YOW Script Semi-Finalist in PAGE International Competition
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“The Big Stink”, an animated feature film script co-written by YOW writer/producer Bonnie Robinson, is a semi-finalist in the 2014 PAGE International Screenwriting Competition: http://pageawards.com/past-winners/2014-winners/2014-semi-finalists// PAGE will announce finalists in the animated/children’s genre on September 15, 2014.
YOW Script 1/4 Finalist in PAGE International Screenwriting Competition
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“The Big Stink”, an animated feature film script co-written by YOW writer/producer Bonnie Robinson, is a quarter finalist in the 2013 PAGE International Screenwriting Competition: http://pageawards.com/past-winners/2013-winners/2013-quarter-finalists/ PAGE will announce semi-finalists in the animated/children’s genre on August 15, 2013.
Four-Wheeled Furies Going National – AGAIN!!!
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Four-Wheeled Furies, our documentary about the Rideau Valley Roller Girls roller derby team will appear on CBC’s Absolutely Canadian from coast-to-coast on Saturday March 30, noon Eastern Time. If you have a television and can tune in to your local CBC station, you will be able to see the documentary. Please check the CBC web site for […]
Four-Wheeled Furies is going NATIONAL
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Four-Wheeled Furies, our documentary about the Rideau Valley Roller Girls roller derby team will appear on CBC’s national digital documentary channel on November 8 at 18:00 and 22:00. http://www.cbc.ca/documentarychannel/feature-programs/
Digi60 Catch and Release
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Friday evening marked the pitch session for the 2012 Digi60 Festival. As an invited filmmaker, working with Mountain Road Productions, I was excited to hear the 12 filmmakers pitch different ideas for the catch: “reunion”, with the added challenge of beginning or ending the film with a rhyming couplet. The pitches were varied: dark science […]
YOW Director Invited Filmmaker for Digi60 Festival
Posted in Film Festival, newsYOW Productions director Bonnie Robinson is one of 8 Ottawa filmmakers invited to participate in the 2012 Digi60 Filmmaker’s Festival. Participants have 60 days to complete a short film, after receiving a surprise “catch” or key element that must appear in the film. As an invited filmmaker, Bonnie is partnered with Ottawa production company Mountain […]
Four-Wheeled Furies Screening
Posted in newsWe had an excellent crowd attend the CBC television broadcast of Four-Wheeled Furies on August 4, 2012. The hour-long documentary profiles some of the women who are part of the Rideau Valley Roller Girls (RVRG) and the fascinating world of roller derby. The audience at the screening was made up of RVRG members, their […]
YOW Co-Production Wins Film Festival
Posted in Awards, Film Festival, newsRoom 218, a co-production with Coffee From Hell Productions, made its debut at the 2012 Painted Lips and Lolly Licks Film Festival in Ottawa, Ontario, where it took first place. Local films at the festival were judged by adult film star Kimberly Kane. Room 218 explores the fine line between pleasure and pain during a […]
Sweet Tarts Appears on CBC TV
Posted in news, TelevisionAugust 1, 2011 – Sweet Tarts Takeaway made its television debut on Saturday August 6, from 7 to 8 pm on CBC Ottawa. YOW Productions created the special one-hour episode for CBC Ottawa Presents, a summer series that features locally-produced programs showcasing people in Ontario, including the Ottawa-Gatineau region. The host presenter for this television […]
Sweet Tarts Finalist at 2011 Banff World Media Festival
Posted in Awards, Film Festival, news8 June 2011 – Sweet Tarts Takeaway, a comic web series produced in Ottawa, has been selected by an international jury to be a finalist in the Entertainment Category of the Pilots Competition at the Banff World Media Festival (BWMF), to be held June 12-15, 2011. BWMF is the world’s largest global development and production […]