Sunday, May 14, 2017 Vtape presents its annual distributor screening at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, featuring three recent works from our distribution collection: Beneath the Air (Director: Jesi Jordan, Canada, 2014); Hers is Still a Dank Cave: Crawling Towards a Queer Horizon (Director: Deirdre Logue and Allyson Mitchell, Canada, 2016); À Vancouver | In Vancouver (Director: Vincent Chevalier, Canada, 2016). ⊕

It has been an intense whirlwind of activity since our November 30th Fundraiser, and all five organizations (Vtape, imagineNATIVE, FADO Performance Art Centre, SAVAC and Reel Asian) have been jumping through many hoops since then, navigating the intricate challenges of… ⊕

A special edition of Vtape’s Curatorial Incubator: All is well on the border, curated by Noor Alé and Claudia Mattos, co-presented by the Images Festival, April 20-27, 2017. All is well on the border presents a collection of video works that contend with life on the margins. These gathered works align histories, accounts and experiences surrounding immigration, exile, statelessness, and the precarity of moving across sovereign borders, as well as the fringes of social and cultural boundaries. ⊕

WHEN THE WORK WAS NEW: Toronto New Work Shows 1984 and 1986 Program 1, Saturday March 11, 7pm. Program 2, Saturday March 11, 9pm Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario Free tickets online at these links: Vtape Programme 1,  Saturday March 11, 7pm Vtape… ⊕

TIFF Selects 150 Essential Works in Canadian Cinema History: In October 2016, Toronto International Film Festival Director and CEO Piers Handling announced a list of 150 Essential Works in Canadian Cinema History, compiled through a national poll of industry professionals, filmmakers, scholars, critics and artists. ⊕