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- AFCOOP Updates - April 18th, 2025
AFCOOP Updates - April 18th, 2025
Offices are closed today! Visiting filmmaker next Saturday!
April 18th, 2025
Offices are closed today! Visiting filmmaker next Saturday!
Congratulations to all the Screen Nova Scotia Awards nominees. Last year’s FILM 5 Gaslit, directed by Anna Maclean and produced by Jamie Hammond, is nominated for Best Short Film. Brandon Boyd’s documentary Wave Theory is nominated for Best Documentary Film. Congratulations to everyone nominated, and all the cast/crew friends of AFCOOP that helped bring these productions to life. |  Anna Maclean and Jamie Hammond of GASLIT, photo by James Maclean |
BREAKOUT CANADIAN FILMMAKER ETHAN ENG VISITS FOR SCREENING AND CONVERSATION NEXT WEEK
Toronto filmmaker Ethan Eng used his college funds to make a feature film with footage he shot in high school for a yearbook video. It’s scrappy, nostalgic, and takes an experimental approach in making “the last high school movie.” If you watched Jackass and skate videos growing up, you’re going to love Therapy Dogs. The film premiered at Slamdance in 2023, when Eng was 20, where he became the youngest director to ever premiere a feature at the festival. Upon its release it also became a New York Times Critics Pick.  Ethan Eng, photographed by Andrew Michalko |  AFCOOP PRESENTS IN COLLAB WITH FPC: AN IN-CONVERSATION WITH ETHAN ENG, moderated by Sean Maheux Galway Saturday, April 26th 2pm Join us in a conversation with visiting filmmaker, Ethan Eng as he delves into DIY/low budget creation! |
WHAT’S SCREENING THIS WEEK?
Armand Norwegian with English subtitles Screening times: 2024 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity Don’t miss some of the world’s most entertaining, inspirational and humorous commercials from around the world! The Globe and Mail presents the latest winning ads from the annual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. | Hairspray - Salacious Saturdays with John Waters A 'pleasantly plump' teenager teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show. Fleapit Cinema Revival: Therapy Dogs Toronto filmmaker Ethan Eng used his Ethan and his best friend Justin are students trying to make sense of their high school existence. In what will be the last chapter of their teenage lives and the beginning of adulthood beyond, they decide to make the ultimate senior video in the search for answers. Exploring teenage suburbia in a no-brakes adventure, questions arise whether there’s more to their lives than simply growing up. |
UPCOMING OPPORTUNITIES & SUBMISSIONS
Submissions for the 45th Atlantic International Film Festival are open! Alumni discount available, contact [email protected] |  |
The Parrsboro Film Festival [PFF] is inviting Atlantic Canadian filmmakers to submit films for the 15th Annual Parrsboro Film Festival short film competition. There are two categories of films to choose from:
Films must have been completed within the past 24 months. All genres of film will be accepted.
| The short film competition will take place Saturday morning, October 4th, between 9am and 1pm. The audience will vote for their favourite film at the end of each category. Cash awards for The Audience Favourite in each of these two categories will be presented Saturday at the end of this portion of the Film Festival. Submission deadline is Monday, August, 4th, 2025. Applicants will be advised by Monday, September, 8th, 2025 if their submissions were selected or not. Short films will be jury selected. |
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.