Media City Film Festival Award Winners (and multi-festival alumni) Sky Hopinka (2014) and Basma AlSharif (2013) co-present an evening of their films at MoMA: February 17, 2020 at 7:00 p.m.  Details here: https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/6404 “For the first time in their flourishing careers as artists and filmmakers, Basma alSharif (Palestinian, resides in Egypt) and Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk […]

Media City Film Festival is proud to launch the 2019-2020 CHRYSALIS SHOWCASE, presented in partnership with Common Ground Art Gallery and a host of additional grass-roots collaborators in Windsor-Detroit. The CHRYSALIS SHOWCASE takes place February 14, 15, 16, 2020 at Mackenzie Hall Cultural Centre 3277 Sandwich Street in Windsor, ON. The event will feature more […]

MCFF Chrysalis Fellow, Ana Vaz’s new film Apiyemiyekî? will screen as part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Ammodo Tiger Competition in January and February 2020. Apiyemiyekî? is sewn together from a series of drawings made by the Waimiri-Atroari, an autochthonous people native to the Brazilian Amazon, who were submitted to a number of violent […]

Media City Film Festival proudly announces the launch of its inaugural Chrysalis Fellowship. The Chrysalis Fellowship is a platform designed to support artists in the production of new films and related experimental forms, supporting adventurous moving image artists from across Canada and around the world. This new program will focus on commission and creation projects, […]