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Video Sketchbook is a free Workshop Series focused on challenging the creativity of new and emerging video-makers.  It is not a technical workshop; but rather, it is for anyone who can press record, who can make a basic edit with imovie and who enjoys being creative. In the end, participants will discover a plethora of creative ideas that might otherwise go unnoticed, learn to discuss film and video more critically, and will have made a bunch of short videos, which comprise their video sketchbook. 

Submissions to the Yellowknife 2012 Film Festival are now open!

Shadowing Director, Anita Doron, in action has been an exercise in understanding which short moments of her time I can steal.  Much of my time is spent observing the following: How the scenes are blocked, or choreographed in other words, how scenes are then translated into shots, what choices are made for coverage, and how the actors are guided to get the best performances and ensure the emotional truth of the characters.

Various stills from the production

Week two is now finishing, and we were sad to see the writer of the Lesser Blessed, Richard Van Camp, return home to Edmonton. He dropped in on production for a few days, to observe and provide morale as only he can. One of the crew asked me afterward, “Who was that guy? He seemed really important and enthusiastic”. If you've ever met Richard, this is a very good description.

A week ago I arrived in Sudbury from Yellowknife, to begin a mentorship on the set of the feature dramatic film, the Lesser Blessed, based on the novel by NWT author Richard Van Camp. I'm being mentored under Director Anita Doron, who carefully lifted Richard's classic Northern coming-of-age story from its pages, and translated it into the visual world of a screenplay. The film adaptation has been six years in the making, a journey embarked upon by Anita, Richard, and producer Christina Piovesan.

WAMP is accepting treatments/script proposals for short commissioned videos. Pitch us your idea!

Do you like government support of the film industry? We do! From the same people who bought you paved roads, socialised medicine and public education comes SEED funding.

Get Animated! brings you some of Canada’s finest (and funniest!) animation. 

Western Arctic Moving Pictures has released the 5th Yellowknife Film Festival program

Western Arctic Moving Pictures is putting on a new workshop series.

Western Arctic Moving Pictures (WAMP) is participating in a joint Video and Photography Mentorship Program for this year’s Folk On The Rocks.

Live updates available at www.folkontherocks.com and www.vimeo.com/fotr during the event.

The Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) and Bell Media are calling on writers in western Canada to apply to the Bell Media Diverse Screenwriters Program.

A midnight Yellowknife film premiere presented by Western Arctic Moving Pictures: Love/Hate

Congratulations to the contestants in the WAMP 48 hour film festival.

Western Arctic Moving Pictures is running the 48 hour music video competition again in June 2011.

The WAMP AGM. Library meeting room, May 12th at 7pm.

Dates released for festival attendance.

WAMP have managed to secure Score: A Hockey Musical as our opening feature at this years festival.

Maximum excitement occurring between February 4th - 11th 2011!

Good lightning does strike twice for students in the NWT who love film. You might be on your way to the Yellowknife Film Festival in February.