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Projects from NSI grads advance to IPF web drama shortlist

Posted: 06 Apr 2018 01:35 PM PDT

The Independent Production Fund (IPF) has selected 30 projects eligible to advance to phase two of its Web Drama Series program.

Congratulations to the NSI grads whose projects made the list.

Detention Adventure

Joe Kicak (NSI Drama Prize), Ryan West and Karen Moore (both NSI Features First)

The Communist’s Daughter

Leah Cameron (NSI Drama Prize)

Swings

Lora Campbell (NSI Drama Prize)

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CBC New Indigenous Voices short Forgotten screens at First Nations Film Festival Chicago

Posted: 06 Apr 2018 01:25 PM PDT

Congratulations to Jesse Spence, Alexis Leask and Andy Lown whose CBC New Indigenous Voices film Forgotten screens at this spring’s First Nations Film Festival in Chicago.

Forgotten follows Levi, who lives a simple life until escalating visions too strong to ignore lead him to reconnect to his Indigenous heritage.

The fest runs from May 2 to 10 at various venues across Chicago.

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CBC New Indigenous Voices is funded by: Title, Presenting and Tuition Sponsor CBC; Program Partners Manitoba Sport, Culture & Heritage, the Centre for Aboriginal Human Resource Development (CAHRD) and Telefilm Canada; Supporting Sponsors Super Channel, Corus Entertainment, Breakthrough Entertainment and imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival; Provincial Sponsor Manitoba Film & Music; Industry Partner the Directors Guild of Canada (DGC); and Service Sponsor William F. White. NSI Core Funders are Manitoba Sport, Culture and Heritage and the City of Winnipeg through the Winnipeg Arts Council.

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Orlando Braun’s series Take the Dive now available on Bell MTS Stories From Home

Posted: 06 Apr 2018 01:19 PM PDT

Take the Dive, a new food series exploring delicious Winnipeg hidden gems produced by Orlando Braun’s (NSI Business For Producers) company Prairie Boy Productions, is now available on Bell MTS TV Stories from Home.

The eight-episode series features downtown dweller Jorge Requena Ramos as he takes his suburban friend Joanna Braun on an ‘insider’s list’ tour of coolest dives and hidden gems in her city.

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