Reel images for real communities
Festival founder, Chandra Siddan, joins us for our 15th anniversary to explore the Kidocratic tendency through a series of films from the repertoire of the Regent Park Film Festival . The films offer examples of imaginative, authentic, subversive and experimental approaches to contemporary life.
Festival Founder Chandra Siddan
Join Chandra Siddan for a conversation with special guests: Adonis Huggins, Frederick King and Gregory Greene
A parodic TV show invites children to divorce their parents with the added lure of new indulgent wannabe parents waiting in the wings.
Regent Park Focus Youth Media Arts Centre is an innovative, community-based, new media, radio and television arts broadcast centre that uses community arts and participatory media practices to address local needs and development priorities.
Jérémy delivers a message of hope by talking about the things that give him the will to live.
Jérémy Vassiliou love life. He directed his first film project with his friends in the winter of 2011 titled” joie de vivre”. He loves science experiments, taking care of turtles and his albino hedgehog Sylver.
Graduating teens confront the multi-headed hydra of adult world expectations.
PACT Youth Films works with young filmmakers to teach them the basics of film production.The free program offers instruction with professional industry vets that includes; writing, casting, producing, shooting, and editing. All skills are learned in a hands-on and safe and caring environment. Volunteer hours can be used towards the TDSB graduation diploma.
A rapper struggles between his responsibility to his art and to the people in his life.
Fifteen to twenty at-risk youth from Toronto’s west-end learn techniques for filmmaking and acting through hands-on workshops with actors and directors. “The Break” is a short film created through this program alongside producer Rayne Zukerman and director Dominic Desjardins of Zazie Films Inc, and screenwriter Emily Pohl-Weary.
When a gay native teenager is outed to his older sister and homophobic brother back on the reservation – it is the end of the world.
Kent Monkman is a Canadian artist of Cree ancestry who works with a variety of mediums, including painting, film/video, performance, and installation. His award-winning short film and video works have been screened at various national and international festivals.
A Queer Muslim conference promotes a harmonious inter play of sexuality and faith.
Greg Greene is an award-winning Toronto-based documentary filmmaker with a background in social and political documentaries. He is co-founder and co-producer with OCADU and Wero Creative of the upcoming city strategy game DeepCity.
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty moves from words to direct action protesting the displacement of the poor from downtown Toronto.