2011 SkeenaWild Film Fest: Film & Photo Contest Winners!
IT"S HERE!!! The 2011 SkeenaWild Film Festival
2011 Earth Day Community and Riverside Garbathon
Come out and help clean-up where you live and play at the 2011 Earth Day Community and Riverside Garbathon on April 17, 2011.
This family friendly event starts at 12 pm (meet in the McDonald’s parking lot) and the community/ riverside garbage clean-up will continue until 4 pm. Drop off your collected garbage at Ferry Island and stay for a FREE Salmon BBQ, with live music from local group, Dr. Fishy! There will be amazing door prizes for participants, including flights to Vancouver from Hawkair, Ford service vouchers and many more great giveaways!
For more info call 250-638-0998 or e-mail .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
2011 SkeenaWild Film Festival - Photo Contest
The 2011 SkeenaWild Film Festival Photo Contest is looking for your best Skeena images! Show us in a photo, why you’re passionate about the Skeena Watershed – the scenery, the ecology, the adventures. Get creative - the subject matter can be far ranging, including all Skeena places, people, flora-and-fauna! There are 2 categories for this year’s photo contest: Wild People of the Skeena & Wild Animals & Plants of the Skeena.
For all of you Wild People of the Skeena, show us how you and your friends enjoy the amazing Skeena watershed – the amazing places you go – the wild adventures you experience!
For all of you Skeena-Paparazzi, lets see your best shots of Wild Animals & Plants of the Skeena. This is your chance to ‘show-and-tell’ an incredible moment you’ve managed to capture in a photo.
The selected photos will be shown on the 2011 SkeenaWild Film Fest Tour, they may also be included in the festival trailer, a photo slideshow will be posted on the SkeenaWild website along with hopefully more locations to be announced shortly! There will be great prizes in each category, so get out, get inspired & get shooting!
Contest opens for submissions - June 1, 2011
Contest closes - September 30, 2011
See below for contest details & entry forms or e-mail Rod (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) for more information:
SKEENAWILD_FILM_FESTIVAL_
PHOTOGRAPHY_SUBMISSION_GUIDELINES.pdf
2011_SkeenaWild_FILM_FESTIVAL_-_PHOTO_CONTEST_SUBMISSION_FORM.pdf
2011 SkeenaWild Film Festival - Film Contest
The 2011 SkeenaWild Film Festival Film Contest is looking for your ‘Skeena’-centric films! Show us through film, why you’re passionate about the Skeena Watershed – the scenery, the ecology, the adventures. This is your chance to tell your story! We are accepting submissions in 2 categories as either a short or feature length film this year:
*Wild People of the Skeena: Adventure/ Eco-tourism
*Wild Animals & Plants of the Skeena: Environmental/ sustainability Vision or story; etc.
For all of you Wild People of the Skeena, show us how you and your friends enjoy the amazing Skeena watershed – the amazing places you go – the wild adventures you experience!
For all of you Wild Animals & Plants of the Skeena (…or people who can speak on behalf), it’s your chance to ‘show-and-tell’ your vision for a vibrant and sustainable Skeena.
For both categories, any genre of film is fair game; adventure, documentary, drama or even comedy!
The selected films will be shown on the SkeenaWild Film Fest Tour, clips may be included in the festival trailer, films will be posted on the SkeenaWild website along with hopefully more locations to be announced shortly! There will be great prizes in each category, so get out & get shooting.
Contest opens for submissions - June 1, 2011
Contest closes - September 30, 2011
See below for contest details & entry forms or e-mail Rod (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) for more information:
SKEENAWILD_FILM_FESTIVAL_
FILM_SUBMISSION_GUIDELINES.pdf
2011_SkeenaWild_FILM_FESTIVAL_-_FILM_CONTEST_SUBMISSION_FORM.pdf
SkeenaWild Film Festival: Then & Now - November 19th & 20th
Celebrating films showcasing the Skeena Watershed - this is what you can expect at the SkeenaWild Film Festival!
A selection of engaging, locally themed films will be shown at this year’s event, reflecting on where we were ‘Then’ and where we are ‘Now’. This event will be the premier showing of the feature film ‘Where Hope Resides’ (”...Presenting the Skeena River as, hopefully, an inspiration and a model of how rivers, fish, and people can co-exist.”).
We are also very excited to be premiering the inspiring films created by local youth at this year’s 2010 SkeenaWild - Reel Youth Film Camp, co-sponsored by Northern Savings Credit Union.
Also planned are trailers for some exciting films to be released next year! There will be door prizes and admission is by donation. Come out and enjoy these inspirational films!
*each event will be showcasing the same films
Funding Partners:
SkeenaWild Indie Film Maker’s Workshop October 23
Following the popularity of the Youth Film Camp in August, SkeenaWild wanted to offer something similar for everyone older than 18 in the community. Award winning, local film maker Monty Bassett will be instructing this 1-day workshop. Monty is excited to share his experience and help emerging local film makers get started or fine tune their filmmaking processes. The purpose of this workshop is to catalyze the creation of new films, showcasing this amazing area and we are hoping that there are lots of people interested in telling their stories!
>How are you or someone else are helping to build a strong, resilient and sustainable community here in the Skeena Watershed?
>What makes this area so amazing and worthwhile to protect?
The films created could be showcased at upcoming SkeenaWild Film Festivals!
The workshop is set to take place from 9 am to 4 pm, Saturday, October 23, 2010 at the Northwest Community College - Terrace Campus. To cover the facility fees and the instructors travel expenses, the workshop will cost $25 each. Space is limited and the registration deadline is October 8.
To register or for more info call SkeenaWild - 250-638-0998 or e-mail .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Funding Partners:
SkeenaWild Youth Film Camp Coming This August!
Want to learn how to shoot and produce your own film? We’re looking for people excited to share their stories about the Skeena! Your film could be showcased at our upcoming SkeenaWild Film Festival this fall.
This 3 day video production program-running from August 10 to 12-will teach young people to make short films about their issues and their vision for a better future.
Participants will learn how to:
- use a digital video camera
- set up lighting and sound
- employ various camera angles and composition
- form a story around the issue of choice
- translate these skills into a film that expresses unique perspectives
Other services provided:
- introduction to editing program Final Cut Pro
- collaborate with an editor to complete film
- choose soundtrack from Reel Youth’s database of original Canadian music
What to expect from the instructors:
Reel Youth facilitators are artists themselves. They are fluent in empowering youth to use the arts. They’ve been trained to mentor young artists in their own filmmaking experience. Their job is to help the particpants make the best film possible while ensuring all creative control is left with the artists. Participants leave the workshop confident in their filmmaking skills, excited about the film they created and empowered to share their creation.
Sign Up by August 3rd for this free camp!
When: August 10, 11, 12 from 10-5 each day
Where: Northwest Community College Terrace campus
Who: for ages 14 to 20
For more information or to sign up contact Rod at 250-638-0998 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
For more information on previous Reel Youth Film Camps visit http://www.reelyouth.ca
Solidarity Gathering of Nations
The Haisla and Gitga’at Nations invite all peoples to a traditional gathering to reaffirm our commitment to stopping the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline and the oil tanker traffic it would bring to our coastal waters.
Join us for presentations (TBA) and a dinner featuring ancestral foods of the Gitga’at, Haisla and other north coast First Nations.
Saturday, May 29th
Haisla Recreation Centre, Kitamaat Village
Event begins at 9:00 am. Dinner served at 4:30 pm.
Traditional dancing to follow dinner.
Please confirm your attendance by sending an e-mail to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). For more info, call 250-632-1521.
Norm Hann Paddle Boards Proposed Tanker Route
On Saturday, May 8th, Norm Hann of Squamish BC embarked on a 385 kilometre journey to help raise awareness about the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway proposal and the irreparable damage that it will cause. This mega development would see a dual 1,170 km pipeline carrying over half a million barrels of crude oil from the Alberta tarsands to Kitimat, where Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCC’s) would be loaded and shipped to Asian markets. BC’s Great Bear Rainforest would see 225 oil tankers per year.
Just under one year after Ali Howard swam the entire 610 km length of the Skeena River to raise awareness about Coal-bed Methane development in the Sacred Headwaters, Norm sets out on a familiar journey to do the same.
Norm will be travelling through very prominent and well known whale and orca migratory routes, rich salmon and bird migratory routes and of course through some of the BC coasts richest food harvesting territories of many coastal First Nations and non-First Nations alike.
Please visit Norms blog site and support him in any way you can.
Stand Up 4 Great Bear Expedition 2010
Awakening the Skeena
An epic journey. A fragile wilderness under seige. An uncertain future and a call to action.
In the summer of 2009, Ali Howard became the first person to ever swim the 610km length of the Skeena river from its birthplace in the Sacred Headwaters to its mouth at the Pacific Ocean. Independent film maker – Andrew Eddy of Double Haul Productions Text Here just finished putting the finishing touches on his documentary film, ““Awakening the Skeena” of Ali Howard’s journey and will launch a regional tour that begins in Iskut on April 7th, 2010.
See film dates below and please keep in mind that some dates & locations my change – so keep an eye on the Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition web page.
We’re excited to watch the film with each community that gave us so much support.
Tentative Schedule – please note that these dates are NOT confirmed unless posted
April:
8th – Telegraph Creek: Rec Centre, 7pm (confirmed)
9th – Dease Lake: Community Hall, 7pm (confirmed)
12th – Smithers: ROI Theatre, 7pm (confirmed)
14th – Moricetown
16th – Hazelton: Gitanmaax Hall, 7pm (confirmed)
20th – Kispiox: Community Hall, 7pm (confirmed)
25th – Kitwanga (confirmed)
27th – Gitsegukla: 5pm School/Community Hall (confirmed)
29th – Kitselas
30th – Terrace: REM Lee Theatre, 7pm (confirmed)
May:
2nd – Houston
3rd – Prince George: Canfor Theatre – UNBC, 7pm (confirmed)
14th – New Aiyansh
15th – Gingolx/Canyon City
16th – Kitimat
17th – Prince Rupert (confirmed)
18th – Masset
19th – Queen Charlotte City
Location Dates to be announced:
Iskut
Lax’kwalaams
Metlakatla
Gitanyow
Vancouver
Victoria
Contact Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition for more info
(250)842-2494
SkeenaWild Cash Giveaway!
SkeenaWild recently sponsored a cash giveaway to highlighting the economic worth of the Skeena River’s wild salmon economy. The event was so successful in Smithers in early July that we will doing it again soon…
stay tuned!
Bulkley Valley Centre presents: Skeena Salmon Habitat Conference
Hudson Bay Lodge - Smithers, BC - September 15 & 16, 2009