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alFresco filmFesto News

Thanks for Supporting the AFFA Holiday Lottery

We've announced our Holiday Lottery Winners! If you are a winner you can pick up your prize package at the AFFA Offices starting February 1. For a complete list of winners including early birds and grand prize draws click here. Winners will be released as they are contacted.

Thank you for your support of this year's Holiday Lottery, and stay tuned for more 30th Anniversary events and updates throughout the year

The 9th alFresco filmFesto

alFresco filmFesto is back for 2009 with a new location and look!

Located at the end of the Halifax Waterfront Boardwalk, overlooking the Halifax Harbour (about 500 meters from our old location in front of the Electropolis building, the new alFresco brings with it a brand new inflatable screen - the first of its kind in Atlantic Canada.

Map the location here

 

The 2009 Line Up

For full details please visit the Film Schedule

The Atlantic Film Festival Association is proud to present the 2009 line-up of summer outdoor movie fun for the whole family! Whatever kind of movie experience you’re craving, we will be sure to dish it up this season!

Gates open at 8:00 PM with show time at 9:00 PM or dusk. Admission is a $5 donation to support this community event. Come enjoy the Firday night sky on Halifax's waterfront, if it's raining we will screen the film the following night, same time, same place! AlFresco-goers are asked to bring your own blanket or lawn chair.

Film Schedule at a Glance

July 24 

Mama Mia! The Movie 

July 31

Harold and Maude

 

August 7 

Dead Poets Society

August 14

The Breakfast Club

August 21 

Peter Pan - A Disney Animated Original

August 28

Pulp Fiction

 

With concessions and contests, plenty of action and adventure, this open-air cinema has a unique festival atmosphere that must be experienced first-hand.

 

 

 

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