Hamilton Film Festival

Submission Open Jan 15th!
Exclusively on Film Freeway

Dear Hamilton Film Festival,
Congratulations! Your festival has ranked as one of the Top 100 Best Reviewed Festivals on FilmFreeway for the month of January! According to reviews from real FilmFreeway users, your festival ranks in the top 1.5% of more than 8,000 film festivals and creative contests around the world. No doubt, this ranking is a testament to the countless hours of hard work and care that you and your staff have devoted to creating such a wonderful event.
We’re especially proud to be partnered with amazing events like yours that help independent film continue to thrive.

HWDSB STRIKE CAMP:
1-DAY FILM CAMP Friday February 21st

HAMILTON FILM FESTIVAL'S
FILMMAKING CAMPS FOR KIDS NOW OPEN
FOR 2020 REGISTRATION!

KIDS CAN FILM MARCH BREAK & SUMMER CAMPS

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2020- BE IN THE ROOM

YEAR-ROUND EVENTS WHERE YOU CAN GET INVOLVED, MEET PEOPLE, AND LEARN SOMETHING NEW!
This year we have a hollywood screenwriter / director, an Academy Award® winning VFX artist, a local indigenous filmmaker, an indie director with a mockumentary that has captured the minds of many conspiracy theorists, trainings and more!

JANUARY
Submissions Open
FEBRUARY
Thurs 6th - Creative Exchange - tickets
Wed 12th - Be In The Room: See the film - Meet the makers, Westdale Theatre
NUMB with writer/director HARRIS GOLDBERG - tickets
MARCH
Kids Can Film, March Break, Elaine May Theatre - Register
Wed Mar 18th - Be In The Room: Cher Obediah curates a selection of shorts made through the indigenous lens.
APRIL
Wed 15th - Be In The Room: See the film - meet the makers, Westdale Theatre
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
w/ VFX artist ? Academy Award® winner Colin Doncaster
Wed 22nd - National Canadian Film Day, Staircase Theatre,
MAY
Thurs 7th - Creative Exchange: Collective Arts
Wed 13th - Be In The Room: See the film - meet the makers, Westdale Theatre
LET HIM BE with writer/director Peter McNamee
JULY
27th - 31st: Kids Can Film, Summer Camp , Elaine May Theatre - Register
AUGUST
10th - 14th: Kids Can Film, Advanced Summer Camp , Elaine May Theatre - Register
17th - 21st: Kids Can Film, Summer Camp 2, Elaine May Theatre - Register
SEPTEMBER
Thurs 10th - Creative Exchange: Cable 14
NOVEMBER
7th - 15th: 15th Annual Hamilton Film Festival
DECEMBER
Thurs Dec 3rd - Creative Exchange: Gasworks

We're not just a great film festival town, we're an AMAZING city to film in!

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PODCAST

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Topics include Music Supervision, Editing, Distribution, Exhibition, Directing, Special FX and the film festival circuit.
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MUSIC
Featuring music that has played on our screens or in our events! Listen, Follow and share!

Past Guests of the Hamilton Film Festival

We are very honoured to have this wonderful, diverse and growing, list of guests who have attended over the past 12 years.

A.C. Peterson ( Shooter / Narc)
Alex Elena (Bruce Dickinson, Scream for Me Sarajevo)
Alexander Janko (Big Fat Greek Wedding composer)
Alida Kinnie Starr (Kinnie Starr)
Amanda Weldon (Weather Network)
Art Hindle (Black Christmas)
Avi Federgreen (Producer / One Week)
Azzyland
Bob Munroe (Visual FX Supervisor / The Expanse)
Candy Cosplay
Catherine Dyer (Stranger Things, Photobomb)
Carlos Henriques (The Butcher Shop)
Colin Chilvers (Academy Award® winner, 1979 Superman)
Colin Doncaster (Academy Award® winner, 2013)
Craig Davidson (Author Rust and Bone)
Craig Lauzon ( Royal Canadian Air Farce)
Daniel Baldwin
D.B. Sweeney (Cutting Edge / Two Dum Micks)
Derrek Peels (Four Brothers / The Big Hit)
Doug McGrath (Goin' Down the Road)
Ella Ballentine (Milton's Secret / Anne of Green Gables)
Frank D'Angelo (Red Maple Leaf)
Fred Fuchs (Exec Prod Godfather III / Milton's Secret)
George Mihalka
Gowan
Jason MacDonald
Jennifer Maillet
Jowita Bydlowska (Author / Drunk Mom)
Julian Richings (Man of Steel)
Juno Rinaldi (Workin' Moms)

Katie Uhlmann (Katie Chats)
Kirsten Bodenstedt (COO Peregrine Labs)
Kristian Bruun (Orphan Black)
Lisa Langlois (Class of 1984)
Loreena McKennitt (Juno winner / Grammy Nominee)
Lynne Griffin (Black Christmas)
Marc Blucas (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Matthew Willson
MaxFX
Michale Pare (Eddie and the Cruisers)
Michelle Latimer (Rise / Paradise Falls)
Murray Foster (Great Big Sea / Cocksure Lads)
Phil Guerrero (YTV)
Rachel Wilson (Republic of Doyle)
Ray Dumas (DOP / Milton's Secret)
Richard Comely (Captain Canuck)
Rita Chiarelli (Music from the Big House)
Robert Miano (Donny Brasco)
Romy Weltman (Backstage)
Sean Buckley (producer / Defendor / Milton's Secret)
Sean Sullivan (Wayne's World)
Shaun Smyth
Tharoth Sam (Cambodian Martial Artist / Actress)
Tim Daswood (DOP / Subconscious Password)
TJ McGibbon (The Umbrella Academy)
Tony Burgess (Writer / Pontypool)
Tony Rosato (SCTV / SNL)
Trevor Tordjman (The Next Step)
Victoria Baldesarra (The Next Step)
Warren P. Sonoda