Gimli Film Festival’s Founder and Board Chair, the Honourable Janis G. Johnson has been named a recipient of the Nellie McClung Foundation’s Manitoba 150 Women Trailblazers Award! The awards are an opportunity to salute the contributions that Manitoba woman have made to social justice, arts, sports, politics, community activities and promoting democracy while developing this…
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED!!! THANK YOU FOR SUBMITTING!!! Overview: The Short Film Programmer reports to the Festival Director and Senior Film Programmer and is responsible to preview all submitted short films as well as research, curate, coordinate and execute selection of all short film programming for the 21st annual Gimli Film Festival, July 21-25,…
The Gimli Film Festival is pleased to announce the hiring of Alan Wong as their new Festival Manager. Alan will be working under Festival Director Aaron Zeghers, to facilitate Manitoba’s largest Film Festival in July of 2021. Alan was born in Winnipeg and has lived abroad but came back to Manitoba for its strong family…
THANKS TO OUR 2020 STAR DONORS! The past year has been full of uncertainties for Arts Organizations like the Gimli Film Festival. Without the incredible and unwavering support of GFF’s 76 Star Donors listed below, GFF would have never been able to present one of the most comprehensive Online Film Festivals ever offered in Canada!…
Congratulations are in order for the Gimli Film Festival’s Founder and Chair Janis Johnson, who has been appointed to the Order of Canada! It was announced in late-November 2020 that the former Senator had been awarded the prestigious recognition “for her long-standing career in the public service, and for her contributions to Manitoba’s arts and…
A screening of… FM YOUTH by Stéphane Oystryk 7PM, Sunday, Sept. 20 | FREE on GFF’s Website & Facebook Page Join GFF this Sunday, September 20th for a FREE online screening of Stéphane Oystryk’s seminal Franco-Manitoba-made ode to growing up in St. Boniface, FM YOUTH. The screening starts at 7PM CDT and is available for free to anyone around the…
GFF is thrilled to announce the GFF 2020 Award Winners for the film’s taking part in the 20th annual edition of the Festival! Thanks to Joy Wood and Gled Vid Investment for their generous sponsorship of GFF’s Awards Presentations for 2020! Top winners included the Manitoba film Ruthless Souls, which picked up an ACTRA Best Actor…
On Screen Manitoba, RBC and the Gimli Film Festival are pleased to announce that Joanne Roberts was selected as the winner of the 9th annual RBC $10,000 Emerging Filmmaker Pitch Competition at the 2020 Gimli Film Festival. During the jury deliberation, the live streamed event featured the premiere of First Session by Matthew van Ginkel, the 2019 winner…
GFF has the pleasure today of announcing the Long List of Award Nominees for the film’s taking part in the 20th annual edition of the Festival! Thanks to Joy Wood and Gled Vid Investment for their generous sponsorship of GFF’s Awards Presentations for 2020! Leading in nominations is critically acclaimed Canadian film The Body Remembers…
This review was provided by Joshua Banman from our Open Call for Film Critics & Writers! Buy your Festival pass or individual tickets to watch both these films on GFF On Demand. Please check out Joshua’s other review of Film About a Father Who here! The Earth is Blue as an Orange dir. Iryna Tsilyk 2020 |…