Who blogs on the NSI website?
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Posted by Liz Hover
on Wednesday, October 15, 2008.
Categories: NSI
When the National Screen Institute launched its new website back in June we enlisted the services of some of Canada's coolest industry folks to blog for us. Since then, they've been busy posting their stuff to our website. We thought you'd like to know a bit more about them.
Cheryl Binning
Cheryl Binning has reported on the film and television industry for over a decade and her writing has appeared in numerous publications including Playback, The Hollywood Reporter, Channel 21 International, Canadian Screenwriter, The Directors Guild of Canada’s Montage Magazine and Take One. Cheryl was an entertainment and feature writer at the Winnipeg Free Press before moving to Vancouver this past summer.
Cheryl is the National Screen Institute's official reporter. She writes a regular column for our website, edits our industry centre video and audio interviews as well as conducting many of our industry centre interviews. Read Cheryl's latest blog post.
E. Jane Thompson
Two-time Gemini award winner - and NSI graduate - E. Jane Thompson has directed
prime time dramatic television in Canada, award-winning short films, and an MOW. She is currently developing two features, The Berliner Complex, and Wild Mouth, an adaptation of a play by a Manitoba playwright Maureen Hunter.
Jane has led directing workshops for the Canadian Screen Training Centre and the National Screen Institute. She is proud to have been one of the founders of Women in Film and Television – Toronto (WIFT) and recently became the program advisor for NSI Drama Prize. Read Jane's latest blog post.
Darren Fung
Darren is one of Canada’s most promising young film composers. His works have been performed by the Vancouver, Victoria, Edmonton and McGill Symphonies; I Musici de Montreal; Toronto’s Tapestry New Opera Works; and Prague’s FILMharmonic Orchestra among others. He won Best Score at the 2005 Atlantic Film Festival for his work on Little Claus and Big Claus, and completed the orchestral score for Chaz Thorne’s directorial debut Just Buried, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2007.
An advocate for emerging composers, he was named an Action Canada Fellow in Public Policy for 2006-07, teaches film scoring at his alma mater, the Schulich School of Music at McGill University, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Guild of Canadian Film Composers. Darren recently re-orchestrated The Hockey Theme. Read Darren's latest blog post.
The Screen Queen
The Screen Queen enjoys sitting in front of a screen for hours on end, be it an iPod,
computer monitor, the TV, or the silver screen. As a screen-o-phile and self-proclaimed geek, this mysterious diva offers up obsessions, confessions, and suggestions. Whatever, whenever, The Screen Queen is always watching. Read The Screen Queen's latest blog post.
Eva Madden
Filmmaker Eva - and NSI graduate - completed writing and directing the NSI Drama Prize short film Eastern Shore, which is now making the rounds at film festivals, picking up the award for Best Original Score at the 2007 Atlantic Film Festival and Best Surf Film 2007 from the Surf-riders Association of Nova Scotia.
Her short film Maximum 50 was screened at the 2006 Viewfinders International Film Festival for Youth, won Best Direction & Best Editing at the 15th Annual Atlantic Filmmaker’s Co-operative Film Festival, and screened in Los Angeles as part of the Best of The Attack film series.
Eva's feature film script Sweet Nothing won the 2006 Inspired Scripts Pitch, sponsored by The Harold Greenberg Fund and Telefilm Canada, and is currently in development with Halifax’s Idlewild Films Ltd. Read Eva's latest blog post.
Geoff Redknap and Katie Weekley
Producer Katie Weekley and writer/director Geoff Redknap work together under the company Goonworks.
Katie worked as a camera assistant on features, X-Men 3 and Catch and Release and TV shows, Dark Angel and Supernatural. Katie's other projects include Katie Yu’s hilarious Birthdays And Other Traumas and Smile by director Julia Kwan (Eve and the Firehorse).
Geoff pays the rent working as a special effects make-up artist to actors on movie sets like I,Robot, Underworld 2, X-Men 3 and The Watchmen. On set he has had a chance to observe some of the world’s top directors like James Cameron, Lawrence Kasdan and John Carpenter.
Katie and Geoff are NSI Drama Prize graduates. Their NSI Drama Prize short, The Auburn Hills Breakdown has received Telefilm funding for its feature-length version. Read the latest blog post from Katie and Geoff.
Polly Washburn
Polly Washburn is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre's PrimeTime Television Writing Program. She was associate producer for season three of Bump! a gay and
lesbian travel show broadcast on OUTtv in Canada, and shown around the world. She is the 2008 Deluxe Producer Intern and is currently developing and pitching a one-hour drama, a documentary series, a web series and a teen half-hour.
Polly also keeps a foot in the film world, as a writer/producer. She has served in the roles of writer, director, assistant director, script supervisor and editor on several short films. See one of Polly's short films, The Coffee Maker, now playing in the NSI Online Short Film Festival. Read Polly's latest blog post.
Kris Booth
Filmmaker Kris Booth is an alumnus of the Drama Program at Canterbury School for the Arts and Ryerson University’s Film Studies program where he produced and directed several films earning him the Norman Jewison Filmmaker Award two years consecutively. Other film projects include the award-winning For All the Marbles. Kris is also a graduate of NSI Features First.
In 1999 Kris founded a production company Shoes Full of Feet. His newest endeavour has him using the internet to start a ‘pocket change fund’, collecting pocket change to fund production of his project At Home By Myself… With You. Read Kris' latest blog post.
Shereen Jerrett
Shereen Jerrett made her first film in 1983, the same year that Return of the Jedi came out. She's filmed everything from vampire castles in Romania to Lee-Ila’s Hair
Museum in Indiana. She's made films about neurotics, nerds and family members. Working in indies and commercial venues, she has directed award-winning documentaries, dramas, television series, commercials, educationals and some things that defy description. She's wrangled animals on film sets and made animated films. She's worked with numerous production companies and taught filmmaking at the University of Manitoba for six years.
Shereen is also a member of NSI's associate faculty. She regularly gives writing workshops to our program participants. Read Shereen's latest blog post.
Ian Bricke
Ian Bricke is director of acquisitions and programming for Sundance Channel overseeing feature, documentary and short film acquisitions. Before joining Sundance he worked at Killer Films, Pipedream Productions, and the Independent Feature Project/New York. He has served on juries at the Edinburgh, Austin, Florida and Gen Art film festivals. A graduate of Swarthmore College, he is a native of Kansas. Read Ian's latest blog post.
Liz Hover
I regularly post stuff to the NSI website and as NSI's website manager you'll find me writing about all manner of things from social networking, to the latest online trends and useful stuff I find. I'm an avid reader of technology newsletters and websites and anytime I find something I think could help you, I'll be chatting about it here. I also add industry news snippets to our Twitter and Facebook pages.
Could you blog for us?
If you're a good writer with an industry topic you can write regularly about, then drop us a note. The gig is voluntary: you'd be blogging out of the kindness of your heart. We can't promise to accept all offers but if you think you have something useful to contribute we certainly want to hear from you.
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