HIFF launches 2020 program on Oct. 6!

HIFF 2020 PROGRAM LAUNCH 
+ FREE VIRTUAL SCREENING

Tuesday, October 6 • 7 PM

Good news, everyone — HIFF is back! And we're moving online. 

Join us at our online program launch on October 6 at 7 p.m. as we announce everything this year's festival has in store, followed by a free virtual screening of Mike Maryniuk's The Goose and Josh Owen's Ghoulish Galactic Grievances.

Reserve your spot for the screenings HERE.

The 14th annual Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival will take place online from November 12–15, 2020, featuring four days of FREE films, filmmaker workshops and artist talks through our professional development series.

THE GOOSE

dir. Mike Maryniuk
2018 | Canada | 72 mins 

Filmmaker magician Mike Maryniuk has conjured up weird visions like you’ve never seen before in his latest work, The Goose. The Goose (Rob Crooks) is a mute young man who attempts to regain his voice and escape his oppressive surroundings with the help of an inventive, behind-the-times Travel Agent.

The Goose must traverse a gauntlet of miscommunication, small-town bravado and Snowbird weirdos to achieve this goal. He meets a woman known as the Escape Artist (Bea Solsberg) in the hospital and they hatch a loose plot to migrate to Arizona, where he can receive new-age voice therapy and the Escape Artist can escape winter’s clutches.

Stick around after the film for a Q+A with the director. 

Check out the trailer here:

GHOULISH GALACTIC GRIEVANCES

dir. Josh Owen
2019 | Canada | 13 mins 

Ghoulish Galactic Grievances is a sci-fi fantasy short film about a ghoul who follows her dreams out of a friend-filled swamp into outer space.

Josh Owen is a writer, director, animator and sound person from Dartmouth, NS, who is making a short film about a creature for every letter of the alphabet. He likes fantastical story elements, along with traditional animation and "old school" cinematic tricks to highlight the humanistic struggles we all have sometimes.

Watch the trailer here: