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Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre is Canada's foremost non-commercial distributor of independent and artists' #films. www.cfmdc.org
ICYMI: August Film News is out! Read about CFMDC new acquisitions, CineCycle events, and upcoming film opportunities >> mailchi.mp/55acdb8167a9...
Toronto Outdoor Picture Show’s Summer 2026 season "Going Places" runs until August 23! 🗓️ Don't miss these CFMDC shorts: July 16: Ballet Jazz by Maxime Robin with Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. July 26: paradise falls, new mexico by Christina Battle with O Brother Where Art Thou. buff.ly/gT0ZcFO
ICYMI: 🌱 CFMDC June Film News: 💿 IMAA Tuning In: 2026 National Media Arts Gathering 🚲 Coming up at CineCycle 📽️ Screenings & Events 💌 Opportunities & Jobs 🔗 Read below mailchi.mp/fd56dbc92561...
Come visit CFMDC and CineCycle at 401 Richmond St W. this Saturday for Doors Open! We’re hosting a full day of film at CineCycle on May 23, from 10AM–5PM 🍿 Expect a rotating program of films all day long, drop in, stay awhile, and make some new creative connections.
As part of Doors Open Toronto, we’re hosting a full day of film at CineCycle on May 23, from 10AM–5PM 🍿 Submit your film by May 10th via link below ⬇️ Expect a rotating program of films all day long, stay awhile, and make some new creative connections. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
CFMDC May Film News 📽️ Bring Your Own Film Day at CineCycle for Doors Open, May 23 🚲 Coming up at CineCycle 📖 What we’re reading 🎤 Screenings & Events ft. Momenta x VUCAVU, Outside the Frame: The Films of Helen Lee, Flatpack Film Festival + MORE 💌 Opportunities and Jobs 🔗 mailchi.mp/a4bd4a9611a7...
April 30 in Toronto, ON: This is the Feminist Archive: Mystery & True Crime: Includes CFMDC films Pretending We Were Indians by Katharine Asals; The Scientific Girl by Kim Derko; Crossing the Line and It Happened in the Stacks by Hope Thompson. www.eventbrite.com/e/this-is-th...
ICYMI: 🌷 CFMDC April Film News Ft. 💌 A message from VUCAVU 🚲️ Coming up at CineCycle 📽️ Screenings & Events ft. Labocine, Dawson City Film Festival and Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival + MORE 📝 Opportunities & Jobs 🔗 Read here: mailchi.mp/b7c45debd070...
📐 ON NOW: Labocine's April Edition mathēmatiká explores cinema through numbers, patterns, algorithms, and abstraction. Ft. CFMDC films: Abgad Hawaz by Robin Riad; Lines Drawn by Chris Kennedy; and Ville Marie by Alexandre Larose. 🔗 Online, labocine.com Still: Abgad Hawaz (2024) by Robin Riad
ICYMI: 💐 CFMDC March Film News! 🌟 CineCycle gets a glow up 📽️ Screenings and events ft. Ann Arbor Film Festival, Labocine, Artifact Film Festival and more! 📖 What we’re reading 🎁 Opportunities 💌 + More! mailchi.mp/a3385dfaf8d1...
Go Visit Joyce Wieland Lane in Toronto, ON 🌟 Artist Joyce Wieland (1930-1998) was honored with newly named Joyce Wieland Lane! The laneway runs north of King Street East in the Corktown neighbourhood, adjacent to 10 Bright Street and near 497 Queen Street East, where she lived and worked.
Don't Miss It! Charles Gagnon's 1967 collage-film critiquing militarism, violence and the emptiness of postwar consumer culture screens on February 17th and 24th at Anthology Film Archives (New York) in the Avant-Garde Ads, Part 2 RELIGION program.
Please note that CineCycle and the CFMDC office will be closed for the holidays from December 18, 2025 to January 5, 2026 inclusive. Wishing you a happy and healthy holiday season!
❄️ ICYMI: December Film News! Read here: mailchi.mp/112ce1265aef...
November 6 in Toronto, ON: The TAIS Animation Showcase celebrates the best independent animation shorts from across the country and around the world. Including films by CFMDC members Francisca Duran, Richard Reeves, Robin Riad (still), & Emily Pelstring. Thursday, November 6, pm at The Royal Cinema
🌟 September 27 in Vancouver, BC: Light of a Thousand Stars, short film screening programmed by Diffusion Festival and hosted by The Bucket Collective. Faraz Anoushahpour and Scott Miller Berry in attendance! tix here: bit.ly/46UGxcI
ICYMI: Our film newsletter went out last week! Read via the link below for info on what's happening at CFMDC, upcoming screenings, job opportunities, + more! Read here: mailchi.mp/2e4693d42704... Image: Fusion (2024) by Richard Reeves.
☀️ CFMDC September News 🎨 Protest Banner Making Workshop w/ Pardis Pahlavanlu, co-presented by Whippersnapper Gallery ❤️ Remembering April Hickox 📽️ Upcoming screenings and events at CineCycle 📖 What we're reading & watching 📆 Opportunities 💌 + MORE Read here: mailchi.mp/2e4693d42704...
Today we are thinking of Joyce Wieland's film SOLIDARITY (1973). Her film follows hundreds of feet and legs, milling, marching and picketing in support of the workers of the Dare Cookie Factory in Kitchener, Ontario. View on our catalogue here: collections.cfmdc.org/titles/1207
🧵 August 23 in Vancouver, BC: "Thread Tension" an outdoor film screening focusing on the industrial nature of film and fabric, ft Kelly Egan's short film "c: won eyed jail" which explores experimental narrative and structural forms through the use of traditional “women’s work.” bit.ly/4116AM7
🍇 ON NOW: Labocine presents FRUITOPIA, a sensorial dive into the strange science and cinema of fruit. Ft. Hynagogia by Cecilia Araneda, 16mm film eco-processed with organic material like apples, avocado peel, coffee, grapes, peaches, pomegranate and wine. www.labocine.com/issues/fruit...
TOMORROW July 18, 6pm: Palestine All the Time—a 24-hour program at Gallery TPW (Toronto) that brings together Palestinian artists, writers, filmmakers, scholars, and activists. In-person and live streamed continuous programming. Info here > bit.ly/4nEERKC
ON NOW: Karø Goldt's short "ON COLOR III: still life with fruits" available on Labocine for the July Issue FRUITOPIA, a sensorial dive into the strange science and cinema of fruit. 🔗 www.labocine.com/issues/fruit...
Dan Browne's sensorial short "Fields" expands the tradition of colour field painting into the time-based medium of video. Now available to watch in the JULY issue FRUITOPIA on Labocine > bit.ly/3TwRhqi
Registration is open! Flaherty Film Seminar, June 26–29, 2025. The Toronto Pod at CineCycle offers screenings and discussions led by local curators, artists and scholars. Registration includes five curated programs over four days + access to the Online Experience through July 31. bit.ly/4dGiaRQ
TODAY in Calgary, AB: Fairy Tales Queer Art & Film Festival presents David Secter’s groundbreaking film Winter Kept Us Warm. This black-and-white gem captivated audiences worldwide upon its 1965 release, boldly depicting Queer desire at a time when homosexuality was still criminalized in Canada.
Save the Date 🗓️ Toronto Arab Film Festival returns June 20-25 in Toronto, ON! arabfilm.ca
Vivek Shraya’s Bodyrebuilding (2025) is a short film about how diversity work led to chronic pain, and Vivek’s journey to healing through weightlifting.
Dylan Mitro's I've Heard a Siren Calling (2025) follows a young trans woman, Nev, in the early stages of her transition in a small fishing town, grappling with isolation and managing her fears of reintegrating back into the world of surfing.
ICYMI: Update from our friends at Niagara Custom Lab. Local filmmakers in Toronto can drop off film at CineCycle, 129 Spadina Ave. For filmmakers outside Toronto, ship projects to the address on the photo 💓 More info, check out this IG post: www.instagram.com/p/DDEBUw-Omh...