Aaron Zeghers // Winnipeg, MB // aaron.zeghers AT gmail DOT com

Education
2008 Diploma in Creative Communications, RRC Polytech
2009 Degree in Communications, University of Winnipeg
2025 Teaching for Learning certificate (in-progress), RRC Polytech

Work Experience
Instructor, RRC Polytech, Digital Film & Media Production (2021 – Present)
Executive Director, Gimli International Film Festival (2017 – 2021)
Co-Owner/Operator, Collective Broadcast Co. (2020 – Present)
Senior Film Programmer, Gimli International Film Festival (2013 – 2017)
Independent Artists Programs Manager, Creative Manitoba (2014 – 2017)
Production Assistant, Winnipeg Film Group (2009 – 2013)

Filmography
A Tolerable Planet | Documentary Feature | 16mm | 90min | 2026
> 2026 release pending

Possible Worlds | Experimental Documentary Feature | 16mm + Video | 70min | 2025
> 2025 release pending

My Friend Jim | Short Doc | Video | 11min | 2021
> 2022 Lausanne Underground Film Festival | Lausanne, Switzerland
> 2023 Gimli International Film Festival | Gimli, MB
> 2022 DOXA Documentary Film Festival | Vancouver, BC
> 2022 Meta Forte | Venice, Italy
> 2021 Gimme Some Truth Doc Fest | Winnipeg, Canada
*winner of Best Short Film, Gimme 10 in 30 Competition

Memoirs | Short Experimental Doc | 16mm | 10min | 2019
> 2019 Vancouver International Film Festival | Canada
> 2019 Festival du nouveau cinéma | Montreal, Canada
> 2020 Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI)
> 2020 Ann Arbor Film Festival | Ann Arbor, MI, USA
> 2020 Onion City Film Festival | Chicago, IL, USA
> 2020 Chicago Underground Film Festival | Chicago, IL, USA
> 2020 Available Light Film Festival | Whitehorse, YK, Canada
> 2020 RPM Film Festival | Boston, MA, USA
> 2020 Cosmic Rays Film Festival | Chapel Hill, NC, USA
> 2020 That One Film Festival | Muncie, IN, USA
> 2020 Visions | Montreal, QC, CA
> 2020 Bogotá Experimental Film Festival
> 2019 Gimme Some Truth Doc Fest | Winnipeg, MB

DANNY | Doc | Found Footage | VHS-C | 50min | 2019
> 2019 Sheffield Doc/Fest | Sheffield, UK
> 2019 Vancouver International Film Festival | Canada
> 2019 Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI)
*winner, “Best Feature Film Award” in the Avant-Garde & Genre Competition
> 2020 European Media Arts Festival | Osnabrück, Germany
> 2020 VIDEONALE.scope #8 | Köln, Germany
> 2020 Available Light Film Festival | Whitehorse, YK, Canada
> 2019 Eastern Oregon Film Festival | La Grande, Oregon
> 2019 WNDX Festival of Moving Image | Winnipeg, Canada
> 2019 Transcinema International Film Festival | Lima, Peru
> 2019 Cámara Lúcida Encuentros Cinematográficos | Cuenca, Ecuador
> 2019 Bogotá International Documentary film Festival - MIDBO | Bogotá, Columbia

Everything Turns… | Short Experimental | 12min | Super 8 | 2017
* = performed live
> 2017 International Film Festival Rotterdam | Rotterdam, NL *
> 2017 Ann Arbor Film Festival | Ann Arbor, MI
> 2017 DOXA Documentary Film Fest | Vancouver, CA *
> 2016 Festival du nouvea cinéma | Montreal, CA
> 2017 $100 Film Festival | Calgary, CA
-Winner of “Best Super 8 Film” Award
> 2017 Unforeseen Intl. Exp. Film Fest | Beograd, Serbia
-Winner of “Grand Prix” Award
> 2020 Artifact Film Festival | Calgary, Canada*
> 2019 Pleasure Dome screening | Toronto, ON*
> 2017 WNDX Festival of Moving Image | Winnipeg, MB *
> 2017 Athens Film & Video Festival | Athens, USA
> 2017 Lausanne Underground Film Fest | Lausanne, Switzerland
> 2017 South Texas U.F.F. | Corpus Christie, Texas, USA
> 2017 Transient Visions | Johnson City, NY, USA
> 2017 San Diego Underground Film Festival | San Diego, USA *
> 2017 Analogica | Barcelona, ES
> 2017 Analogica Selection | ATA Gallery | San Francisco, US
> 2017 Festival of Cinematic, Audio & Visual Experimentation | Minneapolis, USA *
> 2017 Hamburg Intl. Short Film Fest | Hamburg, DE
> 2017 Festival Images Contre Nature | Marseille, FR
> 2017 Curtocircuíto International Film Festival | Santiago de Compostela, ES
> 2017 Microscope Gallery screening | Brooklyn, NY *
> 2017 Festival IVAHM | Madrid, ES
> 2017 Festival Mondial des Cinémas Sauvages | Bruxelles, BE
> 2017 Moviate Film Festival | Harrisburg, PA
> 2017 Dawson City Short Film Fest | Dawson City, CA
> 2017 FRACTO Festival | Berlin, DE
> 2017 Best of the $100 Film Festival at Cineworks | Vancouver, CA
> 2017 Short Circuit | Brighton, UK
> 2017 Video! Video! Zine | Chicago, IL
> 2017 Spectral Microcinema | Stevens Point, WI
> 2016 Antimatter [media art] | Victoria, CA
> 2016 Nightengale Theatre screening | Chicago, USA
> 2016 Microlights Cinema screening | Milwaukee, USA
> 2016 Cellular Cinema screening | Minneapolis, USA
> 2016 8 Fest Fundraiser screening | Toronto, CA

Holland, Man. | Short Doc | Colour | 16mm, Super8, Digital | Oct 2015
* = performed live
> 2015 Festival du nouveau cinema | Montreal, QC
> 2016 DOXA Film Fest | Vancouver, BC
> 2015 Mono No Aware | Brooklyn, NY *
> 2017 Lisbon International Film Festival | Lisbon, PT
> 2016 Milwaukee U.F.F. | Milwaukee, WI *
-Awarded ‘Honourable Mention’ by Jury
> 2016 Montreal Underground Film Fest
-Awarded '2nd Place Prize' by Jury
> 2020 Available Light Film Festival | Whitehorse, YK
> 2016 Dawson City Film Festival | Dawson City, YK
> 2016 Nightengale Theatre screening | Chicago, USA *
> 2016 Microlights Cinema screening | Milwaukee, USA *
> 2016 Cellular Cinema screening | Minneapolis, USA *
> 2016 The 8 Fest, 8x8 screening | Toronto, ON *
> 2015 Echo Park Film Center Screening | L.A., USA *
> 2015 Other Cinema Screening | San Francisco, USA *
> 2016 San Diego Underground Film Festival | San Diego, USA *
> 2016 WNDX Festival | Winnipeg, MB
> 2015 Antimatter [Media Art] | Victoria, BC *
> 2016 Flatpack Film Festival | Birmingham, UK
> 2015 Black Hole Cinema screening | Oakland, USA *
> 2016 Edge of Frame Programme 1 | London, UK
> 2016 Beyond the Perimeter screening | Holland, Manitoba *

Conspiracy | 6 min | Digital Video (Selectavision) | Colour | Stereo | June 2014
> 2015 Montreal Underground Film Fest | Montreal, QC
> 2015 Le Festival International des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux | Paris, France
> 2015 Flatpack Film Festival | Birmingham, UK
> 2015 WNDX Film Fest | Winnipeg, MB
> 2014 Lo-fi Sci-fi screening | Other Cinema | San Francisco, CA
> 2014 Antimatter Media Art | Victoria, BC, Canada
> 2014 Transient Visions | Johnson City, NY
> 2014 Video Pool Members’ Screening | Winnipeg, MB

11 Parking Lots and One Gradual Sunset | 8:28 | Super 16mm | Colour | Stereo | March 2014
> 2015 Moving | Kyoto, Japan
> 2014 Transient Visions | Johnson City, NY
> 2014 DOXA Doc Fest | Vancouver, BC
> 2014 Winnipeg Handshake | Curated by Matt Rankin | Concorida University, Montreal, QC
> 2014 Visions Experimental Doc Series | Montreal, QC
> 2014 Tunnelvision at Architecture Fringe Fest | Winnipeg, MB

Fall 1 & 2 | 50 sec | 16mm | Colour | Silent | 2014
> L’Aternativa Independent Film Fest | Barcelona, ES
> 2014 Milwaukee U.F.F. | Milwaukee, USA
> 2014 Australian Int. Exp. Film Fest | Melbourne, Australia
> 2014 Australian Int. Exp. Film Fest | Perth, Australia
> 2014 Strange Beauty Film Fest | Durham, NC
> 2015 Experiments in Cinema | Albuquerque, New Mexico

Living on the Edge | 3:25 | Experimental | Super 8 | Colour | Sound | Jan 2013
> 2016 Amsterdam Experimental Film Fest
> 2014 Berlin Intl. Director's Lounge | Berlin
> 2014 The 8 Fest | Toronto, ON
> 2013 Montreal U. F. F. | Montreal, QC
*awarded the Ex-aequo Prize
> 2013 West Virginia Film Festival | Morgantown, WV
*award for best “re-vision” theme work
> 2015 Imagine Science Film Festival | New York, NY
> 2014 Club Ex screening | Korean Film Archive | Seoul, Korea
> 2014 Sight Unseen Open Call | Baltimore, ML
> 2014 Exuberant Politics | Iowa City Public Library
> 2014 Winnipeg Handshake | Curated by Matt Rankin | Concorida University, Montreal, QC
> 2013 South Texas Underground Film Fest | Corpus Christi, TX
> 2013 Antimatter Media Art Festival | Victoria, BC
> 2013 Festival Images Contre Nature 2013 | Marseille, France
> 2013 Video Art Festival Miden | Kalamata, Greece
> 2013 Haverhill Exp. Film Fest | Haverhill, MA, USA
> 2013 Australian Int. Exp. Film Fest | Melbourne, AUS
> 2013 Cinematic Visions from Winnipeg, MB | Toronto, ON
> 2013 Strange Beauty Film Festival | Durham, NC, USA

((in stasis)) – Blue Film 2 | 2:45 | 16mm | Colour | Sound | Dec 2013
>2016 Theatro Anapoda Screening | Athens, Greece
>2013 Videoholica | Varna, Bulgaria
*awarded as a “finalist”
> Amsterdam Experimental Film Fest | 2016
>2013 Videoholica Touring Program | Varna, Bulgaria
>2013 South Texas Underground Film Fest | Corpus Christi, TX
>2013 Antimatter Media Art Festival | Victoria, BC
>2013 Montreal U.F.F. | Montral, QC, CAN
>2013 Australian Int. Exp. Film Fest. | Melbourne, AUS
>2013 $100 Film Festival | Calgary, AB
>2013 Frames Per Second Screening | Plug Projects | Kansas City, MO

I See a Light | 1:30 | DV | Colour | Sound | Sept 2012
> 2014 Films from the Attic | New York, NY
> 2013 Video Art Festival Miden | Kalamata, Greece
> 2013 Square Pegs screening at Modern Fuel | Kingston, ON
> 2013 Fargo Film Festival | 2-minute Movie contest | Fargo, ND
>2012 Oblò Film Festival | Lausanne, Switzerland
>2012 Arizona Underground Film Festival | Tucson, AZ
>2012 WNDX Film Festival | Winnipeg, MB
> 2012 Cinema Minima 2012 | Chicago, IL
>2012 Gimli Film Festival | Gimli, MB
>2012 Suoni per il Popolo Festival‏ | Montreal, QC
>2012 Video Pool Meets McLuhan and Flusser Screening | Winnipeg, MB
>2012 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival | Milwaukee, WI
>2012 Montreal Underground Film Festival | Montreal, CA
>2012 TromaDance Film Festival | Long Island City, NY
>2012 Strange Beauty Film Festival | Durham, NC
>2012 Art’s Birthday Open Call | Ace Art | Winnipeg, MB
>2011 Leeds International Film Festival | Leeds, UK
>2011 Colour Out of Space Film Festival | Brighton, UK

The Story of Thomas Edison | 5:00 | Experimental Documentary | 16mm | Colour | Sound | Feb 2012
>2012 Bent Light Program (curated by Leslie Supnet) | PAVED Arts | Saskatoon, SK
>2012 Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival | Hawick, Scottish Borders, UK
>2012 Montreal Underground Film Festival | Montreal, QC
>2012 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival | Milwaukee, WI
>2012 Strange Beauty Film Festival | Durham, NC
>2011 Distilled Motion Series with Magic Lantern Cinema | Providence, RI
>2011 Distilled Motion Series with the Radon Lake Collective | Cambridge, MA
>2011 Colour Out of Space Film Festival | Brighton, UK
>2011 Flicker Spokane Film Festival | Spokane, WA
>2011 WNDX Film Festival | Winnipeg, MB
>2011 Gimli Film Festival | Winnipeg, MB

Publications
Zeghers, A. (2016-2025). Various Articles & Research. Inverted Pyramid.org
Zeghers, A. (2024, April 4). Hot Docs 2023 Financials. Inverted Pyramid.org
https://www.invertedpyramid.org/index.php/spotlighthotdocs/hot-docs-2023-financials/
Zeghers, A. (2024, April 2). Hot Docs 2015 – 2022 Financials. Inverted Pyramid.org
https://www.invertedpyramid.org/index.php/spotlighthotdocs/hot-docs-2015---2022-financials/
Zeghers, A. (2013, November 28). John Paizs’ Vow of Silence. Cineflyer Winnipeg. https://cineflyer.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/john-paizs-vow-of-silence/
Zeghers, A. (2013, July 25). How to apply for film funding in Manitoba. Cineflyer Winnipeg. https://cineflyer.wordpress.com/2013/02/09/how-to-apply-for-film-funding-in-manitoba/
Zeghers, A. (2013, April 4). Greg Hanec’s “Downtime”, circa 1985. Cineflyer Winnipeg. https://cineflyer.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/greg-hanecs-downtime-circa-1985/
Zeghers, A. (2013, April 4). Kubasa in a glass // the fetishized Winnipeg TV commercial 1976-1992. Cineflyer Winnipeg. https://cineflyer.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/kubasa-in-a-glass-the-fetishised-winnipeg-tv-commercial-1976-1992/
Zeghers, A. (2012, May 25). Hollywood Burn [and other illegal activities]. Cineflyer Winnipeg. https://cineflyer.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/hollywood-burn-and-other-illegal-activities/
Zeghers, A. (2012, March 22). Devon Damonte’s Marchaloops Series. Cineflyer Winnipeg. https://cineflyer.wordpress.com/2012/03/22/devon-damontes-marchaloops-series/
Zeghers, A. (2012, February 23). Andy Smetanka: The Missoula Sorcerer. Cineflyer Winnipeg. https://cineflyer.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/andy-smetanka-the-missoula-sorcerer/
Zeghers, A. (2012, February 10). 1987: Rick Hancox and Chris Gallagher. Cineflyer Winnipeg. https://cineflyer.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/1987-rick-hancox-and-chris-gallagher/
Zeghers, A. (2012c, March 6). Featured artist: Scott Fitzpatrick. Cineflyer Winnipeg. https://cineflyer.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/featured-artist-scott-fitzpatrick/
Zeghers, A. (2011, October 9). Featured artist: Stéphane Oystryk. Cineflyer Winnipeg. https://cineflyer.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/featured-artist-stephane-oystryk/
Zeghers, A. (2011a, September 21). Featured artist: Rhayne Vermette. Cineflyer Winnipeg. https://cineflyer.wordpress.com/2011/09/12/featured-artist-rayne-vermette/
Zeghers, A. (2011a, September 16). A farewell to George Kuchar. Cineflyer Winnipeg. https://cineflyer.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/a-farewell-to-george-kuchar/

Lectures
The Film Festival Industrial Complex [link] | Artifact Film Festival | Calgary, CA | 2023

Solo Shows / Retrospectives
Aaron Zeghers Retrospective | Artifact Film Festival | Calgary, CA | 2023
Here For Now: Aaron Zeghers Retrospective | Winnipeg Cinematheque | 2019
Place Studies | photography exhibit | The Edge Gallery (Winnipeg) | 2015
Some People I Know, Some Strangers I Don’t | photography exhibit | The Edge Gallery | 2015

Group Shows
Spent Messages | curated group show | _underscore gallery | Milwaukee, USA | 2023
Art in Art | curated group show | Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków (MOCAK) | 2017
PRAISE! | photography group show | FLASH Photographic Festival (Winnipeg) | 2016

Residencies
UnionDocs Summer Doc Lab | New York, NY | August 2023
Alchemy Film & Moving Image Residency | Erfoud, Morocco | 2017

Film Programming Experience
Festivals / Series
2017-2021 | Festival Director | The Gimli Film Festival
2014-17 | Senior Film Programmer | The Gimli Film Festival
2013-Present | Co-Founder and Co-Programmer | The Winnipeg Underground Film Festival
2012-17 | Co-Founder and Co-Programmer | Open City Cinema
2015/16 | Curator of Winnipeg Handshake Series | Programs from San Fran, L.A., Oakland, Portland, Budapest, Iran in Winnipeg and vice-versa.
2015 | Curator of Canadian Club: a 4-part series of classic Canuck cinema | Open City Cinema

Individual Programs (selected)
2022-24 | Confessional Cinema | Short film program exhibited in Montreal, New York City & Winnipeg
2019 | Winnipeg Handshake | Lumiton Audio Visual | Buenos Aires, Argentina
2018 | Doc Day Afternoon – 35 Years of Doc Manitoba | Gimli Film Fest
2018 | Shooting Guns’ Nosferatu | Gimli Film Fest
2017 | The Green Fog by Guy Maddin (Canadian Premiere) | WUFF
2017 | Mike Hoolboom: 6 Films (w/ Mike Hoolboom in person) | Gimli Film Fest
2017 | Duke and Battersby: 3 Videos (w/ Duke and Battersby in person) | Gimli Film Fest
2017 | Digital Actualities: Ben Balcom (w/ Ben Balcom in person) | WUFF
2017 | Eyes Wide Open: Alee Peoples (w/ Alee Peoples in person) | WUFF
2017 | Banned: Experimental films from Iraq | Open City Cinema
2015 | Curator of Black Christmas | Open City Cinema
2015 | Curator of Cinema in Pictures | Open City Cinema + Flash Photographic Festival
2015 | Curator of Downtime by Greg Hanec | Open City Cinema
2014 | Curator of Our Nixon | Open City Cinema
2014 | Curator of Stephen Broomer vs. Toronto screening | Open City Cinema
2014 | Curator of Lines of Perspective short film program | Open City Cinema
2013 | Curator of Barry Doupé’s The Colours that Combine to Make White are Important | OCC
2013 | Curator of Denis Côté’s Bestiaire and Shorts | Open City Cinema
2013 | Curator of Scientific vs. Spiritual Psychedelia | The Winnipeg Folk Fest
2012 | Curator of Kubasa in a Glass | Open City Cinema Screening
2012 | Curator of “Soda_Jerk’s Greatest Hits and local found footage shorts” | Open City Cinema
2012 | Curator of “The Selected Works of Jodie Mack” | Cineflyer

Workshops as Instructor (selected)
Instructor | Digital Film & Media Production | Red River College | 2021-Present
Super 8 Séance | PAVED Arts | Saskatoon 2019
Expanded Cinema Creation Lab | Winnipeg Film Group (WFG) 2017
Super 8 Séance | WFG 2017
16mm Film Experiment | WFG 2013
Teen Basic Workshop | WFG 2013
DIY Digital Transfer Workshop | WFG 2013
Teen Summer Film Camp | WFG 2013

Awards
2019 Hot House Award | Province of Manitoba (via Manitoba Film & Music + Manitoba Arts Council)
2019 Best Feature Film, Avant-Garde & Genre Competition | BAFICI | Buenos Aires, Argentina
2021 Best Film Award, Gimme 10 in 30 Contest | Gimme Some Truth Doc Fest | Winnipeg, MB
2017 Best Super 8 Film | Artifact Film Festival | Calgary, Canada
2017 Grand Prix | Unforeseen Intl. Exp. Film Fest | Beograd, Serbia
2016 Honourable Mention | Milwaukee U.F.F.
2016 2nd Place Prize | Montreal U.F.F.
2013 Ex-aequo Prize | Montreal U.F.F.
2013 Best “Revision-Theme” Work | West Virginia Film Festival | Morgantown, USA

Other Affiliations
DOC Manitoba | Board Member
Invermere Film Festival | Board Member
Independent Media Arts Alliance | Former Board President
The Winnipeg Film Group | Member, Former Board President
Video Pool | Member
Platform Gallery | Member
Documentary Organization of Canada | Member