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NSI IndigiDocs 2018 students announced

Posted: 21 Dec 2017 10:44 AM PST

The National Screen Institute – Canada (NSI) is pleased to announce the teams selected for the 2018 NSI IndigiDocs course:

“We’re excited to welcome this new group of filmmakers to the course and to begin working with them in February,” said Ursula Lawson, NSI IndigiDocs program co-manager. “Their story ideas are already strong and the progress they’ll make over the next year will refine those ideas into powerful documentaries.”

The course provides Indigenous director/producer teams with training, mentorship and cash towards the production of a short documentary. Students also travel to Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto and have their short films broadcast nationally on APTN and streamed on aptn.ca and nfb.ca.

Alanis Obomsawin of the National Film Board returns this year to share her experiences as a documentary filmmaker. Lisa Jackson and Shane Belcourt are the director advisors and Ursula Lawson and Elise Swerhone are the program co-managers. Lisa Meeches is the NSI Indigenous Training Programs Advisor.

NSI IndigiDocs 2016-18 is funded by Program Partners APTN, Manitoba Sport, Culture & Heritage and RBC Emerging Artists Project; Indigenous Training Programs Partner Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries; Boot Camp Presenting Sponsor Manitoba Film & Music; Supporting Sponsors the Directors Guild of Canada, documentary Channel, Entertainment One, Super Channel, Corus Entertainment, Telefilm Canada, imagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival, Hot Docs, Breakthrough Entertainment and the Jim Murphy Filmmakers Bursary; Provincial Sponsors Manitoba Film & Music and Creative BC through the Daryl Duke and William Vince Scholarship Fund; Industry Partners the National Film Board and the Directors Guild of Canada; Tuition Sponsor Super Channel; and Service Sponsor Line 21 Media. NSI Core Funders are Manitoba Sport, Culture & Heritage and the City of Winnipeg through the Winnipeg Arts Council.

About the National Screen Institute

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, NSI Features First, NSI Business for Producers, Script to Screen, NSI Diverse TV Director, NSI IndigiDocs, 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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Second season of comedy web series Everyone’s Famous launches

Posted: 21 Dec 2017 10:38 AM PST

Everyone’s Famous, the comedy web series from producers Walter Forsyth (NSI Totally Television) and Angus Swantee (NSI Drama Prize), has launched its second season.

Everyone’s Famous serves up a new episode every Thursday (10 a.m. EST) on YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo and Daily Motion.

Both Walter and Angus direct episodes in season two along with Jay Dahl (NSI Drama Prize).

Watch Sasquatch hunters, exorcists, clowns, aliens and a flash mob funeral as people turn cameras on themselves and hope for a bit of internet fame and glory.

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Submit to Lakeshorts International Short Film Festival

Posted: 21 Dec 2017 08:33 AM PST

Lakeshorts International Short Film Festival is seeking short films – under 20 minutes – for the 2018 edition of their fest.

Accepted films are eligible to win prizes including $12.5K of studio space from Cinespace, $5K in camera rentals from Dazmo Camera, $5K in artwork and design from Agency 71, $2.5K in post-production services from Deluxe, $2.5K in rentals from William F. White and $2.5K in sound services from Post City Sound.

The eighth edition of Lakeshorts International Short Film Festival takes place in Etobicoke, ON from April 20 to 21, 2018.

Submit your short.

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