Top brass at the Toronto International Film Festival have announced the return of the year-round professional development programme.
Tiff have named eight participants in the Producers Modules that kicked off this month in Toronto.
The 2014 Studio Producers are: Coral Aiken, Sebastian Barriuso, Karen Harnisch, Mike MacMillan, Andrew Nicholas McCann Smith, Duane Murray, Paramita Nath and Andrew Rosen.
Producers were selected for their proven track record as industry professionals and their works in development.
“We will connect Studio Producers to our year-round programming at Tiff Bell Lightbox and give them a space to be inspired, consolidate skills and exchange ideas in a collaborative environment,” said Tiff artistic director Cameron Bailey (pictured).
“We are focusing our attention on fewer producers in round two of the programme. We want to effectively champion this group of film-makers and plug them into the international marketplace.”
The Studio initiative is co-presented by The Harold Greenberg Fund and supporting partner the Directors Guild Of Canada...
Tiff have named eight participants in the Producers Modules that kicked off this month in Toronto.
The 2014 Studio Producers are: Coral Aiken, Sebastian Barriuso, Karen Harnisch, Mike MacMillan, Andrew Nicholas McCann Smith, Duane Murray, Paramita Nath and Andrew Rosen.
Producers were selected for their proven track record as industry professionals and their works in development.
“We will connect Studio Producers to our year-round programming at Tiff Bell Lightbox and give them a space to be inspired, consolidate skills and exchange ideas in a collaborative environment,” said Tiff artistic director Cameron Bailey (pictured).
“We are focusing our attention on fewer producers in round two of the programme. We want to effectively champion this group of film-makers and plug them into the international marketplace.”
The Studio initiative is co-presented by The Harold Greenberg Fund and supporting partner the Directors Guild Of Canada...
- 7/17/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
While at Cph:dox I attended a seminar titled “An Interactive Audience” spotlighting new works in transmedia. One of the projects discussed was 17,000 Islands, a work commissioned by the festival’s own Dox:lab, directed by Indonesia’s Edwin (Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly) and Norwegian transmedia doc director Thomas Ostbye, and produced by interactive producer Paramita Nath. The project, in which Edwin and Ostbye make a film that is then “destroyed” by its viewers over the internet, sounded fascinating, so afterwards I pulled Edwin aside to learn more.
First, here’s the description of the project from the Cph:dox catalog:
17000 Islands is an interactive transmedia documentary. In Indonesia, Jakarta, there is a Disneyland style museum park named Taman Mini. It attempts to present the diverse cultures of Indonesia in a condensed and manicured form – an idealized image of the 17.000 Islands of Indonesia. Fascinated by this idealized and artificial representation, Indonesian...
First, here’s the description of the project from the Cph:dox catalog:
17000 Islands is an interactive transmedia documentary. In Indonesia, Jakarta, there is a Disneyland style museum park named Taman Mini. It attempts to present the diverse cultures of Indonesia in a condensed and manicured form – an idealized image of the 17.000 Islands of Indonesia. Fascinated by this idealized and artificial representation, Indonesian...
- 11/13/2012
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
While at Cph:dox I attended a seminar titled “An Interactive Audience” spotlighting new works in transmedia. One of the projects discussed was 17,000 Islands, a work commissioned by the festival’s own Dox:lab, directed by Indonesia’s Edwin (Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly) and Norwegian transmedia doc director Thomas Ostbye, and produced by interactive producer Paramita Nath. The project, in which Edwin (pictured) and Ostbye make a film that is then “destroyed” by its viewers over the internet, sounded fascinating, so afterwards I pulled Edwin aside to learn more. First, here’s the description of the project from the Cph:dox catalog: 17000 …...
- 11/13/2012
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
The seventh annual Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, which ran on Feb. 12-21 in Missoula, Montana, has given out awards to a dozen films. There are four main awards: Best Feature, the Big Sky Award, Best Short Film and Mini Doc, which were each judged by a different panel of jurors.
In addition, each panel also awarded an Artistic Vision or Artistic Excellence award to another deserving film in each category. Plus, there were four Programmers Choice awards given out for cinematography, editing and in “natural facts.” The full list of winning films is below.
Best Feature:
Last Train Home, dir. Lixin Fan
Artistic Vision:
GasLand, dir. Josh Fox
(Jurors: Doug Pray, Jeanie Finlay and Cliff Froehlich)
Big Sky Award:
Next Year Country, dir. Joseph Aguirres
Artistic Excellence:
Sweetgrass, dir. Lucien Castaing Talors and Ilisa Barbashs
(Jurors: Shirley Sneve, Thomas Phillipson and Tim Huffman)
Best Short Film:
Danza Del Viejo Inmigrante...
In addition, each panel also awarded an Artistic Vision or Artistic Excellence award to another deserving film in each category. Plus, there were four Programmers Choice awards given out for cinematography, editing and in “natural facts.” The full list of winning films is below.
Best Feature:
Last Train Home, dir. Lixin Fan
Artistic Vision:
GasLand, dir. Josh Fox
(Jurors: Doug Pray, Jeanie Finlay and Cliff Froehlich)
Big Sky Award:
Next Year Country, dir. Joseph Aguirres
Artistic Excellence:
Sweetgrass, dir. Lucien Castaing Talors and Ilisa Barbashs
(Jurors: Shirley Sneve, Thomas Phillipson and Tim Huffman)
Best Short Film:
Danza Del Viejo Inmigrante...
- 2/20/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
<div style="text-align: justify;">Paramita Nath makes her directorial debut with Found which has been selected for featuring at this year's 34th Toronto International Film Festival. Found is a short film based on the story of Toronto Poet Souvankham Thammavongsa. Paramita Nath was born in Shilong, the capital city of Meghalaya in India. She moved to Toronto in 2000 after completing her Bachelor's degree in Music from Memorial University of Newfoundland. While completing her M.A in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts at York University, Paramita produced and directed her short documentary entitled 'Journey into the Creative Process' as part of her thesis at York University.Filmicafe caught up with Paramita Nath where the director sums up her journey of filming 'Found' by quoting Souvankham poem 'I knew this, this would be my way in'.Paramita's Found is among 41 short films that were selected from 600 enteries for this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Found is a six...
- 8/29/2009
- Filmicafe
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