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ANIMATION

MY GRANDMOTHER IRONED THE KING'S SHIRTS
Prod: Marcy Page(NFB)/Lars Tommerbakke(Studio Magica)
Dir: Torill Kove
Prod. Co: Studio Magica(Norway)/NFB

THE DAY STASHI RAN OUT OF HONEY
Prod/Dir: Sonia Bridge
Prod. Co: Sonia Bridge

VILLAGE OF IDIOTS
Prod: Michael Scott/David Verrall
Dir: Eugene Fedorenko/Rose Newlove
Prod. Co: NFB

WHEN THE DAY BREAKS
Prod: David Verrall
Dir: Wendy Tilby/Amanda Forbis
Prod. Co: NFB

WITH GRANDMA/AVEC GRAND-MERE
Prod: Marcy Page/Barrie Andus McLean
Dir: Francoise Hartmann
Prod. Co: NFB

ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT

JENI LEGON LIVING IN A GREAT BIG WAY
Prod: Selwyn Jacob
Dir: Grant Greschuk
Prod. Co: NFB

LA VIE D'ARTISTE LA CULTURE AUTOCHTONE
Prod: Radio-Canada
Dir: Marc Coiteux
Prod. Co: Societe Radio-Canada

PHOTOGRAPHIES ONZE ARTISTES DU CANADA
Prod: Diane Poitras
Dir: Hermenegilde Chiasson
Prod. Co: NFB

SONGS IN STONE: AN ARCTIC JOURNEY HOME
Prod: Peter d'Entremont
Dir: John Houston
Prod. Co: Triad Film Production Ltd.

TALL TALES FROM THE LONG CORNER
Prod: Gordon Henderson
Dir: Liam Órinn
Prod. Co: 90th Parallel Film & Television Production Ltd.

CHILDREN’S PRODUCTION
Sponsored by Shaw Children’s Programming Initiative

CUCKOO, MR. EDGAR
Prod: Therese Descary
Dir: Pierre M. Trudeau
Prod. Co: NFB

DEGAS AND THE DANCER
Prod: David Devine/Richard Mozer
Dir: David Devine
Prod. Co: Devine Entertainment Corporation 

FAIS SEMBLANT QUE TV M'AIMES
Prod: Amazone Films Inc.
Dir: Jeannine Gagne
Prod. Co: Amazone Films

MARY CASSATT: AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST
Prod: David Devine/Richard Mozer
Dir: Richard Mozer
Prod. Co: Devine Entertainment Corporation

PIT PONY - Ep #122: HOMECOMING
Prod: Andrew Cochran
Dir: Mike Clattenburg
Prod. Co: Cochran Entertainment Inc.

COMEDY
Sponsored by The Comedy Network

BLACKFLY
Prod: Charles Bishop
Dir: David Storey
Prod. Co: Salter Street Films

JIMMY PACHECO
Prod: Maria Ricossa
Dir: John Bourgeois
Prod. Co: Last Laff Ltd.

LE P'TIT VARIUS
Prod: Andre Theberge/Andre Veronneau
Dir: Alain Jacques
Prod. Co: Productions Magellan

RUSTY
Prod: Leorra Newman
Dir: Jeremy Hindle
Prod. Co: Mental Block Inc.

SALAMI HEAVEN
Prod: Sue Riedl/Carolyn Wong
Dir: Sue Riedl
Prod. Co: Hollyhock Productions

THE DAILY BLADE
Prod: David Coole
Dir: Ron Murphy
Prod. Co: Jigsaw Pictures Ltd.

COMMERCIAL

EGYPTIAN ART IN THE AGE OF THE PYRAMIDS
Prod: Daniel Hill
Dir: Robert Crossman
Prod. Co: Paulus Film Group

MOMMA
Prod: Simon Dekker
Dir: Gregory Sheppard
Prod. Co: White Iron Productions

SASK POWER SAFETY CAMPAIGN: THE SNOFFLE
Prod: Devin DeWalt
Dir: Rob King
Prod. Co: Minds Eye Pictures

SASK TEL MOBILITY: LAUNDROMAT
Prod: Kevin DeWalt
Dir: Rob King
Prod. Co: Minds Eye Pictures

WE BRING RACING TO LIFE
Prod: Simon Dekker
Dir: Rico Labbe
Prod. Co: White Iron Productions

COMMUNITY CABLE

AT WORK AND PLAY - SUMMER FUN
Prod/Dir: Sandra Sawatzky
Prod. Co: Shaw Communications

BEHIND THE CHUTES
Prod/Dir: Randy Clarke
Prod. Co: Cable Regina

E-CLIPS #154
Prod/Dir: Nova Herman
Prod. Co: Cable Regina

REGINA FOLK FESTIVAL  "THIRTY SOMETHING"
Prod: Gursh Madhur
Dir: Grant Glasser
Prod. Co: Cable Regina

DOCUMENTARY GENERAL SUBJECT
Sponsored by Arts &Entertainment

AND SO TO BED
Prod: Kent Martin
Dir: Jeff McKay
Prod. Co: NFB

DAI VERNON - THE SPIRIT OF MAGIC
Prod: Patricia Phillips
Dir: Daniel Zuckerbrot
Prod. Co: Great North Productions

JAVA JIVE
Prod: Selwyn Jacob
Dir: David Ozier
Prod. Co: NFB

LIFE & TIMES: TIMOTHY FINDLEY
Prod: Diane Ngui-Yen/Olenka Demianchud
Dir: Diane Ngui-Yen
Prod. Co: CBC

UNTANGLING THE MIND - THE LEGACY OF DR. HEINZ LEHMANN
Prod: Catherine Mullins
Dir: Tom Puchniak
Prod. Co: Green Lion Productions

VOYAGE AU NORD DU MONDE
Prod: Andre Gladu
Dir: Hugo Latulippe
Prod. Co: NFB

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Iso 400 Grain and Border from Agfa APX, use and have fun, you film fakers!


This photographic masterpiece is a scanned 35mm negative from an Agfa APX 400 B&W negative film.

The Agfa film has beautiful grain which I find hard to duplicate using the usual Photoshop filters. So if you really must fake the grain of film, feel free to apply this.

Use: Just downsize or upsize your smooth digital pic to a width of 3437 pixels, put this on top and set blend mode accordingly – overlay gives a subtle effect, linear light a strong one. This works best for cameras that have the 2:3 format of film, sorry Olympus and P&S users.

If you group the grain layer with a "Levels…" adjustment layer in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, you can dial in the amount of grain and the lightness by moving the black and white point.

DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
Sponsored by History Television

A SOLDIER'S VOICE
Prod: Bridget Lee
Dir: Chris Triffo
Prod. Co: Chris Triffo

BEHIND ENEMY LINES
Prod/Dir: Felice Gorica
Prod. Co: Gorica Productions

FIRE AND ICE - THE ROCKET RICHARD RIOT
Prod: Arnie Gelbart
Dir: Brian McKenna
Prod. Co: Galafilm Inc./Barna Alper Production Inc.

NANJING NIGHTMARES
Prod: Gerald Sperling/Murray MacDonald
Dir: Guo Fangfang
Prod. Co: 4 Square Productions/Jiangsu Television Station

THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE SUFFRAGISTS OF NEWFOUNDLAND
Prod: Marian Frances White/N.White
Dir: Greg Malone
Prod. Co: Codlessco Ltd.

UNWANTED SOLDIERS
Prod: Karen King
Dir: Jari Osborne
Prod. Co: NFB

INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY OVER 30 MIN
Sponsored by The Discovery Channel

EYEWITNESS
Prod/Dir: Bert Van Bork
Prod. Co: Marbert Art Foundation

ICECAP
Prod/Dir: Steen Andersen
Prod. Co: DR TV International Sales

JERUSALEM SYNDROME
Prod: Nadav Schirman
Dir: Erin Sax
Prod. Co: Jerusalem Capital Studio Production

THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN COLOUR:  TRIUMPH AND DESPAIR
Prod: Stewart Binns/Lucy Carter/Alastair Laurence
Prod. Co: TWI/Carlton Co-Production 

WAR DOGS
Prod: Gary R. Benz/Jeff Bennett/George Hock/ JohnCarney/John Drimmer
Dir: William Bison
Prod. Co: GRB Entertainment

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Sponsored by Playback

CASS
Prod: Matt Gallagher/Lisa Taylor/Michael Allcock
Dir: Matt Gallagher
Prod. Co: Gallagher Productions 

DIARY OF AN ALIEN
Prod: Tony Nichols/Dean Sawatzky
Dir: Ellen Raine Scott
Prod. Co: Codependent Films/LightRoom

LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN PLANT FOOD
Prod: David Gray
Dir: SIA
Prod. Co: CBC

POCKET DESERT: CONFESSIONS OF A SNAKE KILLER
Prod: George Johnson
Dir: Teresa Marshall/ Craig Berggold
Production Co: NFB

RAINMAKERS GUATEMALA - The story of Jesus
Prod: Robbie Hart/Luc Cote
Dir: Robbie Hart
Prod. Co: Adobe Production International

DOCUMENTARY SOCIAL

EACH OF US HAS A NAME
Prod/Dir: Arnie Zipursky/Fern Levitt
Prod. Co: Cambium Film & Video Production Ltd.

FROM THE INSIDE/OUT!
Prod: BC Self Advocacy Foundation
Dir: Lorna Boschman
Prod. Co: Big B Productions 

GANGS, LA  LOI  DE  LA  RUE
Prod/Dir: Isaac Isitan
Prod. Co: Les Production  ISCA

OF HOPSCOTCH AND LITTLE GIRLS
Prod: Marcel Simard/ Monique Simard (Production  Virage) Nicole Lamoth(NFB)
Dir: Marquise Lepage
Prod. Co: Les Prod Virage Inc/ NFB

T'LINA: THE RENDERING OF WEALTH
Prod: Cari Green/Barb Cranmer
Dir: Barb Cranmer
Prod. Co: Nimpkish Wind Production  Inc.

INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY UNDER 30 MIN
Sponsored by The Discovery Channel

EAT-MATE-DIE - The Lives of Insects
Prod: Ganglion Films
Dir: Daniel Breton
Prod. Co: Ganglion Films

ELECTRUM
Prod/Dir:  Alberta Chu
Prod. Co: Advancing Scientific Knowledge

THE CRYSTAL PHOTOGRAPHER
Prod/Dir: T & T Dreijer
Prod. Co: T & T Dreijer

DRAMA

EXHUMING TYLER
Prod: Charlene Olson
Dir: Merlin Dervisevic
Prod. Co: Canadian Film Centre

LA PROMESSE
Prod: Patricia Chica/Martin Lord
Dir: Patricia Chica
Prod. Co: Flirt Films

MY FATHER'S HANDS
Prod: Jen Holness
Dir: David Sutherland
Prod. Co: Hungry Eyes/Film Food

NEW NEIGHBOURS
Prod/Dir: Anita McGee
Prod. Co: Kickham Productions 

THE STRANGE CASE OF BUNNY WEEQUOD
Prod: Gerry Flahive and John Roy
Dir: Steve Van Denzen
Prod. Co: Cool Native Productions NFB

EDUCATIONAL/INSTRUCTIONAL
Sponsored by SCN

BEYOND MEDICINE
Prod: Bridget Lee
Dir: Chris Triffo/Michelle Wong
Prod. Co: Partners in Motion

COLTS TO VIETNAM
Prod/Dir: Beverley Reid
Prod. Co: Coming Home Films Inc.

IT ONLY TAKES A MOMENT
Prod/Dir: Scott Powell
Prod. Co: Visual Productions

OFF THE MAP - PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Prod: Felice Gorica
Dir: Douglas Spencer
Prod. Co: DBS - Gorica Productions

RIBBON OF STEEL
Prod: Jack Stuart
Dir: Jack Stuart/Shael Gelfand
Prod. Co: White Iron Productions

EXPERIMENTAL

BROTHER & SISTERS
Prod/Dir: Istvan Kantor
Prod. Co: Istvan Kantor

BY THIS PARTING
Prod/Dir: Mieko Ouchi
Prod. Co: Mad Shadow Films Inc.

HOSPITAL FRAGMENTS
Prod/Dir: Guy Maddin
Prod. Co: Winnipeg Film Group

MANIFESTINY
Prod: Laurie Pearson/Terry Steyn
Dir: Terry Steyn
Prod. Co: Swirling Storm Productions  Inc.

STARING AT A FEARFUL OCEAN
Prod: Kate Holowach
Dir: Norm Fassbender
Prod. Co: Blue Sky Communications Inc.

Cattails on Film


More cattails. This time on film. I like this better. This is from a rangefinder and I have to say that I’ve decided that I really don’t like using this type of camera. I like seeing thru the lens much better. Maybe I could get used to it. It’s great for street photography, which I don’t do much of, but honestly, I just don’t like them much.

Minolta Hi-Matic 7SII
Rokkor 45mm f/1.7
Portra 400

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‘In Burnt Norton’ from Eighty-Watt Cinema to Screen August 1st at Anthology Film Archives as part of the NewFilmmakers Series

New York, NY (PRWEB) July 23, 2007

The latest short film from Eighty-Watt Cinema, ‘In Burnt Norton,’ (2006, 14 minutes, 8mm) will screen on August 1st in New York City at Anthology Film Archives as part of the NewFilmmakers series. The short film program begins at 7 p.m. and ‘Norton’ will be the third film to screen. A feature program will follow at 8 p.m. and 9 p.m.. Anthology Film Archives is located at 32 2nd Avenue (and E. 2nd Street) in New York City and tickets are $ 5.

The project, written and directed by Joshua Dilworth, tells the story of Professor Stephen Marvigelo, whose journey outside the classroom blurs the line between science fiction and nonfiction. It is a film about “solving the most difficult equations in life, one plane of existence at a time,” says Dilworth. ‘In Burnt Norton’ is the third short in as many years from Dilworth and executive producer Nicholas White’s production shingle, and centers around Marvigelo’s attempts to reunite with his wife and family after a seemingly random event defies the most basic laws of nature.

A New York City Institution

The Archives were created in 1969 when Jerome Hill, P. Adams Sitney, Peter Kubelka, Stan Brakhage, and Jonas Mekas drew up plans to create a museum dedicated to the vision of the art of cinema as guided by the avant-garde sensibility. NewFilmmakers is the longest-running screening series in New York and one of the longest in the nation. Films such as ‘The Blair Witch Project’ and ‘Too Much Sleep’ got their start via NewFilmmakers. And in addition to being a public movie theater, Anthology is a film museum, archive, research library, and art gallery. After 35 years in existence, Anthology remains the only non-profit organization of this type in New York.

“We’re really pleased to be screening ‘In Burnt Norton,’” said producer and curator Barney Oldfield of NewFilmmakers. “Visually it’s completely unique, and overall the piece is a great example of the kind of work we strive to highlight as the among very best work that’s being done in independent film right now.”

Pioneering A New Workflow For Budget-Minded Independents

Taking advantage of an increasingly viable workflow option for independent filmmakers, Dilworth shot ‘Norton’ on Super-8mm filmstock and transferred to DVCPro HD videotape using a Thompson Grassvalley Spirit film scanner with DaVinci color correction at Technicolor in New York City. This unique process produced an arresting result.

“If you want to shoot film, this is a great way to go,” says Dilworth, who has 35mm, 16mm and 8mm films under his belt. “It’s the best of two worlds, both high and low-tech.”

At a time when shooting digitally has become much more cost-effective, originating on film is increasingly rare in the independent world. “I’m so happy that Kodak and other companies haven’t abandoned Super-8mm,” said executive producer White. “There’s a viable community of experimental filmmakers around this format, and that’s good for everyone. It makes it easier to fit a story to a budget appropriately. It’s one more tool for a community that typically doesn’t have many.”

The unique look of the film is more visibly SD than HD, but the grain structure remains true, and the remarkable latitude of newer Super-8mm stocks made shooting the format a far less nerve-racking experience for the filmmakers. Dilworth used modified widescreen cameras from Pro8mm in Burbank, California and Kodak Vision2 200T and 400T film. The final product also boasts an uncharacteristically smooth image, due to the stability of the cameras as well as the transfer gate.

About Eighty-Watt Cinema:

Eighty-Watt Cinema, LLC was founded in 2002 by Joshua Dilworth and Nicholas White. Located in New York City, Eighty-Watt Cinema has produced several dramatic and comedic shorts, and these projects have screened at film festivals and theaters nationwide. The company is currently prepping its first feature film.

About NewFilmmakers:

The NewFilmmakers series began in 1998 at Anthology Film Archives as a local screening series. Over the past nine years NewFilmmakers has attracted national and international attention and has screened over 500 feature and 1600 short films. NewFilmmakers screens every Wednesday at Anthology Film Archives, one of the leading theaters in New York City. This unique series gives filmmakers the opportunity to screen their work for local audiences and to promote themselves to national distributors.

For more information and screening copies, please contact:

Joshua Dilworth

Eighty-Watt Cinema

Phone: 917-209-2956

jpd [at] eighty-watt.com

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There is no doubt when it comes to film festival is one of the hardest events to organize, in this article I will uncover my experience and some of the errors in London Kurdish Film Festival and the organizers.

London Kurdish Film Festival is running its 6th Festival this year, and their goal is to promote Kurdish artist and filmmakers, they accept films all over the world as long as you are a Kurdish director or artist. DO THEY ?

As an independent Kurdish filmmaker in my visit to North Iraq Kurdistan Region in august 2008 in an attempt to shoot my short film ‘MIX’ and to see my old Institute of art student friends which most of them are now teachers in the same institute teaching Drama, Acting & Directing also an opportunity for them to take part in the film.

After going through a hectic time to organize shooting, I was happy to come back to London and start post production procedures, and it took a few month to finish due to the amount of effects that applied to the film.

When I submitted the film to London Kurdish Film Festival in June 2009 I was surprised that I didn’t get any confirmation e-mail letter phone call et.. for the recipient !!! Few month later time were getting close to the festival and still no words from them, so I contacted them 2 weeks before the  festival starts via facebook ! because their e-mail address from their website http://www.lkff.co.uk/ were either wrong or they had a full inbox or it didn’t exists, when I was trying to send them e-mails from my 3 different e-mail addresses it kept coming back with the     ‘mail delivery failed’ message

As I contacted one of the festival committee via facebook he replied with this message:

Dear sangar
i have emailed you after the independent committee’s decision that your films has not been selected for the competition therefore for the the programme of the festival. as festival committee we have invited 7 kurdish and non-kurdish individuals to form pre selection committee to decide on the films to go in to competition. unfortunately your one has been qualified by the selection committee

I red this message for about 5 times but no chance of understanding, I showed it to couple of friends no clue, it is possible that they accepted or not or maybe both !! And I never received any e-mails from them.

So I decided to contact the guy again and he kindly apologized and confirmed that my film is NOT been accepted for the competition.

But still no explanation of the reasons why is not been accepted !

A few days later I visited London Kurdish Film Festival website and I was going through the upcoming programs of this year festival, I noticed they also have a none competition screening !!  and  there is 3 short films in this screening section which they are not taking part in the competition, and 2 of them is by a female Kurdish Director, and that Kurdish director is also a Jury within the festival !! And she have one more film which is taking part in the competition !! in the same festival ! So total of 3 films for one Director, and she is also a jury in the festival ! THAT NEVER HAPPENED IN A HISTORY OF FILM FESTIVAL this is all  been published in their website http://www.lkff.co.uk/
there is also a male Kurdish Jury in the festival who have a feature film in the festival ! does it exist to be a jury on your own film ?!

It doesn’t seem right, if one of the mission of London Kurdish Film festival is to promote Kurdish artist and Filmmakers wouldn’t be fair to replace at lest one of the 3 films with a new Kurdish Director film ? rather than promote one director with 3 films and be a jury on their own films ?! A new face or Introduce another filmmaker to take part ?

What is also worth to mention is that the same director with the 3 films this year also anticipated with a film in the previous London Kurdish Film Festival ! I think we all know that raise so many questions.

Personally I have nothing against the respected Kurdish Directors who are also a jury in the festival . My debate here is about Promoting New Kurdish films and artist, if you ask me so far the mission is not accomplished.

Sangar Kamal

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