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Do you ever think to yourself that a film festival seems like a grueling, exhausting, and never-ending blur of days and weeks? Great news! There’s a one-day film festival in town!

Octavia Films is a new, Toronto-based non-profit organization that aims to provide resources and education to young, emerging female filmmakers. As part of that mission, they’re presenting the inaugural Breakthroughs Film Festival, a one-day screening of short films by emerging female filmmakers from Toronto and Canada. The event is an evening one, so clear your calendars from 7:30 to 11:00 pm on June 23, 2012, and present yourselves at the Projection Booth for a night of new and exciting films by talented women.

The panel of judges includes Ingrid Veninger (actress, director, and producer), Alexandra Anderson (documentary filmmaker & Chair of the School of Image Arts, Ryerson University), and Linda Barnard (film critic for The Toronto Star).   A Q&A/panel discussion with the filmmakers will follows the screenings. Tickets are $15; visit the Octavia Films website for more info.

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Jovana Jankovic

Jovana is a critic, cultural worker, and student of media aesthetics. Her writing has appeared in Afterimage, C Magazine, and the Canadian Journal of Film Studies, among other publications. In addition to cinema, her interests include cheese, wine, etymology, tennis, celebrity gossip, and the politics of representation.

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