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FND Monday, October 1st Telemetry: Shay Keubler Radical System Art
Monday, October 1st 8pm Buy Tickets Buy a Festival Pass Buy Tickets Buy a TGIF Pass Buy Tickets Telemetry: the complete measuring, transmitting, and receiving apparatus for indicating, recording, or integrating at a distance, by electrical translating means, the value of a quantity. Utilizing a blend of dance, theatre and martial arts, Telemetry looks to […]
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FND Tuesday, October 2nd Devil’s Purse: Catherine Wright & Burning Skin: Sinha Danse
Tuesday, October 2nd 8pm Buy Tickets Buy a Festival Pass Buy Tickets Buy a TGIF Pass Buy Tickets Devil's Purse: This work is an exploration of devils’ purses, or mermaids’ purses, which are the egg cases of the skate fish, sometimes found washed up on NL beaches. They are small in size but for Catherine […]
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FND Wednesday, October 3rd The NDN Way a Brian Solomon Electric Moose production
Wednesday, October 3rd 8pm Buy Tickets Buy a Festival Pass Buy Tickets Buy a TGIF Pass Buy Tickets In 1974, a budding artist created her first CBC documentary after finding inspiration in the synthesis of the Cree worldviews by Ron Evans. Inspired by the same original recording of the Cree storyteller, Solomon’s the NDN way […]
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FND Thursday, October 4th I am a Genius Does Anyone Here Know me? Lois Brown
Thursday, October 4th 8pm Buy Tickets Buy a Festival Pass Buy Tickets Buy a TGIF Pass Buy Tickets I AM A GENIUS does anyone here know me? uses a microphone, a 30-foot piece of paper, foil saved from Christmas poinsettias, and an outdated dictionary I inherited from my Dad after he died of dementia to […]
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FND Friday, October 5th Our heart breaks: Sarah Joy Stoker
Friday, October 5th 8pm Buy Tickets Buy a Festival Pass Buy Tickets Buy a TGIF Pass Buy Tickets Our heart breaks focuses on themes of ecology and extinction, industrialization, capitalism and the disconnect between humans and their natural environments, as well as the value placed on human rights versus non-human rights; the non-humans and/or the […]
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FND Saturday, October 6th Mozongi: Zab Maboungou Cie. Danse Nyata Nyata
Saturday October 6th, 8pm Buy Tickets Buy a Festival Pass Buy Tickets Buy a TGIF Pass Buy Tickets “To be a body is a real performance in itself” -Zab Maboungou Mozongi (Return) is a piece about time, and more precisely, about the physics of time. The step is weight and weight is time. Not repetition, […]
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Happy Days, A New Musical
October 11th-14th 2018 Thursday-Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 2pm Buy Tickets For those who remember the candy-coloured world of Happy Days, the TV series where gasoline is only 12 cents and a slice of pie solves everything, Happy Days: the New Musical, comes from the same team of Garry Marshall and Paul Williams. For those […]
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SJIWFF29 Presents: Exxonmobil Opening Night Gala – An Audience of Chairs
Wednesday, October 17th 7pm Scotiabank Theatre (48 Kenmount Road) Cinemas 10, 11 & 12 SJIWFF29 Presents:Exxonmobil Opening Night Gala: An Audience of Chairs Directed by Deanne Foley Buy Tickets Buy Festival Pass Maura Mackenzie (Carolina Bartczak) believes the world is hers to conquer. With her career as a concert pianist gaining momentum, it seems her […]
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SJIWFF29 Presents: Thursday Night Shorts
Thursday, October 18th 7:00pm St. John's International Women's Film Festival Preseents: Thursday Night Shorts Buy TicketsBuy Festival Pass On the Ridge Line - Chantale Boulianne Askin' for It - Kerry Gamberg Spirits of the Temple - NIFCO Documentary FIlm Class Summer 2017 Natural Light: Vivi's Story - Ivy Oldford Counterfeit […]
SJIWFF29 Presents: Late Feature – What Walaa Wants
Thursday October 18th 9:30pm SJIWFF29 Presents: Late Feature - What Walaa Wants Directed by Christy Garland Buy TicketsBuy a Festival Pass Raised in a refugee camp in the West Bank, while her mother was in an Israeli prison, Walaa is determined to become one of the few women in the Palestinian Security Forces—not easy […]
SJIWFF29 Presents: Funding 101
SJIWFF29 Presents: Funding 101
Thursday, October 18 10am NIFCO 40 King's Road Free! You have the idea, now you need the funds to make it happen. In an ever-evolving world of financing, we will be offering a panel with a focus on provincial and federal funding opportunities for film, television, digital media and web series. This panel is FREE […]
SJIWFF Presents: Lunch with the Filmmakers
SJIWFF Presents: Lunch with the Filmmakers
Thursday, October 18 12:30pm Rocket Bakery & Fresh Food 272 Water Street SJIWFF29 Presents: Lunch with the Filmmakers Buy Tickets Join the team behind our Festival’s amazing opening night feature, An Audience of Chairs, for an intimate lunch panel where you can chat with the filmmakers and actors to discover the process, stories and secrets […]
SJIWFF29 Presents: Doc Talk
SJIWFF29 Presents: Doc Talk
Thursday, October 18 3pm NIFCO 40 King's Road SJIWFF 29 Presents: Doc Talk Buy Tickets Meet the women behind the camera of our industry’s most compelling documentaries. 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 documentary […]
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SJIWFF29 Presents: Late Feature – The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution
Friday, October 19th. 9:30pm SJIWFF29 Presents: Evening Feature - The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution Directed by Maya Gallus Buy TicketsBuy a Festival Pass In restaurant kitchens, tight quarters, high pressure and hot tempers combine to create toxic conditions that make it difficult for anyone to survive, let alone climb the ladder to head chef. For […]
SJIWFF29 Presents: CBC Friday Night Shorts
Friday, October 19th, 7pm SJIWFF29 Presents: CBC Friday Night Shorts Buy TicketsBuy a Festival Pass Snake Hips Lulu - Lulu Keating Mahalia Melts in the Rain - Carmine Pierre-Dufour & Emilie Mannering Prince's Tale - Jamie Miller Some Saturdays - Steve Cochrane Good Girls Don't - Ana de Lara Little Black Dress - […]
SJIWFF29 Presents: Web Series Workshop with the IPF
SJIWFF29 Presents: Web Series Workshop with the IPF
Friday, October 19 10am NIFCO 40 King's Road Buy Tickets This session with Andra Sheffer (Independent Production Fund) will demystify application pitches and examine the various key components of a proposal, including creative materials, financing scenarios and sources, audience engagement/discoverability plans, distribution, revenue models, release strategies and ancillary content, success metrics and practical tips. Also, […]
SJIWFF29 Presents: Diversity in Film
SJIWFF29 Presents: Diversity in Film
Friday, October 19 12:30pm Rocket Bakery & Fresh Food 272 Water Street Buy Tickets More and more, increasing diversity both in front of and behind the camera is being recognized as a pertinent issue in this industry. Join us for a candid discussion on diversity in the industry luminaries who have transformed the industry through […]
SJIWFF29 Presents: Developing Digital
SJIWFF29 Presents: Developing Digital
Friday, October 19 3pm NIFCO 40 King's Road Buy Tickets Designed for creators and producers building online and new media platforms, this panel gives light to the unique marketing, funding, and audience reach strategies needed in today’s global market for those producing in the digital media environment.
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SJIWFF29 Presents: Evening Feature – Love, Scott
Saturday, October 20th 7pm SJIWFF29 Presents: Evening Feature - Love, Scott Directed by: Laura Marie Wayne Buy TicketsBuy a Festival Pass Following the journey of a young gay musician who is attacked and paralyzed from the waist down, Love, Scott is an intimate and visually evocative window into queer experience, set against a stunning […]
SJIWFF29 Presents: Saturday Afternoon Shorts
Saturday, October 20th 3pm SJIWFF29 Presents: Saturday Afternoon Shorts Buy TicketsBuy a Festival Pass Remind Me - Marie-Hélène Copti Heather Has Four Moms - Jeanette L. Buck What Happened to Evie - Kate Cheeseman Winds of Spring - Keyu Chen False Light - Kerrin Rafuse Bernie Langille Wants 2 Know - […]
SJIWFF29 Presents: Noon Feature – Falls Around Her
Saturday, October 20th 12pm SJIWFF29 Presents: Noon Feature - Falls Around Her Directed by Darlene Naponse Buy TicketsBuy a Festival Pass Tantoo Cardinal shines as a world-famous Anishinaabe musician who returns to the reserve to rest and recharge — only to discover that fame (and the outside world) are not easily left behind, in […]
SJIWFF29 Presents: Late Feature – Ordinary Days
SJIWFF29 Presents: Late Feature – Ordinary Days
Saturday, October 20th 9:30pm SJIWFF29 Presents: Late Feature - Ordinary Days Directed by Kris Booth, Jordan Canning & Renuka Jeyapalan Buy TicketsBuy a Festival Pass Cara Cook is a bright, athletic, college student who disappears without a trace. Five days play out three times from a trio of perspectives; her spiraling parents, the […]
SJIWFF29 Presents: Navigating the Festival Circuit
SJIWFF29 Presents: Navigating the Festival Circuit
Saturday, October 20 10am NIFCO 40 King's Road Buy Tickets Navigating the festival circuit can be tricky, but these expert panelists are here with your field-guide to maximizing your film’s festival run. Learn tips on how to advance yourself as an artist and gain insight into the process of programming from Canada’s top Festival […]
SJIWFF29 Presents: Women in Comedy
SJIWFF29 Presents: Women in Comedy
Saturday, October 20 10am NIFCO 40 King's Road Buy Tickets With a legacy of comedic talent, Canada is stepping up with a new generation of creators who are taking over the screen. Learn more about the business of being funny by some of the leading directors, writers and actors in the industry, and the new […]
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SJIWFF29 Presents: Emera NL Closing Night Gala – Hopeless Romantic
Sunday, October 21st, 7pm Scotiabank Theatre (48 Kenmount Road) SJIWFF29 Presents: Emera NL Closing Night Gala - Hopeless Romantic Buy Tickets Buy Festival Pass Crush Directed by: Kerry Gamberg 2017 RBC Michelle Jackson Emerging Filmmaker Award Winner: A new boy in school meets his first crush, a quirky outsider, and together they take down […]
SJIWFF29 Presents: Sunday Afternoon Shorts
Sunday, October 21st 3pm SJIWFF29 Presents: Sunday Afternoon Shorts Buy TicketsBuy a Festival Pass Billie - Maki Yoshikura Three Thousand - Isabella-Rose Weetaluktuk The Apartment - Justine Gauthier The Give and Take - Anna Hopkins Red Dress no Straps - Maryam Mohajer We'll Always Have Toynbee - Sonia B. Boileau […]
SJIWFF29 Presents: Noon Feature – They Call us Warriors
Sunday, October 21st 12pm SJIWFF29 Presents: Noon Feature - They Call us Warriors Directed by: Jennifer Socorro Buy TicketsBuy a Festival Pass WOMEN, WORLD-CLASS FOOTBALL AND THE BEST FEMALE PLAYER IN THE WORLD. After becoming undefeated champions of the South American Women Under-17 Championship and overcoming one of the worst social and economic environments […]
SJIWFF29 Presents Brunch with Hopeless Romantic
SJIWFF29 Presents Brunch with Hopeless Romantic
Sunday, October 21st 10:30 Rocket Bakery & Fresh Food 272 Water Street Buy Tickets This special brunch panel features the incredible ensemble team behind our Festival’s closing night feature. Join us and the directors for a peek behind-the-scenes of this anthology film and learn about how Hopeless Romantic subverts all of the Hollywood rom-com tropes. […]
Face 2 Face Pitch Session
Face 2 Face Pitch Session
Sunday, October 21 1pm Rocket Bakery & Fresh Food 272 Water Street Ticket $20 by application only Make your 15 minutes count! Apply for a one-on-one meeting with some of the biggest broadcasters, funders, producers and distributors in the country. Our pitch session is an incredible opportunity to introduce your project to the industry’s biggest […]
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Live Magazine! Volume 5, Issue #11 – Diverse-City Curated by Paul Power
8pm. Cox & Palmer Second Space Tickets $10 at the door Diverse-City - celebrating diverse artists and work in our community. Live Magazine! is back for a third season! Live Magazine! is a multi-curated, multi-disciplinary series that takes place in our Cox & Palmer Second Space. Each show features an evening of entertainment curated by a […]