Niagara Artists Centre (NAC)

03/12/2024

MNFF is hosted by and tons of events took place at homebase (incl. .stc)— but we also ventured out to SIX other unique venues across the region. FAB!

THANK YOU to our venue partners:







Thank you for supporting your local emerging film fest🍿

28/11/2024

A huge thank you to the Department of Canadian Heritage for their generous support of MNFF24. Your commitment to fostering Canadian arts and culture helps us celebrate the best films and media art from our region and beyond!
heritage

22/11/2024

Still smiling from this one :)

Media Lab was a blast — luv to all who dropped by and made a lil something.

20/11/2024

highlight forrrsureee

Thank you for bringing us this moving performance of Winnipeg Babysitter

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18/11/2024

That’s a wrap on mnff4

thanks youse:
to our twenty volunteers,
14 hosts, panelists, and guests of honour,
10 hospitality partners,
and our tireless crew!

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17/11/2024

Last day last day last day last day!!!!

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16/11/2024

Tickets are still available for tonight's TIDAL SURGES #3: MNFF SHORTS Program at The Bank Art House in Welland! Pick 'em up online or at the door!

Join us for an unforgettable film experience in Niagara, featuring local and international cinema, stunning venues, and more!

16/11/2024

What an honour, a million thank you’s .maddin

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16/11/2024

Woweee that’s what you call a Saturday!

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15/11/2024

WFG at MNFF24 Class Photo!

We’ve learned so much and continue to do so. Artist-run on artist-run crushing 💓

Catch more from this epic group of Winnipeg artists this weekend..

mnff.nac.org for full program and tickets

15/11/2024

Barry Grant presents…

Phantom of the Paradise made its debut in Winnipeg on 26 December 1974. The Brian De Palma film blends elements of rock music, comedy, and horror to create a glam-rock twist on The Phantom of the Opera. The film was critically panned and considered a box office failure everywhere except Winnipeg, Manitoba and Paris, France. When it comes to passionate, aberrant fandom, nothing quite compares to the way Winnipeg embraced this rock-horror-comedy when just about every other city in North America rejected it.

While the film died an ignominious box office death in most cities within days of its release, it played continuously in Winnipeg cinemas over four months and over one year non-continuously until 1976. Fervent “Phans” would go on to organize festivals to celebrate it along with IMAX screenings. On the 50th anniversary of this phenomena, the Mighty Niagara Film Fest offers another opportunity to solve the mystery of Winnipeg’s fascination with the Phantom of the Paradise.

The film will be introduced by film author and professor emeritus Barry Grant.

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15/11/2024

MNFF 2024 How’s the popcorn? 🍿

The Mighty Niagara Film Fest (MNFF) presents films made about or in Niagara, by filmmakers with connections to the region, as well as films that are consider...

15/11/2024

Day 3 schedule

We don’t wanna question our good fortune so we’ll just say that this is BEYOND and leave it at that.

RUMOURS (2024) plays tomorrow at 7PM. Tickets still available through (sold out on mnff.nac.org)

Tidal Surges 2, 7PM screening is SOLD OUT. 9PM screening still has tix!

+ come hang at the FREE Drop In Media Lab :)

14/11/2024

Day 2 Schedule

Tomorrow is stacked!!!! What are you seeing?

mnff.nac.org — some tix may be available at door

13/11/2024

The highly anticipated, hyper-local Mighty Niagara Film Fest begins TODAY.

This showcase of wildly eclectic filmmaking trains a spotlight on both local and international stories told with moving images. This year’s festival presents unique cultural experiences that blend captivating cinema with exclusive local offerings to celebrate all that is Niagara.

See you at the fest!

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12/11/2024

Day 1 Schedule

Tomorrow we kick off MNFF24 in a big way

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some tix may be avail at door, but I wouldn’t chance it!

12/11/2024

Tomorrow!!!!!

Deep in the woods near Kinmount, Ontario, lies a movie theatre like no other in the world. Since its opening in 1979, the Highlands Cinemas has grown to become a sprawling five-screen complex full of movie memorabilia, vintage projectors collected from closed theatres all over the U.S. and Canada, and – as if that weren’t enough – dozens of cats. Its existence stands as a testament to the tenacity of its sometimes cantankerous owner Keith Stata.

Matt Finlin has had a successful career in making award-winning documentaries, music videos, and commercials. Matt makes his home in Niagara-on-the-Lake.

Post-screening Q&A with Matt Finlin () in attendance.

Presented with short Tricks Are For Kiddo (2012) by Rhayne Vermette ()

In 2010, Winnipeg director, Guy Maddin exclaims: It’s impossible to collage a film!

The source material came from the found footage readily available at the Winnipeg Film Group. This film is quite simply an inquiry into various methods to excavate something from the physical assemblage of images, much like the notion of a film collage, provoked by Mr. Maddin. My selection process was mainly engrossed with textures and either building up the density of an image, or deflating it. It was also interested in the various ways to reduce an image either through cuts or tears.

Rhayne Vermette was born in Notre Dame de Lourdes, Manitoba. It was while studying architecture at the University of Manitoba, that she fell into the practices of image making and storytelling. Primarily self taught, Rhayne’s films are opulent collages of fiction, animation, documentary, reenactments and divine interruption.

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11/11/2024

The Youth Film Program showcases a diverse collection of short films created by young filmmakers from Ridley College Film Club Students and Jarico Films for Youth Program, highlighting their unique perspectives and creative storytelling.
 
Ridley Film Club + Jarico Films For Youth features works by:

Jason Zhang, Anna Zhang, Taiga Furusho, Emily Kim, Annabelle Standish, Elise Cheung, Adeline Young, Zoie Chan, Sylvia Wang, Eric Bao, Shiva Goodarzi, Luke Winterbottom, Ashton Kidd, Aiden MacPhail, Eddie Pinelli

Presented with short A Time is a Terrible Thing to Waste (2012) by Leslie Supnet (.supnet)

A squirrel ponders the essence of time.

Leslie Supnet is an accomplished experimental filmmaker and the Executive Director of the Winnipeg Film Group. With a Master of Fine Arts in Film from York University, she has developed a unique artistic voice that combines animation, live-action, and found footage to explore themes of loss and change using both analog and digital techniques.

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