Past winners of the New Brunswick Joy Award >

The 2008 New Brunswick Joy
$10,000 in rental services and $500 in materials from PS Atlantic (Halifax)
$3,500 in equipment or facilities from the New Brunswick Filmmakers’ Co-operative.
$1500 cash from New Brunswick Film.
$1,000 in film stock from Kodak Canada Inc.

(Note: The New Brunswick Joy Award 2009 will be adjudicated by a New Brunswick peer jury, and will be announced at the Silver Wave Film Festival November 2009.)

Note: Only residents of New Brunswick may apply for the NB Joy.
Residents of New Brunswick may apply for the CBC Television Script Development Award, the Joy Award, Joy Post and the Helen Hill Animated Award.

Tim Rayne is the 2008 recipient of the New Brunswick Joy Award forSongbird.

Tim Rayne directed and wrote his own films including Hopewell through the NB Filmmakers Cooperative Short Venture Program, currently in post-production, Natural Remedy (2001), and Soup Du Jour (1999). He has also taught directing workshops at the NB Filmmakers Cooperative, and was a scriptwriter for Daring And Grace (CBC 1999). He studied film at Carleton University in Ottawa, where he also earned a double major in English and psychology.

Songbird is set In the aftermath of a multi-vehicle collision, a woman named Ruby lies uninjured but trapped with her bandmate Mac, the drummer, in a flipped-over car while her husband runs to get help. To hold back panic, she and Mac talk about their careers and the major decision facing Ruby - a contract from a recording label she must accept or refuse. Talking to Mac she weighs the possibilities and the costs to her life it will bring. As time passes, she discovers Mac has faced a terrible choice which he carries with grace and resignation.

The 2008 New Brunswick Joy - $16,500
$10,000 in rental services and $500 in materials from PS Atlantic (Halifax)
$1500 in cash from New Brunswick Film (Provincial Government)
$3,500 in equipment or facilities from the New Brunswick Filmmakers’ Co-operative.
$1,000 in film stock from Kodak Canada Inc.
(Note: The New Brunswick Joy Award will be adjudicated by a New Brunswick peer jury, and will be announced at the Silver Wave Film Festival November 08-11, 2007.

Chris Giles is the 2007 recipient of the New Brunswick Joy Award for Birth Of A Nicola.

Birth Of A Nicola is a 10 minute B&W experimental film that plays with the social and political consequences of genetically modifiying organisms, here in the short life of a potato man. Elements of the grotesque and fantastical combine to create the myth of a feminine Dr. Frankenstein experience. Scientia dreams of creating a genetically modified potato that can emulate and replace the man she loves. In the potato fields of an experimental farm, a freak potato man, Nick, is born and havoc ensues. Scientia becomes pregnant by her potato man and at the same time the potato man becomes asexually pregnant with multiple spuds. Time leaps back and forth between multiple, related events until the very end when Scientia eats her own baby and Nick the potato man runs into a potato harvester. Scientia feeds the bits of her failed experiment to the man she really loves, in turn destroying him.

The 2007 New Brunswick Joy - $16,500
$10,000 in rental services and $500 in materials from PS Atlantic (Halifax)
$1500 in cash from New Brunswick Film (Provincial Government)
$3,500 in equipment or facilities from the New Brunswick Filmmakers’ Co-operative.
$1,000 in film stock from Kodak Canada Inc.
(Note: The New Brunswick Joy Award will be adjudicated by a New Brunswick peer jury, and will be announced at the Silver Wave Film Festival November 08-11, 2007.)