Patricia Rozema
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Journalist Christine McLean hosts a Conversation with Patricia Rozema – Saturday, March 5th 9:15 am
- Working with Actors – Saturday, March 5th 1:15 pm
Director, screenwriter, producer, editor. Patricia Rozema’s feature film credits include I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing, White Room, When Night is Falling, Mansfield Park and Kit Kittredge: An American Girl among others. Rozema won an Emmy Award and was nominated for a Grammy for her film Six Gestures, part of the series Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach. Her television credits include the The Beckett Film Project’s Happy Days, the pilot and 2 subsequent episodes of the HBO series Tell Me You Love Me, and most recently, an episode of the critically acclaimed HBO series In Treatment. Rozema received a PEN USA nomination and an Emmy nomination for outstanding writing for her work on the HBO movie Grey Gardens, starring Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore.
The 4 actors are:
- Lise Cormier is an actor, singer and dancer who has worked at Neptune Theatre, with the Charlottetown Festival Young Company and LunaSea Theatre Company. Her screen credits include short films Trombone Trouble, Heroes, and Stu and Fitz Go to Hell; feature films Parsley Days and Dragonwheel; Movies of the Week She’s Too Young and Homeless to Harvard; and TV series The Adventures of the Aftermath Crew. Recent voice work includes Backbencher (CBC Radio), and Elisha et les Cacaoyers (NFB).
- Kristin Langille is a graduate of the Dalhousie Theatre Program and a member of the Irondale Ensemble. For the past few years she has been delighted to dangle from ceilings and dance around with flames on her fingers (aerial silks and fire performance). She has recently begun teaching Film and Video at Cole Harbour High School. As a actor, Kristin has performed lead and supporting roles in film and television, and been a creator and performer in many local stage works. Recent credits include Stop Kiss, A Christmas Carol, and There Are Monsters.
- Anthony Black is an award-winning theatre artist who works as a playwright, director, actor, writer, designer, and as artistic co-director of Halifax’s internationally acclaimed 2b theatre company. His solo show, Invisible Atom, has toured across Canada, to Ireland, Scotland, New York City, and Australia. His newest play, When it Rains, premieres at the Bus Stop Theatre in April 2011. Anthony is a graduate of York University and the National Theatre School of Canada.
- Jim Fowler is a graduate of the Dalhousie Acting Programme. He has performed with many of this region’s theatre companies, including Two Planks and a Passion, Live Bait Theatre, Irondale Ensemble Project, Shakespeare By The Sea, Atlantic Theatre Festival, Exodus Theatre, Improv Knights, and Festival Antigonish. He has taught theatre and improvisational games workshops throughout the Maritimes, and appeared in many local film and television productions, including Chamberpiece, for which he won the 2004 Atlantic Film Festival’s Outstanding Performance award.
Christine McLean
- Journalist Christine McLean hosts a Conversation with Patricia Rozema – Saturday, March 5th 9:15 am
- Christine McLean in a conversation with Andrea Dorfman – SUNDAY, March 6th 10:30 am
Christine McLean is an award-winning Canadian journalist specializing in arts and culture. She was CBC Television’s first dedicated arts journalist in New Brunswick, hosting the “artspak” for ten years. She later wrote and directed two nationally televised documentaries for CBC’s flagship performing arts show “Opening Night”, one on internationally renowned pianist Ludmila Kneskova-Hussey; another, on the New Brunswick Youth Orchestra’s journey to Carnegie Hall. Her other credits include seven episodes of Discovery Canada’s “Frontiers of Construction” and “Stones of Fate and Fortune” series.
Christine has written a feature-length screenplay “Unravelled” and has attended the screenwriting workshop at the Summer Institute of Film and Television. She has appeared as a panellist for three seasons on CBC TV’s Short Film Face-Off. She has been a frequent judge at the Silver Wave Film Festival in Fredericton as well as a jury member for the
Canadian Screenwriting Awards.
After completing a Masters degree in the arts and culture concentration at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism last year, she joined the journalism programme at St. Thomas University in Fredericton where she teaches television and journalistic writing. She was 2010 summer host of CBC’s Information Morning radio show and CBC New Brunswick First on television and online.
Barbra Doran
- Two Generations, One Goal: Women in Documentary – Saturday, March 5th 10:45 am
Barbara Doran lives in Newfoundland and has been producing and directing films for over 25 years. She is a prolific documentary filmmaker who has worked with all the major Canadian agencies and broadcasters in Canada. Recent documentaries include Playing the Machines, To Dublin with Love, Hard Rock and Water and a biography on Gorden Pinsent titled Still Rowdy After All These Years. Barbara’s interest in the human condition, especially women’s issues have brought us to the sweatshops in Guatemala (Voices of Change), to women prisoners in Pakistan (Voices of Change Series), to serial killers on death row (The Man Who Studies Murder to AIDS workers in Soweto (Puppets Against Aids), to market women in Africa (Fair Trade), and to romance writers (The Perfect Hero). If that isn’t enough Barbara is also a respected feature film producer and she has produced such classics as Random Passage, and Love & Savagery. www.morag.ca
Millefiore Clarkes
- Two Generations, One Goal: Women in Documentary – Saturday, March 5th 10:45 am
Millefiore Clarkes is a filmmaker and documentarian from Prince Edward Island. Her passion is to capture on film, the moments in which humans reveal themselves and their essential interconnectivity. Mille has produced and directed numerous music and experimental videos but her passion is making documentaries. Her first feature documentary, Stalking Love, was produced in 2005 and played at numerous film festivals and aired on The Documentary Channel. Mille went on to produce Faces and Hands – a ten part doc web series that explores the intense and isolated world of tree planting on Canada’s West Coast. She is currently in post-production with her latest feature documentary and web series, The Telling, which is a poetic portrait of Prince Edward Island and the people who live there. www.onethousandflowers.tv
Sylvia D. Hamilton
- Two Generations, One Goal: Women in Documentary – Saturday, March 5th 10:45 am
Sylvia D. Hamilton is a filmmaker and writer who is known for her documentary films, publications, public presentations and extensive volunteer work with artistic, social and cultural organizations on the local and national levels. Her recognitions include a Gemini Award, The Portia White Prize, the CBC Pioneer Award and three honourary degrees. Her last film, The Little Black School House, explores the history of Canada’s all Black segregated schools. She also teaches part-time at the University of King’s College in Halifax.
Evan Jones
- Evan Jones stitches together creative journeys – Saturday, March 5th 1:15 pm
Evan Jones is a two-time Emmy Award® winner whose work on interactive content for television, web and games have established him as a pioneer in Alternate Reality Games, Locative Media and Interactive Documentary. Recognized as one of the ‘Top 10 New Media Groundbreakers’ according to the Bell Fund, Evan’s international clients include Microsoft, Disney, FOX, CBC, Bell and Discovery. He has taught ‘Rich Media Production’, ‘Transmedia Storytelling’ and ‘Extending TV Drama Experiences’ at the CFC, AFTRS and USC.
Cathy Grant
- Ever Dream of the All Female Production Team? Saturday, March 5th 1:15 pm
Cathy began her film career at the National Film Board of Canada in Halifax where she worked on numerous documentaries in the Production and Marketing departments until the mid 90′s. Since that time she has worked as a Production Coordinator in the Atlantic region on more than 40 productions; everything from television series like “Emily of New Moon” to “Call Me Fitz” and features films such as “Outlander” and “Amelia”. Cathy has been a member of, and actively involved with the Directors Guild of Canada for the past 10 years. Cathy divides her time between the North Shore of Prince Edward Island and Halifax.
Margaret Harrison
- Ever Dream of the All Female Production Team? Saturday, March 5th 1:15 pm
Margaret Harrison began her film and television career in 1997, by volunteering on a weekend shoot as part of AFCOOP’s Film Five Program. The next thing she worked on was Beefcake (APC) and the first season of Made in Canada (LM). She also took a number of classes through AFCOOP and MIG at the same time producing and PMing such short films as Wound Up (Film Five Award with Andrea Dorfman), In Between (NSI Prize with Daun Windover), and Quilts (Bridge Award with Brian Heighton).
2000-2001 saw several milestones for Margaret – PMing her first series (Liocracy), her first feature (My Little Eye), and the birth of her first child (Jack). She has gone on to be one of Nova Scotia’s busiest and highly-regarded Production Managers, with credits including Amelia, The River King (during which she was pregnant with her second child, Emma), Whirligig, and most recently, Season II of Call Me Fitz.
Margaret has taught Production Management at the NSCAD Film Studies Program and continues to be a mentor to young filmmakers. In her words, “It’s amazing to work in a place I love, in an industry I love, and with people I love.”
Maggie Thomas
- Ever Dream of the All Female Production Team? Saturday, March 5th 1:15 pm
Maggie Thomas has been a script supervisor for just over 20 years. She began in Toronto where she was trained at the union ACFC and did her apprenticeship on set there, working on one film before she moved to Nova Scotia in 1989. Since then she has worked on films and TV mostly in Nova Scotia but also in Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Manitoba, British Columbia, Iqaluit, Malta and London, England. Maggie loves the job because it involves story telling and she loves telling stories.
Jennifer Stewart
Ever Dream of the All Female Production Team? Saturday, March 5th 1:15 pm
Production Designer Jennifer Stewart is a Prince Edward Islander who now lives and works out of Halifax. She trained as a ballerina (graduate of the prestigious Royal Winnipeg Ballet Professional Division), and was educated as an architect. While practicing architecture in Halifax, she was dared by a friend to interview for a drafting position on the film, “A – The Scarlet Letter.” Surprised to be offered the job, she was instantly hooked on the process of designing for film. Five years later she made her Production Design debut with the hit indy feature, “Scotland, PA.” Some notable projects include the award winning mini-series, “Trudeau,” the TV series “Snakes and Ladders,” (for which she won a DGC award), and the Emmy nominated TV movie “Homeless to Harvard.” She was nominated for both a Gemini and DGC award for the mini-series “Trudeau II,” and won a DGC award for the mini-series, “October 1970.” She is currently in prep for season 2 of the TV series, “Haven.”
Dominique Gusset
Ever Dream of the All Female Production Team? Saturday, March 5th 1:15 pm
Dominique Gusset has worked in the film industry for over 25 years. She started as a camera assistant and has worked on numerous documentaries, dramas, feature films, commercials and music videos, travelling to Africa, Europe, Australia and across North America. Since 2005 she has been shooting documentaries full-time for various broadcasters and independent producers, on a wide-range of topics in the arts, the environment, and human/cultural issues. Some of her credits include: “Black Mother, Black Daughter” (NFB 1989), “Dance Atlantic” (Bravo 2005), “Kink V” (Showcase 2006), “Roméo Savoie – la peinture au corps” (Radio-Canada/ ARTV 2010).
Flora Planchat
Ever Dream of the All Female Production Team? Saturday, March 5th 1:15 pm
Over the past twenty years Gaffer/Best Boy Flora Planchat has worked in the entertainment industry in Film, Theatre, Circus, and Rock & Roll. After graduating from Concordia University she returned to St. John’s and worked as Best Boy on her first feature The Bingo Robbers. Since then she has worked on over forty productions in Atlantic Canada including The Shipping News, Random Passage, Down to the Dirt, and most recently as the gaffer on the CBC series Republic of Doyle.
Darlene Lewis
- Ever Dream of the All Female Production Team? Saturday, March 5th 1:15 pm
Darlene, a set decorator, originally from Ontario, began her professional career as a Theatre Technician. She had the privilege of working at such theatres as Taragon, Theatre Passe Muraille, Adelaide Court, Young People’s, The St. Lawrence Centre, The National Ballet, Centaur, Saidye Bronfman, and Theatre New Brunswick to name just a few. Working her way east from Toronto to Montreal, Fredericton and Halifax, she spent 3 seasons at Neptune, a time which spanned the John Neville years.
Heading back to Toronto she was approached to work freelance in film and television. Enjoying this new media she began working on a wide variety of projects. She was eventually hired by CBC Television. She spent the following 7 years working for the CBC in the Art’s and Entertainment Dept., Special Events and Sports departments,working on a wonderful mix of shows.
After 7 great years with CBC, life (and a partner from NS) brought her once more back to Halifax. Her first project back in Halifax, thirteen years ago, was This Hour Has 22 Minutes. She spent 6 seasons on the show alternating her time on it with 5 seasons of Rick Mercer’s Made In Canada as well as other shows. Sex Traffic, G-Spot, Amelia,Trudeau II, October 1970, One Heart Broken Into Song, Poor Boys Game, Just Buried, Call Me Fitz Season 1, Haven Season 1 are a few she’s had the pleasure to work on. She just finished Call Me Fitz Season 2 and is currently in prep for Haven Season 2.
Donna Davies
- The ROAR about Horror – Saturday, March 5th 3:30 pm
Donna Davies is a filmmaker from Prince Edward Island who has written, directed and produced dozens of films. Her work includes more than 25 documentaries and several short dramatic films. Her films have aired on CBC, Bravo, Space, Global, The Independent Film Channel and Starz US and have screened at festivals world-wide. Documentary work include Kitchen Goddess and A Sigh & A Wish, both produced by the National Film Board of Canada, Childhood Lost, the Story of Canada’s Home Children, the Shadow Hunter series, Zombiemania, a look at the proliferation of zombies in popular culture, and Pretty Bloody, a foray into the world of female generated horror. Donna is currently production with her latest feature documentary Nightmare Factory to air on the Movie Network this fall.
Miriam Elchanan
- The ROAR about Horror – Saturday, March 5th 3:30 pm
Miriam Elchanan currently serves as Senior Vice President of Sales and Acquisitions at Fabrication Films and has been with Fabrication since its inception. Ms. Elchanan is responsible for overseeing the company’s worldwide film and television distribution opportunities, including its theatrical releases. Ms. Elchanan has over a decade of experience in international film distribution, marketing and production. Among the many titles that she has been involved with include Nine Dead starring Melissa Joan Hart, Caught in the Crossfire starring Chris Klein and Curtis “50 Cent Jackson” and Waking Madison starring Elizabeth Shue and Sarah Roemer. Ms. Elchanan has received credit on such films as the Independent Spirit Award nominated Conversations With Other Women starring Helena Bonham Carter and Aaron Eckhart, The Californians starring Noah Wylie and Ileana Douglas, Once Upon a Wedding starring Esai Morales, Kuno Becker and A Martinez and the theatrical documentary La Tropical directed by Pulitzer prize winner David Turnley. Ms. Elchanan previously worked as Director of Worldwide Distribution at Outrider Pictures where she was responsible for the acquisition and distribution of over 100 films, including the theatrical release of such highly regarded films as The Business of Fancy Dancing (the sequel to the highly successful Sundance hit Smoke Signals) and Bartleby starring Crispin Glover which opened to rave reviews in New York. Ms. Elchanan began her career working in the international sports management and talent agency industry where she represented children and various sports related talent, including the Dallas Cowboys on numerous advertising campaigns.
Sarah Dunsworth
As the child of two actors, Sarah Dunsworth spent her formative years hanging out backstage at plays and on various movie sets. At the age of 9 she co-starred in James Nichols gruesome thriller “And When I Wake” at Neptune. This first taste of stage blood was to set the scene for her preference for all things horror.
Sarah has worked in various roles in the film industry – as an assistant director for more than a decade, as a lead actor on the local television show turned cult hit Trailer Park Boys, and more recently in the costume department.
In the last several years she has jumped on to the Davies / Cotteril / Eisener team of lovable nutcases and was covered in blood on screen and off in “Treevenge”, a gory short film about death by Christmas trees.
Sarah was the Costume Designer on the same teams feature film “Hobo With a Shotgun” that recently opened at Sundance to rave reviews.
Lauren Oostveen
Lauren has worked at the Nova Scotia Archives since 2007 where she has taken on large-scale film digitization projects and brought some of the country’s oldest film to the internet. When she isn’t putting old stuff online, she writes a horror/cult/b-movie column with a local edge called SMASH CUT for the Chronicle Herald.
Andrea Dorfman
- Christine McLean in a conversation with Andrea Dorfman – SUNDAY, March 6th 10:30 am
Writer/Director/Cinematographer/Animator
Andrea Dorfman is an artist and filmmaker based in Halifax, NS. After making several short experimental and dramatic films, Dorfman then produced, wrote, shot and directed her first feature film, Parsley Days (2000). It premiered to great acclaim at the Toronto International Film Festival and was named one of Canada’s Top Ten. Following this she directed three seasons of the award-winning CBC-TV series “Street Cents” from 2000 to 2003 and then Dorfman made her sophomore feature Love That Boy (2003), which drew consistently positive reviews upon its release and was screened at festivals around the world. This was followed by her short film, There’s A Flower in my Pedal (2004) which received the runner up to Best Short at the Toronto Film Festival ’05. Her first documentary, Sluts (2005) made for the IFC and Life Network, explores the mythology surrounding high school students labeled ‘slut’, won Best Documentary at the Atlantic Film Festival (’05). Dorfman is currently working in animation, having recently finished her award winning film with the National Film Board, Flawed. She is currently in development on her third feature, Harmony and is working on another animation at the NFB. Dorfman is also a part time instructor in film and video at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and is the co-creator of Blowhard, a thematic storytelling series running in Halifax for the past two years.
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