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The Provider wins Shaw Media’s Fearless Female Director Award

Brianne Nord-Stewart who directed “The Provider”, co-written  and c0-produced by Nord-Stewart and Andy Thompson, won Shaw Media’s Fearless Female Director Award from the National Screen Institute’s Online Film Festival

In the latest round of award presentations for the NSI Online Short Film Festival run by the National Screen Institute – Canada (NSI), Canadian short film The Provider, directed by Brianne Nord-Stewart, won the $2,500 Shaw Media Fearless Female Director Award”…The awards were decided by an independent jury.”

Comments from the jury included:

Nicholas Humphries – “Brianne Nord-Stewart’s stunning use of cinematography [by Amy Belling] and performance in The Provider caught our attention in this alternative-history horror short. The skill she showed while shooting it for a 48-hour filmmaking challenge secured it for us as the best short directed by a female.”

Maureen Levitt – “Brianne Nord-Stewart’s strength lies in bringing out the best in her characters. She really worked holistically in The Provider to create a dramatic feel and story arc in this larger than life film.”

Joy Loewen – “[We saw] stunning performances from the leads and a creepily perfect sound design [by Raph Choi] in The Provider which equals a terrific accomplishment from a director who’s on my ‘one to watch’ list.”

We are thrilled that the hard work of our team of cast, key creatives, and crew was acknowledged with acclaim!

The other awards were given to,  Tommydirected by Theodore Bezaire, which won the $1,250 A&E Short Filmmakers Award; and The Dance, directed by Pardis Parker, which picked up the $750 Bite Comedy Award.

Read the Press release: Tommy, The Provider & The Dance pick up awards in the NSI Online Short Film Festival

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Here’s how to help The Dangers of Online Dating win $1M and a distribution deal!

Hello to the wonderful folks who check out my website news feed. The time is NOW!
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You wanted to see some of The Dangers of Online Dating?

Well for now, you get two minutes of it in as a trailer for DOOD as a feature film, which we are competing with as part of the CineCoup Film Accelerator. The Prize? ONE MILLION DOLLARS and a distribution deal with Cineplex.

Here’s the deal.

We (Team DOOD) have an extremely good chance to earn this funding. We say earn because we are proving the value of the project by showing there is a real audience ($$) that exists and will buy the finished film. This is money in the bank to a potential development partner. We also say earn because this is going to be work. Myself aka Brianne Nord-Stewart (Director/Writer), Benjamin Larose (Writer), and Corey Tracey (Producer) will be working our asses off over the next couple weeks and we will need YOU.

The Cinecoup Accelerator relies largely on social measurements. We need to build a social conversation and sustain it for 8weeks (Now 7 weeks more!). This is going to be critical.

Here are a few pointers:

    • please sign into the www.CineCoup.com/thedangersofonlinedating page with your Facebook account and rate the trailer with 10 stars. There are some teams deliberately rating their competition with 1star to try and offset really great ratings. So we need to make sure that we get as many 10 star ratings as possible.
      • please get your friends and families to do the same thing!
    • complete the CineCoup Fan Missions. These missions will allow you extra votes in the upcoming rounds. These missions include adding 5 movies to your watch list, connecting a twitter account, etc.
      • please get your friends and families to do the same thing!
    • follow @DOODtheMovie on twitter and tweet your support. Add the #dood hashtag and make sure you also add the @doodthemovie address. Retweet as many of our tweets as possible to make sure we reach a broad an audience.
      • please get your friends and families to do the same thing!
    • Facebook. Follow the https://www.facebook.com/TheDangersOfOnlineDating FB page. Share the posts on your own timeline and like the posts to keep them active. Facebook has a smart algorithm that hides content posts that ppl are not talking about. So we need to make sure that there is legitimate conversation about our posts to keep them active – so that they do show up at the top of the timeline feed.
      • please get your friends and families to do the same thing!

Every week there will be a new challenge or Mission set out for the team. We will need your support, and we will definitely need you to follow the above steps each week.

We are currently TRENDING, which means that we are one of the top projects people are currently talking about. We need to keep it this way! That happens when people continue to comment and interact with the CineCoup page primarily. So keep up the good work commenting on the missions and challenges as they happen. Stay connected.

Oh and about that trailer…
http://www.cinecoup.com/thedangersofonlinedating

Thank you to all of the amazing people who contributed to this project getting made before I even knew that this competition existed!

“The Provider” Now viewable online with NSI Film Festival!

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The Provider (2011), a horror film co written and produced by myself and Andy Thompson, and directed and edited by moi, is now available for free for your viewing pleasure through Canada’s National Screen Institute’s Online Film Festival.

My 2008 short films, Why I Bought a Bike, and Why I Fired My Secretary both screen in 2011 as part of the film festival and it is a pleasure to be selected once again.

It is also a pleasure to see Pardis Parker and Jamie Travis‘ shorts up on the site as well. If you get a chance to see Jamie’s debut feature film, For a Good Time Call… I highly recommend it! And it looks like its out on DVD soon!

Four times a year, NSI presents three awards: the A&E Short Filmmakers Award ($1,250) to the best film, Bite Comedy Award ($750) for best comedy and the Shaw Fearless Female Director Award ($2,500) for best film by a female director. Read more about the awards.

We look forward to watching all of the newly added films, and our fingers our crossed for some cash!

Thank you for the opportunity NSI you are doing an amazing job supporting emerging filmmakers.

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MPPIA Announces this years finalists for $115k. I am one of them!

Last night, I went to a Whistler Film Festival special launch event at the the Rio Theatre celebrating the 6th annual  MPPIA Short Film Award for emerging Directors! Last year, I was selected as one of the top 5 finalists for this award and I was thrilled to be chosen once again for it! Woot!

The Motion Picture Production Industry Association (MPPIA) of BC, British Columbia Film + Media and the Whistler Film Festival established the MPPIA Short Film Award in 2007 which provides one filmmaker with the opportunity to further develop their directing career by realizing a unique creative vision in a short film project.

For this Award, I will be one of five filmmakers doing a live pitch for a short film at the 2012 Summit at the WFF on Dec 1 at 10:30 am before a jury of three industry professionals and an industry peer audience.

The winner (announced the following day) will win the $15 000 cash award plus resources “in-kind” valued up to $100,000 geared towards production for their proposed film; my short film is called, Cougars Cruising.

The other candidates and their respective films are;

Don’t Run Off the Trail, Johnny (Nan) Ma
True Love Waits, Jon Ornoy
Apocalypse Café, Scott Kukurudz
The Pertect Pair, Tyler Funk
Cougars Cruising, Brianne Nord-Stewart

The Festival line up and schedule is selling ticktes now through Dec 2nd. For more details go to http://www.whistlerfilmfestival.com/

Hope to see you there!

MPPIA 2012 Finalists and BC Film + Media

– Brianne

SEASICK WINS AT THE BLOODSHOTS SCREENING

I am happy to announce that SEASICK, which I edited and co-wrote with director, Kryshan Randel, won BEST ACTING at the Rio Theatre for the Bloodshots 48 Hour Horror Filmmaking Competition screening last night! Thank you all so much for your support and participation in this contest.

Congrats to our cast, Marsha Regis, Marina Pasques, Billy Marchenski and Gili Roskies, for earning free headshots for themselves from Wendy D.

There will be more updates coming soon. The film looked and sounded great at the screening and audience reaction was appropriately enthusiastic about the horror.

Here are the three finalists that will be considered for the $1000 grand prize:

Jury Award for Best Film: “Tender Threads” by Team Failure
In-house Audience Award for Best Film: “Chishio” by Masters of the Universe
Online Audience Award for Best Film: “Fidelium” by Borrowtime Productions

Another 48 Hour Film Completed! Kryshan Randel’s SEASICK

This weekend was so crazy! I had the fortune of being the Editor and Co-writer of Kryshan Randel‘s team for the 2012 Bloodshots Canada 48 Hour Horror Filmmaking Contest!

The short film we made is called, SEASICK which you can view and share online for a limited time! Check it out on the Bloodshots website.

Please support us by voting for this film by clicking the red “VOTE” button at the right hand corner of the page and then share the link with your friends! Voting starts RIGHT NOW and ends on Monday, Oct 29 at 7pm.

Please spread the word to everyone to help by voting for our film! If we get enough votes, we will win the Audience Choice Award and be eligible for the Grand Jury Prize, which is judged by George Romero, director of the Night Of the Living Dead trilogy! There are other awards too for things like: Best Film, Best Script, Best Makeup, Best Death, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Original Score, and more.

I won the Bloodshots Best Film and Grand Prize Awards in 2010 with my short THE PROVIDER, and Kryshan has won more than one Grand Prize throughout the years as well!

The screening and awards info will be on Hallowe’en (Wednesday, Oct 31) at 7pm, at the Rio Theatre 1660 E. Broadway @ Commercial Drive. If you’re interested in attending tickets are sold at www.celluloidsocialclub.com

I will keep you posted on the results.

Thank you all so much for your support!

A shout-out to Andy Thompson

Andy Thompson, who co-produced and co-wrote The Provider, is now directing an interactive theatre adventure all over downtown Vancouver!

The 2-hour show starts in Yaletown but travels to different venues as the plot moves. The coolest thing about Andy’s show is that he puts you, as the audience, as the star of the show!

I am super proud of Andy Thompson for this upcoming play. In an interview with the Province, Andy said that he “got hooked” after his experience making The Provider, which won first prize in a North America-wide Bloodshots short contest.

With five daily shows from Oct 13 – 31, this is a show you definitely don’t want to miss out on!

Please help support Andy!

Tickets: $25/$35, call 604-235-1920, or go to thevirtualstage.org/zombies

Click here to read the article: http://www.theprovince.com/entertainment/movie-guide/star+Zombie+Syndrome/7369884/story.html#ixzz291udScT2

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