Hart House Film Board

Events & Announcements

CURRENT EVENTS

Can you make a film in 74 hours?

Every Friday at 10am a new challenge will be posted.

Films must be uploaded by noon the following Monday to be eligible for prizes.

An advance schedule of genres and special themes is posted.

Too busy this weekend? A new challenge is posted every Friday morning. No more excuses.

Enter as often as you like.

Web: www.harthousefilmchallenge.com

Email: filmchallenge@harthouse.ca

PAST EVENTS

The annual Hart House Craft Beer Festival takes place July 28 and we are inviting filmmakers to create a short (1 minute max) ad for the festival.  Upload the video and send us the link and we’ll post it on this site. The Hart House Marketing department will select the best ads and award the creators 2 tickets to the festival (value $70). Deadline to enter June 15. Details on the festival here. Inspiration courtesy of the Vancouver Craft Beer Festival: http://devour.com/video/tap-into-it/

The 2011 University of Toronto Film Festival

The 2011 University of Toronto Film Festival takes place at Hart House March 23, 2011. Complete program notes are now on-line.

Full details at www.uoftfilmfest.ca

How to Get Your Film Into Festivals – a Free Talk with Allan Tong – Open to all – March 30, 6:30pm

You’ve made a film.  Now how do you get it
seen, maybe sold?  This workshop by a film programmer looks at festival
strategy, how to prepare a press kit and how to market your film at a festival to buyers and other programmers. This session will answer: Which festivals should I apply to?  Why are promo postcards important?  What’s a screener?

Allan Tong has been a programmer for Planet in Focus, CONTACT Photography, ReelWorld, Reel Asian and RegentPark film festivals.  His film reviews and articles are regularly published in POV, Montage and Exclaim! magazines. His short films have been screened on CBC and Bravo.

Call for Video Installations and SIlent Movies

- Video Installations WantedThe Hart House FIlm Board always seeks short video Installations and Silent Movies from the University of Toronto community for events at Hart House, such as Wide Open House. Video installations of any length, genre and topic welcome but there is a strong preference for work that can play silently – no sound. Silent Movies can be any length, genre and topic but the shorter the better.

There is no deadline. We want to see your junk at any time.

For more information, email info@uoftfilmfest.ca

Hart House FIlm Board FARM PROJECT 2010

Friday November 12 to Sunday November 14 at Hart House Farm

Tickets: $85 (includes HST) available from UofTTix.
Includes food, lodging, return transportation, and all moviemaking related expenses.

DEADLINE to register FRIDAY November 5, 5pm.

The next information meeting is Tuesday Nov 2 at 8:15pm at Hart House.
The bus leaves Hart House at 6pm on Friday, November 12.
& returns to Hart House by 6pm on Sunday, November 14.

This exciting weekend movie-making retreat sees about 10-20 Film
Board members and guests spend 48 hours at Hart House farm and make a
movie together. This is a very fun and educational weekend away from the
city. No experience necessary.

All the equipment (cameras, lights, etc.) will be supplied. Everyone
is invited to play a hands-on role in making the movie. Your degree of
participation is up to you. (Note that this is open to guests: you can
invite friends and family to attend as well.)

All participants will be invited to a meeting (date & time TBA),
to meet, greet, and discuss how the group would like to approach the
project. For example, do people have special skills (e.g. camera
experience, acting); does the group want to brainstorm a script in
advance or leave it until when they get to the Farm? (We’ve done both in
the past)

Hart House Farm
is a beautiful 150-acre property cradled in the Caledon Hills on the
ridge of the Niagara Escarpment, only 1 hour north Toronto. Featuring an
outdoor sauna and two swimming ponds.

SPECIAL NOTES
The farm has sleeping facilities but participants must bring their own
bedding (sleeping bag) and toiletries and towels. You are also welcome
to pitch a tent on site. There are no showers (it’s only 2 days, you’ll
make it. Go for a swim if you need to refresh). All participants
contribute to cooking and cleaning duties. No pets allowed.

Any questions? Email Project organizer Michael Andreae <aka.wookie@gmail.com>

Fall Screening Party, September 22, 8pm, Hart House Quad

This free event will screen recent videos from our membership and the U of T Community. Screening will be followed by a reception with food and a cash bar. Join us for a screening under the stars.

“Perfect Flawed FIlms”

A Free Presentation sponsored by the Hart House Film Board

Director Babak Payami will screen and dissect real examples of the process with which a director can take shortcomings in production and turn them into strengths in his/her film. To paraphrase
Stanley Kubrick, “… filmmaking is like writing Crime & Punishment on a whitewater raft…”

When: Tuesday, September 28,7pm

Where: Hart House East Common Room

Free event, open to all.

Hart House FIlm Board RECRUITMENT DRIVE

The Film Board will be actively recruiting new members at some key Fall events:

1. Clubs Day, September 10 -look for our table in front of Hart House.

2. Five Buck Lunch in the Hart House Great Hall, September 15

3. Hart House Wide Open House – all night, September 22