Film makers exposed at Videobinge festival.HAMILTON Hamilton, city, Bermuda Hamilton, city (1990 est. pop. 3,100), capital of Bermuda, on Bermuda Island. It is a port at the head of Great Sound, a huge lagoon and deepwater harbor protected by coral reefs. The Native Indian/Inuit Photographer's Association has joined forces with the Ontario Workers Arts and Heritage Centre to present a festival of Aboriginal video production. Videobinge II: First Nations Video Festival will run from Feb. 21 to 23 in Hamilton at the Ontario Workers Arts and Heritage Centre. It will be two days of screenings, discussions and workshops with leading Aboriginal video producers. All videos presented must have at least one Aboriginal person as a director, producer or writer and have been produced after Jan. 1, 1995. There will be awards given in the following areas: documentary under 30 minutes, documentary over 30 minutes, drama under 30 minutes, drama over 30 minutes and animation short. The winners in these categories will win the cost of their travel and accommodation to the Dreamspeakers Festival held in Edmonton each year. The two keynote keynote /key·note/ (ke´not) in homeopathy, the characteristic property of a drug that indicates its use in treating a similar symptom of disease. speakers will be Alanis Obomsawin and Gary Farmer Gary Dale Farmer (born June 12, 1953) is a Canadian actor. Farmer was born in Ohsweken, Ontario into the Cayuga nation and Wolf Clan[1] of the Haudenosaunee/Iroquois Confederacy. . Obomsawin has been a director and producer at the National Film Board for 25 years. Her documentary, Kahnehsatake... 270 Years of Resistance, was an internationally acclaimed ac·claim v. ac·claimed, ac·claim·ing, ac·claims v.tr. 1. To praise enthusiastically and often publicly; applaud. See Synonyms at praise. 2. film. Farmer is a well-known actor, director and writer. He starred in Powwow Highway and the play Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing is a play by Tomson Highway, which premiered in 1989 at Theatre Passe-Muraille in Toronto. Set in the fictional Wasaychigan Hill reserve in Northern Ontario, Dry Lips is a companion piece to Highway's earlier play . He received international acclaim for his recent role in the movie, Dead Man. He is also the editor-in-chief of Aboriginal Voices Aboriginal Voices is a Canadian radio network. It airs programming produced by and for Aboriginal people in Canada. It features music and personalities from around the world. , a quarterly magazine about Aboriginal arts and entertainment. Aboriginal producers Michael Doxtater and Poasie Joamie will be on hand for production and technical skill development workshops. Doxtater was the former head of Studio One, the National Film Board's Aboriginal film and video production unit. NIIPA NIIPA National Information Infrastructure Protection Act of 1996 NIIPA National Information Infrastructure Protection Agenda (Malaysia) is a national non-profit, artist-run centre promoting photography as a medium of the fine arts. The organization has been around since 1985. It promotes Aboriginal photographers by gaining greater exposure for their work and by increasing access to photographic and video resources. For more information contact Monique or Steve at NIIPA at (905) 529-7477, or fax them at (905) 529-0887. You can e-mail them at <niipa@netaccess.on.ca> or visit their web site at <http://www.creative-spirit.com/niipa/>. |
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