CASA PIP is founded and run by filmmakers. We believe in the irreplaceable value of experimentation towards the conception and creation of great art, and have designed this residency to offer filmmakers the time, peace, space, and general rulelessness to move meaningfully forward on a project, a thought, an experiment, research, practice, and more and more and more. We also encourage residents to slow down and play, and welcome applications from people whose undertaking is simply to rest and recover, which we consider vital to the creative process.
Joële Walinga
Joële is an award-winning Canadian visual artist and filmmaker. She is an alumna of the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival’s talent development programme Berlinale Talents, and the 2022 Zurich Film Festival Academy. Her work has been shown at the Art Gallery of Ontario, SXSW, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, RIDM, and Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival among others. Her most recent feature film Self-Portrait premiered at the SXSW Film Festival in 2022, won the Special Jury Prize at RIDM, and was released on MUBI. The film was a New York Times pick for films to stream in spring 2024. Walinga is the founder of Toronto-based film and video art production company Soft Studio, and the co-creator of the free filmmaking gear program Everyone’s Camera and the free filmmaker residency program CASA PIP.
Joële is an award-winning Canadian visual artist and filmmaker. She is an alumna of the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival’s talent development programme Berlinale Talents, and the 2022 Zurich Film Festival Academy. Her work has been shown at the Art Gallery of Ontario, SXSW, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, RIDM, and Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival among others. Her most recent feature film Self-Portrait premiered at the SXSW Film Festival in 2022, won the Special Jury Prize at RIDM, and was released on MUBI. The film was a New York Times pick for films to stream in spring 2024. Walinga is the founder of Toronto-based film and video art production company Soft Studio, and the co-creator of the free filmmaking gear program Everyone’s Camera and the free filmmaker residency program CASA PIP.
Daniel is an award-winning Portuguese-Canadian screenwriter and film director. His first narrative feature Dim the Fluorescents won the Grand Jury Award at the Slamdance Film Festival and was called “One of the Year’s Strongest Debuts” by The New York Times. His first documentary Untold Hours screened at Toronto International Film Festival and BAFICI, and is currently streaming on MUBI. Daniel was one of eight international screenwriters selected to participate in Toronto International Film Festival’s 2022 Writers’ Studio programme with his upcoming feature film Enduring, which Daniel is co-producing with two-time Palme D’Or-winning producer Geneviève Lemal (Blue is the Warmest Colour). In 2025, Daniel co-founded the free filmmaker residency CASA PIP in Celavisa, Portugal.