The Spirit of Helen Award is an annual Alberta Media Arts Alliance (AMAAS) award given in honour of Helen Folkmann, an artist and arts advocate whose creativity, activism, strength and determination inspired people across Canada. Helen passed away in 2004, and this award acknowledges an artist, cultural worker or advocate whose contributions to Alberta’s media arts community reflects Helen’s remarkable spirit.
Nominations: This award is open to all artists and cultural workers in Alberta. Individuals or organizations associated with the Alberta Media Arts community may nominate one candidate per year. Nominations must be received by June 15, 2010. Please include a biography of your nominee (max. one page) and a statement indicating why you are nominating this individual (max. one page). Nominations will be reviewed by an anonymous peer jury.
Award: $1,500 cash award and certificate. The award will be presented on June 26th at the 2010 AMAAS Film Festival Symposium in Calgary. The successful nominee should be available to attend. Please send your signed (and scanned) nomination form and attachments to AMAAS Executive Director, Kevin Allen, by e-mail: admin@amaas.ca, or by mail to: 901, 1323 15 Ave. SW, Calgary, AB T3C 0X8.
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AMAAS is proud to present its annual Symposium in collaboration with Sled Island Film this year.
Sled Island Film began in 2009 by Jeanette Burman as a new extended addition to Sled Island Festival. In 2010, Sled Island Film will present the inaugural Festival of Festivals featuring showcases by over 14 film groups and festivals from around Alberta. Also for 2010, the Alberta Media Arts Alliance Society will be conducting a day of film related panels and workshops in partnership with Sled Island Film.
Check out the fantastic lineup of local film presentation that is taking part in Sled Island Film at:
Events include:
- $100 Film Festival
- Giant Incandescent Resonating Animation Festival (GIRAF)
- Fairy Tales International Queer Festival
- Show Us Your Shorts – A Festival of Short Films (SUYS)
- Movies That Matter (MTM)
- EMMEDIA Gallery and Production Society
- Marda Loop Justice Film Festival
- Super 8 Challenge
- Hidden Gems Film Festival
- The Arusha Center Action Series
- Exposure Arts Festival
- Global Visions Film Festival
- Film and Video Arts Society – Alberta (FAVA)
About Prairie Tales
Now in its twelfth year, Prairie Tales is an annual touring collection of Albertan short film and video. We regularly include work from the shining lights of the Alberta media arts scene. Prairie Tales is produced by Metro Cinema in partnership with amaas and with funding assistance from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. For more information or to schedule a Prairie Tales screening, please contact:
Metro Cinema
Room 632, #7 Churchill Square
Edmonton, Alberta T5J 2V5
T: 780.425.9212
F: 780.428.3509
E: prairietales@metrocinema.org
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PRAIRIE TALES 12 will premiere during the 2010 AMAAS Symposium! Check out this brand new collection of stunning Alberta media art.
Friday June 25 @ 7pm
The Plaza Theatre
$0 Sled Island Film Pass Holders
$7 General Admission
The 2010 AMAAS Film Festival Symposium
Saturday, June 26, 2010 from 9 AM – 6 PM
At the University of Calgary
Registration fee: $40
Only 40 seats available.
The AMAAS symposium will explore issues in media arts programming, discuss funding strategies, and provide networking opportunities to those interested in the Province’s film festival and media arts programming community.
Symposium Schedule:
FRIDAY JUNE 25
Alberta Film Classification Workshop – Time & Venue TBA
AMAAS AGM
4pm @ NUTV Studios – MacEwan Hall, University of Calgary.
Prairie Tales 12: Alberta Film & Video on Tour *WORLD PREMIERE*
7pm @ the Plaza Theatre
SATURDAY JUNE 26
Panel I: 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Movies that Matter: the role of film festivals and media arts programming in Canadian Society. Sponsored by the University of Calgary
Panel II: 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM
Pandora’s Treasure Chest: Film Festival Funding: do current public and private funders meet the operation needs of existing and emerging film festivals and media art programming organizations?
12:15 PM – 1:45 PM
Networking Lunch.
Panel III: 1:45 PM – 3:15 PM
New Reflections on the Silver Screen: pushing the boundaries of media art presentation. Sponsored by EMMEDIA
Panel IV: 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Digital Tangents: will new media be the death of film festivals? Sponsored by NUTV
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Media Arts Community Reception: presentation of the 2010 Spirit of Helen Award.
The symposium will serve a continental breakfast, lunch and reception appetizers. Symposium attendees will have the option to be lodged on campus at the new Hotel Alma or the University Residences. NUTV will be filming the symposium and uploading the panel discussions to the Internet for a larger film festival community to access. AMAAS will provide up to 10 bursaries for interested out-of-town attendees with financial need. – To register call: 403-890-7278 or email: // conference@amaas.ca -
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