Winnipeg Film Group -- Gimme Some Truth Film Festival

Overview

The Winnipeg Film Group's Gimme Some Truth Film Festival is Manitoba's most important independent film festival. Founded in 2001 by the Winnipeg Film Group -- one of Canada's oldest and most important artist-run film centers, founded in 1974 -- the festival presents adventurous international and Canadian cinema with a commitment to socially engaged and formally innovative filmmaking.

Winnipeg's identity as Canada's most distinctive prairie city -- with a large Indigenous population (the highest percentage of any major Canadian city), a rich history of labor movements and social justice organizing, and a thriving arts community -- gives the festival a particular resonance for socially engaged cinema.

The Winnipeg Film Group's decades of supporting independent filmmakers creates a community context where the festival is embedded in a living film culture rather than operating as an isolated annual event.

Key Sections

• International Competition -- socially engaged and formally adventurous films
• Canadian Film Program -- new Canadian features and shorts
• Manitoba Film -- films by Manitoba-based filmmakers
• Indigenous Film Program -- films by Indigenous Canadian filmmakers
• Documentary Program -- nonfiction features

What Filmmakers Should Know

The festival accepts open submissions. For Manitoba and prairie Canadian filmmakers, this is the most important regional platform. The Indigenous film program creates specific programming context within Canada's most Indigenous urban center.

Major Awards

• Best Film -- jury prize
• Best Canadian Film
• Audience Award

Festival History

The festival was founded in 2001 by the Winnipeg Film Group, which has been supporting Canadian independent cinema since 1974.

See Also

For Canadian cinema, see International Film Markets. For Indigenous filmmaking, see imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival.