Jan. 4, 2020: I found this in my old notes:
Oct. 29, 2017 "Credits roll for Edmonton Film Society after 80 years": This article is by Travis McEwan in the CBC:
After 80 years of screening foreign films and classics, the Edmonton Film Society is about to show its last film.
Casablanca will be the society's last weekly film screening. It'll show at the Royal Alberta Museum auditorium on Nov. 6th.
The old Royal Alberta Museum in Glenora is officially closing its doors to make way for the new museum to open next year. But the film society hasn't been able to find a suitable new venue for screenings. Additionally, finding new volunteers to run the society has been a struggle.
"A lot of us are getting too old to run the place. Many of the board members are quitting," said Ralph Horak, current board member and former president. "We've been advertising for more volunteers for a couple of years. We haven't been able to get them."
Horak, 81, became drawn to foreign films when moved to Edmonton in the early 1960s to work as a school teacher. His passion led him to one of the film society's screening at the Jubilee Auditorium.
Foreign films went against the "formula happy ending" of Hollywood, he said.
"A little more thought provoking, and sometimes a tragic ending and that was unusual," Horak said.
Years later, he became president of the society, and was involved in its move to the Royal Alberta Museum auditorium in the 1970s. At that time, foreign films were were prevalent in the city's commercial cinemas, so the society switched their focus to the classic movies of the '30s, '40s and '50s.When speaking about movies from those decades, Horak lights up.
He said he believes the attendees, predominantly seniors, who showed up to the society's weekly screenings shared the same passion.
"We showed a Hitchcock film called Notorious and the audience loved it, because they liked the story. The story was there and it was well written and you don't get much of that these days," he said.
"To hear the applause at the end of a movie was another treat."
As the curtains close on the film society, Horak said the longtime audience is sad to see it end.
"I'm not looking forward to it exactly," Horak said.
"I'm just hoping I'll be able to hold back the tears."
Oct. 1, 2023 My opinion: They should have got funding from somewhere like the Edmonton Arts Council so they could pay workers.
Jan. 2, 2020 "Nominees revealed for annual Edmonton film, music prizes": Today I found this article by Roger Levesque in the Edmonton Examiner:
The shortlists are out for this year’s Edmonton Film Prize and Edmonton Music Prize. Five local pictures and filmmakers are under consideration for the 2019 film prize, picked from 12 nominations put forward by industry professionals.
Since its launch in 2012 the prize has encouraged local efforts in film with $10,000 going to the winner and $1,000 to each of two runner-ups.
Short, mid-length or feature length films can qualify and the genre is wide open, reflected by a real variety of films.
The filmmakers’ contribution to the local film community is also considered.
The five entries on the Film Prize shortlist are:
Ova: A Woman’s Fertility Gift by Rebecca Campbell
T-MINUS by Adrian G. De la Peña
The Edmonton Film Prize is administered by the Alberta Media Production Industries Association (AMPIA).
The Edmonton Film Prize:
The Edmonton Film Prize is awarded each year to directors and/or producers whose narrative, documentary, or experimental projects have been judged to be of superior quality, with the top three were selected from a shortlist of ten by a jury of industry professionals.
The Film Prize winner and recipient of a $10,000 cash prize is Budapest-born filmmaker Zsofia Opra-Szabo for her stop-motion animation and puppetry short film Sophia.
The first runner-up is Cree filmmaker Alexandra Lazarowich with Fast Horse, recent winner of the Short Film Special Jury Award at Sundance Film Festival
Adam Scorgie, first place winner at last year’s ceremony, picked up the third prize for Making Coco: The Grant Fuhr Story.
Both runners-up received a cash prize of $1.000. In all, 28 projects were submitted, the most entries since the program’s launch in 2012.
https://ampia.org/edmonton-film-prize/
AMPIA Story Studio:
https://ampia.org/story-studio-3/
https://ampia.org/edmonton-film-prize/
AMPIA Story Studio:
A successful weekend introducing AMPIA and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity‘s new sold-out Story Studio program has drawn to a close, and we’ve got the Facebook photo album to prove it!
Thanks to everyone who took part in the two-and-a-half-day workshop addressing new approaches to
storytelling,
innovating with technology,
and developing sustainable,
creative production
and business models for media content.
In addition to all the attendees and speakers, special thanks to the Government of Alberta, Alberta Film and the rest of our sponsors:
- Edmonton Screen Industries Office
- Address: 10045 156 St NW Suite 343, Edmonton, AB T5P 2P7 (where the old MacEwan University Arts campus was)Phone: (780) 420-2990https://edmontonscreen.com/
Stay tuned for details on future Story Studio workshops!
https://ampia.org/story-studio-3/
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