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AFCOOP Updates - October 30th, 2025
HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVE GHOULS!
🍕 Thanks to everyone for coming out to the GM last Thursday! Pictures featured in the header (L-R): Britney Canzi smiling outside the gear room, Henry giving his report, Erica going over the budget using a sword as a pointer, Brielle giving their report wearing chainmail, & Compliance Officer Cody Chandler. 🍁 Fall Workshop Intro Series has concluded! We sold out all four workshops! | 🏃♂️💨 🎞️ Run, don’t walk - 3378 is back in stock!  |
What are you doing this Halloween?🔎🎃🧛🏻♀️👻🕸️🧝🏾♀️ |
Onetake Rentals x AFCOOP Member Discount
We’re excited to announce a new partnership between Onetake Rentals and the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative (AFCOOP)! As a full AFCOOP member, you now receive 10% off Camera and Lens rentals, and 25% off grip, lighting and camera support rentals from Onetake. How it works: Show proof of your AFCOOP full membership when renting from Onetake Discount (applies to equipment rentals only– not delivery, consumables, late fees, or damage costs). Onetake and AFCOOP can verify your membership. Standard Onetake rental policies still apply. | This partnership is designed to:
How to book: Visit Onetake Rentals https://www.onetakerentals.com/ Email, call, or DM to book. Mention your AFCOOP full membership and provide proof, or notify if you need AFCOOP to verify. |
Questions? Contact Onetake Rentals @ [email protected] or give AFCOOP a ring!
 FAIRY CREEK |  HAPPYEND |
 D(e)AD |  The Fog |
EXCAVATED VISIONS: A SOLOMON NAGLER RETROSPECTIVE
Canada | 2003-2017 | 81m + Q&A
In celebration of Solomon Nagler receiving Arts Nova Scotia’s Established Artist Recognition Award, Fleapit Cinema is proud to present a new retrospective of the Winnipeg-born, Halifax-based filmmaker's work.
Much has been said about Winnipeg filmmaker Guy Maddin’s penchant for strange films that look like they were made in a secret warehouse in the 1920s, but the films of Solomon Nagler often seem to exist outside of time entirely, rather excavated from some crate beneath some ancient and decayed ruin before our very eyes. The craft at play in these works is at once astounding but often untraceable, through layers of emotional and material decay that render the films as experiences beyond perceivable human forethought and creation. They are archives in themselves, investigating self, body, movement, history and Jewish diaspora through analog forms.
Fleapit is thrilled to present the Atlantic Premieres of many of Nagler’s films, while also projecting the very first 16mm prints in Fleapit history. Special thanks to projectionist extraordinaire Kenny Lewis for making it happen. Sol will be in-attendance for a Q&A after the screening.
New CFAT Exhibition Now On!
my body is here but my heart is in haifa; or mother of mothers! only the poor protect the land with their lives! is a photography-based multimedia exhibition with complimentary events inspired by james baldwin’s nothing personal. NOV. 1 | feminist bootleg cinema | NOV. 2 | creative workshop NOV. 7 | closing ceremony (more info + rsvp here) wheelchair accessible |
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 |
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: |
The Pitch Screening | Hiring Assistants, Photographer, Videographer
From director Michèle Hozer, THE PITCH takes audiences inside the fight to launch Canada’s first women’s professional soccer league. The doc follows Olympic medalist Diana Matheson as she hangs up her cleats and dives into her toughest challenge yet: shaking up a system that has sidelined women for decades and building a league from the ground up. With icons like Christine Sinclair by her side, THE PITCH is a front-row seat to history in the making. |
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Hi newsletter readers, I'm looking for a small film crew to help put together a show I have in mind. If the show is sold to a TV station or played on YouTube we can negotiate pay. Otherwise this is a volunteer position. The show may run for a year. Dedicated crew only. I'm looking for film crew: script writer, editor, camera, lighting, sound tech, and logistics assistant. Anyone else? Let me know. The show is an important project to help bring inspiration, education & | awareness to all people who want to get physically fit but who deal with mental health conditions. 1-3 people filmed who disclose their condition and want to get fit. We will follow their unique journey to achieving a healthy body with supports in place; trainer, nutritionist, friends/family and therapist. If your interested please contact me. Thanks, EM |
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.