The Arrow, a miniseries executive produced by Jack Clements and Victor Solnicky, is up for 13 prizes at the upcoming Blizzard Awards, a biannual event hosted by the Manitoba Motion Picture Industries Association to recognize achievement in the province’s film and video industry.

Credo Entertainment’s tv movie Nights Below Station Street follows with 10 nominations, followed by Marble Island Pictures’ Twilight of the Ice Nymphs and Buffalo Gal Pictures/Les Productions de l’Impatiente’s Gabrielle Roy, with six nods each. Tied with five nominations apiece are Credo/

Forefront Entertainment’s The Adventures of Shirley Holmes and the National Film Board documentary The Gypsies of Svinia.

More than 330 entries were submitted in 32 categories for the 1999 Blizzards, to be held Saturday, March 13 in Winnipeg, the closing night of the city’s inaugural Local Heroes International Screen Festival. Following are highlights from this year’s nominees list.

The competition for best long-form drama is between The Arrow (The Filmworks/Tapestry Films/

John Aaron Productions), Nights Below Station Street and Twilight of the Ice Nymphs.

Contenders in the documentary program category are Gabriele Roy, The Gypsies of Svinia, Marble Island Pictures’ Guy Maddin: Waiting For Twilight and Krahn Communications’ Not Alone.

Nominated for best direction of a dramatic program are Norma Bailey for Nights Below Station Street, Don McBrearty for The Arrow and Carole O’Brien for Keeper. Vying for the non-dramatic directing award are Noam Gonick for Guy Maddin: Waiting For Twilight and John Paskievick for The Gypsies of Svinia.

Up for best dramatic script are Michael Marshall and Gary Yates for Harlan and Fiona, David Adams Richards for Nights Below Station Street, Therese Beaupre for The Adventures of Shirley Holmes ‘The Case of the Flim Flam Farm’ and Keith Ross Leckie for The Arrow.

Non-dramatic script contenders are Lea Pool, Micheline Cadieux and Diane Poitras for Gabrielle Roy; and Noam Gonick and Caelum Vatnsdal for Guy Maddin: Waiting For Twilight.

In the best drama short category are Snip! Productions’ Good Citizen: Betty Baker, A Billion Films’ Harlan and Fiona and The Adventures of Shirley Holmes ‘The Case of the Forbidden Mountain.’

Best short film is a tossup between Brothers, produced by Paul Suderman, and The Big Pickle, produced by Gary Yates, Liz Jarvis and Phyllis Laing.

Michael Hogan (Nights Below Station Street), Dan Aykroyd (The Arrow) and Ron White (The Arrow) are up for the leading actor prize.

Best actress nominees are Liisa Repo-Martell (Nights Below Station Street), Meredith Henderson (The Adventures of Shirley Holmes) and Pascale Bussieres (Twilight of the Ice Nymphs).