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NSI Features First participants Susie Winters and Arnold Lim recently wrapped production on their short film All-In Madonna, based on the feature length script of the same name being developed through NSI Features First.

Alongside co-producer Ana de Lara, Arnold and Susie shot the short on a small island near Victoria, BC. Their next project is funding the feature version of All-In Madonna.

The story follows 16-year-old Maddie who discovers rumours her father is known as a dangerous thug when she attends public school for the first time.

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NSI Features First is a development training launch pad for producer/writer teams looking to produce their first or second feature film with strong commercial appeal.

NSI Features First is funded by Presenting Sponsor Telefilm Canada; Supporting Sponsors Entertainment One, Super Channel, Corus Entertainment and Breakthrough Entertainment; Provincial Sponsors Creative Saskatchewan and Creative BC through the Daryl Duke and William Vince Scholarship Fund; and Service Sponsor William F. White. NSI Core Funders are Manitoba Sport, Culture & Heritage and the City of Winnipeg through the Winnipeg Arts Council.

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NSI Features First-developed Adventures in Public School (previously known as Public Schooled), from writer/director Kyle Rideout and writer/producer Josh Epstein, has been named one of TIFF’s top 10 festival features of 2017 and will screen at Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival in January 2018.

Also on the top 10 festival list, and screening at the fest, is Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World from Catherine Bainbridge and Christina Fon (both NSI Global Marketing).

Flood from Amanda Strong and Bracken Hanuse Corlett (both NSI IndigiDocs) was named one of Canada’s top 10 festival shorts of 2017.

Catch all the films at Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival along with industry programming and learning sessions in Toronto from January 12 to 21, 2018.

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NSI IndigiDocs short From Up North, from director Trudy Stewart and producer Janine Windolph, screens at a free event presented by The Decolonizing Lens at Winnipeg Film Group’s Cinematheque on December 11 at 7 p.m.

From Up North is a personal, poetic short documentary directed by Trudy based on her experience working for the Truth & Reconciliation Commission. Noel Starblanket shares his experiences of attending the Lebret Indian Residential School. While listening to Noel’s stories, Trudy reflects on her time listening to survivors stories and her connection to the Indian Residential School legacy.

The film screens alongside three other documentaries: Remembering the Forgotten Children, Holy Angels and In Jesus’ Name: Shattering the Silence of St. Anne’s Residential School.

The screenings are followed by a panel discussion including From Up North elder and storyteller Noel Starblanket.

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NSI IndigiDocs is a development launch pad for producer/director teams looking to produce a short documentary.

NSI IndigiDocs 2016-18 is funded by Program Partners APTN, Manitoba Sport, Culture & Heritage and RBC Emerging Artists Project; Aboriginal Training Programs Partner Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries; Boot Camp Presenting Sponsor Manitoba Film & Music; Supporting Sponsors the Directors Guild of Canada, Entertainment One, Super Channel, Corus Entertainment, Telefilm Canada, imagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival, Hot Docs International Documentary Festival, Breakthrough Entertainment and the Jim Murphy Filmmakers Bursary; Provincial Sponsor Manitoba Film & Music; Industry Partners National Film Board and the Directors Guild of Canada; and Service Sponsor Line 21 Media.

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The National Screen Institute – Canada (NSI) is pleased to announce the projects selected to the 2018 NSI Features First training course.

Congratulations to the newest NSI Features First teams:

• Must Kill Karl from producer Ryan West and writer Karen Moore (Toronto, ON)

• She Smiles Back from producer Amelia Wasserman and writer Matt Sadowski (Toronto, ON)

• The Stars Shine in Temperance from producer Christopher Redmond and writer Jared Young (Ottawa, ON)

• Wilting Iris from producer Scott Lepp (Okotoks, AB) and writer Sandi Somers (Calgary, AB)

“I’m pleased to welcome these four new teams to the course,” said NSI Features First program manager Shelly Quade. “We received many excellent applications this year, and the four selected projects really stood out. Over the next 10 months of training and mentorship, their projects will be refined even further for the feature film market.”

NSI Features First is a 10-month development training launch pad for producer/writer teams looking to produce their first or second feature film with strong commercial appeal.

The NSI Features First program advisor is Al Magee. An intensive training boot camp takes place in Toronto over a week in late January where students receive training from top names in the industry.

The course gets results: 20+ feature films developed through the program have been produced since the course launched in 1997. Most recently Venus, from writer/director Eisha Marjara and producer Joe Balass, won the Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ) EDA award for best female-directed narrative feature at the 2017 Whistler Film Festival.

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NSI Features First 2017 was funded by Presenting Sponsor Telefilm Canada; Supporting Sponsors Entertainment One, Super Channel, Corus Entertainment and Breakthrough Entertainment; Provincial Sponsors Creative Saskatchewan and Creative BC through the Daryl Duke and William Vince Scholarship Fund; and Service Sponsor William F. White. NSI Core Funders are Manitoba Sport, Culture & Heritage and the City of Winnipeg through the Winnipeg Arts Council.

About the National Screen Institute – Canada (NSI)

Renowned for having given many emerging filmmakers, television writers and producers their first breaks, the National Screen Institute provides training and production support through courses like NSI Totally Television, CBC New Indigenous Voices presented by NSI, NSI Features First, NSI IndigiDocs, NSI Business for Producers and TELUS STORYHIVE Web Series and Digital Shorts.

NSI also offers exposure through the NSI Online Short Film Festival and provides vast resources and support to those in the film, television and digital media industries at nsi-canada.ca.

All media enquiries

Laura Friesen, Manager, Communications & Alumni Relations
Tel: 204.957.2999 or email: laura.friesen@nsi-canada.ca

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