GRFF | Grand River Film Festival

Join us tonight at 7:30 p.m. over on our YouTube channel for the virtual screening of the 2020 Youth Video Competition, in partnership with Kitchener Public Library & GRFF | Grand River Film Festival. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaNJTPMSOyE&feature=youtu.be

Join us as we celebrate the #best in our youth filmmaking community with a virtual screening of this year's winners for our Youth Video Competition. https://fb.me/e/cXWoHmevS

#ShortFilmakers - Let’s get visual! Submit your silent short film highlighting creative use of light or technology for #Lumen2020 and see your work displayed #uptownwaterloo Send entries to [email protected]. For more information visit https://grff.ca/lumenfestival/

Join GRFF | Grand River Film Festival and @TheMuseum October 7 for a special film screening of Beyond Crisis: A story of hope for a rapidly changing world. This #film explores what it means to be living in our new era of climate change from diverse voices from North America and beyond.

Want more information on our #YODOContest, then you're in luck join us for our free AMA event today at noon https://bit.ly/3ipzAUU Submissions open until September 15 and more information can be found at https://www.hospicewaterloo.ca/yodo-contest/faqs/ #shortfilm #contest #filmmaking #waterlooregion Hospice of Waterloo Region

Calling all #Filmmakers and #Storytellers GRFF and Hospice of Waterloo Region want you to create a short film that explores death as a part of living for our You Only Die Once #YODOContest. Register today for our free AMA event https://bit.ly/3ipzAUU #WRAwesome #KWAwesome #explorewaterlooregion #waterloo #filmmaking #shortfilm #film

GRFF is pleased to partner with Hospice of Waterloo Region to announce the new short film contest You Only Die Once #YODOContest Learn more and register for our free AMA event this Wednesday https://bit.ly/3ipzAUU #hospicewaterloo #wrawesome #waterlooregion #shortfilmmaking

We are pleased to be partnering with Hospice of Waterloo Region (HWR) on a NEW short film contest You Only Die Once: #YODOContest. In this "Ask Me Anything" free online event on August 12th at Noon, we invite interested filmmakers and storytellers in #WaterlooRegion to join us and ask us any questions about the contest, from the film proposals and process, to the finished product! You Only Die Once: #YODOContest calls on filmmakers and storytellers to tell stories that focu...s on death as a part of living. Film proposals are due Sept. 15th. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/yodocontest-ask-me-anything-onl FACILITATORS Sheli O'Connor, Director of Community Engagement and Partnerships for HWR Michael R. Clark, Chair of Programming for GRFF Heather Steinman, Event Coordinator for HWR

Attention filmmakers and storytellers in Waterloo Region Hospice of Waterloo Region is partnering with the Grand River Film Festival to launch a new short film contest. You Only Die Once: #YODOContest calls on filmmakers and storytellers to tell stories that focus on death as a part of living. The short films are expected to be 3-5 minutes in length, and will explore and educate others about death, dying, and grief in a personally unique way that has a positive influence on... the community. Hospice of Waterloo Region is accepting film proposal submissions until Sept. 15. Learn more: https://bit.ly/38PII1I

Which BIPOC artists and filmmakers do you enjoy? And which films should people check out? #blacklivesmatter #blm #antiracism #fightracism #wrawesome #kwawesome #waterlooregion #WatReg #supportlocal #supportingartists #supportfilmmakers #BIPOCfilm @ Kitchener, Ontario

#GRFF’s Programming Chair Michael Clark chatted with Walter from Maximum Results Team to discuss how our regular season has had to change due to COVID-19. Watch the episode to hear more! #ILoveCambridgeON https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tB2wZCTHh4g

Our Friday #GRFF2020 feature Canadian Strain is a film so good, it was actually chosen to be part of the festival until we found out it was getting a release before May. This Canadian comedy follows Anne, a young millennial who has made her living since college selling weed to a dedicated customer base. Then, her world and profession is thrown into chaos when the unimaginable happens: Canada legalizes weed. Now she has no supply, no customers, and no plan for what to do next. A terrific and timely movie, with clever twists and more than a few laughs. #CanadianStrain #CdnFilmLove #canadianfilm #comedy #cannabiscommunity #cannabisculturr #canada @jesssalgueiro @ashleighrains

Monday’s #GRFF2020 highlight from our Programming Chair Michael Clark is LILLIAN. Directed by Andreas Horvath, Lillian follows a Russian immigrant - with an expired Visa and no money - as she walks across America. She literally walks from New York, with the intention of maybe walking back into Russia via Alaska. Maybe because Lillian rarely speaks. In part because she doesn't speak English, and in part because she's alone. She passes through small towns, stealing food and... clothes as she phases from Appalachia to prairie to desert to ocean. She encounters people in all walks of life, drifting through the American dream. Lillian could be considered a silent film if not for the diagenetic noise. It is a foreign look at America through impassive eyes. Lillian is just passing through. Strange, haunting, and beautiful, and loosely based on a true story. More than worth a look. #LILLIAN #AndreasHorvath #LillianFilm #roadmovie #theamericandream See more

Today's #GRFF2020 highlight is Murmur written and directed by Heather Young. An example of the rare genre of docufiction, Murmur follows Donna performing a court ordered community service in an animal shelter. With no friends or family, she bonds with the animals. She begins taking home the animals scheduled to be euthanized, and soon is overwhelmed. Filmed and set in Nova Scotia, the film features non or amateur actors and is filmed in a non stylized way, the dialogue is... highly naturalistic, and the film is very Real. The most interesting choice is that Donna is the only human face seen on screen. All other characters are heard off-camera or seen like Peanuts adults, seen as hands or torsos outside the frame. Some might find Murmur hard to watch because of the intimacy and focus of the style. However, we felt it was an impressively human story that was laser-focused on Donna's struggle. Definitely worth a look. #womeninfilm #womendirectors #cdnfilm #Canadian #watchlocal #NovaScotia See more

Our #GRFF2020 festival was scheduled to take place this weekend in #KWAwesome. Instead, while social distancing, we would like to highlight some of the films we had considered for this year. Today’s feature is a horror/action film is She Never Died from director Audrey Cummings. Following the mysterious Lacey, a woman without a past who is something of an urban legend. Discovered and befriended by a desperate police detective investigating a human trafficing ring, he put...s to use her superhuman strength, hunger for flesh, and apparent inability to die to get justice on these criminals. All the while, Lacey discovers her humanity through a friendship with a down on their luck teen. A great film for someone looking for some action. #SheNeverDied #directedbywomen #femaledirector #AudreyCummings #horrorfilms #horrorfilm #sheneverdiedfilm Olunike Adeliyi See more

It is only crazy until you do it! Maiden - Showing tomorrow at Cineplex Cambridge 7:30pm #believe #IWD2020 #Maiden #tifffilmcircuit

It’s in the reach of my arms, The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I’m a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That’s me. - Maya Angelou... Happy International Women's Day! #IWD2020