F2024 FESTIVAL ORGANIZERS
Artistic Director / Lead Organizer
Oona Mosna
Assistant Director / Virtual Management Assistant
Jeremy Rigsby
Finance Committee
Merry Ellen Scully Mosna, Cristina Naccarato, Douglas McLaren
Fund Development
Oona Mosna
Development Team
Cristina Naccarato, Sophie Cavoulacos, Joanna Raczynska, Madeleine Molyneaux
Website Design & Development
Spellerberg Associates: Marty Spellerberg, Jennifer Moore
Lead Festival Technician
Travis Bird
Streaming Management
CineSend: Eric Rosset, Russ Gage, Colin Carter
International Program, Spotlight Program & Lead Curator
Oona Mosna
Pre-Screeners / Advisors
Jeremy Rigsby, Maia Asshaq, Sophie Cavoulacos, Greg de Cuir, Jr.
Regional Curator
Brandon Walley
Regional Engagement Committee
Aaron Glasser, Czarina Mendoza, Garth Jackson, Brandon Walley, Huyen Nguyen, Andrea Slavik, Marc Ngui, Magda Wojtyra, Anna Brotman-Krass
Audio Technician / Artist Interviews
Czarina Mendoza
Promotion Video Designer
Sam Campbell
Three Fold Press Detroit
Rebecca Mazzei (Managing Editor), Oona Mosna (Film Editor)
Copy Editor
Greg Baise
2024 Board of Directors
President
Douglas McLaren
Treasurer
Cristina Naccarato
Secretary
Greg Baise
Board Members
Sophie Cavoulacos, Aaron Glasser,
Joanna Raczynska, Madeleine Molyneaux,
Forest Juziuk. Thank you to 2024 outgoing board members Rebecca Mazzei, Roxanne Qussem, and Frances Barber
Festival Founders
Deirdre Logue, Britta Poisson, Kim Truchan, Christopher McNamara, Dermot Wilson, and the Venus Boys
CONTACT MCFF
Contact MCFF
Media City Film Festival
309 Chatham Street West
Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9A 5M8
+1 519 973 9368
(Legal name: House of Toast Film & Video Collective)
American Donations
Allied Media Projects
Tax-deductible receipts for all American donations made to MCFF can be made here
Canadian Donations
Canadian donations to MCFF can be made here
THANK YOU
Media City Film Festival is a presentation of the House of Toast Film & Video Collective with assistance from Allied Media Projects (Detroit). The 27th edition is made possible with generous financial support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Ontario Trillium Foundation, and All Star Gaming Centre. Thank you also to members, donors, sponsors, presenting partner organizations, volunteers, and audience members.
THANK YOU
Diana Kluge at Deutsche Kinemathek (Berlin); Sofia Tocar at Square Eyes Film (Vienna); Isadora Soares Belletti (Paris); Christophe Calmels at Films Sans Frontières (Paris); Saeed Taji Farouky (London); Daniela Zahlner, Dietmar Schwärzler, and Maria Harrison at sixpackfilm (Vienna); Ekaterina Kochetkova at neugerriemschneider (Berlin), Flavia Mazzarino at Kamal Aljafari Productions (Berlin); Tomas Rautenstrauch at Filmoteca Narcisa Hirsch (Buenos Aires); Khadega Mohammed, Rewa Zeinati, Fatima Al-Rasool, and Dave Serio at Arab American National Museum (Dearborn); Antje Ehmann at Harun Farocki GbR (Berlin); Miguel Armas, Emmanuel Lefrant, Eleni Gioti, and Maria Kourkouta at Light Cone (Paris); Hirofumi Sakamoto at Postwar Japan Moving Image Archive (Tokyo); Jinane Mrad at Association Jocelyne Saab (Marseille); Madeleine Molyneaux at Picture Palace Pictures (New York); Mark Toscano at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Los Angeles); Brett Kashmere at Canyon Cinema (San Francisco); Justin Rhody at No Name Cinema (Santa Fe); Karl McCool at Electronic Arts Intermix (New York); Jeremy Waldinger-White at Greene Naftali (New York); Wanda vanderStoop, Chris Gehman and Kiera Boult at Vtape (Toronto); Hanan Coumal at LUX (London); Ed Halter and Thomas Beard at Light Industry (New York); Steve Polta at CROSSROADS/San Francisco Cinematheque; Brandi Holt at Ja’tovia Gary Studio (Dallas); Chris Nelson at Studio Sky Hopinka; Vivian I. at dream hampton Studio; Dennis Lim, Aily Nash, Tyler Wilson, at New York Film Festival; Andréa Picard and Jesse Cumming at the Toronto International Film Festival; John Klacsmann at Anthology Film Archives (New York); Steve Macfarlane at Spectacle Theater (Brooklyn); Tara Merenda Nelson at Visual Studies Workshop (Rochester); Renata Mohammed and Chris Kennedy at LIFT (Toronto); Sarah-Tai Black at Black Gold (Toronto); Greg de Cuir, Jr. at Kinopravda Institute (Belgrade); Andrea Monti and Elle Burchill at Microscope Gallery (Brooklyn); Maria Palacios Cruz at Open City Documentary Festival (London); Jane Keranen at the Film Studies Center, University of Chicago; Emily Faith Martin, Nicky Ni, Kristin MacDonough, and Elise Schierbeek at Video Data Bank (Chicago); Jason Evans at This Long Century; Inney Prakash at Prismatic Ground (New York); Jason Fox at Film Workers for Palestine; Genne Speers, Stefano Miraglia, and Zoe Meyer at Movimcat; Morgan Sears Williams and Aaditya Aggarwal at CFMDC (Toronto); Francisco Algarín Navarro at Lumière; Marcos Ortega Miranda at Experimental Cinema; John Deringer at Screen Slate (New York); Lukas Brasiskis at e-flux (New York); Rebecca Mazzei at Three Fold Press and Joel Peterson at Trinosophes (Detroit); Julia Yezbick and Benjamin Gaydos at Mothlight Microcinema (Detroit); Josh Gardner at Cinema Lamont (Detroit); Scott Northrup at College for Creative Studies (Detroit); Toni Moceri, Sophia Softky, Leila Abdelrazaq, and the team at Allied Media Projects (Detroit); Elida Schogt and staff at Media Arts Network of Ontario (Toronto); Barbara Gilbert at the Ontario Arts Council (Toronto); Line Dezainde and Linda Nordstrom at the Canada Council for the Arts; Mary-Jo Sullivan and Francois Brassard Lahey at the Ontario Trillium Foundation; Darleen Service at All Star Gaming Centre; Gustave Morin, Jenny Kimmerly, Nova Faxon, and the board of directors at Common Ground Gallery; Lori and Paul Kimmerly at Standard Printing; Bilal Nasser and Kamryn Cusumano at The River and the Land (Windsor); Stephen Mueller, Erin Fyfe, and the Board of Directors of Artcite Inc (Windsor); Alejandro Tamayo and Maria Mediratta at Arts Council Windsor and Region; Jennifer Matotek, Emily McKibbon, Julie Tucker, Niku Koochak, and Nadja Pelkey at Art Windsor-Essex (Windsor); Gayle Allen, Julia Galli, and the staff and board at the Windsor Symphony Orchestra and the Capitol Theatre and Arts Centre; Windsor West MP Brian Masse and staff; Windsor West MPP Lisa Gretzky and staff; Fabio Costante at the City of Windsor; Debi Croucher at Indaba Marketing; Lix Sellick at CJAM 91.5 FM; Tom Lucier, Shane Chiasson, and staff at Phog Lounge; Martin Deck, Dean Carson; Danielle Bowers; Teajai Travis; Tony Mosna; Liam Mosna; Peg Dorner; Greg Czuchnowsky; Bernard Helling; Kari Taxi; Jackie Fitzgerald; Valentina Void; the House of Toast Film & Video Collective founders Deirdre Logue, Christopher McNamara, Britta Poisson, Kim Truchan, Dermot Wilson, and the original Venus Boys; all past and current board and committee members; and all of MCFF’s invaluable volunteers. We appreciate you!
DEDICATION
Festival dedicated to Nova Faxon Kimmerly Morin (b. 2017), Windsor’s greatest cinephile, and her avian friends Toothpaste and Telephone.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT / STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINE
Media City Film Festival’s offices and its presenting venues are situated on the traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy: the Odawa, the Potawatomi, and the Ojibwe peoples. We further recognize the stewardship and presence of the Erie and the Huron-Wendat who have also called this land their home.
We unequivocally condemn the structural violence of settler colonialism and encourage every global citizen and human ally to listen, stand, and act with all Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island. We demand an end to cultural genocide, colonial oppression, racism, and discrimination, in service of humanity and the preservation of planet Earth. MCFF stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people in their ongoing resistance to genocide, and affirms the role of cultural organizations in combatting the normalization of Zionism and colonial oppression in all of its forms. MCFF adheres to the principles of the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).
