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Pat Mills moderates free panel on getting your first feature made, Toronto, April 24

Posted: 18 Apr 2019 12:38 PM PDT

Pat Mills (NSI Drama Prize, NSI Totally Television, NSI Features First, NSI Script to Screen, pictured), current University of Toronto Cinema Studies Institute screenwriter in residence, will moderate a panel of fellow film industry professionals at an event next week in Toronto called Post Script: How to Get Your First Feature Film Made.

Panelists include screenwriter and director Gloria Ui Young Kim (NSI Diverse TV Director), Telefilm’s Dan Lyon, producer Mike MacMillan and screenwriter and producer Alyson Richards (NSI Drama Prize, NSI Features First).

The panel takes place Wednesday, April 24 at the University of Toronto’s Innis Town Hall. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the event begins at 7 p.m. A reception will follow at Innis Café.

The event is free but advance registration is required. You can also RSVP to cinema.studies@utoronto.ca.

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Films from NSI grads screen at Dreamspeakers International Film Festival

Posted: 18 Apr 2019 11:06 AM PDT

Congrats to the NSI grads with films screening at this year’s Dreamspeakers International Film Festival, held in Edmonton, Alberta.

Dreamspeakers runs from April 26 to May 7, 2019.

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STORYHIVE announces 2019 Banff Fellowship participants

Posted: 18 Apr 2019 10:33 AM PDT

Congratulations to this year’s TELUS STORYHIVE Banff Fellowship winners:

The TELUS STORYHIVE Banff Fellowship Program promotes professional development in digital production by enabling emerging creative talent – including producers, writers and directors – to attend the Banff World Media Festival.

Winners receive full festival registration, including admission to all Banff World Media Festival seminars, workshops, feature interviews and screenings plus all official festival social events, three nights’ accommodation and a travel stipend.

The National Screen Institute is providing mentorship and market preparation support to the winners.

Banff World Media Festival runs from June 9 to 12, 2019.

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NSI CEO announcement from John Gill

Posted: 18 Apr 2019 10:02 AM PDT

Today, I am announcing my resignation as CEO of the National Screen Institute, effective May 31, 2019.

It has been my privilege to lead the organization for the last eight years and I have truly loved my time working with my NSI colleagues. The NSI team is made up of some of the most talented and dedicated people I have ever known: thank you for everything you do.

Thank you also to the many friends I’ve made in Manitoba who’ve welcomed me into their communities and given me a much deeper understanding of what it means to be Canadian. To friends who showed me the grace, resilience and strength of Indigenous cultures and people on this land: Miigwech.

NSI is an incredible organization with an unbelievable record of accomplishment and success. The timing is right for me to step aside so that NSI can continue to reshape itself for the future. I know the organization remains in good hands.

I want to thank all the industry professionals who volunteer their time and expertise – our programs would be nothing without you. Thank you to the many incredible students who entrust their stories to us and whose accomplishments constantly inspire us.

Thank you to the Province of Manitoba and the City of Winnipeg for their commitment to the training and development NSI delivers.

I also want to thank the many individuals and organizations that have sponsored and supported NSI as well as the many colleagues who supported me personally – you know who you are and I will always be grateful.

I am also grateful to the NSI Board of Directors for their years of support and for entrusting the leadership of the organization to me. Finally, thank you to my family and friends for supporting me in this crazy commuter lifestyle for so long.

I wish NSI nothing but continued success in the future.

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