Welcome to the 16th Annual Regent Park Film Festival!
Running from November 14-17, 2018. Reserve your free festival seats today!
Seats fill up quickly, so we recommend you reserve your seats as soon as possible. All programs are completely free, with FREE CHILDCARE provided on-site every day of the Festival (no pre-registration required)!
* if you wish to reserve seats for groups of 6+ please email outreach@regentparkfilmfestival.com
2018 FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
OPENING NIGHT: EMERGING DIRECTORS’ SPOTLIGHT & PITCH CONTEST
Wednesday, November 14 | 7:30 - 10:00 PM
—Hosted by CBC Radio One’s Nana aba Duncan, the Emerging Directors’ Spotlight celebrates the best of Canada’s emerging talent, highlighting short films from female directors under 26 years of age. A Q&A and a pitch contest will follow, where panelists Marsha Greene (co-executive producer of MARY KILLS PEOPLE) and Jasmine Mozaffari (writer and director of FIRECRACKERS) will decide who takes home the $1000 cash prize. The selected short films explore immigration, cultural identity clashes, and a fight for self-determination by Indigenous youth.
VIRTUAL SPACE
Made This Way: Redefining Masculinity / Biidaaban: First Light / where now? / Reunion; self-determination of the Black American South
–In this year's Virtual Space, VR and video-based projects illuminate what it means to inhabit ground: the rituals of making home, losing it, and remembering its limits and triumphs to foresee diasporic and Indigenous futurities. With works that range from employing Virtual Reality in their installation, to personal archives of the home video and the televisual, this room asks where we stand, and in moments of fraught community, who do we stand with. No reservation required. Open to the public throughout the festival.
DIGITAL ACTIVISM PANEL: #METOO FROM THE MARGINS
* Featuring Shazia Javed, Anique Jordan, and Erica Violet Lee
Saturday, November 17 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM
This panel takes #MeToo as a point of resistance against activist appropriation. Local Indigenous and racialized women will share how their work engages with ideas of misogyny, sexual literacy, consent, and justice for survivors. Moderated by legal scholar and director of Noor Cultural Centre, Azeezah Kanji.
SPECIAL PRESENTATION: HOME MADE VISIBLE WORLD PREMIERE
* Artists in attendance
Saturday, November 17 | 2:30 - 4:00 PM
The world premiere of the Home Made Visible commissioned projects, ahead of the collection’s nationwide tour in 2019. An unprecedented initiative that aims to address the gap in Canada’s media archives of IBPOC representation, Home Made Visible not only digitizes and archives old home movies for free, but asks commissioned artists to respond to the colonial practice of archiving through the creation of new works.
CLOSING NIGHT FILM: RAFIKI (dir. Wanuri Kahiu, Kenya)
with CONTINUUM (dir. Noncedo Khumalo, Canada)
Saturday, November 17 | 8:00 - 10:30 PM
Regent Park Film Festival is proud to present RAFIKI as its closing night film. Despite being the first Kenyan film to debut at Cannes, it remains banned in Kenya for its portrayal of a lesbian love story. Opening with the animated short CONTINUUM by Montreal-based director Noncedo Khumalo, our closing night highlights the next generation of Black queer filmmaking.
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FOR FULL PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS, VISIT THE FESTIVAL WEBSITE HERE
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