Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative

Just a reminder that we're closed next week, August 27th - September 3rd. Get any equipment bookings in asap to pick up Friday, and we'll see you in September! :)

Come join us this Saturday at 8PM for the premiere this year's youth films made during YFAIR (Youth Filmpool Artists in Residence) ! We've had a busy couple weeks, and can't wait to celebrate and share their hard work 💯 After the inital premiere and Q&A, the films will be on loop throughout the night as a part of Nuit Blanche Regina. Don't miss out on all the other art in and around Victoria Park. Hope to see you out! 🎉❤️🔥
Visit nuitblancheregina.ca for more information

Sun is out! Come by and see what gems the Filmpool is looking to re-home. Cameras, tripods, foam, cases, accessories, etc. etc. etc. Friday August 2nd >> 3-6PM & Saturday August 3rd>> 12-3PM. See you there!

Screening alert! This Thursday, July 25th, 7PM RPL Film Theatre catch the film premiere of this year's 48 Hour Film Frenzy!

Last month, filmmakers got together at the Filmpool to write, shoot, and hand process their very own 16mm black and white short film 🎥 The 48 kicked off Friday night with an introductory Bolex workshop given by Matt Ripplinger, and continued throughout the (thankfully) sunny weekend. The team had a great time scouting locations for their story ideas, coming up with creative solutions, and incorporating the special "key" elements into their stories. Catch these, along with a film from the Dunlop Art Gallery Digital 48 this Thursday, July 25th, 7PM RPL Film Theatre for a dynamite short program 🌊 Hope to see you there! 🔥

Still time to apply for this year's edition of YFAIR, our Youth Filmpool Artists in Residence program :) Open to youth ages 15 - 20, participants will have 8 days of field trips, learning and mentorship support, to make a film that will screen at Nuit Blanche Regina. Visit www.filmpool.ca/yfair for more info and to apply. Participants will be notified by the end of the month :) Any questions please reach out to us either by phone or email, [email protected]

Hi folks! Our annual summer closures are just around the corner, mark your calendars. We'll be closed July 2nd - 5th, and August 27th - September 3rd inclusive. If you want a great deal on some gear, get in touch with [email protected]. Rent any gear for a weekend rate (1.5 days) and keep it for the entire break. Must be a member in good standing 🐠🐠🐠

YFAIR is back!

Join us for this year's edition of our Youth Filmpool Artists in Residence, from August 13th-23rd, Tuesdays - Fridays

Over eight days, participants aged 15 to 20 will engage in a series of workshops, screenings, field trips, and activities around analogue and digital filmmaking. Designed to ignite their creative spark and give young artists a solid introduction to film and video, YFAIR is structured to provide the supportive environment and tools to craft a short film, to be screened at Regina's 2024 Nuit Blanche, on Saturday August 24th.

The program is free of charge, but spots are limited, apply today! Participants will be notified by mid-July :)

https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/e3e56ad2-a328-4859-9bec-7bab459b191b

Open Door Day Postponed, and Filmpool Office closed today due to staff illness. Thank you for your understanding ❤️

Join us on the last weekend of June for this year's 48 Hour Film Frenzy 🔥 Join one of the three groups who will write, shoot, and develop a 4-minute short film using black & white 16mm film stock over one frenzied weekend. Friday evening will kick off with a Bolex 101 workshop covering camera basics, operation, analogue film specifics, as well as how to develop 16mm Black & White film with filmmaker Matt Ripplinger. Participants will come away with a finished film and solid know-how around analog film shooting, developing & editing.

At the end of the weekend, all film will be sent away to Montreal for scanning. Once the digital file is returned, participants will have 2 additional hours to complete their editing.

Later this summer we will have a film showing at the RPL Film Theatre, in conjunction with their digital version of the 48 Hour Film Frenzy for the big screen premiere of your work.

70$ members
90$ non-members
350$ / team, up to 5 members

Link here to register
https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/9c91037b-6ef8-43ed-b6a5-d468fb1c10eb

Can't wait!

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Matthew Ripplinger is a filmmaker based in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. His work is primarily created using analog film manipulation techniques. In 2019, he completed his BFA in Film Production at the University of Regina. His current film work and research resides in the alchemical aspect, using homemade emulsion, optical printing and colour separation. His artist practices span from film to photography, printmaking, and light-based installation work. Matt’s film Sir Bailey (2018) has been screened in festivals internationally including Edinburgh International Film Festival (Scotland), Antimatter [Media Art] (Victoria, BC), MIRE Prisme (Nantes, France), Fracto Film Encounter (Berlin, Germany), Film Festival PROCESS (Riga, Latvia), Chicago Underground Film Festival (CUFF), Los Angeles Cine Fest, and others.

Applications & nominations for the 2024 Trudy Stewart Prize are now open 💗 In honour of the late Trudy Stewart, this annual prize allocates funds for Indigenous filmmakers, moving image artists, moving image curators, moving image art critics, and/or screenplay writers within Saskatchewan. More information and application can be found through the link below. Apply or nominate by June 14th, 2024 🌸🌸🌸

https://www.filmpool.ca/trudy-stewart-prize

The Trudy Stewart Prize is comprised of five awards for Indigenous filmmakers, moving image curators, moving image art critics and screenplay writers. Applicants and nominees can be non-members of the Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative as well as members. They can be at any stage of their practice (emerging, established, etc).

This award was first developed in 2020 by the Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative to honour Trudy Stewart’s legacy with community and family consultation. In 2022, the prize was relaunched to include a larger pool of funds, a self-determined mentorship component, equipment allocations, and memberships.

ABOUT TRUDY STEWART
'Originally from Flying Dust First Nation, Trudy was born in North Battleford and spent most of her childhood in a rural community in southwest Saskatchewan before moving to Regina. A ‘60s scoop survivor, Stewart was adopted at a time when child welfare authorities took, or “scooped,” Indigenous children from their families and placed them in foster homes to be adopted out. Stewart was just beginning to understand her identity as a ‘60s scoop survivor – a theme she explored in her short documentary, From Up North – when she unexpectedly passed away in 2019 at the age of 46.

An award-winning filmmaker, community-builder, mentor, and activist, Stewart made significant contributions to both Indigenous cinema and processes of reconciliation. Through her films, she inspired greater understanding and awareness about the legacy of colonization, and honoured the victims and survivors of residential schools.'
- Evie Ruddy (Splice Magazine)

Thank you to everyone who came out last Thursday to our May Day event - Dinner & Movie at The Hampton Hub. We were able to watch a beautifully scanned 2k version of 'They Don't Wear Black Tie'. Incredible film in great company, and even better food. Solidarity in our community forever ❤️

Its baaaack... !!! 48 Hour Film Frenzy returns :) Join one of the three groups who will write, shoot, and develop a short film using black & white 16mm film stock over one frenzied weekend. Friday evening will kick off with a Bolex 101 workshop covering camera basics, operation, analogue film specifics, as well as how to develop 16mm Black & White film with veteran filmmaker and new media artist Ian Campbell. Participants will come away with a finished film, know-how on analog film shooting, developing & editing.
At the end of the weekend, film will be sent away to Montreal for scanning. In June once the digital file is returned, participants will have 2 additional hours to complete their editing.

We will then have a screening at the RPL Film Theatre, in conjunction with their digital version of the 48 Hour Film Frenzy for the big screen premiere of your work.

70$ members
90$ non-members
350$ / team, up to 5 members

Link below to register
https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/9c91037b-6ef8-43ed-b6a5-d468fb1c10eb

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Ian Campbell is a filmmaker and new media artist whose work is rooted in a desire to reveal the tension between our technology and contemporary life. He has a varied practice that includes digital filmmaking, live improvised visuals, installation art, and kinetic sculpture. He lives and works in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Update! Thank you to everyone who filled out our Operating Hours Survey. We are pleased to announce our new operating hours >>>

Tuesday - Friday
11AM - 6PM

Weekend rentals still count as one day, ie Friday afternoon pick-up, Tuesday morning drop-off

Join us at Hampton Hub for Dinner & Movie on Thursday, May 2nd, 2024 - A May Day Night Out - We'll be screening 'They Don't Wear Black-Tie' (1981) directed by Leon Hirszman, served up with a classic Brazilian Platter - feijoada, dirty rice & salad. The film stands as a Brazilian cinematic achievement that paints a realistic portrait of working-class families and generational conflicts within the labor movement itself.

Link below to reserve tickets, hope to see you there!
https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/d525fd04-a61d-4b08-978c-22ebf2d19614

'In 1979, Hirszman collaborated with playwright Gianfrancesco Guarnieri on a film adaption of Guarnieri's famous play about Brazilian working-class life, "They Don't Wear Black Tie". The resulting film, released in 1981, reconfigured the politics and content of the 1958 play to fit the new era of the late 1970s when dramatic metalworkers' strikes placed São Paulo on the front lines in the fight against the Brazilian military dictatorship.'

Excerpt from "They Don't Wear Black-Tie": Intellectuals and Workers in São Paulo, Brazil, 1958-1981 by John D. French
International Labor and Working-Class History
No. 59, Workers and Film: As Subject and Audience (Spring, 2001), pp. 60-80 (21 pages)
Published By: Cambridge University Press

Join us online or in person for a special anniversary Member Monday 🎉
Not only are we celebrating the Filmpool’s 47 years of operation, but also filmmaking in the province 🏆 We’ll have a roundtable / Q&A with Candy Renae Fox, Lowell Dean & Lucas Frison —they'll share their journies with filmmaking in Saskatchewan and will answer questions from the audience. For those able to join in person, we'll have some delicious chocolate cake on hand to enjoy.
If attending online, please RSVP below to be sent the Zoom link. Hope to see you there!

https://www.filmpool.ca/event-info/filmpool-47th-anniversary-roundtable-q-a

The SFC Board of Directors invites you to our 2022-2023 Year-End AGM held online this Sunday, March 24th at 11h00 Sask Time. Financial statements and a letter to the membership were sent last week on Friday, please check your inbox or email [email protected] if you didn't receive the message. If attending, please RSVP at the following link. Hope to see you there!

https://www.filmpool.ca/event-info/saskatchewan-filmpool-cooperative-agm

Hi folks! The Filmpool is investigating how to adjust our public operating hours to four days a week. Before we do this, we are asking for your input as members as to which days & hours would best serve our community for production and post-production needs. Link below to answer a few questions (it is truly short). We'll have the survey open until next Wednesday, March 20th. Thank you in advance for your input! ⏱
https://forms.gle/qgdrEH4w1WTbiksh9

Three upcoming screenings hosted at the Filmpool, programmed by Giovana Nabarrete de Souza Cruz, our Programming & Mentorship Coordinator. Come get cosy for these Thursday night films ❤️
Doors open at 5:30, screening at 6pm

Program and Notes from Giovana:

Thursday March 14th
Black, Bold, and Beautiful directed by Nadine Valcin | 1999 | 42min | - With International Women’s Day on March 8th in mind, this film was chosen because it showcases Black Canadian women dealing with concepts of identity and culture through their hairstyle.

Thursday March 28th
Soraida, a Woman of Palestine directed by Tahani Rached | 2004 | 1h 59min | - Documentary film focused on Soraida, a Palestinian woman resisting neo-colonisation and military occupation in her own way. Filmed 20 years ago, but sadly, applicable in every sense to our current situation.

Thursday April 11th
Qallunaat! Why White People Are Funny directed by Mark Sandiford | 2006 | 52min | - For once, the “exotic” documentary subject is the white population of Canada. From the point of view of Inuit filmmakers, this is an extremely entertaining and critical documentary that sheds light onto the problematic structures of exoticism within cinema.

Congratulations to Marjorie Beaucage, truly an inspiring artist🌲 Check out the celebration events below by our friends over at the Dunlop Art Gallery

Congratulations to Métis artist and filmmaker Marjorie Beaucage, winner of the 2024 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts!

Find out more about the award here: https://en.ggarts.ca/marjorie-beaucage

Join us on Saturday, April 13 at 2:00 PM at Central Library’s Mezzanine to celebrate Marjorie’s achievements with a book launch of her newest publication Leave Some for the Birds. Marjorie will be in conversation with Erica Violet Lee, a nêhiyaw (Plains Cree) author, poet, community organizer, artist, and scholar. The Governor General’s Award ( ) is widely recognized as one of the most prestigious distinctions for artistic merit and contribution in Canada.

Marjorie Beaucage is a Saskatchewan-based Two-Spirit Métis Auntie, filmmaker, art-ivist and educator, a land protector and a water walker. Born to a large Métis family, Marjorie’s life’s work has been about creating social change, working to give people the tools for creating possibilities and right relations.

Member Mondays are back! Join us Monday, January 29th for a student-focused evening, seeing what the U of R Film Students are up to. We'll have folks here from the Film Students' Association for a preview of the Living Skies Student Film Festival, as well as a selection of 2nd and 3rd year films. Doors open at 5:30, screening starts at 6. We'll have snacks and refreshments, hope to see you there! Open to everyone, members and the member-curious ❤️

A message from the Board of Directors: The Filmpool's AGM, scheduled for January 21, 2024 is postponed. A new date in March before our fiscal year end will be announced in the coming weeks. Thank you all for your patience.

💬Production & Equipment Survey 2023-2024

The Production Committee needs your help! In January, 2024 the Canada Council for the Arts is winding down its equipment acquisition program. Therefore, we need to make this year's equipment request count. More than that, we are also re-evaluating our production equipment strategy and we need your help to clarify this. Should our focus be on a digital cinema package? Do you want expanded analog film services? Make your voice heard and submit this survey before January 4th, 2024 and help make the Filmpool the best place for independent filmmakers to rent equipment in Saskatchewan!

Survey found here: https://forms.gle/5RSmEKek5FozCivX6

As a thank you, everyone who fills out the survey will have 20$ in Filmpool Bucks added to their account. Folks will also be entered to win 1 of 2 limited edition Filmpool tote bags. Stay tuned for the draw in the new year!

This year's Saskatchewan Independent Film Award (SIFA) winners! Congratulations to everyone ❤️ Thank you all for attending, it was a special evening that we feel honoured to have hosted. Stay tuned for a recording later this week as we sort out a couple technical logistics for sound and captioning. Photos will be up on our website soon!

And the winners are...

🌿🔱🌿 BEST LONG FORM - I Plowed the Sacred Soil directed by Mark Dieter

🌿🔱🌿 BEST SHORT FILM - Fable Deaf directed by Chrystene R. Ells

🌿🔱🌿 BEST STUDENT FILM - Ingrain directed by Graydon Eskowich

🌿🔱🌿 TRUDY STEWART AWARD FOR INDIGENOUS FILMMAKERS - Marjorie Roden - Finding Margaret

🌿🔱🌿 BEST YOUTH FILM - Pay Phone directed by Mason Kubernus

🌿🔱🌿 BEST MUSIC VIDEO - Tous les matins by Alexis Normand directed by Lindsay Arnold

🌿🔱🌿 BEST EXPERIMENTAL MOVING IMAGE - Pilgrim directed by Narges Rezaian

🌿🔱🌿 TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT - Fear & Trembling directed by Jeremy Ratzlaff

🌿🔱🌿 BEST PERFORMANCE - Maggie Robertson in 'A Storm Blows Over' directed by Gavin Baird

🌿🔱🌿 AUDIENCE CHOICE - Looking Forward at 100 directed by Kelly-Anne Riess

Check it out!
https://www.youtube.com/
++Still time to get your tickets for tomorrow's awards
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/saskatchewan-independent-film-awards-sifa-tickets-759236305227?aff=oddtdtcreator

Announcing this year's SIFA nominees! We had a record number of submissions, and couldn't be more excited for this year's crop of films. Thank you to everyone who submitted, the jury had some tough calls to make.

Join us on November 25th, 7PM at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum, for a celebration of all these wonderful filmmakers.
Entrance is free / by donation, follow the link below to reserve your tickets

Hello everyone! The Filmpool is looking for some helping hands for the upcoming Saskatchewan Independent Film Awards (SIFA!) November 25th at the Royal Sask Museum in Regina, SK. Shifts are two hours-ish, and we have various tasks to choose from including: tech, event photographer, live social media maven, welcome / door person, etc. 🌹🌹🌹 As with any volunteer work with us, members earn 20 Filmpool Bucks / volunteer hour to put towards future rentals 📝
https://forms.gle/HNdFaGGW38Rpaz3G6