2025 International Journalism Film Festival

The 2025 festival is tentatively scheduled for sometime in autumn.
If you'd like updates about the festival, email [email protected] with FILM FEST in the subject line.

2024 International Journalism Film Festival

In 2024, we went international with screenings in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and Sydney, Australia.

Because the theme for UN World Press Freedom Day 2024 was "A Press for the Planet: Journalism in the face of the Environmental Crisis," we screened films focused on environmental reporting that also carried elements of press freedom.

In WATERLOO we screened the documentary Killer Water: The toxic legacy of Canada's oil sands industry for Indigenous communities. Followed by media panel discussion. Read the advance news story in the Waterloo Region Record or listen to the radio interview with Craig Norris on CBC-KW or the radio interview on the Mike Farwell Show (segment starts at 51:04).
  • 1-4 p.m. (EDT) Sunday, April 28, 2024
  • Princess Twin Cinemas, 46 King St. N., Waterloo, Ont., N2J 2W8
The film is a documentary by Brandi Morin and Geordie Day produced in partnership with The Real News Network, IndigiNews and Ricochet Media. Morin, an award-winning Indigenous journalist, was recently arrested by police and charged (later dropped) while covering the eviction of an encampment of people experiencing homelessness in Edmonton, Alberta.
The film was be followed by a panel discussion with:
In SYDNEY, students at Macquarie University will be screening Under the Dome. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion.
  • 6-8:30 p.m. (AEST) Monday, May 6, 2024
  • Macquarie University, 10 Hadenfeld Ave., Macquarie Park, NSW 2109, Australia
The 2015 documentary film, by former television journalist Chai Jing, explores air pollution in China. The film has been  banned by authorities in China.
Panel discussion with:
  • Bill Code, documentary filmmaker specializing in environmental and social justice films.
  • Kara Ortiga, PhD candidate, press freedom in the Philippines.
  • Fahimah Badrulhisham, Australian Religious Response to Climate Change.
  • Lesley Hughes, emeritus professor, Macquarie University, and member of the Climate Science and Knowledge Management Experts Panel, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Government of Australia.
Guests will have the opportunity to have a meaningful conversation on the difficulties and significance of press freedom in the modern world.
2023 The Journalism Film Festival
During the 2023 Journalism Film Festival in Kitchener, Ont., Canada, we screened four great films: Writing with Fire;
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot; All the President's Men; and Network.

Check out the media coverage on:
Staging this festival is just one of the ways that we, at ink-stainedwretches.org, are building a culture of appreciation for local journalism.