About us
Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society is a non-profit Artist-Run Centre, supporting independent filmmakers, media artists and arts audiences through facilities and initiatives encompassing production, exhibition, consultation, outreach and advocacy.
Through programs that foster experimentation with motion-picture arts, in dialogue with their historic, current and future cultural contexts, we engage our membership and wider communities in the investigative, expressive and transformative powers of the moving image.
In addition to our main offices, production studio, edit suites and equipment rental store off Howe Street in Vancouver's Downtown core, Cineworks runs an analogue film centre in the city's Downtown East Side. This facility features an extensively equipped darkroom and studio with equipment for machine and hand processing.
Cineworks was incorporated as a non-profit society in 1980, and in 1983 was recognized as a charitable organization by Revenue Canada. We gratefully acknowledge and pay respect to the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations on whose unceded traditional territories our organization and our work is based. We also gratefully acknowledge the support of Canada Council for the Arts, British Columbia Arts Council, The Province of British Columbia and the City of Vancouver.
Accessibility: Our Cineworks Analog Centre, located at 312 Main is wheelchair accessible and offers a full range of analog filmmaking equipment & facilities (including 2 darkrooms) focused on creating, producing, presenting & mentoring analog film practices that include celluloid cine film processing. Our Howe Street production and exhibition studio is wheelchair accessible and has a universal fully accessible all gender washroom (thank you to funding from the City of Vancouver) – please contact admin@cineworks.ca or 604 685 3841 with questions or concerns as to how we can meet your needs.
Our Mandate
To provide the facilities for production and post-production in order to maximise creative human employment potential in the relief of poverty.
To assist in the production, distribution, and exhibition of independent non-commercial films having educational and cultural benefit to the community.
To assist and facilitate public participation in the development of Canadian cultural policy, through the processes of discussion, research, and submissions.
To support and arrange public exhibitions and publicly accessible workshops aimed at increasing film awareness and knowledge.
To encourage the growth of film analysis.
To liaise and work with local, provincial, and national organisations and societies in furtherance of the above purposes.
To do everything necessary to attain the foregoing purposes and to reassess and reassert our purposes as necessary.
Our Sponsors
Cineworks gratefully acknowledges the ongoing financial support of our major funders:
Community Sponsors
