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Whistler Film Festival’s Aboriginal Filmmaker Fellowship is a four-day creative and business immersion experience from November 29 to December 3, 2017 during the Whistler Film Festival + Summit.

Designed to advance Canadian Aboriginal talent, this program focuses on strengthening and advancing short script projects by facilitating feedback from a group of mentor filmmakers who are successful, well-respected members of the Canadian film community.

Up to six emerging Aboriginal Canadian film artists with short film, webisode projects or television pilots will be accepted. Short scripts in all genres can be submitted. Writers must be Canadian citizens and of Aboriginal descent. Deadline for applications is Wednesday, August 30, 2017.

Read more about the program and apply.

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The TELUS STORYHIVE animation shorts winners have just been announced.

Soggy Flakes (pictured) from directors The Affolter Bros. and S.O.S. from director Denver Jackson won the top awards. They’re both from BC.

Soggy Flakes follows a group of out-of-work breakfast cereal mascots who form a support group to lament the golden ages of yesteryear and figure out how to swallow the bitter taste of reality.

In S.O.S., Aria receives an SOS from her long-lost mother and travels to the farthest edge of space to unlock the mystery of the ship known as Somnius to find her.

Each winner receives customized career training and attendance at the 2017 Ottawa Animation Festival.

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STORYHIVE is a community-powered funding program that allows members of the community to influence what projects will receive funding from TELUS.

The program allows content creators in British Columbia and Alberta to submit their story ideas to an online public platform. The community then votes for the project that should receive funding and go into production.

NSI delivers training for the selected projects and their creators once they’re chosen through the STORYHIVE process.

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