"Fat Fish"

This week, the Ryan Davies and the team at Dawghaus bring us the story of a little fish, who gets a little to much food...





Behind the Scenes with Dawghaus...

"The Mirror"

(Ed. Note. Over the coming days and weeks, we'll be posting  the films and behind the scenes that were shown at the 2010 Digi60 Gala.)


Today, Invited Filmmaker Lisa Meuser takes us "into the looking glass"...




And the "Behind the Scenes" material for "The Mirror"...

Gala Awards Video

Didn't make it to the Gala? Courtesy of Kevin Burton and Read 'em Their Writes, we have video from the Awards ceremony that evening. Thanks once again to our hosts, judges, filmmakers and volunteers who made it all come together.

And the Winners Are...

As part of the Digi60 Gala last night, we were proud to hand out the first Awards for Achievement. The Award Winners were:

Technical Achievement

Adrian Langley - "Hint of Winter"

Best Director

Adrian Langley -"Hint of Winter"

Best Acting (Tie)

Randy Kelly - "Connecting" -Actors: Luigi Saracino & Catherine Boutin

Mike Horrigan -"At Last" -  Actors: Johni Keyworth & John Collins

Best Adaptation

Jeremy Kennedy - "Dragons"

Spirit of the Festival Award

Kris Lariviere - "Pie"

Best Overall

Patrick Kaplin - "Sticky Notes"

Congratulations to all our winners, and to all our filmmakers. If you didn't get a chance to make it to the Gala, we'll be posting films both here and at Read 'Em Their Writes. Or if you prefer, we'll have DVD's for sale here on the site in the next few days.

And That's a Wrap!

And we draw the curtain on the Digi60 2010 Gala. This year's Gala was a great success. I'd like to take a moment to thank all the folks who helped make this year's festival so great.

Our Volunteers (those wonderful folks who work so hard to make it look easy): Kristal Felea, Christina Dunn, Suzanne White, Lydia Peever.

The great crew at the Shenkman: Tom (our tech), Sean (Production), Bryony (Front of House Manager),Sara (rentals) and Domenic (Guest Services).

Our wise Judges: Lee Demarbe, Chantal Ling, Ken Godmere, Ruthanne Edwards, and Andy Smith.

Our talented hosts: Teri Loretto, Al Connors, and Scott Florence

Our Filmmakers: Lisa Meuser, Ryan Davies and Dawghaus Films, Mike Horrigan, Kris Lariviere, Kevin Preece, Derek Price, Adrian Langley, Chris Chitaroni, Randy Kelly, Sparrow McGowan, Jeremy Kennedy and Patrick Kaplin.

And certainly last but not least, the very talented crew of people who actually helped me put this all together, and to whom most, if not all of the credit, for bringing this together goes: Kevin Burton, Marisa Fusaro and Elanor Brodie.

Thank you all for making this truly the best Gala yet.

Howard Sonnenburg
Festival Director
Digi60

Tonight's the night!

Tonight is the Night! The Digi60 2010 Gala happens at 8PM at the Shenkman Theatre. We're happy to announce that the event has sold out! Thanks to all who are helping make this the best Digi60 Gala ever.

Didn't get tickets? Well we have some goodies for you. Over the coming days we'll be posting videos to the website and FB froup from the event...starting right now.

Thanks to the young actors at OYP, we were able to have some very talented kids read our filmmakers stories as part of the introduction to each film. First up we have young Madison Belini reading "If you could fly", the story behind Patrick Kaplin's film.





And then we have JD Brousseau reading "Get Rid of Rules", the source story for Sparrow McGowan's film.





Thanks to Read 'em their Writes for the videos

Randy Kelly and Lisa Meuser on CBC Radio One Tomorrow.

Tomorrow morning, two of our filmmakers - Randy Kelly and Lisa Meuser will be on CBC Radio Morning (91.5 FM in the Ottawa Area) to talk about the Digi 60 Festival. Be sure to tune in!

Tickets Going Fast!

There are less than 50 tickets left for our Digi60 Gala on Tuesday November 16th! Get yours today before they sell out!