Our little short THE FOREIGNER is completing its festival run with an outdoor screening in Toronto on at the 2018 Christie Pits Film Festival. Come see the film in the very neighbourhood where it was filmed! Make sure to arrive early because the hill fills up fast!
Third Culture will be in Montreal this summer pitching BLACK ZOMBIE at Frontières, the Fantasia-Cannes International Co-production Market. This opportunity is courtesy of a new collaboration between Frontières and Doc Circuit Montreal. BLACK ZOMBIE was initially presented at the Doc Circuit Talent Lab in 2017.
Our newest short THE HAIRCUT will have its theatrical premiere at the 2018 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. We are so excited to screen this film on the big screen! For screening dates and ticket info, visit the Hot Docs website.
Our feature doc BLACK ZOMBIE was recently accepted into the Breakthrough program at the DOC Institute. This program offers a select group of participants the opportunity to develop and hone their pitch materials in preparation for the 2018 Hot Docs International Documentary Festival. Learn more about the program and the participating filmmakers here.
Music Video (2018)
Artist: Language Arts
Director: Luke Mistruzzi + Maya Annik Bedward
VFX: Luke Mistruzzi
We collaborated with filmmaker & animator Luke Mistruzzi from Powerline Films to make this psychedelic video for Toronto-based band Language Arts. The video features footage from the streets of Hamilton, the beaches of Oaxaca, and the mountains of BC — paired with found footage and projected through a giant kaleidoscope. Learn more at Canadian Beats and watch the video below.
Our short documentary, co-produced with Tangent Motion Pictures, screens at the 15th Annual Regent Park Film Festival. A local favourite, this festival is Toronto’s only free community film festival! Today, as Regent Park undergoes a fifteen year re-development, the Festival works to bring together the many diverse communities that exist in the neighbourhood to enjoy and engage with film as a means of artistic expression and a catalyst for change.
We are officially green lit to start production on our next film THE HAIRCUT with support from CBC Short Docs. We look forward to sharing more updates as we head on this next adventure.
Short Documentary (2018)
Writer + Director + Editor: Maya Annik Bedward
Producer: Maya Annik Bedward, Kate Fraser
DOP: Sean Liliani / Timothy I. Smith
Original Music: David Arcus
Sound Design: Inaam Haq
Synopsis
A short documentary about Marvin Bedward, a 65-year old business executive who refuses to cut his hair. Traumatized by the white barbers who ruined his Afro when he was a child, Marvin sees his long hair as an act of resistance to authority, mainstream culture and his wife.
Screenings
2018 – Hot Docs Canadian International Film Festival (Theatrical premiere)
2018 – Caribbean Tales Film Festival
2018 – Guelph Film Festival
2018 – Regent Park Film Festival
The Foreigner will be premiering this Sunday, July 2nd on CBC as part of the Canadian Reflections late night lineup! Don’t miss this must-see television event of the season. More information can be found online at CBC Canadian Reflections.
Also, be sure to fall in love with our new poster by the talented Sandra Dans!
THE GAZE is back in podcast form! Join filmmakers Aisha Jamal and Maya Annik Bedward for Season Two as they sit down with three Indigenous filmmakers to discuss the creative, commercial and emotional labour of making film in Canada.
Listen to E1S2 with Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, director of the critically acclaimed film, Angry Inuk below. You can also subscribe to future episodes on iTunes or Google Play.
To learn more about the creators behind The Gaze, check out this recent interview with Aisha and Maya in THIS IS WORLD TOWN.
The Canada Council in partnership with the Independent Media Arts Alliance commissioned a series of short films on the winners of the 2017 Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Third Culture Media had the pleasure to make a film on Toronto-based visual artist, Shelagh Keeley. Directed by Maya Annik Bedward, the film is now available online and on Air Canada’s in-flight entertainment system, spring 2017.
