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Watch TV shows + features from NSI alumni on Crave

Posted: 29 Jun 2020 03:58 PM PDT

Above: feature film Falls Around Her from Darlene Naponse

We’re looking at Crave today in part five of our series about online video platforms featuring projects by NSI alumni.

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I think we’ve mentioned we’re proud of our NSI family. Our alumni continue to impress us with their content and we are grateful to the platforms that showcase their work. Scoop some ice cream and don’t forget the whip cream – it’s time to dive in to Crave!

TV series – comedy

Corner Gas | Seasons 1 to 6 | 2006 | 22 mins

Director/creator Robert de Lint, writer/creator/executive producer Virginia Thompson (both NSI Features First)

Forty kilometres from nowhere and way beyond normal is Corner Gas, an ensemble comedy series about a bunch of nobodies who get up to a whole lot of nothing in the fictional prairie town of Dog River, Saskatchewan.

Jann | Season 1 | 2019 | 21 mins

Writer Jason Filiatrault (NSI Script to Screen)

Jann Arden plays a fictionalized version of herself: a singer songwriter of a ‘certain age’ dealing with the harsh reality that her former music career is now on a slow, relentless slide into obscurity.

Letterkenny | Seasons 1 to 8 | 2016 | 24 mins

Executive producer Mark Montefiore (NSI Totally Television)

The residents of Letterkenny belong to one of three groups: Hicks, Skids and Hockey Players. The three groups are constantly feuding with each other over seemingly trivial matters; often ending with someone getting their ass kicked.

The Beaverton | Seasons 1 to 3 | 2016 | 22 mins

Director Craig David Wallace (NSI Totally Television), line producer Paula Devonshire (NSI Totally Television, NSI Features First)

A so-called televised adaptation of the immensely popular online satirical site TheBeaverton.com, The Beaverton files fake news stories of the upmost importance, informed by real events, the cultural zeitgeist and national news media.

TV series – drama

Bitten | Season 3 | 2016 | 44 mins | Fantasy, Horror

Writer Garfield Lindsay Miller (NSI Features First)

Based on the best-selling novels by Kelley Armstrong, Bitten is an emotionally charged thriller that follows reluctant heroine Elena Michaels, the world’s only female werewolf, who is forced to take on harsh responsibilities, in a male dominated world.

Cardinal | Seasons 1 to 4 | 2017 | 42 mins | Crime, Mystery

Writer/executive producer Sara Dodd (NSI Features First), co-producer/development executive Elise Cousineau (NSI Drama Prize)

Cardinal struggles to right past wrongs that could derail his investigation and end his career, as the cases grow more violent and twisted, and the clock ticks down on the killer’s next victim.

Frontier | Seasons 1 to 3 | 2016 | 46 mins | Adventure, History

Writer Lisa Rose Snow (NSI Drama Prize)

The fur trade of the late 18th century is a time of greed, violence and ambition — the more money that flows, the more blood is spilt. Everybody wants the same thing, but only one can have it.

Motive | Season 4 | 2016 | 44 mins | Crime, Mystery

Executive producer Erin Haskett (NSI Drama Prize), co-executive producer/writer Sara Dodd (NSI Features First)

Each episode begins by revealing not only the victim, but the killer as well. It’s an intense cat-and-mouse game as the homicide team sets off to piece together clues from the crimes committed.

Orphan Black | Seasons 1 to 5 | 2013 | 44 mins | Action, Drama

Writer Andrew De Angelis (NSI Totally Television), Bob Mackowycz Jr. (NSI Drama Prize)

After witnessing a woman’s suicide, Sarah assumes the stranger’s identity, who looks like her. Expecting to solve her problems by taking the woman’s savings, Sarah is instead thrust into a mystery as she realizes the truth: she and the woman are clones.

Reign | Seasons 1 to 4 | 2013 | 41 mins | Drama, Fantasy

Directors Norma Bailey, Sudz Sutherland (both NSI Totally Television)

The story of Mary Queen of Scots’ rise when she arrives in France at 15, with her three best friends and betrothed to Prince Francis.

Saving Hope | Seasons 4 + 5 | 43 mins | Drama, Fantasy

Writer Tammy Marlowe Johnson (NSI Totally Television)

After waking up from a coma, former chief of surgery Charlie Harris struggles with a secret that could jeopardize his career and his relationship with fiancée Dr. Alex Reid: he can still see and communicate with ghosts.

The Detail | Season 1 | 2018 | 43 minutes | Crime, Mystery

Director Jordan Canning (NSI Drama Prize)

Three fiercely talented female homicide investigators work tirelessly to solve crimes while navigating the complicated demands of their personal lives.

Transplant | Season 1 | 2020 | 44 mins | Drama

Creator/showrunner/executive producer Joseph Kay (NSI Totally Television), executive producer Virginia Rankin (NSI Global Marketing)

A skilled emergency medicine doctor flees Syria for Canada, in hopes of finding his place in a new hospital and country.

Feature films

Bang Bang Baby | 2014 | 89 mins | Fantasy, Drama, Musical

Writer/director Jeffrey St. Jules (developed through NSI Features First with Larissa Giroux), producer Daniel Bekerman (NSI Features First)

In the 1960s, a teenager thinks her dreams of becoming a singer will come true when a famous musician is stranded in town, but when a chemical plant leak turns people into mutants, her dream turns into a nightmare.

Canadian Strain | 2019 | 118 mins | Comedy

Writer/director Geordie Sabbagh, producer Ashleigh Rains (both NSI Totally Television)

When cannabis becomes legal in Canada, boutique weed dealer Anne Banting swiftly runs out of options to pay the bills. Her ‘loyal’ customers are now buying from the government regulated weed shops, and her friends struggle to sympathize with the weed dealing life she’s cultivated for herself.

Falls Around Her | 2018 | 95 mins | Drama, Thriller

Writer/director/producer Darlene Naponse (NSI Features First)

A world-famous Anishinaabe musician returns to the reserve to rest and refresh herself but finds that her fame and the outside world intrude.

Hector and the Search for Happiness | 2014 | 114 mins | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Producer Trish Dolman (NSI Features First)

Disillusioned with the tedium of his existence, psychiatrist Hector confesses to his girlfriend that he feels he is a fraud for dispensing recommendations to patients who never seem to improve or get any happier.

Take Me Home Tonight | 2011 | 97 mins | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director Michael Dowse (NSI Drama Prize)

Recent MIT grad Matt Franklin should be well on his way to a successful career at a Fortune 500 company, but instead, he rebels against maturity by taking a job at a video store.

The Woman Who Loves Giraffes | 2018 | 123 mins | Documentary

Producer Joanne Jackson (NSI Global Marketing)

Dr. Anne Innis Dagg re-traces the steps of her 1956 journey to South Africa to study giraffes in the wild. Now, at 85 years old, Anne sees a contrast between the world of giraffes she once knew and the one it has become.

The Unseen | 2016 | 108 mins | Action, Drama, Horror

Writer/director/producer Geoff Redknap (NSI Drama Prize, NSI Features First), producer Katie Weekley (NSI Drama Prize, NSI Features First, NSI Totally Television)

A man who abandoned his family now risks everything to find his missing daughter, including exposing the secret that he is becoming invisible.

Werewolf | 2016 | 80 mins | Drama

Writer/director/producer Ashley McKenzie, producer Nelson MacDonald (both NSI Drama Prize)

Two methadone users in a small town try to survive by mowing lawns, bound together in their desperation.

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Celebrate Pride Month with these short films from NSI alumni + intro from Ryan Cooper

Posted: 29 Jun 2020 02:58 PM PDT

We originally intended to publish this piece earlier in June. However, our website unexpectedly went down. In an effort to bring Ryan’s story and these films to our community, we posted this item on Facebook instead. Now we’re up and running again, we’re making this post available here.

In celebration of Pride Month throughout June, the NSI team is proud to showcase four short films from our alumni. Spanning several decades, the stories told in these films offer unique perspectives on important themes. All films were made through NSI training programs.

Ryan Cooper (Wilson) – a graduate of CBC New Indigenous Voices and NSI IndigiDocs – introduces the films.

I’m an Ojibwa Two-Spirit man from Treaty One Territory, Peguis First Nation. And I make movies.

As an Indigenous Two-Spirit filmmaker, making films in some way, shape or form is highly infused with my Two-Spirit Indigenous identity. I use filmmaking, and viewing films, as a way of healing, as a way of making peace with difficult decisions, a way of creating knowledge about the vast perspectives from the Two-Spirit and LGBTQ communities.

Two-Spirit / LGBTQ films are so highly needed! I want Two-Spirit / LGBTQ youth to see themselves on the television, on streaming services, on every multimedia platform. Growing up I had no resources to figure out who I was, what I was, and who I wanted to be.

I remember seeing the first film that completely resonated with me – it was Fire Song by Adam Garnet Jones and it changed my life! It helped shape the stories I know are missing in the world – like the humour from the amazing Preston in Big Momma, the gentleness of Sheila Jordan’s film Kathleen’s Closet, the resilience and history of the Indigenous trans community in the incredible film You Will Go Home, and the truth we all have to admit to ourselves like the character Danny in Silver Road.

I am so excited NSI is bringing you these four films showing the different perspectives of the Two-Spirit / LGBTQ identity. I hope youth and adults alike may have the same opportunity to resonate with these four incredible films and see themselves the way I did in Fire Song.

Big Momma

Big Momma | Documentary, 10:47, English, AB and BC, 2019 | Director: Caitlyn Pantherbone | Producer: Damien Eagle Bear

Big Momma follows an Indigenous and Two-Spirited aspiring comedian, musician and dancer preparing himself for his first big show as a stand-up comic.

Created through NSI IndigiDocs.

Kathleen’s Closet

Kathleen’s Closet | Drama, 13:13, English, BC, 2005 | Writer/director: Sheila Jordan | Producer: Diana Wilson

An unconventional hospice nurse develops a bond with her nearly comatose patient by helping her connect with a long-mourned love.

Created through NSI Drama Prize.

You Will Go Home

You Will Go Home | Drama, 7:23, English, MB, 2018 | Writer/director: Rhonda Lucy | With: Damian Frazee, Cynthia Murdock

A young trans woman makes the courageous and difficult decision to leave a toxic and abusive relationship by drawing from the strength of her ancestors and the knowledge that she deserves love and respect.

Created through CBC New Indigenous Voices.

Silver Road

Silver Road | Drama, 13:00, English, ON, 2007 | Writer/director: Bill Taylor | Producer: Elise Cousineau

Lifelong friends Danny and Mark struggle with the awkwardness of saying goodbye the night before Danny leaves for university in the city.

Created through NSI Drama Prize.

Fire Song (trailer)

Fire Song – mentioned by Ryan in his intro – was written and directed by NSI grad Adam Garnet Jones (NSI Storytellers, NSI Diverse TV Director, Featuring Aboriginal Stories Program). Laura Milliken (Featuring Aboriginal Stories Program) was producer/executive producer.

Shane, a gay Anishnabe teenager living in Northern Ontario, struggles to support his family after his sister commits suicide. If he fails, he will be forced to choose between keeping the family home or saving his future.

Fire Song was accepted to the Telefilm Canada Micro-Budget Production Program (now Talent to Watch) in 2014 after being nominated by NSI. The film had its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival in 2015.

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Perspectives on National Indigenous Peoples Day from NSI’s Kaya Wheeler and Sarah Yellowquill

Posted: 21 Jun 2020 02:38 PM PDT

We originally intended to publish this piece on June 21, National Indigenous Peoples Day. However, our website unexpectedly went down. In an effort to bring Kaya’s and Sarah’s stories to our community, we posted this item on Facebook instead. Now we’re up and running again, we’re making this post available here.

Today is National Indigenous Peoples Day. I’ve celebrated this day for as long as I can remember. What really sticks in my mind are my experiences as a child participating in the celebrations with my family.

It was always a day I looked forward to. Me and my family would head down to The Forks in Winnipeg and take in all the amazing music, food trucks and (my fave!) a bouncy castle of some sort.

National Indigenous Peoples Day was also a day when we would run into family and friends, and spend time catching up and visiting. It was a day to reconnect and celebrate our community.

Importantly, the event was the one time during the year when I saw myself reflected back at me.

Growing up in mainly white neighbourhoods and attending a school with very few Indigenous students, I didn’t see myself in my environment: there were very few, if any, Indigenous characters in the books we read, or the TV shows we watched.

In the classroom my culture and peoples were relegated to hunters and gatherers from long ago.

But on June 21 I would be surrounded by smiling faces that looked like mine. I watched incredibly talented performers on a huge stage with lights and smoke and an entire crowd dancing, singing and cheering – and they looked like me and my family. It became a time to celebrate who we are in today’s world.

Storytelling was everywhere: whether it was my mom and aunties talking and laughing or the performers on stage, I could relate to their stories in a way I was never able to at school or in pop culture.

It’s this incredibly positive representation that makes this day so special to me. Now that I’m older I have an even deeper understanding of how important this representation is – particularly having authentic voices tell our stories.

Through the work I do at NSI, I hope I am helping to create spaces for Indigenous filmmakers to tell their stories, and using our privilege to open doors. I want that feeling I carried as a child to just be something Indigenous people feel all the time.

Kaya Wheeler is the program manager of CBC New Indigenous Voices and NSI IndigiDocs

National Indigenous Peoples Day is a celebration of summer solstice and shows the beauty of our culture.

It’s important for Canadians to recognize this day to understand Indigenous culture and that everything our people have been through has not stopped us.

Stories will continue to be passed on by our ancestors and Elders, and new stories will be created.

NSI has run CBC New Indigenous Voices for over 15 years and through the program many successful students have told stories about their culture, family and language with film and sound.

Indigenous peoples are natural storytellers, and with today’s multiple technologies, our stories are just getting stronger and reaching an even wider audience.

Sarah Simpson-Yellowquill is NSI’s Indigenous programs and administrative assistant

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NSI alum projects score awards at Hot Docs and Canadian Film Fest

Posted: 09 Jun 2020 09:04 AM PDT

Congrats to Kat Baulu, Theola Ross, Alex Bailey, Gloria Ui Young Kim, Rachel Cairns and Anneli Ekborn on the recent success of their work.

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival

Ariel Nasr’s The Forbidden Reel, produced by Kat Baulu (NSI Drama Prize), was one of five feature films that shared the $50K Hot Docs Rogers Audience Award.

The film finished #4 on the list of top 20 audience favourites at the virtual festival and was the Artscapes program’s top film.

êmîcêtôcêt: Many Bloodlines, developed through NSI IndigiDocs by director Theola Ross and producer Alex Bailey, was #4 in the top five shorts. The film also won the Betty Youson Award for Best Canadian Short Documentary.

Michèle Stephenson’s Stateless, by producer Jennifer Holness (NSI Drama Prize, Telefilm Canada Spark Plug Program, NSI Global Marketing) and executive producer Sudz Sutherland (NSI Totally Television), won the Special Jury Prize – Canadian Feature Documentary.

The Hot Docs Festival Online ran from May 28 to June 6, but over 120 films are available to stream until June 24.

Canadian Film Festival

Queen of the Morning Calm, (pictured above) by director Gloria Ui Young Kim (NSI Diverse TV Director), won the William F. White Reel Canadian Indie Award and Gloria received the DGC Ontario Best Director award for her work on the film. Best breakout performance went to star Eponine Lee.

Dana Abramovici’s Liminal, executive produced by Anneli Ekborn (NSI Features First), won best short and Isa Benn’s Shoegazer, produced by Rachel Cairns (NSI Totally Television), won best new voice.

The Canadian Film Festival ran virtually on Super Channel Fuse from May 21 to June 6.

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CBC offers free virtual info sessions on the business of production, starting June 10

Posted: 08 Jun 2020 07:35 PM PDT

CBC, along with the support of the Canadian Audio-Visual Certification Office (CAVCO) and Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA), are launching a series of short virtual information sessions to introduce emerging independent producers and content creators from traditionally underrepresented groups in the industry, to topics related to the business and financing of TV, film and original digital content.

The free sessions will happen every day at 2 p.m. EST over a three-week period. Each session will be 30 minutes in total – with 20 minutes for content and 10 minutes for questions. The sessions are meant to introduce emerging creators and producers to a topic and provide them with resources and information to learn more.

Topics include pitching, negotiation, tax credits, content clearance and producing in the time of COVID. See the schedule. Participants can register for one or more sessions.

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New Hot Docs-Slaight Family Fund for music docs now open

Posted: 03 Jun 2020 12:52 PM PDT

In May, Hot Docs announced the new Hot Docs-Slaight Family Fund. Through a gift of $450K from The Slaight Family Foundation, this new development and production fund is dedicated to supporting Canadian music docs.

The first of its kind in Canada, the fund is committed to filmmakers telling engaging, high-quality stories that embrace musical forms and artists and demonstrates Canadian music’s role in the world. The fund also welcomes international music stories told through the lenses of Canadian filmmakers.

Each year, the fund will support three to five documentary projects, both shorts and features, with amounts ranging from $15K to $60K CAD. Recipients will also receive creative and professional development support.

Deadline for applications is July 29.

Find out more and apply.

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Alumni news in brief, June 2020: NBC picks up Joseph Kay’s Transplant

Posted: 02 Jun 2020 04:53 PM PDT

It’s another monthly news roundup featuring updates from some of our past participants.

If you’re a former NSI program participant with news to share about your latest project, get in touch and we’ll get the word out on our website in alumni news, and on social media.

NBC picks up Joseph Kay’s Transplant

Season one of Transplant (pictured), the hit TV series on CTV by creator, showrunner and executive producer Joseph Kay (NSI Totally Television) and executive producer Virginia Rankin (NSI Global Marketing), has been picked up by NBC.

In the series, a skilled emergency medicine doctor flees Syria for Canada, in hopes of finding his place in a new hospital and country.

CBC orders season two of Michelle Latimer’s Trickster

CBC recently announced Trickster has been renewed for a second season. The drama series is based on the best-selling novel Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson. Michelle Latimer (NSI Drama Prize) created the series and directs.

In season one Michelle and Zoe Leigh Hopkins (Featuring Aboriginal Stories Program) were writers on the series, Michelle was executive producer and JJ Neepin (NSI IndigiDocs) was associate producer.

Trickster is a supernatural thriller that follows an Indigenous teen named Jared who struggles to keep his family afloat when a stranger named Wade ruptures the balance (from CBC).

BJ Verot leads shorts to first feature film workshop

Join BJ Verot (NSI Drama Prize) via Zoom for a free workshop guiding you from shorts to first feature film on Thursday June 4 from 7 to 10 p.m. CT.

The workshop will cover BJ’s script writing process, finding the right people to collaborate with, the importance of learning to be your own producer and how to set benchmarks with each film project to have a successful career. After the talk, there will be a 30 minute Q&A.

RSVP to training@winnipegfilmgroup.com. The event is free, but donations to The Winnipeg Film Group are gladly accepted.

Ryan Cooper receives IPF producer bursary

Ryan Cooper (CBC New Indigenous Voices, NSI IndigiDocs) is the recipient of an IPF Producer Bursary for creators/producers of scripted short-form series with his project My Sassy Sasquatch.

Ryan is one of three participants to receive the bursary from the Independent Production Fund and Banff World Media Festival. The bursary provides a full-access virtual networking pass for the BANFF 2020 virtual edition; complimentary registration and a travel subsidy to attend the 2021 Banff World Media Festival; and exclusive mentorship / professional development opportunities over the summer.

Todd McCauley selected to Whistler producer’s lab

Todd McCauley (NSI Features First) is one of six producers selected to the Whistler Film Festival’s Producers Lab, with his project The Medicine Line. The two-phase lab prepares Canadian producers to rework, pitch, market and sell their creative content while also being immersed in business opportunities at the festival.

Chloé Leriche receives Telefilm feature film funding

Telefilm Canada announced nearly $8 million in funding for six French-language feature films, including Soleils Atikamekw by writer/director Chloé Leriche (NSI Drama Prize).

On June 26, 1977, a van carrying seven people plunges into the Rivière du Milieu, north of Saint-Michel-des-Saints. Two Quebecers escape, but five young people from the Manawan community lose their lives. Produced in collaboration with the Conseil des Atikamekw de Manawan, Soleils Atikamekw is freely inspired by the dreams, impressions and memories of the family and friends of the victims of this tragedy.

NFB projects from Kat Baulu and Sheona McDonald

The National Film Board green lit a slate of new productions and co-productions including Lab Doc Project and Saturday Night by producer Kat Baulu (NSI Drama Prize), and Out of Darkness by director Sheona McDonald (NSI Global Marketing).

The Lab Doc Project features four short documentaries about Nunatsiavut rituals, history and culture told from Inuit perspectives in collaboration with communities.

Saturday Night explores loneliness in Latin American immigrants living in Montreal and introduces a bittersweet approach to aging through the sensual lens of dance.

Out of Darkness tells the story of a mother’s journey through loss, acceptance and joy as she supports her young child’s gender transition.

NSI alumni films coming to nfb.ca in June

This month two films by NSI alumni will debut on nfb.ca.

Starting June 15: The Road Forward, a feature-length musical documentary by Marie Clements (NSI Storytellers, Featuring Aboriginal Stories Program).

Shot in Vancouver, this musical documentary by BC Métis/Dene filmmaker Marie Clements connects a major turning point in Canada’s civil rights history – the beginnings of Indian Nationalism in the 1930s – with the powerful momentum of First Nations activism today. Stunningly shot musical sequences, performed by an ensemble of some of Canada’s finest vocalists and musicians, seamlessly connect past and present with soaring vocals, blues, rock, and traditional beats.

Starting June 17: The Tournament, world premiere of a short film by Sam Vint (CBC New Indigenous Voices).

Over the course of a weekend tournament in Minnesota, youth sledge hockey teams from the US and Canada battle for supremacy. Designed for players who have a physical challenge, the fundaments of the sport – passing, shooting, trash talking your opponents – remain the same.

NSI Features First-developed screenplay named semi-finalist in Vail Film Festival screenwriting contest

Cherries, developed through NSI Features First by Matt Sadowski and Amelia Wasserman, was a feature screenplay semi-finalist in the 2020 Vail Film Festival Screenplay Contest.

Cherries follows an anxious and cynical young woman who gets caught up in a high-stakes misadventure on her 16th birthday when her flighty and reckless Irish-twin sister befriends a pretty boy delinquent.

Cherries has also placed at Slamdance Script Competition (finalist), Best Feature Script 2020 Vancouver Bad Ass Film Festival (nominee), 2020 Female Eye Film Festival (quarterfinalist) and 2019 Cynosure Screenplay Awards (quarterfinalist).

NSI alumni receive Harold Greenberg Fund support

Congrats to the following NSI alumni who received support from the Harold Greenberg Fund Script Development Program.

Story option

First to second draft

Second to third draft

Polish and packaging

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Building bridges to love, acceptance, empathy and understanding through storytelling

Posted: 02 Jun 2020 04:43 PM PDT

“The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kind.” – Dalai Lama

Today is #BlackoutTuesday and I’m again reminded of the importance of building bridges to love, acceptance, empathy and understanding through storytelling.

As one of the first black families to live in a rural Mennonite community in the 1970s, I value shared cultural experiences and their power to transform perspectives and lives. Recent conversations with my Mennonite husband and mixed-raced children compel me to actively make a difference to live in a more peaceful and loving world.

The work we do at NSI is critical in amplifying the voices of underrepresented storytellers across our nation. By doing so, we build those bridges to greater understanding.

Now, more than ever, we need to hear each other’s stories.

Let’s take good care of each other.

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Get your online pass for Gimli Film Festival

Posted: 02 Jun 2020 04:07 PM PDT

Online passes for Gimli Film Fest’s 20th anniversary are now on sale.

For the first time, you can watch Gimli Film Festival (GFF) from the comfort of your home.

Your festival pass provides access to GFF On Demand, a Netflix-style streaming platform with over 130 film titles.

Passes for GFF On Demand provide access to unlock 20 films of your choice over the five days of the festival – Wednesday, July 22 to Sunday, July 26.

There is also free film programming via GFF Live Stream. This five-day schedule of feature films, short film programs, filmmaker Q&As, panel discussions and more will be available to anyone across the globe for FREE, streamed live directly on GFF’s website.

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