TICKETS NOW ON SALE at hiff.ca

The Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative is very pleased to present the5th Annual Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival(HIFF), seven days of film and video screenings, performances, artist talks and live events, taking place April 2-8, 2011.

This year’s festival includes thirty events and more than sixty films. Special guest artists include award-winning filmmaker Gariné Torossian from Paris, who will be screening her feature length film “Stone Time Touch” as well as a collection of her previous works. Artist talks and retrospectives from Canadian filmmakers Brenda Longfellow, Sharon Switzer and John Greyson are also featured in the program.

HIFF2011 will also include the 20th Anniversary of the CFAT Scholarship Screening along with screenings of local work by female writers, producers, and directors, and another full program of recent short films from Atlantic Canada. Live Art Dance Productions will present another installment of the popular Dance On Screen and the AFCOOP Filmmaker In Residence for 2011 Amanda Dawn Christie will debut her much anticipated work “Off Route 2′′, produced within the program, at the festival.

Events will take place at The Lord Nelson Hotel, NSCAD University Film School, University of King’s College and Dalhousie University.

Tickets are now on sale at AFCOOP, 5600 Sackville Street, at www.hiff.ca, and will be available at the door. The Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival is presented by the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative, NSCAD University Film Studies Department, Dalhousie University, University of King’s College with the participation of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Nova Scotia Department of Communities, Culture & Heritage, the National Film Board of Canada, the CBC, and Canadian Heritage, and with additional assistance from The Lord Nelson, The Coast, Telefilm Canada, William F. White International Inc., Situating Sciences, and SIM Video.