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NSI grads take home 2017 Leo Awards

Posted: 05 Jun 2017 02:44 PM PDT

The Cameraman from Arnold Lim (NSI Features First) won best short drama, best sound and best production design in a short drama.

TELUS STORYHIVE web series project Hand Crafted – The Potter from Greg Bartels, Andrew Muir and Andrew Millard won best direction and best cinematography in an information, lifestyle or reality program or series.

Hand Crafted – The Sculptor from Greg Bartels, Andrew Muir and Andrew Millard won best picture editing and best sound in an information, lifestyle or reality program or series.

Letterkenny from Mark Montefiore (NSI Totally Television) won best music, comedy or variety program.

Additionally, Hello Destroyer from exec producer Trish Dolman (NSI Features First) took home best motion picture, NSI Features First-developed The Sun At Midnight from Kirsten Carthew won best picture editing and best musical score, and The Hollow Child from Jeremy Lutter (NSI Drama Prize) and Ben Rollo (Movie Central Script to Screen) won best lead performance by a female.

Congrats to all.

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Vote for your favourite STORYHIVE animated short now

Posted: 05 Jun 2017 12:50 PM PDT

Voting is now open for the latest edition of TELUS STORYHIVE animated shorts. Your votes help decide the top animated short out of 10 finalists.

The top-voted short receives customized career training delivered by NSI, attendance at the 2017 Ottawa Animation Festival and distribution on TELUS Optik™ TV On Demand and online.

Cast your vote.

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Watch It’s Not My Fault and I Don’t Care Anyway for $0.99 this week only

Posted: 05 Jun 2017 12:25 PM PDT

It’s Not My Fault and I Don’t Care Anyway, from producers Camille Beaudoin (NSI Totally Television, NSI Features First), Eric Rebalkin (NSI Business for Producers) and writer/director Chris Craddock (NSI Features First), is available to watch for $0.99 this week only on Vimeo on Demand.

In It’s Not My Fault and I Don’t Care Anyway a rich and famous self-help guru’s controversial philosophy of extreme selfishness is put to the ultimate test when his only daughter is kidnapped and held for ransom.

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Tricia Lee, Carmen Forsberg selected to Whistler Film Fest feature lab

Posted: 05 Jun 2017 12:17 PM PDT

Congratulations to Tricia Lee (Corus Diverse TV Director) and Carmen Forsberg (NSI Features First) whose projects were chosen for the 2017 Whistler Film Festival (WFF) Feature Project Lab.

Penumbra from Tricia and Boundary Country from Carmen made the cut. Fellow NSI Features First grad Adam Mars wrote Boundary Country.

The lab advances a producer’s dramatic feature project and facilitates relationships and investment in film projects that have US and international appeal. Six projects are being developed across a variety of genres. The first phase runs until June 9 and the second phase runs from November 28 to December 1 alongside Whistler Film Festival.

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