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Alex Lazarowich’s Fast Horse in the news

Posted: 29 Nov 2019 12:52 PM PST

Alex Lazarowich (NSI IndigiDocs) has been busy with her award-winning short documentary Fast Horse.

She recently spoke to The Atlantic about how the film came about and also to The Hollywood Reporter for their Awards Playbook Documentary Preview which profiled Oscar hopefuls.

Earlier this year the film won several Yorkton Golden Sheaf Awards, an Alberta Media Production Industries Association (AMPIA) Rosie Award, a Sundance Special Jury Award and awards at imagineNATIVE to name a few. It’s also a Staff Pick on Vimeo.

In Fast Horse, Blackfoot bareback horse-racing returns in the astonishingly dangerous Indian Relay. Siksika horseman Allison Red Crow struggles with second-hand horses and a new jockey on his way to challenge the best riders in the Blackfoot Confederacy.

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STORYHIVE 2019 web series edition finalists announced

Posted: 29 Nov 2019 10:35 AM PST

Congratulations to the 40 finalists selected for the 2019 web series edition of STORYHIVE.

These storytellers from British Columbia and Alberta are awarded $20K each to create a pilot episode of a brand new, locally reflective web series. Projects will receive distribution of their pilot episode on select TELUS platforms. They also get training and mentorship from the National Screen Institute.

In August 2020, a jury will award two projects the Series Award, a $60K prize to produce up to 10 additional episodes.

British Columbia

Follow My Brain from Robyn Thomas

My Kelowna from Aaron DeSilva

Friday from Mohamed Ibrahim

Legally In Charge from Emma Lin

Open Ethnicity Pilot from Sunny Chen

Home-stay from Chukwumuobi Obasi

Can’t Stop Love // The Web Series from Andrea Helleman

See Through Daddy from Andrea Peek

Earth Squad from Julia Llanos

Waste Not from Greg Bartels

The Participant from Jennifer Stahn

Doomball from Wren Handman

Disease & Desire from Sara McIntyre

Mural Life from Derek Edenshaw

Common Ground from Levi Hildebrand

Nerds4Earth from Mily Mumford

Growing Up With Mi Familia from Andy Alvarez

A piece of history how it all started in Prince George from Ze Helios

Mushroom Man from Hannah Borrego

Sigma from Jennifer Laporte

Alberta

The Wright Way from Neville Wright

After Life from Brandon Wilson

Restless Sleep from Megan Stephan

Noise from Adam Thom

Maple Tea from Harvey Li

Blood Memory from Brittney Pastion

From the Bush to the Plate from Barbara Jackson

The Real Maldita from Linda Kee

Life Without Diagnosis from Mariah Braun

A Portrait of Caring from Kelsey van Moorsel

The Beginnings from Angel Peterson

Tales From The Archives from Patrick O’Connor

Beats & Eats from Sammy Golom

Gender? I Hardly Know Them from Elena Eli Belyea

Bunny Phantom: The World’s Greatest Superhero Who Ever Lived from Simon Chan

Super Roommates from Ivy Miller

Peter Fidler & The Mapping of Alberta from Sean Smith

AM Shorts from Jason Steele

Creative Canvas from Ximena Rios

Ginger Beef from Eunice Hau

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