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.
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"Vancouver at the Oscars: District 9 film editor makes the cut. Vancouver film editor Julian Clarke has spent much of the last year hunkered down in an editing room in Toronto, working on a new Rachel Weisz film called The Whistleblower. The catch is, it was filmed in Romania."
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Big news for MFA Film Production student Nicholas Humphries and his MFA thesis project Riese. The series has been nominated for 4 Streamy Awards!
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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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"UBC – Film Production:
Stealing The Scene
For 40 Years”
A review of the
University Of British Columbia’s
Film Production program by Alumna (2006) Nimisha Mukerji.
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Check out the new music video for "Museum" from Adrienne Pierce, the delightfully charming and shockinly prolific singer-songwriter from Vancouver, B.C. Directed by Film Production MFA Alumna Alison Beda. >>To view the video, visit: mtviggy.com/content/25367
Congratulations to Film Production alumnus Cam Labine (BA 99) on winning the Pitch Fest Prize at the Whistler Film Festival!
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The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television recently concluded the assignation of all 99 awards in the 2009 Gemini Awards Program, Performance and Craft categories, honouring the best in Canadian television as determined by members of the Academy and other industry professionals. UBC adjunct professor Ian Kerr was recognized for Best Photography in a Documentary Program or Series for his work, along with John Collins, on The Wild Horse Redemption.
UBC alumna Andria Spring (BA 2005) did animation design and was associate producer on Elijah, which won a 2009 Gemini for Best TV Movie.
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Congratulations on media coverage in the Globe and Mail and in The New York Times to Nicholas Humphries, current MFA student in Film Production who has recently launched a sci-fi/fantasy web series, Riese, that he has been producing over the past year about a girl and her wolf on the run from a terrifying religious sect in a dystopian world.
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If you have an educational or career opportunity for our Film Production students, such as an internship or work on a project you are doing, we would be happy to circulate information about it to them.
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UBC Grads Crowd Festival's Canadian Program on Both Sides of Camera: Glen Schaefer, The Province. "If there's a "six degrees of separation" element to the home-grown movies screening at the Vancouver International Film Festival, it's a link to the leafy walkways and sticky cinnamon buns at the University of B.C."
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Creativity Counts!
Arts funding in British Columbia has been dramatically slashed this year, with service plans that indicate further reductions totalling over 90 percent for the 2010 / 2011 budget. The government Standing Committee on Finance has recommended that arts funding be restored to 2008 / 2009 levels. All we ask is that they act on their own committee's advice. Letters and postcards to Premier Gordon Campbell, his ministers, and your MLA, and other information and direct action ideas are all available at .... creativitycounts.ca
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Support Us
Gifts to the Film Production Program at UBC ensure that today's Film Production students have access to the resources that give them the best education possible. With the costs of education rising and the numbers of students growing, UBC has made a commitment to students that no qualified person be denied a UBC education based on financial ability to pay. Your gift would provide Film Production students with the opportunity to pursue their passions, and take their achievements out into the world.
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