Initiated in honour of Michelle Jackson, a young Newfoundland filmmaker and student mentor who passed away suddenly in 2008, the RBC Michelle Jackson Emerging Filmmaker Award supports emerging female filmmakers residing in Newfoundland and Labrador. The competition is open to female Newfoundland and Labrador filmmakers who have not yet directed a feature film. Applicants are asked to submit a script for a six-minute short film, a production schedule and budget. Scripts will be judged by a selected panel.

The winner will receive close to $40,000 in cash and in-kind production services for their film, and will be mentored by award-winning director and producer Anita Reilly McGee. The winner’s film will premiere on the closing night of the 23rd Annual St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival, on October 20th, 2012, at the Arts and Culture Centre.

Last year’s winner is the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council’s 2012 Artist of the Year, Ruth Lawrence, who filmed Two Square Feet, starring Jeanne Beker. The film is about a woman coping with a divorce who meets someone that changes her life forever. Allison White, an up-and-coming producer and director, was the inaugural winner in 2010. She used the prize to make Decoloured, a short film about a colour blind man whose vision is changed when he falls in love.

For instructions on how to apply for the RBC Michelle Jackson Emerging Filmmaker Award, visit the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival webpage:

http://www.womensfilmfestival.com/pg.php?p=23

The deadline to apply is June 1st, 2012.

For more information about the RBC Michelle Jackson Emerging Filmmaker Award, please contact:

Sarah Smellie
Communications and Publicity Manager
The St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival
709.754.3141 (w)
709.689-0296 (c)
sarah@womensfilmfestival.com

If you are a film maker in Atlantic Canada, whether professional, student or amateur, we invite you to submit your short films to the 2nd Annual Parrsboro Film Festival.

A jury will select films in two categories:
— shorts (more than 5 minutes but no more than 20 minutes) and
— short shorts (no more than 5 minutes)

The audience favourite in each category will receive a certificate of appreciation.

Deadline for submission is September 1, 2012. (We cannot guarantee that submissions received after September 1 will be eligible for this year’s festival.)

Our theme is films made recently (within the last 2 -3 years) in Atlantic Canada. Any genre will be considered. There is no submission fee.

The submission form can also be downloaded from The Hall’s web site.

The festival is held in our historic Hall, formerly the Presbyterian Church www.thehall.ca on King Street, in downtown Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. This year’s festival will be on October 12-14. Last year’s inaugural festival was a great success with both professional and amateur film makers in attendance.

Parrsboro is located on the beautiful north shore of the Bay of Fundy, two hours drive from Halifax. We have many amenities to make your stay enjoyable. www.town.parrsboro.ns.ca

We look forward to welcoming you to Parrsboro,
Helen Tyson
Parrsboro Film Festival Committee
P.O. Box 634
Parrsboro, NS
B0M 1S0
e-mail: helentyson@tysons-minerals.com
‘phone: (902) 728-8364
fax: (902) 728-3399

Ten provinces. Ten years. Ten spotlights. That’s the idea behind The Nickel Independent Film Festival’s Spotlight Series. Our goal is to shine the spotlight on ten short films from each of Canada’s ten provinces over the course of ten years. That’s 100 Canadian-made short films to bask in the spotlight by the time the Nickel’s Spotlight Series wraps in 2021. A special curator from each province will act as a provincial programmer, select ten splendid shorts, and send them our way. Our mission is to share the unique culture of each province and applaud the rich diversity of Canadian independent filmmaking and filmmakers.

This year we’ve decided to focus on Quebec Independent Film. Curated by Danny Lennon of Montreal.

Danny Lennon is the Director of Prends ça court! founded twelve years ago. Internationally renowned programmer, he is involved with 20 festivals and events in the province of Quebec. He participates, year round, in over 60 festivals in 24 different countries, contributing in every imaginable and possible ways to the promotion, distribution, screening and production of independent and professional shorts. Lennon is the invited programmer and in charge of the online Short Film Competition (presented by the NFB) at Festival de Cannes/Short Film Corner since 2006. He also acts as an instructor at Montreal’s Institut national de l’image et du son (INIS). He is the film curator for Montreal’s PHI Centre, distributor and sales agent for PHI Group, ambassador for short film promotion at Sodec, responsible for launching the NOT SHORT ON TALENT initiative at Telefilm Canada. All this and he still finds time to go fishing!

WARNING: PARENTAL DISCRETION IS ADVISED

SAD DAY (JOUR SANS JOIE) by Nicolas Roy

NEXT FLOOR by Denis Villeneuve

MOKHTAR by Halima Ouardiri

OPASATICA by Eric Morin

DANSE MACABRE by Pedro Pires

FISHES (LES POISSONS) by Jean Malek

TROTTEUR by Arnaud Brisebois & Francis Leclerc

LES FLEURS DE L’AGE by Vincent Biron

OF EVENTS (D’ALEAS) by Mathieu Tremblay

PRINCESS (PRINCESSE) by Frederick Tremblay

Tickets available at the LSPU Hall 753-4531 or www.rca.nf.ca

For more information please visit www.nickelfestival.com

Application deadline: 15 March 2012
(Projects must start on/after 15 May 2012)

Please visit www.nlac.ca/grants/PPGP_app.pdf for an application form, or contact the NLAC at 726-2212 or toll free 1 (866) 726-2212 (NL only).

Deadline: 5pm Tuesday January 24, 2012
Program Dates: March 05 – May 25, 2012
Theme: “SHEEP DREAMS”

The National Film Board of Canada seeks submissions from emerging (young and not-so-young) filmmakers, creative programmers and artists intrigued by animation art, for the 8th edition of Hothouse, a 12-week paid apprenticeship in full-on, all-inclusive, real-world animation filmmaking.

Edition 8 parameter: include

This year, Hothouse invites you to exploit emerging tools and technologies in your animation. In other words, take maximum advantage of new hardware, software or platforms to create your art. You might use a specific app for capture or animation. You might choose to tell a traditionally animated story on an interactive mobile OS (does the user influence the content?) You might integrate sensing devices for spatial tracking and gesture/facial/voice recognition (think GPS, Kinect, Wii, Siri etc.). Or develop a meaningful micro-narrative using existing engines and assets. To name but a few possibilities of hacking your animation!

Ultimately, the goal is to create a compelling 60-second experience driven by animation, moulded by technology.

Check out full submission details here:

http://films.nfb.ca/hothouse/?page_id=961

Thursday December 8th at 8:00pm Admission $5.00. Tickets available at the Hall 753-4531.

The Super Channel Feature Documentary Award will be awarded to two teams to assist in the development of their feature documentaries. Enter now and you could receive the following:

· 15-20 hours of mentorship with a senior feature documentary producer

· $3,000 budget to benefit your project and attend the Hot Docs Forum 2012

The director and producer must each have at least one hour-long television documentary credit, and may not have more than one feature-length (75 minutes +) documentary credit. The director and producer may be the same person provided that this person meets the above eligibility requirements regarding credits in both roles. All entrants must be Canadian citizens.

Visit www.superchannel.ca/creativeaward for our Prizes, Guidelines and Terms & Conditions and for details on eligibility, submission and prizes.

Contest closes at 5 pm on November 27, 2011. Late entries will not be accepted. Sylvie Powell MédiaLane Communications Inc. (613) 290-1497.