HIFF Dailies • DAY THREE

It's the weekend, which means the serious watching can truly begin on HIFF Day Three! Our lineup of online panel discussions and artist talks also takes off today with two can't-miss sessions featuring some truly thoughtful and inspiring filmmakers from near (Nova Scotia New Wave Panel) and far (Artist Talk: The American Sector's Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez).

Check the Dailies below for everything coming your way.

Our entire 2021 film lineup is available for viewers in Atlantic Canada from now until midnight June 27, with our shorts programs and retrospectives available nationwide.

Once you start a film, you'll have 24 hours to watch it. Individual tickets for each film are available for $10 ($5 for Associate, Full and Lifetime AFCOOP members), or you can see everything with a $30 pass! Check out our full film lineup below.

TODAY'S LIVE EVENTS

FREE!
Saturday, June 26 • 1 PM
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In the past five years, Nova Scotia filmmakers have made waves across the country and internationally with limited resources and boundless innovation. In honour of HIFF’s 15th anniversary we’ll speak to some of the artists behind those films—and whose shorts are part of the festival’s retrospective—about the challenges and victories they’ve experienced. Solomon Nagler will lead the discussion with guests Cory Bowles (Black Cop), Seth A. Smith (The Crescent), Ashley McKenzie (Werewolf), Bretten Hannam (North Mountain) and Heather Young (Murmur).

FREE!
Saturday, June 26 • 3 PM
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Directors Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez took a 16mm camera across America for three years, visiting more than 60 pieces of the Berlin Wall that were salvaged and shipped overseas to become public monuments, personal collectibles, and corporate lobby decoration. The film that resulted is The American Sector, “a revelatory experience...a concise and elegantly crafted road trip” (The Hollywood Reporter). Stephens and Velez will discuss the film’s making and take questions from the audience.

FEATURES

NOW STREAMING IN ATLANTIC CANADA

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SHORTS PROGRAMS + RETROSPECTIVES

NOW STREAMING ACROSS CANADA

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HIFF 2021 HIGHLIGHTS

"We, as adults, can catalogue emotions and feelings and give them a label … but at [a young] age, I think there’s a lack of this. So to write and understand how these girls would talk about grief, that was a challenge, because it's different. It was kind of like deconstructing the language and just going to the basic things." —Sol Berruezo Pichon-Rivière

"I love films and I admire many film directors, no matter how old they are … but I’m not really using their films as a reference when I make the film. I’m really trying to create something that is, like, the smell or the air just belongs to this specific film we’re trying to do." —Xinyuan Zheng Lu

EVENTS COMING UP

DAY FOUR • JUNE 27

FREE!
Sunday, June 27 • 11 AM
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Funding a film in Nova Scotia is a unique challenge, no matter your experience level. Representatives from key organizations—Lori McCurdy (Telefilm Canada), Rohan Fernando (The National Film Board), and Mickey Quase (Communities, Culture and Heritage’s Screenwriters Development Fund)—will discuss their respective programs and funds, how local artists can access them, and what's changed since COVID.

FREE!
Sunday, June 27 • 1 PM
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The journey of a short film is curious and unpredictable. The reasons for making them also run the gamut—for a director to learn how to manage a set; to relay an artistic vision that does not need a feature-length runtime; to work toward making a feature; as one tenet of a larger artistic practice. And then where do they go once they’ve travelled the festival circuit? Filmmakers will be on hand to discuss why they make short films and how those fit into their larger goals. Moderated by Stephanie Joline, participants include Sophy Romvari (Still Processing), Vincent Toi (Aniskha), and Kevin Hartford (Breakout).

HIFF 15TH ANNIVERSARY SHIRT

Celebrate 15 years of HIFF with this special anniversary T-shirt!

Shirts are $20 and available for pick up at the HIFF office or can be shipped anywhere in Canada for +$5.

Orders will ship by June 24, 2021. If you choose to pick up your shirt at the HIFF office, we’ll notify you when pick up is available.

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