About ReFrame
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ReFrame celebrates the latest works created by film and video makers from our community, Canada and around the world. Although we primarily screen documentary film and video we accept some fictional/narrative work each year. We select films that will develop the audience's appreciation and awareness of arts and culture and the social justice issues being explored in contemporary media today. ReFrame also offers programming for children (REELKids) and teens (Changing Our World).
Contact Information
- General Information and submissions info@reframefilmfestival.ca
- Volunteer information volunteer@reframefilmfestival.ca
- Information about REELkids reelkids@reframefilmfestival.ca
Mailing address:
ReFrame Peterborough International Film Festival
P.O. Box 895
Peterborough, Ontario K9J 7A2
Phone: (705) 748-1680
Fax: (705) 748-1681
Email: info@reframefilmfestival.ca
Film Festival Program Coordinator/Director: Krista English
ReFrame is organized by a volunteer committee.
Thank you to the members of our collective and the KWIC staff. Their collective talents weave together creating a unique community film festival.
Kudos to:
- Debbie Alger
- Barry Boyce
- Elisha Jeanne Brodeur
- Arlene Chambers
- Julie Cosgrove
- Grant Conrad
- Ferne Cristall
- Michael Goede
- Krista English
- Ann Evans
- Debbie Harrison
- Daphne Ingram
- Yvonne Lai
- Ziysah Markson
- Miriam McFadyen
- Joe McLoughlin
- Mary Mattos
- Wanda Nanibush
- Carolyn Nicholson
- Judy O’Toole
A huge thank you to all our festival volunteers!! We can not do it without you.
ReFrame's Mission
To reframe international issues through film and art to engage local community members on the social justice concerns that connect us.
ReFrame's Values
- We respect the audience and filmmaker experience
- We support creative risk-taking and experimentation
- We strive for quality and integrity
- We believe in the importance of art
- We value free speech and the diversity of ideas
- We seek effective creative collaborations
- We work toward ecological sustainability
Recent History
2009
- We celebrated our fifth anniversary by giving our festival a new name: ReFrame Peterborough International Film Festival.
- We doubled the size of our elementary-school program, REELKids Film Festival, and included workshops led by local artists.
- We introduced a one-day high-school program called ReFrame: Changing Our World Film Festival, which included film presentations and workshops.
- We added a "Still" ReFrame program of local visual art displays and a new community art project, "Your Inner Artist."
- Our International Bazzar was a hit and included wonderful international food, crafts, and merchandise.
- We emphasized a greener festival by issuing a one-page program handout, encouraging people to "lug a mug," providing fully compostable takeout containers, and providing reusable dishes.
The Early History of ReFrame
2008
- We formed our first "festival programming committee" with our community-based volunteers, and we presented our first ever 100 per cent made-in-Peterborough program. The event established a dynamic interconnection between the local and the global; it reflected the interests of our local area and at the same time responded to our audiences' needs while pushing the frontier of new forms and new ideas.
2007
- We took another leap forward in programming. The Peterborough festival was now uniquely our own creation. We began by doing an inventory of sorts looking at what was happening in the world and what our local groups and organizations were interested in and concerned about. We then shaped the form and the content of our programming based on these considerations. We still drew on the wonderful package of work from Courtenay, but we were clearly heading in a new direction.
- We added more panel discussions with filmmakers and included more question and answer sessions after film screenings.
2006
- We included productions that we found on our own (making up one-quarter of our program) and added local filmmakers and performances and exhibitions by local activists and arts groups. We began to actively seek out more work by regional filmmakers and broaden our scope, looking for more and different ways of telling stories and talking about complex issues.
- We invited visiting filmmakers to Peterborough for the first time.
2005
- We presented a "traveling" package of films from the World Community Film Festival in Courtenay, B.C. The Courtenay festival made its package available to us and a number of other like-minded communities across the country.
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