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Jenna and Justina Neepin’s short Bayline screens at WNDX

Posted: 10 Sep 2018 05:11 PM PDT

Short doc Bayline, from writer/director Jenna Neepin (NSI IndigiDocs) and producer Justina Neepin (CBC New Indigenous Voices, NSI IndigiDocs), screens at this year’s WNDX Festival of Moving Image in Winnipeg.

In the film, Jenna and Justina’s parents take them to the Bayline, where their father grew up, for a three-day long camping trip. The Bayline was a short term for the Hudson Bay Railway between The Pas and Churchill in Manitoba.

Bayline screens as part of shorts program ‘Placed or misplaced: bodies and families in transit’ on Thursday, September 20 at 9 p.m. at Winnipeg Film Group’s Cinematheque.

This year’s WNDX fest runs from September 19 to 23.

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TELUS STORYHIVE announces 30 documentary edition finalists

Posted: 10 Sep 2018 12:08 PM PDT

Congratulations to the 30 finalists selected for the 2018 documentary edition of STORYHIVE.

These storytellers were awarded $50,000 to make documentaries about BC and Alberta people, places, history and culture. Projects will be featured on select TELUS platforms in summer 2019. They also receive training from NSI.

The finalists are:

Alberta

Picture a Farmer from Kelsey van Moorsel

Ammolite: Gem of the West from Clayton Varjassy

Norwest from Christopher Herbert

Memoirs of the Motherland from Alicia Krawchuk

60s Scoop from Aretha Greatrix

Momentum: From Nothing to NASCAR from Len Morissette

Finding Normal from Barb Briggs

We All Believe in You from Andrea Beça

Just Another Beautiful Family from Nick McArthur

A Typical Heart from Chris Beauchamp

Charlie from Xavier Cattarinich

The Powerlifter from Dillon Jakovac

Yah Wave from Emma Power

Queer Scouts from Katie Cutting

MS’ed With The Wrong Girl from Julia Grochowski

British Columbia

Tuned Up from Chelsea Kanstrup

Human Powered from Matt Cecill

Sadika’s Garden from Julia Iriarte

Coextinction from John Fulton

Five Acres from Paul Manly

You Are Not Alone from Robin Macdonald

Anyox, the town that got lost: Canada’s largest ghost town from Frank Schlichting

A Short Essay on Men from Sheona McDonald (NSI Global Marketing)

Hayashi Studios from Hayley Gray

Peaks and Valleys: The Search for Ryan Shtuka from Russell Walton

Lost Nation Road from Ian MacKenzie

Smash Forward from Melissa Dex Guzman

Yellow Peril: Queer Destiny from Jen Sung

Who Am I? from Adhel Arop

The Knife from Daniel Code

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In Death Unparted

Posted: 06 Sep 2018 11:35 AM PDT

A young, charming, yet isolated, vampire battles with evading the grasp of his lovesick stalker/classmate or giving in to his need for companionship.

Creative team

Writer: Lia Cavasotto
Director: Tim Lopers
Producer: Alex Milne

Filmmaker’s statement

This film was an absolute pleasure to bring to life. The writer, Lia Cavasotto, made it easy to hit the laughs while sustaining the drama I felt the film deserved.

This was the second major project in our second year at Toronto’s Humber College film and television program and required that we film in studio, with fabricated sets, in only three days. As such there was no opportunity to waste time and our team made every minute count.

Everything from production design to casting and camera came together for a film we were all proud to create.

About Tim Lopers

Never happy with the status quo of his suburban upbringing, Tim grew up fighting with authority, but would eventually find solace in music and art.

Searching to flee the addiction that would eventually control his teenage years, Tim joined the army. However he only found more reason to use.

After a long and deadly battle with addiction, Tim finally got clean, and started putting his life back together.

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