Online Screening
Films for Freedom
Presented by The Film-Makers’ Cooperative and Canyon Cinema
Nov 21, 12:00 pm
https://film-makerscoop.com/screenings/films-for-freedom-presented-by-the-film-makers-cooperative-a
https://connects.canyoncinema.com/projects/films-for-freedom/
The Film-Makers’ Cooperative and Canyon Cinema joined forces in 2025 to support Fall of Freedom, an urgent nationwide arts movement united in defiance of the rise of authoritarianism. We sent out a call for 10-second films. Over 100 artists sent us their work.
Featured filmmakers:
Tommy Becker
Anne Colvin
Clair Bain
Julie Halazy
Toby Kaufmann-Buhler
Abigail Child
Joe Miller
Auguste Bartninkaite
Thomas Dimopoulos
Rudy Gerson
Chihiro Ito
Sean Paul
Amal Alshoura
Andrew Tamburrino
The Davis (CA) Visibility Brigade
Césaire José Carroll-Domínguez
Bill Baldewicz
Craig Baldwin
Leonard Henny (courtesy Eye Filmmuseum)
Max Wolf
Horatio Perry
Katherine Bauer
Jan Adamove
Dana Teen Lomax
Jamie Naqvi
Charles de Agustin
Alexis Krasilovsky
Diganto Mori
Lucien Pin
J Woltz
Tommaso Paris
Robert Schneider
Jeffrey Skoller
Ausín Sáinz
Roland Cartagena
Noel Molloy
Chris Nyklewicz
Miguel Chichorro
Ellie Vanderlip
Dominic Angerame
Brigitte Valobra Wald
Randolph Bird
ALice Leonardo
Tara Lamorgese
Madeline Florio
MM Serra
Wenwen Zhu
Karen Bosy
Pauline Mateos
Andrew Reichel
Zazie Kanwar-Torge
ALina Taalman
Lillian Canright
Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock
Jem Cohen
Susan Kouguell
Evgeny Kondrov
Arisha Chowdhury
Tony Merritt
Aiden Castillo
Lynne Sachs
Samuel Rivera Cortes
Evan Bode
Hogan Seidel
Kathleen Quillian
Juyi Mao
Billie Sorribès
Joel Singer
Mark Street
Leonardo Severino
Rankin Renwick
Candy Powell
Erica Schreiner
Ate Von Hes
Vahid Valikani
Anne Senstad
Conor Williams
Phil Weisman
Roman Ženatý
James Hollenbaugh
Gloria Chung
Lawrence Jordan
Liam Kenny
Julius Klein
Koomah
Callon Murphy
Ruth Hayes
Ira Vicari
James Sansing
Thad Povey
Michelle Rauch
Yann les Jours
Spyrous Patsouras
Kevin Roy and Tim Mustoe
Zhang Yida
Walter K. Lew and Alissa Xhixhabesi
Janis Crystal Lipzin
William Brown and Mila Zuo
Tushar GIdwani
Keum-Taek Jung
Annie Robertson
Caroline Savage
Jim Hubbard
Mary Filippo
Tyler Turkle
Brian Padian
Nechama Winston
Robert Joshua San Luis
Fred Camper
Adam E. Stone
Matt McKinzie
Tav Falco
Anthony Tko
Rrose PResent
rylik zzoo
Maxmilien Luc Proctor
Vanja Mervič
Christophe Charre
Organized by Brett Kashmere (Canyon Cinema), Matt McKinzie (The Film-Makers’ Cooperative), and Lynne Sachs. Edited by Mary Rose McClain.
For more information visit:
CANYON CINEMA: canyoncinema.com
THE FILM-MAKERS’ COOPERATIVE: film-makerscoop.com
FALL OF FREEDOM: falloffreedom.com
CALL FOR FILMS
This is our invitation to film and media artists and enthusiasts to take part. Collectively, we will challenge the rise of American fascism.
In 1967, a group of angry but concerned filmmakers gathered together to organize the first FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR. With the Vietnam War escalating wildly, an invitation was issued to artists to create works running under three minutes in protest against the accumulating carnage. The resulting 60-film compilation included works by such avant-garde luminaries as Robert Breer, Shirley Clarke, Storm De Hirsch, Ken Jacobs, Lawrence Jordan, Jonas Mekas, Stan VanDerBeek, and numerous other FMC and Canyon members.
In 2007, an invitation to protest yet another war seemed sadly urgent, inspiring the New York Film-Makers’ Cooperative to ring the clarion once again. The response was overwhelming, with submissions from several generations of artists unified by a singular disgust for the war. As a collective effort, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR, AGAIN brought together many active members from the Coop and Canyon.
How to Participate:
Create a 10 second film as an .mp4 video file.
Label your file: last_name_first_name.mp4
Send your completed file to info@film-makerscoop.com either via email or using a file transfer program like Google Drive, WeTransfer, or Dropbox.
Deadline: November 10, 2025.
Do not include credits of any kind. All participants will be given a credit at the end of the film.
For freedom of every kind,
Canyon Cinema
The Film-Makers’ Cooperative