MFG NEWS / NOUVELLES DU MFG

For Immediate Release - August 24th, 2006

G. Scott MacLeod and Emmet Walsh
Present their film projects

After the war with Hannelore and Argentina.

International artist, MFG member and first time director G. Scott MacLeod
and director Emmet Walsh would like to announce their two
upcoming film projects, After the war with Hannelore and Argentina. They
both have been invited to Berlin this September to lecture and begin
shooting After the war with Hannelore and also to Buenos Aires this October
to shoot their road film Argentina.

Scott MacLeod - Synopsis of After the war with Hannelore. Winner of the MAIN
FILM Production award 2006

September 11th director Scott MacLeod and director of photography Emmet
Walsh are off to Berlin for two weeks to begin shooting the documentary film
After the war with Hannelore . This film is a portrait of Hannelore Scheiber
in post-war Berlin, the story line runs in a linear chronology from her
birth in January 1945 at the end of WWII to her family circumstances around
the war and post-war era such as the Russian occupation, the Russian
blockade, the Berlin Airlift 1948 to 1949, her school years from 1951 to
1967 and the construction of the Berlin wall in 1961. MacLeod's intention is
to film Hannelore revisiting the sites of her memory from this period. The
aim of this film is to document her stories in situ through memory and
historical context.

"My goal is to catch the emotions surrounding her experience growing up in
post-war Berlin and to illustrate the consequences of war… a timely subject
with the current wars raging around the globe. It time for us as a whole, to
reflect on the past horrors as it seems we are lacking the foresight from
these tragedies".

Director S. MacLeod

Emmet Walsh – Synopsis of Argentina.

On October 5th Director Emmet Walsh & muralist from La Raza Group Scott
MacLeod carry on to Buenos Aires to film Argentina over a one month period.
This is a road film, with the aim to follow International acclaimed art
collective La Raza Group www.larazagroup.com to three different locations in
Argentina, (Berazategui, Tucumán and Catamarca) while they create a series
of outdoor murals. They will also be captured doing the outreachwork they
are known for. They intend to raise funds for orphanages by street
performing with Tango dancers in the business sectors of these cities. The
film will begin by documenting La Raza groups mural paintings as well the
performances of the Tango dancers.

"I will be searching for a parallel story while travelling in Argentina by
collecting images and material for the film to complement the documentary
material. The idea is to use a collage approach for the final film which
best represents the spirit of this voyage as well unvailing a contemporary
portrait of present day Argentina".

Director E. Walsh

For more information please contact :

Scott Mac Leod at 514. 487. 8766 macleod_nine@hotmail.com
Emmet Walsh at 514. 965. 1918 walsh_emmet@hotmail.com

BIOS

G. Scott MacLeod Multimedia Artist – Director

Member of RAAV, Montreal Film Group, Main Film, ELAN, La Raza Group. He is a
fellow at The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico and Concordia Fine
Art Alumni.

Born in Red Deer, Canada, Scott received his BFA at Concordia University,
his D.E.C. at John Abbott College. In 1986 he was awarded a residency at The
Banff Centre of Fine Arts on the Tevie and Arliss Miller Scholarship, in
1988 he attended the Uffizi Print and Drawing Room in Florence on the
Elizabeth T. Greenshields Foundation to study Master drawings and prints. In
1992 he was awarded a residency at the Leighton Artist Colony at The Banff
Centre for the Arts to produce work for his Owe Canada Owe Quebec series, in
1993 Scott received a Canada Council Explorations Grant for his Black '47
Irish Famine painting and video installation, in 1999 he received the
William Blair Bruce Fine Art Travel Scholarship and a Canada Council Travel
Grant and for his Ancestral Homes project in Norway. In 2005 he produced
his Sacred Feminine and Masculine photo/video installation on a Conseil des
arts et des Lettre du Quebec A Grant. In 2006 he was awarded a Main Film
production grant for After the war with Hannelore and the SAGAMIE digital
photo residency for his Goddes and Gods/Contemporary Archetypes video
installation.

Scott has presented his work in Canada, Mexico, Germany, Ireland, Czech
Republic, and the USA. His work has been collected by, National Gallery of
Canada, Musée de Québec, Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Guinness Corporation,
Air Canada, The Royal Bank of Canada, Pratt and Whitney, Readers Digests,
Claridge, Velan Valves Inc., The McAuslan Brewery, London Life, CP Hotels,
and Lotto Québec. He is a member of La Raza Group and is represented by the
Jens Thielsen Gallery in London, Ontario, the Darrell Bell Gallery in
Saskatoon and AXIS Contemporary Art in Calgary Alberta. He is presently the
artist in residence and the McAuslan Visitor Centre. His work can be seen at
www.macleod9.com

"I have made it my life's work to explore history, mythology and story
telling in my art making process whether it be painting, photography, music
or film in the hope to better understand where we have come from, who we are
and where we are going. Joseph Campbell believed it is our myths that define
us and I have defined myself in my work and created my own 'myth' or life
path through my work. Art has made me humble, it has fed and sheltered me,
given me a voice, and enabled me to do the same for others, through
mentoring and outreach work. And as a result of this work I have better
understood humanity's place on this planet and have tried to be a positive
influence for political and social change."

Emmet Walsh Director – Director of photography
Member of Main Film, Concordia Film Production Alumni.

Emmet Walsh is an independent filmmaker living in Montreal, Canada. Road To
Khan (2005) is his first independent film. He has also worked as a director
of photography, including Skin Horse (2005), a film which continues to play
in festivals internationally. He has just completed his second independent
short The Last Days of Castro ; a fictional film about a photographer in
Havana killed by the CIA. His films explore different approaches in
narrative, as well as mixing genres within the same film. Upcoming projects
include Planète Direct a feature film to be shot in Montreal at the end of
August 2006, to be directed and photographed by him from his original
screenplay. In September he will travel to Berlin to work as director of
photography for G. Scott Macleod's Hannelore after the war. In October he
will travel to Argentina with La Raza group to commence work on another film
to be shot in the same style as Road To Khan and The Last Days of Castro.
Further experiments where location photography, personal testimony, and
fictional story elements are all treated with a collage approach to
challenge the notions of fictional and documentary film.

G.Scott MacLeod
c/o Brasserie McAuslan Brewery
5080, rue St-Ambroise
Montreal, Quebec
H4C 2G1
Canada

514.487.8766

www.macleod9.com
www.larazagroup.com
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