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AFCOOP Updates - October 16th, 2025
Workshops, screenings, events & MORE!
🍁 Fall Workshops | 2 down, 2 to go! Intro to Producing and Intro to Cinematography has limited seats left. Secure your spot now before it sells out! 🍕 AFCOOP FALL GM IS ON THURS. OCTOBER 23RD. There will be… pizza 🩸 🎟️ Lots of great horror coming up with Hellifax. Get your calendar out now. Read more below! | 🏃♂️💨 🎞️ Run, don’t walk - 3378 is back in stock!  |
🏆 Big congrats to last year’s FILM 5 team “THE GIRLS” dir. Kirsten Bruce, prod. Ailsa Galbreath, for winning People’s Choice at the Parrsboro Film Fest!
Registration is now open for our Intro Workshop Series. This series offers a selection of introductory filmmaking workshops designed to give participants a balanced overview of independent filmmaking in Nova Scotia. Space is limited so please register early.
Intro to Screenwriting Intro to Directing | Intro to Producing Intro to Cinematography |
Hellifax Horror Film Festival celebrates its sixth year October 16th through 19th at Carbon Arc Cinema 1747 Summer Street, Halifax. Hellifax is Atlantic Canada’s biggest genre film festival dedicated to all things horror, sci-fi, fantasy and action.
 HÄXAN (w/ LIVE SCORE) |  DEAD LOVER |
| The Visitor (2024) dir. Bruce LaBruce October 23rd  Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) on October 30th. Doors at 5, show at 7:30. Tickets available at Gottingen cold beer store. |
Nocturne starts today and runs until the 19th!
Nocturne Art-at-Night returns October 16 - 19, with this year's theme 'Ground,' curated by Marite Kuus. On the main night (Saturday, October 18) you can explore over 50 projects in Downtown Halifax, including the Indigenous City Noc-Tour, a guided tour through Downtown Halifax that focuses on Indigenous artists participating in this year’s Nocturne festival. | Nocturne kicks off tonight with a Launch Party at Propeller Brewing (2015 Gottingen St) from 9pm to Midnight. The evening will include live music by CALAS & Friends and an immersive installation The Dream Zone by Alex MacAskill, and custom donuts from Vandal Donuts. No RSVP required. |
BSO National Tour
The Black Screen Office is hitting the road with the 2025 BSO National Tour! We’re hosting roundtables and receptions in seven cities to connect with Black Canadians working in film, television, and digital media. At each stop, we’ll share a stakeholder map that lay out the big picture of Canada’s screen industies, and a talent lebel framework to help you understand where you are in your own joruney and what you need to keep growing. | Invite your colleagues, fellow producers and creatives to be part of the conversation! ST. JOHN’S, NEWFOUNDLAND |
Visual Arts Nova Scotia Fall Workshops
Registration for VANS Fall 2025 workshops is open! Two-hour online workshops are $40 for VANS members and $50 for non-members and three-hour in-person workshops are $50 for members and $60 for non-members. |  Other workshops coming up:
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OPEN CALL: MONITOR 16
Calling all artists and filmmakers! SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) is now accepting submissions for MONITOR, our longstanding experimental film and video program. The 16th iteration will be collaboratively curated by Sameena Siddiqui and Vicky Moufawad-Paul. Artists and filmmakers are invited to submit new, short format, independent, and innovative works that balance aesthetic explorations with critical narratives and subject matters. | They encourage artistic approaches that are creative, unconventional, and take risks in their form, content, and style. Selected works will be screened throughout 2026 in Toronto, Canada, and internationally. The deadline to submit is November 10, 2025! To learn more about the curators, read the guidelines for submission, and access the submission form visit SAVAC’s website at: |
CFAT IS HIRING! ROUND 2!
The Centre for Art Tapes is seeking a Production Coordinator to join our team in a permanent part-time capacity. This position is essential to maintaining CFAT's facilities and equipment, managing our membership database, and providing technical consultation for programming and projects. | Applications Due TODAY: October 16th, 2025 at 11:59PM (AT) |
CHARLOTTETOWN FILM FESTIVAL DISCOUNT
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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.