October 29, 2014
CONTEST: Name These Films!
And the winner is: Susan Algie! Congratulations to Susan for correctly naming all 6 films in our mosaic. Susan wins a copy of our book PLACE. The movies listed are:…
October 27, 2014
Winnipeg filmmakers win at imagineNATIVE!
We are happy to announce that WFG members Janelle and Jérémie Wookey won the BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY award at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival for their new film Treading Water. …
October 22, 2014
WFG member wins award!
Congratulations to Curtis L. Wiebe on winning the Best Original Music Goldie Award from the 2014 Vancouver Island Short Film Festival! Curtis and Marlon Wiebe’s short film Bome Gnomeski, about a little tree who goes…
October 22, 2014
BLOG: Reel Pride
I attended Winnipeg’s longest running film festival, Reel Pride, this past weekend and had my eyes opened. What a great festival! “Reel Pride exists to celebrate queer media arts and…
October 20, 2014
BLOG: At the intersection of iakwé:iahre and the WFG’s 40th anniversary
I recently attended the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective’s colloquium, iakwé:iahre / se remémorer / we remember, in Montreal. The conference theme was designed to consider the role and intersection of new…
October 9, 2014
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma screens WFG films
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, held Oct 8-19 in Montreal features two short films from our Distribution Catalogue: pastoral by Dan Browne and Seasick by Eva Cvijanovic. Also featured at the renowned…
October 1, 2014
WFG at imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival Oct 2014 – #iN15th
We are delighted to announce that three films from our Distribution Catalogue are screening at the 15th annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival held October 22-26 in Toronto. Treading Water…
September 23, 2014
BLOG: A HAPPY COLLISION – highlighting “a woman is not an island” screening and film tour
We had a great turnout to our Friday, September 5th screenings at the Cinematheque of our curated program of Manitoban women’s films and videos, a woman is not an island.…
September 8, 2014
Fund Your Film!
Our Marketing & Production Funds have deadlines on Thursday, October 9. Learn more here! The PRODUCTION FUND is designed to assist Winnipeg Film Group members in the development of their…
May 23, 2014
WFG DISTRIBUTION PART OF NATIONAL DISSEMINATION PLATFORM
The Canada Council for the Arts announced yesterday that it will invest $1.5 million to support the creation of a national digital media art platform. The platform will be developed…