Our documentary “Doreen Brownstone: Still Working After 90 continues to be available to subscribers of MTS Digital Cable, but is now also available to everyone. In partnership with distributors VUCAVU and The WInnipeg Film Group, We are pleased to offer the following options: Watch online, on demand at VUCAVU.com BUY NOW On DVD: […]
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This post is of especial interest to all you fabulous people who supported our IndieGoGo (or post-indiegogo) campaign: our t-shirts have arrived and they look fabulous! We will be rolling out the perks in the next couple of weeks, including delivering shirts and magnets. We will also be unveiling our […]
I am a huge admirer of Jim Henson’s, and I want to share a quote of his which really speaks to me. It is excerpted from notes written in 1986 for an unpublished anthology “The Courage of Conviction”. I first read these notes in “Jim Henson: The Works (The Art, […]
It’s now been 23 days since the end of the Indiegogo campaign to raise funds for the “Doreen Brownstone Film Spectacular”. This was our first ever foray into crowdfunding, and in the 40 days of the campaign, which took us over Christmas, the end of the deadline-for-tax-deductible-charities, and the credit-cards-are-now-due-for […]
Stefanie was on the radio yesterday (Tuesday, January 21, 2014) discussing The Doreen Brownstone Film Spectacular. In case you missed it, you can listen here: Part One (5:30): Part Two (2:15): Thank you to Ismaila Alfa and everyone at CBC Radio. Please do not send your lawyers to beat us […]
For several days now, I have been trying to write a blog post about crowdfunding: why I think it’s a good match for The Doreen Brownstone Film Spectacular, and what I like about it in general. But, it is slowly turning into a blogpost about procrastination, and worse yet, one […]
The start of a new calendar year leads many of us to reflect on what we’ve been doing, and what we want to be doing. It’s a chance to check in with ourselves about what is important to us, and whether we are on the path to doing more of […]
December 29, 2013 Coming up later this week, Winnipeggers will get the opportunity to see Doreen Brownstone (and Gislina Patterson) perform Judith Thompson’s Such Creatures at the Colin Jackson Theatre. As you will guess if you read my last blog post, the advice I am inclined to give is “Go […]
On a Saturday afternoon a few years ago I went to Prairie Theatre Exchange to see a reading of Joan MacLeod’s Another Home Invasion (part of PTE’s Carol Shields Festival of New Work). From the description I’d seen, I knew the play was about an 80ish year old woman, that […]
When I first thought of writing a blog about the Doreen Brownstone scripted feature project, I figured the first post after the launch of the Indiegogo campaign should be about how the idea for the project started. I generally think of it as having begun at a reading I attended […]