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The National Screen Institute – Canada (NSI) is pleased to present our 2016-17 annual report.

Click the link above to read interviews with NSI staff and grads, including:

• Board Chair Norm Bolen on the importance of diversity

• CEO John Gill on the challenges and rewards of training storytellers

• NSI Features First grad Kirsten Carthew on creating new worlds

• NSI Indigenous Programs Advisor Lisa Meeches on giving back

• Akashi filmmaker Mayumi Yoshida on TELUS STORYHIVE and underrepresented voices

• NSI Online Short Film Fest winner Zachary Russell on She Stoops to Conquer

We’re grateful to our students and grads, partners and sponsors, board, staff and associate faculty for another great year.

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Next year’s Prime Time conference, run by the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA), features global innovators in content production and distribution including keynote speaker Elizabeth Bradley, VP of content at Netflix, Joel K. Savitt, head of production at YouTube Originals and Marc Dinsdale, head of media partnerships, Canada at Facebook and Instagram.

Delegates can expect a thorough look at the new platforms entering scripted production and how they’re changing the form of content, as well as an update on the SVOD marketplace, and the latest information on international trends in financing and sales.

The conference runs January 31 to February 2, 2018 in Ottawa. Early bird pricing is available until December 8. Register today.

The CMPA’s Prime Time in Ottawa conference is a national networking event for some 600 of Canada’s most prominent business leaders from the feature film, television, interactive media, broadcasting and telecommunications industries.

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Three films in this week’s NSI Online Short Film Festival from directors Lina Roessler, Maria Sant’Angelo and Israel Ekanem.

Winter

Winter | Drama, 6:30, English, ON, 2015 | Director: Lina Roessler

Ten-year-old Farzin and his little sister Gita try to make sense of their mother’s passing and their new home in Canada shortly after the Iranian Revolution in the early 1980s.

Upon discovering their first snowfall, they uncover the harsh reality between truth and imagination.

Mrs. Krantz Bakes Great Cookies

Mrs. Krantz Bakes Great Cookies | Comedy, 9:56, English, ON, 2017 | Director: Maria Sant’Angelo

A dark comedy exploring a day in the life of an abused woman who has a break with reality.

We Watched the Clouds Form Shapes

We Watched the Clouds Form Shapes | Drama, 4:05, English, NS, 2016 | Director: Israel Ekanem

A couple spend the day together and end it watching the clouds.

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Call for films / submit by December 13

We’re accepting films through FilmFreeway until Wednesday, December 13, 2017.

If your film is programmed, you have a chance of winning over $3K in cash awards. We accept films released after January 1, 2012.

All NSI Online Short Film Festival winners receive a complimentary Friend membership for the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television and non-acting award winners are qualified to be nominated for a Canadian Screen Award (if award criteria are met).

See the most recent winners.

Your film must be less than 30 mins long. Drama, comedy, animation, documentary, sci-fi, horror, music video and experimental are all eligible and must be made by a Canadian writer, director or producer.

Submit your film

The NSI Online Short Film Festival is made possible through the support of Festival Partner Telefilm Canada; Supporting Sponsors Entertainment One, Super Channel, Corus Entertainment, Blue Ant Media, The Brian Linehan Charitable Foundation and Breakthrough Entertainment; Award Sponsors A&E Television Networks, The Brian Linehan Charitable Foundation and Blue Ant Media; and Industry Partner the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television.

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