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School Information 
Press Room
She Waits at VIFVF 2002 | InVision Student Screening at VIFVF 2002
For photo stills, further information or to arrange director interviews, contact Terra Poirier or George Harris at 250.539.5729 / [email protected].
Practice
Makes Perfect
With 15 films under their collective belt, four young women collaborate
on an award-winning project.
Galiano Island, BC, Canada: The Gulf Islands Film & Television School aka GIFTS is proud to announce that She Waits will be screening at the Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival on Friday, February 8th at 7pm at Herman's Jazz Club, 753 View St, Victoria. It is part of the "A Cruel and Demanding World" Shorts Program.
She Waits is an experimental drama video created in 4 days at GIFTS. Directed by Carly Vanderbasch, Amanda Letang, Caitlin Croteau and Vanessa Jones and shot on digital video, She Waits is a metaphorical journey into the mind of a young woman waiting in anxiety.
Even though these filmmakers were teenaged high school students when they created She Waits, they already had a list of credits to each of their names. Terra Poirier, GIFTS' Distribution Coordinator commented, "We can't even keep up with these young women. Each of them proves beyond a doubt that women and girls are on the cutting edge of the film and art world. I can't even list all of their accomplishments. Watch out for these women in the coming years. They're among western Canada's top new filmmakers. What an honour for GIFTS to have been part of their fantastic beginnings."
This film has also screened at the Toronto International Teen Movie Festival and at GIFTS's own EyeLens Film and Video Festival where it was nominated for Outstanding Cinematography and was awarded for Outstanding Soundtrack (composed & designed by Tyr Jami, Sam Pettit, Megan Dheensaw and Calliane Bachman, all Soundtrack Composition students at GIFTS).
Carly Vanderbasch, of Shawnigan Lake, BC, has made 6 films at GIFTS since 1997, including WAD which was nominated at EyeLens for Outstanding Comedy and Community which received 2nd place for 4 different awards at the 2000 Greenlight Youth Film & Video Festival - Best Cinematography, Best Music Selection, Best Short and Best Director. Both WAD and Community are among the Top 5 Picks at CBC's 120seconds.com. Carly is now attending the Film and Television Studies program at Capilano College.
Amanda Letang, from Langley, BC, adds She Waits to a portfolio of 5 GIFTS films, including Fairy Gothmother, which was created during the same week as She Waits and received the award for Outstanding Comedy at EyeLens 2001. Amanda herself was also nominated for Outstanding Acting in her starring role in this film as the "sweet girl" who undergoes a transformation to Goth with the help of her Fairy Gothmother. Amanda also co-directed two PSA's at last year's ICBC Road Sense Video Project at GIFTS. One of these films, Cars Aren't Toys, went on to receive 2nd place for PSA in the For Kids, By Kids category at the prestigious Burbank International Children's Film Festival in California.
Caitlin Croteau, Victoria, BC, has been creating films at GIFTS since 1999. Her first project, Slugzilla, was nominated for Outstanding Special Effects at EyeLens 2000 and has screened at the Canadian International Annual Film Festival and the Greenlight Youth Film & Video Festival. She also shares director credit on the aforementioned award-winning Fairy Gothmother and just recently co-directed a visual effects and animation piece called Johnny Unbreakable at GIFTS Summer 2001.
Vanessa Jones, hailing from Lantzville, BC started off her film career in 1999 at GIFTS by creating Family Values, which received an Honorable Mention for Student / Amateur Drama at the 2000 Vancouver Island Film, Video and New Media Festival. She went on to produce 4 more films including sharing director credit on Fairy Gothmother, Confusion and Lost and Found.
Watch She Waits in RealPlayer.
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Emerging
Filmmakers to Showcase in Victoria
13 films by new Island filmmakers will screen in the VIFVF's InVision
Program
Galiano Island, BC, Canada: The Gulf Islands Film & Television School aka GIFTS announces its programme for their InVision Student Showcase at the Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival. The event will feature the work of almost 50 new filmmakers, teens, pre-teens and adults, from Vancouver Island, Galiano, Mayne, Pender and Saltspring Islands, the Greater Vancouver area and all over BC.
Terra Poirier, GIFTS' Instructor and Distribution Coordinator, said, "Films included in the programme are new and old GIFTS favourites. We chose work that is outstanding in the areas of technical proficiency, visual storytelling, editing, cinematography and quality of script. Some of these projects have won awards at festivals in Canada and the US, others are brand new films that will be making their world premiere at this showcase."
Some highlights of the programme are The Art of Nothing, directed by Laura Arpiainen and New VI Operator Sam Shubert-Harbison (Victoria) and Pandora's Lunch by Cian Brown, Josh Cressman (Mayne Island) Charlie Hughes, Stuart Kieft, Jennie Lee and Brett Liljefors.
In The Art of Nothing, a digital videopoem, images of nature, spoken word and an original saxaphone soundtrack by Shubert-Harbison combine to illustrate an ancient poem by Lao Tzu.
Pandora's Lunch is a completely weird Computer 3D Animation which was awarded Best Graduate Computer Media at Cascadia Festival of Moving Images.
They will screen along with a set of 11 other outstanding GIFTS' dramas, documentaries, Super 8 films, classical and visual effects and animations on Tuesday, February 5th, 7pm at the Capitol 6, Theatre 1, 805 Yates St, Victoria. Local directors will be in attendance to present their work.
Most of these films were made in 4 to 6 days during week-long Media Intensive Programs at the Gulf Islands Film and Television School. This innovative media centre focuses on learning by doing while being mentored by acclaimed Canadian filmmakers.
Also of interest is the screening of She Waits, an experimental drama created by an all-star crew of 4 young women in the summer of 2000. These directors brought their collective years of experience together at GIFTS to create a stunning, award-winning video. She Waits will screen at the "A Cruel and Demanding World" Shorts Program on Friday, February 8th at 7pm at Herman's Jazz Club, 753 View St, Victoria.
Don't miss the work of Vancouver Island's next generation of filmmakers.
Programme click on the linked titles to view
the films in RealPlayer
Straight Lines Don't Cut It
It Hurts Because You're Weak
The Perfect Shot
The Art of Nothing
Genetic Escapes
BUDDY in one Minute
Into This
La Bone Fille
Lemon
Shorty's Tree
Pandora's Lunch
People Move
Callaesthetics
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