A film and media company featuring stories by BIWOC and immigrant filmmakers.
Worldtown
Joined May 2009
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✨We have a new poster✨
AWAY, TOGETHER - a This is Worldtown Film - available to view:
- this week via @thenorthface
+ panel Q&A on Oct. 22nd with @WUTIWORLD
- Until Oct. 24th @SFIndieFilmFest
(Winner Best New Mexico Narrative Short)
- Toronto @reelasian Nov. 12th-19th
This is Worldtown is re-launching as TIWT Films with a focus on documentary and scripted narrative work.
Keep an eye on this space for upcoming news about our latest productions.
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In MARCH we're celebrating the WOMEN of Canadian photography - in front and behind the lens. Image by @thisisworldtown 's @EliFARINANGO
Share your #photoedwomen images with us for a chance to WIN a copy of the new book of Dana Claxton's work, 'Dana Claxton: Fringing the cube
"As human beings, we are born into bodies that we did not choose. These bodies inherently carry histories and stereotypes that affect the way we are received, and thus... buzzfeednews.com/article/gab…
Check out the final piece from our #InvisibleLove series, "Still Life at Twelve in the Morning," a poem by @okay_oyin. ✨ thisisworldtown.com/invisibl… #wocvoices #poetry #womenofcolour #invisiblelove
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MEDIA RELEASE | CineFAM’s “Feature Film Incubator” driving
representation for Canadian women filmmakers of colour: mailchi.mp/cf051f2ee837/wome…
Next up in our #InvisibleLove series is "unlearning love," a poem by @AAtaullahjan. ✨Check it out! thisisworldtown.com/invisibl…
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I love @thisisworldtown and everything it is doing for women of colour in Toronto. Excited to be a part of their #invisiblelove series with my photo/video piece Post Memory.
Check out @MayaBasti's "Post-Memory" an audio-visual piece exploring inter-generational transmission of experience, part of our #InvisibleLove series. 🔮✨ thisisworldtown.com/invisibl…
Check out @MayaBasti's "Post-Memory" an audio-visual piece exploring inter-generational transmission of experience, part of our #InvisibleLove series. 🔮✨ thisisworldtown.com/invisibl…
Next up in our #InvisibleLove series is "When I Refuse You" a poem written by @fionarclarke. Check it out! thisisworldtown.com/invisibl… #wocvoices #womenofcolour #poetry #biwoc
Check out the beautiful artwork by Hafsa Khizer in her piece, "27" as part of our #InvisibleLove series. 🌸 thisisworldtown.com/invisibl… #photography #wocvoices #womenofcolour
Start your weekend with some poetry! Check out "Capes" written by @LizisaBeth, as part of our #InvisibleLove series. 💖 #wocvoices #biwoc #womenofcolour #poetry thisisworldtown.com/invisibl…
Next up in the #InvisibleLove series is "burnt-butter skin," a poem by @sabrinaids ✨ Check it out: bit.ly/2BmP6hk
We're back with a new series of visual and written works by women of colour artists reflecting on the theme of "Invisible Love." 💖🔮✨ Check out the first in the series, "Espejo" written and directed by Shireen Alihaji. thisisworldtown.com/invisibl…
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Thx so much to @thisisworldtown
for collaborating with me to cover this year’s #ReelIdeas Conference at @reelasian <3 We need to boost each other’s work to ensure that young creatives are given as many opportunities as possible to learn & be nurtured! thisisworldtown.com/reelasia…
CYMI: We attended @reelasian's Reel Ideas Conference a few weeks back and shared the tips and tricks we learned from industry professionals in our latest post. Check it out! #reelideas #reelasian22 thisisworldtown.com/reelasia…
"I want people to know that as an artist, I want to bring certain stories to life and I intend to do so through visual narrative. There are stories that need to be told, there are conversations that need to happen, and there... thisisworldtown.com/the-laye…
“It’s important to remember that whatever women have suffered at the hands of a predominantly white and male photography corps, there is perhaps no group more robbed of their own narrative than women of colour.” huckmag.com/art-and-culture/…
ICYMI: We presented at PhotoEd Magazine's #PechaKucha Event a few weeks ago with #BehindtheDust mediamakers Aleia Robinson-Ada, Samah Ali and Eli Farinango. Check it out here: youtube.com/watch?time_conti… youtube.com/watch?time_conti…