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🎬🫰 #GivingTuesdayCA is TODAY (December 2, 2025). The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto has set the long goal of $45,000 by their 45th birthday on April 8, 2026 & half of that by the end of the year! Thanks for keeping LIFT in your year-end giving plans. Donate via: www.lift.ca/donate

🎱 November 27-29 in Toronto, ON: the8fest Small-Gauge Film Festival, a unique film festival that presents all forms of small-gauge film: 8mm, Super 8 and 9.5mm. Don't miss the shorts screening on Nov 29 w/ films by CFMDC members Rennie Taylor & Larissa Fan.

Discover our new VUCAVU.education postcards designed by Emily Woudenberg from Strike Design Studio, featuring a still from Caroline Blais’ film “Étoiles” (available for VOD on VUCAVU). We’re pleased to pay Caroline for using their image and are dedicated to building VUCAVU in community with artists.

Today - Joyce Wieland's REASON OVER PASSION at Lightbox, Reel Asian begins w/ Kid Koala's SPACE CADET at Hot Docs, Paradise welcomes Charlie Kaufman & Eva HD for HOW TO SHOOT A GHOST, anime PERFECT BLUE and Paid in Sweat pick BLACK SWAN at Revue, more! Rundown: letterboxd.com/torontoplex/... #toRep

Altogether Without - Film Screening - Works by Tomonari Nishikawa & Vincent Grenier. November 8th, 17h - SET Lewisham, London expcinema.org/site/en/even...

Toronto friends! Masked at the Movies is back on November 25 with the charming, life-affirming, wholesome FACES PLACES. Hope to see you there! 💕 Free tickets and details 👇

November 5 in Toronto, ON: Joyce Wieland’s La raison avant la passion/Reason over Passion (1967–69). Introduction by film preservationist Stephen Broomer. Wednesday, November 5, 6:30pm at TIFF Lightbox.

November 6 in Toronto, ON: The TAIS Animation Showcase celebrates the best independent animation shorts from across the country and around the world. Including films by CFMDC members Francisca Duran, Richard Reeves, Robin Riad (still), & Emily Pelstring. Thursday, November 6, pm at The Royal Cinema

TOMORROW in Melbourne, Australia: Vivek Shraya’s “Bodyrebuilding” screens in TILDE Saturday, November 1 as part of Session 4: International Shorts. Shraya’s poetic short explores how diversity work led to chronic pain and a journey to healing through weightlifting. 🔗

Looking for something spooky to dive into this Halloween? 🎃🧡 Check out these Indigenous-made recommendations from the imagineNATIVE staff:

TOMORROW in Toronto, ON: We’re excited to be co-presenting the program "Poetic Proclamations" as part of @workmanartsto ’s 33rd Annual Rendezvous with Madness Festival, happening now until November 2, 2025! Learn more at: workmanarts.com/rwm-events/p... #RWM2025 #DisruptTheFocus

📌 Save the date Paris 2025 🔥 From 24 to 30 November 2025, the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin will return to Paris. A new edition, a new journey through cinema, contemporary art and the moving image. All info 👉 www.art-action.org/site/fr/prog...

October 31 - November 2 in Melbourne, Australia: TILDE Bites Back with three days of trans-authored cinema! Vivek Shraya’s “Bodyrebuilding” screens Saturday, November 1 as part of Session 4: International Shorts. 🔗

We’re excited to be co-presenting the program "Poetic Proclamations" as part of @workmanartsto ’s 33rd Annual Rendezvous with Madness Festival, happening now until November 2, 2025! Learn more at: workmanarts.com/rwm-events/p... #RWM2025 #DisruptTheFocus

Next A Flock Of Flickers session will be November 2!!!! Focus on super8 for beginners and eco developing! Don’t miss it!! aflockofflickers.wordpress.com #aflockofflickers #super8webinar #super8 #super8workshop #super8film #super8forbeginners #caffenol #super8fakeapp

🌊 ON NOW until November 30 in Hamilton, ON: Dandelion and Factory Media Centre present Morgan Sears-Williams' solo exhibit, fixed in place, an exploration of the geological and personal erosion occurring at Hanlan’s Point Beach on the Toronto Islands.

Today Oct 17h, 6pm at Antimatter [media art] 6pm at Deluge, Victoria, Canada. Tomorrow a free online screening saturday for 24 hours: antimatter.squarespace.com/daily-progra... In memory of the fallen in Gaza, the stars. Em memórias os caídos em Gaza, as estrelas. 🍉

ICYMI: CFMDC Film News is out! Read for info on screenings, opportunities and CineCycle events 🎟️

ON NOW: Labocine's October Issue FELINO features films & essays which explore the feline world in all its forms! Including CFMDC films: Breakfast with Gus by Siobhan Devine; Travelling Eye of the Blue Cat by Shawn Atkins; Cat Food by Joyce Wieland.

On Deck - Dogs, mummies, mermaids, witches, monsters, vampires, werewolves, ghosts, killers, seekers, filmmakers, artists, teachers, musicians, cartoons and more. Screening soon in Toronto: letterboxd.com/torontoplex/... #toRep

Starting TODAY: WNDX Festival of Moving Image returns! Check out CFMDC shorts in programs "Open Call 1: All Our Arms Have Held" for Karly McCloskey's film Marrow of my Bones and "Open Call 5: wndrlnd" for Richard Reeves' Fusion and Rita Tse's Serene Hues.

Basically, if movies were people, whether foreign or Italian-born, Bologna is where they would choose to live. https://loom.ly/LtrmC3M

🌟 September 27 in Vancouver, BC: Light of a Thousand Stars, short film screening programmed by Diffusion Festival and hosted by The Bucket Collective. Faraz Anoushahpour and Scott Miller Berry in attendance! tix here: bit.ly/46UGxcI

🌸 October 1-5 in Winnipeg, MB: WNDX Festival of Moving Image returns! Check out CFMDC shorts in programs "Open Call 1: All Our Arms Have Held" for Karly McCloskey's film Marrow of my Bones and "Open Call 5: wndrlnd" for Richard Reeves' Fusion and Rita Tse's Serene Hues.

Braquage presents Décollements - Films by Fontaine, Devaux, Battle, Shimane, Bourque, Schneemann. September 21st, 19h - Espace en Cours, Paris expcinema.org/site/en/even...

Speaking of film formats, I recently published an article on Pola-Lite, a largely unnoticed and under-researched single-strip 3-D format, in Film Atlas, an encyclopedia of every film format ever. I had a blast researching this. It has everything! Monsters, Douglas Sirk, questionable origin stories!

consider, Ж, 2024 my mouring film on Gaza genocide will be screened at Antimatter [media art] october 16 to 24th an online screening tba. 🍉

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We're back on Bsky and proud to support @artscoalitionca.bsky.social's Campaign for Culture. Learn more about the campaign here: www.mano-ramo.ca/post/support...

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Gibson + Recoder: Projection Performance for Single and Dual 16mm Film Projection. September 22nd, 19:30h - 2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles expcinema.org/site/en/even...

Here we go again my loves! A new season of Queer Cinema Club, in which we be falling back in time to celebrate the anniversaries of 6 extraordinary films. Let’s ease our way out of 2025 by taking a trip through the last 35 years of the 20th century queer cinema together at the Paradise.

TODAY in Regina, Saskatchewan: 🌸 Casey Mecija’s One Thing I Can Afford and Caio Amado Soares’ Mishaps in Spacetime screen as part of Identifire 12 at Queer City Film Festival. Check it out here > 🔗

🌸 September 11-13 in Regina, SK: Queer City Film Festival + Performatorium returns with film screenings, artist presentations, performances and panel discussions. ⭐ CFMDC member Elian Mikkola does an artist presentation and performance on September 12. 🔗

🌸 September 11-13 in Regina, SK: Queer City Film Festival + Performatorium returns with film screenings, artist presentations, performances 📽️Casey Mecija’s One Thing I Can Afford & Caio Amado Soares’ Mishaps in Spacetime screen as part of Identifire 12 on September 13. 🔗

Tickets are now available for the 20th anniversary edition of the WNDX Festival of Moving Image. >> WNDX.org We are pleased to offer accessible ticket pricing, with the majority of our events having pay-what-you-can pricing.

A tenure track position in sound in cinema and media at U of Toronto's Cinema Studies Institute: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

ICYMI: Our film newsletter went out last week! Read via the link below for info on what's happening at CFMDC, upcoming screenings, job opportunities, + more! Read here: mailchi.mp/2e4693d42704... Image: Fusion (2024) by Richard Reeves.

In Our Sleep - a 16mm program addressing notions of Place. September 18th, 20:15h - Close-Up Cinema, London expcinema.org/site/en/even...

✨ September 6 & 7 in Los Angeles, CA: Vincent Grenier: In Focus, a retrospective of Grenier’s films and videos in two programs. Guest programmed by Madison Brookshire, this series explores a poetic vision of the world through Grenier’s sensuous works. 🔗

Found Footage Magazine - Call for Contributions. Deadline June 1st 2026 expcinema.org/site/en/call...

In 2016, TIFF’s essential Wavelengths slate had 15 features, four shorts programs and five installations. This year, just eight features – fewer than Primetime, the section that previews TV series – three shorts programs and zero installations. #TIFF50 www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/ti...

☀️ CFMDC September News 🎨 Protest Banner Making Workshop w/ Pardis Pahlavanlu, co-presented by Whippersnapper Gallery ❤️ Remembering April Hickox 📽️ Upcoming screenings and events at CineCycle 📖 What we're reading & watching 📆 Opportunities 💌 + MORE Read here: mailchi.mp/2e4693d42704...

Today we are thinking of Joyce Wieland's film SOLIDARITY (1973). Her film follows hundreds of feet and legs, milling, marching and picketing in support of the workers of the Dare Cookie Factory in Kitchener, Ontario. View on our catalogue here: collections.cfmdc.org/titles/1207

🗓️ Tomorrow in Vancouver, BC: 𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙏𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣, an outdoor film screening at XINEMA’s Fieldhouse in Norquay Park. Ft. Kelly Egan's film c: won eyed jail, a homage to Joyce Wieland, explores experimental narrative and structural forms through the use of traditional "women’s work," xinema.ca

🧵 August 23 in Vancouver, BC: "Thread Tension" an outdoor film screening focusing on the industrial nature of film and fabric, ft Kelly Egan's short film "c: won eyed jail" which explores experimental narrative and structural forms through the use of traditional “women’s work.” bit.ly/4116AM7

☀️ CFMDC August Newsletter 🔒 CineCycle in the Toronto Star 📽️ Happenings at Dandelion Film Collective and CineCycle ▶️ New in the CFMDC Shop: Rennie Taylor's Phonetic Philmmaking 📆 Screenings & Events 💌 + MORE Read: bit.ly/4fhd1jY