🎬 All FILM 5s have completed shooting! Congrats to the four teams and all the trainees.

🌷 AFCOOP welcomed in our spring intern, Chloë!

🦋 The Animation Film Festival of Halifax is now on! Check out their line-up below and grab your tickets now.

✨ Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival’s program has been released! Continue reading to learn about the films coming to the city May 27th - 30th.

🪢 New submission deadlines, job opportunities, pitch competitions, and community events below!

The 2025/2026 FILM 5s have completed shooting!

PLEASE FIX ME, written by Kaelen MacDonald, directed by Colby Conrad, and produced by Mark MacDonald shot April 18-19th.

LOOK AT ME, written and directed by Nikita Morris, and produced by Shkeysha Morris shot April 25-26th.

Congrats to all the teams. Wishing them all the best of luck as they head into post-production.

AFCOOP welcomed our spring intern, Chloë, into the co-op at the end of April. She will be joining us for the rest of May, working with our technical coordinator, Cody, and communications coordinator, Brielle.

Chloë Nguyen-Drury (she/they) is a Kjipuktuk/Halifax-based writer, filmmaker, and soon-to-be NSCC Screen Arts graduate. Her background is in creative writing and community arts and culture programs. With an interest in genre, documentary, and experimental filmmaking, their projects employ themes of discomfort, isolation, gender and sexuality, environment, nature, and culture.

Say hi the next time you’re in!

Kunsel has recently settled in the Tibetan neighborhood of Parkdale, Toronto. An introverted young woman, she spends her days observing the residents of her apartment complex, and occasionally stealing from them when the urge strikes. She becomes intrigued by a new tenant, Passang, and a friendship quickly develops between the two of them young women. Passang, who is trapped in an unfulfilling marriage to an older man, confides in Kunsel about her plan to escape. As their friendship deepens, Kunsel is drawn into a web of deception that forces her to confront her desires and morals.

100 Sunset follows two young Tibetan women navigating friendship, disappearance, and a quiet economy of survival in Toronto’s Parkdale neighborhood.

Shot with non-professional actors and embedded in real community locations, the film offers a rare and intimate portrait of diasporic life.

Kunsang Kyirong's enigmatic directorial debut feature premiered at TIFF, and received an honorable mention for the Best Canadian Discovery Award. It's the kind of confident, exciting, and mysterious film that we're always looking for over here at Fleapit and we're thrilled to be presenting its Atlantic Premiere along with a newly recorded Q&A with Kunsang, moderated by our own Kate Solar, following the screening.

One night only!

Thursday, May 14th, 8:45 PM
Followed by Q&A

The Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival is excited to announce the return of BanffPitch! This new initiative began in 2025 and is open to applicants of all ages from around the world. Five emerging filmmakers will be selected and invited to pitch their film projects to an international jury in front of a live audience on November 7 during the Festival in Banff.

The winning pitch will receive a $25,000 CAD cash award.

BanffPitch is open to emerging filmmakers of all ages and nationalities.

Learn more about the program and check out their information session from last year, by going to their website.

Deadline to apply: June 30th, 2026

ACTRA Maritimes is seeking a full-time: Business Representative

ACTRA (‘Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists’) is the national union of over 30,000 professional performers working in English-language recorded media in Canada, including TV, film, radio, and digital media. ACTRA’s principal role is to negotiate, administer and enforce collective agreements to provide performers with equitable compensation as well as safe and reasonable working conditions.

This position is located in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and is an in-office-based role.

See the full job description here.

It is encouraged to reach out as soon as possible.

FILM RADIO SHOW!

Bonnie and Freeman of the Dalhousie Cinema Society have a new film-themed radio show at CKDU!

You can listen on 88.1 fm at 5 PM on Fridays, and hear about films new and old, local and international, with guests from the CMS society and the Halifax film scene.

Tune in!