The Alberta Media Production Industries Association promotes the interests of all Alberta producers and creative talent working in motion picture, television, and digital content production. We work in liaison with government, facilitate community awareness, develop careers, and promote the content of our members through events, workshops, and partnerships with industry experts. Membership allows emerging and established producers to meet, connect, and collaborate.
Celebrating Excellence in Alberta’s Screen Industries
The Annual Rosie Awards ! Join us as we celebrate over half a century of cinematic excellence in Alberta’s thriving screen industries. This year’s Rosie Awards promise an unforgettable day of recognition, networking, and entertainment, highlighting the outstanding achievements of our local talent.
That’s a Wrap! Thank you to all the winners, nominees and attendees of the 2024 Rosie Awards!
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Teresa and Marshall Copithorne of CL Ranches Receive Friend of the Industry Award at the 2024 Rosie Awards
AMPIA is pleased to honour Teresa and Marshall Copithorne of CL Ranches and CL Western Town as this year’s Friend of the Industry at the 2024 Rosie Awards, presented in collaboration with Calgary Economic Development. Their period studio, featuring 1850s to 1930s buildings, has been showcased in productions like ‘The Thicket’, ‘The Last of Us’, ‘Billy the Kid’, ‘Little Big Man’, and AMPIA member Seven24 Films’ ‘Wynonna Earp’. The ranch also won the Global Location of the Year award at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Don’t miss the celebration!
Watch the video or click below to learn more about Teresa and Marshall Copithorn.
Tribute to the Copithornes from Luke Azevedo, Vice President, Creative Industries, Operations & Film Commissioner. Video courtesy of Calgary Economic Development. Produced by Joe Media.
Featured Profiles
Showcasing some of the incredible Alberta media professionals and artists making waves in the industry right now. Learn more about these talented individuals and their outstanding projects.
Julian Black Antelope
Producer · Director · Actor · Writer · Showrunner
Representing the Buckskin, Black Horse family of the Weasel People, Julian Black Antelope aka “JBA” is a Canadian actor of First Nations/Central American and Irish descent. JBA’s performing career first began in the Canadian music scene before transitioning to acting in film and television in the early 2000’s. As a self-taught actor, JBA built the foundation of his career with an amalgamation of day player roles, stunts and working various crew positions on a steady stream of projects in southern Alberta including DreamWorks/TNT’s epic six-part mini-series Into the West (2005). JBA”s breakout role in a television series would come on the gritty and critically acclaimed Blackstone (2009). Four seasons of Black Antelope’s portrayal of Darrien Tailfeathers earned him several accolades including a Canadian Screen Award nomination.
In 2014 JBA was cast as “Mr. Kidd” in John Logan’s Penny Dreadful (2014) which took him overseas to Ireland and has since worked consistently nationally and internationally on Film and TV projects such as Dominion Creek (2015), Condor (2018), Dark Justice (2018), Hold the Dark (2018), Debris (2021), The Flash (2014), Prey (2022), Grendel.
An actor with a strong sense of physicality, Black Antelope often plays characters that combine stunt action with a larger-than-life or menacing presence, however his natural comedic sensibility has also been recognized in recent years with television roles in Jann (2019) including his own TV series that he created, wrote, directed and produced The Secret History of: The Wild West (2021) With his Secret History TM series Julian Black Antelope realized a 10 year dream of producing and creating entertaining, historical programming through the lens of Canadian First Nations. This very personal series in addition to his several producing credits on independent feature film projects like Empyrean (2016) and True Fiction (2019) has cemented JBA to continue writing, directing and producing his own work as his Acting career continues to grow.
Carolyn Bridget Kennedy
Actress · Writer · Producer
Carolyn Bridget Kennedy is an award-winning actor (SAG-AFTRA, ACTRA) and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. Carolyn appears in the 4th season of the award-winning Netflix Original series “The Umbrella Academy” and in an upcoming ABC Studios comedy series “How to Die Alone”. She was a lead in a multi-cam sitcom pilot filmed in front of a live studio audience at USC.
Carolyn is an improv maven. She has completed The Groundlings Advanced Improv and Writing Lab in their Performance Track and is invited up by the Main Company to Advanced Writing Lab (one level below Sunday Company). In addition, she completed the Upright Citizens Brigade and Second City Hollywood Conservatory programs. She improvises in the Steinkellner Workshop led by Deanna Oliver and Phyllis Katz (of The Groundlings) and Bill Steinkellner. She has performed stand up at comedy clubs in LA.
Carolyn has studied acting as a working actor with Larry Moss in his Master Class; Advanced Acting Technique with Jason Alexander; and at the Beverly Hills Playhouse with Director Howard Deutch in their Advanced Scene Study Class. She has trained in Alexander Technique with Kristof Konrad and Jean-Louis Rodrigue and worked with voice coach Denise Woods. She has also trained with Margie Haber Studios (Master/Advanced Class), Gunnar Rohrbacher at Actors Comedy Studio, and Lesly Kahn.
Carolyn has been cast in numerous projects with the top film schools in the world, including American Film Institute, UCLA, USC, CalArts, and Loyola Marymount.
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