Thanks to everyone for making our screenings such a huge success. If you want to find out information about future events, you can now follow us on our brand new Twitter account: @m60mtl.

M60 is upon us! Our 2011 screenings have finally arrived, this Friday and Saturday. All the information is on our screenings page. This year the festival will be held at the gorgeous, historic Rialto Theatre.

Tons of tickets will be available at the door, for just $8. Please arrive at 7:30 pm on screening nights.

This year’s M60 filmmakers include:
Andre Fry, Anna McGarrigle, Asa Lacourciere, Ben Lambert, Benedict Moran & Marie-Marguerite Sabongui & Shamil Lallani, Carly Harasymchuk, Dan Beirne with Marc Rowland, Dane Lanken, David Eng & Katarina Soukup, Edmund Nash & Caroline Gauthier & Gervais Nash, Flock of Nerds, France Suerich-Gulick, Fred Casia, George Jovanovich, Gil
Browdy, H.W. Martin, Isis Gumbs & Raigni Uqaituk, Jean-Claude Leblanc, Jimmy Hayes & Kieran Crilly, Joel Bernstein, John F Weldon, John Fretz, Joshua Budman & Rob Corti, Kelly Kincaid, Kes Tagney, Kevin Cheung & Liem Duong & Thomas Harper, Kevin Newcomen, Kiera Pannell, Kinloch Anstiss, Laura Knogler & Joel Ryan & Mathieu Simard, Léa
Rondot, Leia Abraham & Michael Gozzo, Leila and Mallory Bridgeman, Lindsay Michael, Loren Williams, Lorne Budman, Louise Callier & Juan Frank Hernandez, Luc Deschenes, Magdalena Szymanska, Margaret Griffin, Mariana Vial, Mark Schwartz, Martin Reisch & Lara Kaluza, Mary Perchanok & Greg Bailey, Maryse Boyce, Mathieu Renart Normant, Matt Keyes, Matthew Forbes, Maya Fuhr, Michael Pedruski, Natasha St-Jean & Deborah Hayek, Rebecca Lessard & Chrissy Durcak, Renee Tousignant & Katia Marcovecchio, Rhea Katharine Nelken, Ronit Milo & Alex Weldon, Ryan Swirsky, Sean Michaels, Shereen Soliman, Sophie Brauer & Madleena Larivaara, Stéphanie Leest, Vanessa Bonneau, Vinna Laudico & Jean-Olivier Begin, What the RELM Were You Thinking Video, Yasser
Fadili, Zach “the tornado” Mitro and/et Ziyang Yip.

We hope to see you there!

The Montreal 60 Second Film Festival presents CHANCE, Friday, September 16 and Saturday, September 17 at the Théâtre Rialto (5723 avenue du Parc) at 7:30 pm.
After years of sold-out screenings at La Sala Rossa and Cinéma du Parc, we are finally coming to Mile End’s magnificent movie palace – the Rialto, built in 1923. We look forward to showing M60 2011′s rollercoaster line-up of more than 70 original films on the theme of CHANCE (September 16 and 17 screenings are identical) in this gorgeous milieu, before a packed & cheering crowd.
Tickets are $8.

Untitled from m60 on Vimeo.

As part of our launch party, m60 commissioned local Montréal board game fanatic Ramsay Jackson to create a board game which would embrace our chosen theme for 2011 of Chance. He came up with a simple and fun a dice-rolling game we called Mont-Royal. The object of the game is for each player to get to more Mont-Royal landmarks than their opponents.

People who came to our launch party received a free copy in a hand-painted envelope, but we’re putting it up here for people to download, print and play for free.

Downloads

The Board – PDF
The Rules – PDF

Also Needs

• 4 Regular 6-sided dice
• 11 small tokens of one type per player (pennies, buttons, etc.)

Whew! A huge thanks to everyone who turned up to our 2011 launch and registration party (Casa del Popolo, July 13th 2011) and to our contributors that made the night a huge success : the bands (Ariel Engle and Wind-Up People), the improvisors (Mark Rowland, Etan Muskat and Dan Beirne), the volunteers, the raffle sponsors (Blue Skies Turn Black, Festival de films international Fantasia, Phonopolis, Restaurant Lawrence, Dépanneur Le Pick Up, Julie Lequin, Matt Forsythe, Lily Lanken, Elaine Ho and The BluRay Blog), the croupier (Al Weldon), the designer of our board game (Ramsay Jackson), and last but not least, the filmmakers and attendees.

2011’s theme: CHANCE

Deadline to submit your 60 second film: August 14th, 2011.

Those making a film can find out more information on our ‘Make a Film‘ webpage, including technical guidelines and how to upload your films.

We’re extremely proud to be able to show this year’s films at the beautiful Rialto Theatre on September 16 and 17th 2011. We’re all excited to see what you guys come up with!

For the first time, M60 is organizing a raffle for its launch and registration party (Wednesday, July 13th at Casa del Popolo at 8:30 PM)!

Our generous friends & friends of friends have graciously donated some delicious, entertaining excellent and beautiful gifts, including:

• concert tickets from Montréal indie concert promoter Blue Skies Turn Black

• film tickets from Fantasia International Film Festiva (July 14-Aug 7) + program guides

• Phonopolis gift certificate

• Lawrence Restaurant gift certificate

• Dépanneur Le Pick Up gift certificate

• artwork by artist Julie Lequin
• artwork by Matt Forsythe
• original ceramic artwork by our very own Lily Lanken

A big thank you to all our raffle-providers!

M60 2011 (the 4th edition) is on its way. True to very successful form, we’ll start with a launch party at Casa del Popolo (4873 boul. St-Laurent) on Wednesday July 13th. This is where you filmmakers must register to make a sixty second masterpiece on the theme we’ll announce that night.
The M60 launch is always a good time, with door prizes, live entertainment, and many surprises… so come on down to meet the fun train, who knows what could happen?

Howdy M60′ers.. we want to thank all this year’s filmmakers and screening attendees, friends and families, supportive partners, coaches, elementary school teachers who truly believed in your creative capacities…  This third edition of the annual Montreal 60 Second Film Festival was a smashing success, with a record number of films, a chance to see those submissions screened in a proper Cinéma, and rave reviews from public and press.
We want, of course, to encourage you to spread the word and invite people to participate in the fourth edition, M60 2011, launching with the expected blast next summer.  They say species that live in isolation eventually can’t survive the harsh realities of the outside world, so let’s work through the cold, cold winter to continue to diversify our gene pool …quiet on the set… Action!
Take care, and please keep in touch via this site and the M60 Filmmakers Facebook page. Questions for you: What was great? What can we do better? We’re always working to improve M60, and we’d love your feedback.

Friday night’s screening was terrific – we sold out Cinema du Parc’s largest room! Merci à tout le monde!

Lots of tickets will be available at the door for Friday and Saturday’s Sala Rossa screenings. But please come early as we could sell out. Tickets/doors open at 8pm.

If you’re at home with a TV, look out for Sean on Téléjournal tonight, around 18h30.