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Current affairs team in Alberta: right, cameraman Richard Marion, Marie-Claude Guay in the middle and Brent Roy, cameraman, left.
February of 2008 I went with CBC French television’s crew, journaliste’ Marie-Claude Guay and cameraman Brent Roy and we spent a couple of days driving around the foothills filming wild horses and speaking about their plight. Jack Nichol of Sundre was kind enough to take part in it as well. He drove us around in the big one tonne dually and provided invaluable information about the history of the much beleagered wild horses of Sundre. I was thrilled to be a part of it for those two days, and was on cloud nine for several days afterwards. Then one year later I received word that they won a Rosie award which Marie-Claude Guay explains next;
Good evening Doreen and Bob,
I know news are not good these times regarding wild horses but here something that could cheer you up a bit: at the Ampia night on Sathurday, we won the Rosie for the best news feature under 30 minutes with the story Protecting wild horses in Alberta.
Ampia stands for The Alberta Motion Picture Industry Awards and celebrates all facets of the film and television industry in Alberta. Here is their website:
http://www.ampia.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=62&Itemid=120
Our team had 2 nominations within the same category, we were ‘competing’ against excellent work from our colleagues from Global Edmonton and CTV Calgary. It was an honor for Brent as well to be nominated ‘best cinematographer’, he was competing against productions with far more financial means and time (more cameras and more production time).
Please say a special thank you to Jack Nicol. It is one of our best filming productions.
thank you very much to you and your group,
please keep us posted,
à bientôt,
Marie-Claude
Marie-Claude Guay, journaliste
affaires publiques/current affairs
Radio-Canada, Télévision
Alberta