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Reel Talk’s Spring Line Up

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, [...]

NIFTY Links of the Week

Call for Entries 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. The winner will receive close to $40,000 in cash [...]

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All Access Pass Award Details

WIFT-Atlantic is now accepting applications for this inaugural award!   We are seeking female WIFT-AT members who are: Working in screen-­‐based media in Atlantic Canada Have worked on three professional short or feature length films, documentaries, television shows, videos or digital media projects (these projects must have received distribution of some kind) Canadian citizens or [...]

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The All New WIFT-AT All Access Pass Award

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 [...]

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PROFIL D’UN MEMBRE: Pamela Gallant

Who am I? I`m an independent filmmaker, an Islander, born and raised in PEI.   Where am I based? I lived many years “away” and now reside on the other side of the Northumberland Straight in beautiful Cap-Pelé, New Brunswick.   What do I do?  I direct, edit and shoot documentaries and work in fiction [...]

Nifty Links of the Week: May 15, 2012

Call for Entries 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. The winner will receive close to $40,000 in cash [...]

Is the Cannes Film Festival Shutting Women Directors out?

“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. [...]

NB Pulse - Becky Forbes

May Tidings NB Pulse

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 [...]

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WIFT-AT Event Spotlight: Le Temps de Vivre

Pam Gallant On April 10, 2012, honourable WIFT-AT member and talented and experienced filmmaker Madame Annett Wolf presented her exceptional film on the renowned Belgian singer-songwriter, Jacques Brel, at the Aberdeen Cultural Centre in Moncton, New Brunswick. Sixty people attended the cabaret-style event, which offered wine and cheese, a fascinating presentation by Mme Wolf and [...]

PEI Pulse

May Tidings PEI Pulse

Millefiore Clarkes The Island Media Arts Festival 2012 Just a note to remind you of the wonderful events approaching for the Island Media Arts Festival across PEI! Everything is up online now and easy to access. You can check out the films playing, the workshops offered, and the really cool panels and presentations on the [...]

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