Lantern Films

Lantern is excited and very grateful to announce that the formidable Madelaine Russo has joined the Lantern team as a development financing producer.

Madelaine is a development writer and consultant for international documentary projects. Her eight year tenure on the Hot Docs industry team had her producing meeting, lab, and mentorship programs year-round. Prior to Hot Docs, Madelaine worked at Sheffield Doc Fest. She is equally a personal support worker, bartender, and ceramicist.

Welcome to Lantern Madelaine! Photo by Javier Lovera

Since 2018, a team of artists has been working on a project called UNSETTLED. You may have seen a workshop of it as part of the Heart of the City Festival in 2018 or 2019, or an online presentation as part of Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture’s Still, Life, Digital Festival in 2020. Last fall (2023) the artists got together again for the final phase of the project: UNSETTLED the DOCUMENTARY. Created with Lantern Films, this is a moving piece about the artists’ experiences of coming together to create art and enact activism.

We are delighted to announce that UNSETTLED the DOCUMENTARY will premier at the DTES Heart of the City Festival on Thursday, November 7th at 7pm at the Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main St, Vancouver. Stay tuned for tickets!

--- > Big thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts for making this project possible

Image description: Indigenous artist, activist and elder Kat Norris stands on stage, holding a drum in one hand, and a drumstick lifted in the other. Two audience members are seen in the distance, watching her.

So excited to share this news!!!!

As part of the exhibition 'This Is An Emergency Broadcast,' Banchi Hanuse’s "Nuxalk Radio" (2021) film plays on the Outdoor Screen at the Belkin Art Gallery 9am to 9pm daily from Jun 21 – Aug 11, 2024.

Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
University of British Columbia (UBC)
1825 Main Mall, Vancouver BC

https://belkin.ubc.ca/exhibitions/outdoor-screen-nuxalk-radio/

Written and directed by Banchi Hanuse and produced by Lantern Films, "Nuxalk Radio" documents a day in the life of 91.1 FM Nuxalk Radio, a community radio station broadcasting from the Nuxalk village of Q’umk’uts’ (Bella Coola) established in 2014 with the slogan, “Lhulhamktulhs ala ts’ktaliwalh alh ti s-kulhulmcilh t’ayc n wa sulutilh ats (Broadcasting the laws of the lands and waters).”

Co-founder Banchi Hanuse outlines its overarching goal as the promotion of the Nuxalk language. Nuxalk Radio contributes positively to physical, mental, spiritual and emotional well-being while also asserting Nuxalk Nationhood by raising up our Nuxalk ancestral government, reclaiming and reoccupying our territory and promoting stewardship of our homelands.

Nuxalk Radio is the recipient of the Vancouver International Film Festival’s (VIFF) Sea to Sky Award and the Yorkton Film Festival’s Documentary Arts and Culture Golden Sheaf Award.

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The radio is a tool. Through receptive listening and attention there is potential for the creation of a community of receivers. In the act of transmission, there is agency and responsibility that is at once collective and individual, that works with echoes, waves, reverberations, repetitions, cycles, and is only meaningful when received. This Is An Emergency Broadcast connects Indigenous political advocacy with the forms of communication offered by community radio, countering power chronicles of state and corporate media and, in its self-determination, offering space for reignited narratives.

A project with artist and activist Marianne Nicolson (Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw), This Is An Emergency Broadcast occupies the Belkin space to share a history of Indigenous articulation, collective organization and opposition to colonial forces.

Thank you Creative BC for supporting Nechako and 15 other incredible films !

Sixteen B.C. filmmakers’ projects receive $1.8M in production financing from Creative BC - Creative BC Vancouver, B.C. (March 5, 2024) – Today, Creative BC announces the 16 projects that will receive production financing for their long form scripted feature length films, documentaries, and series projects. […]

Join Lantern Films and UBC Connects for a FREE screening of 'The Empress of Vancouver' on May 17 at Robson Square to commemorate International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia!

The event is also a celebration of the official launch of the film on TELUS Optik TV.

Oliv and other cast members will be in attendance.

Event Schedule
6:00 PM – Introduction by Christina Willings from TELUS originals
6:15 PM – Screening of the film
7:45 PM – Q&A with the director, cast members, and panelist
8:15 PM – Reception, light food and refreshments will be provided

Follow the link below to RSVP - https://events.ubc.ca/event/the-empress-of-vancouver/?fbclid=IwAR0Pn8VTZa9XAEVkLHxQM-bBm3Dz8opfqofvrRd8wr8j8I0xOyqJe7FU_4k

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The first screening of The Empress of Vancouver at BFI Flare (two sold out shows) was a huge success 💖 the programmer mentioned that out of alllllll the people in allllll the films here that he wants to meet Oliv the most.

The Empress is heading to London! See you at BFI Flare, screening March 16 and 18. BFI Flare

“To those with an investment in drag and q***r history, this is practically required viewing“

See you this Sunday in Victoria

The Empress of Vancouver - Victoria Film Festival Vancouver drag icon Oliv Howe is the subject of this irreverent doc, a celebration of drag, q***r history, performance art, and the Empress herself.

Thrilled to announce that The Empress of Vancouver is screening at the Victoria Film Festival! See you there February 5th at 6 PM “Those with a passing interest in the world the film celebrates will be sure to find many points of entry and education, especially in Oliv’s “real talk” approach to life. To those with an investment in drag and q***r history, this is practically required viewing.” Oliv Howe

What a year. Releasing our first feature film The Empress of Vancouver (Directed by Dave Rodden-Shortt) has been such an incredible joy and we’re excited for 2023 where we will continue to work with brilliant filmmakers to tell critically important stories. Including working with Lyana Patrick on the feature film Nechako and Siku Allooloo and her film Indígena. Labours of love.

To: You, to night (2019) by Hân Phạm screens Sunday November 20th as part of XINEMA