McGill International Cellphilm Festival

FESTIVAL

The festival showcased this year’s award winning cellphilms on the theme, Re-Imaginings.

Also, for the first time ever, this year’s Cellphilm Festival featured a Children’s Under 8 category! Their cellphilms were created on a separate theme: ‘It’s Not Fair’.

Filmmakers were prompted to capture different ways to re-imagine the world; a community challenging discrimination, a safe space, a decolonized world, an equal opportunity for all on the margins, a new way to live together…

There was also a special keynote address from Indigenous Scholar, Dr. Angelina Weenie (First Nation’s University).

Check out the 2022 CODE report. This report details some of the behind the scenes work that went into this year’s festival.

Re-imagine

A community challenging discrimination,

a safe space,

a decolonized world,

an equal opportunity for all on the margins,

a new way to live together …

Share your ideas and stories, and change the world! Create a cellphilm!

As the world twists and turns, the 10th edition of the McGill International Cellphilm Festival invites you to look through the critical lens of cellphilm (cellphone + video) production. To produce a cellphilm use your cellphone creatively to craft a short film on re-imaginings. How can we confront issues of gender inequality? How can we challenge structural racism? How can cellphilming be an activist tool ?

FESTIVAL CELLPHILMS

Winners

Individual Category

1st Place: And a Lion Sits Sentry
By Renee Tougas

2nd Place: Reimagine a world
By Kendra Ley

3rd Place: Through the Eyes of Pups:
A PackPuppy Perspective on Body Image
By PackPuppy

Community Engagement Category

1st Place: “my head would like to lie down, but my heart will keep up the fight”
By Pup Knotty, Sir Red, Pup Zeus, Sir Chuck, Pup Scuzzy

2nd Place: re(Generation)
By Jenna Rose, Rémi Amamra, Noam Bougie, Tyne Chappell, Raene Collins-St-Louis, Liamiki Dehès, Dahlia Heurtelou, Saku Ikeda, Naim Senécal Scriver, Elliott Turchetta. Adult support team: Francis Lapointe, Noeli d’Ostie-Racine, Nathalie Senécal

3rd Place: Imagine …
By Zethu Jiyana, Nozi Deli, Thunzi Likhona, Phekiso Mzontsundu, Mondliwa Yola, Matyaleni Siliziwe, Bhenya yongama, Mondliwa Siyavuya

Youth Category

1st Place: Reimagining Friendships
By Leili Lencucha, Anam Chouwdri, Mila Hardt, and Faris Muhammad

2nd Place: Netflix Knows
By Levi Moskovitz, Sharon Tanne, Nora Dudas, and Rachel Fisher

3rd Place: Gender Inequality “hope”
By Asisipho Mntonga, Siyanda Ntseto, Amohelang Jacobs, Aqhama Maku, Likhanye Sothondoshe, and
Chuma Mavavana

Children under 8.y.o Category

1st Place: Déjame hablar! (Let me speak!)
By Wendy (with the help of Sebastian, Catherine Huard et Prudence Caldairou-Bessette) from Foyer du Monde (Canada)