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FILM CATALOGUE

Search the Winnipeg Film Group's Film Catalogue for independent Canadian films dating back to 1973.

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Andrew Milne Dreams of Machines

By Patrick Lowe | 00:29:25 | Documentary | 01/05/2015

A visually striking and fast-paced portrait of Winnipeg artist and designer Andrew Milne, who has a penchant for building BIG. From his giant camera to three flashy Zoetropes he puts on display, Milne is seen as an obsessive, but clear-minded artist whose elaborate creations are as much a work of art in themselves as the…

Heart

By Sam Karney | 00:02:42 | Documentary | 20/04/2015

A filmmaker and poet journey to Winnipeg's North End, one of the most economically depressed and violent neighbourhoods in Canada, only to find some of the most wonderful and warm people, dispelling many of their preconceptions of the people who call the place home.

Kewekapawetan: Return after the Flood

By Jennifer Dysart | 00:28:55 | Documentary | 14/06/2014

A Cree community in northern Manitoba Canada returns to their original village site that they were forced to abandon due to the purposeful flooding of their lake.

Terminal

By Alan Collins | 00:25:59 | Documentary | 01/06/2014

âTerminalâ describes a day in the life of the Metro Transit Bridge Terminal in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. It explores the beauty of the architecture and how the facility respects the community. It is a âfly on the wallâ documentary about the people who pass through it in a single day.

On the Trail of the Far Fur Country

By Kevin Nikkel | 01:20:00 | Documentary | 19/03/2014

In 1919, a film crew set out on an epic journey across Canada's North. Over the course of six months, their expedition traveled by icebreaker, canoe, and dog sled, capturing the Canadian fur trade in a silent feature documentary. The Romance of the Far Fur Country was released in 1920, two years before the legendary…

Souvenirs

By Paula Kelly | 00:22:30 | Documentary | 01/01/2008

Souvenirs is a trio of short films about the city of Winnipeg, which sift through the accumulated layers of history, experience and identity of a place which we, collectively, call home.â¢ Sand and Stone (6:00) digs up the history of hard labour and the urban landscapeâthe workers who sweated its surfaces and shapes, and the…

May We Grow

By Erika Macpherson | 00:22:30 | Documentary | 01/03/2013

Following the illness and removal of a boulevard elm tree, the residents at 10 Ruby Street in Winnipeg develop an extraordinary relationship with the remaining elm, whose fate is uncertain. 10 Ruby belongs to the elms -the whole street does - and, as we discover in this film, we belong to the trees. Original music…

Montefiore Club, The

By Saul Henteleff | 00:25:00 | Documentary | 1/11/2003

In 1949 a group of men from Winnipeg's Jewish community got together to start a club - The Montefiore Club - a place of their own to play high stakes poker, eat salami and eggs and party till dawn. It was a fast joint! But that was the public image. What few people know is…

Muskeg Special

By Gregory Zbitnew | 01:54:00 | Documentary | 1/5/2007

'Muskeg Special' was one of the first 'official' Winnipeg Film Group productions back in 1979 when a group of intrepid independents ventured North with a 16mm Arriflex and the curiosity to discover what life was like in small communities along the Hudson Bay Rail line. That summer also marked the 50th Anniversary of completion of…

Life From 95

By Ervin Chartrand, Jim Agapito | 00:26:50 | Documentary | 01/01/2010

IRCOM, located at 95 Ellen Street in downtown Winnipeg, is a transitional housing complex and delivers social and recreation programs to newly arrived refugees and immigrants to Canada. Over 250 new immigrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Burundi, Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Iraq, Iran, Korea, Liberia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Russia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia and Sudan live…

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We’re located in the heart of Winnipeg's historic Exchange District in the Artspace building. We are across the street from Old Market Square at the corner of Arthur Street and Bannatyne - one block west of Main.

The Winnipeg Film Group is located on Treaty 1 Territory and on the ancestral lands of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene Peoples and in the homeland of the Métis Nation. We offer our respect and gratitude to the traditional caretakers of this land.

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