Our 2021 Winners
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Tammy Boyer
Tammy Boyer is an emerging actress, screenwriter, and filmmaker based in Saint John, New Brunswick.
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Laura Katherine Perry
Laura is a multi-instrumentalist and composer from Minto NB. She composes music for film and independent release and plays piano, keyboards, guitar, mandolin, and sings. She has had a varied career - professor, high school teacher, bandmate, scientist, stay-at-home mom, manager, composer. In 2016 she was asked to score Flag Girl, a short film by Emilie Peltier, and has been sharing music online or in short films consistently since. She has one professionally recorded album (The Traps - Ottawa - 2008), numerous independent releases (2016 - ongoing), and live performances and collaborations across many musical styles. She loves to dabble in moods by combining the organic with the synthetic, the raw with the refined.
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Thomas Vienneau
Moncton based Thomas Vienneau is a self-taught artist and has worked productively and full-time with his art for fifteen years. Thomas chooses to work primarily with acrylic paints of various types, though he also loves working with watercolours. Some pieces are heavy with paint and abstract in style, while others have an acrylic-wash base and more whimsical scenery and figures.
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John Young
John Young is an emerging filmmaker based in Fredericton, New Brunswick. His project about a zen soul who pedals on his bike in nature by the water to Bruce Cockburn's magnificent instrumental music Water Into Wine completely won over the award jury in 2020.
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Susan Thompson
Susan Thompson is an emerging visual artist with a particular interest in figurative drawing and painting. Following retirement from a career as a radiologist, Susan was able to return to her first love of art once online opportunities for learning were created as a result of COVID-19. She become immersed in an intense study of painting and drawing through the New York Academy of Art and the Arts Students League, both based in New York City. She looks forward to a mentorship with the Seattle based figurative artist Aleah Chapin, the 2012 recipient of the BP portrait award of the National Portrait Gallery in London.
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Rebecca Elmire Tremblay
Rebecca Elmire Tremblay is a trilingual actor, voice actor, and emerging writer/director passionate about telling great stories! Her on-screen acting credits include 'Diggstown' (CBC),'Bad Therapy' (StrongSide Entertainment), and 'Digi-Dating, Anyone?' (Malley Films). She's acted in multilple commercials and completed a variety of voice-overs gigs, including the voice of Atah in the animated television series 'Lil Glooscap & the Legends of Turtle Island' and the voice of Callie in the 'Fortune of Wolves' audiobook. Rebecca's writer/director experience ranges from writing and directing original puppet shows and performing them for schools and venues around the province to working as a creative consultant and co-writer for a kids' television series in partnership with Hemmings House Pictures (based on the mental wellness program for children she co-created called It's OK to be Awesome). She has written and produced two award-winning screenplays.
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Reade Gauvin
Reade Gauvin is a vocalist, pianist, and songwriter. A graduate of Moncton Christian Academy, her songwriting style is similar to that of Ron Sexsmith in that it is introspective, folky, and often romantic. Her vocal style is heavily influenced by Nat King Cole, as she is a natural crooner. She is currently studying the vocal techniques of heavier styles, and one of her is influences Chris Cornell. Reade was chosen to perform at the Empress Theatre in Moncton as part of Music NB’s “deBut Stage Competition” for young songwriters/performers in 2017. She continues to write and will always happily perform when given the opportunity.
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Stephanie David
Stephanie David is a Moncton-based Multidisciplinary Métis Artist originally from Cape-Breton, Nova-Scotia. Stephanie is a writer, dancer, step-dancing teacher, and film director with a Bachelor’s in Theatre. Always striving to express, share and learn more, she seeks new adventures to be whole. Stephanie has sung everything from operas and musicals to church hymns to country, folk, jazz, and blues throughout the years.
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Peter Doyle
Peter’s progress in the arts started at a very early age. He was drawing, painting, and creating films before he was ten. He got his first drum kit at twelve.
Peter has participated in exhibitions with his paintings and photography, winning awards. In addition, he has produced short films, social media ads, music videos, documentaries, and experimental films. His visual work includes album covers, social media advertisements, music videos, and personal projects.
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Misha K. Nowicki
Misha K. Nowicki is a budding writer from Lower Queensbury and Fredericton, New Brunswick. Approaching language as a puzzle led Misha to work in the policy research and records management fields after graduating from Saint Thomas University, where she could explore at a larger level the how and why of things. She is currently focused on writing poetry, although she also writes fiction and non-fiction prose.
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Korry Hill
Korry Hill is a Boudoir and Fine Art Photographer based in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. He is currently working with nudes in nature and how it can be an empowering experience. Korry recently completed his Bachelor of Applied Arts at the University of New Brunswick, as well as his diploma in the Photography program at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design. He has had two of his solo series, NiN:E (Nudes in Nature: Empowerment) shown in the Stempel Gallery in 2020 and 2019. Korry has also had prints displayed in two separate group exhibitions at the Red Brick Gallery.
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Dale Strickland
Dale Strickland is a digital media content creator and aspiring voice actor from Fredericton, New Brunswick. He has experience with various creative skills, including photography, audio/video production, graphic design, and singing. Dale has dived into the world of voice acting with a series of online training courses. With these courses, he will develop the fundamental skills to kickstart his dream career of being a voice actor.
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Ariana Marquis
Ariana Marquis (she/her) is a New Brunswick-born actor/producer/director. After graduating from X School of Performance in 2017 she immediately landed the lead in the feature film Nuptials (17). She received international accolades for her work in The Beautifully Drowned (15) and was once again cast in Frictive Pictures’ Telefilm Talent to Watch funded feature film Entropic(18). Most recently, Ariana led the horror-thriller Flee The Light from executive producers of The Witch in September of 2020. Ariana is proud to produce for (notice me) KID VICIOUS and Dresser Drawer Productions (CBC Gem, InsideOut Film Festival).