Millefiore Clarkes dedicates herself to the craft and community of media arts in Prince Edward Island, Canada. Through her company One Thousand Flowers Productions (www.onethousandflowers.tv) she produces a variety of media work such as ‘pocket-docs’ for online dissemination, music videos, experimental video, web series, and feature documentaries. She has received awards for her work and her films have screened in festivals across Canada and the US. Her passion is to capture on film the moments when human’s reveal themselves and their essential interconnectivity.

Three days of outstanding documentary films celebrating life and human dignity
around the world and right here at home.

I make essay-style indie documentary films, the kind that live outside of the mainstream. I also teach documentary and film studies in the film program at NSCAD University (www.nscad.ca), I write about film and have been involved with film programming, including with the Halifax Independent Filmmaker’s Festival and the infamous Doc-ula event. My books include: “Working on Screen”, “Rain/Drizzle/Fog: Film and Television in Atlantic Canada” and “John Walker’s Passage.” A member of DOC-Atlantic.

Beachwalker Films is owned by documentary filmmaker, Mark Sandiford. Mark’s film Qallunaat! Why White People are Funny won the Gemini Canada award in 2008 for best reflection of Canada’s cultural identity.

Cooperative dedicated to independent cinema since 1977

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The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is one of the world’s leading digital content hubs, creating groundbreaking interactive documentaries and animation, mobile content, installations and participatory experiences. The NFB has created over 13,000 productions and won over 5,000 awards, including 4 Canadian Screen Awards, 7 Webbys and 12 Oscars. To access acclaimed NFB content, visit NFB.ca or download its apps for smartphones, tablets and connected TV.

Le Cinéma sous les étoiles, c’est une trentaine de projections citoyennes, conviviales et gratuites mettant en lumière des problématiques sociales, politiques et environnementales cruciales et préoccupantes.

En plus de la simple joie d’apprécier une œuvre en plein air, notre plateforme offre un lieu de rencontre qui permet de tisser des liens entre les gens du quartier. Cet espace d’échanges et de discussions donne la chance aux citoyens de découvrir les documentaristes d’ici, artisans du cinéma social ainsi que de décortiquer des enjeux d’actualité locaux et internationaux.

Accessibles et gratuites, nos activités se déplacent au cœur même des quartiers, cette approche est essentielle pour attirer les citoyens à réfléchir autour des thématiques proposées. Rendue possible grâce à une collaboration exceptionnelle entre les artisans du documentaire, les groupes communautaires, Desjardins et la ville de Montréal, notre quatrième saison de cinéma urbain comprend une programmation riche et cohérente toujours à l’affût des grands enjeux d’actualité.

CINEMA POLITICA is a Montreal-based media arts, non-profit network of community and campus locals that screen independent political film and video by Canadian and international artists throughout Canada and abroad. It is the largest volunteer-run, community and campus-based documentary-screening network in the world.

We are part of the national and international grassroot network Cinema Politica. We are the first local of the network to be founded in Quebec city. Our goals are to promote political films, to support and connect with the local scene and to engage our participants in an active reflexion on an array of issues from here and elsewhere.
To do so, we organize, during the school year, a series of screenings, which are followed by a discussion period with guest animators to discuss the issues presented in the movie and explore further. The entrance to those events is on the principle of voluntary donation.
We are a non-for-profit organisation run by volunteers.

The Canadian Film Institute (CFI) was incorporated in 1935 as a federally-chartered, non-governmental, non-profit cultural organization. It is the oldest film institution in Canada and the second oldest film institute in the world.

The CFI’s mandate is to encourage and promote the production, diffusion, study, appreciation, and use of moving images for cultural and educational purposes in Canada and abroad. In addition to organizing ongoing public film programming, distributing a small collection of films, and publishing books and monographs on various aspects of Canadian cinema, the CFI presents a regular public programme of contemporary, historical, and international cinema in the National Capital region. It also curates and circulates a number of its film series to various cinémathèques in other cities across Canada.

We screen non-hollywood films for the public. We are a new group trying to bring more culture to Northern Ontario.

On Screen Manitoba is a non-profit, member-driven professional association that leads, builds and represents the Manitoba media production industry. Our membership includes individuals and industry organizations (production companies, service suppliers, training bodies, funding agencies and exhibitors) representing some 1500 industry professionals from Anglophone, multi-cutural, Francophone and Aboriginal communities of Manitoba.

Music and Film in Motion (MFM) is a non-profit organization whose mandate is to foster and promote the development of the music and film industries in Northern Ontario. As a development agency, MFM seeks to create economic development opportunities in Northern Ontario’s cultural industries.

Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival was established in 1989 and despite some early skepticism, Sudburians quickly proved that a mining-oriented community could be receptive to repertory film culture as cinema-buffs crowded theatres during the inaugural three-day event. Each year since the Festival has continued to mature and expand. By 1993, Cinéfest Sudbury evolved into a full-service film organization, with the Festival growing to include upwards of 60 films over 5 days. Currently screening approximately 135 films, including full-length features, shorts, documentaries and animation, Cinéfest Sudbury provides cinephiles with first-class film works and industry discourse each September.

We are an annual social justice film festival, featuring panel discussions after each film with local experts on the issue addressed. This event is supported by the River Community Church and its Social Justice Network.

Providing risk consulting and insurance services in support of storytellers and filmmakers.

Spring Pulse Poetry Festival is Northern Ontario’s largest poetry/arts festival. Last year we created a documentary called “The Poetrain Express” a poets journey whereby 33 poets/musicians/ travel bloggers and a film crew started the festival in Toronto, and travelled on the Northlander train service to Cobalt, Ontario. A first time a poetry festival was on a train.

Our goal is to provide independent Canadian filmmakers with a platform to reach audiences directly. We hope to assist independent Canadian media artists in showing Canada – and the world – what we’re capable of. Part of our mission is to use past projects to support the present ones being released.
The site endeavours to be inclusive rather than exclusive to Canadians by providing additional online space to all genres and formats of Canadian moving pictures, and by supporting organizations from all corners of the country. Cinema Canadiana aims to help give a voice to the independent filmmakers of our nation by providing free online space for user-driven content, thus allowing for a diversity of voices to emerge.

Beyond being a crowdsourced site with a user-driven experience that promotes Canadian content, Cinema Canadiana’s design philosophy is two-fold. First, to utilize our website to drive users to other areas of the Internet that highlight the content created around these projects (official sites, places to see the work, reviews, interviews, etc.). Secondly, we will provide a forum to encourage dialogue in order to advance the knowledge and exchange of ideas, thus improving the capacity to appreciate the works.

Write & produce documentary, drama, and classical music. My BravoFact short film and my Broadway musical show both won awards.

Reel Girls Media is a content driven company dedicated to fostering a deeper understanding of the world and the human spirit through the production of award winning factual and non factual television and transmedia content for the global market. The company engages in smart and original entertainment delivered across multiple platforms including television, web, and mobile.

In 2011, South African archeologists reported finding a 100,000 year old human-made ochre-based mixture which could have been used like paint. Cave paintings drawn with red or yellow ochre, hematite, manganese oxide, and charcoal may have been made by early Homo sapiens as long as 40,000 years ago.

Film Lovers in the Kootenays

Creating community and an appreciation of films and movies, by bringing eclectic, rare, inspiring BIG Screen events to communities in British Columbia’s Kootenays.

The Shatford Centre is an entrepreneurial creativity centre dedicated to creative well-being. The Shatford Centre is a ‘social enterprise’ for the Okanagan School of the Arts. The Mission of the Okangan School of the Arts is to assist in the awakening and expression of the creative spirit.

We are located in the cultural heart of the Kootenays, in Nelson BC. Expressions is a performance venue that has hosted such events as live music, film screenings, workshops, and discussions.

Founded in 2003, OPEN CINEMA screens thought-provoking documentaries in cafe-style venues followed by open forum discussion with invited guests. Dedicated to the innovative use of film as a tool for community engagement, it was has been referred to as “one of Victoria’s most successful cultural enterprises” (Michael D. Reid, Times Colonist 2011)

In 2012, OPEN CINEMA developed an innovative hybrid event format that extends community engagement into the virtual realm. Using Livestream and a moderated Tweetchat, online reach has risen from 20,000 in October 2012 to 123,000 in April 2013.

The Get on the Doc Bus project is OPEN CINEMA’s documentary outreach program during Summer 2013!

OPEN CINEMA is a program of MediaNet

DOC-BC is the British Columbia Chapter of the Documentary Organization of Canada.

http://www.docbc.org

Documentary Organization of Canada

The Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC) is the collective voice of independent documentary makers across Canada. DOC is the premiere organization for Canadian documentary advocacy, analyzing policy, conducting insightful research and speaking up at all levels of government to help Canadian documentary flourish.

DOC helps Canadian documentary-makers get their work made and seen. We offer top-notch professional development and networking opportunities through our workshops, master classes, mentorship programs, services and benefits. Our vibrant network of professionals is connected coast-to-coast by an ever-humming members’ discussion group. The services we offer DOC members reduce their business costs and connect them to top industry players.

Documentary is a uniquely Canadian art form that blends passion, art, observation, humour and criticism. Our country has a rich history of documentary filmmaking, a tradition we honour and celebrate while advocating on behalf of current and future generations of Canadian documentary makers.

Hello Cool World is an interactive agency that works exclusively on social cause projects and campaigns. We create, support and promote transmedia content and use grassroots and mainstream methods to get the good word out!

For Hello Cool World, campaigns are mission critical. Whether we are using a film to launch a movement, or creating a campaign from the ground up, we care about the long-term engagement of communities around a cause. With clients in the non-profit sector and independent film communities, we also specialize in hybrid distribution and grassroots campaign development. We do social marketing and we use social media. We engage in “social branding.”

We are also exploring cool new ways to use participatory research to deliver creating reporting, including new ways to veiw qualitative results.

As social entrepreneurs we run a triple-bottom line company. As film distributors we are defining fairer trade for films with a social message. We offer a higher return to filmmakers, and use our profits to sustain campaigns. All the profits from anything on our web store support our campaigns. With the film 65_RedRoses, we are partnering with BC Transplant to use the film as a tool for awareness around organ donation and CF and to get the film into high schools.

With the release of our new high school version of The Corporation our goal is engage students and teachers in forming Corporation Clubs across North America.

Our mandate is: ideas to audiences, audiences to action, action to outcome.

We are not looking only for clients, but for collaborators.

Is this you?

While I’m the developer of the platform here, I’m also a documentary film lover. I have a certificate in teaching documentary film from the Gulf Island Television and Screen Institute, taken for a workshop I gave up in Hartley Bay, BC years ago. But I digress, documentary film is one of the most important ways we can express ideas and tell stories today. With personal publishing power via ‘smart’ mobile gadgets and user generated content production at an all time high, videos are gaining ground as the leading content type. Bearing that in mind, making high quality documentaries is no easy feat. Mandy’s effort to raise awareness about the state of documentary film-making in Canada, and around the world is incredibly inspiring. I hope you enjoy the site and take a look around to see the other intriguing film festivals, projects, people and concepts around the site. Drop me a line if you want to chat.

Avi is a strategic social marketing consultant. He advises clients on business model design, digital business strategies and behavior oriented communications management. Tweet to him at @AviLambert. His site is www.avilambert.net He lives in beautiful Victoria, BC with his wife and two sons.