EARTH CARE MIXER

Join Film Fatales for a filmmaker mixer to celebrate and amplify eco-friendly pathways to action!

Excited to meet creative collaborators? Missing the company of like-minded artists? We will begin with a group discussion about sustainable filmmaking led by Film Fatales members Elza Kephart (Slaxx) and Mai Iskander (Words of Witness), before dividing up into breakout circles for meaningful conversations based on a series of guided prompts.

This interactive session is open to filmmakers and film lovers of all backgrounds. The EVENT takes place Friday April 8th 5PM PT/ 8 PM ET. See you soon!

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Elza Kephart writes and directs horror and fantasy films. She holds a BFA from Emerson College and the Canadian Film Center’s Director’s Lab. At 24, she wrote and directed her first feature, Graveyard Alive. It played in over 20 international film festivals including Fantasia, Fantasporto and Sitges, winning the Kodak Cinematography Award at the Slamdance Film Festival. Her second feature film, Go in the Wilderness, premiered at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema, and is being distributed on various platforms, including itunes. Her third feature, SLAXX, produced by EMA Films (Turbo Kid), had its World Premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award for Best Canadian Feature, and its International Premiere at the Sitges International Film Festival. Elza has obtained development financing for feature projects Brothers in Arms, Chair Obscure, Le fantôme de la Libération, Night of the Pendulum and Sweet Blood. Sweet Blood was selected to the Frontières Market, the Torino SeriesLab, and pitched at Series Mania (Paris).Elza has attended the TIFF Talent Lab, the Berlinale Talent Campus, and the Telluride Student Symposium and has been a panelist for Fantasia, Film Fatales, WIFT, and From our Dark Side. She is one of the co-founders of the Montreal chapter of Film Fatales, and one of the co-founders of Extinction Rebellion Québec.

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Mai Iskander is the producer, director and cinematographer of the award-winning documentary films ‘Garbage Dreams’ (SXSW, IDFA) and ‘Words of Witness’ (Berlinale, Los Angeles Film Festival). Her first documentary feature film ‘Garbage Dreams’ was shortlisted for the 2010 Academy Awards in the category of Best Feature Length Documentary, was nominated for the 2010 Best Documentary by the DGA, and won 26 international awards including the Al Gore Reel Current Award and IDA Humanitas Award. ‘Garbage Dreams’ aired on PBS/Independent Lens and PBS/Global Voices. Funded by the John S. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, ‘Words of Witness’ won numerous awards and aired on AlJazeera America. Mai’s recognizable visual watermark and innate understanding of diverse storytelling has landed her in the director’s chair for the campaigns of major commercial clients such Whirlpool, Liberty Mutual, and Apple. Her ‘Care Counts’ campaign for Whirlpool was awarded four Lions at the 2017 Cannes Festival (Grand Prix, a Gold Lion, and two Bronze Lions).

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