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My name is Breanna Perrelli. I’m an animation enthusiast and all around visual artist that deals primarily in video. It’s always been my dream to produce my own animated shows, but since I’m just starting out, animating anything beyond a two minute short is an astronomical challenge and time hemorrhage. Those who love it know [...]

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The following blog post was written by Jen McDonald, a Creative Communications student from Red River College, about her Independent Professional Project (IPP). For my IPP I created a promotional video for Bikram Yoga Winnipeg – a hot yoga studio in Osborne Village. I’ve always had a love for video, storytelling and creating visually. So, [...]

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The following post was written by Creative Communications student, Joel Nickel, about his Independent Professional Project at Red River College.

Ouroboros is a web series whose first episode aired last Friday, January 6 2012. Filming for Season One of the series wrapped in early December and the rest of the month was spent editing and getting ready for the January 6th premiere.

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This past weekend On Screen Manitoba partnered with WNDX to present a panel discussion on programming for festivals that featured TIFF Short Cuts Canada programmer Alex Rogalski and Executive Director of the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC), Lauren Howes.

On Friday afternoon, WNDX and OSM offered industry members an opportunity to sit down with Alex and Lauren for some one-on-one time before the next day’s panel.

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Jeremy Torrie says this is a difficult time for feature filmmakers, but that hasn’t stopped the Ojibway filmmaker from nearing completion of shooting his latest feature, Path of Souls.

Despite the financial uncertainties of making an independent feature film, Torrie has forged ahead with conviction and taken his cast and crew all over North America and such Manitoba locales as Seven Sisters, Bannock Point and Fort Alexander to tell the story.

Torrie, who also wrote the film, describes it as P.S. I Love You meets Donnie Darko. He recently spoke with On Screen Manitoba’s Trevor Suffield on a rare day off to talk about how the shooting is going and the path to get it to this point.

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