Distribution News: June 2026
Several works from the VP Catalogue are screening at >>imagineNATIVE this June!
- Midnight Migrations: Wëdzey Tąy (Caribou Trails) by Darcy Tara McDiarmid and Chantal Rousseau
- Endless Sunlight by Tyson Houseman
- HOST by Zachery Cameron Longboy
>>imagineNATIVE runs in person in Toronto from June 2nd-7th and online from June 8th-14th.
Rainbow Visions Film Festival in Edmonton is screening Finger in The Dyke: The Films of Shawna Dempsey & Lorri Millan, a retrospective presented in partnership with Queer Dive Archive. Taking place on June 19th at Metro Cinema, the screening will include:
- A Day in The Life of a Bull Dyke
- Lesbian National Parks and Services
- We’re Talking Vulva
- What Does A Lesbian Look Like?
- Good Citizen: Betty Baker
- Plus: special guest speakers & other surprises!
Click here for tickets and for more information on the retrospective
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival screened:
- Endless Sunlight by Tyson Houseman in the What We Do is Secret program
- Like a Tongue Knows the Mouth by Laura Ohio, preceding feature film Tycoon by Charolette Zhang
Inside Out: The 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival screened The Fruit Machine: A Space Opera by Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan as part of the shorts program High School Confidential on May 22 at TIFF Lightbox in Toronto.
"First crushes, history lessons, bold moves, and K-Pop—this collection of shorts by and about youth captures the energy, curiosity, and chaos of growing up. What do you need to bring? Just an open mind and a youthful heart."
Click for more information on the program
Montreal Underground film fest screened several works int the VP catalogue at their 20th annual festival:
- Handsome Devil by Daniel Barrow
- a beaten path by Natalie Baird and Toby Gillies
- peripheral vision by b.g-osborne
- nocturne by Zoë LeBrun
"MUFF celebrates low-budget filmmaking and promotes those who challenge the constraints and conventions of mainstream Hollywood. Co-founded by Karina Mariano and Zoë Brown, MUFF has morphed into a collective of independent filmmakers, writers, teachers and cinephiles committed to seeking out edgy films bristling with a sense of creative freedom, energy and experimentation."
Zoë LeBrun's nocturne received a jury prize at Montreal Underground Film Festival! nocturne debuted at Temporal Landscapes in Winnipeg as a part of VPMAC's Video Commission Residency, a "residency / artwork commission focused on experimental, single-channel video artworks."
"The abyss of lossy visuals we're gently asked to surrender to was both inviting and foreboding; the work felt like it was being delivered by a surveillance camera from another dimension monitoring a shimmering petri dish full of mysterious time-lapse disintegrating portals, pixels, fractals, and static."
- Rick Trembles, MUFF Jurer
Congrats to LeBrun and all of the Jury Prize winners for 2026!
Click for more information on MUFF's 2026 Jury Prize winners
If you're interested in inquiring about bringing your work into our catalogue please contact madeline@videopool.org