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Hamilton filmmakers Nathan Fleet and Jeremy Major each create original video to be screened with a live performance from the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra.

​Details and Tickets:
http://hpo.org/concert/familyconcertexperience/ 
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Hamilton Film Expo 2: Expo Harder
​Saturday November 5th, 10am - 5pm 
Digital Canaries Film Studio, 520 Burlington St. E 
​www.HamiltonFilmExpo.com 
$10 Adults
$5 Kids 7-12
6 and under is free


Super cool vendors, Special Effects Make-Up demonstration by The Butcher Shop, Genre Distribution Panel with Black Fawn Films, guided tours of Digital Canaries film sets and a Film Challenge like no other! Your Expo wristband includes a free 7pm screening at The Zoetic of RAIDERS! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made. You haven't been to an Expo like this!
Details on the vendors and events here:
www.HamiltonFilmExpo.com 

Please note that some of the stations and displays may frighten some small children. Kids must be accompanied by an Adult.

The Ultimate Film Challenge, HFX 72-Hour Film Challenge!
​$12,000 total in prize and production value
4 spots left.  10 teams max. 
Qualify here film-challenge

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​OPENING GALA
Monday November 7th, 6pm - 7:30pm
INVITE ONLY
​Staircase Theatre, 27 Dundurn St. N
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Soundtrack on CFMU 93.3 FM

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10am till Noon
93.3 FM, Listen Online
cfmu.msumcmaster.ca
​Music from Hamilton Film Festival submissions
Host Stephen Hayes
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Canadian Film Market 
Sheraton Hamilton Hotel
10am - 5pm
​Market Badge Holders Only
Get a Badge

The Canadian Film Market is for film buyers and sellers and is not open to the public. 
Panel discussions and events will be open to the public. 

VR PANEL
​Are We There Yet?

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​VR introduces a whole new world of technology and ideas, but where does traditional narrative story telling fit in?

ARE WE THERE YET? 
Thursday November 10th, ​1pm,
Heritage Room at the Sheraton Hamilton Hotel
Presented by interactive ontario
Sponsored by RBC


Speakers
Bernie Roehl - FELT Lab, University of Waterloo
Henry Faber - New Tropics
Tim Dashwood - Dashwood Cinema Solutions

Moderator - Colin Doncaster - Peregrine Labs

ADMISSION:​
Market Badge Holders 
Early Bird and Cinematic Pass Holders
​Industry Development Pass Holders ​
Tickets for this event only HERE

After School Animation Demonstration
The Avalon Music Academy is proud to present this demonstration. Using cels from TV's For Better or For Worse, kids will animate a few seconds of the show. These cels were gifted by Lynn Johnston to Steve Parton, who was one of the show's composers, and he has graciously offered these for use in this workshop.  
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After School Animation Demonstration
​Thursday November 10th, 3:30 - 5pm - FREE
Factory Media Centre, 228 James St. N
Limited to 20 kids
Enroll HERE
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Factory Media Centre AGM and Member's Screening

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11th Annual Members Screening and Annual General Meeting
Thursday, November 10, 2016
AGM and election of Board of Trustees: 7PM 
Screening and Opening Party: 8PM
Factory Media Centre
228 James Street North, Hamilton, ON
FREE event (cash bar available), all are welcome!

Art Crawl: Friday, November 11, 2016, 7-11PM
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Canadian Film Market 
Sheraton Hamilton Hotel
10am - 5pm
​Market Badge Holders Only
Get a Badge


Music Licensing Panel
Sponsored by Hamilton Musician Media
in Partnership with CIMA and Music Ontario

Glen Brown - Moderator
Licensing your music for film and television.
Friday November 11th, 1pm
​Sheraton Hamilton Hotel, Heritage Room
​Moderated by Glen Brown
​Panelists TBA / include the 3:30pm screening of PLAY YOUR GENDER
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/musicontario-communities-connect-hamilton-film-festival-focus-on-sync-tickets-28435526425

MUSICONTARIO COMMUNITIES CONNECT: HAMILTON FILM FESTIVAL
FOCUS ON SYNC & LICENSING
November 11, 2016, 1:00-3:30PM @ Sheraton Hamilton Hotel 
(116 King St W, Hamilton, ON L8P 4V3)
Followed by Hamilton Film Premiere of Play Your Gender by Stephanie Clattenburg
MusicOntario Communities Connect is all about bridging the gaps between Ontario’s vibrant music markets! During our Community Development Research Project (CDRP), we asked musicians, artists and industry professionals across the province what types of support and education they hoped to have access to regionally (you can read the full results at www.music-ontario.ca).
With that in mind, we’ve tailored this session to cover the topics Hamilton survey respondents want to learn about. From publishing, music supervision/sync, to licensing and rights collectives, working smart in today’s music industry goes beyond optimizing the front end of your business (music sales, gigs, merch). It requires savvy behind the scenes as well: protecting your publishing rights, understanding the value of your intellectual property, and licensing/placing your music in film, television, ads and games can help you generate revenue in the background. Learn from various industry pros how the cogs in the wheel flow together and how to approach the key players to put your music to work! 

PANELISTS

Moderator Glen Brown (Greater Hamilton Musician magazine)
web: http://musicbizbites.blogspot.ca // twitter: @ghmusician


Dondrea Erauw (instinct entertainment)
web: www.instinctentertainment.ca // twitter: @dawnzdrea
Heather Gardner (Vapor RMW)
web: www.vapor-rmw.com/ // twitter: @Vapor_RMW
“Parkside” Mike Renaud (Hidden Pony Records)
web: www.hiddenpony.ca // twitter: @HiddenPony


Play Your Gender Film Premiere: 3:30PM with special guest Kinnie Starr
Play Your Gender is a documentary with Kinnie Starr about the gender divide in the music industry. Only 5% of music producers are women even though many of the most bankable stars in the industry are female. Under these conditions, what does it for a woman to make it in music?
Featuring Kinnie Starr, Melissa Auf de Maur, Lily Frost, Chantal Kreviazuk , Sara Quinn and many more.



ADMISSION:​
Market Badge Holders 
Early Bird and Cinematic Pass Holders
​Industry Development Pass Holders 
​CIMA and MO Members
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Canadian Film Market 
Sheraton Hamilton Hotel
10am - 5pm
​Market Badge Holders Only
Get a Badge


DISTRIBUTION
Fred Fuchs
Susan Curran (United Front Entertainment)
Avi Federgreen (IndieCan Entertainment)
​Inga Diev (Ouat Media)

Fred Fuchs
Susan Curran
Avi Federgreen
Inga Diev
Saturday November 12th, 10am
​Sheraton Hamilton Hotel, Heritage Room
moderated by Kelly Payne (OMDC)
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ADMISSION:​
Market Badge Holders 
Early Bird and Cinematic Pass Holders
​Industry Development Pass Holders ​

FILM FUND PANEL

Saturday November 12th, 11:30pm
​Sheraton Hamilton Hotel, Heritage Room
​Details Soon


ADMISSION:​
Market Badge Holders 
Early Bird and Cinematic Pass Holders
​Industry Development Pass Holders ​

Special Presentation
​FIRESIDE CHAT: Visual Effects

Academy Award® Winner Colin Chilvers
Academy Award® Winner Colin Doncaster
Saturday November 12th, 1pm
​Sheraton Hamilton Hotel, Heritage Room

Please join us for this very special presentation as we bring together two Academy Award® winners who will interview each other
on the topic of Visual Effects. There is also a chance you will get to see the gold guy! ​

Colin Chilvers 1978
Academy Award® winner, Special Achievement Award in Visual Effects 
Born in London, England, Colin trained for his chosen career through Hornsey college of Art.
Working first as a trainee animation director, then a very short time on 2001 in the Art department, he moved on to special effects as a junior in the special effects department of the movie "The Battle of Britain". He worked on many movies as an assistant until given a chance to supervise an MGM movie "Inspector Clouseau" starring Alan Arkin". Supervising effects on "Tommy", "Lisztomania" and "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" among many others, he was then asked to direct the special effects for "SUPERMAN THE MOVIE", "SUPERMAN" II and III. He was honoured by both the British and American academy with the Special achievement award, OSCAR, for Special Effects on "SUPERMAN THE MOVIE." At the beginning of 1986 Colin joined Michael Jackson to direct his next promotional video "SMOOTH CRIMINAL". Colin and Michael worked together for two years on what became the movie "MOONWALKER". The video "SMOOTH CRIMINAL" received many awards, including, "Best video of the year" from the British music awards.
Colin recently received the Nemoland Legend award for his contributionto motion pictures from the Nemo Academy in Florence.

 
Colin Doncaster 2013
Academy Award® winner, Technical Achievement Award
I'm a father, husband and craftsperson who loves creative technology, visual storytelling and a great user experience.
With 20 years of VFX and animation production experience I'm now building our sustainable studio where great ideas, art and technology can thrive. Over the course of my career I have been lucky to have worked on the the Oscar® winning projects Lord of the Rings and Avatar, along with such directors as Peter Jackson, James Cameron and the brilliant Terry Gilliam. 
Most recently I had the honour of receiving a SciTech award for Deep Compositing from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

ADMISSION:​
Market Badge Holders 
Early Bird and Cinematic Pass Holders
​Industry Development Pass Holders 
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If you wish to attend this event only (not the other industry events) Tickets

Creative Exchange

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Saturday November 12th, 3:30pm
​Sheraton Hamilton Hotel, Heritage Room
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This is a causal meet up for everyone working in the creative industries in Hamilton
​This is also a unique opportunity to meet several people who are in town for the Canadian Film Market

Roumdtables with LA director Aaron Wolf and Canadian director Alan Saulnier.

ADMISSION:
​Free and open to anyone working in Film, Music, Fashion and the Arts. 
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PAGE TURNER
​Producer / Writer Meet-Up

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Sunday November 13th, 10am
​Sheraton Hamilton Hotel, Heritage Room

This is a causal meet up for producers and writers.
All registered exhibitors, companies, authors and screenwriters with scripts entered into the festival are welcome to attend this event.

​ADMISSION:

Market Badge
Author Badge
Industry Development Pass

Words on Screen

Tony Burgess, Avi Federgreen, Jowita Bydlowska, Sheryl Fletcher

Tony Burgess
Avi Federgreen
Jowita Bydlowska
Sunday November 13th, 12noon
​Sheraton Hamilton Hotel, Heritage Room
These panelists will talk about their experience in the industry adapting and writing material for film and television.

Admission:
Market Badge
Author Badge

Industry Development Pass

After the panel, head to The Zoetic for a 2pm presentation of Milton's Secret
​Tickets for Milton's Secret here

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