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Reciprocal Relations: Call for Emerging Artists

2022-08-21

The Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC) seeks applications from self-identifying emerging artists, in any medium, to take part in a collaborative project drawing from or responding to CFMDC’s collection of moving image and film. Successful applicants will be paired with an established artist from CFMDC’s membership to collaborate in the creation and delivery of a public program. The collaboration can happen online or in person, depending on the location of the artists.


A public program can be:

- a screening (online, on site, off site)

- a mediated intervention

- a workshop

- an artist talk or panel

- a presentation

- any other format of in-person or online program open to the public

Anticipated timeline:

- September - December 2022: Artist collaboration and skill sharing

- January - March 2023: Developing a public program

- sometime between March - May 2023: Public program delivery

Collaborators:

Emerging artists will collaborate with one of these CFMDC artists: TJ Cuthand, Nadine Valcin, Francisca Duran, Chris Chong Chan Fui and Sharlene Bamboat.


Expectations:

Artist pairs are expected to meet regularly between September 2022 and March 2023, and to attend check-in meetings with CFMDC to coordinate the creation and delivery of a public program.

This public program could be delivered at CFMDC in Toronto, at Eyelevel Gallery in Halifax, online, or elsewhere.


Each emerging artist will be paid $2000 for participating in the collaboration, program creation and delivery.


Program Partners:

- imagineNative Film and Video Festival

- Toronto Queer Film Festival

- Dames Making Games

- Eyelevel Gallery

Limitations of project: This is not a commissioning grant, but rather a presentation of previously finished works. Please note that this call is limited to emerging artists based in so-called Canada.

Applications are due no later than Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 11:59pm EDT.

Based on organizational capacity we will only be able to respond to those who are selected for the collaboration.


For more information or to apply, please visit this link.


For questions about the call for submissions or for any technical issues, please email lodoe@cfmdc.org

TERRITORY & SOLIDARITY: The daily work of CFMDC takes place in Tkaronto (Toronto) which is covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit, and the Williams Treaty signed with multiple Mississaugas and Chippewa bands. We also acknowledge The Dish with One Spoon treaty between the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee that covers the land of what is now called southern Ontario. We work with the knowledge of the importance of recognition of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the four First Nations Principles of OCAP®. As a Media Arts organization we draw your attention to the work of the National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition (NIMAC). As part of  anti-colonial solidarity, CFMDC board and staff proudly commits to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). Calls to support PACBI and the wider Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) come from Palestinian civil society and are grassroots strategies opposing the colonization of Palestine by directly targeting complicity.

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Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre

209 - 401 Richmond Street West  

 Toronto, ON, M5V 3A8

  416-588-0725

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