Join the HIFF team! The Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival is now hiring two positions for our 2022 fest, set to take place June 9–12, 2022.
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AFCOOP is accepting applications from the community for emerging programmers for the inaugural HIFF After Images series debuting in the fall of 2021.
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The HIFF staff would like to send out a huge thank you to everyone who joined us online during this challenging year. Your enthusiasm and support kept the HIFF spirit alive for this 15th annual fest, and we can't wait to put in serious hours in a dark cinema together again as soon as possible.
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Loath as we are to admit it, the final day of HIFF 2021 is here. Fortunately we've got one last day of incredible screenings, plus a double bill of illuminating live panels on the books to close it out right. Check the Dailies below and go forward with full confidence you're in on all Day Four has to offer!
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It's the weekend, which means the serious watching can truly begin on HIFF Day Three! Our lineup of online panel discussions and artist talks also takes off today with two can't-miss sessions featuring some truly thoughtful and inspiring filmmakers from near (Nova Scotia New Wave Panel) and far (Artist Talk: The American Sector's Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez).
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Look around you: film lovers everywhere are uniformly sun-baked and grass-stained this morning, and it's because HIFF 2021 kicked off yesterday with an incredible virtual Garden Party! It had everything: films, trivia, a person in a banana suit, exactly one ice-cream sandwich. Thank you to everyone who joined us!
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The 15th annual Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival is upon us, and we're thrilled to take in four days of beautiful, boundary-pushing cinema online together—and it's all available RIGHT NOW! We've also got a stellar program of virtual artist talks, panels and discussions ahead of us. Be sure to check the HIFF Dailies each morning so you don't miss a thing!
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Every year, HIFF presents a selection of Atlantic Canada’s most bold and exciting new short films in our Atlantic Auteurs program. As we celebrate our 15th anniversary this year, we’re taking a look back at some of the most moving and innovative works from Atlantic Auteurs’ history in this FREE retrospective screening. Join us in revisiting the classics, discovering new favourites, and revelling in the stunning range of talent our region has to offer.
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At HIFF 2021, we're thrilled to present Nadège Trebal's fiction feature debut, Twelve Thousand, a film she not only wrote and directed, but in which she delivers a magnetic performance in the co-starring role.
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In The Cloud In Her Room, the debut feature from Xinyuan Zheng Lu, a young woman named Muzi returns home to Hangzhou to find the remains of her life in a state of slow decay. Her parents have separated and are already tangled in new relationships; their old apartment is empty and deteriorating. Figures from her past come and go as the city prepares for Chinese New Year celebrations.
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The 15th annual Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival will kick off on Thursday, June 24, with our entire film lineup available to stream online from June 24–27.
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Join us for our online program launch this evening as we announce everything this year's fest has in store, followed by a free virtual screening of Ecstasy, the docufiction feature debut from Brazillian filmmaker Moara Passoni, and Millefiore Clarkes' spellbinding short Solastalgia.
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The Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival is looking for a Festival Assistant to join the team planning this year's festival, which takes place June 23rd - 27th. HIFF 2021 will be a hybrid in-person/online event and the festival's 15th anniversary. This position is funded through the Job Creation Partnership Program and candidates must be eligible for that program in order to be considered.
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We're thrilled to welcome two new members to the Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival's Programming Committee for the 15th annual fest taking place this June.
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Well, here we are—the final day of HIFF 2020 is upon us! Fortunately we've got an amazing slate of screenings, awards, and filmmaker discussions to send this year's festival off on a high note.
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Things get real as we slide into the weekend for HIFF day three! We've got a jam-packed schedule of panels, shorts and feature screenings, and filmmaker Q+As for you to dive into today.
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