2020 Festival

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This session will feature a frank and honest conversation with freelance filmmakers about how they make money. Read More

Industry Bootcamp: Making Freelance Work

Sat 12 Sep, 12:00

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When you ask to make a film about someone, you’re suggesting that they let a camera into their lives. What happens when the person you’re asking doesn’t trust the presence of the camera or what the results might suggest to an audience? This session will explore the different approaches to negotiating difficult access and documenting nuanced stories within traditionally inaccessible situations. ... Read More

Complex Access

Sat 12 Sep, 14:00

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Paisley Smith will present a session on world building for Virtual Reality. Paisley Smith is a Canadian filmmaker & virtual reality creator from Vancouver, British Columbia. She is the creator of Unceded Territories with artist and activist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, and Homestay, produced by the National Film Board of Canada. Homestay is the recipient of ‘Best XR’ for Change at the Games ... Read More

Paisley Smith: World-Building for Virtual Reality

Sat 12 Sep, 17:00

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Video essays have served a crucial role in the Black Lives Matter movement. Through their reappropriation of film and media to honor Black lives while critically examining such issues as racial violence, police brutality and systemic inequality, video essays serve as a format for Black visions and voices to be seen and heard. The Black Lives Matter Video Essay Playlist has collected these works... Read More

Seen and Heard: Selections from the Black Lives Matter Video Essay Playlist

Sat 12 Sep, 19:00

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A masterfully intimate observational documentary depicting life inside a Tehran juvenile detention centre, where a group of teenage girls serve sentences for the murder of abusive male family members. Read More

Sunless Shadows + Q&A

Sep 9 — Sep 12

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Unreliable narrators; dramatic reconstructions; testimony remade as myth. Voices summoned from the past are translated into new realities in this short film programme. Read More

Shorts: Absent Collaborators

Sep 9 — Sep 12

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A dynamic, impressionistic city symphony capturing Nigerian city Ibadan’s distinct rhythms from a street-level perspective. Read More

Trouble Sleep + Q&A

Sep 9 — Sep 12

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A probing inquiry into the act—and art—of preserving and constructing history, Jessica Sarah Rinland’s mesmerising debut feature-length work intimately examines the process of museological and ecological conservation through the production of a lab-engineered replica of an elephant tusk. Read More

Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another + Q&A

Sep 9 — Sep 12

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- In the rainforests of southern Colombia, an imposing, unfinished concrete highway stretches out across the Amazonian tree line. Suspension presents a visually and intellectually rich study of grand scale human folly that makes clear the futility of attempting to conquer nature. Read More

Suspension + Q&A

Sep 9 — Sep 12

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Bottled Songs is an ongoing media project depicting strategies for making sense of online terrorist propaganda. Read More

Bottled Songs 1 – 4 + Q&A

Sep 9 — Sep 12

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A sect of martial arts champions have devoted the past two decades to their master and his religion, undergoing relentless physical training to prepare for the coming apocalypse. Read More

Faith + Q&A

Sep 9 — Sep 12

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In the years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, sections of its 3.5-metre edifice have been transplanted to the USA and repurposed as public monuments in sites across the country. Read More

The American Sector + Q&A

Sep 9 — Sep 12

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