SUBMISSIONS OPEN! ACCEPTING SCRIPTS & FILMS

SUBMISSIONS OPEN! ACCEPTING SCRIPTS & FILMS

Festival 2025 April 3-6/25

Let’s celebrate the power of a good story together!

DEADLINE APPROACHING! Accepting submissions August 14 to December 27, 2024

Festival 2024: May 3-5

 celebrating the power of a good story together.

The Films

Feature Films

Seagrass

May 3 @ 7:30pm

The Great Salish Heist

May 4 @ 8:00pm

Short Films

International Short Films

Canadian Short Films

Vancouver Island Short Films

Film Programs

Program 1

Experimental

Friday May 3 @ 1:00pm

Program 2

Overcome

Friday May 3 @ 4:00pm

Program 3

Connection

Saturday May 3 @ 12:30pm

Program 3

Community

Saturday May 3 @ 3:30pm

Guest Panel & Saturday Night Feature Film

Guest Panel & Saturday Night Feature Film

ONE TICKET - TWO EVENTS

Saturday May 4 starting 6:30pm

An inspirational guest panel of industry creatives will take the stage to discuss the idea of free creativity versus the discipline of craft and the importance of maintaining an independent voice.

With Michael Bruce Adams (writer), Fredrik Thorsen (editor), James Brown (producer) and the producers of The Great Salish Heist, Leslie Bland and Harold C. Joe.

Saturday May 4 at 8:00pm

BC Night Feature Film The Great Salish Heist - A down-on-his-luck First Nations Archeologist seeking redemption teams up with a group of misfits from the Rez to break into a museum and reclaim sacred artifacts that rightfully belong to their people. Starring Darrell Dennis, Graham Greene, Ashley Callingbull, Taylor Kinequon, Andrea Menard, Craig Lauzon, Malcolm Sparrow-Crawford and Tricia Helfer.


The Schedule

The Workshops

7 Steps to Profound Dialogue

with Michael B. Adams

Three Point Lighting Made Easy

with Michael B. Adams 

Confessions from the Edit Suite

with Fredrik Thorsen 

Screenwriting Demystified

  with Fredrik Thorsen 

Directing Actors; an Insider’s guide

    with Allyson Leet 

2024 Festival Sponsors

Honoured and Grateful to be living and working on the

Unceded Traditional Territory of the K'ómoks First Nation.