It’s time to cast your vote for The Coast’s Annual “Best of Halifax” reader’s poll.
When casting your vote this year please think about selecting HIFF – The Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival as Best Festival for 2010.
As well, when selecting Best Filmmaker, Best Film, and Best Short Film for 2010 why not vote for your AFCOOP member filmmaker and their works?
You have until September 20th to cast your vote at http://posting.thecoast.ca/halifax/Survey.
AFCOOP’s FALL 2010 First Exposure Filmmaking Workshop Series is now open for registration! More than 20 workshops, courses, and intensives are scheduled to begin in September through to December. Space for each workshop is limited – so sign-up soon.
The popular Dramatic Film Lab also returns this fall and AFCOOP is also offering the new Guerrilla Film Lab, a six week immersion into handcrafted, DIY filmmaking, beginning in October.
To view the full line-up of Workshops, Courses and Intensives please CLICK HERE
This fall, AFCOOP is offering a fresh new slate of 10 film screenings and seminars called The Film History Crash Course: Ideas in Film. The most important points of film history will be examined in each two and a half hour class, which will include full screenings of complete films along with shorter excerpts. This series is hosted by Ron Foley Macdonald, Film Curator at the Dalhousie Art Gallery since 1988 and Senior Programmer at the Atlantic Film Festival.
Please CLICK HERE for more information.
FREE In-House Facilities at AFCOOP on Friday, September 24th, 2010 – 9AM until 5PM!
All Members are welcome to book AFCOOP facilities at no charge during AFCOOP’s participation in Culture Days. This is a great opportunity to refresh your skills or work on a new project in our AVID, ProTools, Steenbeck, or Animation Suites. Outgoing Equipment rentals are not included.
To book suite time, please contact Al DeLory at 420-4572 or by email at production@afcoop.ca – First Come, First Served!
Click here for more about Culture Days: http://www.culturedays.ca/
This meeting will take place on Thursday, September 9th 6:30PM at The HUB (1673 Barrington Street). Come and get an update on what has been going on at the co-op over the past few months, and get in the loop on what the near future holds. A brief screening will precede the meeting. Full members send regrets to membership@afcoop.ca.
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This year’s FILM 5 PARTY! will take place during the 30th Annual Atlantic Film Festival at the Garrison Brewing Company – 1149 Marginal Road in Halifax.
Come help us celebrate the FILM 5 productions of 2010:
“Rhonda’s Party” by Ashley McKenzie, Nelson MacDonald and Christine Comeau
“Like Father” by Jesse Harley and Chris Turner
“Dream Girl” by Caley MacLennan and Eric Duncan
“Senior Barista” by Jason Levangie and Marc Tetreault.
As a special treat this year, AFCOOP is also hosting a 2010 AFCOOP REUNION, welcoming all members both past and present, from far and wide, to come and reminisce about the good ole days. There will be beer, music, and maybe if you’re lucky – hotdogs!
Everyone is welcome – FILM 5 Crew, Trainees, AFCOOP Members, and Fans! To send your RSVP via Facebook please CLICK HERE.
AFCOOP is looking for DIRECTORS, ACTORS, ART DIRECTORS, and all kinds of other crew to help make our FILM-E-OKE dreams come true! Intrigued? You should be!
Contact membership@afcoop.ca to volunteer your talents – and for more information.
About Nocturne: Nocturne: Art at Night is an annual festival bringing art and energy to the streets of Halifax. From 6pm to midnight on October 16, 2010, you are invited to participate in a new creative experience that showcases and celebrates the arts community in Halifax.
Starting October 2010
AFCOOP’s new ‘Bring Your Own Film’ Social Screening Series is a bi-monthly open presentation platform and social mixing event for independent filmmakers and viewers.
BYOF seeks to erase the border between filmmaker and audience. Screenings will consist of works in progress, rough-cuts, or newly finished films by local filmmakers. Each screening will include a short intro by the filmmaker as well as ample time for discussion and feedback from the audience.
BYOF screenings offer a genuinely censor-free space — a level playing-screen for beginners and more experienced filmmakers alike; as well as a chance for experimentation and eccentricity, for unexpected collaborations and maverick creativity to find a voice and flourish.
CLICK HERE for more information
The 5th Annual Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival, which is scheduled to take place from April 3-9, 2011 in Halifax, Nova Scotia is seeking new films written or directed by Atlantic Canadian women to screen during its “Women In Film Atlantic Canada” showcase. >Submission Form
The 5th Annual Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival, is also looking for new films written or directed by Atlantic Canadians to screen during its “Atlantic Canada Showcase”. >Submission Form
This survey is now closed – thanks to everyone who participated. The 5 winners of AFCOOP T-Shirts have been contacted.
Welcome to the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative’s 2010 Annual Survey! We want to know what makes AFCOOP relevant to you, as someone who accesses AFCOOP’s services.
Weigh in on such topics as: What gear do you want AFCOOP to buy? What workshops would you be interested in? Film or video? Facebook or Twitter?
Information collected will be used to develop a multi-year equipment-purchasing plan as well as to help shape the future direction of AFCOOP’s programs, grants, and general operations.
Please take a few minutes of your time to let us know how you feel about the co-op. All questions are optional – if you do not have an answer for a particular question please just leave the field blank and move on to the next question. Your responses will be kept confidential and will not be used for any purpose other than the research conducted by AFCOOP.
CLICK HERE FOR TO COMPLETE THE SURVEY
This survey will be available for completion until Tuesday August 31st. Thank you very much!
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