Sunday’s shoot
While shooting an interview just north of Cache Creek last night, we were interrupted by some local residents.
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Introducing Alex
Sound Recordist Alex Shamku has been working in production and post-production film sound since 2010. He graduated with honours from the Vancouver Film School Sound Design program in 2013, and now focuses on production sound recording for short form projects. Alex has worked on media productions for the National Film Board of Canada, Vice, CBC, Telus, and
Rodeo on Film, Part 2 – Emotional Labour
Much of the work women do behind the scenes to support rodeos and rodeo competitors consists of emotional labour: urging people on, worrying if they’ll get hurt, and offering emotional support—win or lose. Robert Barclay’s 1964 short film, Chuckwagon, gives us a glimpse of that emotional labour in brief shots of Bernice Cosgrave, wife of
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Women and Ranch Bookkeeping
In the West, at many ranch, farm, and rodeo businesses, it is women who run the office, taking care of all the correspondence and the finances of the operation. Andy Russell was an Albertan cowboy, author, and conservationist known for his adventurous life in the wilderness and writings about the Rocky Mountains and rural life
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Small Town Newspapers
Local newspapers have long been boosters for local rodeos, including high school and junior events, as well as community events that might exist outside the official sanction of the main rodeo bodies. Standard fare in this friendly news coverage always includes photos of the action in the arena and winning competitors, plus lists of competition
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Bridge Lake Stampede
The film crew will be at the Bridge Lake Stampede. See you there!
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Women of the Falkland Stampede
Founded in 1919, the Falkland Stampede takes place each May. In her history of the community, Marjorie Selody explains that, in the early days, the Stampede’s organizing committees were made up of men. Women working on the rodeo formally did so through “the ladies’ committee,” which provided and prepared all the food for the event.
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HERE WE COME AGAIN!!!
Summer 2022 filming with the amazing Trish Jones. Here we come again for summer 2023. Bridge Lake Rodeo. See you there. July 1. Check it out: https://www.facebook.com/BridgeLakeRodeo/
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RELAY RACING WOMEN
An early involvement of women in rodeo (before it was even called rodeo) along with exhibition bronc riding was relay racing. Check out this new film. I’m going to see it this Wednesday at HotDocs. Maybe Rodeo Women will make it there one day!! Here’s the url for the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmorZGT31HY
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kaila Mussell
https://www.redbull.com/ie-en/episodes/saddle-bronc-rider-breaking-the-day-s01-e05 Here is a rodeo woman who transformed professional saddle bronc riding because she always believed she could and never considered otherwise.