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On Screen Film Notes BY SEE STAFF Local Exposure winners clean up at Misfits Colin Landry and Dave Alexander, the St. Albert amateur filmmakers whose Run Leuder Run won the People’s Choice Award at the Local Heroes Local Exposure competition, have another feather for their caps from the University of Alberta’s Film Zone Society. At the Misfits Film Festival, held last Saturday on the U of A campus, the pair conducted a Cameron-esque sweep, walking off with awards for best direction and the people’s choice award for their skate video parody, Extreme Crutching. The film follows extreme crutcher Jeremy Jericho, who just wants to ride his sticks to pounding a hardcore soundtrack without being hassled by the man. Landry and Alexander told the audience they shot the movie off the cuff one boring afternoon on the last nice day of fall the previous year and advised aspiring film makers to grab a camera and see what they can come up with. Marcel Fayant won the Misfits award for In Response to the Dumbest Question of the 20th Century, which the judges cited for going against every precept of conventional filmmaking wisdom. Johnny Bustos took the best cinematography award for his gritty Tarantino-esque drama Rat, and Kelly Service, who was last year’s best director at Misfits, got the best editing nod for La Fenetre. The winner of the most experimental award went to a submission from Amsterdam called AARGH! – the sole entry from outside Edmonton. The ceremony also saluted founding Film Zone member Geoffrey Pang, who has helmed the festival for the past two instalments and who is being thrust, blinking, into the harsh light of reality with a degree in his hand this semester. Send a young auteur to camp The registration deadline is closing in for the National Screen Institute’s 2000 Movie Camp for aspiring directors aged 13-19. From July 3-14, attendees will learn the nuts and bolts of film production, culminating in the creation of a short film on digital video which will receive a big screen première when its done. Cost per person is $450 and the deadline for registration is June 1, 2000. To register call (800) 952-9307 or download a registration form from www.nsi-canada.ca/moviecamp. Young auteurs who want to attend but don’t have $450 lying around can apply by submitting a screenplay for a five-minute film. Three winners will be selected to attend the Edmonton camp. Deadline for submissions is June 1, 2000 at 5 p.m. To submit a screenplay, call (800) 925-9307 or (204) 956-7800 and ask for an entry form, or download the form from www.nsi-canada.ca/moviecamp. Movie camps will also be taking place in Winnipeg, Ottawa, Toronto and St. John’s. FAVA sees the future . . . and it’s digital If you made it to the Local Heroes seminar on the impact of digital technology on filmmaking, you know the new medium is predicted to radically change the way films are produced and distributed. FAVA picks up that theme this summer when they host the Independent Film and Video Alliance 2000 Conference from June 5-10. Filmmakers and cultural pundits from all over Canada, including Gary Burns (The Kitchen Party) and CBC’s Geoff Pevere, will descend on our local film co-op to muse aloud on the That Digital Thing, and to join in for three curated evenings of film and video screenings and round-table discussions, as well as performances and installations by local artists of some repute (Shawn Pinchbeck, Tim Folkmann). For information on how to get involved, call Helen at 429-1671.

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