Silvicola sort en salles le 22 mars

Faller harvesting a large fir tree on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

Cinema Politica est fier de présenter SILVICOLA, le long métrage documentaire primé de Jean-Philippe Marquis – qui sortira en salles le 22 mars.

CP Publishing

Screening Truth to Power: A Reader on Documentary Activism

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!

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First People First Screens

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, […]

Unsettling 150

Unsettling 150: Actes de résistance program

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

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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.

The Garden

Still from 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

Local Spotlight: Cinema Politica 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.”