Tickets $10 plus HST and LSPU Hall Building Maintenance Fund. Festival Passes are $50 (plus tax and LSPU Fund). To purchase tickets by phone, contact the LSPU Hall at 753-4531 or buy online at www.rca.nf.ca
Ruth Lawrence and Martine Blue are back from our very successful School Tour!
This year's top three films were:
OMG: Paige Smith, Brietta Stewart and Bronwyn Hendersen; Coquitlam, BC
Todd: youth from Project AWARE; Saco, Maine
Zombie Attack: Nathaniel Loman with the Rooms Animation Club; St John’s, NL!!
The top local film? Tales from the Trails by George Woodhouse!
Congratulations everyone! Check out more about Reel Youth here: http://reelyouth.ca/index.html
Ten provinces.
Ten years.
Ten spotlights.
That’s the idea behind The Nickel Independent Film Festival’s Spotlight Series. Our goal is to shine the spotlight on ten short films from each of Canada’s ten provinces over the course of ten years. That’s 100 Canadian-made short films to bask in the spotlight by the time the Nickel’s Spotlight Series wraps in 2021.
A special curator from each province will act as a provincial programmer, select ten splendid shorts, and send them our way. Our mission is to share the unique culture of each province and applaud the rich...
A huge congratulations to Eva Madden! Winner of this year's Oscar Prediction Pool by a whopping 84 points!
Eva will be enjoying an ultimate movie night out valued at $750!
Another congratulations goes out to our very own board member Dana Warren- she sold over 40 ballots and took home this year's seller's incentive- a $100 gift certificate to the Peppermill!
The Nickel would like to gratefully thank anyone who bought a ballot this year- we raised over 1400 dollars for the 2012 Festival.
A big thank-you also goes out to the wonderful businesses who donated to...
In a closing party at the Gypsy Tea Room, filmmakers and audience members gathered to celebrate the 55 films that were shown in this years festival. Nickel honorees for 2011 were handed out by TV journalist, Natalie Kalata. Among those cited for outstanding work were Jordan Canning (Not Over Easy), Jacqueline Hynes (Cardboard Junction), A.A. Scott McClellan (A River in the Woods) and Charlie Tomlinson (The Auditions). For full details, go to 2011 Nickel Honorees.
The Nickel Board of Directors (Brad, Dana, Lynn, Tim, Baptiste, Mark, Paul) and Staff (Ruth, Janelle, Lois, Mary-Lynn,...
Celebrate the City
Youth & Family Film Workshop, Saturday June 25, 2011
What do you love most about living in this city? Where is your favorite place to go? What is the best way to spend a summer day in St. John’s?
Our 11th annual film festival wraps on this holiday weekend and we’re helping to celebrate the city’s birthday with this fun, interactive workshop. Our workshop leader, Victoria Wells, will lead participants as they create short 1- 2 minute films. Using a camera we provide - along with your own digital camera, blackberry, cell phone, camcorder,...
Be sure to catch host Mack Furlong's interesting interview with New York based composer Rick Baitz this weekend. Rick travels to St. John's to do a three day film composing masterclass with musicians interested in the art of the score.
Weekend Arts Morning runs Saturday and Sunday mornings from 6:30-9:30 am.
The Nickel teams with the Wreckhouse International Jazz & Blues Festival for the 6th consecutive Super 8mm workshop. We are also happy to announce that the Canadian Federation of Musicians Local 820 will be joining us this year in creating three-minute 8mm films that unite music and visual imagery.
The Super 8mm workshop will be facilitated by Roger Maunder and is offered to filmmakers who have screened films at the Nickel in the past 11 years. Filmmakers are selected in a random draw. They are then paired with a composer. Three filmmakers are provided with a camera and film...
The Nickel Independent Film Festival and Downtown St. John’s are holding a series of outdoor film screenings every Monday night in July!
Starting July 4, with the Season Two Finale of Republic of Doyle, plus a blooper reel.
July 11 will be an evening of Newfoundland short films, a little something for everyone.
July 18 and July 25 are TBA
These screenings will take place in the parking lot below the Ship, to the right of Solomon's Lane, off Water St. at 9:00 PM.
There will be popcorn for sale. Please bring a lawn chair or blanket to sit on and a sweater....
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