GreenGround at TIFF 2010
Screening and sales of filmmaker Tao Gu's latest project (01-09-10)
GreenGround is proud to present Tao Gu's experimental documentary On the Way to the Sea at the Short Cuts Canada program at Jackson Hall AGO.
Press and Industry Screening: September 9th, 2010 at 12:00PM
Public screening: September 12th, 2010 at 2:30PM and September 13th at 4:00PM
For more info please visit the TIFF page.
Second Lendemain Teaser Trailer
A teaser trailer for Greenground's upcoming web series! (26-08-10)
Un second lendemain | Bande-annonce from Nguyen-Anh Nguyen on Vimeo.
Second Lendemain has finished post production and will premiere on fonds.tv5.ca sometime in October 2010!
Second Lendemain - a web series for TV5 coming soon
Web series is currently in post-produciton for a Fall premiere (19/07/10)
GreenGround Productions has recently wrapped principal photography on Second Lendemain, a web series by Nguyen-Anh Nguyen. It's currently in post-production for a Fall premiere.
A Winter Night Endurance wraps principal photography
Short film begins post-production for impending release (04/07/10)
GreenGround Productions has wrapped principal photography on the Sodec and Canada Arts Council supported project Winter Night Endurance, directed by Aonan Yang.
GreenGround goes Web 2.0!
Check us out on your favourite social networking websites. (03/07/10)
GreenGround Productions is proud to announce an expanded network of friends, colleagues, and artists via Facebook and Twitter. Connect with us and share. We'll be posting updates about our projects, some more information about our filmmakers, and links to completed projects.
Visit us on Facebook here and follow us on Twitter here.
Concordia University 35mm Alumni Retrospective
Special film screening event at the NFB Theatre: Monday, January 11th at 7h30pm. (05/01/10)
GreenGround Productions and the Foreground Filmmakers Collective will be presenting the best 35mm prints to come out of Concordia's Mel Hoppenheim School of cinema in recent years. The free screening event will consist of a program of short films produced by Concordia students, professors and alumni – all projected on 35mm.
Admission is free, however, Montreal documentary filmmaker and member of the Foreground collective Irene Boleda will be on hand to raise funds for her latest project, Carnavaleando, which is to be shot later this year in Argentina.
The screening is set for 7:30 pm at the NFB theatre, 1564 St. Denis Street, Montreal. It will be followed by an after-party at a nearby location to the theatre.
Read the press release here. Join the facebook event here.
Help finance Carnavaleando the documentary.
Website for upcoming documentary to be shot in Argentina is online and open for crowd-funding. (20/11/09)
This documentary will follow the lives of two young Argentine women, Paula Acreche and Celiana Spaventa. As part of the “post dictatorship” middle class, they have decided to return to Argentina after living abroad for many years. The film will travel with these passionate and extroverted women as they seek to reconnect with their cultural heritage and search for their place in Argentina’s present day. With this motivation in mind, the Paula and Celiana will participate in the annual pre-harvest Carnaval spanning Northwestern Argentina.
You can invest or donate to help the production of this independent documentary.
Fear of Snakes wins $10 000 Poetry Foundation Prize
(09/11/09)
CHICAGO — The Poetry Foundation and Facets Multi-Media are proud to announce that Fear of Snakes, by filmmaker Andreas Mendritzki, is the winner of the second annual Poetry Film Prize. The prize awards $10,000 to a filmmaker whose use of verse in film opens new artistic vistas and inspires children to appreciate poetry. [...]
Read the rest of the press release here.
GreenGround Projects Section is Online
(12/09/09)
View a lineup of the current films we are working on and their development stage in the projects section of the website.
GreenGround at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival
Present at the festival and most important industry events of TIFF (09/09/09)
GreenGround Productions will be attending the 2009 Toronto Film Festival in partnership with Infotainment China - China's premier private production company. We are actively looking for co-production and distribution opportunites for feature length projects such as The Old Woman and the Wave, directed by Jacquelyn Mills or The May Flower by Tao Gu. We will be in Toronto from September 9th-20th.
Fear of Snakes and My Name is Tuan at CICFF '09
The Chicago International Children's Film Festival welcomes two GreenGround Productions (05/08/09)
Fear of Snakes by Andreas Mendritzki and My Name is Tuan by Nguyen-Anh Nguyen were invited to the 26th Chicago International Children's Film Festival, North America's largest and most celebrated film festival devoted to films for and by kids - and the only oscar-qualifying children's film festival in the world. They will be attending the event between October 26th and November 1st.
GreenGround receives support from La Fondation du Maire
GreenGround becomes a member of a select group of Montreal's most promising companies (03/08/09)
GreenGround Productions was awarded a 2009 Grant from La Fondation du Maire as part of the foundation continuing support for promising Montreal entrepreneurs. The grant offers financial support to the selected company but also lifetime consulting services with some of the city's most important entities. Since 1994, the foundation has issued those grants to serve as a catalyst for the next generation, to nurture a new spirit of entrepreneurship based on passion and creativity to fully develop the potential of Montreal.
SeaChange Program Launched
Creating the next new wave (18/07/09)
GreenGround Productions, in association with Rockridge Pictures and RedGround Camera Rental, is proud to announce the launch of our SeaChange Program which will award up to 10 000$ worth of production services to emerging filmmakers.
SeaChange aims to support independent filmmakers with the tools necessary to practice their craft. Films accepted into the program will get to shoot for free on a RED One camera from RedGround Camera Rental, receive free online mastering from Rockridge Pictures and production services from GreenGround Productions.
Apply now to SeaChange and create the next new wave.
Sanctuaire at 13th Regard sur le Court-Métrage du Saguenay
(12/03/09)
Andreas has been invited to the 13th edition of the Regard sur le Court-Métrage du Saguenay, one of North America's premier short film festival, for a public reading of his script Sanctuaire. The reading will happen Friday, March 13th as part of one of the special events of the Festival.
GreenGround at the 59th Berlinale
(07/02/09)
Aonan Yang is participating in the Berlinale's production market and will be co-presenting, along with Cindy Lin from Infotainment China, at the first Chinese Co-Production Round Table at the Berlinale,
Singularity at the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival
(31/01/09)
Aonan and Anh were invited to present Singularity as part of Kodak's Next Generation Showcase at the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival. The showcase includes other regional winners from the Kodak Cinematography Competition and a worldwide selection of award-winning shorts.
GreenGround is RED Ready
RedGround Camera Rental website launched (09/01/09)
We are pleased to announce the launch of our RedGround Camera Rental divsion, specializing in offering rental services for the RED One digital camera system, a digital imaging technician as well as complete post-production. We offer competitve prices geared towards independent filmmakers.
NFB supports Fear of Snakes
Fear of Snakes gets Filmmaker's Assistance Program From NFB (28/10/08)
Fear of Snakes, directed by Andreas Mendritzki, received funding to complete post-production from the National Film Board of Canada.
On the Way to the Sea in Production
Principal photography in Sichuan Province, China (28/10/08)
GreenGround is happy to announce the production of “On the Way to the Sea”, an experimental documentary on nostalgia, a hybrid creation of surrealistic optical printing and realistic documentation on the aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake that happened this past May, the biggest in China's history. Written and directed by Tao Gu, produced by Aonan Yang, with production support from Main Film, On the Way to the Sea will begin principal shooting in November, in Sichuan province, China.
GreenGround at Toronto International Film Festival
GreenGround Productions sends greetings from TIFF! (04/09/08)
We’ll be there from September 4th to the 13th promoting ourselves and checking out the market & festival. Specifically, we’re pleased to announce that GreenGround will be cooperating with Infotainment China and Cindy Lin on the development of a new feature-length comedy. Check out more about Infotainment China, the first private film sales agent to come out of Mainland China. We’ll both be at the festival working together to cook up support for the film.
Also, while in Toronto, Aonan will be participating in the festival’s prestigious Talent Lab program for emerging Canadian filmmakers. It's an intensive four day series of workshops and lectures with the likes of Brian DePalma, Oliver Assayas, and many other luminary figures from around the world.
GreenGround Awards
'Singularity' wins the North American Kodak Filmschool Competition! (01/09/08)
Congratulations to Aonan and Anh, cinematographer and director respectively, who are the first Canadians ever to win Kodak’s top educational prize. As part of their prize they’ll be going later this year at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, where they’ll be up against three other student films from the other continents to compete for the title of best cinematography in the world!
Singularity is also up for big prizes in Air Canada’s En Route festival. Check it out and vote!
'For Wendy' keeps racking up the prizes... (28/08/08)
And so congrats to Jacquelyn Mills for yet another prize. She picked up Kodak’s Best New Canadian Director Award at the Montreal World Student Film Festival. She and Xun 'Fish' Yu also picked up Best Cinematography at TIFF’s student festival this past summer. The film is also nominated for a whopping 8 awards, including Best Canadian Short, at the Atlantic Film Festival. You can check out For Wendy in Air Canada’s En Route festival as well, watch it and vote!
News
26/08/10
RedGround Camera Rental has recently upgraded to the Mysterium-X sensor and added Red Pro Primes to our equipment list.
Contact us here to find out more!
25/08/10
GreenGround filmmaker Tao Gu's film On The Way To The Sea makes its premiere at this years Toronto International Film Festival.
Find out more here.
13/11/09
The Canadian Embassy in Beijing is proud to announce that five Canadian entries, including For Wendy by Jacquelyn Mills, have won the International “Gold Panda” Awards at the 2009 edition of the Sichuan TV Festival (SCTVF), held from November 6 to 8, 2009 in Chengdu, China.
Read the press release here.
08/08/09
Sanctuary, a film by Andreas Mendritzki receives production support from Quebec's Council for the Arts.
19/02/09
On the Way to the Sea, directed by Tao Gu, received financial support from both the Canada's Council for the Arts and the Quebec's Council for the Arts. Post-production is now underway.
01/02/09
Aonan Yang received a SODEC screenwriting grant for his project Winter Night Endurance.
28/10/08
GreenGround is financing the rewrite of Native Speakers Only by Miriam Rose Waterman, in collaboration with Infotainment China.
28/10/08
GreenGround began development and financing for The Old Woman and the Wave, a feature film written by award winning filmmaker Jacquelyn Mills.
02/09/08
My Name is Tuan, directed by Nguyen-Anh Nguyen, is in competition at the RCI/Viva Migr@tions Film Festival. It will aslo tour in different cities in North and South America. Its next screenings will be in Halifax and New York City.
30/08/08
Andreas’s short film Sanctuaire was recently accepted into SODEC’s Jeunes Créateurs program, providing financial support for the film as the screenwriting process continues...
23/08/08
'The Legend of the Psychotic Forest Ranger' wraps up in Cape Breton.
Brad and Jacquelyn Mills’ feature horror-comedy wrapped up last month in Cape Breton. Congratulations to the entire cast and crew.
20/07/08
'Fear of Snakes' in post-prod.
Andreas’s 35mm short, based on Lorna Crozier’s poem, Fear of Snakes, was shot this summer with Aonan as DP. The editing of the film is slated to begin this fall.
