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Western Arctic Moving Pictures - 48 Hour Music Video Competition Screening and Awards are this evening in Yellowknife, Monday, June 27th, Top Knight beginning at 7pm. For more information visit: www.wamp.ca (at Top Knight)

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One of the most #SpectacularNWT moments of my life! #artlesscollective / #AerialsNorth spent a few days in #nahanninationalpark shooting aerial footage of #VirginiaFalls for a #documentary called #NahanniRiverOfForgiveness directed by #GeoffBowie of #ElanProductions. (at Virginia Falls)

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Dead North: the vision

We chat with one of the founders of the grassroots horror film festival to find out what blood-spurting eyeballs can do for Northern talent. BY SAMIA MADWAR

DEAD NORTH 2015 from Dead North on Vimeo

Maybe it’s the way that blood stains snow, or the way the darkness gets in your bones. Whatever it is, in the dead of winter, the North is primed to give you hair-raising shivers. For the past three years, Dead North, a festival showcasing the goriest, creepiest films North of 60, has been hitting the screens every March, when Northerners begin to emerge after that long, dark, freezing season—but haven’t yet shaken it off.

Since its launch, Dead North has grown from four entries to 21, and from exclusively NWT filmmakers to a pan-territorial roster. But Yellowknife-based filmmaker and artist Pablo Saravanja, who’s been involved with the show from the beginning, dreams of Dead North growing even bigger.

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DEAD NORTH is here!

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From artistic heaven towards bureaucratic hell

On EDGE: Opinion by Brent Reaney Wednesday, July 23, 2014 EDGE Online

As a magazine publisher, we think about stuff like trademark, copyright and intellectual property a little more than most. When Courtney Holmes submitted the “little tree” concept that would eventually become our December/January 2013 cover, we loved it right away:

But we also thought there would be some sort of trademark held over the iconic air freshener. Checking into it, on their website we found a clear and valid explanation for why you can’t use the shape of the air freshener in just about anything.

But then we saw this:

Then again, lawyers make enough money as it is. If you really want to use one of our trademarks, why not ask us first? We have often said yes. Just ask the people behind many of the movies, TV shows and advertising campaigns that have featured our brands.

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aRTLeSS Collective presents a "SOUNDS LIKE HOME" Concert Series production featuring JIM BRYSON