The Fall and Winter 2010-11 season of the AFCOOP Film Screening Series (formerly Monday Night Movies) features another round of unique, innovative, and challenging film and media works featuring a diversity of Canadian voices.
We will present a second installment of the Vegan Delights program of local animation curated by Siloën Daley along with a selection of new and innovative works from the Prairies courtesy of Winnipeg’s WNDX Festival.
In January 2011, AFCOOP, along with the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design University and Dalhousie University will present a second installment of our Docula Symposium – a one-day symposium and screening event dealing with documentary production, digital culture, and the changing landscape of copyright.
Darrell Varga will curate a program entitled Artists In This Place/Old and New. This program will feature films that get inside the creative process and the head of the artist. The program includes two films made in Atlantic Canada in the 1970s, just as the Atlantic Filmmaker’s Cooperative was being established, as well as three contemporary films. Screened together, they provide a complex engagement with ideas of process and location over time.
Other programs in the series will be featured at the Halifax Indpendent Filmmakers Festival in April 2011 (3rd-9th) and include a retrospective of Gariné Torossian’s work along with her feature-length Stone Time Touch, as well as retrospectives of filmmakers Brenda Longfellow and John Greyson.
Our goal with this series is to advance the development, understanding, and appreciation of the art of filmmaking, while promoting the works of culturally diverse artists, Aboriginal artists, and independent Canadian artists while fostering knowledgeable, diverse, and devoted audiences.
Best of the Indigenous Festivals & The NIMAC Documentary Project
AFCOOP in conjunction with the National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition (NIMAC) presented INDIGENOUS MEDIA 10.17.10, two screenings of recent Indigenous film and video works from across Canada. The screenings were presented as part of the Prismatic Conference, which celebrates the talents and vision of Canada’s leading culturally diverse artists.
The works selected for these two screenings included a collection of the Best of the Indigenous Fest, narrative works from various Indigenous media arts festivals across Canada, as well as a collection of experimental documentary works called The NIMAC Documentary Project.
Two of the Indigenous artists represented in the screenings, filmmakers David Krouse and Jackie Traverse, were in attendance. The Best of the Indigenous Fest program is a compilation comprised of selections from Dreamspeakers, the Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival, ImagineNative and Terres-en-vue. The NIMAC Documentary Project, which features short experimental documentary works by Indigenous artists from across Canada, was produced by NIMAC, in partnership with DOC Winnipeg and the Winnipeg Film Group. Both screenings were programmed by NIMAC’s Liz Barron, with Mike Maryniuk co-programming the documentary program.
