Boys Go To Jupiter
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The Winnipeg Film Group is pleased to announce that Curtis Wiebe is the recipient of the 2023 MFM Manitoba Film Hothouse Award for Creative Development. Curtis L. Wiebe is a filmmaker, illustrator, animator, musician and sculptor based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Identifiable by flights of the fantastic in settings of winter forests and prairie landscapes, Wiebe’s art is full of imaginative characters brought to life as drawings, puppets and elaborate costumes. Wiebe’s films have screened at festivals around the world including the Jim Henson Foundation’s Puppets on Film Festival in New York, a Robotics Festival in Belgrade, Serbia and at the Cannes Film festival in France. He has gone on to help found the Winnipeg Puppet Collective which, through the support of Heather Henson (Daughter of Jim Henson) hosts annual puppet variety shows for grownups called the Winnipeg Puppet Slam. Since 2015, between writing and illustrating a picture book (Once A Wizard), creating his yearly Christmas short films and teaching art at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Curtis has been actively pursuing the production of his first feature film: The Last Spelldrake of Saskatchewan. This survey of his work features a selection of his short films, followed by a Q&A with Curtis Wiebe.
Everybody Gets a Synthesizer for Christmas, 2016, Canada, 3 min
Score for a Duel, 2009, Canada, 2 min
Rocket John, 2009, Canada, 4 min
Garbage Knight, 2008, Canada, 12 min
Bome Gnomeski, 2012, Canada, 3 min
Robot Adventures on Planet Earth, 2010, Canada, 2 min
Scattin’ Around the Christmas Tree with Billy Dee, 2017, Canada, 3 min
The Devil Wears a Paper Hat, 2009, Canada, 16 min
Walter, 2014, Canada, 5 min
The Mysterious Case of Calvert Wander, 2014, Canada 7 min
Of Truth and Magic, 2014, Canada, 19 min
Dr. Bunk’s Certified Fun Cubes, 2021, Canada, 2 min
