Cinema Candiana

Cinema Canadiana is a online project to aid with the exploration of Canada's moving picture wilderness. Our goal is to provide independent Canadian filmmakers with a platform to reach audiences directly. Art should not need to pass a profit test to be considered worthwhile, and we hope to assist independent Canadian media artists in showing Canada – and the world – what we're capable of. Part of our mission is to use past projects to support the present ones being released. The site endeavours to be inclusive rather than exclusive to Canadians by proving additional online space to all genres and formats of Canadian media arts, supporting organizations from all corners of the country. This site aims to help give a voice to the independent filmmakers of our nation by providing free online space for user-driven content, thus allowing for a diversity of voices to emerge. Beyond being a crowdsourced site with a user-driven experience that promotes Canadian content, Cinema Canadiana's design philosophy is two-fold. First, to utilize our website to drive users to other areas of the Internet that highlight the content created around these projects (official sites, places to see the work, reviews, interviews, etc.). Secondly, we provide a forum to encourage dialogue in order to advance the knowledge and exchange of ideas, thus improving the capacity to appreciate the works. Cinema Canadiana is volunteer run organization.