May 24-25, Screenwriting Workshop with Bill Boyle in PEI.

May 18, 2013 by Irene Duma Leave a Comment

Screenwriters! You don’t want to miss this workshop with Bill Boyle, direct from LA!

Bill is an award winning screenwriter, screenwriting instructor at UCLA Extensions, and the author of The Visual Mindscape of the Screenplay. He has been involved in the film industry in both Canada and the U.S. for over 25 years as a writer, director, agent, producer, story editor and mentor, and has been rated among the top 10% of Script Analysts and Consultants by Creative Screenwriting Magazine.

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COMING ATTRACTIONS

May 13, 2013 by Sarah MacLeod Leave a Comment

Train with Hollywood screenwriting guru Bill Boyle during the Island Media Arts Festival.

Whether you’re thinking about it or you’ve got a couple under your belt, this workshop is a unique opportunity for emerging and professional and writers to develop new skills. Women in Film and Television–Atlantic and the Island Media Arts Coop (IMAC) are jointly sponsoring two days of lectures and conversation with Hollywood producer, director, author, Bill Boyle, on the craft of writing the picture perfect screenplay. This workshop is an extension of the PEI Screenwriters’ Bootcamp.

Participants can choose to attend one or both days, as content of day one will reveal the most basic and fundamental truths about cinema and a unique approach to writing for film; and day two will include a recap of day one along with an exploitation of the visual aspects of story and ways to enhance the overall storytelling experience as well as a question and answer session on everything from how to write the kinetic logline to how to sell your script.

June 1 Deadline: Apply Today for the All Access Pass Award!

May 10, 2013 by Sarah MacLeod Leave a Comment

Ready to take your career to the next level? WIFT-AT is offering its members a chance to experience all of the film festivals Atlantic Canada has to offer, plus a weekend pass to the prestigious Women Making Waves Conference in March 2014. You have until Saturday, June 1^st to submit your application for the All Access Pass Award (AAPA).

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May 6: All Access Pass Award 2013 Now Accepting Applications!

May 6, 2013 by britany Leave a Comment

Ready to take your career to the next level? Women in Film and Television-Atlantic (WIFT-AT) is offering its members a chance to experience all of the film festivals Atlantic Canada has to offer, plus a weekend pass to the prestigious Women Making Waves Conference in March 2014. You have until Saturday, June 1st to submit your application for the WIFT-AT All Access Pass Award (AAPA). This award is given annually to a deserving WIFT-AT member working in the screen-based media whose career will be assisted by the award. (Don’t worry if you’re not yet a member of WIFT-AT, memberships are only $45 and are valid for one year. Click here to join)

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May 6: HerStory – Dominique Gusset

May 6, 2013 by britany 1 Comment

I grew up in Duncans Cove, a small coastal community just outside of Halifax, Nova Scotia. My parents were musicians who had immigrated from Québec to play with the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra. Along with another pair of musicians from the United States, they bought two old houses in what was then a dying fishing out-port, and proceeded to rebuild and re-populate the small community with their children, colleagues and friends. So my childhood was surrounded by an extended family of musicians, actors and artists.

Filed Under: HerStory, Tidings Newsletter Tagged With: AFCOOP, Atlantic Filmmakers' Cooperative, Dalhousie University, Dominique Gusset, National Film Board, NSCAD

May 6: NS Pulse

May 6, 2013 by britany Leave a Comment

By Lita Llewellyn

WIFT-AT Associate Member Chris Pauley has been busy – as owner and operator of Evil Twin Music, he composes musical underscore and sound design for films, commercials, video games, and other visual media, and this year has brought him many varied opportunities. In addition to his first feature film, Michael Ray Fox’s Roaming and the short films Irene from Vicki Donkin and Walls from Walter Forsyth (featuring a powerful spoken word piece by Halifax area poet Ardath Whynacht), he has also recently scored WIFT-AT member Dawn George’s film Adaptation and 2013 Wave Award Winner Lisa Rose Snow’s Ghost Walk. WIFT-AT’s Gretchen Kelbaugh will be amongst the next to work with Chris; Evil Twin Music has been a sponsor of Women Making Waves for the past two years, and this year $1000 worth of services will go to Gretchen’s next animated project. Chris loves exploring ways collaboration can come about, so drop him a note at chris@eviltwinmusic.ca.

May 6: NB Pulse

May 6, 2013 by britany Leave a Comment

By Cat LeBlanc

Sackville based NB Film Co-op member Linda Rae Dornan has set up her Indiegogo fundraiser to help cover the costs of post production for the doc she’s been editing -Walking with EB. It is now a rather entertaining, quirky and eventful 35 minutes – never a dull moment. It will be part of a compilation CD/DVD to be launched in the fall. The CD is music set to Elizabeth Bishop poetry and sung by Suzie LeBlanc.