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The Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative (AFCOOP) is very pleased to present the Sixth Annual Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival (HIFF), five days of film and video screenings, performances, artist talks, and live events taking place April 10-14, 2012 in Halifax.
This year’s festival includes more than 20 events and 75 films. Special guest artists include San Franciscan filmmaker Paul Clipson, who will be presenting a master class, and screening a selection of his experimental Super-8mm films. Retrospectives from filmmakers Janie Geiser and Robert Flaherty, as well as video artist Tom Sherman, are also featured in the program.
The festival will launch on March 31st with a screening of the classic 1925 film Battleship Potemkin with live musical accompaniment at 7pm in Alumni Hall, University of King’s College. The full festival then kicks off on Tuesday April 10th with the award-winning film essay The Forgotten Space followed by Ottawa-based SAW Video’s ambitious video commissioning project, Public Domain and the HIFF opening reception. The festival will also include the debut of local filmmaker Eva Madden-Hagen’s film POSE, the latest work to come out of AFCOOP’s Filmmaker in Residence program. Also as part of the festival, Live Art Dance Productions will present the feature length documentary Movement (R)evolution Africa. Events will take place at The Bus Stop Theatre, NSCAD University Film School and University of King’s College. Tickets are available at AFCOOP, 5663 Cornwallis Street, at www.hiff.ca, and at the door. Festival Passes are also available.
The Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival is presented by the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative, with participation from the NSCAD University Film Studies Department, Dalhousie University, and the University of King’s College with the financial participation of Canadian Heritage, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Nova Scotia Department of Communities, Culture & Heritage, and Telefilm Canada. Full List of Partners
