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Congratulations to the 40 creators whose films were recently chosen for TELUS STORYHIVE Local Heroes Documentary Edition.

STORYHIVE selected pitches from creators in Alberta and British Columbia that highlighted extraordinary individuals making a positive difference in the local community. Each creator will receive $20K to fund their locally reflective documentary and mentorship from the National Screen Institute.

British Columbia

• Bottled Up

• Cypher

• Employ to Empower

• Finding His Sea Legs: Tyler’s Journey to the 2022 Paralympics

• Fire on Water

• Gladys Radek: Journey for Justice

• Growing Hope

• I am Shawn

• I Prefer They

• Kasp – The Road to H.O.P.E

• Looking Up To Lily

• Out of the Dark

• Press Breaker

• Purple Tiger: Racing Outside the Box

• Smashed: Breaking the Cycle of Alcohol Use Disorder

• Stay Wild

• Temosen

• The O Show

• The Swimmers

• The Treble With Rosemary 

Alberta

• Able

• Adaptation in the Impoverished City

• Anonymous Heroes

• A Refugee’s Refuge – C.A.R.E., Jan Underwood

• Chess 4 Life: A Rehabilitation Strategy For At-Risk Youth

• Coffee to the People

• Dodginghorse – One Man’s Heroic Crusade Against Racism

• Gathering Storm

• Glass Bookshop

• Grounded

• Indigenous Heroes of Treaty 6 Territory

• Jason and Me

• Nokum’s Fire

• Oma

• Red Sirens

• See Me: Change The Face of Addiction

• Sensei

• She Leads: Making a Way for Black Artists

• TUF

• Wolf / Dog / Girl

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The Vancouver Short Film Festival (VSFF) celebrated over 60 films during their virtual festival earlier this month.

The festival weekend ended with a virtual award show which streamed live via Facebook. Winners were selected by a jury consisting of NSI alumnus Arnold Lim (NSI Features First), and filmmakers Doreen Manuel and Kathleen Mullen.

Congratulations to the NSI alumni awarded at this year’s VSFF:

Best editor award honourable mention

Idols Never Die – directed and written by Jerome Yoo, produced and edited by Thomas Affolter, produced by Derek Kwan, cinematography by Kaayla Whachell (all TELUS STORYHIVE)

Best director award and best short film award

The Ink Runs Deep – produced by Kent Donguines (TELUS STORYHIVE)

Congratulations to the creators behind all alumni films that screened at the festival:

• BUG – produced by Harrison Houde (TELUS STORYHIVE)

• Ginger Beef – directed, written and produced by Eunice Hau (TELUS STORYHIVE)

• Glow Dorris – directed and written by Shelby Wilson (TELUS STORYHIVE)

• Hayashi Studio – directed, written and produced by Hayley Gray, cinematography by Kaayla Whachell (both TELUS STORYHIVE)

• Itsy Bitsy Spider – produced by Kent Donguines, Ingo Lou and Nathanael Vass (all TELUS STORYHIVE)

• Murphy’s Law – directed and produced by Kate Green (NSI Totally Television, NSI Lifestyle & Reality Series Producer, TELUS STORYHIVE)

• The Quieting – produced by Kent Donguines, Ingo Lou and Nathanael Vass (all TELUS STORYHIVE)

• Speak Up! – edited, composed and sound designed by Robert Cuffley (NSI Drama Prize, NSI Features First)

• The Tailor – produced by Andy Alvarez and Diana Parry (both TELUS STORYHIVE)

• Try to Fly – directed and produced by The Affolter Brothers (TELUS STORYHIVE)

• Watershed – produced by Kent Donguines

• What About Our Future? – directed and produced by Jaime Leigh Gianopoulos (TELUS STORYHIVE)

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Burden of Truth, executively produced by Eagle Vision‘s Kyle Irving (NSI Global Marketing) and Lisa Meeches (NSI Indigenous programs advisor, NSI Storytellers), has been picked up by the Brazil-based streaming service Globoplay.

All current and future seasons of the legal drama will be added to the streaming platform along with other Canadian shows Nurses and Mary Kills People. Burden of Truth is also distributed in the US on The CW.

Burden of Truth stars Kristin Kreuk as a big-city lawyer who returns to her hometown to take on what she thinks is a simple case only to find herself in a fight for justice for a group of sick girls.

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