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AFCOOP Updates - October 2nd, 2025
Intro workshop series starts next week!
🌀 The mad dash is over! FILM 5 applications for 2025/26 are now in. 🍁 Registration for the Fall Workshop: Intro Series is now live! 🎟️ Our friends at Carbon Arc are open again! Check out their upcoming October screenings below. 🏃♂️💨 🎞️ Run, don’t walk - 3378 is back in stock! |  |
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 |
VENUE ACCESSIBILITY
AFCOOP is located at 1800 Argyle St. Suite 303 in the Lighthouse Arts Centre. There is a ramp to the main entrance on Argyle St. and elevators inside the lobby to the 3rd floor. There are also gender neutral bathrooms on the 3rd floor.
AFCOOP’S PRICING POLICY
AFCOOP recognizes there are systemic inequities which create barriers for people in accessing film training. In an effort to address and recognize historical and present-day inequities we have created a pay-what-you-can style pricing plan for our Workshop series. Please feel free to sign up for whatever price-point you are most comfortable with. No questions asked.
$35 - regular rate. This rate covers the cost of paying our instructor as well as the cost of staff time to organize and promote the workshop.
$20 - reduced rate. This rate makes a contribution towards our costs.
$0 - FREE This rate acknowledges that financial means should not be a barrier to becoming a filmmaker.
See the list of workshops being offered this fall below. Please note dates are tentative and subject to change, workshops may be added or removed depending on registration numbers and interest.
VOLUNTEERS
We will need volunteers for lockup duty at these workshops. If you are interested in volunteering for a specific workshop, email [email protected]
 RIEFENSTAHL |  ENDLESS COOKIE (WITH DIRECTORS ATTENDING!) |
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Prismatic Arts Festival
Prismatic Arts Festival 2025 is on from September 26th to October 5th! The annual, multidisciplinary festival will feature groundbreaking live performances in music, dance, theatre, and visual arts by phenomenal Indigenous artists and artists of colour from across the country at venues all over Kjipuktuk / Halifax. Cover art by Emma Hassencahl-Perley. | Prismatic has been bringing audiences vibrant, boundary-pushing new works in theatre, dance, music, film, visual arts, media arts, and spoken word since 2008. Check out the full program on their website. |
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: 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.