08/31/2026
🍔🎬 THE BURGER BARN IS PROUD TO SPONSOR THE NORTH ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL! 🎬🍔
We are thrilled to be a sponsor of the 3rd Annual North Island Film Festival!
There is something pretty special about seeing local stories, creativity and community come together on the big screen and we are happy to be a small part of making it happen. ❤️
A huge shout out to the organizers, filmmakers, volunteers and fellow sponsors who make events like this possible.
We’ll see you at the movies! 🍿🎥
🎬✨ The 3rd Annual North Island Film Fest is September 5th at 6pm at the Gate House Theatre in the Town of Port McNeill!
Join us for an evening of North Island Stories by North Island Folks — films made by North Islanders for their North Island community.
🎶 Before the show, at intermission, and then afterwards please feel free to hang out in our outdoor lounge under a tent where Rodrigo Morales will be spinning chill lounge-vibe beats.
😋 Bon Appetit Restaurant will have a food table set up to keep you fueled.
👕 Theme of the night: Dress like a North Islander. Interpret this as you wish.
🤝 Come as you are. Our goal is to create an easy, welcoming experience where we can share and connect as a community.
📡 Can't make it to the theatre? No worries. You can watch from home on our livestream (youtube.com/NorthIslandFilmFestival
📍 Port McNeill, Gatehouse Theatre
💸 Free to attend
🎟️ Please make a reservation by going to NIFF Eventbrite page:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/.../north-island-film-festival...
🍻The event is Licenced, so please feel free to buy drinks and enjoy
🚗 Looking for a ride to/from the theatre? Please consider carpoolilng with other members of your community to save on gas, create safe rides home, and connect with new people we don't always have the chance to hang out with!
🥳Please come to our afterparty at Devils Bath! 8:30-11:30. Once we're done watching the films, let's keep hanging out and discussing North Island Art & Culture! We can make a special announcement when the ferry is 25minutes away so that folks are able to make it back to the ferry line up with plenty of time.
🙏 Thank you to the Neighbourhood Small Grants, Mount Waddington and Campbell River Community Foundation for giving us a grant to book the Gate House Theatre. Thank you to our local financial sponsors: Island Eco Energy; Tri-Caring Wellness; The Sointula Burget Barn; and Allmac Repair. And thank you to our in-kind sponsors: Lemare for building our programs for the third year in a row. Thank you Reaper Signs Killer Designs for making us some signage for some photo-booth opportunities in the outdoor lounge. Thank you General Properties for letting us have a chill outdoor lounge space in the parking lot in front of the theatre before the show, and again at intermission. Thank you Sointula Lodge for lending us your 15 person van to help shuttle people to and from the theatre and the ferry. Thank you to the Island Rogue, for bringing people from the Sointula docks to Port McNeill on the day of the festival. Thank you to the Sointula Resource Centre for printing our event posters! Thank you to Community Futures Moutn Waddington for the business/project guidance. And thank you to Malcolm Island Food co for letting us have some pop-up tabling exprineces to promote the festival in front of your business establishment.
It takes many of us from different towns, villages, and communities to put this festival together, and we're so excited to do it for a third time.
Let's get ready for another evening of watching North Island films and enjoying North Island Community!! See you there
