still from Memories of Youth dir. Nathan Flores
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There is so much that goes into a film, from the performances, to the writing, to the camera work, to the editing, that many awards come down to a dead heat. However, someone has to take home the crown, and this year at the UWPG Film Festival, the categories were stacked.
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Almost everyone grew up watching animated films and has a favourite that they can belt out songs from during any party or karaoke night. With this crop of award nominated films, the future is safe for the medium.
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Beginning at 7:00 PM (CST) on YouTube Live, the UWPG Film Festival premieres with the fourth night of the festival and the second night of the International Shorts Program, "You can be anywhere". No matter where you are, you will see something new, something familiar or something unexpected.
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For the 2021 UWPG Film Festival, the nominees for Best Documentary show this brilliant spectrum of human lives.
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Day 3 of the 2021 UWPG Film Festival will be sure to leave you thinking. With the festival going online, viewers have the pleasure of seeing what student filmmakers from around the world can do.
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There are fun jaunts in surreal locales, gut-wrenching accounts of animals in a slaughterhouse, tension-filled midnight escapes, and even a little bit of love laid bare on your screen. The 2021 UWPG Film Festival was certainly spoiled by animated brilliance.
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Day 2 of the 2021 UWPG Film Festival will be sure to leave you thinking. With the festival going online, viewers have the pleasure of seeing what student filmmakers from around the world can do.
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After the roaring success of the international categories during the 2020 UWPG Film Festival, once again, festival organizers opened their doors to student filmmakers from around the world.
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Manitoba’s workforce development and training organization Film Training Manitoba (FTM) and the UWPG Film Festival are set to offer a deluxe Zoom training session as part of the festival on October 21 from 1 pm – 2 pm.
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Day 1 of the 2021 UWPG Film Festival kicks off with a bang. There will be films that will make you cry, some that make you laugh, and some that make your skin crawl. It's the best of home to start things off.
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Perhaps you will see a piece of yourself in one of these, as six filmmakers pull back the curtain on life experiences we can all recognize.
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There is so much that goes into a film, from the performances, to the writing, to the camera work, to the editing, that many awards come down to a dead heat. However, someone has to take home the crown, and this year at the UWPG Film Festival, the categories were stacked.
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It can feel both short and long. Like it passes in a blink, or that there is not enough, or by contrast like it crawls. In the case of Jean-Pierre Marchant, the 48-year difference between himself and his Chilean-immigrant father was – in the director’s words – a “gulf.”
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Telling difficult stories is hard, but its harder when it’s your own. This was the task undertaken by Emelie Kastberg with her film Criteria of Rape, in which the Swedish filmmaker recounts her personal experience of being sexually assaulted while working in the film industry.
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It has often been said that time is a flat circle. That no matter what we do, we are meant to follow the same paths throughout history. That the names and places may change, but the underlying experiences remain the same. This is felt powerfully in Isabel Jansson’s Heimat Europa, a film that tackles the universality of the female experience, the refugee journey to find ‘home’, and the way our past and future are closely intertwined.
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Whether it’s a coming of age story from Germany that explores how female and refuge experiences transcend time, or a quirky Mexican superhero film that will make any comic nerd smirk, these films will delight.
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Manitoba should be the perfect place to make a horror movie. For a few filmmakers at the 2020 UWPG Film Festival, their home province provided such a perfect backdrop.
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With a night of animation behind us, let’s get ready for day four of the UWPG Film Festival, and more Canadian talent. Get ready to laugh, cry, and in the Halloween spirit, get spooked with these Made in Canada marvels.
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