Thanks goes out to all the filmmakers whose work is the heart of the festival. With close to 100 films of all genres screened over the past week – PEI audiences got a wide breadth of perspective, insight, and flight of fancy.

The festival’s awards were handed out at the CBC Gala. Congrats to the recipients:

• 2012 CBC 3-2-1 Award - Harmony Wagner (Director) and Jason Rogerson (Producer)
• The Island Media Arts Co-op Audience Choice Award – Dan Caseley for Mr. Toesley and the Love Powered Space Machine.
• The William F. White Filmmaker of the Year Award - John Hopkins
• The Women in Film and Television Salute Award - Louise Lalonde

7:30pm – Tuesday May 8th

Georgetown at the King’s Playhouse

Summerside at Three Oaks Sr. High School

Charlottetown at The Guild

Followed by IMAF’s Opening Night reception hosted by MusicPEI.

Come on down and celebrate the media arts with us!

For a full IMAF schedule of panels, presentations, workshops and screenings go HERE.

“The Best of FAVE” goes to: The students of the Creative Multi-Media Class of Colonel Grey High-School Editor: Ivy Truong

For the animated video ‘The Nightly News’

The jury of IMAC members were very impressed by all the submissions and found that “The Nightly News” excelled for originality of storyline, quality of performance and quality of filming and editing.

The runner-up for ‘Best of FAVE’ was “Basketball” by Ryan Walsh and Carlos Bosco of Morell Regional High School.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Go HERE for a full schedule of screenings, parties, (free) workshops, and panels.

Click here to view the embedded video.

The Insider’s View of Creating A Comedic Short – May 5th – 7th – With Actors Rob MacDonald, Jan Rudd, Cynthia Dunsford, and Dennis Trainor.

Creative Directing with Actors – May 10th – 11th – Lead by industry Director Michael Kennedy (Little Mosque on the Prairie).

The Building of the Sony F3 and the DPs Point of View – May 12th – With CEV Representative Paul Duguay and DOP John Hopkins.

To Register Call (902)892-3131 or email director@imac.coop TODAY!

Bring your ideas to life with stop motion animation!

The Island Media Arts Festival (a project of The Island Media Arts Co-op) and the Confederation Centre Art Gallery are teaming up to bring another free public film making workshop to Charlottetown. This year’s workshop will be a three day stop motion animation clinic where all ages are invited to come and create their own stop motion short to be screened at a special screening during the 2012 IMAF festival this May.

The workshop will be taught by B.J. McCarville and Dave Bennett, who will take participants through prop creation, story development, animating, basic computer editing and sound editing, during three days of intensive hands-on creation.

The workshop schedule is April 19 (6-9pm) , 20 (6-8pm) and 21 (1-4pm).

For more information and to preregister please contact B.J. McCarville at bmccarville@confederationcentre.com or 628-6112.

A crew of PEI filmmakers headed over on the weekend of March 9th to the second annual Women Making Waves conference in Halifax. WMW is hosted by Women in Film and Television – Atlantic Chapter and is a fantastic opportunity for women (and men) filmmakers to improve their skills, network with industry professionals, and strengthen the regional filmmaking community. PEI filmmakers in attendance this year were: JoDee Samuelson, Susan Rodgers, Cheryl Wagner, Harmony Wagner, Patti Larsen, Renee Laprise, Louise Lalonde, Gretha Rose, and Kristen Santos…most of whom are IMAC members! Way to represent!

My career has been in advertising. I studied Fine Arts at Concordia in Montreal,worked as an art director in Toronto and then went on to manage creative departments for McCann Erickson and Ogilvy & Mather in Mexico, the Caribbean and in Europe. Oddly enough, I ended up living and working on a lot of islands – Dominican Republic,Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados and Malta before deciding to move to this island, one that I cycled across in my early twenties and never forgot.

Read more HERE.

IMAC is hosting a series of workshops in locations across PEI for beginner and intermediate media artists in the areas of:

• Editing
• Motion Graphics
• Digital Photography
• After Effects

Workshops are taking place in Montague, Summerside, and Charlottetown starting January 14th until February 18th. Check out a full schedule HERE and sign up today by emailing Susan Rodgers at fatcat@pei.sympatico.ca

Workshops are $15/IMAC Members and $25/non-members.

Workshops are each one day long (9am-4pm)

Watch them…

A Brief History of Charlottetown – by JoDee Samuelson

In Between Spaces – by Millefiore Clarkes

Exhibition Drive – by Jason Arsenault

Landscapers – by Joey Weale

Fine Tuning – by Jenna MacMillan

More info. on all the films here.