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Your Place or Mine by Jessica Joy Wise + 2 more films in this week’s NSI Online Short Film Festival

Posted: 30 Jan 2018 10:49 AM PST

Three films in this week’s NSI Online Short Film Festival from directors Jessica Joy Wise, Leah Cameron and Kevin Walker.

Your Place or Mine

Your Place or Mine | Drama, 6:30, English, ON, 2012 | Director: Jessica Joy Wise

One night, Annie and Danny meet at a bar, feel a spark and decide to go home together – but whether they go to his place or hers determines the path their relationship takes: short-lived lust or lasting love?

Your Place or Mine is a short, sexy, nuanced piece about the power of first impressions and how easy it can be to miss out on someone when trying to follow our instincts and our hearts.

Back From the Bush

Back from the Bush | Comedy, 3:22, English, ON, 2013 | Director: Leah Cameron

A Canadian man comes home early from his camping trip to find his wife in bed with another hoser. Everybody apologizes.

Motorino

Motorino | Drama, 13:01, English, Italian, ON, 2016 | Director: Kevin Walker

Can technology guide us to true romance? A shy woman takes a chance on love on an internet scooter forum.

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Call for films / submit by March 12

We’re accepting films through FilmFreeway until Monday, March 12, 2018.

If your film is programmed, you have a chance of winning over $3K in cash awards. We accept films released after January 1, 2013.

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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NSI celebrates five years of partnership with RBC Emerging Artists Project

Posted: 30 Jan 2018 10:39 AM PST



The National Screen Institute – Canada (NSI) is pleased to celebrate five years of support from RBC Emerging Artists Project.

Since coming onboard as an NSI IndigiDocs (formerly NSI Aboriginal Documentary) program partner in 2013, RBC has been an enthusiastic supporter of NSI IndigiDocs participants, both during their time in the program and after it.

“We’re proud to celebrate this partnership milestone with NSI,” said Aaron Martyniw, Vice President, Commercial Financial Services. “At RBC we believe in the power of arts to encourage a culture of creativity, inclusion and innovation and that’s why we’ve supported NSI in various capacities for 20 years.

“They are an invaluable support for up-and-coming artists. The work they do through NSI IndigiDocs and all of their programming continues to be vital to the industry and our community.”

With RBC’s partnership, films made through NSI IndigiDocs have gone on to premiere at festivals and win awards around the world, including those highlighted in the clip above:

“The success that NSI IndigiDocs grads have enjoyed is due in no small part to RBC’s support of their work and the learning process,” said John Gill, CEO of NSI. “RBC’s commitment to the development of Indigenous filmmakers is invaluable.”

Previously RBC featured their partnership with NSI in the 2017 Aboriginal Partnership Report, A Chosen Journey [PDF].

NSI IndigiDocs is a development training launch pad for producer/director teams looking to produce a short documentary film. Each team is paired with an industry mentor to help with the development and production of a documentary film.

About the National Screen Institute

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, NSI Features First, NSI Business for Producers, Script to Screen, NSI Diverse TV Director, NSI IndigiDocs, 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.

All media enquiries

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

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