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FAVA Fest Redux
The local film society shows that a small budget doesn't mean a small production, and proves it with a screening of celebrated works.
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The local film society shows that a small budget doesn't mean a small production, and proves it with a screening of celebrated works.
Katherine Dekker has always known that if she was going to do something, she was going to do it well. This work ethic was ingrained in her by her mother, who, widowed when Katherine was just one year old, worked hard raising four daughters while holding down odd jobs to support her family. “She used to tell me all the time, just do something. If it’s right or even if it’s wrong, make the effort and do it,” says Dekker, whose mother remarried when Katherine was seven. “I think that’s why I’m adventurous, a risk-...
At the height of her career, Danielle “Doc” Peers was considered the best wheelchair basketball player in the world. In 2003, she was named Most Valuable Player at the Canadian Women’s Championships, where her Edmonton club team, the Inferno, began a streak of six straight championships. That year, she also made the Canadian Women’s team and won a bronze medal in Athens at the 2004 Paralympic Games. She later led Team Canada Women to a gold medal at the World Championships, where...
In her high heels and tailored suit, Alberta’s new Chief Medical Examiner looks every bit the part of what we’ve come to expect on hit TV crime shows like CSI and, more recently, Unforgettable. Television dramas have raised the profile of the profession, so it’s not surprising that the first question Dr. Anny Sauvageau gets from nearly everyone she meets is how these shows compare with reality. Her answer is blunt. “In the glamour and sexiness of the TV show, they enter the (crime) scene with their high heels and their hair to the wind,...
It’s a familiar sight to the girls who make their living on the streets of some of Edmonton’s most notorious neighbourhoods. The Salvation Army outreach van offers a refuge on wheels, an invitation for a warm place to sit, a cup of hot coffee, something to eat and a chance to talk. Driving the initiative is Corrine Frost, who once worked the streets like the girls she now tries to help. “When you’re out on the street, you think you’re nothing,” says Corrine, or Corry as everyone knows her. “You think you’re no good and that...
You may not have heard of Nancy Fares, but if you’ve enjoyed 3D movies in the theatres, you’ve experienced the results of her work. The movie industry wasn’t interested in adopting DLP, the technology which makes 3D possible, when Fares took over as General Manager of the DLP Division of Texas Instruments seven years ago. There were too many significant hurdles to overcome, not the least of which was the high cost of...
American Idol? X-Factor? Danielle Lowe, with her warm, engaging stage presence and perfect-pitch country voice, is easily as good as the top young contenders on these shows. But, alas, as a Canadian, the singer/songwriter doesn’t qualify. Regardless, the Edmonton high school student is too busy to watch others trying to launch their careers on TV. She’s focused on growing her fan base on the Internet. “YouTube is an amazing marketing tool,” says the surprisingly mature 16 year old, who records...
Meet Sister Annata Brockman. In a petite frame standing no more than four-foot-ten, she has eyes that sparkle with a life well lived and a warmth that envelops everyone she encounters. Sister Annata has had a remarkable career. She received an education few women of her generation would have dreamed of and went on to become a pioneer in the field of education. Last year, the Edmonton Catholic School Board named a school after her. At age 84, despite her difficulty walking after breaking both her legs last New Year’s Eve, the “officially retired” nun drives...
She always loved to sing, but would only mumble the words in public. Too many people, including her mother, told her she had a terrible voice. Ironically, it is while being incarcerated at the Edmonton Institution for Women that Rochelle Lalonde finally found someone to get her in tune. She was a member of the New Beginnings choir, under the direction of Eva Bostrand. “Now I’m doing solos in front of a camera,” laughs the inmate, referring to our Global News camera at the choir’s fall concert. “That’s the miracle (Eva) works....
