Southwest artist/filmmaker wins Ruth Shaw Award at 2015 Yorkton Film Festival

AIn Sept 2013, artist/filmmaker, Kent Tate completed an artist residency at the Wallace Stegner house in Eastend through the Eastend Arts Council. During his stay he filmed various landscapes in the area with some of the footage becoming a part of his latest movie about southwest Saskatchewan.

His 2014 movie “Isolated Gestures" has just won the Ruth Shaw Award (Best of Saskatchewan), and his movie was also nominated for a Golden Sheaf award (experimental category) in this year’s Yorkton Film Festival.

Tate appreciates how important the Yorkton Film Festival is and he is deeply heartened to have received this honor. “Isolated Gestures” was a real labor of love for him so the idea that it has resonated with the caliber and professionalism of the Yorkton Film Festival jury really inspires him.

Tate has tremendous gratitude to the Saskatchewan Arts Board for their support for this project, and to the Art Gallery of Swift Current, especially Kim Houghtaling, for his enthusiastic interest/support over the years, including his superlative curating of Kent’s solo video-sculptural exhibition at the AGSC in 2012 “Movies for a Pulsing Earth.

Kent and his wife Cheryl resided in Shaunavon, although they are currently in British Columbia where he is researching a video project that interconnects his lifelong passion for the prairies, the mountains and the ocean.

For more information on Tate's work visit http://www.pulsingearth.ca/