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AFCOOP Updates - April 3rd, 2025
Talent to Watch Applications due Friday! WIFT-AT Making Waves starts today!
April 3rd, 2025
Talent to Watch Applications due Friday! WIFT-AT Making Waves starts today!
Last week we bid farewell to the incredible archivist, Brody Weaver, who worked diligently going through film cans, videos, and tapes in the co-op’s collections, finding homes for them. Thank you Brody! |  |
WIFT-AT’S MAKING WAVES CONFERENCE STARTS TODAY!
 | WIFT-AT’s 15th annual Making Waves Conference returns to Halifax today until April 5th! See their full program guide here. |
After years of dedicated staff and volunteer efforts, the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative is thrilled to announce that our Darkroom is open for rental! You can now book the use of the space on our website under space rentals, where you can access it for $35 for a half-day or $60 for a full day depending on your needs.
The AFCOOP Darkroom currently has the ability to process B&W stock but does not have colour chemicals.
Thank you to Dawn George for all your support in bringing this project to life with the AFCOOP staff and AFCOOP board member Laurie for helping us maintain the space! 🫶
Streamline the process by developing your film here and sending it for scanning at the AMP Lab!
Questions about the Darkroom? Talk to Cody at [email protected] or give him a call at (902) 405-4474.
LEARN ABOUT PROCESSING FILM FROM RENA THOMAS IN NSCAD’S HANDMADE FILMMAKING CLASS!
Still from Rena Thomas’ film EMERGE (2018), shot on 3378 hi-con 16mm film, hand-processed using eucalyptus developer and hydrogen peroxide low-tox reversal bleach
Rena Thomas will be teaching their Handmade Filmmaking course again this spring at NSCAD! FILM-2611 Handmade Filmmaking: Summer A | This course centers around handmade film, pushing the limitations of the camera by combining in-camera shot images with alternative cameraless filmmaking and photographic processes. The course expands upon historical darkroom caffenol developers to bring students into the contemporary movement of eco-filmmaking by focusing on plant-based and alternative film techniques with moving and still image processes such as: Caffenol (coffee) developer, plant-based developers, photograms, phytograms, rayograms, moonograms, double exposure, contact printing, salt water fix, onion fix, eco-reversal bleach, film tinting, film destruction with scratching, drawing, painting, bleaching, boiling, and burying film. |
Perfect way to learn about processing and apply the knowledge in the darkroom!
TALENT TO WATCH AFCOOP NOMINATIONS ARE DUE FRIDAY
Pictured is a BTS still on BONE CAGE (2020), a successful TTW nominee
As an Industry Partner, AFCOOP has the ability to nominate one production in the Main component and one production in the Indigenous component of the Telefilm Talent to Watch program.
Filmmakers have until April 4th, 11:59pm to submit their application to AFCOOP. Nomination decisions will be made by a peer-jury.
Learn more about the application and the submit by going to our website.
WHAT’S SCREENING THIS WEEK?
Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story Screenings: Darkest Miriam Pink Flamingos - Salacious Saturdays with John Waters Banned in Nova Scotia ‘til ‘97, Waters leaves no taboo unsmashed in this gleefully subversive ode to outsiderhood, in which camp spectacle and pitch-black satire are wielded in an all-out assault on respectability Holy Cow (Vingt dieux) Totone's carefree teenage life of drinking and dancing takes a turn when he suddenly must provide for his 7-year-old sister. Seeking income, he channels his energy into producing an award-winning comté cheese to claim a competition prize. |  Ste. Anne Renée returns to her hometown after a long absence. Her brother and his wife are raising her daughter as their own, and Renée’s return is a surprise to all involved. Shot on 16mm, this lovingly made personal project won Best Canadian Feature (Amplify Voices Award) at TIFF in 2021. Viewing should be mandatory if you’re an independent filmmaker interested in creating more experimental works within the budget of a Canada Council grant.  Click on the image to reserve your seat! |
UPCOMING OPPORTUNITIES & SUBMISSIONS
The Atlantic International Film Festival is now hiring five seasonal contract roles to join the core festival team in planning #AIFF25!  | ⭐ Operations Manager ⭐ Volunteer Manager ⭐ Box Office Manager ⭐ Sr. Programming Coordinator ⭐ Marketing & Communications Coordinator Deadline: April 7, 2025 |
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.