Interested in finding out more about AFCOOP or about becoming a member? Come to our Spring General Meeting!

The AFCOOP 2012 Spring General Meeting will be held at AFCOOP’s offices and facilities (5663 Cornwallis Street, Suite 101) on Tuesday, March 27th at 6:00PM. Facebook Event

Come find out what we’ve been up to at the co-op over the past several months and learn a bit about what the next year holds including updates about HIFF and the many great filmmaking programs and services AFCOOP offers. There will also be prizes….

Full Members must send regrets to membership@afcoop.ca prior to the meeting.

Please contact AFCOOP’s Membership and Programs Coordinator Martha Cooley at membersip@afcoop.ca or 902-405-4474 extension 4 for more information about the meeting.

With NSCAD University’s Film School, AFCOOP will co-present two documentary screenings during the month of March.

SCREENING 1

“Blood and Water” Directed by Rohan Fernando (2007, 78 Minutes)

Tuesday March 6^th, 9AM

NSCAD Academy Building, 1649 Brunswick Street, Theatre Room 208

Special Guest director Rohan Fernando. Screening will be followed by an artist talk.

When the 2004 tsunami hit the coast of Sri Lanka, 65-year-old Anton Ambrose’s wife and daughter were killed. ‘In five minutes,” he says, “I lost everything.” A year later, Anton returns to Sri Lanka. With him is his nephew, award-winning filmmaker Rohan Fernando. “Blood and Water” is the story one man’s search for meaning in the face of overwhelming loss. But it is also filled with improbable characters, unintentional comedy and situational ironies.

SCREENING 2

“Death By Popcorn” Directed by L’Atelier National du Manitoba (2006, 65 Minutes)

Thursday, March 22^nd, 7PM

NSCAD Academy Building, 1649 Brunswick Street, Theatre Room 208

Peppered with action-packed cameos by Winnipeg All-Stars Dale Hawerchuk, Burton Cummings, Teemu Selanne, Billy Van and a recent interview with the man who sent the Jets straight into the jaws of death by throwing a cataclysmic box of popcorn onto the ice in Game 6 of the 1990 playoff series, “Death by Popcorn” follows the ill-fated Jets through their many travails with arch-enemies Wayne Gretzky and the Edmonton Oilers, soul-crushing NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and many other agents of Winnipeg annihilation. Sadness on ice.

Both screenings co-presented by NSCAD University and AFCOOP with the participation of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Nova Scotia Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage.

Come to THE CARBON ARC CINEMA on Thursday February 16th at 7 PM.  In this session Eva will screen raw footage from her ongoing AFCOOP Filmmaker in Residence project, “POSE”. She will share her process and techniques as well as invite feedback and discussion from the audience about the work. This is an exciting opportunity to observe a creative film in the making and to be a part of it’s progress.

More info here on Facebook

For more information on The AFCOOP filmmaker in Residence program and Eva Madden-Hagen, click here.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9TH (Facebook Event)
::7PM – SCREENING “Prom Night in Mississippi” (FREE ADMISSION)
Saint Mary’s University – 903 Robie Street – Scotiabank Conference Theatre – Room 201

::9PM – WORKSHOP on Prejudice & Diversity (FREE ADMISSION)
with “Prom Night in Mississippi” Director Paul Saltzman
Workshop will be followed with a reception sponsored by the office of the Dean of Arts, Saint Mary’s University
Saint Mary’s University – 903 Robie Street – Scotiabank Conference Theatre – Room 201

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10TH (Facebook Event)
::10AM – MASTER CLASS on Documentary Filmmaking
with “Prom Night in Mississippi” Director Paul Saltzman
SORRY, THE FRIDAY WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL
NSCAD Film School – 1649 Brunswick Street

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Want to work on a film set this spring?

Check out the FILM 5 Trainee Program Info Session:
Tuesday, Jan. 17th, 6pm
AFCOOP Office, 5663 Cornwallis Street, Suite 101

Program Offers:
– Training from industry professionals through workshops
- Hands-on learning experience working on a 35mm film set
- Make connections with industry professionals and local filmmakers

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Each year AFCOOP challenges local filmmakers and other members of our community to create short and silent holiday-themed movies each using a single reel of Super-8mm film. The annual screening of these films will be heldWednesday, December 14 8PM at the Bus Stop Theatre 2203 Gottingen Street in Halifax.

These fun and festive projects are shot ‘in-camera’ with no editing and can run from one to three minutes in length. The filmmakers plan and execute their stories, shooting each and every scene in the sequence it will be shown. The films are developed in time for the screening where the audience, including the filmmakers, will see the final results for the very first time!

The screening will be followed by a Holiday Party at the same location – It’s an entertaining evening of filmmaking fun and merriment!

There will be an AFCOOP General Meeting at 6:30PM just prior to the screening in the same location; anyone interested in finding out about AFCOOP or about becoming a member is welcome to attend our meetings. Please contact AFCOOP’s Membership and Programs Coordinator Martha Cooley at membersip@afcoop.ca or 902-405-4474 extension 4 for more information.