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unusual facts about Canadian Filmmakers' Festival


Sunchaser Pictures

Grand Wheel premieres at SXSW Film Festival, screens at multiple festivals from 2008-2010 and wins a Special Jury Prize for best cinematography at the Canadian Filmmakers' Festival for Sunchaser filmmakers Erik Forssell and Eric Koretz.


Alfred Yuson

Yuson was also a Fellow at the International Writing Program in Iowa City, U.S.A. in 1978; the International Poetry Conference at the University of Hawaii in 1979; the Cambridge Seminar, University of Cambridge, in 1989; the International Writers Retreat at Hawthornden Castle in Midlothian, Scotland, in 1990; The Hong Kong International Literary Festival in 2001 and 2006; and the Sydney Writers' Festival in 2006.

Bento António Gonçalves

In the Avante! Festival of 2002, the Communist Party carried out an exposition in the central pavilion about his work and life.

Big Boss' Festival

It takes place in June in Tavannes (Switzerland), there are concerts Friday and Saturday nights and a worship meeting the Sunday.

Celtic Music Radio

The station is working with the organisers of other festivals, including the World Pipe Band Championships, Piping Live and the Merchant City Festival and many folk and traditional music events throughout Scotland and Ireland.

Devonshire Downs

Devonshire Downs is most widely known for hosting the three-day Newport Pop Festival in June 1969, featuring Jethro Tull, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker and nearly thirty other top acts.

Eden Mills Writers' Festival

There is a general membership of approximately 50 people who assist with fundraising, operations, publicity, author selection, entertainment and music.

Greifswald International Students' Festival

It also organises other events such as the local "running dinner", and the local chapter of "Fête de la Musique" in 2009.

Heineken Jammin' Festival

Headlining acts will be Coldplay, Negramaro, Vasco Rossi, Noemi, Beady Eye, Cesare Cremonini, The Pretty Reckless and others.

It started in mid-June 1998 at the Imola Autodrome and has attracted attendances of more than 100,000 over the course of the three-day event.

International Screenwriters' Festival

Scheduled guest speakers include Jane Tranter (Head of BBC Fiction), Tanya Seghatchian (co-producer/development executive, Harry Potter films 1-5), and Terry Pratchett (novelist, Discworld series).

Speakers included Michael Goldenberg (writer, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Contact, Peter Pan), Alison Owen (producer, Brick Lane, Shaun of the Dead), and Sarah Smith (head of feature development, Aardman Animations).

Lockn' Festival

Lockn' Festival, formerly known as Interlocken Music Festival, is an annual four-day music festival held in Arrington, Virginia.

London Screenwriters' Festival

Daniel Glaser - Dr. Glaser is neuroscientist at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.

Tim Bevan - Bevan is an English film producer, producing such films as Four Weddings and a Funeral,The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Shaun of the Dead, and Love Actually.

John August - August is an American screenwriter, writing films such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish and The Corpse Bride.

He is responsible for critically acclaimed shows such as The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and Lark Rise to Candleford.

Tony Jordan - Jordan is an English Television writer, responsible for shows such as EastEnders and Life on Mars.

National Young Writers' Festival

National Young Writers Festival operates as one of the contributing festivals to the coalition of arts and media festivals This Is Not Art

New South Wales Writers' Centre

Together with Varuna - The Writers' House and the Sydney Writers' Festival, the NSW Writers' Centre is the main support organisation for writers in New South Wales.

Northwest Junior Pipe Band

While in Scotland with 30 members aged 9 to 18, they were featured performers at the opening of the Piping Live! Festival in George Square, and the international parade of bands sponsored by the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association on Friday before the Championships.

O+ Festival

Even to the extent where an O+ festival is beginning in San Francisco, California.

Piping Live! Festival

The festival won Event of The Year at the Scottish Traditional Music Awards in 2008 and in 2010 Eve Muirhead was named the festival's ambassador in an effort to reach out to a younger audience.

Play It Loud! Festival

The third edition of the festival took place on February, 2009, and it will be co-headlined by Exciter and Jag Panzer.

Rasos

Saint Jonas' Festival, a Lithuanian festival during the summer solstice

South West Syndicate

South West Syndicate have played at many events including Survival, Sydney Writers' Festival, NAIDOC Week, Arafura Games, Bankstown Festival, Bankstown Carnivale, Newtown Festival, Rock Against Racism, Asia-Pacific Conference, Youth Week, Corroboree 2000, Mascon Festival, Barunga Festival and Pacific Wave Festival

Wheeler Centre

The centre presents several one-off events with speakers including Irvine Welsh, Peter Carey and Naomi Wolf in co-operation with resident organisations and external partners including Sydney Writers' Festival and the ABC.


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