Silvicola sort en salles le 22 mars
Cinema Politica est fier de présenter SILVICOLA, le long métrage documentaire primé de Jean-Philippe Marquis – qui sortira en salles le 22 mars.
Useful Resources for our Documentary Futurism Project, The Next 150
As promised, here is a list of resources that will help introduce anyone interested in submitting a proposal to The Next 150 project.
CP Publishing
From time to time Cinema Politica publishes pamphlets, booklets, and more recently, a real, physical, bonafide BOOK.
CP ON DEMAND: Top 10 For 2020
Cinema Politica continues to bring you inspiring independent documentaries available through CP On Demand, and we’ve compiled a brief list of our top screened films this year from our streaming platforms!
Stories from the Margins
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New in Cinema Politica Catalogue: Fall 2020 Titles
We have many fantastic new titles to discover, and while it is not the same as hosting in-person screenings, there is solace in the sense of community we can still cultivate online …
Cinema Politica Pandemic Playlist Vol 1: Labour and Community
Volume 1 of Cinema Politica’s Pandemic Playlists examines labour and community through a dozen feature and short films.
First Peoples, First Screens 1
First Peoples, First Screens (FPFS) showcases contemporary Indigenous political filmmaking* from across Canada, including documentary, animation, experimental and genre fiction of varying lengths. We are thrilled to circulate four separate clusters of thematically grouped works throughout the Canadian part of the Cinema Politica network, and to provide a platform to discuss Indigenous art, culture, politics, […]
MANIC and SHADOWS OF LIBERTY Now Available for Streaming
We’ve added MANIC and SHADOWS OF LIBERTY, two award-winning and timely films by Quebec filmmakers, to our streaming services!
Colonialism & Indigenous Resistance on Film
A Playlist of films in Support of the Wet’suwet’en protests.
Cinema Politica On Demand Films for International Women’s Day
From Indigenous Lenca and Garifuna resistance in Honduras and the armed vigilante Gulabi Gang fighting femicide in India, to the pharmaceutical industry’s commodification of the female orgasm …
Unsettling 150
Two Canadian-based film organizations—VTape and Cinema Politica—are joining together to offer a program of films and video that challenge, disrupt and unsettle dominant narratives that have storied Canada on the occasion of the state’s sesquicentennial celebrations. The films are available for free streaming across the country for the duration of the “Canada Day” weekend (June 30-July 2).
ADOPT-A-DOC
In 2010 Cinema Politica initiated a program to support independent Canadian documentaries during the production stage, and before broadcasters and/or financiers have “come on board.” In other words, we started Adopt-a-doc to offer our support to independent films struggling to get made in the very tough climate of documentary in Canada. Click on the film pages below to learn about each project.
Report Back on OSER RÊVER DE JUSTICE
A successful QC tour of Migrant Dreams. Status for All! Justice for Migrant Workers!
The Garden
The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the country’s most blighted neighborhoods. Growing their […]
Local Spotlight: CP Mombasa
“We believe that this local event provides a space for the transformative power of film to meet with the voices of our community, inspiring not only ideas but action.”