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. Musical 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.
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 intends to continue pursuing filmmaking, along with her other creative endeavours and is curious to see what the future has in store for her next creative project!
