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- AFCOOP Updates - April 10th, 2025
AFCOOP Updates - April 10th, 2025
Spring General Meeting is on Thursday, May 1st!
April 10th, 2025
Upcoming Spring General Meeting is on Thursday, May 1st!
Spring is in the air (again?)! |  |
WHAT’S SCREENING THIS WEEK?
Santosh Hindi with English subtitles Screening times: Polyester - Salacious Saturdays with John Waters An odour-aware housewife's world falls apart when she finds that her pornographer husband is serially unfaithful to her, her daughter is pregnant, and her son is suspected of being the foot-fetishist who's been breaking local women's feet. Rhymes for Young Ghouls English and Mi'kmaq with English subtitles Hellifax Horror Fest invites all to join for a special screening of Rhymes for Young Ghouls by the late, great Jeff Barnaby! Come see this masterwork of contemporary Canadian cinema with an audience on the big screen! Tickets to the screening are available on a Pay What You Choose basis. This is a special presentation as part of National Canadian Film Day celebrations. Doors open at 6:00 PM with Indigenous vendors in attendance before the show to sell their artisanal goods! There will be a post-screening discussion with Indigenous scholars and film aficionados! | Ste. Anne Fleapit Revival: a new FP programming series bringing feature films – from both Canada & around the world – back into theatres. STE. ANNE appears like a dream of a distant memory, melding time through a non-linear, shifting seasonal landscape. Shot over the course of two years, Vermette worked with a close group of family and friends to bring her award winning debut feature to life. The film is set in a rural Métis community on Treaty 1 territory, where Renée (played by Vermette) returns home after being missing for almost four years. The film is a sensory experience, with stunningly textural 16mm visuals shot by Vermette and four other cinematographers; Lindsay McIntyre, Erin Weisgerber, Amanda Kindzierski, and Kristiane Church. The visuals are held by a rich sound design and score by B.P., Andy Rudolph & Kelsey Braun. This film is a MUST SEE in theatres! Playing one-night only TODAY. “A deeply mysterious and alluring examination of home by way of places and people … Ste. Anne confronts ideas of belonging, reclamation, and family with both intimacy and a near-hallucinatory pull toward visual abstraction.” Andréa Picard, TIFF  Click on the image to reserve your seat! |
UPCOMING OPPORTUNITIES & SUBMISSIONS
Submissions for the 45th Atlantic International Film Festival are open! Alumni discount available, contact [email protected] |  |
Sending film for processing?
AFCOOP mails a package to our partner lab on the first Tuesday of every month!
You can drop the film off anytime to our technical coordinator, Cody at anytime! The next mail day is May 6th!
For more information on getting your film processed, email Cody: [email protected]
AFCOOP’s Filmmakers Job Board is a place to connect with filmmakers and film crews looking for work, or volunteers looking to gain experience in Nova Scotia and Atlantic Canada.
Submitting to the AFCOOP Job Board is totally free! All posts are subject to approval by AFCOOP staff and will be reviewed before they appear on the site.
Note: You don't have to create an account to post a job. If you wish, simply enter your email to sign up at the time of job submission.
See it all HERE!
ABOUT AFCOOP: Established in 1974 the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative (AFCOOP) is a non-profit, community organization dedicated to supporting the production and presentation of independent film and moving-image-based work in a collaborative, learning environment.
AFCOOP acknowledges that we are located and operate in Kjipuktuk, in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People. This territory is covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship” which Mi’kmaq, Wəlastəkwiyik (Maliseet), and Passamaquoddy Peoples first signed with the British Crown in 1726. The treaties did not deal with surrender of lands and resources but in fact recognized Mi’kmaw and Wəlastəkwiyik (Maliseet) title and established the rules for what was to be an ongoing relationship between nations. We are all treaty people.