This Week We Read:
The Last Gunfight Of Gavin Matthews a short by Calum Smith
and
King's Champion an excerpt from the feature by Morgan Davies
THE PANEL THIS WEEK: CAMERON LABINE & MATT SINCLAIR
WE PACKED "The Other Space" ON Mon Feb 16th for Final Draught
We Read:
CAMILLA RIENHART'S WILD RIDE - a short film by MICHAEL THEDE
and
An excerpt from the Feature TEEN POPULARITY by ERICK BOYCHUK
The PANEL this week was:
CATHERINE LOUGH HAGGQUIST and TREVOR DEVALL
COME ON OUT AND HELP US KEEP PACKING THE PLACE TO THE RAFTERS
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FINAL DRAUGHT's Week #2 of 2009 - Mon. Feb. 9, 2009
WE PACKED THE PLACE AGAIN! & We Read:
What's My Line - a short film by Gordon Guo
and
An excerpt from Incident At Echo Lake a feature by Robert Holbrook
OUR PANEL THIS WEEK WAS:
Neil Every and Cameron Labine
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When You SUBMIT - don't forget about our UPCOMING THEME NIGHTS & Contest:
March 2 – Women in Film Festival night - We are going to be reading Scripts by Women - Scripts with Strong Female Characters - basically scripts in "40 Dames per Second". If you have a script that fits this night - SUBMIT it.
March 23 will be our Theatre night (also the last FD of this season). If you have a script for a Stage Play that you would like to hear - SUBMIT IT for Theatre night.
FINAL DRAUGHT's 2009 CONTEST:
Theme Shorts: The Contest Where You Decide
- Olympics (must contain the word “Olympics” and the phrase “short programme”
- Depression (must contain the word “Depression” and the phrase “selling short”)
The Three Finalist Scripts will be read on Monday, March 16th,
Prizes will include merchandise & Cash!
$200 for 1st place, $100 for 2nd place, and $50 for 3rd place.
Submissions Deadline is Monday, March 9th.
(submit to submissions@finaldraught.com in PDF/Word/or FinalDraft Format)
FINAL DRAUGHT STARTS THE 2nd Half of Season #7 - THIS WEEK...Mon. Feb. 2, 2009
We Read Three Shorts:
The Great Kardolini By Rehan Khokar
Thumbs Up! By David Warren
and
Tucker By Michael Jacobsen
OUR PANEL THIS WEEK WAS:
Matt Sinclair & a Member of the CFTPA that is TBA
** THANKS EVERBODY - We Packed the place for the 1st Final Draught of 2009
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We hope you took the time to SUBMIT over the Holidays (If not - why not submit RIGHT NOW)
THE PRODUCERS of FINAL DRAUGHT SCRIPT READING SERIES
hope you had the Merriest Christmas & Happiest Holiday Season
Bronwen, Maryth, John & Jason
Two Christmas themed Shorts:
JIMMY'S EXISTENTIAL CRISTMAS - by DOUGLAS BERRY
&
DEATH WISH - by CHAD COSTEN
&
An excerpt from the feature THE WEDDING VIDEO by ROBERT RANDALL
The panel for will be:
Michele McMahon and Catherine Lough Haggquist
Final Draught Producers:
Admission by Donation.
** DONATIONS FROM DEC. 8th will be DONATED to "The Other Space" Christmas Dinner for the needy members of the community ***
BIZ BOOKS DOOR PRIZE EVERY WEEK
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We need YOUR help to make this the Best Season of Final Draught ever
- Submit a Script
- Come Hear a Reading, Bring a Friend, Make a Night of it
- Are you an actor? Then drop by the casting table and let them know you want to Read.
- IF you haven't ** JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP ** (that will ensure you continue to get these event updates)
- Tell your Friends about FD - INVITE THEM TO JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP
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WELCOME TO OUR NEW SPONSORS:
BC Producers' Branch - Canadian Film and Television Production Association http://www.cftpa.ca
&
Videomatica http://www.videomatica.caDon't forget about our Longtime Sponsors:
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DID YOU SUBMIT OVER THE SUMMER or the First 1/2 of Season #7 ? Then why not SUBMIT right now? Remeber when Last Year You said "I'll Submit Next Year"...well "Next Year" is about to begin...SUBMIT.
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The First 1/2 of SEASON #7 ran EVERY MONDAY from October 20th - December 8th.
The SECOND 1/2 of SEASON #7 will Start Monday Feb. 2 - 2009
SO WHY NOT SUBMIT A SCRIPT, SCREENPLAY, RADIOPLAY, SHORT, ONE-ACT...you get the idea...
(submit to submissions@finaldraught.com)
CHECK BACK HERE FOR UPDATES & EVENTS or JOIN OUR FACEBOOK GROUP to stay Up-To Date.
*** DEC. 8th is the LAST Final Draught Script Readings before we take a Break for Christmas & New Years ***
This Week we READ:
Fishy - a short film by Colin Stewart.
and
An [ another ] excerpt from Plan 10 From Outer Space : a feature by Shawn Wilson and John Kozac
(We read an excerpt from Plan 10 From Outer Space earlier this season)
This Week's PANEL was: CARL BESSAI and JUSTIN MacGREGOR
On Monday, NOVEMBER 24th We READ:
A FREAK'S FORTUNE - an excerpt from a Feature by CURTIS WOLOSCHUK
&
VANCOUVER - an excerpt from a Feature by MARC SUESS
This Week's PANEL was: CLARE HODGE and CHARLES WILKINSON
Final Draught Producers:
BIZ BOOKS DOOR PRIZE EVERY WEEK
FUN/Readings/Drinks/Comedy/Socializing/ Fun
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HEY it was "A Couple of PILOTS in a Bar" Night - (AKA Take Me To The Pilots)
- The BAR is "The Other Space" and the PILOTS we READ:
OUTBOUND - A sit-com pilot by ERIN McGECHAEN
&
CHAI - A sit-com pilot by MICHAEL C NACHOFF
Our PANEL was: ANDREW WILLIAMSON
FINAL DRAUGHT Producers: Bronwen Smith, John Prowse, Maryth Gilroy & Jason Broadfoot
FINAL DRAUGHT SCRIPT READING - MONDAY NOVEMBER 10, 2008
WE READ:
Regifted - A sit-com pilot by Robert Chomiak
And
Plan 10 - An excerpt from a feature by Shawn Wilson and John Kozak
The PANEL was Blake Corbet & SAM DULMAGE
The HOSTS were Janet Glassford & Bronwen Smith
The Scripts we read were:
Prudent - A short film by Michael Shandrick
And
An excerpt from I'll Be Bach - A feature by Murray Allan Thorne
The Panel was Cameron Labine and John Ritchie
Your Hosts for the Evening were: Janet Glassford & Jason Broadfoot
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DONATIONS from Nov. 3rd Final Draught were DONATED TO: The First Annual BABZ, A Fundraising Event Benefiting Babz Chula
In Final Draught's 6th Season we read Control Alt Delete by Cameron Labine & we were happy to see this film at the 2008 VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL.
(If we have read your script in the past and you have made the film, had it in a Festival, Optioned the script...let us know - it makes us happy that we were able to assist.
