In 2021, a collection of material related to the Women & Film International Festival (Toronto, 1973) was uncovered in the VideoCabaret archive, including open-reel videotapes and super8 films. Digitizing the footage, interviews with notable feminists and filmmakers (including Nell Hall-Humpherson, Barbara Peters, and Agnès Varda) and travel documentation of the festival organizers across Canada were found. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the festival, my project aims to gather the disparate material into a dedicated archive at the TIFF Film Reference Library for future researchers interested in feminism, festival studies, film history and production in Canada. Furthermore, an exhibition in 2024/25 at TIFF Bell Lightbox will bring together the archival material along with new footage shot in Summer 2023 at the Women & Film Reunion.
Edited by Rojin Shafiei, 2023.
This project is developed in partnership with TIFF, Vtape, Archive/Counter-Archive, and LIFT.
Director: Cleo Sallis-Parchet Producer: Christina Dovolis
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