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Greta Gerwig directing Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet for Lady Bird (2017) 🐞
Big Fish (2003, Dir. Tim Burton) 🐠
Internal Affairs (2002, Dirs. Andrew Lau, Alan Mak)
Dead Poets Society (1989, Dir. Peter Weir)
Did you know? Layout design by @keyashirali
Did you know this fact about “The Godfather” (1972, Dir. Francis Ford Coppola)? 🍊 Layout design by @keyashirali
Our executive member Stéphanie Hubert (@stephhubert) designed some stunning thumbnails for our YouTube channel recently, and we couldn’t wait to flaunt them 🤩 Feel free to check out a variety of content that we’re creating there, and make sure to show us any support you can by liking our videos, subscribing to our channel, and sharing our platform with others that might be interested in what we make and what we do! The link is in our bio. 🎥
Come join us Wednesday at 5pm EST for a chat about the film "Promising Young Woman", starring Carey Mulligan and Bo Burnham, and directed by Emerald Fennell. Make sure to watch the film beforehand to participate in the live chat and to steer clear of any spoilers. Also, stay tuned for the giveaway winner reveal during our live and for the chance to win a $50 Amazon Gift Card if you’ve already entered or still plan to! *Trigger Warning* Viewer discretion is advised because the live discussion may contain distressing but serious topics of sexual assault and violence. We will also provide a reminder of this towards the beginning of the live, and request that viewers remain respectful in the comments section. Layout design by @stephhubert
Did you know this fact about Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane” (1941)? Layout design by @keyashirali
In honour of the Oscars award season, we're giving away a $50 Amazon gift card! To enter: • Comment your pick for Best Picture • Must be a Carleton University student • Must be following us • Like this post • Tag a friend Winner will be announced on April 7th! Layout design by @bea.villadelgado
THE CINEMATIC WORLD OF “ROMA” (2018, DIR. ALFONSO CUARÓN) Layout design by @keyashirali
Come join our team for a discussion about the Oscar-nominated film "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" on Wednesday, March 24th at 5pm EST. Make sure to watch the movie beforehand on Netflix for a spoiler-free experience and join in on our discussion in the comments! Layout design by @stephhubert
THE CINEMATIC WORLD OF “JOJO RABBIT” (2019, Dir. Taika Waititi) 🐇 Layout design by @keyashirali
THE CINEMATIC WORLD OF “ONWARD” (2020, DIR. DAN SCANLON) 🚙 Layout design by @keyashirali
Alternative film poster art for “Sunset Boulevard” (1950, Dir. Billy Wilder) 🎞 Credits - (top row left-to-right): CineMaterial, Alternative Movie Posters, Alex Eylar on Pinterest; (bottom row left-to-right): Ed Simkins on Pinterest, Amusementphile on Pinterest, In the Key of Karen Layout design by @keyashirali
Join us for our Facebook Live discussion of Christopher Nolan’s Tenet this Wednesday (March 10) at 5PM EST! Make sure to watch the movie beforehand to join in on the talk in the live comments section. Layout design by @stephhubert
Alternative posters for “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” (2019, Dir. Céline Sciamma) 🖼 Original artists/creators/sources 🎨: (top row left-to right) - u/Ego1_ on Reddit, Lee ze on Pinterest, aleksart on DeviantArt); (bottom row left-to-right) - brkbckmtn on Pinterest, Scott Saslow on PosterSpy Facebook page, “Patrick Verona” on Twitter Layout design by @keyashirali
Alternative posters for “Midsommar” (2019, Dir. Ari Aster) ☀️ Sources/Original Artists 🎨 (top row left-to-right): Roman Stevens, Jessie Paege Bicon Women’s T-Shirt, Freya Betts; (bottom row left-to-right): Broken Beanie, Greg Ruth Layout design by @keyashirali
SPOTLIGHT SERIES EXHIBIT K: “1917” (2019, Dir. Sam Mendes) Layout design by @keyashirali
SPOTLIGHT SERIES EXHIBIT J: “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946, Dir. Frank Capra) Layout design by @keyashirali
Our team will be chatting about the film Malcom and Marie on Wednesday at 5pm EST on Facebook, so be sure to attend and watch the film beforehand so you can add comments to the livestream! 📺 Layout design by @stephhubert
We’re back (to school) with more virtual screenings for you! Season 3 is more of a “mini season”, focusing on the theme of “Back to School”, which happens to be the situation for many people this time of the year. With our present circumstances though, many have mixed feelings about how this online semester will go, many are wandering in a fog of uncertainty, and many are revisiting who they are and what they want to be. In the midst of all this, what we at CFS can help you do is to give you the collective experience of living vicariously through the lives of characters on screen who can at best alleviate this sense of isolation, and at worst act as a momentary distraction. These are characters and stories with worries and woes, joys and hopes - only in a different time, in a different place, and in a different world. We hope you’ll join us along on this ride, and we hope it’ll be a fun one. 🏫🎒✏️ Films to be screened: 🚍January 23: Eighth Grade (2018, Dir. Bo Burnham, Netflix) 📚: January 30: Booksmart (2019, Dir. Olivia Wilde, Amazon Prime Video) Layout design by @keyashirali
Here’s a sneak peek into our selection for Season 2, where we follow the theme of “Love”. Running from October 16 to November 13, this collection explores the nuances of human connection. Most people misidentify “love” with “romance”, and while they’re not completely wrong, love can mean a host of other things within the human spectrum of emotion. It’s the charm yet wonderment of bonding with someone who is from a completely different world from yours, like in Roman Holiday. It’s the magic of finding true connection in a stranger in the strangest of ways, like in Before Sunrise. Sometimes, it looks a little different altogether. Sometimes, it means defying the expectations that society laid out for you regarding who you can and cannot love and persevering through it, like in The Half of It. Other times, “love” is coupled with “loss”, where grievance brings people closer than they could ever imagine, as portrayed in the familial love depicted in The Farewell. We hope you fall in “love” with this series, and join us in our weekly viewings this season! 💗 🍿 Films featured this season: October 16: The Half of It (Alice Wu, 2020, Netflix) October 23: Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953, Prime Video) November 6: The Farewell (Lulu Wang, 2019, Prime Video) November 13: Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater, 1995, Prime Video)
A few days ago, we released our exclusive interview with filmmaker Sam Ogunremi (@samogunremi), which you can find on our IGTV! Here’s one of his inspiring quotes from the interview. Sam’s photo courtesy of @bea.villadelgado and layout design by @keyashirali
We now have a Discord too! To join our server, click the link in our bio! 🖥 Layout design by @keyashirali
Cinema has always been a driver of change, culture, and revolution in more ways than you think. From various ideologies depicted on screen through artful propaganda, to true-to-life documentary practices that strove for realism, as nearly impossible as that may be to achieve. Writing and storytelling in film are now more revolutionized than ever and for the better - from more complex characterization and storylines for people of colour instead of the cardboard-cutout tropes established long ago by the industry’s antiquated giants, to a more diverse set of creatives behind the camera, be it as screenwriters, directors, producers, and so much more. But we’re still not there yet. There’s still a long way to go, a lot of work to do, a lot to educate ourselves about. Which is why we’re beginning the film screenings of our first season with the theme of “Resistance”. To acknowledge the hardship, vicariously live through the fight, and celebrate the cinematic expression of what power, change, and revolution truly mean, and maybe change its meaning entirely. 🎞 🍿 Films featured in the post: • September 14: Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee, 2020) • September 21: Queen & Slim (Melina Matsoukas, 2019) • September 28: If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins, 2018) • October 5: 13th (Ava DuVernay, 2016)
Link in bio! New piece by Keya Shirali (@keyashirali) up on Medium! 🔪
Did you know that we also have an alternate logo designed by Jocelyn Wright (@jocelyn_wright789)? You’ll be seeing quite a bit of it too! This week, we’re launching another project for you cinephiles, so keep an eye out for that!
Link in bio! New piece by Keya Shirali (@keyashirali)! 👻
Link in bio! A new piece by Keya Shirali (@keyashirali) 🖊
❗️IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: If you, or someone you know, might be interested in the opportunity of volunteering for any of these positions, please contact Beatrice @bea.villadelgado soon!
{Article link in bio} NEW ORDER OF BUSINESS: We’re launching our own independent online publication on Medium (@medium)! Inspired by and modelled on the likes of IndieWire, Taste of Cinema, and more, we aspire to bring interesting, thought provoking, and downright entertaining pieces for you on a biweekly basis (that’s twice a week if you were wondering). Our first piece was written by Keya Shirali (@keyashirali) and is the first of many within a series we’re producing called Horror Stories - pieces that are all about the horror genre, scary movies, and whatever gives you cinematic chills down your spine. Do zombie movies reveal the ugliness of humankind? Can you actually learn anything about colonization or social media obsession from a zombie flick? Find out more and show us some love by clicking on the link in our bio to read this article!
For the first time in the history of this club’s existence, and in adapting with the nature of current times, all film choices for screenings this year will be curated as per their availability on video on-demand services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Kanopy, MUBI etc. Not willing to pay for too many services? Many of the ones we’ll suggest will either be free, or have trial periods where you can watch unlimited content free of cost for typically a month. Just cause we can’t all meet in person doesn’t mean we can’t have the shared experience of relishing in a well-made film, right? Keep an eye out for more. In the meantime, like our Facebook page too if you’d like (link in bio). 📽 💻🖥
In the past few years, and up until just a few months ago, the CFS team was made up of only three executive team members. Today, we’ve doubled that number to six executive core team members, and after much expanding and restructuring, our designated roles comprise of creative art direction, procurement, projects, logistics, production, finance, and so much more. Here are the faces of the people behind CFS today, and for the next few months to come. 🍿 📸 Featured in the image: @keyashirali @ashleybibbyy @bea.villadelgado @jocelyn_wright789 @stephhubert @faithinwander
Since we’re aspiring to restructure, rebuild, and reimagine CFS every single day, we’ve created a new logo to embrace change. We’re excited to launch an entirely new array of projects, events, and resources, and to build a fascinating community of film enthusiasts. 🎨 Logo design by @bea.villadelgado
OIN OUR AMAZON PRIME VIDEO WATCH PARTY FOR QUEEN & SLIM (2019) TOMORROW (SEPTEMBER 21) AT 4PM EST.
SWIPE FOR MORE DETAILS ON HOW TO JOIN! 👑 | Layout design by @keyashirali
We have now concluded the week of our very first Season 1: Resistance film “Da 5 Bloods” (Spike Lee, 2020)! Here are a few snippets from the conversations that took place during our Netflix Party screening. However, this is also a reminder that although this week is over, this conversation isn’t. We hope this week helped you to understand the gaps that film, history, and education have often created. Those faces, voices, and stories deserve to emerge as much as any other, perhaps arguably more so. The goal is to begin telling untold stories - and we’re just getting started! ⚡️
Layout design by @keyashirali
Here’s a recap of our experience with the first-ever virtual Expo Carleton! While we missed seeing you all in-person the way it’s been happening for years, we couldn’t be more grateful for how smoothly this process went. Swipe to see a breakdown of how our CEO Keya @keyashirali and our COO Ashley @ashleybibbyy organized it for you. Thank you for being there and for joining us on our journey! 🎥❤️
Layout design by @keyashirali
We get asked very often about how one can join the Carleton Film Society as a member. Well, it’s quite simple! All you need to do is follow any of our social media handles you can (swipe to see more on that) and you’ll get a regular stream of updates on upcoming screenings, events, activities, and opportunities. You can cherry pick the ones you want to partake in, and there’s no membership fee either!
Layout design by @bea.villadelgado
OIN OUR NETFLIX PARTY FOR THE VIRTUAL SCREENING OF DA 5 BLOODS (2020) TOMORROW (SEPT. 14) AT 5 PM EST!
SWIPE FOR MORE INFO ON HOW TO JOIN! 📺 | Layout design by @keyashirali
Film Files: New Classics Pt. 3 - La La Land (2016) [Director: Damien Chazelle] 🎶
Layout design by @stephhubert!
New Classics Pt. 2 | Knives Out (2019) directed by Rian Johnson | Layout design by @bea.villadelgado!
Remember Film Files? We’re back with a second segment titled “New Classics”! The first film covered in this mini movie handbook is Edgar Wright’s “Baby Driver” (2017)! 🚘
Layout design by @stephhubert!
The Charlatan (@charlatanlive) recently interviewed our CEO + CFO Keya Shirali (@keyashirali) and Head of Production + Logistics Beatrice Villadelgado (@bea.villadelgado).
We spoke about how we’re coping with the social isolation during these times using the lens of horror cinema and its parallels to real life.
Click the link in our bio to check out the entire article. Or, swipe to read excerpts. 🦠
Film Files: Hidden Gems Pt. 4 - The Apartment (1960) [Director: Billy Wilder] 🏡
Layout design by Beatrice Villadelgado (@bea.villadelgado)!
Film Files: Hidden Gems Pt. 3 - The Trial (1962) [Director: Orson Welles] 👨⚖️
Layout design by Ashley Bibby (@ashleybibbyy)!
Film Files: Hidden Gems Pt. 2 - Boy (2010) [Director: Taika Waititi] 👦🏽
Layout design by Ashley Bibby (@ashleybibbyy)!
While we were busy curating a list of films to add to our virtual screenings, we realized that we simply had too many to fit into the number of weeks we have in each semester. So we decided to do something with the fascinating films that didn’t make the cut to our final list - a project called “Film Files”! With Film Files, we will be exposing you to cinematic masterpieces that you can explore in your own time. To do that, we will be handing out the tools required to do so by creating a digital dossier - maybe a synopsis, casting, streaming platforms where the film is available, and more! We’re kicking this week off with our very first theme - “Hidden Gems” - with All That Jazz (1979) featured as the very first in a series of many. So keep an eye out for more incoming Film Files! 💎
Layout design by Keya Shirali (@keyashirali) 🖍
Meet our Chief Executive Officer (CEO) & Chief Finance Officer (CFO) - Keya Shirali (@keyashirali)! She is a third-year double major Communication and Media Studies & Film Studies student. Her responsibilities include overseeing and guiding the vision for all of the functions and operations of the club, including film production, club communications and media, logistics, projects, and more. She also manages budgeting and all financial or funding-related procedures, and ensures that the club’s goals are achieved efficiently. 🎟 📲 How you can connect with Keya: Instagram: @keyashirali Twitter: KeyaShirali Medium: Keya Shirali 🖍 Layout design by @faithinwander
Meet our Chief Operating Officer (COO) & Co-Chief Finance Officer (Co-CFO) - Ashley Bibby (@ashleybibbyy)! She is a third-year Criminology student with a minor in Film Studies. Her responsibilities include assisting the CEO in overseeing the various operations of the club, which involve financial and communications-related matters as well as club functions such as film productions, screenings, workshop, curation etc. 🍿 📲 How you can connect with Ashley: Instagram: @ashleybibbyy Letterboxd: Ashleybibby Twitter: Ashleybibby1 🖍 Layout design by @faithinwander
Meet our Creative Art Director - Iman Hersi (@faithinwander)! She is a fourth-year Communication and Media Studies student. Her responsibilities include graphic designing for projects, events, and publicity materials as well as handling the aesthetic aspects of the club’s communications. 🎞 📲 How you can connect with Iman: Instagram: @faithinwander 🖍 Layout design by @faithinwander
Meet our Head of Production and Projects - Stéphanie Hubert (@stephhubert)! She is a third-year double major Film Studies and Communication and Media Studies student. Her responsibilities include overseeing the execution of masterclasses, workshops, events, projects, activities, or ideas beyond weekly film screenings and the short film production. She also coordinates the film production aspects which include but are not limited to script selection, managing finances, allocating and overseeing appropriate roles (such as director, editor, screenwriter etc.), scheduling etc. 🎥 📲 How you can connect with Stéphanie: Instagram: @stephhubert + @visionofrepresentation YouTube: Stephanie Hubert Twitter: stphaniehubert Facebook Page: Vision of Representation 🖍 Layout design by @faithinwander
Meet our Head of Production and Logistics - Beatrice Villadelgado (@bea.villadelgado)! She is in her second year of majoring in Media Production and Design, and minoring in Film Studies. Her responsibilities include managing the administrative aspects of the club such as room bookings (in this case, virtual platforms 😄), inventorying cinematographic equipment, keyholding, recording meeting minutes etc. She also coordinates the film production aspects which include but are not limited to script selection, managing finances, allocating and overseeing appropriate roles (such as director, editor, screenwriter etc.), scheduling etc. 🎬 📲 How you can connect with Beatrice: Twitter: beatricemariev Instagram: @bea.villadelgado Letterboxd: BeatriceVillad YouTube: Beatrice Villadelgado 🖍 Layout design by @faithinwander
Meet our Head of Production and Procurement - Jocelyn Wright (@jocelyn_wright789)! She is a second-year Media Production and Design student. Her responsibilities include managing the sourcing, purchasing, and procurement of products or services required as resources for the club using the club’s budget. She also coordinates the film production aspects which include but are not limited to script selection, managing finances, allocating and overseeing appropriate roles (such as director, editor, screenwriter etc.), scheduling etc. 📽 📲 How you can connect with Jocelyn: Instagram: @jocelyn_wright789 🖍 Layout designed by @faithinwander