Are you an independent filmmaker with a unique creative voice? Mirror Mountain Film Festival is searching for the most groundbreaking, outrageous, personal, innovative, audacious and original films out there, so submit your work to us! We are officially open for submissions on February 21st, and we want to see your drama, comedy, sci-fi, horror, fantasy, documentary, animation, experimental, music video, dance film, interactive media and more! Shorts, medium-length films and features in all genres are welcome.
Visit our YouTube page, where you can now watch all 6 of our live-streamed Q&A sessions with the directors from our 2021 festival! These talented filmmakers joined us for a series of engaging and illuminating discussions on a diverse array of topics, available now online in full.
Tickets and passes for Mirror Mountain Film Festival are on sale now!
Passes let you access all of this year’s film programming from July 24 – 25. Have the entire 2021 lineup at your fingertips!
If you’re just looking to watch an individual program or a single screening block, then tickets are the option for you! Tickets grant access to one program only from July 24 – 25.
All the best in independent and alternative cinema is here, from surreal animation to groundbreaking dramas to quirky documentaries from around the world. Pre-order passes now at mirrormountain.vhx.tvand have the entire lineup right at your fingertips this July 24 – 25! It’s more than a festival – it’s a state of mind.
Experience original films from the world’s most unique creative minds at Mirror Mountain Film Festival. Showcasing the best in groundbreaking independent drama, documentary, animation, live performance and interactive media. Access this year’s virtual festival online from anywhere in the world this July 24 – 25. See the full lineup of events here.
Mirror Mountain Film Festival is thrilled to announce the lineup for our 2021 live music + film performance. This year’s immersive multi-media extravaganza will be performed by Ottawa singer-songwriter Kimberly Sunstrum, with live cinematic visuals created in real time by local filmmaker Hingman Leung.
MMFF will be showcasing this unique experience as a live-streamed virtual event on Saturday, July 24th at 7pm. The performance is proudly co-presented with Girls+ Rock Ottawa.
Unravelling and expressing the individual strands of experience, emotions, and energy that makes up our whole selves, Kimberly Sunstrum and Hingman Leung invite you into the sounds and visuals of their inner worlds. The interaction of music and moving images takes you on a journey spanning three periods of self discovery: honouring heritage, exposing present, and looking hopefully to the future. For this collaboration, Sunstrum will be performing new and fresh music that speaks to the self and identity, while Leung unfolds this story through the use of intricate animation projections.
Kimberly Sunstrum (she/they) is a queer, Motswana Canadian musician, singer-songwriter and producer based in Ottawa. Blending profound vocals with heartfelt lyrics, Sunstrum’s music delves into topics that are reflections of her life. Constant themes in her songs range from race, family and feminism to queerness and the ways these multidimensional identities influence how we navigate the world. Kimberly Sunstrum writes about the world as they see it with an eloquent poetry and grace.
Hingman Leung (she/her) is an independent filmmaker based in Ottawa. Having immigrated to Canada from Hong Kong at age 10, her work tends to explore hyphenated identities and spaces in-between. Her early film work includes No Doggy Bag Please, a 2015 short documentary about food waste in China which received the Public Ethnography Award from Royal Roads University and screened internationally. Since dipping into narrative filmmaking in 2018, she has continued to build on her storytelling craft and finding her voice as a director. In 2021, her experimental genre-bending short film Curbside Pickup was officially selected to multiple Canadian film festivals, including Inside Out Toronto.
Visit our website again for updates on our full slate of 2021 programming, including this year’s film selections and a schedule of events, coming soon!
Special offer! Get 25% off film submissions to Mirror Mountain Film Festival for a limited time. Use the discount code ENTERTHEMIRRORMOUNTAIN on FilmFreeway and save! Now accepting indie drama, comedy, sci-fi, horror, fantasy, documentary, animation, experimental, music videos, dance films and more! Offer expires June 7th 2021.
Missed our earlybird and regular deadlines? Not to worry! You can still submit your films up until our final deadline on Monday, June 7th 2021. Mirror Mountain Film Festival is currently accepting drama, documentary, animation, experimental, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, dance, music videos and more for our upcoming 5th edition, happening this July 24 – 25! Shorts, medium-length and feature films are all welcome. Visit our Submissions page for more info.
Are you an independent filmmaker with a unique creative vision? Mirror Mountain Film Festival’s regular submissions deadline is coming up on Monday March 29th. We’re looking for innovative, groundbreaking and unconventional films in every genre and style, including drama, documentary, animation, experimental, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, dance and music videos, so submit your work today! For more info, visit our Submissions page.
Mirror Mountain’s call for live performance proposals is open now until March 15th! Be a part of one of the annual highlights of the festival. Submissions welcome from filmmakers and musicians from the Ottawa-Gatineau region and beyond. For more information, visit the Call for Proposals page.
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