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Jan Miller

Jan Miller Sea and Be Scene And Heard

Broadcast Date – May 16, 2018

What a lovely time I had sitting down for a chat with Jan Miller – if you’re business is film and television that’s a familiar name for sure – but Ms.Miller’s magic begins long before what you and I see on the big and small screens.  As the architect of international co-pro market Strategic Partners and Trans Atlantic Partners, the driving force behind Canada’s first film school, the National Screen Institute, and the founder of Women in Film and Television-Atlantic she’s had a hand in countless productions. Now as you might imagine – with that kind of resume – the lady never stops – in fact at this very moment she’s in France working the 71st Annual Cannes Film Festival – but a week or so ago Jan invited me to her spectacular spot near Peggy’s Cove with a jaw-dropping backdrop on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean.  Now for the record, it was a stormy day so you’ll every now and again you’ll hear the winds whistle and occasionally her dog Charlot breathing into the mic but you may not even notice it amidst the whirlwind of her wonderful works we’ll discuss and there’s plenty – so without further ado here’s my conversation with the one and only Jan Miller!

Visit Jan Miller on line at www.janmillerconnect.ca
Follow Jan on Twitter @janmiller_pitch
The Cannes Film Festival
For more information on Strategic Partners click here
For more on The National Screen Institute
For details on Trans Atlantic Partners visit en.epi.media/tap
For more information on Women in Film and Television Atlantic – the people, the programs and membership visit  wift-at.com

For information on the dogs that Jan breeds Leeward Standard Poodles visit www.lowenbe.ca
Lemony Snickett’s A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS
For why it is they call Edmonton Canada’s Festival City click here
For all the wonderful things that go on in Fredericton (my Festival City) click here
Fringe Festival
Script East
Listen to Nova Scotia’s Hank Snow sing his classic “I’ve Been Everywhere” click here 
Hot Docs
To see that bit where Jerry & George pitching a show about nothing on SEINFELD click here
Toronto International Film Festival
Woman Making Waves
Christopher Nolan
Clint Eastwood
ISHTAR – showing my age of a blockbuster dud
LADY BIRD
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING MISSOURI
RISKY BUSINESS
The movie I was talking about starring Clive Owen is ANON – and for the record it had a theatrical release in some international markets and was acquired by Netflix in North America
THE TALE writer/director Jennifer Fox
To watch SABStv on set special with Deanne Foley for her “Rom/Com” RELATIVE HAPPINESS click here
THE RIDER/ Mollye Asher (producer)
The song we played from Baz Luhrmann’s film MOULIN ROUGE! “Come What May” sung by Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor available on iTunes here
To hear our chat with Joel Thomas Hynes click here
George Clooney’s wife is Amal Amal Alamuddin for more on her click here
You can find Jan’s favourite song “Own Hearts Delight” (or as Jan calls it “Darlin We’ll Go Dancing”) by Ian Tyson here
LOST IN TRANSLATION
THE PERFECT STORM
MOULIN ROUGE!
To see that famous scene from WHEN HARRY MET SALLY that Jan re-enacted click here
For more on Jan’s wonderful husband Geoff Le Boutillier click here

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