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In this Newsletter:
1. MediaNet’s Board of Directors for 2013
2. 48 Hour Hack-a-thon! April 19-21
3. OPEN CINEMA presents Elemental, April 24
4. MediaNet’s Saturday Spring Workshops
5. Member’s news – Richard Boyce launches Indiegogo Campaign
6. Around Town
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1. MediaNet’s Board of Directors, 2013
MediaNet extends a big thank you to out-going Board members, Trudy Pauluth-Penner, who has served for many years on the MediaNet Board, Cyrus Block and Colleen Craig. All the best to them in their new ventures!
MediaNet Board of Directors, 2013:
President, Scott Amos; Vice President, Kristina Campbell; Secretary, Monique Cartesan; Treasurer,Tom Shandel; Members at Large: April Ingham, Nicole Sorochan, and we welcome 3 new members to the Board: Janet Rogers, Steven Thomas Davies, and David Parfit.
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2. 48 Hour Hack-a-thon!
April 19-21
Make interactive devices! A 48 hour Hack-a-thon for environmental ideas.
Open to all artists, engineers, techies, hackers and everyone in between.
A joint event hosted by Medianet and Makerspace
Victoria Makerspace
Schedule:
Making Teams
April 19th 6 -10pm @ OneNetMarketing (733 Johnson Street)
Hackathon
April 20-21st 9am – midnight
@OneNetMarketing & OddFellows
Exhibit (Open to the Public)
April 22nd 6pm-10pm @ Intrepid Theatre
Exhibit – Open to the public
Cost:
$20 for MediaNet or Makerspace members or students, $40 for all others.
Register:
To register as an individual or a group via MediaNet call: 250-381-4428 or email info@media-net.bc.ca
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3. Coming Up at OPEN CINEMA
Our Season 10 Finale and Fundraiser!
On April 24, we will be screening the documentary Elemental, in partnership with Sierra Club BC.
This award-winning documentary tells the story of three people united by their deep connection to nature
and driven to confront the ecological challenges of our time. www.elementalthefilm.com
Featuring a post-screening discussion with: Briony Penn, environmental activist, writer, educator; Jesse Baltutis, POLIS
Water Sustainability Project and Caitlyn Vernon, Sierra Club BC.
Join the conversation virtually via #opencinema Tweetchat!
The discussion will also be livestreamed on our website.
We are looking for items for our silent auction. If you have something that you would like to contribute,
please contact us at info@opencinema.ca
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4. MediaNet’s Saturday Spring Workshops
All workshops take place at the MediaNet office, #110 – 2750 Quadra St.
Please note: We have added Keyframing into the Intro workshops for Final Cut Pro X and
Premiere Pro to create more comprehensive and streamlined workshops.
April 6, 11am-5pm – Getting Started in Final Cut Pro X (with Keyframing) – FULL
April 13, 11am-5pm – Getting Started in Premiere Pro (with Keyframing)- One spot left!
May 4, 11am-3pm – Introduction to Encore (DVD/ BluRay burning)
To register, contact Kirk or Catlin at communications@media-net.bc.ca
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5. Members
MediaNet member Richard Boyce launching an Indiegogo Campaign for documentaries on Pipeline
There’s very little time left before the Harper government plans to approve the Enbridge Corporation’s Northern Gateway Pipeline Project in early 2014. This plan includes hundreds of supertankers navigating through the inside passage along the central coast of British Columbia, loaded with millions of barrels of Alberta Tarsands Bitumen for export to China.
This is one of the most pressing environmental issue of our time. These coastal waters are intense, the shorelines extremely rugged, and the environment extremely diverse. Before deciding its future people deserve to see more than animated TV ads, with glass calm waters absent of a maze of islands, produced by the Enbridge Corporation which is spending $350 million promoting its project. My media project will reveal the reality of this incredible environment and I need your help to complete it. More details: http://coastaltarsands.ca
I’m taking an innovative approach to this media production by producing a series of short ‘mini-docs’ that I will post on the internet to meet pressing public deadlines, which will be combined to complete a full length documentary. I’ve started a fund raising campaign via Indiegogo to cover the production cost of the first ‘mini-doc,’ which needs to be released prior to the BC Election May 14, 2013 http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/coastal-tarsands
Please join me by donating and help spread this message by forwarding to friends.
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4. AROUND TOWN
Cowboy Smithx to show work at First Peoples House, April 9
Filmmaker Cowboy Smithx will be screening work as a part of a crowd funding campaign at the University of Victoria’s
First People’s House on April 9 from 6-8pm.
He is seeking funds to complete his first feature film “Pensive Times of an Urban Tribe.”
The story is about a group of urban Indigenous people living in Toronto, Canada, who each face extreme situations in their daily lives as they battle their inner and outer demons.A young art student named Sally Black gets the group together to join her writers session and asks permission to share their stories. This becomes a blog site called The Pensive Times.
More information on the project: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pensive-times-of-an-urban-tribe
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Video portraits of the 2013 Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts Awards recipients are unveiled.
For the first time, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance (IMAA) partnered to commission Canadian Media artists to create videos that portray the recipients of the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts.
Seven filmmakers were paired with the seven winners and given complete creative control to produce unique videos that celebrate the winner’s achievements and their outstanding contributions to Canadian Culture. The video profiles are works of art in themselves, and as such reveal bits about the artists behind the camera.
The videos can be seen on The Canada Council’s website: http://ggavma.canadacouncil.ca/
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Grant Writing workshop for artists – Vancouver
GRANT WRITING DEMYSTIFIED
Saturday, April 6, 2013, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Cineworks [1131 Howe, back lane entrance]
Members: $20, Non-members: $25
REGISTRATION: Please call 604.685.3841 or ie-mail info@cineworks.ca.
Instructors:
Walter Quan has been a Program Officer at the British Columbia Arts Council for the past 21 years. He coordinates programs for individuals working in writing, visual and media arts, as well as for Professional Arts Training Organizations. He is a native of Vancouver, attended UBC in Commerce and Music and has been seen variously with clarinets, knitting projects and handmade candles shaped like sushi.
Peg Campbell has been directing and producing award winning documentaries and narrative films since 1975. Her films have received international acclaim, winning awards at the Genie’s, Banff International Television Festival, Melbourne Film Festival, Yorkton Short Film Festival, Northwest Film and Video Festival and the Information Film Producers of America. They have been broadcast on CBC, PBS, WTN, A&E, The Movie Channel and educational networks. She is Head of Film, Video + Integrated Media and an Associate Professor at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
And Don’t Forget: May 31 is the deadline for BCAC’s Project Assistance to Media Artists.
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SUBMISSIONS
Film a Documentary About
Inclusive Dance in East Asia!
Opportunity for Filmmaker
To celebrate 25 years of DanceAbility International, we are looking for a filmmaker, or Director of Photography/camera-person to document our trip to Mongolia, Indonesia, and the Philippines!
As a small nonprofit organization, DanceAbility Interntational does not have money to pay a fee to a filmmaker. He/she will be responsible for all related expenses. However, we have launched a $5,000 Kickstarter campaign. We feel confident we can meet this goal. The funds raised will go to the filmmaker to offset travel expenses and for a possible honorarium (small fee).
For more information: http://www.danceability.com
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An on-line site for photographers and photojournalists. http://company.cont3nt.com/
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EVENTS
Open Space
Charles Campbell’s Transporter
Exhibition March 1 to April 6, 2013
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Canada Connections
Pianist Philip Thomas will be joining us to showcase the music of Canadian and British composers. Philip specializes in performing experimental notated and improvised music and is known for his programs that provoke and suggest connections.
The concert on April 12, 2013, at 8:00 p.m. will include works by British composers Christopher Fox and Bryn Harrison and Canadian composers Martin Arnold and Cassandra Miller, as well as Luke by Victoria Symphony’s composer in residence, Michael Oesterle.
Date Friday, April 12, 2013, at 8:00 p.m.
Genre New Music
Event Canada Connections
Artist Philip Thomas (piano)
Place Open Space, 510 Fort Street
Admission General $15, students and members $10
Tickets available at the door (cash only) or in advance at CanConnectionsVic.brownpapertickets.com
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CLASSES
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David Simmond’s screen actors’ studio
845 Fisgard St, Victoria B.C.
Ph: 250-595-1339.
www.screenactors.ca / e: screenact@shaw.ca
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SCREENINGS
Movie Monday
6:30 pm Monday 8 Apr 2013
Modra, 80 min, 2010
A gentle story about the confusion of being 17. After a breakup a young Toronto woman, invites a lad she hardly knows to accompany her on a visit to her ancestral home of Modra in Slovakia. A gentle story unfolds into a rich experience. Part travelogue, part love story, part reflection on immigrant roots in the old country, wholly satisfying. “You don’t need big budgets. You need vision and heart. This made my heart open.” Billie Mintz Pg13 trailer
Trust me on this one! Winning making of clips about this Canadian family project will be added to our screening.
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6:30 pm Monday 15 Apr 2013
Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life And Inventive Mind Of Alexander Graham Bell
Presentation and reading by author Charlotte Gray, approximately 105 min
I’ve been wanting to present this remarkable story for years, after hearing Charlotte Gray speak to my son’s convocation at Queens University and later reading her book Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life And Inventive Mind Of Alexander Graham Bell. Bell is typical of the bipolar spectrum personality; full of brilliant ideas, moody, messy, needs a good woman to organize his life. Happily he found one who was his helpmate, a remarkable woman herself. His accomplishments go way beyond inventing the telephone, into all aspects of his world; communication for the deaf, mentor to Helen Keller, sheep breeder, hydrofoil and airplane development, established the National Geographic Society…. it’s an amazing life story! more.
Movies are shown on a 12′ screen in the Eric Martin Pavilion in the 1900 block of Fort St. Admission by donation! Pop & popcorn at ridiculously low prices. See: http://islandnet.com/mm/
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The Canadian First Weekend Club
Great Canadian Film – It’s out there!
Through Q&A’s with filmmakers and actors, contests, premiere parties, advance screenings, film alerts, and much more, First Weekend Club encourages members to attend opening weekend screenings in order to keep Canadian films in theatres longer.
Currently, First Weekend Club has branches in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Victoria, Ottawa, Halifax, Montreal, and continues to expand into other cities across the country.
Coming to Theatres: Hit n’ Strum, Mad Ship, Home Again and more!
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More Submissions to other Media Arts Centers, festivals, projects and residencies
Please go to: www.medianetnews.wordpress.com
TAIS SHOWCASE 2013|TORONTO
Short Film Entry
The Toronto Animated Image Society is seeking independent animated
films, 10 minutes in length or less,
Screening: 7pm, May 11th, 2013 at Cinecycle: 129 Spadina Avenue,
Deadline: 6pm, Friday April 12th, 2013
Info: http://www.tais.ca
PLANET IN FOCUS ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL/ TORONTO
The 14th annual Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival is seeking fiction, documentary, shorts, experimental and animation films
October 9-13, 2013 in Toronto
Deadline: May 20, 2013 and late deadline June 4, 2013
http://planetinfocus.org/film-festival/
ASINABKA FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2013|OTTAWA
The second annual Asinabka Festival will be taking place in Ottawa, Ontario, July 24-28, 2013. The Festival is currently seeking works from independent filmmakers, any film or video that tells First Nations, Métis, or Inuit stories, or focuses on international Indigenous issues, is eligible. Submissions can be in any genre (documentary, drama, animation, experimental etc.) or any length, and must be finished works. Preference will be given to new works produced within the last two years.
DEADLINE: Monday, April 29th 2013
Info: Asinabka Festival, 340 Laurier Ave West, PO Box 307, Station A, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 8V3. Contact us: 613-889-9559, http://www.asinabkafestival.org, asinabkafestival@gmail.com, Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/249036335173872/, Twitter:http://twitter.com/#!/AsinabkaFest
THE REEL YOUTH FILM FESTIVAL
The Reel Youth Film Festival is seeking submissions of short films made by youth 19 years and younger. Reel Youth is a non-profit organization that supports youth to speak about issues they care about through producing and distributing films. Our traveling film festival showcases the best youth-made short films from around the world. It premiers every year at the Vancouver International Film Festival, and then travels to a number of communities around North America, as well as some internationally.
DEADLINE: June 14, 2013
Info: http://reelyouth.ca/submit2.html
THE 11TH ANNUAL REGENT PARK FILM FESTIVAL – TORONTO
Regent Park Film Festival is Toronto’s only free-of-charge, multi-cultural, film festival dedicated to showcasing the best local and international film and video works. All activities at the Regent Park Film Festival are free-of-charge; we provide free childcare and pay artist fees.
Nov 13 – 16th, 2013
Deadline: Friday, May 10th, 2013 (No Entry Fee)
Info: http://www.regentparkfilmfestival.com
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