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Nelson MacDonald & Jeff Wheaton win 902 Post Joy Award

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The Linda Joy Media Arts Society is pleased to announce the winner of the 2014 902 Post Joy Award. The LJMAS extends heartfelt congratulations to Nelson and Jeff.

Winner: Nelson MacDonald & Jeff Wheaton
For: Safe
Award partner: 902 Post Inc. ($10,000).

Safe is an unconventional documentary film, a poetic essay that reflects on the tens of thousands of surveillance cameras in Halifax and by association, the larger question of surveillance and privacy in our society.
Halifax is tirelessly observed by security cameras which gaze at us from grocery store aisles to secure naval facilities. Some however watch from odd vantages in trees and kiddie-themed boat rides. These electronic watchers unblinkingly watch hour after hour of, mostly, nothing happening. Theirs is an absurdist perspective, unintentionally ridiculous to the point of comedy.
Safe takes a look at the lookers and the both ominous and equally funny nature of their existence.

Nelson MacDonald is one of Atlantic Canada’s top emerging film producers. His credits include producing the award winning short film Rhonda’s Party, which premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival, won CBC’s Short Film Faceoff, and was named one of the Toronto International Film Festivals Top Ten Canadian Short Films. In 2012 Nelson produced the short film When You Sleep and associate produced the feature film Blackbird. Both films opened at TIFF. His latest short film Stray is now on the festival circuit with screenings at Montrealʼs Festival du Nouveau Cinema and Atlantic Film Festival.

Jeff Wheaton is a prolific cinematographer and emerging director based in Halifax. His work on short films and music videos for directors including Jason Eisener and Cory Bowles has earned screenings at dozens of festivals including Sundance and TIFF. In 2012, Jeff was awarded Best Cinematography at the Atlantic Film Festival for his work on Sol Naglerʼs experimental feature Gravity and Grace. Most recently Jeff was the 2013 Filmmaker in Residence at the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative where he created the experimental short film Hive, which the Chronicle-Herald described as “delving into the mythology of bees, the history of bees and beekeeping, and a look at where bees are now.”

 

Leah Johnston wins Joy Award 2014

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The Linda Joy Media Arts Society is pleased to announce the winner of the 2014 Joy Award. The LJMAS extends heartfelt congratulations to Leah Johnston.

Winner: Leah Johnston
For: My Younger Older Sister
Award partners: SIM Video & PS Atlantic ($10,000), The Atlantic Filmmakers’ Coop ($6,000), 45 North ($1,200), Kodak Canada.

My Younger Older Sister follows the journey of Rose, a withdrawn young woman drifting through life in the wake of her older sister Kayla’s death. Rose is constantly bombarded with comparisons to her older, more self-assured sister, Kayla, and she spends her entire existence trying to measure up to the impossible standards that her sister has left. As Rose turns 21, she faces the realization she is now older than her older sister had a chance to be. Rose must now forge her own path for the first time in her life and let go of her sister’s ghost in order to create an identity for herself.

Leah Johnson is a filmmaker, actor, and photographer. Her interest is in creating conceptual photos and films. Beyond just telling a good story, Leah strives to always have a purpose behind every work she creates. Her goal is to let the underlying concept take precedence over all else, shaping the work from the inside out, in terms of narrative, visuals, sound and performance. She has created and performed in film and theatre pieces from Nova Scotia to Los Angeles, receiving positive, enthusiastic critical reception for her innovative style.

 

Joy Awards Brunch 2014

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Come on out and find out the winners of the first round of Joy Awards for 2014!

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The 902 Post Joy Award, the Joy Award, and Newfoundland Joy Award winners will be announced.

Filmmakers, AFF delegates, film lovers and anyone who wants to support our Atlantic cultural scene should come and enjoy some chowder and refreshments.

Doors open at Noon
Thursday September 18th
2125 Brunswick Street, Halifax
Over by 2pm

Enjoy the company of friends and colleagues and meet new ones!

The Joy Awards Brunch is presented with our valued partner The Atlantic Film Festival!
Thanks to Propeller Breweries and J. Willy Krauch & Sons for their many years of support!
Special thanks to Cat and Tony from Silver Wave Film Festival!
And special thanks to the Atlantic Film Festival and AFF volunteers who make this happen every year!

Technicolor Post & Helen Hill Animated Joy Award 2013 results

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THE JOY AWARDS 2013

WINNERS OF
THE HELEN HILL ANIMATED JOY AWARD and
THE TECHNICOLOR POST JOY AWARD 2013.

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The Linda Joy Media Arts Society is pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 Helen Hill Animated Joy Award and the Technicolor Post Joy Award. Selecting from a number of excellent submissions from Atlantic Canadian filmmakers and media artists is a challenging process for the jury. We are pleased to be able to recognize and support these two filmmakers and their projects in the November Joy Awards session.

The Board and staff of the Linda Joy Media Arts Society extend their heartfelt congratulations.

 

The Awards

(note: Award partner benefits may be cash or services)

 

The Technicolor Post Joy Award:

Winner: Tim Tracey

For: Canadian Ninja
Feature comedy

Award partner Technicolor  ($2,500).

Riffing on genre B movies and comically referencing America’s over-the-top action hero tradition, Tim Tracey brings us a new, all too Canadian hero, Buck North, Canadian Ninja. This comedy feature project offers up fun movie entertainment while playing with issues of Canadian individual and collective identity, meditations on life in the large cultural shadow of the United States, and what the heck is a Canadian movie anyway?
Tim is a well known figure in the local film and media arts community, having taught workshops at King’s College, the Centre For Art Tapes, and Ross Creek Centre for the Arts. His last project, the animated film KREB, winner of a past Helen Hill Animated Joy Award, went on to win Best Animated Short 2013 (AFFA), and garnered the support of a NS Art Grant. His previous animation MAN WITH NOTHING TO LOSE, won the 2005 National ZED TV animation contest 3rd place. FEAST OF FAMINE, a feature documentary, has been shown across Canada and internationally.

 

 

The Helen Hill Animated Joy Award:

Winner: Becka Barker

For: The Evolution of Max
Animated documentary

Award partner: Atlantic Filmmakers Coop ($2,500); Centre For Art Tapes ($1,100).

THE EVOLUTION OF MAX is an animated documentary about twelve year old Max Billard, who has been keeping a journal about his life and everyone in it. The journal is revealing, fascinating and intensely personal, filtering the world, friends and family through the lens of Max’s autism. Max’s love of animal and evolutionary biology colours his observations throughout. Recently, Becka Barker, at his family’s invitation, began working with Max to create an animated film based on Max’s journals. This exploration of the world as discovered by Max, highlights the normality of difference and the potential brilliance that resides in us all.
Becka Barker once attended Helen Hill’s Experimental Animation class at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design (NSCAD) in 1998, and cites Hill as a major inspiration for her own career, so there is a circular appropriateness in her winning the Helen Hill Animated Award. Since that time Becka has taught and mentored media artists at NSCAD, the Centre for Art Tapes, the Atlantic Filmmakers’ Coop and Soonchunhyang University (ROK). Her previous films have screened internationally including her animated film ASSEMBLED. Becka has been a presenter at international conferences speaking on media arts and language.

New Brunswick Joy Award winner

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The winner of the New Brunswick Joy Award 2013 is
Shawn Henry for his project Il Sol.

The 2013 New Brunswick Joy Award benefits include:

$10,000 in equipment resources from Equifilm.
$7,500 in HD Video Finishing and Audio Mixing from The PostMan Post-Production Studio.
$7,500 in post services from CinemaTick and Insurmountable Sounds.
$5,500 in equipment or facilities from the New Brunswick Filmmakers’ Co-operative.
$1000 cash from New Brunswick Filmmakers’ Co-operative.
$1,000 in film stock from Kodak Canada Inc.