HFF ALUMNI:
​If your film (one that has screened at HFF) is available online for rent / purchase / monetized, We're planning on making an Alumni webpage that contains links to your films. This includes films that have been picked up from our Film Market as well. 

4 Steps:
1) link to the film
2) link to trailer
3) email to info@hamiltonfilmfestival.com
4) subject: ONLINE

These are direct links to the rights holders and and the Hamilton Film Festival does not collect anything. This is 100% for the filmmakers!
To celebrate NATIONAL CANADIAN FILM DAY, we're featuring a locally filmed movie,, for a limited time

The Bad Mother
Screened at HFF in 2015
$6.99 rent
$13.99 buy
Pay What You Can - to help out folks in these pandemic times. 

​https://thebadmother.vhx.tv

FILM OF THE MONTH: TWO DUM MICKS

Two Dum Micks
Screened opening night at HFF in 2019

This multi-award winning film starring Sean Astin and D.B. Sweeney is the opening episode chronicling the adventures of Mikey and Micks... Two Dum Micks.
45
Screened at HFF in 2017

A man's life unravels when he finds something south of his hairline.
Abnegnation
Screened at HFF in 2018

A woman's secret relationship is discovered putting her and those around her in danger.
AIR KNOB
Screened at HFF in 2017
In an Air Guitar war, there are only LOSERS!
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 7minutes
Alouette
Screened at HFF in 2014

Recovering from a mental illness in the desolate atlantic winter, Elizabeth struggles to reassert herself into reality as she becomes infatuated with her older sister’s lover. Temptation overcomes her as the two sisters' personalities begin to bleed into one another. Alouette is a psychological thriller and character study.
ARTLESS
Screened at HFF in 2013
Best Cinematography Winner
What begins as a surreal romance between two artists in New York City turns to tragedy when the largest blackout in history threatens their relationship. Filmed in Hamilton
Genre: Drama / Romance
​Running Time: 93 Minutes
The Bakebook
Screened at HFF in 2017

A modern-day animated fairy-tale, in which a woman overcomes the disappearance of her lover through her passion for baking.
BED OF THE DEAD
Screened in 2017 at HFF's National Canadian Film Day
Four twentysomethings find themselves stuck on a haunted antique bed where leaving means suffering a gruesome death. Plagued with frightening hallucinations, they must figure out the bed's secrets before they are ultimately picked off one by one.
Genres: Horror
Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes
The Curtain
Screened at HFF in 2017

Two hospitalized strangers develop an unlikely friendship by revealing painful, intimate details about their lives through the safety and anonymity of the room's curtain divider. They bond through grief and humour, encouraging one another to make brave choices that hold personal consequences.
The Divorce Photographer
Screened at HFF in 2016
THE FROZEN GOOSE
Screened at HFF in 2017, Broadcast on Cogeco and Cable 2017, Distributed by McIntyre Media.
After WWI, a broken frontline soldier returns to the home front … All is not well.
Filmed in: Hamilton, Burlngton, Halton & Flamborough Counties, Westfield Heritage Village
Cast: Cameron Brindle, Leslie Gray, John Fort, Rod McTaggart, Hannah Ralph
Writer/Director: Margaret Lindsay Holton
Year: 2016   | Run Time: 25 min
Genre: Family, Drama
Frozen Marbles
Screened at HFF in 2015

Two sisters reunite to continue a painful family tradition.
GETTING THERE
​Screened at HFF in 2014

Genre: Musical / Drama
Length: 16m

Tanner, a passionate and single-minded mandolin player in a multi-instrumental folk band, struggles to drag his bandmates towards productivity and relevance at the risk of his own personal estrangement. But, after a disconcerting conversation with a famed singer-songwriter, Tanner takes a moment to pause and appreciate what he has already. Getting There is a vibrant, musical consideration of an artist's struggle to collaborate and keep things in perspective.
GLOVE ME TENDER
Screened at HFF in 2017

What happens when you lose one glove
Guardian Angel
Participated in the Market at HFF in 2016

A female vigilante who believes she has been given her power from God Almighty rights the wrongs done to women and children.
I'LL TAKE YOUR DEAD
​Partnership screening with HFF in 2019
I'll Take Your Dead follows William who has a simple job, he makes dead bodies disappear. This isn't something he likes to or even wants to do, but through circumstances out of his control, his little farm house in the country has become a dumping ground for the casualties of the gang related murders in the nearby city. His daughter Gloria has become used to rough looking men dropping off corpses and is even convinced that some of them are haunting their house. After a woman's body, is dumped at the house, William begins his meticulous process when he realizes, she's not actually dead. As the gang activity increases, William patches the woman up and holds her against her will until he can figure out what to do with her. As they begin to develop a very unusual respect for each other, the woman's murderers get word that she's still alive and make plan to go finish what they started.
Genres: Horror
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes
KAMALI
Screened at HFF in 2019
WINNER best Documentary

A single mother's fight for her daughter's empowerment in India through skateboarding.
Lakesong
Screened at HFF in 2018

When her grandfather mysteriously drowns in the lake behind his cottage home, Claire is determined to find answers. What she discovers is that there may be some truth in the fantastical...and what she seeks may be lurking in the water.
LA MERDE
Screened at HFF in 2018
A ridiculous comedy based on a true story where a young woman finds herself in a predicament she is ill-prepared to handle.
Genres: Comedy
Length: 7m

Light Sight
​Screened at HFF in 2017
LUCKY 7
Screened at HFF in 2011 and encore screenings in 2013
AUDIENCE CHOICE WINNER
Given up for dead, Patrick Farley aka “Lucky 7” (PHILIPPE BUCKLAND) returns home to pay a gambling debt, but finds he’s been framed for murder. His lucks’ run dry, so he makes his own, and it becomes a dangerous game of sex ,drugs, violence and betrayal Can he hold on to the beauty that he also finds waiting for him here in the heart of the broken-down city, and follow it’s light back home? Filmed in Hamilton
Cast: Phillippe Buckland, Rachel MacMillan
Director: Stephen Hayes
Year: 2013 | Run Time: 79 min
Genre: Drama, Neo-Noir
Maelstrøm
Screened at HFF in 2018

Karl spins the spoon from his coffee. Something spins even faster inside Tony's head.
NARA
Screened at HFF in 2008
Blane, a young homeless man forms an unworldly bond with Nara. Their friendship grows stronger as time passes, giving Blane something to look forward to everyday. The only problem is Nara isn't like any other friend; she's Blane's deepest and darkest secret.

Genre: Horror/Thriller 
Running Time: 83 mins 
Directed by: Navin Ramaswaran 
Starring: Dylan Macdonald, Nicole Maroon, Christine Chemello

Bonus Behind the Scenes: https://vimeo.com/399350916
ODDS
Screened at HFF in 2011
'Drowning in the malaise of his mediocre existence, John has decided to test fate and play the odds with his only remaining possession, his life. It's a gamble where winning will bring him a fresh start and losing means a body bag.'***NOTE*** This film contains strong language, nudity, drug use and violence.
Trailer: evilgeniusproductions.vhx.tv/packages/odds/videos/odds-trailer-2015-h-264

The Real Miyagi
Screened at HFF in 2015

A look at the life of karate master Fumio Demura shows how he spread the discipline in the West, winning countless devotees and influencing Hollywood.
Starring:Fumio Demura

Documentary
Scattered
Screened at HFF in 2018

Where would you want your ashes to be scattered? Who would scatter them? What if everyone you know is kind of lame?
Winner of the Telus Storyhive $10k grant woman directed short films... 
Premiered on Telus Optik / Telus Storyhive
The Sexual Jonses
Screened at HFF in 2019

The rivalrous Mrs. Jones wants to give their naughty neighbours really something to gag on. She and her husband plan a kinky threesome and a formidable feast to keep all the neighbours talking. What could possibly go wrong?
SHELTER
Screened at HFF in 2013. Winner BEST EDITING
The Enemy has infiltrated the Green Zone. Escaping capture, John Doyle mounts a pocket of resistance to save the remaining civilians while rescue forces attempt to locate him. 
No one can be left behind...
***NOTE*** This film contains strong language and violence.
Trailer: evilgeniusproductions.vhx.tv/videos/shelter-trailer

The Spot
Screened at HFF in 2016

The Spot follows one woman on her quest to find the holy grail of parking spots in a crowded neighbourhood.
THE SUBLET
Screened at HFF in 2016
Joanna is a new mom coping with her baby in an odd sublet apartment as her husband neglects her to focus on his career. Joanna begins to question her sanity as she suspects that the building is haunted. As the walls literally close in on her, she discovers a violent past to the apartment, but is it postpartum depression or does this building want Joanna to give the ultimate sacrifice?
Genres: Horror, Thriller
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes
The Sunset Channel
Screened at HFF in 2018

A man sees a disturbing event on TV and believes he may be the only witness. 
TIME SLINGER
Participated in the Market at HFF in 2016

A time traveler deals in corporate espionage until one company CEO wants the time traveling technology for himself.

Unconventional
Screened at HFF in 2018

Life is messy. erin and kyle find themselves in the heat of a complicated and confusing relationship. 
What Goes Up
Screened at HFF in 2016
YES I CANADA
Screened at HFF in 2017

An enthusiastic candidate pleads his case with immigration Written and Produced by Florian François Directed by Katarzyna Kochany With Florian François and Dan Willmott