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The Gimli Film Festival has wrapped for another year.  Total attendance for the Festival was 8,400 people, including 5,200 people on the beach over three nights, with another 3,200 people attending the Festival’s indoor screenings and On Screen Manitoba’s industry sessions. The Rogers Cinema Under The Stars continues to be extremely popular part of the [...]

PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts, and the Gimli Film Festival have partnered to bring you a new exhibit taking place at the New Iceland Heritage Museum. Saturday 16 – Sunday 24 of July 2011 at the New Iceland Heritage Museum in The Waterfront Centre 94 – 1st Avenue / Gimli, MB. / Gallery [...]

The 2011 Gimli Film Festival Industry Development Program has been released and is currently available online. The program lists all of the industry sessions that will be taking place during the Gimli Film Festival and has biographies on all of the special guests and moderators. Industry session include: Indie Game: The Movie – A Canadian [...]

There is only one week left to submit your application for the Rogers $10,000 Pitch! This competition is open to emerging & established writers, directors, producers, or anyone who thinks they have an interesting story to share. On July 22 during the Gimli Film Festival, finalists will have 3 minutes to pitch their project to a [...]

We invite filmmakers to create a short tribute to, or history of Lake Winnipeg – with actual historical facts being completely optional. Your film may be shot in Gimli or in Timbuktu, as long as that lake spirit is somehow captured.  You need not have ever set foot in the lake – invention, concoction and [...]

The Gimli Film Festival, in partnership with Manitoba Music, is presenting Music at the Movies, a performance opportunity for five emerging Manitoba bands or solo artists to showcase their talent prior to each evening’s Beach Movie. This event is free and open to the public. Last year over 500 people gathered each evening to watch [...]