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Reel Talk Spring Line Up includes Documentary Filmmaker Meredith Ralston and Editor Kim McTaggart
Reel Talk: Conversations with Women in Film and Television spring’s line up features documentary filmmaker and MSVU professor Meredith Ralston whose film Hope in Heaven examines the lucrative and demeaning sex tourism industry in the Philippines (Friday, May 25) and Gemini-winning, Call Me Fitz editor Kim McTaggart (Friday, June 29).
The 3rd Annual RBC Michelle Jackson Emerging Filmmaker Award
The award was established to assist emerging female filmmakers residing in Newfoundland and Labrador, and it was started in honour of Michelle Jackson, a young female filmmaker who passed away very suddenly in 2008.
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Karen Wentzell introduces the "All Access Pass" Award at the 2012 Women Making Waves Conference.
The Board of Directors of WIFT-At is extremely pleased to announce the new All Access Pass Award to be given annually to a deserving female working in screen-based media whose career will be assisted by the award. The award is not limited to filmmakers, but is open to any female working in the industry whose career has reached the point where it is deemed the award will be useful in furthering the trajectory of their career.
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The 3rd Annual RBC Michelle Jackson Emerging Filmmaker Award
The award was established to assist emerging female filmmakers residing in Newfoundland and Labrador, and it was started in honour of Michelle Jackson, a young female filmmaker who passed away very suddenly in 2008.
“Mais, Oui!”
That’s what French Feminist group La Barbe (the beard) are accusing the Cannes Film Festival of. In a high-profile opinion piece published in the Le Monde this past Saturday, the article, signed by Baise Moi director Virginie Despentes, filmmaker Coline Serreau and actress Fanny Cottonçon, among others, readily accuses the event of sexism.
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Image: Becky Forbes
By Britany Sparrow
Fredericton actress Becky Forbes has been a busy little bee over the last few months. She performed in the play Oleanna by David Mamet for Nasty Shadows Theatre Company, which showed in both Fredericton and Saint John. She also acted in two New Brunswick short films, Travis Grant’s film Nick Ryan, and Chris Fulton’s film Buzz. She also had a supporting role in Jesse Anthony’s low budget feature film Skate Proof. Becky also co-directed Beauty and the Beast for George Street Middle School.
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