Media City Film Festival is currently recruiting new board and committee members with interest and enthusiasm for moving image art. The organization is planning exciting new projects in 2025. As a new board member, you will play a key role in the governance and strategic direction of the organization at a very exciting time in […]

Media City Film Festival is thrilled to announce the AWARD-WINNING films from its’s historic 26th edition. From a roster of more than 70 equality incredible and diverse film and digital artworks, MCFF’s International Competition Jury Ed Halter (USA); Malena Szlam (Chile/Canada); and Faraz Anoushahpour (Iran/Canada), awarded five films in the following categories. Please read the […]

View this email in your browser (October 2023) MEDIA CITY FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES MORE THAN $200,000 IN FEDERAL AND PROVINCIAL FUNDING AND INVITES THE PUBLIC TO JOIN ITS FREE OPENING NIGHT CELEBRATIONS IN WINDSOR AND DETROIT Media City Film Festival (MCFF) announces more than $200,000 in support from federal and provincial agencies, including funding from […]

View this email in your browser (October 2023) Media City Film Festival (MCFF), Windsor-Detroit’s internationally acclaimed festival of film and digital art, launches its dazzling 26th edition with a return to in-person presentations, Tuesday, November 7–Saturday, November 11, 2023. MCFF is ecstatic to present an exceptional, rare, and bountiful offering of over 70 films made […]

  MOONSHINE: THE CELESTIAL FILMS OF KEVIN JEROME EVERSON MARKS THE ARTIST’S FIRST SOLO GALLERY EXHIBITION IN CANADA Windsor, ON / Detroit, MI — Media City Film Festival (MCFF), Windsor-Detroit’s internationally acclaimed festival for film and digital art, and Art Windsor-Essex (AWE) are proud to present MOONSHINE: The Celestial Film of Kevin Jerome Everson, the first […]

Windsor, ON / Detroit, MI — Media City Film Festival (MCFF), Windsor-Detroit’s internationally acclaimed festival for film and digital art, announces ThousandSuns Cinema: Indigenous Edition, streaming online January 9–30, 2023.  Focused exclusively on Indigenous filmmakers, MCFF presents over 60 films made by some of cinema’s most remarkable voices, available to view for free in full […]

MEDIA CITY FILM FESTIVAL AND MUSEUM LONDON PARTNER ON NEW COMMISSION AND EXHIBITION PROJECT, SOUTHWEST SEEN.  Media City Film Festival and Museum London are thrilled to announce three new digital media commissions from BIPOC artists, created as part of the joint project Southwest Seen. Southwest Seen features newly created works by Calla Moya, Racquel Rowe, […]

 Windsor, ON / Detroit, MI – Windsor’s internationally acclaimed Media City Film Festival (MCFF) is headed to Hollywood once again, at least a film produced by the Windsor-based organization has made its way into the Academy Film Archive’s collection and will screen at the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles this Spring.  […]

Call for Proposals Southwest Seen New Media Commissions Submission deadline:June 6, 2022 Museum London invites applications for Southwest Seen, an initiative to activate new media works that reflect the region’s diverse culture and history. With support from artist/curatorial collaborators and representatives of the London Ontario Media Arts Association and the Media City Film Festival, Southwest Seen will support […]

25TH EDITION DATE CHANGE NOTIFICATION!  MCFF is excitedly reviewing the many moving image artworks that have been submitted for consideration to its upcoming 25th-anniversary edition. Planning is now well underway and we’re extremely excited to launch the event. *Please take note of the following important change: MCFF is shifting its dates from fall/winter to February […]

POSITION TITLE Assistant Director  CLASSIFICATION Full-time, contractual basis from July through December 2021 Remote work. Flexibility for potential on-site office hours closer to the festival dates is desirable Average 35 hrs per week (with longer hours leading up to and during festival time) COMPENSATION $20,000 fee for 6-month contract, paid on a monthly basis SUPERVISOR […]

DAïCHI SAïTO’S “EARTHEARTHEARTH” WILL HAVE ITS WORLD PREMIERE AT THE 50TH EDITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM. Commissioned by Media City Film Festival, Japanese-Canadian artist Daïchi Saïto’s new 35mm film earthearthearth will have its World Premiere at the 50th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Shot on analogue film in the Andean mountains […]

MALENA SZLAM’S MCFF COMMISSION ALTIPLANO SCREENS AT THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Commissioned by Media City Film Festival’s UNDERGROUND MINES: Canadian Artists’ Cinema in South America program, Malena Szlam’s 35mm film ALTIPLANO will be streaming freely on The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles website through February 11, 2021. www.moca.org/program/screen-malena-szlam Filmed in the Andean Mountains […]

Media City Film Festival and House of Toast Film and Video Collective are incredibly grateful for the support of All Star Gaming Centre. Throughout this pandemic they have generously funded the activities of our charity, offering financial assistance to make programs available to the public. We look forward to our continued partnership with this group […]

MEDIA CITY FILM FESTIVAL LAUNCHES NEW ONLINE CINEMA SPACE WITH A GLOBAL SHOWCASE OF STUNNING WORKS FROM ITS 25-YEAR HISTORY AND BEYOND! Media City Film Festival (MCFF) is thrilled to launch a new online cinema space designed to animate aspects of the organization’s long-storied programming history. THOUSANDSUNS CINEMA presents both short and feature-length films, director […]

MEDIA CITY FILM LAUNCHES NEW ONLINE EXHIBITION SPACE WITH INAUGURAL SHOW: RADICAL ACTS OF CARE Media City Film Festival launches a new online exhibition space, Dark Dark Gallery, with its inaugural show Radical Acts of Care, curated by Greg de Cuir Jr. (Belgrade, Serbia), and organized and designed by MCFF director Oona Mosna. The exhibition […]

Media City Film Festival is recruiting new board members with interest and enthusiasm for moving image arts. The organization is currently preparing for a major expansion of its operations beginning in 2021. As a new board member, you will play a key role in the governance and strategic direction of the organization at a very exciting time […]

MEDIA CITY FILM FESTIVAL FEBRUARY 2020 EDITION DIVERTED TO UNDERTAKE NEW MODEL  After a lengthy process, Media City Film Festival was selected as the first Canadian organization to be named a Knight Arts Foundation Winner. This prize comes with the exciting opportunity of doubling our festival program in Windsor-Detroit to celebrate our 25th anniversary in […]

      The first in a series of films commissioned in South America as part of Media City’s UNDERGROUND MINES tour premiered on the festival circuit in 2018. Malena Szlam’s 35mm masterpiece ALTIPLANO opened to audiences at the 43rd edition of the Toronto International Film Festival before being awarded Media City’s coveted Second Prize as part […]

★ GRAND PRIZE ★ Jonathan Schwartz: A Leaf Is The Sea Is A Theatre (USA) ★ SECOND PRIZE ★ Malena Szlam: ALTIPLANO (Chile/Canada) ★ THIRD PRIZE ★ Colectivo Los Ingrávidos: Coyolxauhqui (Mexico) ★ HONOURABLE MENTIONS ★  Faraz Anoushahpour, Parastoo Anoushahpour and Ryan Ferko: Chooka (Iran / Canada) Mary Helena Clark: The Glass Note (USA) ★ REGIONAL AWARD ★ Sally Lawton: Sky High and The […]

  MEDIA CITY 2018: Guest Services Coordinator (GSC) Position Start Date: position filled. Festival Dates: November 7-10, 2018 Nature: Stipend (Paid); Full Festival Pass, letter of recommendation from Director / Board (upon request) The Guest Services Coordinator works closely with the Program Director, and Festival Assistant to ensure that all festival guests have lodging and transportation. The GSC manages the following in consultation with […]

On the heels of retrospective programs featuring Media City Prize winning filmmakers, Helga Fanderl and Robert Beavers, Xcèntric (CCB’s cinema) has a host of excellent screenings scheduled this spring. Here’s a quick rundown of what’s in store: • March 22: Journeys and Songs Films by Jonas Mekas, Rose Lowder, Warren Sonbert, David Brooks, and Mark Lapore. http://www.cccb.org/en/activities/file/journeys-and-songs/228448 • […]

Ephraim Asili‘s Windsor-Detroit film “Fluid Frontiers” is included as part of Black Radical Imagination‘s 2018 touring program FUGITIVE TRAJECTORIES, along with new work by Frances Bodomo, Alima Lee, Jenn Nkiru, Amelia Umuhire, and dana washington. FUGITIVE TRAJECTORIES has its first screening at The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, March 1, 2018.  Program info here: https://www.moca.org/program/screen-black-radical-imagination Black […]

Cauleen Smith, Lessons in Semephore, 2016. Expanding the Frame: Imagination Is Power April 5-21, 2018 at the Walker Art Center there‘s another chance to see award winning films from Media City’s 2017 edition, including work by Cauleen Smith and Sky Hopinka, screening as part Expanding the Frame, an annual program of experimental and alternative media. From the Walker Art […]

Media City Film Festival 2010 award winner Mati Diop (Senegal/France) is working on a new feature film The Fire Next Time (not based on the James Baldwin book). From Cineuropa: “The story is set in a working-class suburb of Dakar that stretches along the Atlantic coast, dominated by a futuristic-looking tower that is about to be […]

Media City 2017 Grand Prize winner and Mobile Frames Filmmaker in Residence, Ephraim Asili is presenting a live three-act performance at EMPAC this month. The evening will include a reading by legendary Philadelphia poet, activist, and scholar Sonia Sanchez, and scenes from Asili’s forthcoming feature The Inheritance. Details about the event on EMPAC’s website: http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2018/spring/ephraim-asili Asili […]

Media City Film Festival award winner, Ben Russell’s newest film Good Luck makes its UK premiere at Tate Modern this February. Watch River Rites, which won the festival’s Grand Prize in 2012 here: https://vimeo.com/25532189 “From the outset, it felt too easy to critique a process that all of us are directly implicated in, to have a […]

Dreaming the Dark: hands that see, eyes that touch is a series of 24 x 1 minute films curated and assembled by Media City Grand Prize winner, Ana Vaz (Brazil). In January 2018, Dreaming the Dark will tour museums and cultural spaces around the world. Media City artists including Ute Aurand, Mary Helena Clark, Ben Balcom, Salomé Lamas, Saul […]

Media City Film Festival award winner Sky Hopinka is the featured artist on Vdrome January 12-25, 2018. Until January 25, you can watch Sky’s Dislocation Blues which premiered at Media City’s 22nd edition in 2017. Hopinka discusses the film with Tate Modern’s Carly Whitefield. Here is a segment from that interview: CW: Language has been a prominent […]

29 SEPTEMBER – 1 OCTOBER 2017 Tate Modern will be presenting a survey of films made by Kevin Jerome Everson: September 29-October 1, 2017. Included in the survey are films made in Windsor as part of the Mobile Frames series, along with the new long-form film Rhino set in Florence circa 1530s, exploring the days leading up […]

KINO PLAY: ZAGREB CROATIA Media City Film Festival’s Oona Mosna will be presenting films at the 25FPS festival in Zagreb, Croatia this September. Learn more about the festival here: https://www.25fps.hr/  “I believe the form is at its brightest when you can’t quite pin down what holds things together, even when you know it’s just a splice.” – […]

★ GRAND PRIZE: Ephraim Asili (USA): Fluid Frontiers,  2017 ★ SECOND PRIZE: Ana Vaz (Brazil): Amérika: Bahía de las Flechas, 2016 and Há Terra, 2016! ★ THIRD PRIZE:  Antoinette Zwirchmayr (Austria): Venus Delta, 2016 ★ Honourable Mentions: ★ Jennifer Saparzadeh (Iran/US): Nu Dem, 2017 ★ Els van Riel (Belgium): Fugue: A Light’s Travelogue, 2017 ★ Cauleen Smith (USA): Lessons […]

Media City Film Festival’s 22nd edition was a roaring success, with it’s largest attendance on both sides of the Detroit-Windsor border. A very special thank you goes out to festival staff, and our amazing roster of more than 70+ volunteers who assisted in every aspect of festival presentation in 2017!

MEDIA CITY 2017: Guest Services Coordinator (GSC) Position Start Date: This position has been filled. Festival Dates: August 2–5, 2017 Nature: Stipend (Paid); Full Festival Pass, letter of recommendation from Director / Board (upon request) The Guest Services Coordinator works closely with the Program Director, and Festival Assistant to ensure that all festival guests have lodging and transportation. The GSC manages the following in […]

22nd Media City Film Festival: August 2-5, 2017!  Special programming updates are forthcoming, including our Opening Night in Detroit, at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Mark your calendars, and take advantage of the festival’s pre-pass sale, only $25CAD (limited, based on availability, or until festival festival lineup is announcement in early July). Purchasing advance passes […]

Media City Film Festival’s Call for Entries officially closed March 15, 2017. Due to volume of submissions received, a record number this year, entrants will be notified no later than June 1, 2017. We thank everyone who sent their films for consideration to the festival, with representation from more than 60 nations worldwide. Oona Mosna

Media City Film Festival award winner, Robert Beavers will be featured as part of the 2017 Whitney Biennial with three screenings this weekend, including a new film, and his MC Grand Prize winning film, Listening to the Space in My Room. Past and current Media City artists featured at the Whitney Biennial in 2017 include, […]

★MEDIA CITY FILM FESTIVAL  2017 CALL FOR ENTRIES ★  ★ ENTRY DEADLINE EXTENDED: March 15 20I7 ★ NO RESTRICTIONS on the number of works submitted by groups and individuals. No entry fees, and flexible guidelines. Please read our entry FAQ, and inquire by email with questions. Guidelines in english, français, español, 日本語: https://mediacityfilmfestival.com/ Media City Film Festival is an annual international festival of film and digital art, […]

CALL FOR ENTRIES: 22nd MEDIA CITY FILM FESTIVAL ★ PLEASE POST & DISTRIBUTE WIDELY ★ ENTRY DEADLINE: March 1, 2017. ABSOLUTELY NO ENTRY FEES! DOWNLOAD the festival entry form, complete it (on your computer or by hand) and mail it with your entry. See the GUIDELINES (aussi en français, español, 日本語) and FAQ (English only) below […]

JULY 31 – AUG. 14, 2016 “Beautifully filmed on location in Ghana, Brazil and Ethiopia as well as in Philadelphia and Harlem, Asili’s complex, poetic documentaries fuse travelogue to archival investigation in order to explore how history and memory bear on the present – shaping the navigation and inhabitation of places.” – LA FilmForum Ephraim […]

BRUCE MCCLURE: THERE WAS A SWEET HOPEFUL 8PM – Saturday, August 6 & Sunday, August 7, 2016 Mackenzie Hall Ballroom & Common Ground Art Gallery 3277 Sandwich Street Common Ground Art Gallery, Media City Film Festival and Momentum Film & Video Collective join forces for a two-day projector performance extravaganza with NY-based, paracinema legend, Bruce […]

2016 is a research and development year for Media City. The Call for Entries for the 22nd edition of Media City Film Festival will open at a date TBA. Looking forward to reviewing your projects. Stay tuned!   

The AWARD WINNING films from Media City Film Festival’s 21st edition: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : ★ GRAND PRIZE: Occidente, Ana Vaz, Brazil. ★ SECOND PRIZE: Neither God nor Santa María, Samuel M. Delgado and Helena Girón, Spain. ★ THIRD PRIZE: Jáaji Approx., Sky Hopinka, […]

MEDIA CITY FILM FESTIVAL’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY AWARD WINNERS GRAND PRIZE LISTENING TO THE SPACE IN MY ROOM, Robert Beavers, US Robert Beavers (Brookline MA 1949, lives in Europe since 1967). 20+ films since 1966; screenings at all major venues for artist’s film worldwide including the 1974 edition of EXPRMNTL (Knokke, Belgium), the Whitney Museum’s “American […]

SOUTH AMERICAN FILMS TAKE TOP HONOURS AT 19th MEDIA CITY Filmmakers from South America were the big winners when the awards were announced at the closing party for the 19th Media City Film Festival at Phog Lounge. Pablo Mazzolo of Argentina was awarded the Jury Grand Prize for his Super 8mm film CONJECTURES and Ecuador’s […]

Media City’s International Competition Jury announced the award-winning films from the 18th edition at the festival’s closing party on Saturday, May 26, 2012. Congratulations to the winners! The winners are: GRAND PRIZE River Rites by Ben Russell (USA, video, 11.5 min, 2011) http://vimeo.com/dimeshow SECOND PRIZE This Harmonic Condenser Enginium by Bruce McClure (USA, 2 x 16mm, […]

Photo credit: Joséphine Michel Filmmaker in Residence: Nicky Hamlyn (UK) April 23–May 16, 2012 In celebration of the 18th edition of the festival (May 22-26, 2012), Media City will partner with the Art Gallery of Windsor and the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto to host a three-week artist residency with renowned English filmmaker Nicky Hamlyn. […]

THIS IS THEN NOW AND HERE: Canadian films from CFMDC (1967–1979) Curated by Oona Mosna and Jeremy Rigsby, Courtisane Festival (Ghent, Belgium):  March 21–25, 2012 Standard Time (Michael Snow, 16mm, 8.5 min, 1967) Standard Time was the second work to begin to explore the vocabulary of camera movement. It uses horizontal and vertical pans from a tripod. […]

Detail: Shibuya – Tokyo, Tomonari Nishikawa, Japan, 16mm, 10 min, 2010   Media City’s International Competition Jury announced the award-winning films from the 17th edition at the festival’s closing party on Saturday, May 28, 2011. Congratulations to the winners! The winners are: GRAND PRIZE: Forms Are Not Self-Subsistent Substances by Samantha Rebello (UK, 16mm, 23min, 2010) […]

The Media City Shuttle is the festival’s FREE transportation service. The shuttle departs daily from designated stops in Ann Arbor and Detroit and returns from Windsor each night of the festival (May 24-28, 2011). Book your seats in advance, you can register by completing the form below. SCHEDULE Tuesday, May 24, 2011 depart from Ann Arbor […]

The call for entries for the 17th edition of Media City Film Festival is now closed. Programming staff are presently reviewing submissions. Thank you to all who have submitted their work.  Notification will be made on or before April 15, 2011. The full festival catalogue and program will be available online and in print in early […]

Detail: Hostage: the Bachar Tapes, Walid Raad, Lebanon/USA, video, 2002 Welcome to the new Media City website. We are pleased to make use of our new home to announce the call for entries for the 17th annual edition of Media City Film Festival. The festival will take place May 24–27, 2011 with events and screenings […]