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SJIWFF28 Presents: Decoding Distribution

Buy Tickets Buy Festival Pass 10am This event will be held at NIFCO NOT The LSPU Hall. Methods of distribution are constantly evolving. From traditional to digital, join industry leaders to discuss this ever-evolving landscape including sales options, financing, understanding your market and more.

SJIWFF28 Presents: Women Leading TV

Buy Tickets Buy Festival Pass 12:30pm This event will be held at The Masonic Temple NOT The LSPU Hall. Canada is stepping up with a new generation of creators who are taking over your television. Learn more about the business of broadcasting by some of the leading creators on Canadian television. Talk with the writers, […]

SJIWFF28 presents: Evening Feature: La Chana

Buy Tickets Buy festival Pass 7pm La Chana Directed by Lucija Stojevic Everyone loves the flamenco. But it’s not just the fancy footwork that gives this film some pretty top audience awards at festivals: it’s the moving brilliance of its storytelling. This film shares with Chavela an intimate exploration of an exceptional older woman’s life, […]

SJIWFF28 presents: Saturday Afternoon Shorts

Buy Tickets Buy festival Pass 3pm Martin’s Hagge – Penny Eizenga The Owl and the Lemming - Roselynn Akulukjuk Chudala – Maaria Sayed Nana – Ali Kellner Wolf – Liz Cooper Be the Change - Amelia Curran & Roger Maunder

SJIWFF28 Presents: Doc Talk

Buy Tickets Buy Festival Pass 3pm This event will be held at NIFCO NOT The LSPU Hall. Presented by Bell Fund Meet the women behind the camera. Learn how documentaries can be used to entertain, educate, effect social change, and serve as a form of activism and why women are leading the world of docs. […]

SJIWFF28 presents: Noon Feature: A Better Man

Buy Tickets Buy festival Pass 12pm A Better Man Directed by Attiya Khan, Lawrence Jackman When the festival programmers keep talking about a film long after we’ve watched it we know we have to share it. A Better Man will get you talking. It’s a bold documentary that situates the filmmaker herself at the centre. […]

SJIWFF28 presents: Late Feature: Porcupine Lake

Buy Tickets Buy festival Pass 9:30pm Porcupine Lake By Ingrid Veninger Festival darling, Ingrid Veninger returns to us with her reliably strong work, this time a coming-of-age story that pulls you right into its central drama. Veninger well understand the secrets of girlhood. Her two well-cast leads perform with an uncanny naturalism, suggestive of the […]