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JIM VERBURG

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October 2008:

For a Relationship has been selected for the 21st edition of the MIX Festival, which runs from October 15-19, 2008 in lower Manhattan. The festival is taking a former department store and transforming it into the MIX Factory for five days in the South Street Seaport. The film is scheduled to screen on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 8 PM and Saturday, October 18, 2008 at 6 PM

For a Relationship been selected to participate in the 16th Mix Brasil Film and Video Festival of Sexual Diversity, taking place in São Paulo this year from November 12-23 2008

For a Relationship will be screened at QUEERSICHT in Bern, Switzerland, November 6-12, 2008.

For a Relationship has been selected to be part of the 2008 edition of Brussels Pink Screens Film Festival, October 23 - November 1, 2008, at Nova Cinema.

For a Relationship has been short listed for the Iris Prize for short film. The winner of the inaugural prize will be announced during a three day event held in Cardiff, Wales (UK) from October 2nd – 4th 2008.

Photographs featured in the upcoming book Mein schwules Auge 5 published by Konkursbuch Berlin. Exhibit and book launch at Werkstattgalerie (Eisenacher Strasse 6 10777 Berlin) Friday, October 24th 2008

September 2008:

For a Relationship chosen for the International Competition at Queer Lisboa 12 International Film Festival, Lisbon Portugal, September 19th to 27th 2008

For a Relationship Curated by Mark Clintberg in "Recovering Agnostic" Faculty of Fine Arts (FOFA) Gallery, Montreal QC Canada. September 2nd to the 26, 2008, Vernissage September 11th. Artists include: Daniel Barrow, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, Aleesa Cohene, and Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay

Jim has been accepted to the National Film Board's animation production residency Hothouse. He'll be working there 9-5 September 8th to November 25th 2008.

August 2008:

For a Relationship in "Make Out" Curated by Malin Arnell at Studio 44, Stockholm Sweden. Sunday August 3rd 2008 3 pm

July 2008:

Untitled Relationship #1 (Multimedia Installation) showing at the 6th Annual Graduating Students’ Exhibit, Curated by Lynn Beavis, Faculty of Fine Arts (FOFA) Gallery, Montreal QC. June 18th to July 4th 2008.

For a Relationship at Outfest, Los Angeles International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, July 9 - 21, 2008

June 2008:

For a Relationship screening at Fully Flared Films, International Short Film Festival, Berlin, Germany. June 26th 2008

For a Relationship at Frameline San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, June 22, 2008 2:45pm Castro Theatre and June 25, 2008 9:30pm Rialto Cinema

For a Relationship in "All The Reel Boys", Shorts Program NewFest 2008, New York LGBT Film Festival, Friday, June 13th 2008 3:45pm, AMC Loews 34th St Theater 6

For a Relationship wins the Colin Campbel Award for Best Canadian Short Film, Juried Prize, 2008 Inside Out Film and Video Festival, Toronto ON

May 2008:

For a Relationship playing in "Montréal, mon amour" Curated by Jason St Laurent, 18th Annual Inside Out Film and Video Festival, Toronto ON. May 18th 2008, 15.00 Isabel Bader Theatre. Reception 17.00 (Sponsored by Bureau du Québec à Toronto)

For a Relationship featured in the Vtape screening at the Interationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen Germany. May 4th 2008
Artists include: Kevin Lee Burton, Ruben Guzman, Gary Kibbins, Nelson Henricks, Tom Kalin, Deirdre Logue, Vanessa Renwick, and Tran T. Kim-Trang

April 2008:

For a Relationship in "Voice Over" program at Da Sodoma a Hollywood 23, Torino International GLBT Film Festival, Torino, Italy
April 19th 2008

For a Relationship in the "Ungekürzt" program at Verzaubert 17, Interationales Queer Filmfestival 2008, Germany. Munich, April 8th. Cologne, April 13th. Frankfurt, April 15th. Berlin, April 20th 2008