Halifax filmmaker featured in documentary making world premiere at AIFF
Posted Sep 15, 2023 08:13:08 AM.
Last Updated Sep 15, 2023 02:13:19 PM.
A Halifax poet and filmmaker is among the subjects featured in a documentary making its world premiere at the Atlantic International Film Festival (AIFF).
‘Analogue Revolution: How Feminist Media Changed the World’ traces the rise and fall of feminist media from the 1970s to 1990s in Canada.
Directed by filmmaker Marusya Bociurkiw, the documentary catches up with many feminist storytellers from Halifax to Vancouver who took hold of cutting-edge media technology to document everything from violence towards women to instructions on how to insert a diaphragm.
As filmmaker behind the acclaimed documentary Black Mother Black Daughter, Halifax’s Sylvia D. Hamilton is one of those who appears in the new documentary. She says she is thrilled that Analogue Revolution is premiering here in Halifax.
“I think it is important to have the film premiere in Halifax,” she tells CityNews Halifax.
“When the filmmakers were here last year, the filmmakers were excited to be in Nova Scotia to record the stories of women who were very foundational in a lot of the early feminist media so bringing the film back here where some of these women were is quite important and I think it’s quite exciting for the film to be shown here.”
Hamilton’s Black Mother Black Daughter became the first National Film Board (NFB) film out of its Atlantic Studio crewed entirely by women when it was made in 1989.
Hamilton will be joining Bociurkiw as well as others for a Q&A following the screening today at 5 p.m. at Cineplex Park Lane Cinemas.
For tickets or more information, visit the Atlantic International Film Festival’s website.
