and its name is - shockingly! – Film POP.

Now entering its tenth year in 2011, the festival aims to present new independent cinema and its unsung cinematic forbearers in a variety of unconventional venues and contexts throughout Montreal. Film POP is all about busting out of the rusty old film festival cage, and finding fun new ways to present movies, with a particular predilection for the musical. It's "where movies and music make out in the dark," as the old saying goes.

Film POP runs alongside and within the POP Montreal International Music Festival for the full five days of the festival, from September 21-25, 2011. In addition to premieres of new music-related features, we will also be showcasing short films, slideshows, repertory curated packages and more.

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Film POP is:

Curator: Kier-La Janisse
Producer: Patricia Boushel
And many incredible POP Montreal co-crew and so many amazing Film POP volunteers!

About this year's curator:

Kier-La Janisse is a writer and film programmer who co-founded the Blue Sunshine Psychotronic Film Centre and The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, and currently works for the Fantasia Film Festival as editor of their online magazine, Spectacular Optical. She has been a programmer for the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Austin, Texas, founded the CineMuerte Horror Film Festival and the Big Smash! Music-on-Film Festival (both in Vancouver) and was the subject of the documentary Celluloid Horror (2005). She has written for Filmmaker, Rue Morgue and Fangoria magazines, has contributed to The Scarecrow Movie Guide (Sasquatch Books, 2004) and Destroy All Movies!! The History of Punk on Film (Fantagraphics, 2010), and is the author of A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi, published by FAB Press in 2007. Ms. Janisse recently completed a new book about female neurosis in horror and exploitation films entitled House of Psychotic Women, due out from FAB Press in late 2011. Also, Willis from Diff'rent Strokes told her she had a "righteous booty".

IMPORTANT EVENTS

2010
World premiere of Feist documentary, Look At What the Light Did Now, dir. Anthony Seck
Montréal premiere of the No Fun City documentary, dir. Melissa James and Kate Kroll
Private home viewings of Takeaway Shows, dir. Vincent Moon
Rooftop viewing of Up The Yangtzee documentary, dir. Yung Chang

2009
Montréal premiere of It Might Get Loud, dir. David Guggenheim
Canadian premiere of BQE by Sufjan Stevens
A conversation with Vincent Moon

2008
Canadian premiere of Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
Double Negative Collective performance
Jem Cohen Master Class with the NFB

2007
Albert Maysles Master Class
Besnard Lakes live soundtrack to Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome

2006
Premiere of Making Music with the NFB initiative
Gary Lucas performs The Golem
Canadian Premiere of Roky Erikson: You’re Gonna Miss Me

2005
Billy Childish is Dead
Ron English’s Popaganda

2004
Inaugural year of loft screenings of music film classics