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AFCOOP Updates - March 13th, 2025
Telefilm Talent to Watch Nominations Now Open!
MARCH 13th, 2025
Submissions for Telefilm’s Talent to Watch nomination are open!
Happy sunny day folks!Submissions are now open for the Talent to Watch nomination through AFCOOP. The Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival is hiring two positions. Lots of events coming up this week! |  |
TALENT TO WATCH AFCOOP NOMINATIONS ARE NOW OPEN FOR SUBMISSION
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.
HIFF IS HIRING!Join the HIFF team! The Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival is now hiring two positions: Festival Coordinator and Promotions Coordinator. The 19th annual HIFF will take place May 28-31, 2025, at the Bus Stop Theatre. Successful candidates will work remotely leading up to the festival and on-site at the Bus Stop Theatre on and around the festival dates. |  Please note: these positions are funded through the Job Creation Partnership Program and candidates must be eligible for that program in order to be considered. See the eligibility requirements here. |
Questions? Contact HIFF’s Program Manager, Evan Bower: [email protected]
WHAT’S SCREENING THIS WEEK?
Hard Truths Screening: Bring Them Down English and Irish with English subtitles A gripping thriller about two warring shepherding families set against the harsh landscape of rural Ireland, starring Christopher Abbott and Barry Keoghan. Fallen Angels Mandarin and Cantonese with English subtitles Swinging between hardboiled noir and slapstick lunacy with giddy abandon, Fallen Angels is both a dizzying, dazzling city symphony and a poignant meditation on love, loss, and longing in a metropolis that never sleeps. |  FLEAPIT CINEMA is back with their new Revival Series, bringing independent Canadian titles back to the big screen. Next Thursday, March 20th @ 6:30pm - they’re playing Miryam Charles’ award-winning debut feature: CETTE MAISON (2022). Miryam Charles is a Haitian-Canadian director, producer and cinematographer. She has produced several short and feature films. Her films have been shown at various festivals in Quebec and abroad. In 2022, her first feature film Cette maison (This House) was presented at the Berlinale, the Viennale, the TIFF Top 10 and was named one of Sight and Sound's best films of the year. The same year, she debuted the short film “Au crépuscule” (“At Dusk”) at the Locarno Film Festival. |
Brandon Boyd’s newest film Wave Theory is screening at The Bus Stop Theatre on April 2nd! Click here to buy your ticket.
AFCOOP MEMBER, DEVON PENNICK-REILLY’S EXHIBITION, PHOTOSENSITIVE, ON UNTIL THE 22ND
On from March 11 - 22, 2025
“This showcase of analog film, developed using plant-based developers and other handmade techniques, plays with light, the materiality of cellulose film, and projection to evoke the childhood sense of wonder you may experience while exploring in the woods—when light filtered through leaves, shadows danced, and everything felt alive—blending nature with the moving image to highlight the deep connection between film, memory, and the physical world." - Devon Pennick-Reilly, from the Anna Leonowens site
TURRET ARTS SPACE SOCIETY LAUNCHES LETTER WRITING CAMPAIGN!
BRING THE ARTS BACK TO BARRINGTON STREET! Turret is gearing up to present at Halifax Regional Municipality’s Community Planning and Economic Development Standing Committee on March 20th, 2025 and needs your support! They’re running a letter campaign leading into the pitch. It takes less than a minute to make your voice heard using their letter template. |  Fun fact: AFCOOP’s second home was at 1588 Barrington and Wormwood Cinema’s first home was here too! |
UPCOMING OPPORTUNITIES & SUBMISSIONS
 CBC SHORT FILM FACE OFF is back for its 18th season! | Each season, nine short films are chosen from submissions from every region in the country and are broadcast on the program. The winner receives $30,000 toward their next film from Telefilm Canada. Learn more about applying by checking out their website here. The deadline for submissions is March 21st. |
Submissions for the 45th Atlantic International Film Festival are open! Alumni discount available, contact [email protected] |  |
 | SUBMISSIONS FOR HIFF 2025 We're seeking bold, boundary-pushing independent cinema from new and unique voices. Selected films will screen at the 19th annual Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival, taking place May 28–31, 2025, at the Bus Stop Theatre. |
SJIWFF36 Submissions are Open Submissions for the 36th St. John's International Women's Film Festival are open! Women (trans and cisgender) and gender-diverse people from anywhere in the world are welcome to submit their short and feature-length films for consideration via Film Freeway. Earlybird deadline: March 17th. |  |
Call for submissions to the Academy’s Executive Residency Program  | The Executive Residency Program is a Canadian Academy initiative dedicated to providing industry access for mid-career professionals who identify as Black, Indigenous, or persons of colour, in order to influence a change in the next generation of executives and decision makers. The eight-month national program matches high-level Advocates (such as VPs, Executive Producers, Development/Production Executives) with emerging leaders, providing insight into how creative and business decisions are made on an executive level. Deadline is Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 6PM AST. |
Applications are now being accepted for the 2025 edition of CBC New Indigenous Voices, presented by the National Screen Institute. Now in its 21st year, the program has been a cornerstone of the National Screen Institute’s training initiatives for over two decades. CBC New Indigenous Voices offers 14-weeks of full-time, immersive training for Indigenous creators aged 18 and over to learn from industry experts and gain hands-on experience in the essential elements of film and television. |  The National Screen Institute is seeking 10 emerging Indigenous creators from across Canada to participate. Applications close on March 27, 2025 at 12 p.m. CT. |
Sending your film for processing?
AFCOOP mails a package to our partnered 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 April 1st!
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.