Our Virtual Festival Continues 🎞️

Enjoy our amazing films from the comfort of your home!

Did you miss seeing a film over the in-person weekend? Enjoy our amazing films from the comfort of your home with our Virtual Festival!

What an incredible in-person weekend we had. Thank you to everyone who came out to our amazing Gala, our attending filmmaker Q&As, the Filmmaker Panel Event, and to 50+ films screenings at 3 great downtown venues! Watch our incredible Gala Event highlight video!

But with so much to choose from, we understand if maybe you missed some of the great films on offer. That’s why our Virtual Festival kicked off Sunday evening and we’ll keep rolling out great films until Wednesday night. Once you unlock a film you have 72hrs to watch it, so you can keep your own personal DocFest going all week long!Individual tickets are $13 and if you were a festival pass holder you can access virtual films for $10.

If you already have virtual tickets, use the button below to start ordering your films.

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Local Filmmaker Winners!

We would like to extend a huge congratulations to our local filmmaker winners. We are so fortunate to have so many talented local filmmakers and we thank each of you for sharing your films with us and our audiences.Best Local Short 1:

Strings of Inspiration

Dive into the enchanting world of Strings of Inspiration: A Portrait of Kris Tischbein, a captivating documentary that unravels the artistry and creative spirit of acclaimed bassist Kris Tischbein. He shares the secrets behind his unique sound, influenced by the evocative tones of cellos and other stringed instruments. By local filmmakers Aaron and Angela Bell.

Best Local Short 2: Hidden Heroes

Hidden Heroes is a documentary that unveils the extraordinary contributions of unsung heroes who played a pivotal role in Canadian military operations. Featuring interviews with Canada’s top historians and never-before-seen footage, Hidden Heroes highlights the often-forgotten men & women who risk their lives behind the lines in the Canadian military – providing the lifesaving supports that led to victory on the battlegrounds of yesterday, and today. By local filmmaker Roz Mugford.We would also like to thank Bay of Quinte for sponsoring our Local Filmmaker Awards and for helping us to support these independent artists.

Virtual Festival Details

You can still watch these other incredible short films as part of our Virtual Festival as well. Individual tickets are $13 and if you were a festival pass holder you can access virtual films for $10.

The Water Walker

A profile of Autumn Peltier, a 15-year-old Anishinaabe from Wiikwemkoong First Nation on Manitoulin Island who has been nominated three times for the International Children’s Peace Prize. The film follows Peltier as she prepares to address the United Nations on the right to clean drinking water for the world’s Indigenous communities.

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Behind the Camera: A Portrait of Shannon Walsh

A video portrait of Canadian documentary filmmaker Shannon Walsh, made in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts on the occasion of the 2023 Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts.

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Sisterhood Softball

Following the first all-female Muslim softball league in North America, Sisterhood Softball depicts a league that empowers women through sports in a community where women traditionally don’t participate and are seen outside of their communities as disempowered.

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Janelle Niles: Inconvenient

Janelle Niles is a Black, Mi’kmaw, two-spirited woman from Sipekne’katik First Nation in Nova Scotia and a stand-up comedian. Despite a tumultuous upbringing that would break most, Janelle confronts her mixed heritage head-on, embracing her biracial experience and queer identity, while using stand-up to heal and usher in a new era of inclusive Canadian comedy.

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Ancestral Threads

Ancestral Threads follows Joleen Mitton on her mission to use fashion as medicine for Vancouver’s Indigenous community. From humble beginnings in Vancouver’s downtown eastside to a modeling career in Asia, her journey to community leader is woven into the unfolding of Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week—the first event of its kind, and her life’s work.

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Brushes of Hope

In the summer of 2020, Detroiters faced unprecedented police violence as they took to the streets to protest the killings of Black people across the country. Woven together from never-before-seen footage from police body cameras, protesters and bystanders, “Detroit Will Breathe” provides an unprecedented look into the tactics of the Detroit Police, reveals shocking conversations between police officers, and offers a poignant look into what it means to be part of an integrated movement fighting for Black lives.

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📢 Thank you to our volunteers!🎉

This past weekend we had over 50 volunteers come out in their green shirts to support the festival, assist audience members, sell last minute tickets, answer questions, support attending filmmakers, and so much more. We just want to say THANK YOU!!! We truly couldn’t do this without your incredible support.