FAVA FEST 2019

FAVA GALA
SATURDAY | AUG 24
COCKTAIL RECEPTION | 6PM
AWARDS | 7PM
HOUSE PARTY | 9PM
ORANGE HUB (10045 156 ST NW)

SEATING IS LIMITED FOR THE AWARDS SHOW. THERE WILL BE A A GREAT OVERFLOW SPACE WHERE YOU CAN WATCH THE AWARDS ON SCREENS. IF YOU WANT TO GUARANTEE YOUR SEAT, PLEAES GET YOUR TICKETS IN ADVANCE.

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FAVA FEST culminates with FAVA GALA – and this year it’s one big house party! Join us at the Orange Hub to mix and mingle with Northern Alberta’s filmmakers, take a gamble on our silent auction, and discover all of the new facilities FAVA has to offer. We’ll celebrate the best of the festival with cash awards and honour film, video and media art in style.

Stick around after the awards for a closer look at FAVA headquarters. We’ll be revealing the results of our Super8 Challenge – one roll of film, in-camera editing only, and everyone sees it for the first time together! We also have a new work from FAVA member Scott Portingale “Across the land” – an experimental “one shot” time-lapse film that transports the viewer form one side of Canada (Alaska border) to the other (Cape Spear, Newfoundland).

Have you heard about FAVA’s newest addition to the tool crib? We’ll have a demo of our ARRI Alexa XT Plus so we can all dream big media arts dreams!

Join us as we shine a spotlight on the excellent work being made right here in Edmonton and Alberta.

Outstanding Achievements Award Recipients

Alex Viszmeg

Joseph Viszmeg

Joseph Viszmeg graduated from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto, 1979 with a Bachelor Degree in Film. He directed films and videos in all genres and was an accomplished editor as well. Joe taught at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology and had a diverse background that included: social work with people who are cognitively disabled, teaching at-risk youth, writing, and film co-operative administration.

He was a multiple Gemini award-winning director for his films In My Own Time (1995) and My Healing Journey (1999), which were co-produced by the National Film Board. In My Own Time also received an award at the Hot Docs festival (1996) in the biography/history category. Both films are autobiographical accounts of living with a terminal cancer diagnosis.

Viszmeg also worked with Karvonen Films. Ltd. on a number of documentaries including: Great Northern Forest, Prairie Grasslands, and In Wildness series. He received an AMPIA award for Best Editor, non-dramatic for both Great Northern Forest and Prairie Grasslands, along with Best director nominations.

In the narrative genre, Joseph directed City of Champions in 1990. The film follows twenty four hours in the lives of three “beautiful losers”. Viszmeg worked as co-producer, director and writer. It was one of only sixty English language films to represent the past eighty years of Canadian cinema at Telefilm’s Canadian Film Retrospective at the George Pompideau Centre in Paris, 1993.

Across The Land
Scott Portingale

Across the Land is a media arts installation that is centred around an experimental one shot film Across Canada – from Alaska to Newfoundland.

Scott Portingale

Scott Portingale is a director and animator living in Edmonton, Canada. Scott’s multimedia approach to making films blends in-camera techniques such as time-lapse and stop-motion animation into films with themes rooted in the natural world, the scientific pursuit, and the human experience. His short films have been programmed across multiple platforms including international film festivals, art galleries, and installations, and have won a handful of awards along the way. One of Scott’s more recent films, Infinitude, was curated as part of Vimeo’s “Staff Pic” collection and featured by arts and cultural blogs such as Wired, Gizmodo, Petapixel, and Fstoppers. Scott’s commissions and collaborator list include CUSO International, Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters, Geffen Media, CKUA, Samsung, and the Alberta Treasury Branch.

 2019 – Production Awards

Helen Folkmann Film Award | Jamie McRae

Lisa Trofimova Video Award | Beth Wishart MacKenzie

Joe Viszmeg Documentary Award | Frederick Kroetsch

Alex Thomas-Haug Emerging Artist Award | Laura La France