Joel Thompson is the 2009 New Brunswick Joy Award Winner for Box Face.
Announced at the
Silver Wave Film Festival by a representative of New Brunswick
Film. The 2009 Award includes;
$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.
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.
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Chris Giles is the 2007 recipient of the New Brunswick Joy Award for Birth Of A Nicola.