Newfoundland Joy 2008
$7,500 in rental services from Atlantic Studio Cooperative.
$2,000 in cash from CBC Television Newfoundland and Labrador.
$2,000 in post production services and $500 towards production equipment rental from the Newfoundland Independent Filmmakers Cooperative.
$1,200 in script consultation from John Doyle.
$1,000 in film stock from Kodak Canada Inc.
Only Newfoundland residents may apply.

Note: benefits are posted only once they are officially confirmed. While we do not anticipate changes from the 2007 Newfoundland Joy Award, please contact the office for more information.

JOHN W. DOYLE

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

Mark Hoffe is the winner of the 2008 Newfoundland Joy Awardfor Snarbuckled.

Snarbuckled is a dramatic story about alienation and the search for roots, exploring the powerful emotions of people in various states of isolation. An itinerant cook, sole survivor of his sunken ship, paddles to the nearest shore in a cauldron, beginning a series of encounters with characters both eccentric and wonderful, and finding himself on a mission to rescue a clown.

Mark Hoffe is from St John’s Newfoundland, and has been fascinated by cinema from an early age. After studying film at the Newfoundland Independent Filmmakers’ Cooperative (NIFCO), Mark applied successfully to NIFCO’s First Time Filmmakers program to create the short film Spiritual. He is a freelance writer and emerging filmmaker, and is currently working on a feature-length script.

Newfoundland Joy 2008 - $14 ,200
$2000 in cash from CBC Television Newfoundland and Labrador.
$7,500 in rental services from Atlantic Studio Cooperative.
$2,000 in post production services and $500 towards production equipment rental from the Newfoundland Independent Filmmakers Cooperative.
$1,200 in script consultation from John Doyle.
$1,000 in film stock from Kodak Canada Inc.

Matthew Kelly is the 2007 recipient of the Newfoundland Joy Award for his project RUINS, the story of a man haunted by a leak in his roof which triggers complicated memories and premonitions amid the ruins of an old barracks building. Milo cannot prevent the relationship with his girlfriend Ally from coming to an end he forsees in his nightmares and sees echoed from his past. The film explores the struggle of mere humans to overcome their nature and fate.

Newfoundland Joy 2007 - $14 ,200
$2000 in cash from CBC Television Newfoundland and Labrador.
$7,500 in rental services from Atlantic Studio Cooperative.
$2,000 in post production services and $500 towards production equipment rental from the Newfoundland Independent Filmmakers Cooperative.
$1,200 in script consultation from Streely Maid Films Ltd.
$1,000 in film stock from Kodak Canada Inc.