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Michelle Latimer’s Nuuca selected for Sundance Film Fest 2018

Posted: 05 Dec 2017 02:14 PM PST

Nuuca, directed by Michelle Latimer (NSI Drama Prize), has been accepted to the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.

Nuuca follows the oil boom in North Dakota, which has brought tens of thousands of new people to the region and an influx of drugs, crime and sex trafficking.

The Sundance Film Festival runs from January 18 to 28, 2018 in Utah.

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Babe, I Hate to Go by Andrew Moir + 1 more film in this week’s NSI Online Short Film Festival

Posted: 05 Dec 2017 08:47 AM PST

Two films in this week’s NSI Online Short Film Festival from directors Andrew Moir and John Graham.

Babe, I Hate to Go

Babe, I Hate To Go | Documentary, 18:28, English, ON, 2017 | Director: Andrew Moir

An intimate observational documentary about a Jamaican migrant worker struggling with a cancer diagnosis, Babe, I Hate To Go shows us the world of the migrant worker, an invisible population that number in the millions across Canada and the United States.

Tone

Tone | Experimental, 2:00, No dialogue, SK, 2017 | Director: John Graham

A hypnotic dance of transformation in a metaphorical forest.

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Call for films / submit by December 13

We’re accepting films through FilmFreeway until Wednesday, December 13, 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

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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Government of Yukon supports NSI Totally Television participants

Posted: 05 Dec 2017 08:28 AM PST

The National Screen Institute – Canada (NSI) is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Yukon government’s Yukon Media Development unit in support of NSI Totally Television.

This commitment benefits current NSI Totally Television participants – producer Kelly Milner (above left) and writer Kirsten Madsen (above right) – based in Whitehorse.

“This is an exciting opportunity for Kelly and Kirsten to gain increased knowledge, support and skills from NSI Totally Television as they develop the series Thin Ice,” said Minister of Economic Development Ranj Pillai. “Partnership with the National Screen Institute will greatly benefit both this project and Yukon’s media industry.”

Through the training program Kelly and Kirsten are developing a series entitled Thin Ice about a rookie police officer who uncovers an isolated community’s long-buried secrets, while confronting her own dark past.

“We’re pleased to have Yukon Media Development’s support in training Kelly and Kirsten and developing their Yukon-set story,” said John Gill, CEO of NSI. “It’s great to see more Northern stories being told through NSI’s courses and we look forward to seeing where these skills take them and their work.”

NSI Totally Television provides hands-on series development training for producer/writer teams serious about getting their series concept made.

NSI Totally Television is made possible by Presenting Sponsor Bell Media; Program Partner Telefilm Canada; Supporting Sponsors Entertainment One, Super Channel, Corus Entertainment and Breakthrough Entertainment; and Territorial Sponsor Yukon Media Development. NSI Core Funders are Manitoba Sport, Culture & Heritage and the City of Winnipeg through the Winnipeg Arts Council.

About the National Screen Institute – Canada (NSI)

Renowned for having given many emerging filmmakers, television writers and producers their first breaks, the National Screen Institute provides training and production support through courses like NSI Totally Television, CBC New Indigenous Voices presented by NSI, NSI Features First, NSI IndigiDocs, NSI Business for Producers and TELUS STORYHIVE Web Series and Digital Shorts.

NSI also offers exposure through the NSI Online Short Film Festival and provides vast resources and support to those in the film, television and digital media industries at nsi-canada.ca.

About Yukon Media Development

The Government of Yukon supports the development, production and export marketing of media content. This support is offered through Yukon Media Development, a unit of the Department of Economic Development.

All media enquiries

Laura Friesen, Manager, Communications & Alumni Relations
Tel: 204.957.2999 or email [email protected]

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Eisha Marjara wins Alliance of Women Film Journalists award for Venus

Posted: 05 Dec 2017 08:21 AM PST

At Whistler Film Festival over the weekend, NSI Features First-developed film Venus won the Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ) EDA award for best female-directed narrative feature. The film was written and directed by Eisha Marjara and produced by Joe Balass.

Genders, generations and cultures collide in this comedy about the modern family unit, which follows a transitioning woman who discovers she’s the father of a 14-year-old boy.

Whistler was Venus‘s English-language festival premiere. Prior to this, the film premiered at the Festival du nouveau cinéma in Montreal in October.

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NSI Features First is a development training launch pad for producer/writer teams looking to produce their first or second feature film with strong commercial appeal.

NSI Features First is funded by Presenting Sponsor Telefilm Canada; Supporting Sponsors Entertainment One, Super Channel, Corus Entertainment and Breakthrough Entertainment; Provincial Sponsors Creative Saskatchewan and Creative BC through the Daryl Duke and William Vince Scholarship Fund; and Service Sponsor William F. White. NSI Core Funders are Manitoba Sport, Culture & Heritage and the City of Winnipeg through the Winnipeg Arts Council.

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