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Join us for the world premiere of 20 new analogue movies presented LIVE on celluloid Super 8 film at Metro Studio Theatre or online! The One Take Super 8 is a decentralized network of filmmaking challenges and screenings presented across the globe — since its inception more than 20 years ago it has inspired the creation and screening of over 1000 films in more than 50 locations around the world. CineVic proudly presents the fourth Vancouver Island edition for your local viewing pleasure. Earlier this summer, participants from Victoria and the surrounding region were given a camera, a roll of film, and one week to create their own 3-minute Super 8 movie. The only catch: no editing. The filmmakers had to shoot their scenes in order with no second chances, and they’ll witness their work for the first time along with YOU – the audience – at two live screenings. Some films are silent but soundtracks are optional, created separately from the film and manually cued up on the night. Film and filmmaker info at cinevic.ca Friday & Saturday 20 & 21 October 2023 7:00pm PT Metro Studio Theatre – 1411 Quadra Street Or watch from home on YouTube $8 tickets Get Your Tickets >> Please note the same film program will run on both nights. Online screening will premiere on October 20th at 7:00pm PT, and films will be available to view on-demand until 11:59pm PT on October 22nd. Eventbrite ticket sales for in-person screenings will end two hours before showtime; Advance tickets are recommended but any remaining tickets will be available at the door.

CineVic presents the 11th annual Short Circuit Pacific Rim Film Festival 5-13 May 2023 Victoria 14-31 May 2023 Online More than 40 short films in 7 screening programs over 2 weekends • Curated selections from dozens of regions around the Pacific Ocean including Vancouver Island, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, Colombia, Fiji, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hawaii, California, British Columbia, and more • Join us in the cinema or watch online • CINE⚡️SPARK Top 5 Pitch Event • Odeon Alley outdoor mini-cinema • Filmmaker and audience networking opportunities • www.shortcircuitfilmfestival.com

The One Take Super 8 Event is back again for its third edition on Vancouver Island! Join us for the world premiere of 22 new analogue movies presented LIVE on celluloid Super 8 film at Metro Studio Theatre or online. Super 8 film took the world by storm in the 1960s and 70s as an accessible way to make “home movies.” Today, the format remains an analogue escape from our digital world. The One Take Super 8 Event began in the year 2000 in Regina SK, and since then it has inspired the creation and screening of over 1,000 films in more than 50 locations around the world. Earlier this summer, participants from Victoria and the surrounding region answered the open call to participate in a fun, non-competitive, community-driven filmmaking and screening opportunity. They were given a camera, a roll of film, and one week to create their own 3-minute Super 8 movie. The only catch: no editing. The filmmakers had to shoot their scenes in order with no second chances, and they’ll witness their work for the first time along with an audience at the community screenings. Soundtracks are optional, created separately from the film and manually cued up on the night. Friday 14 October 2022 + Saturday 15 October 2022 7:00pm PT Metro Studio Theatre – 1411 Quadra Street Or watch from home on YouTube $5 tickets Get Your Tickets >> Please note the same film program will run on both nights. Online screening will premiere on October 14th at 7:00pm PT and films will be available to view on-demand until 11:59pm PT on October 16th. CineVic acknowledges and respects the long history of the Lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking people, now known as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations, as well as the W̱SÁNEĆ First Nations, on whose traditional and unceded territory we carry out our activities. Thank you to our event sponsors: Niagara Custom Lab MediaNet / FLUX Gallery Antimatter Media Art Festival CineVic gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of the City of Victoria, Canada Council for the Arts, Province of British Columbia, British Columbia Arts Council, and the CRD Arts & Culture Support Service.

This workshop is presented as part of The Incubators program. Click here for more info on the other workshops in this series >> Join CineVic’s Equipment Manager, Daniel Carruthers, to get up close and personal with some of our film and video equipment inventory. He’ll provide an overview of the basic setup and functions of a few items from each department including camera, lighting, and grip/dolly. This is our first in-person/hands-on workshop in a long time – with limited capacity – so reserve your seat now! SATURDAY DECEMBER 11th 2021 12pm – 4pm Pacific Time *PLEASE NOTE* This workshop will be in-person only with limited capacity at CineVic headquarters, and will follow all current health protocols including masks and proof of double vaccination. REGISTER NOW >> Daniel Carruthers has over 15 years of experience and over 50 credits as a Director of Photography. He’s had multiple award nominations and received a Leo Award for his work on the short film Encore. Some of his Victoria-shot films include the features All-in Madonna, Open for Submissions, and The Devout. While working as a Director of Photography, Daniel has been the Equipment Manager at Cinevic, where he oversees the expanding equipment inventory and rentals.

This workshop is presented as part of The Incubators program. Click here for more info on the other workshops in this series >> Sign up for the penultimate session in our Incubators 2.0 series with Jason Karman’s bookend workshop covering the first and last stages of content creation: development and distribution. You have a great story. How do you develop it? Relationship building remains the heart of excellent producing; one fosters trust and creates opportunity while advancing stories. In Canada, making a film ethically matters, and representation is a goal worth striving for. Social media has become the primary tool for finding information and connecting people. No longer does one need to have a great story, but the question now shifts to why are you the right person to tell this story? This workshop will help emerging writer-directors interested in being auteurs produce their stories and manage future relationships. Topics to be covered include: • Grant writing and project development • Getting a crew together • Festivals and other forms of distribution SATURDAY DECEMBER 4th 2021 10am – 4pm Pacific Time REGISTER NOW >> Jason Karman is a Vancouver-based screenwriter, director and producer. His 17 short films have screened internationally at festivals, including the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Whistler Film Festival, and Telefilm Canada’s Not Short on Talent at Clermont-Ferrand. A graduate of the Master of Fine Arts in Film Production and Creative Writing program at the University of British Columbia, Jason has worked in documentaries, dramas, coming of age, and dance on screen. He is the 2016 recipient of the James Lee Foundation Scholarship. In 2019, he was awarded the 2019 Best Editor Award at the Vancouver Short Film Festival for Lionhood. Jason is an alumnus of the Short Circuit Pacific Rim Film Festival and its 2018 Pacific Northwest Tour, and is currently working on his first feature Golden Delicious, a 2020 recipient of Telefilm Canada’s Talent to Watch program.

This workshop is presented as part of The Incubators program. Click here for more info on the other workshops in this series >> Learn basic 2D and 3D stop-motion techniques from the award winning artist Amanda Strong! In this workshop, participants will explore basic methods of moving objects frame by frame, lighting, and rigging processes for stop-motion animation. Strong will be bringing in-process and completed puppets for participants to get a detailed look at design, render, and scale. As a group, participants will then get a chance to respectfully animate with Strong’s puppets to explore their functionality and get better insight to how they move. We encourage that participants bring objects or puppets they have made, to practice animating and to get feedback as well as to adapt them for animation (but this is not required). SATURDAY OCTOBER 30th 2021 10am – 4pm Pacific Time Mentorship meetings Oct 31 – Nov 2 REGISTER NOW >> Amanda Strong is an Indigenous (Michif) Media Artist and Stop Motion Director currently working as a guest on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sə̓lílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh). She has been practicing professionally in the arts for over 15 years. She holds a degree in Photography and Interpretive Animation from Sheridan College. With a cross-discipline focus, common themes of her work are reclamation of Indigenous histories, lineage, language and culture. Amanda Strong founded Spotted Fawn Productions in 2010 and has managed the company as the Owner, Director and Executive Producer since 2014. Amanda has also formed the collectives Media Creatorz, Indigenous Roots, and most recently Frame Sovereignty Collective which are all driven to build sustainable production skills and training to participants with the hopes of helping with access, visibility and digital literacy for Indigenous artists. Most recently, Amanda was selected as the First Canadian Director and first Animated Project for the Sundance Institute Indigenous Filmmaking Lab.

This workshop is presented as part of The Incubators program. Click here for more info on the other workshops in this series >> In this workshop, local artist, curator and filmmaker Eli Hirtle will guide participants through conversation about practices & protocols specific to working with Indigenous peoples and their stories. Eli will share stories of his film-making practice, which he describes as “community-based collaborations”. We will also look at and discuss “ON-SCREEN PROTOCOLS & PATHWAYS: A Media Production Guide to Working with First Nations, Métis and Inuit Communities, Cultures, Concepts and Stories”, a comprehensive publication commissioned by ImagineNATIVE film festival in 2019. Topics will include narrative sovereignty, screen-based protocols & principles, meaningful collaborations and building relationships based on trust, respect, responsibility, reciprocity and consent. As a case study we will watch Lekwungen: Place to Smoke Herring (2018), a film created by Eli Hirtle & Brianna Bear for a permanent art exhibition at Victoria City Hall. We will also view clips from the series Eli created for Telus’ Optik Network, Voices on the Rise (2019), to get a sense of how these protocols can be put into practice. MONDAY OCTOBER 18th 2021 6pm – 10pm Pacific Time Mentorship meetings Oct 19-21 REGISTER NOW >> Eli Hirtle is a nêhiyaw(Cree)/British/German filmmaker, beadworker, youth mentor and curator based on Lekwungen Territory in Victoria, BC, Canada. His practice involves making films about Indigenous cultural resurgence and language revitalization, as well as investigating his nêhiyaw identity through beadwork. Current areas of interest are learning how to speak his ancestral language of nêhiyawêwin and mentoring emerging Indigenous artists. Eli currently serves as Curator, Indigenous and Contemporary Art at Open Space Arts Society. Past curatorial projects include Sacred at Victoria City Hall, Pretty Good Not Bad Festival, IndigeVision Film Showcase, Wapakoni Cinema on Wheels Tour and Constellations of Kin in collaboration with the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre and ImagineNATIVE film festival. Film projects include RESIST: The Unistoten’s Call to the Land (2013), Voices on the Rise (2016 & 2019), and Lekwungen: Place to Smoke Herring (2018).

CineVic Society of Independent Filmmakers is SUPER excited to announce Vancouver Island’s second edition of the One Take Super 8 Event — this time in full Kodak colour! A fun, non-competitive, community-driven creation and exhibition opportunity for intrigued newbies, amateur artists, and professional filmmakers alike. Super 8 film took the world by storm in the 1960s and 70s as an accessible way to make “home movies.” Today, the format lives on as an analogue escape from our digital world. The One Take Super 8 Event began in the year 2000 in Regina SK, and since then it has inspired the creation and screening of over 1,000 films in more than 50 locations around the world. CineVic presented the island’s first edition two years ago, and we’re bringing it back for another round of fun! Earlier this summer, 22 participants from Victoria and the surrounding region answered the open call to participate. They were given a camera, a roll of film, and one week to create their own 3-minute Super 8 movie. The only catch: no editing. The filmmakers had to shoot their scenes in order with no second chances, and they’ll witness their work for the first time along with an audience at the community screening on October 23rd. Soundtracks are optional, and because the Super 8 format does not record sound, they are created separately from the film and manually cued up on the night. Get your advance tickets now and join us in-person or online for the limited-capacity hybrid screening event! Saturday October 23rd 2021 7:00pm PT Alix Goolden Performance Hall 907 Pandora Avenue (enter through Victoria Conservatory of Music at 900 Johnson St.) Or watch from home on YouTube $5 advance tickets 📽 Click here for in-person screening tickets >> * Attendees will be required to present identification and proof of at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccination, which will be scanned upon entrance * Attendees must wear a mask at all times, and remain seated for the entire event 📺 Click here for YouTube livestream tickets >> See the world premiere of 22 new Super 8 films created by: Alex Skorochid • Octavian Kaul • Michael Korican • Suzanne Moreau • Ian Sebelius • Jerry & Alena Kott • Sonya Chwyl • Eli Hirtle • Bowen Macy • Elvie Simons • Greg Goldberg • Megan Switzer • Rachel Evans • Jessica Beach • Tyson Laidler • Ella Privet • Jen Yakamovich • Nathan Dunsmoor • Kemi Craig • Michelle Frey • Cat Lewis Many thanks to our event partners and sponsors: MediaNet / FLUX Media Gallery, Antimatter Media Art Festival, and Niagara Custom Lab. CineVic Society of Independent Filmmakers acknowledges and respects the long history of the Lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking people, now known as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations, as well as the W̱SÁNEĆ First Nations, on whose traditional and unceded territory we carry out our activities. CineVic gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance and support of Canada Council for the Arts, British Columbia Arts Council, Province of British Columbia, and the CRD Arts Development Service.

Join award-winning Vancouver creator Andy Hodgson for an introduction to Producer-related duties in both indie and industry environments. Topics to be covered include management of script and writing, production planning and coordination, casting, directing, finances, marketing, and distribution. SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 25th 2021 12pm – 4pm Pacific Time REGISTER NOW >> This workshop is presented as part of The Incubators program. Click here for more info on the other workshops in this series >> Born in Ecuador and raised in the Middle East, Andy Hodgson moved to Vancouver, BC in 2001 to pursue film; he graduated from Capilano University Cinematography program in 2004. He began his career working on several big-budget films and commercials as a member of IATSE Local 891. Andy quickly realized his passion for indie filmmaking, and began producing and shooting his own independent films, commercials and music videos. His talent and unique visual eye has garnered him nominations and awards at international film festivals including the Whistler Film Festival and the Milan International Filmmaker Festival. Andy was the Director of Photography and Producer of his first feature film Woodland which is now released across all major VOD platforms. Since then, he has taken on the role of Director of Photography and Producer for Brother, I Cry a Telefilm Talent to Watch funded feature that is set to be released in 2021, and his own feature film El Suspiro De Silencio which was shot in El Salvador in 2019 and is set to be released early 2022. Alongside producing, Andy works locally in Vancouver as a Director of Photography for thrillers and romcoms for Lifetime, Hallmark and OWN Network and was chosen to be Cinematographer on the original Netflix series Project MC2.

There is a thirst for quality content and diverse voices right now. It all starts with the script. Meeshelle Neal’s easy-to-understand Screenwriting Workshop is the best place for anyone contemplating writing a movie or wanting to learn how to pitch & polish their work. This information-packed workshop will give you the tools and information you need to write a feature-length screenplay or short film to budget. The workshop is part lecture, part discussion, part writing exercises. You will learn how to develop your voice and create complex, unique and interesting scripts — all while sticking to the almighty structure and formatting to ensure you are seen as a professional within the industry. Packaging your materials appropriately means people will be more likely to read your work and take you seriously. This workshop is for new and emerging screenwriters, or seasoned writers from other disciplines, or professionals working in other departments of filmmaking (directors, actors, and crew) who want to learn how to write for the screen. The details depend on what you bring. If you have a script, Meeshelle will help you hone and sharpen it. If you just have an idea but need to get it on paper, she will plant the seed and help you find the story you are meant to tell, sending you off with the tools to write. A great entry point for writers, directors, producers, actors, filmmakers, film crew, writers from other mediums, and anyone with an interest in how screenplays are written and how they are marketed and sold. Or for writers who want to push through to the next level of their career. You will leave the workshop with the techniques needed to write a feature-length or short screenplay, inspiration for your project, a notebook full of ideas, story notes and new connections. SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 18th 2021 10am – 5pm Pacific Time This workshop is presented as part of The Incubators program. Click here for more info on the other workshops in this series >> If you are interested in The Incubators, but aren’t sure about signing up for the full program just yet, this workshop is the perfect way to dip your toe in the water! If you purchase a single ticket for this workshop and later decide to attend the full program, we will deduct the amount you’ve already paid from the Full Package Deal registration fee. REGISTER NOW >> Meeshelle ‘Meesh’ Neal is a queer she/her award-winning Canadian filmmaker. She is the first in the history of the Whistler Producers Lab to have two feature film projects selected. Meesh wrote and is slated to direct both. She won Best Female Filmmaker for her work on Sweet Release in the Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival where the short also took home Best LGBTQ Film. She was recently awarded Best Director for Where Everyone Lives in the Berlin Indie Film Festival. Meeshelle is in development on a feature film version of Sweet Release. This grounded sci-fi is being brought to life with the help of the WIDC CBC Films Talent Development Award and the Whistler Producers Lab. In addition to working in film, Meeshelle is an author and has published a trilogy called Betwixt. She was a recipient of the Amy Ferris Fellowship for Betwixt: The Call of the Void. She is currently in development on an adaptation of the books into a feature film with the help of the Whistler Producers Lab. She wrote, produced and acted in Mental, which she adapted to the screen from a one-woman stage play. The film screened at CineVic’s Short Circuit in 2018, received BravoFACT funding as well as multiple awards, and co-earned her a WIFTV Spotlight Image Award. She is mentored by well-respected director / producer Gary Harvey and is grateful to have apprenticed with him on: Hudson & Rex (Citytv), Welcome To Christmas(Hallmark) & Tiny Pretty Things (Netflix). She enjoys telling heightened reality stories that remain grounded in the nuanced complexity of human emotions.

Enjoy a handful of brand new short films made from start to finish in just 48 hours by energetic guerrilla filmmakers from Vancouver Island! Register for a FREE ticket on Eventbrite, and you will receive a YouTube link to watch the films when they become available. After the screening premiere time, films will be available to watch for 48 hours. Screening premiere: Friday June 18th 2021 @ 8:00pm Films will be available to watch until: Sunday June 20th 2021 @ 8:00pm Get your FREE Tickets >> Click here to see more info about the challenge that the filmmakers signed up for. Then get your tickets and see their hard work coming to a screen near you! The top two films selected by our jury will go on to compete for a chance to screen at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto in 2022. ~ ~ ~ presented by: CineVic Society of Independent Filmmakers & The 48 Film Festival CineVic acknowledges and respects the long history of the Lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking people, now known as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations, as well as the W̱SÁNEĆ First Nations, on whose traditional and unceded territory we carry out our activities. CineVic gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance and support of Canada Council for the Arts, Province of British Columbia, British Columbia Arts Council, and the CRD Arts Development Service.

CineVic presents: Media Artists Grant Webinar with BC Arts Council Tuesday June 8th 2021 @ 2:00pm PDT Are you applying to the upcoming deadline for the BC Arts Council’s Individual Arts Awards for Media Artists? Join us for a FREE webinar by Walter Quan and Sarah Todd, Program Officers at the BC Arts Council. They will delve into grant writing tips for your film and media arts projects, and discuss how to approach preparing applications for the online grant management system. This info session is a great way to learn what funders look for in applications, how to make yours stand out, and how to navigate (not fear) the application form! Register on Zoom >> CineVic acknowledges and respects the long history of the Lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking people, now known as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations, as well as the W̱SÁNEĆ First Nations, on whose traditional and unceded territory we carry out our activities. CineVic gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance and support of Canada Council for the Arts, Province of British Columbia, British Columbia Arts Council, and the CRD Arts Development Service.

The 48 Film Festival (aka. The 48) is a brand new Canada-wide short filmmaking challenge and festival spearheaded by Ben Williams and Guy Maddin. For one weekend, participants will write, shoot, direct, score, edit and finish a short film in 48 hours. For filmmakers on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, CineVic is resurrecting the Film Slam name from our time-crunch filmmaking challenges in the early 2000s. Filmmakers who register and complete their film by the deadline will be screened locally in each participating province and territory, then the top 2 films selected from each province and territory will appear together on the big screen at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto in March 2022. • Limited spots available! • Individuals or teams may register to make a film. • Finished film can be up to 4 minutes maximum running time including credits. • Filmmakers who submit a finished film by the deadline will be included in the online screening and will receive an artist screening fee. • Equipment and insurance are not provided but our rentals are first-come first-served. Be sure to book your gear after registering! • At the start time, filmmakers will receive an email containing a theme and the “key” which includes items, elements, and techniques that must appear in your film (this ensures everyone starts at the same time). • Please note: CineVic’s edition of this event is intended for participants from Vancouver Island or the Gulf Islands. For information on how to participate in other editions in your region, visit www.the48filmfest.ca Key is revealed + filming begins: Friday June 11th 2021 @ 6:00pm Film submission deadline: Sunday June 13th 2021 @ 6:00pm Online Screening: Friday June 18th 2021 (details TBA) Registration: $25 CineVic Members $50 Non-Members Register at www.cinevic.ca

The Top 5 scripts and screenwriters have been chosen — now YOU can watch them pitch their projects at Short Circuit! Wednesday May 19th @ 7:00pm PDT Now in its fifth year, CINE⚡SPARK annually awards a production package of cash, equipment, and services to an outstanding short screenplay by a filmmaker from the Vancouver Island and Gulf Islands region. The best pitch will walk away with more than $17,500 worth of resources to make their short film courtesy of CineVic, William F White International, and Modo. Then they'll have a year to complete the film and premiere it at next year’s Short Circuit Film Festival! Tune in to the livestream on YouTube ➡️ ➡️ ➡️ Or watch right here! ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

The only Pacific Rim film festival in the world returns for our 9th annual showcase of short films from near and far!An entire month of online screenings and events•50 short films in 10 on-demand programs available to stream worldwide•Dozens of filmmakers representing over 25 regions around the Pacific Rim•CINE⚡SPARK pitch eventSee www.shortcircuitfilmfestival.com for film programs and synopses, tickets, filmmaker Q&A schedule, and more! presented by Victoria BC Canada