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Women Making Waves & the WAVE Awards
Women Making Waves Conference Women Making Waves Interested in meeting other Atlantic filmmakers, TV professionals, interactive and trans-media creators for a weekend of learning & fun? Then come join us at the 2nd Annual Women Making Waves from March 9-11 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Women Making Waves conference is all about connecting and sharing for [...]
Submit Your Nominations For The 2012 WAVE Awards
Untraditional, totally celebratory. On March 11, 2012, Women in Film and Television – Atlantic is pleased to be hosting its second annual Women Making Waves Awards Brunch. Last year was a terrific launch to these awards with outstanding women, Jean Smith, Ann Verrall, Cheryl Wagner and Cat LeBlanc, all being recognized. We are also very [...]
News Release: Call for Nominations for the 2012 Wave Awards
2012 WAVE Awards to honour outstanding Atlantic Canadian women in film, TV and new media (Halifax, Jan. 16, 2012) The WAVE Awards, honouring women in the screen industry in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Prince Edward Island, are now open for nominations. The deadline is Thursday, Feb. 2. Introduced last year [...]
MEMBER PROFILE: Ruth Lawrence
Ruth Lawrence’s work as an actor, writer and filmmaker has taken her to Ireland, France, the US, and across Canada. Her short films-Less Than Zero, Jelly Beans, Bark and Sweet Pickle- have screened across Canada and the US. As co-Artistic Director of White Rooster Theatre, she produced and performed in the Canadian tour of MonaRita, [...]
NL Pulse January 2012
Four Sisters NL Pulse by Ruth Lawrence Four Sisters, the short film by NL screenwriter Wanda Nolan, is now showing at the NSI online film festival. Her feature for Four Sisters is in development with Opportunity Knox Inc. with generous support from the NLFDC for the treatment portion of the project. Wanda is also working on a [...]
Her Story: Lori Bellefontaine
Her Story: Lori Bellefontaine I grew up in Westmount – a community not too far from Sydney, Cape Breton. The only things Westmount is really known for are the Canadian Coast Guard College and my mom’s pizza shop,”Lena’s Pizza” where I worked from the time I could make a pizza. My mom died on the [...]
WIFT-AT Programming Sneak Preview News
WIFT-AT Programming Sneak Preview News Halifax’s Reel Talk begins a whole new season of Conversations in February at Carbon Arc. Candid, generous, inspiring, challenging, these one to one conversations with wonderfully active women in the Atlantic Film industry are hosted by a different WIFT-AT member once a month. Reel Talk offers a chance to spend the [...]
Spotlight: Ashley McKenzie
Ashley McKenzie, Photo by Krista Comeau Spotlight: Ashley McKenzie by Sarah MacLeod Ashley McKenzie is quickly becoming one of Atlantic Canada’s fastest rising filmmakers. Her lively and spirited short film Rhonda’s Party, produced through AFCOOP’s Film 5 program, has screened at festivals across Canada and around the world as part of Air Canada’s enRoute Film Festival, [...]
PEI Pulse January 2012
PEI Pulse by Millefiore Clarkes MusicPEI has nominated three Island-based filmmakers for the music videos they produced for Island musicians for the 2012 PEI Music Awards. All three nominations include members of WIFT-AT!!! The videos are: Silence, Bloodhound! for Christopher Rodgers, Directed by Susan Rodgers The Way We Do’er for Boxcar Dan, Directed by Jason Rogerson and [...]
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