MENA Grant
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We're teaming up with Movies Move Us, a local Vancouver organization supporting social filmmaking and advocacy, to offer a first-of-its-kind grant for a MENA filmmaker in Canada! Submit your pitch for a chance to be awarded $5,000 CAD towards the production of a short film, to be screened globally at the 3rd annual MENA Film Festival in November 2021.
We seek films of any genre and topic, particularly proposals that challenge or otherwise further MENA/SWANA identity and visibility within the larger Canadian context. Applications open May 1 to June 1 2021. Full timeline, guidelines & FAQ below!
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Ain't No Time for Women + Papicha
The MENA Film Festival's Womxn in Film Screening follows our successful Instagram story takovers by Womxn artists and filmmakers in Canada and across the diaspora. For the screening, we're featuring two films: Ain't No Time for Women, a short Canada-Tunisia co-production documenting Tunisia's first steps toward post-revolutionary democracy from the vantage of a casual gathering of women at a hairdresser; and Papicha, a feature film first screened at Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard about a young fashion designer who chooses art as her political weapon of choice in Algeria.
Enjoy these films FREE as part of our ongoing Womxn in Film series, running June 4-6, 2021.
2021 MENA Film Festival
Following a successful digital festival last year, we have exciting plans in store to bring your work to a wider audience base in Vancouver and across Canada!
We seek films of any genre, with particular emphasis on experimental and original portrayals of the MENA region that challenge stereotypes and bend colonial visions of the region and its diaspora. We welcome submissions from emerging as well as established artists from wherever MENA identities are found and forged.
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