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Reel Injun – Thursday March 25th, 2010
Mar 10th
The Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival wants to give everyone another opportunity to watch some of the films featured at the 2009 festival. All screenings are FREE and take place at the University of Winnipeg’s Eckhardt-Grammate Hall.
Thursday March 25th, 2010
Reel Injun
7:30 p.m. (94 mins)
WHAT’S NEXT FOR REEL INJUN
After successful Canadian festival premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival and imagineNATIVE, Reel Injun opened theatrically on February 19 in Toronto at the AMC Yonge and Dundas and in Vancouver at the Tinseltown, distributed by Domino Film.
Media coverage in anticipation of the theatrical premiere has been excellent, with Brian D. Johnson of Maclean’s magazine hailing the film as Reel Injun is “funny and shocking.” Todd Brown of Twitchfilm.net called the film “smart, funny, insightful and hugely entertaining,” with Nowmagazine giving Reel Injun four stars!
U.S. and festival premieres
After an appearance at two Native American film festivals, the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula, Montana (February 12-21, 2010) and the Palm Springs Native American Film Festival (March 10-14, 2010), Reel Injun will make its official U.S. premiere at the SXSW Film Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas (March 12-20, 2010). We’ll also hopefully be making a major announcement regarding U.S. distribution of Reel Injun at SXSW – but more about that as we get closer to the premiere!
There’s nothing like opening in your home town. So we’re also thrilled to be having our Montreal premiere at the prestigious International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) (March 18-28, 2010).
From then on, we’ve been booked at a growing list of festivals around the world: the Bradford International Film Festival in the United Kingdom (March 18-28, 2010), the Bermuda International Film Festival (March 19-25, 2010), the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival (March 12-14, 2010),Sapatq’ayn Cinema, the University of Idaho’s annual Native American film festival (March 25-28, 2010) and Wairoa M?ori Film Festival, New Zealand’s premiere M?ori and indigenous film festival (June 4-7, 2010).
Television debuts
In addition to all the theatrical and festival dates, we’re also looking forward to Reel Injun’s television premieres, starting of course with our wonderful co-producer, the Passionate Eye on CBC News Network, at 10 pm ET/PT on March 28, 2010.
Reel Injun is slated to premiere on U.S. TV on PBS this fall, and has also been picked up by APTN, documentary, Knowledge, SRC, ARTV, ARTE in Germany, and AVRO in Holland. Reel Injun is distributed in Europe by Films Transit International.
Stay tuned for more info!
Check out the trailer at http://www.reelinjunthemovie.com
Click here for an exclusive clip from the documentary.
2010 IMAA National Conference ON.Fire Registration Now Open!
Feb 18th
The Independent Media Arts Alliance, in collaboration with the Media Arts Network of Ontario and the IMAA’s Toronto members, is pleased to announce
that the 2010 National Conference will take place from June 15 to 19 in Toronto, Ontario at the CBC’s Glenn Gould Studio.
Conference Registration is now open through the conference web site www.onfire2010.ca. Registration is accomplished by filling out an online form.
Once you have completed the online registration process, you can choose to pay the registration fee by PayPal or by cheque.
Early Bird Registration is available until March 31st, so register now to take advantage of the discounted fee and best hotel rates.
The conference web site also contains information about the conference venue, special rates for hotel and travel, and other details. It will be updated
regularly with more information about the conference programming.
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Les inscriptions pour la Conférence nationale 2010 de l’AAMI intitulée ON.Fire sont maintenant ouvertes !
L’Alliance des arts médiatiques indépendants, en collaboration avec Le Réseau des arts médiatiques de l’Ontario et les centres membres de l’Ontario sont heureux d’annoncer que la Conférence nationale de 2010 se tiendra du 15 au 19 juin au Glenn Gould Studio de CBC à Toronto, Ontario.
Les inscriptions sont maintenant ouvertes via le site Internet de la conférence www.onfire2010.ca. Il est possible de s’inscrire en remplissant un formulaire en ligne. Une fois le processus d’inscription complété, vous pouvez choisir de payer les frais par chèque ou via PayPal.
Les inscriptions devancées sont possibles jusqu’au 31 mars. Inscrivez-vous dès maintenant afin de bénéficier d’un rabais avantageux sur les frais d’inscriptions et obtenir les meilleurs tarifs hôteliers.
Le site Internet de la conférence contient également des informations sur le quartier général de la conférence, les tarifs spéciaux pour les frais d’hôtel et de déplacement, ainsi que d’autres détails. Une mise à jour régulière du site vous permettra d’en savoir plus sur la programmation de la conférence.
NATIONAL MEDIA CREATIVITY COMPETITION – ROOTS
Jan 18th
Montreal, December 8, 2009—Everyone has a story to tell. Starting today, Radio Canada International invites all Canadians and permanent residents to tell us about their origins by entering ROOTS (or its French-language cousin RACINES), its brand-new short film and multimedia production competition.
The deadline for entries is March 7, 2010. The competition is open to amateurs and professionals alike, but you must be at least 18 years old to enter.
Simply submit a 3 to 8 minute work that speaks of your roots and touches on part of your history or an aspect of your culture. Entries can come in any form: fiction, report, documentary, animation, photomontage . . . And also in any genre: comedy, detective, drama, slam, art video . . . In short, we welcome anything unique, original, touching, or surprising that might captivate viewers and Internet users, and catch a jury’s eye!
In spring 2010, the juries appointed by Radio Canada International will select the works that best meet competition criteria: consistency with the theme, originality, artistic value and technical quality. The public will also be able to vote online for their favourite entries. A total of eight recipients (four for each language) will share prizes, to include high-tech gadgets such as camcorders, computers, iPod Touch players and iPhones.
The ROOTS competition – and its French-language counterpart RACINES – is another in a long line of Radio Canada International special projects, which have resulted in such Web series as J’adopte un pays, Voir double, L’érable à palabres as well as the Migr@tions and Digital Diversity competitions.
ROOTS gives all members of the community the opportunity to use sound and visuals to express how they feel about their past and their origins, while highlighting the contributions all cultures make to the great Canadian mosaic. Come one, come all—enter ROOTS, a Radio Canada International initiative, today.
Information, entry and rules:
Web: RCInet.ca/roots
Gimme Some Truth
Oct 13th
Gimme Some Truth
Outreach Workshops at Urban Shaman
Saturday, October 24th, 2009 – October 25th, 2009
About the Program
Gimme Some Truth is a unique, four day documentary forum that includes panel discussions, master lectures, workshops and special screenings – all intended to provide filmmakers and audiences alike the opportunity to discuss creative, ethical and technical issues related to the documentary form.
Workshop #1
Re-mixing / New Forms Using www.opensourcecinema.org
A workshop designed to introduce the basics of “Re-mixing” your own video using opensourcecinema.org. Using examples from filmmakers from Winnipeg and abroad, participants will learn the art of making “video mash ups” including how to re-edit found footage and construct their own artwork out of legally available online video content.
The class will run from 10 am – 4 pm on Saturday, October 24th, 2009 at the Urban Shaman Gallery, 203-290 McDermot Avenue. Computers and workstations will be provided. However, if participants want to bring their own laptops, there will be WiFi available.
Workshop #2
Introductory Documentary Film Production
A workshop designed to teach the basics of documentary filmmaking. The participants will be taken through the process of picking a subject, telling a story, shooting coverage, basic camera composition and interviewing techniques. There will also be examples used from completed documentaries by Winnipeg artists.
The class will run from 10 am – 3 pm on Sunday, October 25th, 2009 at the Urban Shaman Gallery, 203-290 McDermot Avenue.
