Rosie Award Nominees Announced

The Alberta Media Production Industries Association (formerly the Alberta Motion Picture Industries Association) has announced the nominees for the 37th Annual Alberta Film & Television Awards, celebrating excellence and outstanding achievement in Albertan film, television and new media. Each winner receives a prestigious Rosie Award... And "December 6" has been nominated for Best Music Video!

The 2011 awards will be presented on Saturday, May 28th 2011 in Edmonton. Wish us luck!

World of Women Online Film Festival

Watch "December 6" at the World of Women Online Film Festival, hosted by IndieFlix from February 18 - March 7, 2011. And don't forget to vote!

Or, if you're in Australia, attend the WOW Festival in person at the Parliament House Theatre on Wednesday, March 9 in Sydney. While you're at the festival, I highly recommend checking out "Lani's Story" on Thursday, March 10.

Watch December 6 on December 6

On this National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, for one day only, I have uploaded the entire film featuring evalyn parry's spoken word tour-de-force, "14 (for December 6)."

The film will soon be available for distribution through V Tape. More details to follow.

Edit (December 8): Due to the overwhelming response, the video will be live until midnight on Monday, December 13!

Lani's Story

Just finished the imagineNATIVE screening, in a special program co-presented by the Assaulted Women's Hotline and WIFT-Toronto. The film was screened along with "Open Season: On the Rights of Native Women" and " Lani's Story," a documentary from Australia about a young Aboriginal woman’s journey from victim to victor. Hopefully, both of these films will be picked up by broadcasters here in Canada so more people will have a chance to see them. I particularly recommend "Lani's Story"... keep your eyes open for both Lani's book and a possible feature film in the future!

Lani Brennan, the subject of the domestic abuse documentary Lani's Story, speaks to the audience as directors Cara Mumford and Genevieve Grieves and spoken word artist Evalyn Parry look on.

imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival

‎"Clever and uncompromising, this spoken-word tour de force recalls the events of the Montreal massacre at École Polytechnique, making a bold statement for the abolishment of violence against women." ~ imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival


ImagineNATIVE 2010: My top picks by Samantha Anderson, CBC News: "Sunday, starting at 1pm is a compilation of women's programming with four films including Cara Mumford's December 6, purported to be "a spoken-word tour de force" that recalls the events of the Montreal Massacre."

A Celebration of Women, A Celebration of Dance!

Date: Sunday, October 3, 2010
Time: 1:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Location: Temple B'Nai Tikvah
Address: 900 47th Avenue SW, Calgary, AB

Before "December 6" premieres at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto at the end of October, and before I move back to Ontario this November, I would like to hold an afternoon screening in Calgary for all of my friends and family, including my extended families in film, theatre and dance communities, the Aboriginal and Jewish communities and, of course, the wonderful sisters (and brothers) that I met through Marsha Ellen Meidow. So come celebrate!

Music by Jadesong Ray Marlin
Dance Performances by dancers from the film,
including Charity Anne Doucette (photo)

A Demonstration by Capoeira Ache Brasil Calgary

A Screening of "December 6: a short poetry dance film"

There will also be a Wine & Cheese*
as well as a Silent Auction and Garage Sale Corner* to raise money for both the film and the Marsha Ellen Meidow Foundation, supporting organizations that aid women and girls in high risk situations.

* non-alcoholic beverages and lactose-free munchies will also be available
* I'm purging my apartment as I prepare to move and much of it is not silent auction worthy. So come dig through my books, music and movies (along with a few pieces of furniture) that are being abandoned and give some of them a good home! The profits from the Garage Sale Corner will also be part of the fundraising proceeds.

Admission is FREE
(but donations are welcome)

Feel free to invite your friends... and tell them to invite their friends. Let's really celebrate!