Just wrapped principal photography on “Path Without End,” a 10-minute poetic dance documentary about the Friday family, their resilience through residential school, and dance artist Christine Friday’s journey to reclaim her family’s power through dance. 

Film stills from filming at Friday’s Point on Lake Temagami
DP Sean Stiller (Secwepemc)






Continue reading ...

I know that I have updates to write and thank yous to post, and I promise I will do that in upcoming days (maybe more regular blog posts should be one of my New Year's resolutions). In the meantime, I wanted to share a short-short futuristic story that I wrote recently. I considered looking for a publishing home for it, but decided to simply share it on my blog instead. I hope you enjoy this new story for 2018...




Continue reading ...

Ecstasy crowdfunding campaign ends on Friday, November 10. You can get a copy of the film as one of the perks! Check out our IndieGoGo page: https://t.co/RaaWT0jojq


Continue reading ...

Continue reading ...

Introducing Heryka Miranda as "Marsha"


And Christine Friday as "Lori"


All biographies of collective members are available on the "Ecstasy" website: https://www.ecstasyfilm.ca/collective-page
Continue reading ...

Continue reading ...

Leaks May 29 2014 from Cara Mumford on Vimeo.

"Leaks (director's cut)" featuring Leanne Simpson and Minowe Simpson

A previously unreleased version of "Leaks" set to an early Garageband recording of "leaks" with Leanne Simpsons and Tara Williamson, featuring context from Leanne Simpson's public speaking on Anshinaabe Nationhood.

Continue reading ...

Avva's tells his story while the spirit of Little Avva watches © IsumaTV
Continue reading ...

Continue reading ...

Continue reading ...

Continue reading ...

Last Friday, I had the honour of speaking to Women's House Serving Bruce Grey County, in the traditional territory of the Saugeen Ojibway, for their International Women's Day Celebration. The international theme this year was The Gender Agenda: Gaining Momentum. My interpretation of that theme was that in order to build and maintain the momentum, we need to recognize that violence affects women of all cultures, but the form of that violence often differs. We need to listen to each other, to r...
Continue reading ...

As a Canadian who believes in democracy, I am beyond frustrated by Harper and his cronies running rough shod over our political system. When you have a majority government, you have a responsibility to govern for ALL of the people, not just the constituents who voted for you. But Harper's Conservatives apparently feel no such responsibility. As Elizabeth May said, "No previous Privy Council in the history of this country has ever equated an amendment to a bill between first reading and royal ...
Continue reading ...

Remembering Geneviève Bergeron, Hélène Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz, Maryse Laganière, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michèle Richard, Annie St-Arneault and Annie Turcotte. Remembering all of our Stolen Sisters. Thinking of all of the women still at risk. Working towards a world without violence...  


Continue reading ...

Okay, so I meant to post something much earlier about this, rather than waiting until the day after the festival started, but here's what I'm up to at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival

 

Wednesday, October 17: Pitch workshop from 9am-5pm 

Friday, October 19: Watch me pitch

Drama Queen! Pitch Competition at 11:30am (open to the public): http://imaginenative.org/festival2012/node/1996

Saturday, October 20: Two films and a panel

10:30am My film "When It Rains," part of the Stolen Sisters D...
Continue reading ...

I'm currently working on post-production for "When It Rains," my film for the Stolen Sisters Digital Initiative. I am honoured that the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival commissioned this film, and grateful to the Ontario Arts Council for funding, but I would not be able to complete this film without the generous support of Chris Krieger, Janice Krieger, Bob Mumford, Darmody Mumford and Andrea Wiwchar. So thank you all! (Production still featuring dancer Sandra Lamouche.)
Continue reading ...

Was just thinking how lucky I was this past weekend to work with people who had all three of those qualities. (You can watch and/or read Neil Gaiman's full commencement address on the University of the Arts website... and I highly recommend that you do!)
Continue reading ...

We filmed the Toronto portion of "When It Rains" this weekend in graffiti alley. I ended up with a great crew and will have some amazing footage! I also learned many lessons along the way, as with every film I make. The main lesson I learned on this one is to bring people on board earlier in the process, especially the Director of Photography. I wish I'd known Elisa Iannacone, my DP, back when I was grant writing for the film. Same thing with Production Manager Jeryn Daly. As it is, only Lead...
Continue reading ...

I recently read Sheri Candler's post about Using Pinterest as a tool for your film marketing, and was intrigued. Not that I need another networking site, but the idea that it's based on visuals was appealing since filmmaking is a visual medium. After checking out the site ever so briefly, I asked for, and received, my invitation to Pinterest and quickly started pinning. It's fun... and a little addictive!

While I have ended up setting up some boards reflecting my personal tastes (purple claw f...
Continue reading ...

Now that I’ve started a blog on this website (with weekly updates when my computer doesn't crash), I’ve decided to merge the blogspot blogs that I set up for each of my festival films with this one. I might eventually migrate some of the more pertinent posts over here, as well, but in the meantime…  

My short film, "December 6," will be screening at "Reflecting Lives: New Works from Aboriginal Women," a partnership between the Winnipeg Cinematheque, Urban Shaman Gallery and imagineNATIVE...
Continue reading ...

First blog post for Cara Mumford Films, as Cara Mumford Films! (Meaning as of January 2012, I’m officially incorporated as Cara Mumford Films Inc.) 

I just found out that I’ve been selected for the latest round of the Bell Media Diverse Screenwriters Program. Sufficiently big and exciting news to launch the new blog! (And I will try not to abuse the exclamation point when excited, but I can’t promise anything.)

The gist of this training program is to develop a new TV show concept, under t...
Continue reading ...