The city’s annual celebration of outside-the-mainstream movies and the directors who make them, Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival is known for bringing critically adored movies to town that audiences would be unable to access otherwise. Run by the Atlantic Filmmakers Co-operative, it’s been screening interesting, challenging and plain old cool movies for over 15 years. What […]
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Visiting A Colony
“There are a lot of coming-of-age films, a lot of teen films, but my goal was to have an honest image of teenagerhood,” says the writer-director Geneviève Dulude-De Celles. “I really wanted to give them that space and take them seriously.” Dulude-De Celles’ second feature A Colony (Une Colonie) arrives at the Halifax Independent Filmmakers’ […]
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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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Halifax Independent Filmmakers Fest returns June 7-11
Yes, summer may be all about sun-soaked patios and accumulating freckles, but for movie lovers it’s also the most wonderful time of the year: Multiplexes are churning out frothy blockbusters and film festivals allow a welcome chance to catch more boutique offerings, too. The latter part wouldn’t be what it is without the likes of […]
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John Davis breaks it down
To spend 45 minutes on the phone with documentary filmmaker John T. Davis is to appreciate the way a lifetime can be shaped by the breaks. The latest break to come his way belongs to his wife—a fractured ankle sustained in a fall at their son’s wedding in Washington, D.C. Speaking from his Northern Ireland […]
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Tarek Abouamin’s past present
If viewers feel there’s a particular freshness to Tarek Abouamin’s short film Gawab, it’ll partly owe to the fact that the documentary is fresh in a literal sense. A couple of weeks before its April 14th screening as part of the Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival, its creator says he’s still “cutting like mad.” But a […]