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Three new films in this week’s NSI Online Short Film Festival from directors Matthew Hayes and Victoria Mohr-Blakeney, Madison Thomas and Sherien Barsoum.

Locked in a Way

Locked in a Way | Experimental, 7:10, English, ON, 2016 | Directors: Matthew Hayes, Victoria Mohr-Blakeney

Locked in a Way is a collaboration between filmmaker Matthew Hayes and dance artist Victoria Mohr-Blakeney.

This short film explores the confining and isolating landscape of grief. It features the last recorded conversation between Victoria and her mother Renate Mohr, as they speak about a creative collaboration they are not able to finish before Renate’s death.

Locked in a Way offers a brief intimate space wherein a mother’s voice and a daughter’s body connect across time, space and even death.

Run Nasayenh Run: A Wendigo Teaching

Run Nasayenh Run: A Wendigo Teaching | Documentary, 4:49, English, MB, 2019 | Director: Madison Thomas

Utilizing footage shot across Canada and Elder Mary Wilson’s candid insights on the Wendigo – a complicated figure in Anishnaabe culture – Run Nasayenh Run blends documentary and experimental elements as it follows the road trip of a young man who believes he is being pursued by the often misunderstood Wendigo spirit.

Ride for Promise

Ride for Promise | Documentary, 23:00, English, ON, 2018 | Director: Sherien Barsoum

Former CFL prospect Curtis Carmichael embarks on a nationwide adventure – cycling from Vancouver to Halifax – to challenge Canadians on their perceptions of racialized youth growing up in marginalized communities.

Ride for Promise follows an inspiring young man determined to flip the narrative on race, privilege and poverty.

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Call for films / submit by June 14

We’re accepting films through FilmFreeway until Friday, June 14, 2019. Films chosen during this call period will play in the NSI Online Short Film Festival from June 24 to September 13, 2019.

We accept films released after January 1, 2014. If your film is programmed, you have a chance of winning the A&E Short Filmmakers Award for best film.

All NSI Online Short Film Festival winners receive a complimentary Friend membership for the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television and are qualified to be nominated for a Canadian Screen Award (if award criteria are met).

Read about the most recent winner.

Your film must be less than 30 mins. Drama, comedy, animation, documentary, sci-fi, horror, music video and experimental are all eligible and must be made by a Canadian writer, director or producer.

Submit your film

The NSI Online Short Film Festival is made possible through the support of Festival Partner Telefilm Canada; Supporting Sponsors Corus Entertainment, CBC Gem, Super Channel; Award Sponsor A&E Television Networks; Industry Partner the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television.

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