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Payment by Matthew Kowalchuk + 1 more film in this week’s NSI Online Short Film Festival

Posted: 05 Sep 2017 03:10 PM PDT

Two new films in this week’s NSI Online Short Film Festival from directors Matthew Kowalchuk, and Reni Walker and Sydney Tam.

Payment

Payment | Comedy, 7:47, English, BC, 2015 | Director: Matthew Kowalchuk

Shelley and Stefan are trapped in a parkade and about to miss her sister’s wedding.

After exhausting their options, trying numerous machines and methods of escape, they learn they are the masters of their own demise.

Produced with a grant awarded by BravoFACT (Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent), a division of Bell Media Inc.

Roomies

Roomies | Comedy, 14:15, English, ON, 2016 | Directors: Reni Walker, Sydney Tam

When strange things start happening in his apartment, a young man reaches out to a psychic only to find something he didn’t even know he was missing.

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Call for films / deadline this Friday, Sept. 8

Films are now being accepted through FilmFreeway until Friday, September 8, 2017.

If your film is programmed, you have a chance of winning over $3K in cash awards. We accept films released after January 1, 2012.

All NSI Online Short Film Festival winners receive a complimentary Friend membership for the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television and non-acting award winners are qualified to be nominated for a Canadian Screen Award (if award criteria are met).

See the most recent winners.

Your film must be less than 30 mins long. Drama, comedy, animation, documentary, sci-fi, horror, music video and experimental are all eligible and must be made by a Canadian writer, director or producer.

Submit your film

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The NSI Online Short Film Festival is made possible through the support of Festival Partner Telefilm Canada; Supporting Sponsors Entertainment One, Super Channel, Corus Entertainment, Blue Ant Media, The Brian Linehan Charitable Foundation and Breakthrough Entertainment; Award Sponsors A&E Television Networks, The Brian Linehan Charitable Foundation and Blue Ant Media; and Industry Partner the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television.

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Kyle Rideout, Jordan Canning nominated for Directors Guild of Canada 2017 Discovery Award

Posted: 05 Sep 2017 02:36 PM PDT

The Directors Guild of Canada recently announced 15 nominees for its 2017 Discovery Award including two NSI alumni.

Congratulations to Kyle Rideout (NSI Drama Prize, NSI Features First, NSI Totally Television) and Jordan Canning (NSI Drama Prize).

The Discovery Award honours outstanding achievement by an emerging Canadian director or an established director working in a new genre.

The nominee list was presented by DGC national directors division chair Warren P. Sonoda.

“These directors are all part of a new wave in Canadian cinema,” said Warren. “They are the daring, intense, sometimes hilarious, filmmakers whose names you’re going to hear people buzzing about at TIFF and festivals across the country this fall.”

In 2016, the inaugural DGC Discovery Award went to filmmaker Chloé Leriche (NSI Drama Prize) for her film Avant les rues. This year Chloé is a member of the award’s jury which includes another NSI grad, Ashley McKenzie (NSI Drama Prize).

The winner of this year’s award will be announced at a gala event on October 28 in Toronto.

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NSI grads get BravoFACT funding

Posted: 05 Sep 2017 01:42 PM PDT

Fresh news from the latest BravoFACT funding meeting. Congrats to these NSI alumni.

All in Madonna* from director Arnold Lim and writer Susie Winters: When sixteen-year-old Maddie attends public school for the first time, she learns her father is known as a dangerous thug.

*The feature length version of this project is being developed through NSI Features First by Arnold and Susie.

Are We Cool Now? from producer Josh Epstein (NSI Drama Prize, NSI Totally Television, NSI Features First) and director Molly McGlynn (NSI Drama Prize): A young couple sets out on a road trip to navigate their relationship, but getting away from it all causes them to reflect on their place in the world and with each other.

Drone from producer/director Laura Perlmutter (NSI Drama Prize): A women is stalked by a drone.

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NSI at the Toronto International Film Festival 2017

Posted: 05 Sep 2017 12:20 PM PDT

In the past few weeks we’ve posted a lot of great news about what our alumni will be up to at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). We figured we’d put it all together in one post for your reading pleasure.

We’re proud of our alumni with shorts and features on the big screen and the grads selected for TIFF Studio. More of our talented alumni were selected for the OMDC International Financing Forum (iff).

And finally, congratulations to the three grads honoured in the Birks Diamond Tribute to the Year’s Women in Film.

NSI CEO John Gill and NSI Features First program manager Shelly Quade will be at the fest. If you see them, come over and say hi!

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