REFUGE 31 FILMS – Open Casting Call
Refuge 31 Films has multiple television projects filming in 2017 and is looking for actors between the ages of 8 and 80 years of age, both male and female. Please send headshot (selfies - mobile pics are acceptable) and updated BIO/CV with contact information to...
Two films to screen at Real to Reel 2017
Refuge 31 is thrilled to announce that both The Last Objectors and Steve Bell & Malcolm Guite - Live at the West End have been selected to screen at the Winnipeg Real to Reel Film Festival this February. Entering its 7th season, the Winnipeg Real to Reel Film...
Last Objectors Wins Gold at World Documentary Awards
Refuge 31 is honored and delighted to close 2016 out with an award announcement: The Last Objectors has won a Gold Award at the World Documentary Awards in Indonesia. World Documentary Awards is the sister festival of the World Film Awards. By establishing this...
Last Objectors to screen at Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Refuge 31 is honoured to have its documentary film, The Last Objectors, screening at The Canadian Museum for Human Rights on November 26th at 2pm. Director Andrew Wall will be attending along with some of the conscientious objectors profiled in the film for a Q&A...
Refuge 31’s Andrew Wall recognized for past documentary
Refuge 31 director Andrew Wall and his 2011 documentary Champion City: The 1896 Winnipeg Victorias were profiled in the Winnipeg Free Press this week. The article is part of the lead up to the Winnipeg Jets Heritage Classic game this October vs the Edmonton Oilers. I...
Last Objectors wins in Jakarta and Nominated in Montreal
Refuge 31 is honoured to announce that our recent film, The Last Objectors, has not only screened at the World Humanitarian Awards in Jakarta, India, but has won a Silver Award at the festival. The film which examines Canada's contentious objectors of the Second World...
Last Objectors to air on MTS Stories From Home and CBC August 27th
Refuge 31 is delighted to announce that the long awaited Last Objectors, a 44 minute documentary on Canada's contentious objectors of the Second World War, will be airing on CBC Manitoba on August 27th, as well as available on MTS Stories From Home for MTS...
Burning Ember takes Texas with Multiple Awards and Nominations
Refuge 31 was honoured this past year at both the the Fort Worth Indie Film Showcase and WorldFest- Houston. When we say honoured we mean FIVE nominations for Burning Ember: The Steve Bell Journey and walked away from the lone star state with two AWARDS. It seems...
Live concert project to be released this summer…
The first feature documentary that Refuge 31 produced, Burning Ember: The Steve Bell Journey, involved following singer-songwriter Steve Bell and shooting over a dozen concerts across Canada and the USA. Refuge 31 is now planning to release a 44 minute live concert...
Burning Ember on CBC and online at CBCmusic
Refuge is delighted to announce that it's first feature documentary production, Burning Ember: The Steve Bell Journey, will be airing January 6th on CBC's Documentary Channel. We're also excited that CBC Music is streaming the film online for a limited time over the...
Filming begins on the documentary Suspended…
Refuge 31 Films has begun filming the documentary Suspended, a TV-hour documentary that examines Winnipeg artist Cliff Derksen as he with his wife Wilma and daughter Odia sculpt, paint and build towards an oncoming art show. The Derksen family is well known by the...
Last Objectors filming in Manitoba
Refuge has been filming through October and November around Manitoba as part of the 44 minute documentary The Last Objectors. In association with MTS Stories From Home and the Mennonite Heritage Centre Archives, the documentary is part of a two part project supported...