#Nova Scotia filmmaker

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Geographies of Solitude wins Best Canadian Feature Documentary

Geographies of Solitude film won  the Best Canadian Feature Documentary Award at Hot Docs for its experimental  portrait of researcher Zoe Lucas and her work on Sable Island.

The film is directed by Jacquelyn Mills  and produced by Mills and Rosalie Chicoine Perreault. The award includes a cash prize of $10,000, sponsored by Telefilm and the Documentary Organization of Canada.

Hot Docs Winner – Best Canadian Feature Documentary Award

Hot Docs Winner – The Earl A. Glick Emerging Canadian Filmmaker Award

Geographies of Solitude is a film about an environmentalist (Zoe Lucas) living on Nova Scotia's Sable Island has won top Canadian honours at this year's Hot Docs Film Festival 2022 .

Her Sable Island film , "Geographies of Solitude," chronicles the life's work of environmentalist Zoe Lucas, the only full-time inhabitant on Sable Island.

Visual and Aural Storytelling Film

This Sundance supported film is directed by Jacquelyn Mills and produced by Mills and Rosalie Chicoine Perreault. The award includes a cash prize of $10,000, sponsored by Telefilm and the Documentary Organization of Canada.

The jury praised this experimental documentary film Geographies of Solitude for “its deft ability to reveal the complex intersections between the natural world and humanity’s excesses on a singular isolated island through strongly crafted and arresting visual and aural storytelling.”

Mills also won the Earl A. Glick Emerging Canadian Filmmaker Award, which honours an artist presenting their first or second feature at the festival. The award carries a cash prize of $3,000, sponsored by the Glick family.

Geographies of Solitude Trailer

The trailer for "Geographies of Solitude " by Jacquelyn Mills, starring Zoe Lucas.

About the film: For decades, Zoe Lucas has catalogued the flora and fauna on Sable Island, a thin strip of land off the Canadian coast.

Jacquelyn Mills Canadian Experimental Filmmaker

Experimental filmmaker Jacquelyn Mills joins her to observe the sand dunes, freshwater ponds, wild horses and washed-up plastic waste.

This Environmental Documentary Canada was shot on 16mm, the film often incorporates eco-friendly film making techniques to capture, in beautiful effect, Mills' encounters with Zoe Lucas and the Island. In this sense, Zoe Lucas and Sable Island are not “subjects” of the film, but collaborators and co-creators.

We spoke with Jacquelyn Mills to learn more about her intuitive approach in making this Experimental Documentary in Canada and the different ways she worked with her surroundings - including eco-friendly hand processing techniques like using plant emulsion, exposing parts of the film in moonlight and starlight, and placing specimens from Sable Island on film stock.

Towards the end of the episode, we speak briefly about her previous film, IN THE WAVES, a touching portrait of the director's grandmother as she grieves the loss of a sister available to stream on Vimeo

ABOUT THE FILM - Geographies of Solitude

Canada, 103 minutes

Director: Jacquelyn Mills Production company: Jacquelyn Mills Executive Producer: Brad Mills International sales: Acéphale [email protected] Producers: Rosalie Chicoine Perreault, Jacquelyn Mills Cinematography: Jacquelyn Mills, Scott Moore Editor: Jacquelyn Mills, Pablo Álvarez-Mesa Sound design: Andreas Mendritzki, Jacquelyn Mills Sound: Jacquelyn Mills Music: Emily Millard, Mark Boudreau Photography: Jacquelyn Mills. Additional Camera: Scott Moore

#Geographies of Solitude #Geographies of Solitude film #sable island film #Nova Scotia filmmaker #Sundance film Canada #Experimental Documentary Canada #Atlantic Canada filmmaker #Environmental Documentary Canada #Nova Scotia film #Cape Breton filmmaker #Best Documentary filmmaker Canada

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my screenwriting teacher worked on The Lighthouse (almost every person in the nova scotian film industry did) and he told us that Robert Pattinson and Willem da Foe were constantly on set asking what they could do to help. he said they could've been cooped up in their trailers but it was nice they didn't. you are right about it being an exception to the rule though

great to know!! that's the solidarity you need especially on small film crews with ambitious projects. there's just no room for lazy divas

#I figured rob and willem were more or less decent #the outliers are always people on the fringes of the hollywood machine who were humbled by the monster that is starlight #also interesting re nova scotia filmmakers lol #the lighthouse #fanmail

[chaosandstardust]

so there's a lot, A LOT, I could say about James Somerton's apology, such as his avoiding discussing things like misinformation and his misogyny, his insane justification for his plagiarism (as a person who makes history content I often copy-paste things over into a word doc because I get tired of switching between tabs, and I have NEVER mistaken something for mine because the FONT is often different but also, even if the font is the same, I know my own writing style well enough to know when something isn't mine), the mentioning of his poor family background ("my dad is illiterate because he had to drop out when he was 7...you know, which is usually around the time that kids have already been taught how to read, RIGHT! I'M GOING WITH THAT!"), etc, etc, etc.

The thing I do want to talk about is his "filmmaking dreams". Mostly because as another Canadian filmmaker, his excuses are bullshit. If James Somerton actually wanted to be a filmmaker, to just make movies, he already would've made at least several shorts. And yes, it is completely possible. It would be difficult, and they probably wouldn't have been masterpieces, but it is absolutely possible. If his support system was as good as he says it was in Nova Scotia, if he had as many other creative minds around him, he would've been out shooting stuff. Hell, I've spent the last few months mapping out a new script, that I'm literally starting to shoot NEXT WEEK. If he wanted to make something, HE WOULD.

And even so, his justifications for continuing to change projects are also batshit. Let's say that I write a script in November, and I want to shoot in June, which is apparently the situation that he found himself in. That is about 7 - 8 months. That is plenty, PLENTY, of time to finish a script, find a crew, nail down some locations, secure some more funding, and cast. Plenty. This idea that he had to change because his film required a summer element and he had to change because of the weather is crazy to me.

Not only that, but there are plenty of film support groups in Canada, focused on producing Canadian content. For example, there's Telefilm, which will give you money, even match your crowdfunding up to a certain number, as well as plenty of other groups. If he had actually wanted to make movies, he would've been asking them for money. You know, groups who will LEGALLY hold you accountable if a film isn't made.

All of this to say is that James Somerton doesn't want to make movies. I doubt he gets any actual joy out of the process of creation at all. He wants to be admired. He wants the glitz and glam of being a filmmaker without doing any of the hard work. He's a lazy creator at the end of the day, and he will find any justification, ANY, to not do the work, whether it's stealing from other creators to "raise their voice" or switching projects again and again and again in an attempt to justify keeping the money that his fans gave him.

#james somerton #hbomberguy #filmmaking #filmmaker #god this gets me so heated

[leonardcohenofficial]

goals for 2024

finish the phd (i do not have a choice in this manner it literally has to happen LOL)

get a job (also a non-negotiable)

watch at least 150 new-to-me films this year, with at least half directed/written by women and nonbinary filmmakers and by filmmakers of color (hit one hundred twenty two films in 2023 with half by women and nonbinary directors, still need to do way better than 17% filmmakers of color)

read at minimum 25 plays that i’m not required to for research, teaching, or dramaturgy work

read at minimum 50 books that i'm not required to for research, teaching, or dramaturgy work

go to more museums

finish cataloguing all of my records on discogs

actually cook more dishes from the multitude of cookbooks i bought this year, especially/hopefully for friends

get more tattoos! (got one new tattoo last year, hopefully i'll be able to get more this year)

finish the donner party play and submit it places (same goal every damn year lmfaooooooo)

visit one of the following places, potentially as a graduation gift to myself: portland (again), seattle, oakland (again), nova scotia

go on more picnics and hikes and go to the beach more

#last year one of my goals was to do a vinyl set whether it was for friends or publicly and i did multiple of both which i'm super proud of #here's to a happy healthy and fulfilling 2024 :)

[homomenhommes]

THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … January 4

1750 – France Bruno Lenoir and Jean Diot are caught having sex in public for which they are arrested. A year later they were executed. There was general surprise in France at the severity of their sentence. Their execution was the last in France for consensual sodomy.

1877 – Marsden Hartley (d.1943) was an American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist. Hartley was born in Lewiston, Maine, where his English parents had settled.

In 1898, at age 22, Hartley moved to New York City to study painting at the New York School of Art. Hartley was a great admirer of Albert Pinkham Ryder and visited his studio in Greenwich Village as often as possible. His friendship with Ryder inspired Hartley to view art as a spiritual quest.

Hartley first traveled to Europe in April 1912, and he became acquainted with Gertude Stein's circle of avante-garde writers and artists in Paris. Stein, along with Hart Crane and Sherwood Anderson, encouraged Hartley to write as well as paint.

Finnish-Yankee sauna

In 1913, Hartley moved to Berlin, where he continued to paint. Many of Hartley's Berlin paintings were further inspired by the German military pageantry then on display, though his view of this subject changed after the outbreak of World War I, once war was no longer "a romantic but a real reality." The earliest of his Berlin paintings were shown in the landmark 1913 Armory Show in New York.

In Berlin, Hartley developed a close relationship with a Prussian lieutenant, Karl von Freyburg, who was the cousin of Hartley's friend Arnold Ronnebeck. References to Freyburg were a recurring motif in Hartley's work, most notably in Portrait of a German Officer (1914). Freyburg's subsequent death during the war hit Hartley hard, and he afterward idealized their relationship. Many scholars believe Hartley to have been gay, and have interpreted his work regarding Freyburg as embodying his homosexual feelings for him.

In addition to being considered one of the foremost American painters of the first half of the 20th century, Hartley also wrote poems, essays, and stories.

Cleophas and His Own: A North Atlantic Tragedy is a story based on two periods he spent in 1935 and 1936 with the Mason family in the Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, fishing community of East Point Island. Hartley, then in his late 50s, found there both an innocent, unrestrained love and the sense of family he had been seeking since his unhappy childhood in Maine. The impact of this experience lasted until his death in 1943 and helped widen the scope of his mature works, which included numerous portrayals of the Masons.

He wrote of the Masons, "Five magnificent chapters out of an amazing, human book, these beautiful human beings, loving, tender, strong, courageous, dutiful, kind, so like the salt of the sea, the grit of the earth, the sheer face of the cliff." In Cleophas and His Own, written in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1936, Hartley expresses his immense grief at the tragic drowning of the Mason sons. The independent filmmaker Michael Maglaras has created a feature film Cleophas and His Own, released in 2005, which uses a personal testament by Hartley as its screenplay.

1946 – Arthur Conley aka Lee Roberts (d.2003) was a U.S. soul singer, best known for the 1967 hit "Sweet Soul Music".

Conley was born in McIntosh County, Georgia, U.S., and grew up in Atlanta. He first recorded in 1959 as the lead singer of Arthur & the Corvets. With this group, he released three singles in 1963 and 1964 – "Poor Girl", "I Believe", and "Flossie Mae" – on the Atlanta based record label, National Recording Company.

In 1964, he moved to a new label (Baltimore's Ru-Jac Records) and released "I'm a Lonely Stranger". When Otis Redding heard this, he asked Conley to record a new version, which was released on Redding's own fledgling label Jotis Records, as only its second release. Conley met Redding in 1967. Together they rewrote the Sam Cooke song "Yeah Man" into "Sweet Soul Music", which, at Redding's insistence, was released on the Atco-distributed label Fame Records, and was recorded at FAME studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. It proved to be a massive hit, going to the number two position on the U.S. charts and the Top Ten across much of Europe. "Sweet Soul Music" sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.

After several years of hits singles in the early 1970s, he relocated to England in 1975, and spent several years in Belgium, settling in Amsterdam (Netherlands) in spring 1977. At the beginning of 1980 he had some major performances as Lee Roberts and the Sweaters in the Ganzenhoef, Paradiso, De Melkweg and the Concertgebouw, and was highly successful. At the end of 1980 he moved to the Dutch village of Ruurlo, legally changing his name to Lee Roberts — his middle name and his mother's maiden name. He promoted new music via his Art-Con Productions company. Amongst the bands he promoted was the heavy metal band Shockwave from The Hague. A live performance on January 8, 1980, featuring Lee Roberts & the Sweaters, was released as an album entitled Soulin' in 1988.

Conley was gay, and several music writers have said that his homosexuality was a bar to greater success in the United States and one of the reasons behind his move to Europe and his eventual name change. In 2014, rock historian Ed Ward wrote, "[Conley] headed to Amsterdam and changed his name to Lee Roberts. Nobody knew 'Lee Roberts,' and at last Conley was able to live in peace with a secret he had hidden – or thought he had – for his entire career: he was gay. But nobody in Holland cared."

Conley died from intestinal cancer in Ruurlo, Netherlands aged 57 in November 2003. He was buried in Vorden.

1962 – Peter Steele , formerly Lord Petrus Steele , actually Petrus Thomas Ratajczyk , born in Brooklyn , New York, was an American musician . Steele was the singer , bassist and songwriter for the metal bands Carnivore and Type O Negative.

Known above all for his powerful bass-baritone voice, Steele first worked as a singer and bassist with the heavy metal group Fallout and then with the thrash metal band Carnivore. After Carnivore had disbanded for the time being, Steele, who was still working for the New York Park Authority at the time, founded the music group Type O Negative together with Sal Abruscato, Kenny Hickey and Josh Silver. Steele was particularly controversial in the early years of the band due to supposedly right-wing extremist ideas in the public. He himself always denied such allegations. He later created the Vinland flag , inspired by the Nordic flags and his own Scandinavian ancestors , which was henceforth to be found on the band's releases.

In August 1995, Steele, who was an imposing figure with his stature and height of 2.03 m, posed naked for the US edition of Playgirl. However, when he learned that around 75% of the readership are homosexual men, some of whom would now make advances to him and he was then exposed to the malice of the other band members and fans, he wrote the song I Like Goils (dt. I like girls ).

Peter Steele died on April 14, 2010 of complications from an aortic aneurysm . Steele's companion Sal Abruscato (formerly Type O Negative drummer) said they were in the process of getting Steele into an ambulance when he passed away before leaving the house. Before his death, Steele had been drug free for nine months and was in the process of making plans for a new Type O Negative album.

1969 – Richard Hake (d.2020) was a journalist and reporter for WNYC, where he was one of the hosts of the weekly morning program, Morning Edition.

Richard Scott Hake was born in the Bronx to Richard James Hake, a New York City police detective, and Joy Mekland, a clerical worker and secretary. He graduated from Carmel High School in 1987, then from Fordham University in 1991, and began working at NPR in 1991 while still at Fordham. He became a news host and reporter at WNYC in 1992. He was openly gay.

He spent 28 years working as a radio news host, reporter, and producer. He featured on several local and national NPR programs, such as Morning Edition (which he hosted), Weekend Edition, All Things Considered, and On the Media. He also broadcast on MTV, the BBC, WCBS, WBGO, WOR, and WFUV radio. Hake hosted for MTV's Logo Network's The Advocate News magazine program. His documentary work includes "The Perfume of the Bronx" and the "Coney Island Cyclone Anniversary."

For his reporting, Hake was awarded accolades from the Associated Press Broadcasters Association and the Society of Professional Journalists. Hake made his Broadway debut as a chimney sweep in Mary Poppins.

In his Twitter profile, Hake noted his unique role in the bustling Big Apple, writing: "I wake people up and tell them stories on the alarm clock, the app, streaming, in the shower, in the car, etc."

As coronavirus cases surged in the city and officials told office workers to stay home, Hake set up a makeshift studio in his one-bedroom apartment, complete with an art deco "on air" light and various microphone flags bearing the station's logos over the years.

Hake died on April 24, 2020, at age 51, in his Upper East Side home. His manner of death was ruled to be a result of an accident, according to the City's Medical Examiner.

1970 – Christopher Klucsarits, better known as Chris Kanyon (d.2010), US Professional wrestler, best known for his work in World Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation, under the ring names Kanyon and Mortis.

In 2006, after Kanyon's release from WWE, he began a gimmick in which he was an openly homosexual pro wrestler. This included a publicity stunt wherein he stated that WWE released him from his contract because of his sexuality. Kanyon later told reporters and even stated on a number of radio interviews, that this was just a publicity stunt and he was heterosexual. However, he later retracted these statements and acknowledged that he was in fact homosexual.

Before his death Kanyon was working on a book, Wrestling Reality, with Ryan Clark. The book was released November 1, 2011, and it features Kanyon's struggles as a closeted gay man as a prominent theme.

1984 – Illinois repeals its "lewd fondling or caress" law, more than two decades after repealing its sodomy law.

[honkifyourelonely]

#original

[abigailvonah05]

Artist Research #2: Robert Frank

Introduction/Background:

Robert Frank was an American filmmaker and photographer born in Switzerland in 1924 and died in 2019. He began to take interest in photography early on in life and became an apprentice under several photographers as a teenager. Later on, he was able to find work as a commercial photographer in 1947. This led him to leave Zurich where he lived all his life, and move to America. Living in a country that wasn’t his own, “Frank assumed the unique position of an outsider and voyeur who unobtrusively captured the tensions of the geographic, economic, racial, and religious diversity of the US” (Moma, intro). By 1973, his photographs expressed a more personal and filmic sensibility. He specifically captured people in the difficulties of daily life. Frank once explained, “There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment” (artnet, artworks). 

Notable works: 

The Americans was a photobook that Robert Frank released in France, 1959. This work caused a revolution among photographers and documentarians. It is one of the most influential photo books published of all time. The Americans had influence for many reasons. One reason for this is that it challenged the documentary tradition which previously had been viewed as something transparent and having no thoughts, emotions, or a viewpoint. However, Frank broke these rules by documenting more of the darker side of America which hadn’t been shown before. This work was also influential because it challenged the aesthetic of photography. During the 1950’s, photography maintained the aesthetic of “clean, well-exposed, and sharp photos” (Eric Kim, Intro).  Frank’s photographs, on the other hand, looked the complete opposite from the standards of how the aesthetic should look like. Critics saw his prints as “flawed by meaningless blur grain, muddy exposure, drunken horizons, and general sloppiness” (Eric Kim, Intro). His photos caused many to think that he had contempt for “quality work” and no discipline in technique. However, Frank learned that in order for his photographs to be effective and create an emotional response, he needed to experiment with different techniques, meaning that some “rules” were going to get broken. 

Awards/Nominations:

Robert Frank has won a total of four awards. These include the following: 

1955: Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

1996: Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography from the Hasselblad Foundation.

2002: Edward MacDowell Medal, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH.

2015: Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, Halifax, Canada.

Personal thoughts: 

From researching Robert Frank and his work, I have come to admire him as an artist a lot. He’s not afraid to break the rules even when it causes him a lot of criticism. Through him breaking rules and experimenting, he is now widely recognized and admired by many. This inspires me to do the same with my own work as an artist. In my work as a future interior designer, I can create a new unique design or just experiment with different techniques to create a unique furniture style. Either way, I see following Robert Frank's ways will make an impact in the world of art.

Works cited: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frank#Awards

https://www.moma.org/artists/1973

https://www.artnet.com/artists/robert-frank-2/

https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2013/01/07/timeless-lessons-street-photographers-can-learn-from-robert-franks-the-americans/

[atlanticcanada]

#nova scotia #news #politics #canada #atlantic canada #GlobalMaritimesNS

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How a thrift store find reunited this Halifax woman with her grandmother's warmth

How a thrift store find reunited this Halifax woman with her grandmother’s warmth

The moment Beth Amiro slipped on the thrift store fur coat, she was reminded of her late grandmother. “I’m not a super spiritual person, but I legitimately knew in my heart and in my soul that it was my grandmother’s coat,” the Halifax filmmaker told CBC’s Information Morning Nova Scotia. Amiro collects vintage clothes, and received the coat from a friend who recalls it coming from either Value…

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Sam Raimi, Matthew Lewis, Katee Sackhoff Highlight First Guests At FAN EXPO New Orleans January 6-8

Legendary filmmaker Sam Raimi (Spider-Man, The Evil Dead franchise), Matthew Lewis (“Neville Longbottom” in Harry Potter franchise), Katee Sackhoff (“The Mandalorian,” “Battlestar Galactica”), Anson Mount (“Star Trek: Discovery,” “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds) and the stars of “Trailer Park Boys” Mike Smith, John Paul Tremblay and Robb Wells are the first wave of celebrity guests scheduled to attend FAN EXPO New Orleans, January 6-8, 2023 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. The event will feature a standout lineup of celebrities, voice actors, creators, cosplayers, authors, exhibitors, compelling programming, meet and greets, special events, family zones and more.

Tickets for FAN EXPO New Orleans are on sale at http://www.fanexponeworleans.com, with individual day, 3-day and premium packages available for adults, youths and families. VIP packages are also available now, with dozens of special benefits including priority entry, limited edition collectibles, exclusive items and much more. Raimi is one of the most celebrated and innovative directors of the past 40 years, making his first big splash with The Evil Dead in 1981. He is known for that franchise as well as hits like Spider-Man (2002), Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) and this year’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, among scores of producing, directing, writing and acting credits. Lewis, who rose to fame in the “Neville Longbottom” role, has starred in Rowan Athale’s Wasteland and was in the film adaptation of Me Before You alongside Sam Claflin and Emilia Clarke. He has most recently been seen in a regular role in the British series “All Creatures Great and Small” as “Hugh Hulton.”

Sackhoff, whose credits include a standout run as "Starbuck" on "Battlestar Galactica" and a starring role in A&E's original series "Longmire," turned heads as the hotshot pilot on "Battlestar" and as "Vic Moretti" in the western drama "Longmire," also has had recurring roles in "24," "Nip/Tuck," "CSI" and many other hits.

Mount has more than 50 acting credits, notably as "Captain Christopher Pike" in "Strange New Worlds," "Discovery" and "Short Treks" in the "Star Trek" universe. He's also had notable roles in Crossroads, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and "Hell on Wheels."

Smith, Tremblay and Wells comprise the “Trailer Park Boys,” a “mockumentary” style series which follows the booze-filled misadventures of the three longtime pals and petty serial criminals who run scams from their Nova Scotia, Canada, trailer park.

Additional guests, exhibitors and programming for this major comics, sci-fi, horror, literary, anime and gaming convention will be announced closer to the event. New Orleans is the first event on the 2023 FAN EXPO HQ calendar; the full schedule is available at fanexpohq.com/home/events/.

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Devour food

The 10th Anniversary of the festival took place on October 20–25, 2020 in a hybrid online and in-person format. More than 80 films from around the world were screened, with a special focus on Italian cinema and Italian cuisine. Actor Joe Pantoliano, star of the film From the Vine attended on opening night along with director Sean Cisterna. Chef Lidia Bastianich was the guest curator. The 9th edition of the festival took place from October 22–27, 2019. The Festival added events in Kentville, Nova Scotia and in 2019 will add events in Windsor, Nova Scotia In 2018, 75 Films were screened, with more than 100 events in total. Sam Kass, former chef to President Barack Obama, was the opening night curator. The 8th edition of the festival occurred October 23–28, 2018. Notable Canadian Chef Michael Smith (chef) led a team of Canadian chefs for the Saturday evening Spotlight Gala that followed the World premiere of Canadian film Grand Cru with the director David Eng and star winemaker Pascal Marchand in attendance. Pepin was in attendance and provided insight into his long career. The festival also hosted a special screening of Jacques Pepin: The Art of Craft by Director Peter Stein. Pinsent curated the opening night film The Hundred Foot Journey. The 7th addition of Devour was opened by iconic Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent. In 2017 the Festival moved to a date earlier in October (25-29th). It was opened by Chef Dominique Crenn and featured a theme celebrating the Power of Women in Gastronomy The sixth edition of Devour took place November 2–6, 2016. The fifth edition of Devour! The Food Film Fest took place in November, 2015. Taking home the prestigious honour of the Gary MacDonald Culinary Ambassador of the Year Award, and were included on the Chronicle Herald's 2014 Arts & Life Honour Roll. Festival organizers were later presented with the Gary MacDonald Culinary Ambassador of the Year Award at the Taste of Nova Scotia Awards ceremony. The event was opened by Anthony Bourdain, curating his favourite food film. A number of local Acadian dishes were included. The program involved of about thirty Chefs, many visiting filmmakers and industry guests, 14 workshops, 13 tasting tours, more than a dozen dinners, parties & events and over 50 new food and wine films from around the world. 4,000 attendees took in 70 new food films from around the world, an opening night reception and gala film with special guests, a food truck rally, experiential wine and cheese tours, three five-course meals based on the films, a cocktail pop-up party, a cinematic dine-around brunch at the Wolfville Farmers Market, an awards showcase with a 15-part dessert constructed by culinary students and eight industry workshops. In 2013, the event was re-branded to Devour! The Food Film Fest. In early 2017, Canadian food writer Lucy Waverman and television food celebrity Bob Blumer also joined the Advisory Board. Film director Robert Kenner ( Food, Inc.) and Hollywood director-writer-actor Jason Priestley both participated in various capacities and now serve as Honorary Advisory Board Members. In 2011, 30 new films from around the world were screened, with ticket sales of about 2,000. The first festival took place at the Al Whittle Theatre in Wolfville, screening 11 retrospective films with tickets sales of approximately 1,000. The festival was founded in 2009 by Slow Food Nova Scotia. Festival Dates for 2021 (an expanded hybrid festival) are October 19–24, 2021. Opening night celebrity host was "Phil Rosenthal" from the "Netflix" hit "Somebody Feed Phil". Attendance was 1800 in person and 1600 virtual guests. In 2020 organizers mounted a hybrid in-person and streamed festival due to Covid-19. The five-day festival takes place annually in late fall in the Wolfville, Kings County, Nova Scotia. Devour! The Food Film Fest (formerly the Slow Motion Food Film Fest) is a Canadian Film festival dedicated to films about food and wine culture.

#Devour food

[sylviatoyindustries]

THE CAVE by Sylvia Toy STORYBOARD: Toumaï’s garden.

  My current major project is a movie about a small group of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers facing dying out because of its low birth rate and child mortality rate. In summer 1975 I was a housemate of Ruth, whose mother owned the house we lived in. Midsummer, Ruth had a blowup with her boyfriend who also lived in the house. Ruth was so angry (I still don’t know why) that she suddenly left Minneapolis and went to stay with friends in Nova Scotia. That seemed very exotic to me, but I grew up in Nebraska when there were only a million people in the entire state. Ruth’s boyfriend was from New York and he assured me, “Nobody goes to Nova Scotia.

  Meanwhile, somebody had to tend Ruth’s garden in our backyard, which meant pruning and weeding at dusk when the temperature was tolerable but the mosquitoes were active. Out of spite, the angry boyfriend tried to talk me into abandoning the garden. But I knew I’d feel guilty for the rest of my life if I left the garden unwatered and choked by weeds. A garden can be a thankless chore until it doesn’t die and your roommate is surprised when she comes back from Nova Scotia. I can’t imagine that the first human farmers weren’t as surprised as Ruth when their crops didn’t wither and die.

  My projects have 3 phases: 1) story and character development through acting improvisation; 2) scene rehearsal and production design; 3) production with continuity. There is no nudity in this video – the actor wears a leotard. 

#filmmaker #MixedReality #greenscreen #Chromakey #workinprogress  #performanceart #Paleolithic #humanity #theoryofmind #evolution #anthropology #sylviatoystlouis 

[laresearchette]

Saturday, August 27, 2022 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: GAME, SET, LOVE (W Network) 8:00pm

WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT? HELP! I WRECKED MY HOUSE (Premiering on August 31 on HGTV Canada at 10:00pm) FIRST HOME FIX (Premiering on September 09 on HGTV Canada at 9:00pm) BODYGUARD SEDUCTION (TBD - Lifetime Canada)

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:

CBC GEM SPLINTERS

NETFLIX CANADA FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST THE REVENGE OF SCAR

IIHF WOMEN’S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP (TSN/TSN4) 9:00am: USA vs. Finland (TSN/TSN4) 1:00pm: Canada vs. Switzerland

MLB BASEBALL (SN) 3:00pm: Angels vs. Jays (SN1) 4:00pm: Rays vs. Red Sox (SN Now) 6:00pm: Atlanta vs. Cardinals (TSN2) 7:00pm: Orioles vs. Astros (SN) 9:00pm: Yankees vs. A’s (SN1) 10:00pm: Guardians vs. Mariners

WOMEN’S RUGBY (TSN/TSN4) 4:00pm: Canada vs. Wales

CFL FOOTBALL (TSN/TSN3) 7:00pm: Redblacks vs. Elks

MLS SOCCER (TSN4) 7:00pm: Charlotte vs. Toronto FC (TSN/TSN4) 10:00pm: Whitecaps FC vs. Nashville

SHORT FILM FACE OFF (CBC) 8:00pm: "Meg Writes a Reference Letter," "Model Citizens" and "Second Wedding" are screened and discussed.

CROSSWORD MYSTERIES: TERMINAL DESCENT (CTV) 8:00pm:  When Tess prepares for a crossword challenge against a supercomputer, the engineer behind it gets murdered, spurring her and Logan to seek answers before they become the next victims.

WARMING UP TO YOU (Global) 8:00pm: An outdoorsy fitness expert at a luxury wellness retreat must whip a movie star into shape before shooting begins on his next action film.

MARTIN: THE REUNION (BET Canada) 8:00pm: Martin Lawrence, Tisha Campbell, Tichina Arnold and Carl Anthony Payne II reunite to discuss their hit sitcom "Martin" and its impact on pop culture; hosted by Affion Crockett.

RELENTLESS: MISSING IN MISSOURI (Investigation Discovery) 8:00pm/9:00pm/10:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE): Christina Whittaker vanishes without a trace; her mother Cindy refuses to give up hope; filmmaker Christina Fontana pledges to find the truth about their missing daughter; as she digs deeper, it's clear nothing is as it seems.

THE ENGAGEMENT PLOT (Super Channel Heart & Home) 8:00pm:  After getting her heart broken on a wildly popular dating reality show, teacher Hanna Knight returns to her small-town Colorado life.

SPLINTERS (CBC) 9:00pm: A young woman in Nova Scotia reassesses her relationship with her mother after the death of her father.

DEATH ON THE NILE (Crave) 9:00pm: Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.

HOT ONES (Global) 1:02am: Millie Bobby Brown

#cdntv #cancon #canadian tv #canadian tv listings #short film face off #hot ones #iihf women's hockey #mlb baseball #women's rugby #cfl football #mls soccer

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Geographies of Solitude Film

Geographies of Solitude Film wins Best Canadian Documentary!

Winner "Best Canadian Feature Documentary Award" Hot Docs Winner "The Earl A. Glick Emerging Canadian Filmmaker Award" 

Geographies of Solitude is a film about an environmentalist (Zoe Lucas) living on Nova Scotia's Sable Island has won top Canadian honours at this year's Hot Docs Film Festival 2022.

Geographies of Solitude Trailer

The trailer for "Geographies of Solitude "  by Jacquelyn Mills, starring Zoe Lucas.

About the film

For decades,  Zoe Lucas has catalogued the flora and fauna on Sable Island, a thin  strip of land off the Canadian coast. Jacquelyn Mills is the Canadian Experimental Filmmaker for Geographies of Solitude.

Mixing vivid 16mm footage with hand-processed abstractions, Jacquelyn Mills's film, a multiple prizewinner at the recent Berlinale, is a portrait of conservationist Zoe Lucas, one of the lone inhabitants of Sable Island, a 26-mile sandbar off the coast of Nova Scotia.

This Sundance supported Canadian film is directed by filmmaker Jacquelyn Mills and produced by  Mills and Rosalie Chicoine Perreault. The award includes a cash prize of  $10,000, sponsored by Telefilm and the Documentary Organization of  Canada. The jury praised this experimental documentary film  Geographies of Solitude for  "its deft ability to reveal the complex intersections between the  natural world and humanity's excesses on a singular isolated island  through strongly crafted and arresting visual and aural storytelling."

Geographies of Solitude 

Jacquelyn Mills’ Sable Island film "Geographies of Solitude," chronicles the life's work of  environmentalist Zoe Lucas, the only full-time inhabitant on Sable  Island.

Mills also won the Earl A. Glick Emerging Canadian Filmmaker Award,  which honours an artist presenting their first or second feature at the festival. The award carries a cash prize of $3,000, sponsored by the Glick family. Geographies of Solitude Trailer. An account of Lucas's remarkable study of the island's biodiversity, its fabled herds of wild horses, and the many ecological threats it faces, Geographies of Solitude is also a sensuous collaboration between filmmaker, subject, and the sparse, windswept terrain.

#geographies of solitude #geographies of solitude film #jacquelyn mills #jacquelyn mills filmmaker

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goals for 2023

watch at least 150 new-to-me films this year, with at least half directed/written by women and nonbinary filmmakers and by filmmakers of color (hit one hundred twenty films in 2022 with more than half by women and nonbinary directors, hit 25% filmmakers of color so i still need to do way better)

read at minimum 25 plays that i’m not required to for research, teaching, or dramaturgy work

actually cook more dishes from the multitude of cookbooks i bought this year, especially/hopefully for friends

get more tattoos!

do some type of vinyl set (whether that’s one i record/stream or do for friends at my apartment) now that i have my turntables and my mixer set up 

publish at least three two fics that i’ve had on the back burner (one every six months, that’s totally doable)

publish virtually anything professionally since it’s been a minute (last major publication i had was the kubrick chapter which was fall 2020)

finish the donner party play and submit it places

safety permitting, visit one of the following places: portland (again), seattle, oakland (again), nova scotia (greece is HAPPENING)

go on more picnics and hikes and go to the beach more

#some of these are repeats from last year lmao #also like. finish the dissertation but that might be a 2024 thing so we'll see

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GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE FILM

The feature debut from Mills, Geographies Of Solitude wins Jeonju’s International Competition, having already taken home the C.I.C.A.E. Art Cinema prize, the Caligari

Film Award and the prize from the Ecumenical Jury following its premiere in Berlin’s Forum. Mill’s previous work includes In The Waves, which premiered at Visions du Réel and was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for Best Medium-Length Documentary. Further festival screenings are likely for Geographies Of Solitude, which as won top prizes as the Best Canadian Documentary Film and Best new Emerging Director in Canada.

Berlinale Forum, 2022, World Premiere

Geographies of Solitude describes in an elegy tone the life of a single inhabitant on an island 100 km from Nova Scotia. This sensation of everything unique is populating the images of a poetics of the unusual, of the foundational, or of the primitive.

Despite all this environment being perceived as Arcadian, where the fauna and flora seem to persist in the face of the vicissitudes of the same winter climate, the off-screen of humans and polluting industries appears painful and inevitable. And it is from this certainty that Zoe Valdez seems to be more alone than ever, in a double condition of hermit and witness of a slow destruction.

Director: Jacquelyn Mills Photography: Jacquelyn Mills. Additional Camera: Scott Moore Edition: Jacquelyn Mills. Additional Editor: Pablo Alvarez-Mesa Sound design: Andreas Mendritzki, Jacquelyn Mills Sound: Jacquelyn Mills filmmaker Producers: Rosalie Chicoine Perreault, Jacquelyn Mills Canada, 106 min., 2022

Prizes won at Berlin Film Festival are as Follows:

Caligari Film Prize

CICAE Art House Cinema Award

Ecumenical Award

Hot Docs: Geographies Of Solitude by Jacquelyn Mills

Jacquelyn Mills’ ‘Geographies of Solitude’ wins Hot Docs’ best Canadian film award

TORONTO - A film about an environmentalist living on Nova Scotia’s Sable Island has won top Canadian honours at this year’s Hot Docs Film Festival.

Director Jacquelyn Mills won the best Canadian feature documentary award and a $10,000 cash prize at a ceremony at Toronto’s TIFF Bell Lightbox on Saturday morning.

Her film, “Geographies of Solitude,” chronicles the life’s work of environmentalist Zoe Lucas, the only full-time inhabitant on Sable Island.

Mills also received the Earl A. Glick emerging Canadian filmmaker award, which is given to a local filmmaker whose film in competition is their first or second feature-length film.

In a statement, the jury praised the film’s “strongly crafted and arresting visual and aural storytelling.“

Hot Docs Winner – Best Canadian Feature Documentary Award Hot Docs Winner – The Earl A. Glick Emerging Canadian Filmmaker Award

Geographies of Solitude won the Best Canadian Feature Documentary Award at Hot Docs for its experimental portrait of researcher Zoe Lucas and her work on Sable Island. The film is directed by Jacquelyn Mills and produced by Mills and Rosalie Chicoine Perreault. The award includes a cash prize of $10,000, sponsored by Telefilm and the Documentary Organization of Canada.

About Zoe Lucas

Zoe Lucas is a self-taught environmentalist and naturalist who has lived for over 40 years on a remote strip of sand. Sable Island is 300 kilometres off the coast of Nova Scotia and can only be reached by private charter plane. This isolated and exposed place has long been recognized for its rare ecosystems with considerable scientific value and importance.

Throughout her decades on Sable Island, as its only full-time inhabitant, Zoe Lucas has demonstrated a scope of research that is staggering in detail. Through her dedication to documenting a life's work—one that accurately mirrors Zoe's work ethic—director Jacquelyn Mills weaves together a meticulous portrait of someone with a remarkable relationship with her surrounding ecosystem. Geographies of Solitude ultimately asks us to consider our own connection to the natural world and the lengths we may need to go to save it. 

About This Sable Island Film “Geographies of Solitude”

GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE is an immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island, guided by naturalist and environmentalist Zoe Lucas who has lived over 40 years on this remote sliver of land in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean.

Shot on 16mm and created using a scope of innovative eco-friendly film-making techniques, this feature-length experimental documentary is a playful and reverent collaboration with the natural world.

Zoe leads us among wild horses, seals and bugs, through peaks, valleys, roots, sands, weathers, seasons and stars. The intangible is evoked with hidden sounds and vanishing light. Much like a field book, the film tracks its protagonist's labor to collect, clean and document marine litter that persistently washes up on the island shores.

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