Film Production at UBC
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Time Being
Directed by
Film Production faculty Chris Gallagher
Sunday, March 14, 2:30 PM
Vancity Theatre
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Vancity Theatre
Vancouver International Film Centre
1181 Seymour St.
Sunday, March 14, 2:30 PM.
TIME BEING
The Canadian premiere of an extraordinary non-fiction feature from award winning Vancouver filmmaker Chris Gallagher and Foxglove Films.
VANCITY THEATRE at the Vancouver International Film Centre
One show only: Sunday, March 14, 2:30 PM
Reception to follow
We all have an intimate relationship with time, but when you try to picture it, what does time look like? Our efforts to gauge and measure time’s physical properties reveal the limits of science and the reaches of creativity. Essentially 88 one-minute movies, Gallagher’s philosophically and formally adventurous Time Being fits in the tradition of essay films by European masters Chris Marker and Joris Ivens. Time Being charts an epic journey, playfully exploiting space and motion to revel in the wonderful paradox that is time. See the trailer: http://bit.ly/d6PUpF
“What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.” - Saint Augustine
Award winning filmmaker Chris Gallagher is an Associate Professor of film at The University of British Columbia. From his earliest work to the present, Gallagher has examined the philosophical paradoxes and contradictions in our perception of the space time continuum by taking often just everyday imagery and by applying his creative cinematic strategies, his representations reveal the extraordinary in the ordinary.
VANCITY THEATRE
Vancouver International Film Centre 1181 Seymour St. Vancouver, BC | One show only: Sunday, March 14, 2:30 PM | Tickets: $10/$8 concessions (inc. students) Note: $2 VIFC membership is also required | Phone: 604-685-0260 or www.viff.org More at: www.theatrefilm.ubc.ca
Reception to follow: Associate Professor in the UBC Department of Theatre and Film, Chris Gallagher will be in attendance to discuss the perception and representation of time in film and in life.
MEDIA: Time Being DVDs for advanced press screening and interviews are available on request. Contact: Deb Pickman P: 604.319.7656 E: pickman@interchange.ubc.ca
Time Being has received support from The Canada Council, British Columbia Arts Council and UBC Research Services.
Tickets: available in advance online and on the door. www.vifc.org
Big news for MFA Film Production student Nicholas Humphries and his MFA thesis project Riese!
The series has been nominated for 4 Streamy Awards! These awards are only in their 2nd year (Web TV is still a relatively new phenomenon), but are quickly becoming the Academy Awards for New Media. To put things in perspective; last years winners included Joss Whedon, Neil Patrick Harris and Felicia Day.
The list of Riese nominations include:
- Best Foreign
- Best Cinematography in a Web Series (Christopher Charles Kempinski)
- Best Art Direction in a Web Series (Chad Krowchuk)
- Best Sound Design in a Web Series (Bill Mellow, Kevin Belen)
>>Check out the complete list of this years nominees HERE
And don't forget to tune in to the live stream at www.streamys.org on April 11th.
Congratulations to Alumnus Stephen Hegyes,
producer of FIFTY DEAD MEN WALKING, which now has
7 Genie nominations, including Best Picture!
Fifty Dead Men Walking has also won a number of other awards this year.
- Nominations
- About the Genies (to be awarded April 12)
- Bio of Stephen Hegyes
- Awards for Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008)
- More at IMDbPro
Film Production Alumnus (2000) Julian Clarke has an 2010 Oscar Nomination, an American Cinema Editors (ACE) Nomination, and an Orange British Academy Film Awards Nomination for District 9!
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- >>Visit the 2010 Oscars
- >>Click here to visit the ACE Eddie Awards
- >>Visit the British Academy of Film and Television Arts
Film Production Alumnus (2000) Julian Clarke has an 2010 Oscar Nomination
The 2010 Oscar Nominations in Film Editing are: Avatar, Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron; District 9, Julian Clarke; The Hurt Locker, Bob Murawski and Chris Innis; Inglourious Basterds, Sally Menke; Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, Joe Klotz.
The American Cinema Editors (ACE) have just announced the feature nominees for the 60th Annual ACE Eddie Awards set to take place on February 14.
Best edited feature (dramatic) nominees include Film Production Alumnus (2000) Julian Clarke for District 9. Other nominees for this award include Avatar and Star Trek.
Nominations for the Orange British Academy Film Awards were announced on January 21.
The best editing nomination goes to Film Production Alumnus (2000) Julian Clarke for District 9. Other nominees for editing include Avatar, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds and Up in the Air.
Julian Clarke has been editing for over 8 years. He has worked on many feature film projects both in Canada and abroad. He has edited several projects with director Carl Bessai, including "Emile" (2003), starring Ian McKellen. Julian received a Leo award for his work in Bessai’s “Unnatural & Accidental” (2005). Julian has also worked with acclaimed director, Bruce Sweeney (MFA 1996, Diploma 1989), on his feature “American Venus” (2007), starring Rebecca De Mornay, and also edited “Control.Alt.Delete” (2008), directed by Cameron Labine (BA 1999). Julian also edited several documentaries, including Gordon McLennan’s award winning “The Life and Times of Arthur Erickson.”
In April 2008, Julian began work on the science fiction feature "District 9,” produced by Peter Jackson, and directed by Neill Blomkamp. This project had him live and work in both South Africa and New Zealand. In August 2009, "District 9" was released to both critical and financial success, holding a #1 spot for a week on the US domestic box office. Julian is currently represented by the agencies "Vanguarde Artists Management" and "Paradigm Talent Agency.” "District 9" has just been nominated for the ACE Eddie Award for Best Edited Feature (Dramatic).
Your Mother Should Know to appear on Knowledge Network
Your Mother Should Know, a MFA thesis films by Peg Campbell (MFA 08) will be broadcast on Knowledge Network on Sunday January 17, at approx. 22:37, after a feature film called “Ahead of the Class”.
The Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards recognize UBC alumnna Nettie Wild
with the Achievement Award for Contribution to the British Columbia Film Industry
Nettie Wild is a Film Production alumna from 1976 (BFA).
"Director Nettie Wild, who has made a 20-year career looking in-depth at trouble spots from the Philippines to Vancouver's own downtown eastside, said her lifetime achievement award for documentary film work was a much-needed boost to feature docs, at a time when broadcasters are blurring the lines between in-depth documentary work and reality TV stuff about home make-overs and dance competitions. Not that Wild has anything against dance competitions, she added." - The Province
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The critics have also give an award to the documentary shot by Adjunct Professor Ian Kerr
Facing Ali, Pete McCormack's documentary about Muhammad Ali, won the best British Columbia film award.
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Alumnus Bruce Sweeney’s film, Excited, secured Best Supporting Actress in a Canadian Film for Gabrielle Rose.
Bruce Sweeney is a Film Production alumnus from 1991 (Diploma) and 1996 (MFA).
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Whistler Film Festival
The Film Production Program wishes to congratulate those films and filmmakers whose work was shown at the Dec. 3-6, 2009 Whistler Film Festival!
The Whistler Film Festival celebrates film and the stories that inspire them in Whistler. The 9th annual Whistler Film Festival featured 80+ films and special guests from Canada and around the world, and a flurry of events.
>>More at www.whistlerfilmfestival.com
Pitch Fest Prize Goes to Alumnus Cam Labine
Congratulations to Film Production alumnus Cam Labine (BA 99) on winning the Pitch Fest Prize at the Whistler Film Festival!
The University of British Columbia Film Production program presents: expositum MMIX.
Photography Exhibition "Image Concepts for Film Makers"
December 2 & 3, 10:00-5:00
Opening December 1, 7:30-10:00 PM
Dorothy Somerset Studios
6361 University Boulevard, UBC
Students in Film 235 are exhibiting three images from their portfolios produced in the course Image Concepts for Filmmakers taught by Chris Gallagher this term.
In this class, students produce work for eight photo assignments that foreground a conceptual strategy over the photographic concern of appearance. The images are tasked with offering the viewer a site for thought rather than simply looking good; the pictures are to be interesting rather than looking interesting. As an added bonus, the students will be screening their “photo films” at the opening.
2009 Leo Awards
UBC Film Production alumni and adjunct professors won a whopping 8 awards at the 2009 Leo Awards Ceremonies! With a total of 29 nominations, no less than 23 students, alumni, and adjunct professors were nominated in categories ranging from Best Student Film and Best Documentary to Best Feature Length Drama and Best Screenwriting in a Short Drama.
UBC Film Production's Documentary
65 Red_Roses Wins Second Prize at Hot Docs
UBC Film Production is very pleased to announce that recent graduates of the Program, Nimisha Mukerji and Philip Lyall’s documentary film 65_RedRoses won 2nd prize at the 2009 Hot Docs Audience Awards. 65_RedRoses had its world premiere at Toronto’s Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival with three screenings, all of which were met with standing ovations and some very emotional responses.
65_RedRoses is a documentary that takes an unflinching look into the life of Eva Markvoort as she battles a fatal genetic disease called Cystic Fibrosis (CF). At 23, Eva needs a double lung transplant to live. Unable to be around other patients with the same disease, Eva turns to the internet where she forms a strong connection with two American girls in different stages of CF. As the film follows Eva on her journey to getting new lungs, we witness how her online friendship with Meg and Kina withstands the tests of both time and distance.
65_RedRoses has been invited to screen at Ireland’s Stranger Than Fiction Documentary Festival in June and will air on CBC’s The Lens in the fall.
For more information about the film, including interviews with the filmmakers and Eva Markvoort, please visit www.65redroses.com.
>>Click here to view press release
>>Click here to view press coverage
UBC Film Production graduate Baljit Sangra recently premiered her full-length documentary film Warrior Boyz at Vancouver’s DOXA festival.
Hedyeh Bozorgzadeh, Film at UBC Alumna, debuts The Colouring Book Digital
Storytelling Workshop, a project blog website on the National Film Board's CitizenShift.
The Colouring Book Digital Storytelling Workshop
You're Invited to a Sneak Peek of “Leave Them Laughing,” a new documentary by John Zaritsky (previous Film Production at UBC Documentary Instructor) and Award-winning director
Please join us…….
Sneak peek of “Leave Them Laughing,”
new documentary by Vancouver’s
Academy Award-winning director John Zaritsky
Where:
Norm Theatre, Student Union Building, UBC
When:
Monday, November 23 at 6:00 PM
About the Film:
A Canadian California comedienne rolls toward doomsday (due to ALS) vowing that humor will be the last sense to go. She is Carla Zilbersmith, ex-actor, ex-singer, ex-teacher, ex-redheaded hottie, and soon to be ex-human being. Ninety riveting minutes of songs about life and quips about death from the wheelchair of a woman who vows to exit laughing.
“I really loved the film. It was powerful and inspiring, funny and highly entertaining.”
Christina, 27, lawyer
“Very up and down emotionally, you go from sad to glad in seconds.” Karl, 49, contractor
“A great balance between comedy and tragedy. Bravo!”
Martha, 50, business executive
Q&A with director John Zaritsky following the screening.
Funds are still needed to finish this important film.
Donations will be gladly accepted.
