CSIF Members can rent our facilities for filmmaking purposes. For additional rates, please refer to the Equipment Rate Sheet.

For booking inquires please email production@csif.org or equipment@csif.org.

BOARDROOM

Our boardroom is ideal for casting calls and production meetings! Comfortably seats 8, max 12. TV monitor with HDMI hookup can be provided upon request.

Member Rates

4 Hours or Less: $20

Full Day: $40

FLEX SPACE

CSIF “Flex Space” is our all-in-one studio, screening room, or anything else you may need!

Max capacity for screenings 50.

If you’d like to set up a walk through of the space, please email programming@csif.org to schedule.

Member Rates

4 Hours or Less: $40

Full Day: $80

EDIT SUITE

CSIF’s post-production facility is a Mac-based environment. Final Cut Pro X, Adobe CC and DaVinci Resolve 18 are available to members. The edit suite also features a Red Rocket PCI card and Blackmagic SmartView 4K Monitor.

Rates

Day-Office Hours (10am-5pm): $50

Day-Lockout (1×24 hours): $75

Week (7×10 hours): $300

Week-Lockout (7×24 hours): $500

Month (28×10 hours): $600

Month-Lockout (28×24 hours ): $1,200

OPTICAL PRINTER & SUPER 8 TRANSFER SUITE

The JK K-107 Optical Printer is a film optical effects stand designed to create a wide variety of effects using 16mm or Super-8 films.

A new HD scanner, the RetroScan-8 is also available for digitizing Super 8 and regular 8 films.

Rates

RetroScan: $30 per hour. Operator must be qualified.

JK Optical Printer: $5 per hour. Operator must be qualified.

STEENBECK 16MM EDITING TABLE

Our Steenbeck editing table is currently under repair.

CSIF Event Partnership Application

The Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers (CSIF) is an inclusive, non-profit, arts-based society that exists to encourage filmmaking as art, reflecting and challenging our cultural landscape through supporting the production and exhibition of independent media art.

In terms of exhibition, CSIF aims to orient new and existing members to the notion of film as a “media-arts language”, and build a strong film community by showcasing historical, contemporary, and local works. Doing so gives our members the opportunity to view film as an art and social practice.

We would love to be able to support partnership events with all interested members, however we are a small staff of three and do not have all the resources needed to be able to do this. As such, we must ensure that all partnerships reflect our mandate and would be mutually beneficial to the society as a whole as well as the CSIF member who is applying.

We evaluate each event application according to a rubric. Things that will affect a successful partnership include: reflection of our mandate, availability of date/time, strain on staff, benefit to CSIF, status of the CSIF member applying, among others.

For booking inquires please email production@csif.org or equipment@csif.org.