Join national funding agencies as they share how their organizations contribute to film, Broadcast television and/or web based projects. Learn about the different ways you can apply and move your project forward by hearing from the Indigenous Screen Office, Telefilm Canada, the National Film Board of Canada, and the Canada Media Fund.

Join our experts to discuss film distribution, including establishing connections with distribution companies, navigating the licensing process, crafting effective marketing strategies, and ensuring successful delivery to the audience.

This panel discussing will follow Directors who have expanded their craft to television productions, sharing insight on the differences, challenges, and similarities in Directing for film to Directing for Television

Join in for a conversation with insightful creatives, who collaborate with AI, and discuss how technological advancements are changing the film and television industry landscape.

Compelling experimental shorts that weave soundscapes with the evolution, formation and connection to land and water.

Futuristic technologies blurring the lines of reality, apocalyptic events, alien abductions, mythological creatures and portals into other worlds; these shorts expand the realms of possibility.

What will begin with satirical laughs will leave you feeling spooked and disturbed. Proceed with caution.

Based on the play of the same name by Kenneth T. Williams, and inspired by true events, Café Daughter is a coming-of-age story about Yvette Wong, a young Chinese Cree girl in 1960s Saskatchewan, who explores and embraces her Cree identity after the passing of her mother.Sensory Friendly Screenings are screenings where the environment is adjusted to accommodate people who would appreciate a positive, inclusive space, such as a relaxed attitude towards noise and movement, slightly lowered volume and lights at a dim level, and a minimal introduction with no Q&A. People also are more than welcome to leave their seats to roam around.

This program showcases some of the 16mm films made during Saugeen Takes on Film (STOF) intergenerational workshops from 2018 to 2023. Animating archival photographs, artifacts, and traditional knowledge, the filmmakers tap into their vibrant community, Saugeen First Nation, using hand-processing techniques with flowers. This screening is supported by Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre.

This film is preceded by the short film "He Pounamu Ko Āu" by Director Tia Barrett. When Community Sergeant “Taffy” Tawharau (Cliff Curtis), a Māori police officer, returns home, he is faced with a dilemma. Indigenous activists in the vicinity have been holding militant boot camps and are suspected of plotting to kill the country’s Prime Minister… or so the police have said. This screening is supported by Ngā Aho Whakaari.