Online Premiere of Phillip Pike’s OUR DANCE OF REVOLUTION
Cinema Politica is proud to present an exclusive online premiere of OUR DANCE OF REVOLUTION by director Phillip Pike, essential viewing on queer Black history and organizing in Canada.
Statement to Denounce Bill 21 and Bill 9 in Quebec
CP, along with other progressive organizations in Quebec, denounces and will fight against the Quebec government’s Bill 21 and Bill 9. Here’s why.
Recording: DISCOUNT WORKERS Directors + Guests
Discussion with the directors of DISCOUNT WORKERS, and grassroots organizers in labour and migrant justice in Montreal.
CP Pandemic Playlist Vol 2: Health and Community Care
From front-line workers caring for those infected, to those working with grieving loved ones, to those providing crucial services – care has never been so urgent, nor so integral …
CFS – Bring it Black: Films by Black Artists in Canada
The representation of Blackness and the lives of Black people on screen has a long, dynamic and troubled history in Canada.
Cinema Politica Launches Documentary Futurism – The Podcast
CP is thrilled to launch a new audio series that gives listeners a unique insight into the dynamic and engaged filmmaking process behind The Next 150—Documentary Futurism projects.
Twyla Roscovich: A Dedicated Activist and Filmmaker Whose Legacy Will Last Lifetimes
Cinema Politica’s Ezra Winton remembers a friend and ally.
La collection Kartemquin
Placeholder (from https://kartemquin.org/about-kartemquin/) Tout a commencé en 1966 avec une caméra, un film en relief, Home for Lifeet trois amis (Stan Karter, Jerry Temaner et Gordon Quinn) qui se sont réunis et ont décidé de prendre un risque pour « essayer de faire quelque chose ». Et c’est ce qu’ils ont fait. Le collectif qu’ils ont formé […]
Recording: b.h. Yael – Family States Book Launch
« b.h. Yael: Family States », edited by Mike Hoolboom, celebrates the work of b.h. Yael. This panel featured Richard Fung, Dalia Kandiyoti, and Robert Massoud, three of the book’s contributors.
Health Factory
Governments apply models taken from business corporations in order to improve our health care systems. The goal is to get more health for the money spent, based on the presumption that private corporations are more efficient and less wasteful than public bodies. After the Second World War governments across Europe and around the world – […]
Discussion on Gentrification with Lulu Wei
Cinema Politica Concordia hosted a discussion on gentrification and displacement, urban redevelopment, and affordable housing with Lulu Wei, the director of THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE THIS PLACE, ANYPLACE.
ArtDox
While documentary is in itself an art form, often called « informational art, » documentaries that focus on other art forms or artists working in various art milieus are uniquely positioned as works that examine art via art. In recent years many such « art docs » have been produced in Canada, yet these films and videos remain mostly […]
Monica Gutierrez on Canada’s debt
#ComfortableTruth: Migrants owe Canada for the opportunity to be here. Check out Monica Gutierrez’s reflections and video response here.
Nouvelles de Cinema Politica Distribution
Alors que l’été touche à sa fin, nous plongeons résolument dans la saison automnale avec une liste complète de nouvelles sorties, de collections et de projections à venir qui étancheront votre soif de films novateurs et politiquement engagés.
« My Body was not Built for this Cold » – Shanice Nicole on Colonial Mapping and Black Resilience
#ComfortableTruth: Migration ensures comfort. Read Shanice Nicole’s response here.
Sept films pour le Mois national de l’histoire autochtone
Dans le cadre du Mois national de l’histoire autochtone, en juin, nous sommes ravis de mettre en lumière une sélection de sept films autochtones et orientés vers les autochtones, salués et primés par la critique.
