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.

Also available is 1st Children’s Festival Report. This document details more of the background on the Children’s Festival as well as reflections for the years ahead.

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

Individual Creativity:

Acknowledgment in the Everyday
La Musica de la Vida
Reservations in Canada
To be a woman
Being a Teraty Person
NAME IT
And a lion sits sentry
L.I.F.E.
Indian Time
The Scents
Inner beauty
A World Without Walls
Freedom Street
Challenging Discrimination
Reimagine a world
La drapétomaine duè21e sciecle
What Does It Mean To be A Treaty Person
Through the Eyes of Pups: A PackPuppy Perspective on Body Image

Community Engagement:

My head would like to lie down, but my heart will keep up the fight
Listen To Girls
Climate change and big companies, who will make them pay for?
The Red Dress
re(Generation)
Imagine…
The Psychosis of Distractions
The Boundaries to a “Better” Life
A antifeminist in women’s world

Youth

Netflix Knows
Un monde pour tous les êtres vivantes
Reimagining friendships
Gender Inequality: “hope”
Injustice autour du monde

Contact us

thecellphilmfestival@gmail.com