The McGill International Cellphilm Festival
The McGill International Cellphilm Festival is a project of the Institute for Human Development and Well-being and the Participatory Cultures Lab (PCL), a Canada Foundation Innovation-funded unit led by Claudia Mitchell in the Faculty of Education, McGill University.
The establishment of the Cellphilm Festival in 2013 comes out of the growing use of cellphones around the world, the burgeoning work in the area of participatory visual methodologies (PVM) in community-based research, and the role of cellphilm methodology within PVM. Cellphilming is a burgeoning artistic method of expression that emerged from years of experience of social science educators engaged in activism.
Previous festivals
- 11th edition (2023): If you had one minute to change the world, what would you say?
- 10th edition (2022): Re-imagining
- 9th edition (2021): Transformation
- 8th edition (2020): Well-being in the Time of Social Distancing
- 7th edition (2019): Picturing Change
- 6th edition (2018): Making community; Action, Activism, Advocacy, Art
- 5th edition (2017): Resisting & Speaking Back
- 4th edition (2016): Exploring Consent: Bodies, Lands, & Media
- 3rd edition (2015): What's a Cellphilm? DIY in the Digital Media Age
- 2nd edition (2014): Our Spaces, Our Selves.
- 1st edition (2013): Bridging Communities
