Thursday, March 31, 2011
Festivals HIFF screens Metropolis and much more
AFCOOPs Halifax Independent Film Festival opens wide on Saturday
Posted by Carsten Knox on Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 4:00 AM
HIFF opens this week, and hopefully you’ll have seen the story on The Coast’s film page---or elsewhere on this site---about the CFAT Scholarship Anniversary Screening happening at HIFF next week. Organizer Greg Morris-Poultney sent out this handy Festival-At-A-Glance list, or you can go to hiff.ca for more detail on all the events.
SATURDAY APRIL 2
7PM SCREENING: Metropolis (King’s College)
9PM HIFF2011 Opening Party (King’s College)
SUNDAY APRIL 3
2PM ARTIST TALK: Conversations on Metropolis(King’s College)
5PM PRESENTATION: HIFF Youth Animation Project (The Lord Nelson)
5PM SCREENING: Images for Untrained Eyes Experimental Films for Kids (The Lord Nelson)
7PM SCREENING: Stone Time Touch (The Lord Nelson)
9PM PRESENTATION: 18 Days (The Lord Nelson)
MONDAY APRIL 4
2PM ARTIST TALK: Gariné Torossian (The Lord Nelson)
7PM SCREENING: Gariné Torossian Retrospective (The Lord Nelson)
9PM SCREENING: Artists in This Place/Old and New (The Lord Nelson)
TUESDAY APRIL 5
7PM SCREENING: Atlantic Canada Showcase (The Lord Nelson)
9PM SCREENING: AFCOOP 2nd Filmmaker in Residence Presents: OFF ROUTE 2 (The Lord Nelson)
WEDNESDAY APRIL 6
2PM PRESENTATION: Meet The Funders (The Lord Nelson)
2PM ARTIST TALK & SCREENING: Sharon Switzer (NSCAD University Film School)
7PM SCREENING: Dance On Screen (The Lord Nelson)
9PM CFAT 20TH Anniversary Screening (The Lord Nelson)
THURSDAY APRIL 7
2PM PRESENTATION: Meet The Funders (The Lord Nelson)
3PM ARTIST TALK: Brenda Longfellow (Dalhousie University)
7PM SCREENING: Brenda Longfellow Retrospective (Carbon Arc Cinema)
9PM SCREENING: WIFT-AT Women in Atlantic Canada (The Lord Nelson)
FRIDAY APRIL 8
3PM ARTIST TALK AND SCREENING: John Greyson (Dalhousie University)
7PM SCREENING: John Greyson Retrospective (The Lord Nelson)
9PM HIFF2011 CLOSING RECEPTION featuring FILM-E-OKE and Performance by Dance Movie (The Lord Nelson)
One of the many screenings we're excited about is the opening night showing of Fritz Lang's science fiction classic Metropolis, to be screened with live musical accompaniment on Saturday, April 2, 7pm in Alumni Hall, New Academic Building, University of King's College, 6350 Coburg Road. (There will be a $5 suggested donation at the door.) The HIFF opening reception will follow the screening also at King's, in the G. Peter Wilson Room. The musicians to play along to Metropolis include Lukas Pearse, Tim Crofts, Geordie Haley and D'Arcy Gray. Then on Sunday, April 3 at 3pm, Gordon McOuat, associate professor of humanities at King’s College will host a discussion on Metropolis with special guests in the KTS Lecture Hall, also at King's.
7PM SCREENING: Metropolis (King’s College)
9PM HIFF2011 Opening Party (King’s College)
SUNDAY APRIL 3
2PM ARTIST TALK: Conversations on Metropolis(King’s College)
5PM PRESENTATION: HIFF Youth Animation Project (The Lord Nelson)
5PM SCREENING: Images for Untrained Eyes Experimental Films for Kids (The Lord Nelson)
7PM SCREENING: Stone Time Touch (The Lord Nelson)
9PM PRESENTATION: 18 Days (The Lord Nelson)
MONDAY APRIL 4
2PM ARTIST TALK: Gariné Torossian (The Lord Nelson)
7PM SCREENING: Gariné Torossian Retrospective (The Lord Nelson)
9PM SCREENING: Artists in This Place/Old and New (The Lord Nelson)
TUESDAY APRIL 5
7PM SCREENING: Atlantic Canada Showcase (The Lord Nelson)
9PM SCREENING: AFCOOP 2nd Filmmaker in Residence Presents: OFF ROUTE 2 (The Lord Nelson)
WEDNESDAY APRIL 6
2PM PRESENTATION: Meet The Funders (The Lord Nelson)
2PM ARTIST TALK & SCREENING: Sharon Switzer (NSCAD University Film School)
7PM SCREENING: Dance On Screen (The Lord Nelson)
9PM CFAT 20TH Anniversary Screening (The Lord Nelson)
THURSDAY APRIL 7
2PM PRESENTATION: Meet The Funders (The Lord Nelson)
3PM ARTIST TALK: Brenda Longfellow (Dalhousie University)
7PM SCREENING: Brenda Longfellow Retrospective (Carbon Arc Cinema)
9PM SCREENING: WIFT-AT Women in Atlantic Canada (The Lord Nelson)
FRIDAY APRIL 8
3PM ARTIST TALK AND SCREENING: John Greyson (Dalhousie University)
7PM SCREENING: John Greyson Retrospective (The Lord Nelson)
9PM HIFF2011 CLOSING RECEPTION featuring FILM-E-OKE and Performance by Dance Movie (The Lord Nelson)
One of the many screenings we're excited about is the opening night showing of Fritz Lang's science fiction classic Metropolis, to be screened with live musical accompaniment on Saturday, April 2, 7pm in Alumni Hall, New Academic Building, University of King's College, 6350 Coburg Road. (There will be a $5 suggested donation at the door.) The HIFF opening reception will follow the screening also at King's, in the G. Peter Wilson Room. The musicians to play along to Metropolis include Lukas Pearse, Tim Crofts, Geordie Haley and D'Arcy Gray. Then on Sunday, April 3 at 3pm, Gordon McOuat, associate professor of humanities at King’s College will host a discussion on Metropolis with special guests in the KTS Lecture Hall, also at King's.
Festivals James MacSwain rocks Toronto's Images Festival
Halifax animator featured filmmaker at experimental fest
Posted by Carsten Knox on Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 4:00 AM
Halifax animator James MacSwain, who you may recall from a retrospective at the AGNS in 2005, is the 2011 Canadian Artist Spotlight featured filmmaker at the Images Festival, running from today, March 31 to April 9 in Toronto.
Images Festival is North America's largest festival of independent and experimental media. It's showcasing six films from MacSwain's thirty-year oeuvre, including his most recent work, The Fountain Of Youth (2010).
The Canadian Artist Spotlight screening is Friday, April 1 from 9pm-10pm at Workman Arts, St Parrish Hall, 651 Dufferin Street.
In addition to his screening, MacSwain will be on a panel with Canadian video artist Steve Reinke to discuss his creative process on April 6 at the Gladstone Hotel, and conduct a master class workshop with the Toronto Animation Images Society (TAIS) on April 10. Check out the Images website for more information, anyone who happens to be in Toronto.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Festivals Andrea Dorfman's Flawed screens in Cleveland
Short a part of 35th Celeveland International Film Festival
Posted by Carsten Knox on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:00 AM
Halifax filmmaker Andrea Dorfman (Love That Boy, How To Be Alone) has a recent short, Flawed, an animated/live-action treat about a woman facing up to physical insecurities, showing tonight at the Cleveland International Film Festival. For anyone in Ohio who wants to show some Haligonian love.
Four Eyed Monsters screens at Carbon Arc this week
See Susan Buice and Arin Crumley's odd romance on Thursday night
Posted by Carsten Knox on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:00 AM
Something for lovers of adorably nerdy love stories and online romance, Carbon Arc is showing Four Eyed Monsters (2005), and describes it thusly:
"Arin and Susan met online and fell in love through emails, notes, videos, and pictures. As their intimacy grew, so did their fears. Neglect, cheating and jealousy force the couple to question if they were ever actually in love or just engaged by their artistic collaboration together. As they try to escape the reality they've created together, they are forced to finally address the question that kept them committed for so long in their romance and in their collaboration: What is love?"
Here's the trailer. It's so adorable it makes my teeth ache. But that's probably because indie urban hipster culture has taken over the world since 2005. This may have been its beginning.
Carbon Arc is the next best thing to a rep cinema in Halifax, with screenings most Thursdays and some Fridays at The Khyber, 1588 Barrington Street, third floor. It starts at 8PM, $6.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Shooting Haven goes to camera
A second season for the popular Stephen King-based series
Posted by Carsten Knox on Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:00 AM
Starting up in Chester, Nova Scotia this Friday, April 1 is the second season of Haven, shown on SyFy in the United States and Showcase here in Canada. It's produced locally by David MacLeod and Big Motion Pictures.
The series, based on the Stephen King supernatural novel The Colorado Kid and starring Nicholas Campbell, Emily Rose and Lucas Bryant, had a popular 13-episode run last year. The new season will also be 13 episodes.
It starts up just as Clattenburg's picture--- formerly The Men Who Move Furniture, we now understand it's called The Guys Who Move Furniture---concludes its shoot at the end of the week.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Festivals Eva Madden-Hagen goes Hollywood
Halifax filmmaker attends screening of short at Los Angeles film festival
Posted by Carsten Knox on Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 4:00 AM
A friend to Haliwood Insider, Eva Madden-Hagen let us know that she'll be heading down to LA for the Los Angeles Women’s International Film Festival. (For more information on the festival, click here.)
Madden-Hagen's latest short film, What Remains (which was made with help from the CBC/Film Nova Scotia Bridge Award) was selected to screen at the festival. It plays on Tuesday, March 29 at the Laemmle Sunset 5 in Hollywood. (That’s on Sunset Boulevard. NBD.)
"We are very excited to be a selected," reports Madden-Hagen, who says there are only two other Canadian shorts in the festival. "I can’t wait to get to LA and check out all the other amazing films by women filmmakers."
(Rebecca Sharratt, the film’s producer isn’t able to travel down as she’s the production manager on the Picnicface TV series and is busy prepping for that. Madden-Hagen will have to enjoy the glitz and glam with just her husband, filmmaker Drew Hagen.)
Friday, March 25, 2011
On screens Hobo With A Shotgun opens in local cinemas
Jason Eisener to crash a screening tonight
Posted by Carsten Knox on Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:00 AM
Let's see if we've got this straight: Monday night Hobo With A Shotgun director Jason Eisener was in Montreal for a screening of his new film. Tuesday he was in Toronto. Wednesday he was here for the invite-only screening at the Oxford for crew and the local film biz folks. Thursday he was in Boston for the screening at the Boston Underground Film Festival.
But tonight he's back here in Halifax, and Haliwood Insider has learned he plans to crash at least one of the screenings of the movie. We don't know which one---and he may not even know for sure---but here are your options:
Dartmouth Crossing at 7:50pm and 10:15pm, and Park Lane at 7:20pm, 9:50pm and 11:59pm. Good luck, Hobo lovers. And don't forget to see this movie this weekend to give it a healthy box office. SUPPORT LOCAL FILM!
New Brunswick drops film tax credit, effectively killing NB film industry
Tory budget ends NB film benefits, but that could mean good news for Nova Scotia
Posted by Carsten Knox on Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:00 AM
Aimed at cutting New Brunswick’s debt, the provincial budget handed down by finance minister Blaine Higgs earlier this week ends the NB film tax credit, which amounts to approximately $3 million a year.
The absence of the credit---40 percent of wages and salaries paid to New Brunswick personnel working on a film or television production shot within the province, and an additional “regional” bonus of 10 percent of eligible labour costs became available for approved productions that take in rural areas outside Moncton, Fredericton or Saint John---means that the office of NB Film will likely shut down, staying on just long enough to service current projects and stuff in the pipeline, according to Haliwood Insider’s source.
Greg Hemmings of Hemmings House Pictures, based in New Brunswick, helped produce Winter Wave Riders, Eva Madden-Hagen’s episode of the CBCs Land & Sea, which The Coast wrote about last year. He’s on the board of the New Brunswick Producer’s Association AKA Media NB, which met on Tuesday to discuss strategy.
“It’s scary to see how many people are saying ‘We give up, we’ll move our companies out,’” says Hemmings. “It’s going to be a complete exodus of quality, talented people.”
Hemmings House Pictures does 90 percent commercial and corporate work, so that won’t be affected by the tax changes, but what is affected is his work in television. “We rely heavily on the tax credits and equity programs since broadcasters aren’t paying what it takes to produce a good television show, so it’s impossible to produce good television in New Brunswick anymore.”
As a result, Hemmings is meeting with Film Nova Scotia to talk about productions he’ll be making here. “A lot of New Brunswick producers will need to find a home. a lot of them will probably do work in Quebec as the bulk of our producers are French, but the rest will probably do work in Nova Scotia. We’ve been working out of Nova Scotia the past three years, but we’ve always been headquartered out of New Brunswick, so haven’t tapped the Nova Scotia programs. Now the question is, will Nova Scotia welcome a few talented producers from New Brunswick?”
The answer seems to be a big “yes.” Film Nova Scotia’s Ann MacKenzie says that she’s hoping NB film industry personnel in New Brunswick move here. “We have so much production lined up this summer, it would be really great to have them.” MacKenzie points out that with the recent changes to the Nova Scotia tax credit in terms of residency requirements, it’s even more convenient for people to come here and work immediately. “If they moved here and stayed here, they’d be eligible right away, which would be perfect for us. In the past people had to wait a year to qualify.”
MacKenzie is quick to point out it’s never pleasant when something like this happens, but we shouldn’t fear a similar situation for Nova Scotia tax credit, “because we have so much production,” while New Brunswick was responsible for maybe “five or six percent” of Atlantic Canada’s film output.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
On screens / Festivals Josh MacDonald takes The Corridor to BUFF, hosts Carbon Arc
Local screenwriter has a busy week
Posted by Carsten Knox on Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:00 AM
While this is definitely Hobo week in Halifax, it's good to remember that another stellar genre picture from this part of the world, The Corridor, written by Josh MacDonald, will be joining Hobo with a Shotgun at the Boston Underground Film Festival, and MacDonald will be going down for the event this weekend.
"I’m road-tripping it down, potentially with Matthew Amyotte (who played Bobcat in the movie)," reports MacDonald.
Check out the write-up on The Corridor in the BUFF guide:
http://bostonunderground.org/schedule-2011/the-corridor/
Speaking of MacDonald, he's also hosting Carbon Arc tonight at the Khyber (1588 Barrington Street). Peter Bogdanovitch's The Last Picture Show from 1971 will be the film he presents, starring the very young Cybill Shepherd and Jeff Bridges. It's a classic, folks, don't miss it. 8pm, $6.
On screens Hobo With A Shotgun premiere at the Oxford
Big bloody love-in
Posted by Carsten Knox on Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:00 AM
I was thrilled to be a part of the excitement last night, having visited set last year, interviewed director Jason Eisener and producer Rob Cotterill on a few occasions, plus doing the cover story in today's issue of The Coast. Today it feels like all Haligonians have a bit of our own blood in this thing.
Knowing that it would be a popular show---and it said right on the ticket that admittance wasn't a guarantee---I made sure to show up by 6:30pm for the 7pm screening. However, that wasn't nearly early enough. The screening organizers, Film Nova Scotia, had let in a lot of people, but as usual, had reserved swaths of seats for VVIPs, people with BLUE DOTS on their tickets. Whoever the hell they are. It's a good thing a lot of these VVIPs didn't show, or the crowd of people standing outside the Oxford for half an hour might not have gotten in at all.
Yes, that huddled mass included my shivering ass, but also in our number there were actual, genuine local film biz bigwigs, dancer/actor/filmmaker Cory Bowles, Atlantic Film Festival director Lia Rinaldo and director of The Corridor, Evan Kelly. As the rep came out repeatedly to check if we had BLUE DOTS on our tickets, and none of us did, I really felt embarrassed for the organizers. What a shit show.
But we had a happy ending after all, as we all got in and joined the hooting and hollering of the Hobo crew, friends and family of all the people who made the film. The energy in there was awesome. Unfortunately, the audience had to sit through the self-congratulatory and way-too-long speeches by Film Nova Scotia's Ann MacKenzie and Telefilm's Gord Whittaker. I guess just like the rest of us, they have a certain proprietary attachment to this picture---and well they should---but people! Concision, please. The movie only runs for 86 minutes, and your speeches felt at least that long.
Then Eisener, Cotterill and screenwriter John Davies introduced the film to much joy. The print and sound was great, the Oxford an ideal location to see it, with opening credits earning hoots and hollers for crew people. When the end credits rolled, the filmmakers got a standing ovation and invited all their cast present to come up to the front, which was most of them.
Even Darrell Dexter seemed to enjoy himself.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
On screens Connie Littlefield at Reel Talk
Inaugural "social and screening" event at the Khyber, Friday
Posted by Carsten Knox on Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:00 AM
Women in Film and Television Atlantic and Carbon Arc (at the Khyber, 1588 Barrington Street) are launching a monthly social screening called Reel Talk: Conversations with Women in Film and Television. On the last Friday of every month WIFT-AT will feature an interview with a veteran or emerging film or television professional and view some of their work. Drinks and chat will follow. It's free for WIFT-AT members and $6 for non-WIFT-AT members.
This Friday it's Connie Littlefield's film Feed Your Head, about the treatment of mental illness using nutrition and vitamins. The film is 45 minutes long and will be followed by a Q&A with Littlefield. This is a premiere: the film was shown on television but has not had a full screening. Members of the crew will also be present.
Future Reel Talk nights will include guests such as Rita Shelton Deverell, Becky Parsons, Siloën Daley, Jan Miller, Eva Madden and Sylvia Hamilton.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
On screens Barbarian Invasions screens locally
Screening at Saint Mary's University French Film Club on Wednesday
Posted by Carsten Knox on Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:00 AM
One of the great Canadian films, well, ever, screens on Wednesday, March 23 at 7pm in McNally Main 201 at Saint Mary's University. (It's off Robie, check this out for directions.) The screening is a courtesy of the SMU French Film Club.
The film is The Barbarian Invasions (2003), the Quebecois comedy-drama directed by Denys Arcand and the sequel to Arcand's earlier film The Decline of the American Empire, (though it isn't necessary to have seen the earlier film to appreciate this one).
The film won France's 2004 Cesar Award for Best Picture and Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Denys Arcand. It also won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the first Canadian film to win the award, in 2004. At the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, it won awards for Best Screenplay and Best Actress.
The film is subtitled. Snacks are provided, all are welcome. For more information about the SMU French Film Club screenings, contact Shana McGuire at shanamcguire@hotmail.com.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Shooting Charlie Zone goes to camera
Michael Melski directs second feature
Posted by Carsten Knox on Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 4:00 AM
Today is the first day of shooting for Charlie Zone a crime drama, directed by Michael Melski (Growing Op). Melski reports it's a story about Halifax, "reflecting its diversity, hidden life, and burgeoning rep as one of the most troubled cities in Canada. (If you don't know
what charlie zone is, you've likely not been arrested in the north end)." Charlie Zone will shoot in Halifax until April 14, and joins a fairly busy spring 2011 production slate, which includes Mike Clattenburg's The Men Who Move Furniture, shooting over on Portland Street in Dartmouth, and the second season of Haven, which goes to camera April 1.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Jackson, Bankson, Parker nab nods
Local filmmakers take prizes elsewhere
Posted on Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 1:44 PM
A couple of local lensers have done well for themselves in recent weeks. Greg Jackson and Cassidy Bankson snagged the audience choice award at Calgary's $100 Film Festival for Christmas Compunction, their entry in AFCOOP's annual super-8 holiday challenge. Watch here.
Pardis Parker snagged two awards this week: people's choice at Big Dam in Illinois for his AFF hit Afghan and best comedy at the Griffon International Film Festival in Missouri for Two Men, Two Cows, Two Guns. Check out Afghan here.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
On screens Amanda Dawn Christie shares her work in progress
Healing the Final Cut at AFCOOP, Saturday
Posted on Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 4:00 AM
Amanda Dawn Christie has been the Atlantic Filmmakers Co-Op Artist in Residence through 2010. This is your last chance to see what she's been up to, her final screening and presentation. Healing the Final Cut is the work-in-progress talk she's giving this Saturday, March 19 at 2 PM at the CBC Radio Room (5600 Sackville Street, South Park st Entrance). She'll be screening portions of her film Off Route 2 and holding a discussion on its progress and sound editing decisions.
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