The Clever Hand screening Friday, March 15, 8pm Atlantic Filmmakers’ Co-Operative 5663 Cornwallis Street It all started a little over a year ago, when Maggie MacCormick—the designer behind the colourful, clean-lined fashion label maggie jayne—and a bunch of her pals gathered on the beach for a music video shoot. “It was just so fun to […]
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Other tongues
Languages of Nova Scotia Thursday, November 29, 7pm Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library 5440 Spring Garden Road free The predominantly English local film scene will get mixed up this week, courtesy of the Languages of Nova Scotia screening. An initiative of the Atlantic Filmmakers’ Co- operative, on Thursday five directors will present their debut shorts, […]
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Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival announces 2018 lineup
The Atlantic Filmmakers’ Co-operative has announced the slate of films for its 12th installment of the Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival, this year running from June 6 to 9 in Neptune’s Scotiabank Theatre. Two features from Cape Breton filmmakers are on the lineup: Jacquelyn Mills‘ doc about her grandmother, In the Waves, screens June 7. Winston DeGiobbi‘s […]
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Sexual assault allegations at Atlantic Filmmakers Co-operative
The Atlantic Filmmakers Co-operative posted a statement on its Facebook page Tuesday, in part addressing the claims made public this week by a woman that she was sexually assaulted by a current staff member several years ago while working on a film. In light of that incident—about which the organization determined “no further action was […]
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AFCOOP reacts to Film Industry Tax Credit cuts
It’s lights, camera, reaction for film industry folk in Nova Scotia. Filmmakers across the province are stepping into the spotlight to speak out against the drastic changes to the Film Industry Tax Credit. The Atlantic Filmmakers Co-op (AFCOOP) put out the casting call to anyone who wanted to talk about their connection to the Nova […]
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DOCU-LAB lstarts this month
Do you have a documentary idea creeping around in the back of your mind, begging to be put down on film? The Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative is here to help with their first ever course on documentary filmmaking, called DOCU-LAB, starting April 23. The 15 participants selected will have access to everything from documentary history classes […]
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New Work in Progress blog from Eva Madden-Hagen
Eva Madden-Hagen is one of the Work In Progress bloggers here at The Coast.ca, and she has just put up a new post about her new experimental film POSE. Click here to read it. Madden-Hagen will give the final workshop in her AFCOOP Filmmaker in Residence series this Thursday, March 15, 7pm at The Atlantic […]
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EXPOSED: “A Naked Screening of a Work in Progress”
As some of you who follow this blog will know, I’ve been working this winter on my latest experimental film project POSE. It’s about Dave Cullen, a local storyboard artist who has taken up nude modeling and the comparisons and contrasts lying therein. Part of the duties of the filmmaker in residency program at AFCOOP […]
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Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival seeks film submissions
Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival is putting the call out for short film submissions. HIFF, a presentation of the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative, is dedicated to the exhibition of film and video as art, in a noncompetitive setting free from commercial agendas. The sixth annual HIFF will happen April 10-14. HIFF is looking for films to fill […]
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AFCOOP Super 8 Party this Wednesday
You’re invited to AFCOOP’s Super-8 Handmade Holiday Screening and Party! Join the Atlantic Filmmakers Co-operative staff, members and friends at 8pm, Wednesday December 14 at the Bus Stop Theatre (2203 Gottingen Street). You’ll get to witness never-before-seen holiday-inspired Super-8 films on the big screen and enjoy a holiday drink or two.
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Eva talks about Super8, Dave Cullen
This Thursday, December 1, as part of the Filmmaker in Residence Program, I will be giving an artist talk at AFCOOP. I will be showing some of my Super8 films, discussing my new work POSE and engaging in a discussion with the subject of POSE, artist and raconteur Dave Cullen. Dave and I will be […]
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AFCOOP’s FILM 5 call for applications
The Atlantic Filmmaker’s Co-operative’s FILM 5 program for 2011-2012 is now open to submissions. AFCOOP is looking for emerging Nova Scotia filmmakers to apply to the program. FILM 5 is a professional development program for writers, directors and producers culminating in the opportunity to produce a five-minute short film. Getting into the program is competitive. […]