Carolyne Weldon
Carolyne Weldon is a Montreal-based writer and photographer. Raised in the woods by parents who strongly believed in yoga camp, TV-deprivation and seaweed-based desserts, she left home to study linguistics and anthropology. Soon shelving the vague dream of saving the world’s endangered languages she fell headlong into compulsive travel, developing an unusual love for Turkey, the Arctic and pickup truck road trips. Carolyne holds a post-graduate degree in journalism, a great cover for her deep-rooted penchant for talking to strangers. She loves owls, all things coconut, bass-heavy music and the colour turquoise.
Contact Carolyne Weldon at c.weldon@nfb.ca
Celebrating 65 Years of Cannes
The 2012 Cannes Film Festival is here. The high mass of cinema, which celebrates its 65th edition this year, opens Wednesday night with Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, the story of two 12-year-olds who fall in love in 1965 New England.
The U.S. presence seems particularly...
Animator Jesse Gouchey on SANDDE and Stereoscopic Spray Painting
This is a guest post by Jesse Gouchey, one of 6 animators participating in this year’s Hothouse program, the NFB’s 12-week paid apprenticeship for emerging filmmakers.
Where is it saved?
ZED!
Fine-tuning dopesheets using Geppetto to polypose Sheeps Dreams over the weekend anyone?
Yes please!
SANDDE is the software...
Animator Rosa Aiello on Sand and Surrender
This is a guest post by Rosa Aiello, one of 6 animators participating in this year’s Hothouse program, the NFB’s 12-week paid apprenticeship for emerging filmmakers.
Notes for a blog post (surrender to materials):
Objects have a life of their own
Flight, the feeling that...
Animator David Barlow-Krelina on Getting 3D Particle Effects To Do What You Want Them To
This is a guest post by David Barlow-Krelina, one of 6 animators participating in this year’s Hothouse program, the NFB’s 12-week paid apprenticeship for emerging filmmakers.
It's been an intense few weeks here at Hothouse. We just reached picture lock this weekend, and in the...
Farewell to the King of All Wild Things
This is a guest blog post written by NFB animation producer, Marcy Page. Marcy, along with Spike Jonze and Vince Landay, produced Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or There Must be More to Life, based off beloved author Maurice Sendak’s book of the same name.
Although Sendak...
Animator Susan Wolf on After Effects, Fluffy Clouds and Obsessive Tendencies
This is a guest post by Susan Wolf, one of 6 animators participating in this year’s Hothouse program, the NFB’s 12-week paid apprenticeship for emerging filmmakers.
Today, I started animating the hero of my film, a small fluffy cloud.
See, the plan is that each of...
REW-FFWD: Remembering Denis Villeneuve’s 1994 Jamaican Psychodrama
Denis Villeneuve’s first film, REW-FFWD (1994) opens on a shot of buzzards scampering off and a close-up of a dead dog being snacked upon by maggots. A voice, which you guess belongs to a magazine editor, is inquiring in a less-than-pleased tone of voice...
Animator Wen Zhang on Connecting Music and Motion and Building Software from Scratch
This is a guest post by Wen Zhang, one of 6 animators participating in this year’s Hothouse program, the NFB’s 12-week paid apprenticeship for emerging filmmakers.
On paper, my job is "filmmaker", but now, two-thirds of the way through Hothouse 8, I like to think...
Animator Carrie Mombourquette on Filmmaking as Child Rearing (and Polar Bears)
This is a guest post by Carrie Monbourquette, one of 6 animators participating in this year's Hothouse program, the NFB's 12-week paid apprenticeship for emerging filmmakers.
Making a film is kind of like raising a kid. It demands all of your time, you stop going...
Notman’s World: Depicting the Dawn of Canadian Photography
In an age when it has become easier (and faster) to take a picture than to brush your teeth, the dawn of photography -- a time when obtaining a photographic image of yourself meant a) finding a photographer, b) hauling yourself (and your best...
2 Ways to Experience Bear 71 at DOXA
Early this May, Vancouver's DOXA Documentary Film Festival will offer 2 different ways to experience our Webby-nominated project, Bear 71 .
On Friday, May 4th - DOXA's opening night - Bear 71 will be projected on a large screen as co-creator Jeremy Mendes navigates...
imagineNATIVE 2012: Call for Submissions
Are you an Indigenous artist involved in film, video, radio or new media? If so, here's your chance to get your work seen in an international festival. Until June 1, the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival is calling for submissions for its...
