The Western Arctic Moving Pictures Festival (WAMP), hosted in Yellowknife NT (Arctic Canada), will be screening Danielle's short film Time to Kill on Friday, February 5th at 7:00pm as part of their Musical Programme. Visit the WAMP website at www.wamp.ca for festival details. Or if you just can't make it to Yellowknife this weekend, you can view Time to Kill here:
Danielle completed Time to Kill in late 2008 and it has enjoyed a year of screenings at The High Performance Rodeo- Bravo!FACT screening, on the Bravo! channel across Canada, at the Sedona International Film Festival in Arizona, at Calgary's Sled Island Festival and at it was a Top 10 Finalist at the Ming EatDrink Festival this past September.
Time to Kill is now launched on YouTube! Click on the image below to view:
Time to Kill was prescreened at apublic vote on August 30th, 2009 as part of the Ming Eat Drink Short FIlm Festival and advanced to the Top 10 finals on September 12. Although the film did not place, Danielle is thrilledher film was screened along with such films as Sandi Somers Panty Portal and the winning film by Corey Lee In Translation. Visitwww.mingeatdrink.comfor details on all the films and winners.
The Uptown Stage & Screen has invited Danielle to pre-screen her short film, Time to Kill, during the opening weekend for the upcoming feature film 'Little Ashes', a film about Salvador Dali. Time to Killwill be screened prior to the August 14th and 15th show dates at 7:00pm both nights. Visit www.theuptown.com for details.
Sled Island is Calgary's annual independent music and arts festival. This year, Danielle's short film Time to Kill (set to one of her songs of the same name which appears on her latest ShadowsCD release) will be featured as part of the Factory Films series at the Uptown Stage & Screen on the evening of Wednesday, June 24th.
Danielle's first full-budget short film Time to Kill has been accepted into it's first film festival- The Sedona International Film Festival in Sedona, Arizona, running February 24 to March 1, 2009.
The Sedona International Film Festival celebrates current independent film from around the world. The festival strives to bring the best in narrative features, documentaries, short subjects, animation and foreign language films in all genres to its indie audience. It provides a rich educational opportunity to filmmakers, students and the general public alike through its on-site workshops, panel discussions and seminars.
Danielle is thrilled to be invited to spend a week Arizona in the middle of Calgary's winter! And is even more thrilled that her film has stared to gain international attention!
November 1 , 2008
Premier Screening Annouced forTime to Kill, a Short FIlm by Danielle French, on January 18, 2009 at 2pm at the Uptown Stage & Screen, Calgary, Alberta
In the spring of 2008, Danielle received very generous grant under the new Alberta Creative Development Initiative (ACDI) administered by the Canada Council for the Arts, initiating production on a short film to her Tom Waits-inspired song Time to Kill. One of the priorities of this particular grant is to assist Alberta artists who are working in new or innovative arts practices within or across artistic disciplines. Danielle received this grant based on her history as a muscian expanding into the realm of filmmaking, having produced and directed her first low budget short film Avalon, which appears as a DVD enhancement on her latest CD release Shadows. Both Bravo!FACT and The Banff Centre have since come on board lending their support this project as well!
Time to Kill will enjoy it's premier screening as part of One Yellow Rabbit Theatre's High Performance Rodeo- Bravo!FACT screening on January 18, 2009 at 2:00pm at the Uptown Stage and Screen in Calgary, Alberta.And the additional support from Bravo!FACT means that the film will also be screened on the Bravo! television station in the months to come.
Danielle is absolutely thrilled to have had such amazing support and this project and would like to send a huge thank you out to the cast, crew, mentors, industry, and funders on this project.
Synopsis for Time to Kill Dramatizing the scenarios portrayed in Danielle French’s song of the same name, Time to Kill presents a rather surreal twist on the age-old boy-meets-girl-story. Scarlett and Raven spot each other across the room at a fantasy-themed costume party and are irresistibly drawn to one another. Scarlett begins to fantasize… A sequence of vignettes unfolds in which Scarlett imagines a variety of unusual locations where she and Raven could perhaps meet for a bizarre series of dream dates… that is, if they both have time to kill.
Director's Bio Danielle French
Director, Co-Producer, Production Designer, Composer- Time to Kill
Danielle is best known for her work as an established singer/songwriter. She has released three independent CD’s to date and has worked with a stellar cast of support musicians, including Martin Tielli, Matthew Good, and Canadian icon Burton Cummings to name a few. Her songs have been featured on the TV show Falcon Beach and on a Fashion Television segment. She has toured extensively across North America- music career highlights include performing on the Rita MacNeil show and being welcomed onto the Calgary leg of Lilith Fair.
As a natural extension of her creative expression, Danielle became inspired to expand her music into the visual realm and made her filmmaker debut in 2004 when she produced and directed Avlaon- a short film set to one of her songs of the same name. Avalon went on to enjoy a variety of screenings in Calgary including: Mutton Busting, as part of One Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo (2004); Theatre Junctions’ Random Acts Festival (2004); The Calgary International Film Festival (2004); the herland feminist film & video festival (2005) and as part of Project Plasma, The EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts (2008). Avalon also appears as a DVD enhancement on Danielle’s 2007 CD release Shadows.
With this her first film project under he belt, Danielle became eligible for and received funding as a media artist to produce and direct a more elaborate short film that dramatizes the surreal scenarios portrayed in her song Time to Kill. Additional support was quick to follow on this project- The Banff Centre offered Danielle a self-directed, Co-Production residency to edit Time to Kill and Bravo!FACT came through with additional funding to support the production.
SInce its release in January 2009, Time to Kill has gone onto enjoy screenings at One's Yellow Rabbit's High Performance Rodeo- Bravo!FACT screening (Calgary, AB), The Sedona International Film Festival (Sedona, AZ), The Sled Island Music and Film Festival (Calgary, AB), The Ming EatDrink Short Film Festival- Top 10 Finalist, (Calgary, AB), The Western Arctic Moving Pictures Festival (WAMP) (Yellowknife, NT), the National Screen Institute Online Film Festival (NSI) (National Canada), and Time to Kill was broadcast nationally on the Bravo! channel.
As a multi-disciplinary artist Danielle has also displayed her photographic and collage artworks in gallery exhibitions including: Reflections from my Rearview Mirror/Postcards from the Road at The Other Gallery (Banff Centre, 2005) and The Artist Proof Gallery Leap Year Postcard Show and Exchange (2008).
Danielle is recently received and Alberta Foundation for the Arts grant and will be producing and directing her next short film project, To the Death, in co-production with The Banff Centre in March 2010.
