Talent Lab
Talent Lab is a four-day intensive programme that offers artistic-development opportunities to emerging Canadian filmmakers. The programme provides participant filmmakers the opportunity to build networks in a creative environment and to learn from some of the most esteemed filmmakers and artists in the world.
2008 Talent Lab Governors included Don McKellar, Olivier Assayas, Stephen Wooley, and Alison McLean. Guests included Brian DePalma, Samira Makhmalbaf, Atom Egoyan, Deepa Mehta, Ed Harris, Dorothee Wenner, Peace Anyiam-Fiberesima, Fernando Meirelles, Bingham Ray, Steve McQueen, Terence Davies, John Greyson, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck.
Congratulations to the 2009 Talent Lab Participants:
Trevor Anderson, Denise Blinn, Annie Bradley, Britt Crowley, Jamie M. Dagg, Sonya Di Rienzo, Stephen Dunn, Walter Forsyth, Sarah Galea-Davis, Gloria Ui Young Kim, Michelle Latimer, Elizabeth Lazebnik, Ayelen Liberona, Paul Matthews, Daniel Montgomery, Kazik Radwanski, Svet Rouskov, Daniel Schachter, Tamara Scherbak, Martin Smith, Katarina Soukup, Greg Spottiswood, Jane Tattersall, Ana Valine, David Widdicombe.
10 Talent Lab alumni and 4 Talent Lab 2009 participants have written, directed or produced films in the Festival's Official 2009 Selection:
Alumni:
5 Dysfunctional People in a Car, directed by Pat Mills
75 El Camino, directed by Sami Khan
The Armoire, directed by Jamie Travis
Big Head, written and produced by Kris Elgstrand
Cole, produced by Jason James
Crackie, directed, written and produced by Sherry White
Karaoke, directed by Chris Chong Chan Fui
On a Lonely Drive, directed by Igor Drljaca
Sixty Seconds of Regret, directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly
Year of the Carnivore, directed and written by Sook-Yin Lee
2009 Participants:
The Island, directed by Trevor Anderson
Out in that Deep Blue Sea, directed by Kazik Radwanski and produced by Daniel Montgomery
The Translator, directed by Sonya Di Rienzo
Talent Lab initiative is run by Strada Films producers Sandra Cunningham and Brad Fox.
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Thanks to UK Skillset, Scottish Screen and NOW Magazine for their support.