AFCOOP Updates - July 17th, 2025

Grants, awards, a new residency, upcoming AGM and fast-approaching deadlines!

July 17, 2025

🌀 Reminder that the AFCOOP awards and grant deadline is August 1st!

💗 Linda Joy and Helen Hill awards applications are due August 20th

🎞️ Analog Film Residency applications are due next Friday, July 24th

📆 Our AGM is on Thursday, July 24th at 6:30pm.

Put it in your calendars! AGM on Thursday, July 24th at 6:30pm!

In celebration of the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative darkroom opening after years in development, AFCOOP is thrilled to announce a national call for submissions to its two-week analog-focused paid residency in November 2025.

This paid opportunity will give the participant access to AFCOOP's darkroom lab, analog editing suite, the incredible analog gear collection including 8, 16, and 35mm motion picture film cameras, an Oxberry Animation Stand, projectors, a JK Optical Printer and more! They’ll also receive 400' of 3378 stock.

Residency period:

November 4th — 18th, 2025

Submission deadline:

Friday, July 25th, 2025 at 11:59 pm AST.

Learn more about the residency and how to apply by going to afcoop.ca/analog-film-residency-2025/

This residency has been made possible with the generous support of the Halifax Regional Municipality.

GRANTS FOR FILMMAKERS AND LINDA JOY AWARDS

Pictured: Meg Hubley’s upcoming film “Jane & Jocelyn” made with the support of the Independent Filmmakers Grant.

AFCOOP Grants for Filmmakers are open with a fast-approaching deadline of August 1st! Here are the following grants you can apply for:

  • FIRST THING GRANT

  • SUPER 8 BURSARY

  • FEEDBACK LOOP

  • ANALOGUE FILM GRANT

  • INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS GRANT

Approaching is the deadline for the Linda Joy and Helen Hill awards! AFCOOP provides these three awards to filmmakers annually at the Atlantic International Film Festival in September to support the projects of three Atlantic Canadian filmmakers (not restricted to Nova Scotia). Here are the following awards you can apply for:

  • Linda Joy Award Package

  • Linda Joy Post Award Package

  • Helen Hill Award

Pictured: Zyanya Barbara Juarez Arellano’s upcoming film “Faces” made with the support of the Helen Hill Award

CARBON ARC

TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT

CARBON ARC CINEMA’S 15TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION:
SCREENING OF SALA!!!
Jane Giles & Ali Catterall | UK | 2023 | 96m

FOLLOWED BY PANEL TO DISCUSS INDEPENDENT CANADIAN CINEMAS

Scala!!!, or, The Incredibly Strange Rise and Fall of the World's Wildest Cinema and How It Influenced a Mixed-up Generation of Weirdos and Misfits is a documentary on a movie theater in London that became a wild venue for counterculture films from the late '70s to the early '90s. Carbon Arc chose this film as a celebration of the power of independent cinema in a community.

Following the screening is a panel with special guests to talk about the importance of having an independent cinema in Halifax. The guests are: Siloën Daley (founder of Carbon Arc), Sonya Yokota William (founder and director of the Network of Independent Canadian Exhibitors), Brielle LeBlanc (Fleapit Cinema), and Ian Matheson (Propeller Arcade).

Disclaimer: Depictions of blood

Tickets $10.95 ($10 cash at the door if available)

ONE NIGHT ONLY:
Tonight, 6:30 PM

TO THE MOON - LOCAL PRIDE
Kevin Hartford | Canada | 2024 | 85m


Closeted single dad Sam (Jacob Sampson) finds his world upended when he meets a handsome stranger. An ensemble comedy about love, choreographed dance, kitchen safety, stranger danger, planetary physics, and the idea that it’s never too late in life to figure out who you really are.

Screening times:
Friday July 25, 6:00 PM *cast and crew attending!
Sunday, July 26, 9:00 PM

LAKEVIEW - LOCAL PRIDE
Tara Thorne | Canada | 2024 | 100m


When a queer friend group unites for a girls’ weekend celebrating a divorce, their old feelings, new relationships, and shifting dynamics crash into each other in the shadow of summer’s dying light.

Screening times:
Friday July 25, 8:45 PM 
Sunday, July 26, 6:00 PM *cast and crew attending!

OUT OF LINE | EXHIBITION

On View: July 8th-August 2nd
Gallery Hours: 12-5PM Tues-Sat
Location: The Khyber Centre for the Arts (1880 Hollis St)

Out of Line, a collective of eight trans artists, gathered in recurring sessions for 10 months at the Khyber Centre for the Arts throughout 2024/25. Monthly meetings became a space of unfolding: of relational care, unexpected collaborations, and generative debris from play.

CFAT MEDIA ARTS SCHOLARHIP

Call for applications for CFAT’s six-month education and mentorship opportunity for emerging artists! Learn more by going to their website here.

Deadline to apply is July 25th, 2025

SCREEN NS AMPLIFIED VOICES PRE-DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

Applications are now open for Screen Nova Scotia’s Amplified Voices Development Program provides an opportunity to advance the skills of emerging writers and producers from underrepresented communities in Nova Scotia. The program accelerates the creative and professional development of producers and writers through training and the creation of early-stage project-related deliverables.

Visit their website HERE for important details on the training/workshop schedule, eligibility criteria, and application requirements. The deadline to apply is July 31, 2025.

SJIWFF HIRING


SJIWFF is hiring a Communications Coordinator to support marketing and communications for our 36th Festival and Industry Forum. If you are energized by a festival's exciting, fast-paced needs, enjoy working as part of a collaborative team, and are eager to bring creativity to your work, we invite you to apply!

Click the graphic to learn more.

Deadline to apply: July 25th

 

CHARLOTTETOWN FILM FESTIVAL SUBMISSIONS


The Charlottetown Film Festival is a 5-day event held in Charlottetown, PEI, from October 15-19, 2025. Hosted by Club Red Productions, the Festival features an incredible variety of local, national, and international documentaries, genre fare, and dramas.

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!

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.