So read the classifieds in the latest news email from the Atlantic Filmmakers’ Co-op. It seems several young filmmakers need producer partners for this year’s FILM 5 program. Having briefly flirted with that role myself, several years back, I have to say the lack of aspiring producers is disappointing. Clearly, we all want to be […]
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DOCULA documents a bloody business
Peter Wintonick is troubled by the vampire trend in cinema, and he’s not talking about the Twilight series. Wintonick, the Montreal-based filmmaker behind such acclaimed documentaries as Manufacturing Consent, believes bureaucrats in the private and government sectors are guilty of “sucking the lifeblood” out of documentary filmmaking in Canada. Which is why he happily accepted […]
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AFCOOP announces new director
Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative just announced that Greg Morris-Poultney is taking over as executive director of the centre. According to a press release from AFCOOP, “Morris-Poultney spent a number of years as a producer and development executive in the local film and television industry developing new projects for national television broadcasters including CBC Television, History Television, […]
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Forsyth flies the AFCOOP
Two-year-old Sage Forsyth has the same dark grey eyes and curly red hair as her dad. In Walter Forsyth’s office in the CBC building on Sackville, she sits on his lap, watching Sesame Street on his laptop. The executive director of the Atlantic Filmmakers’ Cooperative says he doesn’t often let her watch movies or TV; […]
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Sixty-second cinema
Every spring the Atlantic Filmmakers’ Cooperative rolls out the proverbial red carpet to celebrate its most recent crop of new one-minute filmmakers. Two-thousand-and-nine brings the 10-year anniversary of the One Minute Film scholarship program, and a special screening dedicated to showing off some of the more successful one-minute films. The co-op was initially born in […]