Thursday, October 18 3pm
NIFCO 40 King’s Road
SJIWFF 29 Presents: Doc Talk
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Meet the women behind the camera of our industry’s most compelling documentaries. Learn how documentaries can be used to entertain, educate, effect social change, and serve as a form of activism and why women are leading the world of documentary filmmaking.
Sunday, October 21st, 7pm
Scotiabank Theatre (48 Kenmount Road)
SJIWFF29 Presents: Emera NL Closing Night Gala – Hopeless Romantic
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Crush
Directed by: Kerry Gamberg
2017 RBC Michelle Jackson Emerging Filmmaker Award Winner: A new boy in school meets his first crush, a quirky outsider, and together they take down the school bully.
Hopeless Romantic
Directed by: […]
Sunday, October 21st 10:30
Rocket Bakery & Fresh Food 272 Water Street
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This special brunch panel features the incredible ensemble team behind our Festival’s closing night feature. Join us and the directors for a peek behind-the-scenes of this anthology film and learn about how Hopeless Romantic subverts all of the Hollywood rom-com tropes.
*Vegetarian Options Available
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Thursday, October 18th 7:00pm
St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival Preseents:
Thursday Night Shorts
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On the Ridge Line – Chantale Boulianne
Askin’ for It – Kerry Gamberg
Spirits of the Temple – NIFCO Documentary FIlm Class Summer 2017
Natural Light: Vivi’s Story – Ivy Oldford
Counterfeit Kunkoo – Reema Sengupta
Freaks of Nurture – Alexandra Lemay
Inquiry into Shape […]
Saturday, October 20th 3pm
NIFCO 40 King’s Road
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This panel features a number of the most innovative women working in our film industry today and major talent to watch. Join us to gain insight into their works, processes and learn more about contemporary Indigenous filmmaking in Canada.
Saturday, October 20th 7pm
SJIWFF29 Presents: Evening Feature – Love, Scott
Directed by: Laura Marie Wayne
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Following the journey of a young gay musician who is attacked and paralyzed from the waist down, Love, Scott is an intimate and visually evocative window into queer experience, set against a stunning score by Sigur Rós.
Sunday, October 21 1pm
Rocket Bakery & Fresh Food 272 Water Street
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Make your 15 minutes count! Apply for a one-on-one meeting with some of the biggest broadcasters, funders, producers and distributors in the country. Our pitch session is an incredible opportunity to introduce your project to the industry’s biggest resources […]
Sunday, October 21st 3pm
SJIWFF29 Presents: Sunday Afternoon Shorts
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Billie – Maki Yoshikura
Three Thousand – Isabella-Rose Weetaluktuk
The Apartment – Justine Gauthier
The Give and Take – Anna Hopkins
Red Dress no Straps – Maryam Mohajer
We’ll Always Have Toynbee – Sonia B. Boileau
Drag Rescue – Andie Bulman
Sailor on the Hill – Lacy O’Connell
Milk – Winnifred […]
Saturday, October 20th 12pm
SJIWFF29 Presents: Noon Feature – Falls Around Her
Directed by Darlene Naponse
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Tantoo Cardinal shines as a world-famous Anishinaabe musician who returns to the reserve to rest and recharge — only to discover that fame (and the outside world) are not easily left behind, in writer-director Darlene Naponse’s riveting […]
Saturday, October 20th 9:30pm
SJIWFF29 Presents: Late Feature – Ordinary Days
Directed by Kris Booth, Jordan Canning & Renuka Jeyapalan
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Cara Cook is a bright, athletic, college student who disappears without a trace. Five days play out three times from a trio of perspectives; her spiraling parents, the troubled detective assigned to her […]
