The Alberta Film Commission is pleased to announce a special partnership with ShowCanada 2026, produced by the Movie Theatre Association of Canada (MTAC).
Celebrating its 40th anniversary, ShowCanada brings together film exhibition and distribution professionals from across Canada and the United States for three days of screenings, presentations, and networking in Banff, May 19–21, 2026.
Much of the work that sustains everyday life happens quietly, without much recognition.
Calgary-based artist and cultural practitioner Rolando Jr. Montemayor Pepano, listed with Calgary Arts Development and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, recently shared a reflection on frontline care work through the Calgary Herald. The piece was later featured across Yahoo News Canada, MSN, and Google News.
Application Deadline May 27, 2026}
Program Dates Nov 23, 2026 - Dec 04, 2026
Working with institutional, personal, fictional and/or speculative archives, participants are invited to think critically about the archive as a method or 'technology' for re-storying social and cultural narratives. Themes may include, but are not limited to: familial/ancestral lineages and cultural inheritance, oral histories, micro-histories, absence, amnesia, re-memory.
Curating While Black is a residency and embedded symposia intended for Black curators interested in moving forward an individual research project in tandem with participation in group discussions and learning opportunities amongst the cohort and with program faculty.
