by vancouverfilmschool
January 22, 2009 â In response to the new United Nations report “Children in Armed Conflict”, Plan Canada urges the Security Council to do more than simply debate the issue when it meets in New York in a special session on February 12. Urgent action is needed to defuse a ticking time bomb of traumatized and alienated child soldiers, often kidnapped by armed groups and brainwashed to become brutal killers.
“These children face even more hardships when they return home,” said Rosemary McCarney, President and CEO Plan Canada. “Not only do they have to live with the stigma of what they’ve done, but they have to deal with communities and even family members that are often terrified of them.”
The Secretary General’s report (published January 30) highlights conflicts in countries such as Uganda, Sudan, Colombia, Sri Lanka and Sierra Leone and others â all countries where Plan works. Findings include:
child victims of conflict â both girls and boys – endure unimaginable experiences that leave them traumatized and vulnerable to further abuse;
children in refuge camps are at particular risk of abduction, as well as rape and other forms of physical and mental abuse;
not enough is being done to give former child soldiers real hope for the future;
the systematic and deliberate attacks on schoolchildren, teachers and school buildings have escalated in certain countries.
Plan Canada calls on the international community to provide additional funding for projects to help former child soldiers reintegrate into society. More must also be done to protect children from abduction by armed groups. Solutions require real actions. Plan has now moved into three provinces in Northern Uganda to rebuild communities destroyed after 20 years of vicious civil war. In addition to rebuilding basic infrastructure, Plan’s work also focuses on conflict resolution and the reintegration of child soldiers and abducted girls back into society.
“Even a simple thing like training a young person to drive a truck gives them hope that they can once again become a valuable part of their community, ” said McCarney.Â
Rosemary McCarney has traveled to Northern Uganda and to Sudan, including Darfur, and can provide valuable insight into the plight of child soldiers and their communities.
Plan Canada is an international child-centered development agency that operates in 66 countries across the world, with no political or religious affiliations.Please visit the website at www.plancanada.ca/sponsorachild
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Some cool movie images:
The Movie Project meets Venetia: V:005 – Looks up
Technical info
Location: Sestriere di San Polo, Venice, Italy
Lens: Nikkor 24-70mm (ƒ/2.8G) — ƒ/2.8
Shoot: ISO 200 | 1/1400s — full manual
Filters: none
Strobist: none
The Story:
New story from the unseen Venice project: new project "The Movie Project meets: Venetia" from the "The Movie Project meets:" series.
Venice is a rich place.
Rich in buildings, rich in arts, rich in… water, but above all is rich, really rich, for you eyes pleasure.
One thing you need to bear in mind is to move your eyes 360°, constantly.
Little treasures are waiting for you, to be discovered. 
The little treasure you are seeing is one of the most Venice’s life peculiarity: clothes hanging.
Since the living space is not always so large, there are not so many gardens available, many peoples left to dry the clothes hanging from a rope or string.
It’s a real popular use.
So, keeping your eyes up, you could see an elegant, original and coloured life’s painting like this. 
Movie to Misc
Movie Toys transitioning into Misc Liked figured that don’t fit elsewhere.
This is not all of my Transformers just the ones I keep out on display.
I was Originally going to try to use Live Photo Gallery to make a Panorama but it didn’t work out so here are the raw photos.
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New York, NY (PRWEB) November 28, 2007
Film Movement (www.FilmMovement.com), U.S. film distributor for award-winning, independent and foreign films, is offering 3 and 6 month Gift Subscription Packages, with the option of adding on ‘bonus films’ and specialty film “DVD Packs,” that bring selected award-winning films from different categories right to the doors of your friends and loved ones this holiday season.
The Subscription Packages are 3 or 6 months long. Each package provides 2 DVD a month, 1 feature-length film and 1 short film.
With award-winning films from around the world, a Film Movement subscription is like having an entire film festival delivered to your door. Also, there is the option of adding on 3 or 6 “bonus films.”
In addition, Film Movement introduces DVD Packs for both subscribers & non-subscribers. With the DVD Packs, film lovers will receive a set of 3 award-winning films from the following categories: Sundance Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, Spiritual, Documentary, Celebrity, Spanish-language, French-language, Italian-language, Asian and English language.
Choose from the following DVD Packs, just $ 29.95 for subscribers and $ 39.95 for non-subscribers. Synopses of all films can be found at www.FilmMovement.com.
Sundance Film Festival DVD Pack (All films won awards at the Sundance Film Festival):
Ali Zaoua
Manito
Monster Thursday
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Who’s Camus Anyway?
Raja
Road to Koktobel
Spanish-Language DVD Pack:
Carol’s Journey
Viva Cuba
Madeinusa
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Hop
Viva Laldjerie
Dreams of Dust
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Agata & the Storm
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Light of My Eyes
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A Simple Curve
Morlang
The Rage in Placid Lake
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A Peck on Cheek
Drifters
Be With Me
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Let the Church Say Amen
Le Grand Voyage
The Island
Films with Celebrities DVD Pack:
‘Wilby Wonderful’ with Sandra Oh
‘The Rage in Placid Lake’ with Ben Lee
‘The Party’s Over’ with Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Our Town
The Party’s Over
Let the Church Say Amen
In addition, consumers can also choose from the following Film Movement DVD-of-the-Month Club Subscription Packages:
6 Month Subscription + 6 Bonus Films + DVD Case – $ 119.95
6 monthly films with free shipping (1 feature length film & 1 short film a month)
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o 6 month subscription without bonus films – $ 67.95
6 Month Subscription + 3 Bonus Films + DVD Case – $ 95.95
6 monthly films with free shipping (1 feature length film & 1 short film a month)
3 Bonus films: Be With Me, Hawaii Oslo, Something Like Happiness
Film Movement 24 DVD Carrying Case
3 Month Subscription + 3 Bonus Films + DVD Case – $ 67.95
3 monthly films with free shipping (1 feature length film & 1 short film a month)
3 Bonus films: Be With Me, Hawaii Oslo, Something Like Happiness
Film Movement 24 DVD Carrying Case
o 3 Month subscription without bonus films – $ 35.95
About Film Movement: Launched in 2003, Film Movement is a full-service North American distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films based in New York City. Film Movement has released more than 100 feature films and shorts from 27 countries on six continents, including top prize winners from Sundance, Cannes, Venice, Toronto, Berlin, Tribeca and other prestigious festivals. Film Movement releases its films through many different distribution channels including theatrical, non-theatrical, home video, television outlets (such as Sundance Channel, IFC, & Showtime) and can also be seen on In-flight Entertainment on Continental Airlines. For more information, please visit www.filmmovement.com
Media Contact: Loren Pomerantz: (212) 583-0338 /
Company Contact: Meghan Wurtz (212) 941-7744 x 201 /
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New York, NY (PRWEB) November 28, 2007
Film Movement (www.FilmMovement.com), U.S. film distributor for award-winning, independent and foreign films, is offering 3 and 6 month Gift Subscription Packages, with the option of adding on ‘bonus films’ and specialty film “DVD Packs,” that bring selected award-winning films from different categories right to the doors of your friends and loved ones this holiday season.
The Subscription Packages are 3 or 6 months long. Each package provides 2 DVD a month, 1 feature-length film and 1 short film.
With award-winning films from around the world, a Film Movement subscription is like having an entire film festival delivered to your door. Also, there is the option of adding on 3 or 6 “bonus films.”
In addition, Film Movement introduces DVD Packs for both subscribers & non-subscribers. With the DVD Packs, film lovers will receive a set of 3 award-winning films from the following categories: Sundance Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, Spiritual, Documentary, Celebrity, Spanish-language, French-language, Italian-language, Asian and English language.
Choose from the following DVD Packs, just $ 29.95 for subscribers and $ 39.95 for non-subscribers. Synopses of all films can be found at www.FilmMovement.com.
Sundance Film Festival DVD Pack (All films won awards at the Sundance Film Festival):
Ali Zaoua
Manito
Monster Thursday
Cannes Film Festival DVD Pack (All films won awards at the Cannes Film Festival):
Who’s Camus Anyway?
Raja
Road to Koktobel
Spanish-Language DVD Pack:
Carol’s Journey
Viva Cuba
Madeinusa
French-Language DVD Pack:
Hop
Viva Laldjerie
Dreams of Dust
Italian-Language DVD Pack:
Agata & the Storm
Ginger and Cinnamon
Light of My Eyes
English-Language DVD Pack:
A Simple Curve
Morlang
The Rage in Placid Lake
Asian DVD Pack:
A Peck on Cheek
Drifters
Be With Me
Spiritual DVD Pack:
Let the Church Say Amen
Le Grand Voyage
The Island
Films with Celebrities DVD Pack:
‘Wilby Wonderful’ with Sandra Oh
‘The Rage in Placid Lake’ with Ben Lee
‘The Party’s Over’ with Philip Seymour Hoffman
Documentary DVD Pack:
Our Town
The Party’s Over
Let the Church Say Amen
In addition, consumers can also choose from the following Film Movement DVD-of-the-Month Club Subscription Packages:
6 Month Subscription + 6 Bonus Films + DVD Case – $ 119.95
6 monthly films with free shipping (1 feature length film & 1 short film a month)
6 Bonus films: Be With Me, Hawaii Oslo, Something Like Happiness, Inch’Allah Dimanche, Campfire, How I Spent the End of the World
Film Movement 24 DVD Carrying Case
o 6 month subscription without bonus films – $ 67.95
6 Month Subscription + 3 Bonus Films + DVD Case – $ 95.95
6 monthly films with free shipping (1 feature length film & 1 short film a month)
3 Bonus films: Be With Me, Hawaii Oslo, Something Like Happiness
Film Movement 24 DVD Carrying Case
3 Month Subscription + 3 Bonus Films + DVD Case – $ 67.95
3 monthly films with free shipping (1 feature length film & 1 short film a month)
3 Bonus films: Be With Me, Hawaii Oslo, Something Like Happiness
Film Movement 24 DVD Carrying Case
o 3 Month subscription without bonus films – $ 35.95
About Film Movement: Launched in 2003, Film Movement is a full-service North American distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films based in New York City. Film Movement has released more than 100 feature films and shorts from 27 countries on six continents, including top prize winners from Sundance, Cannes, Venice, Toronto, Berlin, Tribeca and other prestigious festivals. Film Movement releases its films through many different distribution channels including theatrical, non-theatrical, home video, television outlets (such as Sundance Channel, IFC, & Showtime) and can also be seen on In-flight Entertainment on Continental Airlines. For more information, please visit www.filmmovement.com
Media Contact: Loren Pomerantz: (212) 583-0338 /
Company Contact: Meghan Wurtz (212) 941-7744 x 201 /
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by mharrsch
In the 1880s, the American stage was dominated by ‘Vaudeville shows’ which was cherished by the residents of North America. Being the primitive genre of variety entertainment, these shows differed from burlesque or minstrelsy. But as entrepreneurs started experimenting with their movie-making skills, these shows lost all their glory.
In 1910, director D.W.Griffith and his troop started filming in downtown Los Angeles. While searching for a more apt location, they found it in a village miles northward — ‘Hollywood’. The first movie shot by Griffith in Hollywood was In Old California, a melodrama of California. Thorough research work identified a number of points which helped in establishing Hollywood movies. But it was Griffith’s ‘Birth of a Nation’ which was the pioneering movie.
Gradually, with the growth of Hollywood industry, films were exhibited in Nicholodeon halls. Ambitious people in the production side emerged as controlling heads of movie studios. They aided the internationalization of films to reduce American provincialism. In no time, the industry produced about 400 movies a year, with an audience of 9,00,00,000 Americans per week.
The American studios, however, confronted major difficulties when their sound productions were rejected in various foreign language markets. Also, the synchronization technique was too primitive. In the 1930s, parallel language versions of films were produced to provide a befitting solution to the problem. With rapid advancement of synchronization, dubbing also became more realistic.
During the Golden Age of Hollywood (1920-1950), the film industry was at the peak of its success. Adherence to the formula of western slapstick comedy was the formula and musical animated cartoon contributed to it. The same creative team worked on films made by the same studio.
The most renowned studios were Warner Bros., MGM, RKO, etc. Each studio had its own specialized characteristics, a trait not seen today. Yet, each film was unique in its own flavor, since the moviemakers were all artists and creative people. The release of classics that enriched the industry, were Wutheirng Heights, Gone with the Wind, Casablanca, and such other masterpieces. In the late 1940s, the separation of the production of films from their exhibition and the advent of television led to the decline of the studio system.
The postclassical cinema gave birth to directors from a new school of thought. They introduced new filming techniques and strategies and developed upon the prevailing ones. Films like Jaws, Godfather, Psycho, and other modern blockbusters have no doubt added a new dimension to Hollywood. With independent films, another new generation of moviemakers came forward with films which were often innovative, critical, unconventional, and contradictory. However, for their considerable financial success and crossover into popular culture, they have become a very influential part of the Hollywood mainstream films.
With the passage of generations, directors with their exclusive style and innovations have come up with intellectually stimulating and thought-provoking creations, making the history of Hollywood movies interesting as well as amazing.
Road to ‘Oz’ may lead Johnny Depp to Michigan
Michigan’s biggest Hollywood movie project yet — a $ 105-million production at a huge new studio in Pontiac — has won approval for a $ 40-million tax credit that alone comprises more than 60% of all credits for 26 projects approved in the last six months of 2010.
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January 9th: Jennifer Montgomery’s The Agonal Phase & Michael Wallin’s Decodings
We are excited to partner again with the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar to bring in Jennifer Montgomery who presents her feature Deliver on Monday at Anthology Film Archives as part of their monthly Flaherty NYC Series.
The Agonal Phase by Jennifer Montgomery
USA, 2010, 42 minutes, digital projection
In the aftermath of a death things may seem very quiet, but there are struggles going on so deep not even those who struggle can recognize them. This film looks and listens for signs of those struggles. Psychoanalytic interjections consider the nature of time and rumination, and are used to step outside of the terribly interiorized state of mourning.
The agonal phase: the visible events that take place when life is in the act of extricating itself from protoplasm too compromised to sustain it any longer. They are like some violent outbursts of protest arising deep in the primitive unconscious raging against the too-hasty departure of the spirit; no matter its preparation by even months of antecedent illness, the body often is reluctant to agree to the divorce.
Decodings by Michael Wallin
USA, 1988, 16 minutes
“Michael Wallin’s Decodings is a profoundly moving, allegorical search for identity from the documents of collective memory, in this case, found footage from the ’40s and ’50s. … The search for self ends in aching poignancy with stills of a boy and his mother at the kitchen table, catching the moment that marks the dawning of anguish and loss; desire becomes imprinted on that which was long ago.” – Manohla Dargis, The Village Voice
“Decodings is a magical, seamless work that manages to beguile even as it probes areas tender to the touch. Its tale is beautifully told ….” – Patrick Hoctel, SF Weekly
“Explodes with Buñuel’s sensuousness and a Hitchcockian narrative irony ….” – Doug Sadownick, LA Weekly
“Wallin’s achievement in Decodings is to create a powerfully inventive work that conveys with dramatic intensity strong feelings of remembrance and loss from images that have been extracted from the culture. … Wallin has succeeded in creating from various film sources a work that emphasizes the fragility and ultimate vulnerability of human expression and relationships.” – John G. Hanhardt, Whitney Biennial catalogue, 1989
Jennifer Montgomery’s film titles include Deliver (2008), Notes on the Death of Kodachrome (2006), Threads of Belonging (2003), Transitional Objects (2000), Troika (1998), Art For Teachers of Children (1995), I, a Lamb (1992), Age 12: Love With a Little L (1990), and Home Avenue (1989). Her newest film, The Agonal Phase (2010), recently premiered at the New York Film Festival.
These films range from experimental essays to experimental features, and are distributed by Zeitgeist Films, Waterbearer Films, Women Make Movies, and Video Data Bank. Her work has shown at international festivals, as well as the 2008 Whitney Biennial (NYC), MoMA (NYC), the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago), the ICA (London), and the Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis). She has been the recipient of many grants, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. She currently lives in Chicago.
Moyra Davey is an artist and writer. In 2008, she was the subject of an expansive survey at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University. Recent group exhibitions include Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2008); and Calendar of flowers, gin bottles, steak bones (with James Welling and Claire Pentecost), Orchard, New York (2007). Davey is the author of Long Life Cool White (Harvard/Yale, 2008) and The Problem of Reading (Documents Books, 2003), and is the editor of Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood (Seven Stories Press, 2001). She was a founding member of the collaborative gallery Orchard in New York; with Jason Simon, she co-hosts the annual One Minute Film and Video Festival in Narrowsburg, NY. In 2008-9, Davey participated in the International Residencies Program at The Cité des Arts in Paris. She is a recipient of an Anonymous Was a Woman award, and is represented by Murray Guy in New York.
Michael Wallin has been at the nerve center of San Francisco filmmaking since the late sixties, when he studied with Bruce Baillie, James Broughton and Peter Kubelka; he was for years a co-manager of the Canyon Cinema Cooperative. He wasa recipient of the 1988 Phelan Art Awards in Filmmaking. Robert Anbian in Release Print described Wallin’s films as “intensely personal, autobiographical works [which] seek a kind of metaphoric transformation in the manipulated film image.”
January 9th: Jennifer Montgomery’s The Agonal Phase & Michael Wallin’s Decodings
We are excited to partner again with the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar to bring in Jennifer Montgomery who presents her feature Deliver on Monday at Anthology Film Archives as part of their monthly Flaherty NYC Series.
The Agonal Phase by Jennifer Montgomery
USA, 2010, 42 minutes, digital projection
In the aftermath of a death things may seem very quiet, but there are struggles going on so deep not even those who struggle can recognize them. This film looks and listens for signs of those struggles. Psychoanalytic interjections consider the nature of time and rumination, and are used to step outside of the terribly interiorized state of mourning.
The agonal phase: the visible events that take place when life is in the act of extricating itself from protoplasm too compromised to sustain it any longer. They are like some violent outbursts of protest arising deep in the primitive unconscious raging against the too-hasty departure of the spirit; no matter its preparation by even months of antecedent illness, the body often is reluctant to agree to the divorce.
Decodings by Michael Wallin
USA, 1988, 16 minutes
“Michael Wallin’s Decodings is a profoundly moving, allegorical search for identity from the documents of collective memory, in this case, found footage from the ’40s and ’50s. … The search for self ends in aching poignancy with stills of a boy and his mother at the kitchen table, catching the moment that marks the dawning of anguish and loss; desire becomes imprinted on that which was long ago.” – Manohla Dargis, The Village Voice
“Decodings is a magical, seamless work that manages to beguile even as it probes areas tender to the touch. Its tale is beautifully told ….” – Patrick Hoctel, SF Weekly
“Explodes with Buñuel’s sensuousness and a Hitchcockian narrative irony ….” – Doug Sadownick, LA Weekly
“Wallin’s achievement in Decodings is to create a powerfully inventive work that conveys with dramatic intensity strong feelings of remembrance and loss from images that have been extracted from the culture. … Wallin has succeeded in creating from various film sources a work that emphasizes the fragility and ultimate vulnerability of human expression and relationships.” – John G. Hanhardt, Whitney Biennial catalogue, 1989
Jennifer Montgomery’s film titles include Deliver (2008), Notes on the Death of Kodachrome (2006), Threads of Belonging (2003), Transitional Objects (2000), Troika (1998), Art For Teachers of Children (1995), I, a Lamb (1992), Age 12: Love With a Little L (1990), and Home Avenue (1989). Her newest film, The Agonal Phase (2010), recently premiered at the New York Film Festival.
These films range from experimental essays to experimental features, and are distributed by Zeitgeist Films, Waterbearer Films, Women Make Movies, and Video Data Bank. Her work has shown at international festivals, as well as the 2008 Whitney Biennial (NYC), MoMA (NYC), the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago), the ICA (London), and the Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis). She has been the recipient of many grants, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. She currently lives in Chicago.
Moyra Davey is an artist and writer. In 2008, she was the subject of an expansive survey at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University. Recent group exhibitions include Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2008); and Calendar of flowers, gin bottles, steak bones (with James Welling and Claire Pentecost), Orchard, New York (2007). Davey is the author of Long Life Cool White (Harvard/Yale, 2008) and The Problem of Reading (Documents Books, 2003), and is the editor of Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood (Seven Stories Press, 2001). She was a founding member of the collaborative gallery Orchard in New York; with Jason Simon, she co-hosts the annual One Minute Film and Video Festival in Narrowsburg, NY. In 2008-9, Davey participated in the International Residencies Program at The Cité des Arts in Paris. She is a recipient of an Anonymous Was a Woman award, and is represented by Murray Guy in New York.
Michael Wallin has been at the nerve center of San Francisco filmmaking since the late sixties, when he studied with Bruce Baillie, James Broughton and Peter Kubelka; he was for years a co-manager of the Canyon Cinema Cooperative. He wasa recipient of the 1988 Phelan Art Awards in Filmmaking. Robert Anbian in Release Print described Wallin’s films as “intensely personal, autobiographical works [which] seek a kind of metaphoric transformation in the manipulated film image.”
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by vancouverfilmschool
Maybe you’ve heard of ‘Panic Away‘ which is a treatment e-book written by Joe Barry for panic and anxiety attacks. Since it was first published, it has helped approximately 25,000 people get rid of the phobia and stress attacks and return to a normal life.
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A few nice British film images I found:
BFI (British Film Institute), South Bank Centre, London
British Film Institute IMAX at night
part of the National Film Theatre ~~ London, England
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Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) October 14, 2004
The APEX Museum lives up to its mission of celebrating Black History every day. On any given day visitors can stop by the museum and see a treasure trove of African American history artifacts. In celebration of the Underground Railroad, the secret network upon which thousands of slaves escaped, The APEX Museum presents an event billed as a “reality” film experience. On Friday, November 12 from 6-8pm, it will premiere the short film, ÂÂMattie, Johnny and Smooth White StonesÂÂ directed by and starring Cassandra Hollis.
Produced by Holy Hill Productions, the film had a successful West Coast premiere at the CFMi Festival in Los Angeles in May. Festival Chairperson, Valiant Robinson, said of the film, “It is a must see film. Cassandra is phenomenal as Mattie.” It was selected from the festival to be screened among the “Best of CFMi” at the recent Black Expo in Los Angeles held in September. “Mattie” is also among a select group of short films chosen out of dozens of submissions to screen at the upcoming Gloria Film Festival in Utah.
APEX Museum Executive Director, Dan Moore, Sr., saw the film and thought it was important to showcase the film in their famous Trolley Theatre, “A moving and powerful drama about love, faith and empowerment. Set during the days of slavery, this captivating short film is a compelling story with a superb portrayal by Cassandra Hollis.”
ÂÂMattie, Johnny and Smooth White StonesÂÂ is a story a film that provides a rare look into the personal lives of slaves. Mattie and Johnny are two slaves who are in love and decide to runaway to get married when they secretly learn that Johnny is going to be sold. A surprising twist occurs and audiences see the role that Faith played in leading runaways on their journey to freedom. Filmmaker/Actress, Cassandra Hollis, explains why this story needs to be told.
ÂÂAfter studying real slave narratives of slaves who braved the elements and consequences to run away to freedom, I realized that I personally had not seen many film portrayals outside of the great Harriet Tubman about runaway slaves. And few films about slavery address the love relationships that slaves experienced. This was an opportunity to bridge those two narratives all within the context of Faith. It was only God who led them through rugged woods, snow, slave catchers, you name it, to their freedom.ÂÂ
The public is invited to the event which begins with a reception including refreshments and music and from 6:00 – 7:00pm, the program begins at 7:00pm which will include Spoken Word, followed by the Film Screening and Q & A with Filmmaker/Actress Cassandra Hollis. The APEX Museum is located at 135 Auburn Ave. in Atlanta. The event is Free.
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CANADA’S GOLDEN SHEAF AWARD WINNERS
1996
BEST OF FESTIVAL sponsored by Morris Industries BEST DOCUMENTARY OVER 30 MINUTES sponsored by Arts & Entertainment BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC UTSHIMASSITS: PLACE OF THE BOSS Director: John Walker Producer: John Walker / Mike Mahoney / Peter D'Entremont Music Director: Guy Trépanier & Kashtin Production Co: John Walker Productions Ltd. / Triad Productions in co-production with NFB 31655 Cote de Liesse St. Laurent, PQ H4N 2N4 Phone: (514) 283-9806 Fax: (514) 496-1895 This award winning documentary depicts one of the last hunter- gatherers pressured by church and state to give up their nomadic life and settle in Davis Inlet, Labrador. James Cameron for BEST ART DIRECTION sponsored by International Tele-Film Mark & Stephanie Morgenstern for BEST DIRECTION sponsored by Norman Jewison Stephanie Morgenstern for BEST SCRIPT WINNER OF THE SUPERCHANNEL SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT OF $ 1,000 CURTAINS Producer: Mark / Stephanie Morgenstern Director: Mark / Stephanie Morgenstern Production Co: Ewola Cinema 333 Kensington Ave. Montreal, PQ H3Z 2H2 Phone: (514) 937-5285 She will never forget the very first night. The racing pulse. The trembling hands. The faces flushed with breathless passion. And that was just the play ... a story of the gradual loss of the magic in both love and theatrical productions. BEST DOCUMENTARY UNDER 30 MINUTES Jason Gatt for BEST EDITING sponsored by Studio Post ANIMAL CRACKERS Director: Joshua Chaiton Producer: Joshua Chaiton Production Co: Reel Images 211 Hillhorst Blvd. Toronto, ON M5N 1P3 Phone: (416) 782-3456 This is a wacky but true documentary of a vet, a bizarre collection of animal owners and their pets. BEST EDUCATIONAL / INSTRUCTIONAL sponsored by SCN WINNER OF THE SCN ELIZABETH LOWRY AWARD OF $ 500 THE BUTTERFLY COLLECTORS Director: Joel Stewart Producer: Joel Stewart Production Co: Vicom Multimedia Inc. #200, 838 - 11th Ave. S.W. Calgary, AB T2R 0E5 Phone: (403) 264-3950 A program intended for fund-raising on behalf of Street Teams of Calgary. The Butterfly Collectors tells the true stories of two girls and their indoctrination into a life of prostitution. BEST OF SASKATCHEWAN sponsored by Saskfilm BEST SOUND - Rob Bryanton / Jim Folk / Warren St. Onge / Steve Hasiak / Hal Schrenk TALKER Producer: Lloyd Martell Director: Rob King Production Co: Lloyd Martell Productions 1212A Winnipeg St. Regina, SK S4R 1J6 Phone: (306) 359-7618 All he wants to do is get a word in edgewise. But when a frustrated and beleaguered cab driver answers an advertisement for "TALKER REQUIRED", he finds himself the victim of a bizarre psychiatric experiment. BEST DOCUMENTARY BY A BROADCASTER WINNER OF THE ANTOINETTE (NETTIE) KRYSKI AWARD OF $ 500 THE FIFTH ESTATE: "THROWAWAY CITIZENS" Director: Margaret Slaght Producer: Margaret Slaght Production Co: Canadian Broadcasting Corp. 205 Wellington St. W. Toronto, ON M5V 3G7 Phone: (416) 205-6672 Throwaway citizens revisits a dark chapter in Canadian history and reveals for the first time that thousands of Japanese Canadians were coerced by Mackenzie King's government in to agreeing to be deported to Japan. Those who went faced enormous hardship in a war-torn and hostile Japan. BEST INDUSTRIAL / PROMOTIONAL Craig Wrobleski for BEST VIDEOGRAPHY sponsored by Fuji THE MIGHTY BAR U Producer: Carolyn McMaster / Bridget Durnford Director: Scott McEwan Production Co: Post Place Inc. #401 - 1228 Kensington Rd., N.W. Calgary, AB T2N 4P9 Phone: (403) 777-4760 Visually rich, stunning in its blending of live footage and historical pictures, "The Might Bar U" weaves together story and images to portray the rich and vibrant history of Alberta ranchers whose roots run as deep as the prairie grasses shimmering in the golden sunset. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL FILM BOARD KATHLEEN SHANNON AWARD OF $ 500 SCENES FROM A CORNER STORE Producer: Sun-Kyung Yi Director; Sun-Kyung Yi Production Co: Sleeping Giant Productions 151 John St., Ste. 511 Toronto, ON M5V 2T2 Phone: (416) 351-9240 An intimate look into the lives of three Korean-Canadian sisters who search for their own identities and values as they struggle between the traditions & expectations of their parents and the modern world of their Canadian peers. Jacek Strek for BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY sponsored by Fuji FALCONRY Producer: Paul Cadieux Director: Jacek Strek Production Co: Ivory Tower Studio 3746 Oliver Rd. Port Coquitlam, BC V3P 1B7 Phone: (604) 945-4543 The film tells a story of a relationship between man and bird. BEST DRAMA OVER 30 MINUTES L'AFFAIRE NOGARET Producer: Vincent Gabriele / Pierre Nadeau Director: Johanne Prégent Production Co: Prod. Sovimage / Prod. Sagittaire 1035 Laurier Ouest-ler étage Outremont, PQ H2V 2L1 Phone: (514) 277-8910 In 1931 the body of a 7-year-old girl is found in a cave of the Roussin Academy. She had been raped. Everything seems to indicate that Father Albert Nogaret is the murderer. This crime, rare in its time, deeply horrified the Quebec society. BEST DRAMA UNDER 30 MINUTES DERNIER APPEL Producer: Marie-Andrée Vinet Director: Régent Bourque Production Co: Publivision Inc. 1975 Falardeau, bureau 320 Montreal, PQ H2K 2L9 Phone: (514) 527-6091 BEST EXPERIMENTAL STANDING STILL Producer: Catherine Quinn Director: Catherine Quinn Production Co: Catherine Quinn 2856 Yale Street Vancouver, BC V5K 1C6 Phone: (604) 258-9320 Catherine Quinn set out to make a film about four ordinary elderly women reflecting on their lives. She soon discovered that no woman is ordinary, that every personal history is rich and filled with lessons. BEST MULTICULTURAL / RACE RELATIONS THE MIND OF A CHILD Producer: Gary Marcuse Director: Gary Marcuse Production Co: Face to Face Media 1818 Grant St. Vancouver, BC V5L 2S8 Phone: (604) 251-1800 A dramatic and moving documentary about aboriginal, African American and Jewish children traumatized by racism, poverty and violence, and the teachers who are working with them. Filmed in Vancouver, Jerusalem and Washington, D.C. Featuring the successful work of Vancouver First Nation educator Lorna Williams. BEST MUSIC VIDEO GOOD MOTHER Producer: Braun Farnon Director: Jeth Weinrich Production Co: Red Motel Pictures 801 - 17th Ave. SW Calgary, AB T2T 0A1 Phone: (403) 541-0151 BEST PUBLIC AFFAIRS LE FILET VIDE Producer: Richard Elson Director: Alain Belhumeur Production Co: Imageries Ltée 377 Sherbrooke Quest #502 Montreal, PQ H3A 1B5 Phone: (514) 849-7888 Fishermen without nets, victims of the crisis in the Atlantic ground fishery ... The ocean which sustained them for centuries is now a desert. The Empty Net underscores several of the main factors implicated in the complex collapse of the northern cod stocks and shows the human tragedy of the residents of the hundreds of coastal villages faced with the consequences of this disaster. BEST SCIENCE / NATURE SECRETS OF THE CHOCO Producer: Ian McLaren Director: Ian McLaren Production Co: Productions Gran Nord Inc. 1600 Ave. De. Lormier, Suite 391 Montreal, PQ H2K 3W5 Phone: (514) 521-7433 The Biogeographical Choco, the wet tropical Pacific coast of Columbia, is one of the least known and least spoiled natural rainforests left on the planet. But large-scale development plans and the impending completion of the Pan-American Highway threaten the future of this tropical paradise. Randy Houston for BEST PERFORMANCE THE FEELER Producer: Elizabeth Yake Director: Colleen Murphy Production Co: Canadian Film Center 2489 Bayview Ave. Toronto, ON M2L 1A8 Phone: (416) 445-1446 A story about fear and longing. Danny is blind and isolated. His relationship with an inflatable sex doll is interrupted when a woman comes to read to him. BEST ANIMATION THE SANDBOX Producer: Marilyn A. Belec Director: Jodee Samuelson Production Co: National Film Board of Canada 3155 Cote de Liesse St. Laurent, PQ H4N 2N4 Phone: (514) 283-9806 The Sandbox is a delightful 12-minute environmental tale for young children using richly colorful traditional cell animation. A boy and a girl build a world in their sandbox which, like art, imitates life. BEST ARTS / ENTERTAINMENT sponsored by Saskpower JOE Producer: Jean-Pierre Perreault Director: Bernard Picard Production Co: Société Radio-Canada 1400 Est, Boul. 17e étage Montreal, PQ H3L 2M2 Phone: (514) 597-4381 Joe transforms a work of art without music into a gigantic percussion instrument. The dancers, wearing knitted jackets, old hats and heavy black boots, create sounds by the subtle game of the rubbing and the hammering of their footsteps on the ground. BEST CHILDREN'S PRODUCTION sponsored by Shaw Children's Programming Initiative THE RELUCTANT DECKHAND Producer: George Johnson Director: Jan Padgett Production Co: National Film Board of Canada Pacific Centre #300 - 1045 Howe St. Vancouver, BC V6Z 2B1 Phone: (604) 666-3838 Wonderful adventures, unexpected pleasures and challenges await 10-year-old Tess as she joins her mother on the (Henry Bay) for a summer's fishing off BC's west coast. Tess learns to be a resourceful fisher, a responsible partner and a good companion. BEST COMEDY ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FARCE Producer: Roger Abbott / Don Ferguson Director: Perry Rosemond Production Co: Canadian Broadcasting Corp. P.O. Box 500, Stn. A Toronto, ON M5W 1E6 Phone: (416) 205-5633 Crooning to the cutbacks with Ontario Premier Mike Harris; Jock McBile explains the air bus kickback scandal; Quen Elizabeth and her mom rebut the Princess "Dia" tribe; and coureurs de bois paddle boat and peddle beer. BEST COMMUNITY CABLE UNDER 60 MINUTES sponsored by Life Network SLIPPERY Producer: Christopher Doty Director: Christopher Doty Production Co: Rogers Community 13 London 800 York St. London, ON N6A 5B1 Phone: (519) 675-1313 In June of 1958 Slippery the sea lion created an international incident when he escaped from a Canadian theme park and swam over 400 miles through the Great Lakes in an attempt to return to the Pacific Ocean. BEST COMMERCIAL (UNDER 2 MINUTES) ALTERED STATES (FAST CUTS) Producer: Michelle Dunn Production Co: TMN: The Movie Network 181 Bay St. Suite 100 Toronto, ON M5J 2T3 Phone: (416) 956-2010 By playing our on-air personality into scenes from actual movies and by having him interact with various celebrities, Fast Cuts/Altered States readily brings home TMN's identity as the place to go for movies. SPECIAL JURY AWARDS sponsored by The Yorkton Rotary Club IN MY OWN TIME - "A DIARY OF A CANCER PATIENT" Producer: Jerry Krepekevich / Graydon McCrea / Joe Viszmeg Director: Joe Viszmeg Production Co: National Film Board of Canada 3155 Cote de Liesse St. Laurent, PQ H4N 2N4 Phone: (514) 496-1895 In the summer of 1991, Edmonton filmmaker Joseph Viszmeg was diagnosed with a rare variety of cancer that was quickly spreading to other organs. Doctors did not expect him to live a year at best. Four years later, this film is Viszmeg's testimony to the power of love and hope. THE ROAD TO RAE Producer: Anne Lynagh Director: Sherry Antonishen Production Co: Line Out Production Box 1602 Yellowknife, NT X1A 2P2 Phone: (403) 873-1808 The Road to Rae has got to be the shortest road movie to pack it all in! Great music, beautiful scenery and at least one driving stunt! GREENTIDE Producer: Steven Wendland Director: Steven Wendland Production Co: Steven Wendland & Simon Fraser University #746 - 1979 Marine Dr. North Vancouver, BC V7P 3G1 Phone: (604) 980-0840 A young boy is anxious for his birthday, which awaits him the following day. However, instead of waiting, he sneaks a look at his gift and perhaps, a few other things. DOUGLAS COUPLAND CLOSE PERSONAL FRIEND Producer: Jennifer Cowan Director: Jennifer Cowan Production Co: Planet-X Publishing Inc. 489 King St. W., Suite 102 Toronto, ON M5V 1L3 Phone: (416) 971-7856 Douglas Coupland Close Personal Friend is a 30 minute filmed discussion with author Douglas Coupland about life, time and memory. It is a survey of the late 20th century using personal and corporate imagery and original graphics. WORKS, "BRICKS" Producer: Jenipher Ritchie Production Co: Salter Street Films Ltd. 2507 Brunswick St. Halifax, NS B3K 2Z5 Phone: (902) 420-1577 The world of Works is the real world of dirt, sloshing water, grinding wheels, clanking machinery, wet concrete and smelly farm animals. It is the world of harsh, simple, intriguing physical reality; the workings of the material and the concrete. BOYS WILL BE BOYS Producer: Maureen Palmer Director: Maureen Palmer Production Co: CBC - Alberta 8861 - 75th St. Edmonton, AB T6C 4G8 Phone: (403) 468-7500 If you called the woman who worked next to you a bitch, slut or whore, you'd be fired. But if you're a boy in junior high you can get away with calling your female classmates this and worse. How did such behavior become part of everyday life at school, why do girls tolerate it & what's being done about it.
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