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Show Us Your Shorts (SUYS) is a submission based festival of short
films begun as practicum for Film 441: Film Festivals class by
University of Calgary undergraduate students in 2009. It continues to
grow out of the University in its second year for 2010.
SUYS believes festivals have the unique ability to generate and
collegiate community, and film the ability to express immediate
concepts, ideas, and images shaping our worlds. SUYS aims to promote
and vocalize local, national, and international interests through
limitless genre and convention, while keeping the “festive” in film.
We strive to build positive relationships within our own and extended
communities by ensuring the accessibility of film as art, expression,
and medium.
SUYS Profile
Executive Director and Creator – Jeanette Burman
Creative and Graphic Design – Danny Kelly and Jeanette Burman
Bios
Executive Director and Creator – Jeanette Burman
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Jeanette is an Art History
major at the University of Calgary in her final year of study. She
has exhibited her art in Calgary with Art City, Untitled Arts
Society, Mutton Busting, and The High Performance Rodeo. She was also
a contributing Arts and Culture, and Music writer to Calgary's FFWD
Weekly. Currently, Jeanette is the bi-weekly host of
The Double Entendre Preserves at CJSW radio and
Festival Curator and Director of
Sled
Island Film, an extension of Calgary’s Sled Island
Festival. She proposed
Show Us Your Shorts
(SUYS)
in 2009 as practicum, for U of C class FILM 441, out of need
and passion for building stronger communities and forums for
underrepresented artists.
Academic Advisor and Mentor - George Melnyk
George Melnyk is a Professor and Program Coordinator of the
Film Studies Program at The University of Calgary. He is also a
cultural historian with a specialty in Canadian literature and film,
and a writer on peace issues from a Canadian perspective. He has
published over a dozen critically acclaimed books over the past 15
years, most recently Wild Words: Essays on Alberta Literature
(2009) and is the editor of a book of interviews with
Canadian Film-makers entitled: The Young, the Restless, and
the Dead (2008). Currently he is writing a book on Canadian
film titled “Film and the City: Urbanity in Canadian Cinema”, and
co-editing a second book on Canadian film titled “The Gendered
Screen: Canadian Women Film-Makers”. George encouraged the inception
of SUYS as practicum for his course FILM 441 by Jeanette Burman in
2008.
Festival Mentor and Guest Curator – Chris Ciancimino
A graduate of the University of Manchester and NYU's Tisch
Film program, Chris has been working in the independent film industry
for the last 10 years. Previously Head of Development for UK
production company Portobello Pictures (Kolya, Birthday Girl, The War
Zone), Chris was commissioned to write the adaptation of David
Gilbert's novel "The Normals" and is now a partner in Woodshed
Entertainment. As a writer and director, Chris made a number of short
films, his latest, "The Edge of Town", won a Fotokem award for best
screenplay and was officially selected for the Woodstock Film
Festival 2008. Chris recently became a member of the Writer's Guild
of America
Festival Assistant - Jessica Fralick
Jessica Fralick is a graduate of the University of Calgary
with a BA in Communication Studies. She joined the SUYS team, while
taking FILM 441, in its inaugural year as a screener, judge and
marketing assistant. Since graduating she has worked in the
communications department at the U of C Faculty of Fine Arts and is
currently working as the Marketing and Communications Coordinator for
Alberta Theatre
Projects. She is returning to SUYS for its second year because
she believes in the vision of the Festival and what it means to the
Calgary arts community.
Creative and Graphic Design –
Danny Kelly and Jeanette Burman
Jeanette Burman - BA Art History Major
SHOW US YOUR SHORTS Executive Director
Calgary, Alberta
jeanetteburman@hotmail.com
(403) 670 – 9948
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