards and WIDC $100,000 Feature Film Award at the following reception and bid on any number of our Silent Auction items!

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FINAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 22 (Deadline is “Postmarked by” = Packages can be mailed until the day of the deadline)
 
ALL SHORT CATEGORIES:Narrative, Animation, Experimental, Documentary, Spec,Music Videos,and Stereoscopic 3D. All films must have been created after January 2008, and be no longer than 30 minutes.
 
FILM FESTIVAL DATES: April 27-May 1, 2010 in Manhattan NYC MISSION &
 
OBJECTIVE :Create a New York City forum for independent filmmakers worldwide, and SELECT THE BEST SHORT FILMS IN ALL GENRES FROM AROUND THE WORLD. Aiming at becoming the most important short film festival on the East Coast, BE FILM RECOGNIZED
FOR ITS OUTSTANDING CURATORIAL WORK provides a cultural and entertaining forum while ! recognizing and honoring independent emerging filmmakers through a panel of judges from the entertainment industry who reviews the films and gives the awards.
TO SUBMIT: www.befilm.net

Super Channel Call for Applications for the Super Catalyst Emerging Screenwriter Award Contest.  The deadline for entries is January 15th, 2010. 

The Contest is also posted on  www.superchannel.ca and can be reached through the Important Information for Filmmakers tab at the bottom of the screen.

Video poems by UBC MFA graduates Amber Dawn and Fiona Tinwei Lam will be screened alongside poetry films from around the world at the upcoming SEE THE VOICE: Visible Verse Festival annually curated by Heather Haley. 

Pacific Cinematheque, 1131 Howe St, Vancouver
Thursday, Nov. 19th at 7:30 pm: 
http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/see-voice-visible-verse-2009

Community Partners for Learning Office of Community Affairs is offering:

A hands-on workshop for UBC students
Tips and tools on how to brainstorm and make your entry for the 25@25 contest and win $5000! Guest facilitators includes:
Meghna Haldar (award-winning independent filmmaker)
Jean-Michel Montsion, PhD (Research Fellow, APF Canada)
Erin Williams (Political Science, UBC)

Event Details:

Thursday, 22nd Oct., 2009
3:30pm - 7:30pm
Irving K Barber Learning Ctr, Lillooet Rm(301)
* Refreshments will be served

To reserve a spot RSVP: jessica.brunt@asiapacific.ca
More on Twitter: http://twitter.com/25at25
Facebook event: Vancouver Workshop @UBC

Two UBC Creative Writing MFA students have been nominated for awards at this year’s Leo Awards:

MFA student Peg Campbell’s film — “Your Mother Should Know” — has been nominated for Best Documentary.

MFA alumnus Terry Miles’s feature film — “When Life Was Good” — has been nominated for Best Feature Length Drama as well as Lead Performance by a Male in a Feature Length Drama and Lead Performance by a Female in a Feature Length Drama.

Full details: http://www.leoawards.com/nominees_2009.html

Congrats to Peg and Terry!

Telefilm Canada’s Western Region is once again in search of fresh, new talent.

They want to hear from filmmakers here in our own backyard with new projects ready for development, production and marketing support. If you haven’t worked with them in the past, and are curious about Telefilm’s Funds and Programs, please send them your pitch.

HERE’S HOW:

Telefilm Pitch Week in Vancouver takes place the week of April 13th, 2009.

Review the Funds and Programs on our website at http://telefilm.gc.ca.

Submit a one-page synopsis of your project via email to Julianne Lockhart at lockhaj@telefilm.gc.ca by Thursday, April 9th, 2009.

Please use Telefilm Pitch Week as the subject line of your email

A Telefilm representative will call you to confirm your meeting time. All meetings will be between 30 and 45 minutes in length.

All meetings will take place at the Telefilm Canada Vancouver office at 609 Granville, Suite 410 from 2pm to 5pm on April 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th.

Rex vs. Singh — an experimental exploration of Vancouver history and human rights — will be shown March 26 at UBC:

Debuting last year at Vancouver’s Out On Screen film festival, Rex Vs. Singh centers on a 1915 trial where two Sikh mill-workers were entrapped by undercover police, accused of sodomy and sent to trial. Themes of homophobia, racism, and corruption are prevalent throughout this 30-minute film.

Immediately following the screening, there will be a panel discussion with Brent Ingram, a local historian whose research inspired the film, UNBC Professor Dave Sangha, and one of the directors of Rex Vs. Singh and who is also a film professor at York University, Ali Kazimi.

Event Details:

Thursday, March 26 (6 - 8 pm)
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre @ UBC
(Victoria Learning Theatre)
1961 East Mall, Vancouver

Admission free.

For more information please visit: ubcacco.com