24th annual St. John's International Women's Film Festival official program

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OFFICIAL PROGRAM

TABLE OF CONTENTS Proud Sponsors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Welcome from Noreen Golfman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Board of Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Festival Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Festival and Box Office Info Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Festival Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

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Host Anthony Germain Nancy Walsh

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Cecil Haire

The Grand Seduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 A Walk In The Woods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Meshkanu: The Long Walk Of Elizabeth Penashue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Courage To Remember - Stories Of Our Labrador Residential Experience . 24 My Mother, The Nazi Midwife And Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Partly Cloudy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Soup Of The Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Role Pay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Ending Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Another Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Sweetieface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 They Wore Pink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Impromptu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 MooseDate.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Village At The End Of The World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Mary & Myself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Buying Sex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Micta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Treaty Number Three . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Spring & Arnaud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Social Business, A New Path For Capitalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Kindling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Moi C’est Julien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Incident At Elysian Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Fireflies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Tales From The Organ Trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 The Pamplemousse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Där Barn Jag Lekt (Summers Past) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Me2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 The Earthquake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Tengri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 The Tunnel (The Big Dirty Ol’ Hole) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Douche (Shower) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Distraction Of A Stationary Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 The Pool Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

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Hannah Arendt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Spring Equinox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 The Defector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 The Way To Nowhere Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Presence Required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Terapia (Therapy) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Tercera Oportunidad (Third Chance - Love) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 La Boda (The Wedding) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Ojos Que No Ven (What The Eye Doesn’t See) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Jamón . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60 How To Lose Your Virginity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Cinephilia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Newcomers Swim, Every Friday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 We Wanted More . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 The End Of Pinky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Fetch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Sept Heures Trois Fois Par Annee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Talus & Scree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 How To Keep Your Day Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 All The Wrong Reasons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 The Animal Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Miss Todd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 MyLovely Monster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 OMG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Best, April . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Wind Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Hannah Cohen’s Holy Communion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 rid-of-it (FRAMED West) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Dismissed (FRAMED Drama) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Kids On Courage (FRAMED) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Up Against The Wall (FRAMED Doc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 The Passenger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Hold Fast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Film Forums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Festival Locations Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Advertisers Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

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Newfoundland and Labrador has a long and storied involvement in the film industry. Not only does the province boast a CBC Television primetime show in Republic of Doyle, but we have catered to some of the best actors that the industry has to offer, having films such as The Shipping News, Rare Birds, Random Passage, Outlander, and the newly released The Grand Seduction filmed on our shores and in our towns. As we become more involved in this growing industry, there will be a need for trained professionals.

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Message from Telefilm Canada Telefilm Canada is proud to be associated with the 24th edition of the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival, a wonderful opportunity to discover the best in Canadian filmmaking.

Our filmmakers have stories to tell that are original, relevant, entertaining and compelling – stories that enjoy increasing success here at home and shine on the international scene. Canadian films are official selections at film festivals worldwide, winning major awards – and the hearts of audiences wherever they are shown.

Message from the Premier

The success of Canada’s film industry is Telefilm’s primary purpose.

Our funding and promotion programs support dynamic film companies and talented creative artists everywhere in Canada. We are all working together to make sure Canadian films are in the spotlight, both here at home and internationally.

Telefilm hopes that this event will help you enjoy Canadian cinema – your cinema, which you can now access on many platforms.

Congratulations to the organizers of the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival, and happy viewing!

Michel Roy Chair of the Board, Telefilm Canada

Message from CBC CBC is proud to be a media partner of the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival. We’ve been especially pleased to introduce and help nurture many home-grown filmmakers in our region and provide a platform to support the growing film industry in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Our ongoing support of the RBC Michelle Jackson Emerging Filmmaker Award is a testament to this commitment. This award, along with our summer documentary series, the network television program Short Film Face-Off and local film development support all point to our dedication to providing and fostering a home for independent films at CBC.

On behalf of the Provincial Government, I extend a warm welcome to all participants, guests and visitors of the 2013 St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival.

Established in 1989, this renowned festival has become one of the longestrunning women’s film festivals in the world. It has developed into a highlyanticipated celebration of local, national and international filmmaking.

Women in the film industry in Newfoundland and Labrador are regarded as leaders in the film community, not just locally, but throughout Canada and the world. Their contribution to our growing local film industry cannot be overstated.

This festival continues to provide an opportunity to highlight the filmmaking community and celebrate the accomplishments of many talented female artists.

For those visiting Newfoundland and Labrador for the first time, I encourage you to explore our historic sites, enjoy our local culture and spectacular scenery, and experience some of our province’s world-class hospitality – I promise you will not be disappointed.

Best wishes for another successful festival.

We applaud the tremendous contribution the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival makes to the arts in our community. In the days ahead, I invite you all to take in the marvelous show case of local films that festival organizers have put together.

Sincerely,

A special thank you to everyone involved with this festival - the volunteers, filmmakers, organizers, other sponsors, and, of course the film-goers - who help make this event happen. Enjoy the festival!

Kathy Dunderdale Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador

Denise Wilson

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Message from The Mayor

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23

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elcome to St. John’s! As Mayor of our Capital City, it is an honour and privilege to extend greetings and best wishes to all who are visiting our city to attend and participate in the 24th Annual St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival.

We are glad St. John’s was chosen to host this year’s festival.

Our city offers an exciting blend of old world charm and modern amenities, not to mention the Newfoundland Hospitality for which we are famous. The many festivals and events held throughout the year showcase our rich culture, history and heritage. Over the next few days, we hope you will make our city your home and you will take the time to visit some of the City’s historical and natural landmarks and points of interest and enjoy the city’s night life with is great entertainment and finest cuisine.

The City of St. John’s prides itself on the scope of cultural experiences available to visitors and residents. I am confident that, while celebrating women filmmakers all over the world, this year’s festival will exceed all expectations and will be a rewarding and unforgettable experience.

We hope you have an enjoyable stay in our city. Best wishes for a successful festival and best of luck to all performers and guests!

Dennis O’Keefe Mayor

Congratulations to

TAMARA SEGURA GONZALEZ this year’s winner of THE RBC Michelle Jackson Award!

Segura’s winning script, “Before The War,” is an intimate, nuanced and heartfelt story about a family crumbling after its father returns from a war. “Before The War” will screen at the 25th annual St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival during the Closing Night Gala.

The RBC MJAward celebrates the life of St. John’s filmmaker Michelle Jackson, who passed away suddenly in 2008. The Award is administered by the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival, and supports female filmmakers residing in Newfoundland and Labrador. The award is made possible with the help of the RBC Foundation, CBC Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador Film Development Corporation, Stewart McKelvey, Atlantic Studios Cooperative, Newfoundland Independent Filmmakers Cooperative, Casting

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MESSAGES Message from Noreen Golfman This is the best part. When you are reading the program, after all the planning and preparation are almost all behind us. When 500 film submissions have been screened, hotly debated, and ultimately deemed acceptable or not for this program. Sure, our eyes are tired but our hearts are full of expectation because now we get to share our decisions with you. As always, our programming board has agonized over the films we love but have no room for. Choices had to be made.

And so it is that the 2013 festival offers a gorgeous sample of the best work made anywhere by women for everyone.

Jonathan Crowe

Ryan Snoddon Debbie Cooper

This year’s festival, almost alarmingly mature at 24, opens and closes with two stunning features produced by two passionately creative Newfoundland women. Yes, it’s come to this—that we can boast such accomplishments as if they were the most natural thing in the world. They are certainly natural to the rich talent pool we have here, and there is no sign of diminishment. This is the second year that during the festival we are hosting a report on the representation of women working in our Canadian film and television industries. “Women in View” takes a hard and sober look at gender equity and racial diversity in our media, and it might come as a surprise to anyone living in this province that the percentages are deplorably small. In large part, our festival exists to combat this persistent imbalance. The celluloid ceiling is as unforgiving as ever, but yet the Newfoundland industry is the exception proving the rule. Where else would a film festival bookend two women-produced features of such exceptional quality?

We couldn’t be prouder of our robust film industry and the healthy number of working women who make it so. Thanks to our continuing and supportive audiences who get that, and to our indispensable sponsors who know a good partnership when they see one. Thanks especially to Telefilm Canada not only for investing so wisely in our industry but also for directly sponsoring our opening night gala through their Eye on Canada program. If ever there were a relationship devoutly to be wished, this is it.

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Finally, a personal thanks to the indomitable Kelly Davis who has returned to the executive directorship after birthing yet another perfect human being, to all of our brilliant staff and volunteers, and to my friends and colleagues on the festival board who make the task of delivering this program just so much fun. It’s hard to call it work when we enjoy ourselves as we do. Thank you just doesn’t cut it, but you know what I mean.

and Late night, following The National

Welcome and Enjoy!

Noreen Golfman Chair of the Board St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Chair Noreen Golfman

Vice-Chair Angela Antle

Treasurer Clara McCue

Executive Director Kelly Davis

Interim Executive Director 06/2012-06/2013 Maggie Keiley

Assistant Director Jessie Greenwood

Member at Large Anna Petras

Member at Large Gillian Marx

Member at Large Allison White

Program Manager Jacqueline Hynes

Communications & Publicity Manager Sarah Smellie

Guest & Events Coordinator Marie Jones

Volunteer Coordinator Stephanie Guzzwell

Film Forum Coordinator

Technical Coordinator Eilish McBrearty

Technician/Projectionist

Member at Large Barbara Janes

Member at Large Erin Best

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22 Day At A Glance 9:00am-5:00pm: Registration and Delegate Welcome

The Grand Seduction OPENING NIGHT GALA (ARTS & CULTURE CENTER) 8:00-10:30PM

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10:00am-4:00pm: FILM FORUM – Reading the Room & The Ethics of Pitching sponsored by Creative Women Workshops Association and Women in the Director’s Chair (NIFCO) Learn how to maximize pitch-appropriate situations and ‘Read the Room’ from professional coach Carol Whiteman and actor/executive producer/ director Garwin Sanford.

Director Don McKellar

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Producer Barbara Doran Roger Frappier

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Writer Ken Scott Michael Dowse

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8:00pm-12:00am: SCREENING – Eye On Canada Opening Night Gala and Party (Arts & Culture Centre) The Grand Seduction, Don McKellar (Canada), followed by a performance

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Once again, the indomitable Barbara Doran, this time working with Quebec’s filmmaking genius Roger Frappier, has helped steward a spectacular feature film to a theatre near us. Not only that, the feature features us! THE GRAND SEDUCTION openly adapts the charming Quebec comedy known in English as SEDUCING DR. LEWIS (2003) to our island shores. Starring a dream-designed cast of local and international stars and showcasing the gorgeous coastal landscapes of Trinity Bay, SEDUCTION is bright, funny, smart, and saucy. Brilliant Irish actor Brendan Gleeson stars as the ringleader in his small employment-challenged harbour town.

The community must secure an on-site physician to guarantee the building of a fish petroleum plant. The arse is out of her and it’s time to face the 21st century. Murray (Gleeson), with the ardent help of everyone, contrives to seduce a mainland doctor to settle permanently in the town. Dr. Lewis, played by hunky Canadian thesp Taylor Kitsch, is innocently drawn into an elaborate scheme to charm the pharmaceuticals right out of him.

The cast of characters is deliciously up for the game. Mary Walsh, Mark Critch, Gordon Pinsent, Cathy Jones… no, we are not making this up.

Our favourite actors really are in this film. Consider, as well, that actorwriter-producer Don McKellar directed SEDUCTION and you have to be shaking your head at the sheer excess of talent and potential. We are proud and happy to be opening our festival with this marvelous home-grown comedy, a co-pro with Quebec that shows you just how well we can all get along when we share the energy fairly.

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23 Day At A Glance 9:30am-10:30am: FILM FORUM – Marketing & Distribution Strategies For Features (NIFCO) Keep up to date on the ever-changing strategies of effective marketing, distribution and sales strategies to get your feature film to market. Panelists: Robin Cass and Sandra Cunningham (Strada Films), Mark Slone (eOne) and Paul Pope (Pope Productions).

11:00am-12:00pm: FILM FORUM – Marketing & Distribution Strategies For Shorts (NIFCO) Join panelists Fred Joubaud (OUAT Media), Linda Olszewski (Movies That Matter) and St. John’s native Stephen Dunn to discuss the unique world of short film marketing, distribution and sales.

12:30pm-1:30pm: SCREENING – Lunch Dox (LSPU Hall) A Walk In The Woods, Tess Martin (USA), Home, Aoife Kelleher (Ireland), Meshkanu: The Long Walk Of Elizabeth Penashue, Andrew Mudge (Canada).

12:30pm-2:00pm: FILM FORUM – Get Your Synopsis Firing (NIFCO) (Lunch provided, pre-registration required) Actor and copywriter Dave Sullivan helps to trim your brilliant idea into a precise and concise morsel of truth.

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23 2:30pm-4:30pm: FILM FORUM – How To Run A Production Company (NIFCO) The DOs and DON’Ts of forming and running a solid production company. Panelists: President and Co-Founder of Strada Films, Sandra Cunningham and entertainment lawyer Sandra Richmond.

4:30pm-5:30pm: SCREENING – What’s Up Doc? (LSPU Hall) Courage To Remember – Stories Of Our Labrador Residential School Experience, Navarana Igloliorte and Shirley Flowers (Canada).

4:30pm-5:30pm: SCREENING – Docs With A View (The Rooms) My Mother, The Nazi Midwife And Me, Jane Hawtin (Canada).

7:00pm-8:30pm: SCREENING – WIFT-Atlantic presents...Short Cuts (LSPU Hall) Partly Cloudy, Mark Cogan (Ireland), Soup Of The Day, Lynn Smith (Canada), Role Play, Alex Epstein (Canada), Ending Up, Paige Morrow Kimball (USA), Another Man, Leah Johnston (Canada), Sweetieface, Mark O’Brien (Canada), They Wore Pink, Terry Miles (Canada), Impromptu, Bruce Alcock (Canada), Moosedate.com, Sam B. Friedman (USA).

7:00pm-8:30pm: SCREENING – Docs With A View (The Rooms) Village At The End Of The World, Sarah Gavron and David Katznelson (UK/Denmark).

9:30pm-11:00pm: SCREENING – Governing Bodies (LSPU Hall) Mary & Myself, Sam Decoste (Canada), Buying Sex, Kent Nason and Teresa MacInnes (Canada).

9:30pm-11:00pm: SCREENING – Docs With A View (The Rooms) Micta, Elisa Moar and Meky Ottawa (Canada), Treaty Number Three, Danielle Sturk (Canada), Spring & Arnaud, Marcia Connolly and Katherine Knight (Canada).

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23 A Walk In The Woods

Meshkanu: The Long Walk Of Elizabeth Penashue

LUNCH DOX (LSPU HALL) 12:30 – 1:30 PM

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Director Tess Martin

Country USA

Director Andrew Mudge

Producer Tess Martin

Runtime 1

Writer Tess Martin

Date Wednesday October 23

Producer Andrew Mudge Robin McGrath Writer Andrew Mudge

It only takes a minute but you’ll be magically transported to a place of familiar enchantment. Nothing like a walk in the woods to get the imagination going.

Tess Martin

Andrew Mudge

Home Country Ireland

Producer Rachel Lysaght

Runtime 15

Writer N/A

Runtime 19 Date Wednesday October 23

This is a beautiful short doc tribute to the persistent vision of Innu elder Elizabeth Penashue. Well known as a fiery protester against unfettered development of the Big Land that is home, she is also a grandmother and example to the next generations. Annually she embarks on a three-week walk to her ancestral land near Muskrat Lake. The journey is arduous but it gives her peace and, more importantly, a way to respect those who have come before her and to inspire those who will follow. Living close to the land, she demonstrates the value of so much that is yielding to larger global forces. All NALCOR executives more than welcome.

LYNNE COHEN

LUNCH DOX (LSPU HALL) 12:30-1:30PM Director Aoife Kelleher

Country CAN/NL

FALSE CLUES [Faux Indices]

Date Wednesday October 23

September 20 – December 8, 2013

Aoife Kelleher

A short, lucid, beautiful documentary about how our childhood homes have shaped our lives. Six different voices fill the screen with memories of their past, each bringing a personal account of place.

Some memories are, of course, more charmed than others, but each speaker has a claim on the truth of experience. Images of home are syncopated in graceful harmony with the voices. The result is a highly aesthetic, contemplative study of home. There’s no place like it.

Organized and circulated by the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal With the support of the Canadian Heritage Museums Assistance Program Untitled (Abstraction), 2002/2012. Chromogenic print. Courtesy of Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23 Courage To Remember - Stories Of Our Labrador Residential Experience WHAT’S UP, DOC? (LSPU HALL) 4:30-5:30PM Director Navarana Igloliorte Shirley Flowers Producer Navarana Igloliorte Shirley Flowers Writer N/A

Navarana Igloliorte

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Director Jane Hawtin

Country CAN

Runtime 54

Producer Jane Hawtin Gina Roitman

Runtime 52

Date Wednesday October 23

We welcome this rare film from the people of Labrador who share their experience of the residential school system. It’s hard to believe anyone thought it was ever a good idea to wrench native children from their parents and their communities and ship them off to North West River for an education. Well, we all know where the road of good intentions leads. Resistance was futile and so these youngsters endured a harsh and loveless environment which eventually estranged them from their own families. With the courage to remember, many of those children, now adults raising their own families, share their experience with each other and the sympathetic patience of the camera. Painful as it is, the act of remembering does bring understanding and, importantly, an unburdening of shame.

Scenes from SJIWFF23: SJIWFF chair Noreen Golfman and filmmaker Deepa Mehta share a laugh at SJIWFF23

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My Mother, The Nazi Midwife And Me

Writer Gina Roitman Jane Hawtin Jason Acton

Jane Hawtin

Date Wednesday October 23

There are many stories about the Nazi persecution of the Jews during the Second World War. Here is yet another one, a totally gripping tale of a daughter’s search for the truth of her birth and survival. The journey takes her to the German town of Passau, where she was born, where Hitler once lived and trained Nazis to enact his Final Solution. This is filmmaker Gina Roitman’s story and it’s as powerful as it gets. Roitman’s mother told her the horror did not stop with the end of the war. It persisted in the DP camp after the war where newborn babies were systematically destroyed. How could that have been true? Roitman’s quest is to prove her mother’s story right or wrong, and so in the end the daughter learns why she lives to tell the tale. As much a story of how a new generation of Germans is facing the past as it is Roitman’s own looking back, this powerful doc is actually a form of reconciliation.

Scenes from SJIWFF23: Filmmaker Jordan Canning presents her film.

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Partly Cloudy

SHORT CUTS (LSPU HALL) 7:00-8:30PM

SHORT CUTS (LSPU HALL) 7:00-8:30PM Director Mark Cogan

Country Ireland

Director Alex Epstein

Country CAN

Producer Amanda Ferriter

Runtime 15

Producer Christina Broccolini Alex Epstein Max Walker

Runtime 9

Writer Mark Cogan

Mark Cogan

Date Wednesday October 23

This is the second film in a trilogy by multi-award-winning Irish filmmaker Mark Cogan. Cogan’s first installment, HEART, won best screenplay in the 2010 Underground Cinema Awards and PARTLY CLOUDY has followed suit and then some: it picked up the Underground Cinema Awards for Best Director, Best Independent Film and Best Actress.

PARTLY CLOUDY is a wry, hilarious look at Fiona and her struggles being a bridesmaid for her highly demanding sister, Gillian. Don’t let the title fool you – there are bright skies ahead for Cogan and his films.

Soup Of The Day

Writer Alex Epstein Lisa Hunter

Ok, so nothing here is what you expect. Boy meets girl in a bar, the rest is bizarre, until it isn’t. You’ll soon get why this powerful short is getting festival attention. The title’s your clue, but the riddle remains to be seen.

Alex Epstein

Ending Up

SHORT CUTS (LSPU HALL) 7:00-8:30PM

SHORT CUTS (LSPU HALL) 7:30 – 8:30 PM

Director Lynn Smith

Country CAN

Director Paige Morrow Kimball

Country USA

Producer Lynn Smith Marcy Page

Runtime 4

Producer

Runtime 15

Writer Alexander Ary

Kathleen Minogue Keagy Jenica Bergere Paige Morrow Kimball

Date Wednesday October 23

Writer Paige Morrow Kimball

Does your partner insist on sending back the food in restaurants? Do you embarrass easily? Do you love her anyway? Amazing, isn’t it? With chanteuse Susie Arioli’s voice, yummy, the result here is slurp and delicious.

Lynn Smith

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Lots of surprises here in this charming short comic drama about how to cope when husband is just too bored to stick around. And so it is that a divorce party with the girlfriends takes an unexpected turn. It’s all about starting over in the middle, aided by a bucket of chicken wings.

Paige Morrow Kimball

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23 Another Man

They Wore Pink

SHORT CUTS (LSPU HALL) 7:00-8:30PM

SHORT CUTS (LSPU HALL) 7:00-8:30PM

Director Leah Johnston

Country CAN

Director Terry Miles

Country

Producer Leah Johnston

Runtime 5

Runtime 10

Writer Leah Johnston

Date Wednesday October 23

Producer Terry Miles Kristine Cofsky Writer Terry Miles

Leah Johnston

Terry Miles

Sweetieface

Impromptu SHORT CUTS (LSPU HALL) 7:00-8:30PM

Director Mark O’Brien Producer Mark O’Brien Katie Boland Writer Katie Boland

Mark O’Brien

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Country CAN/NL Runtime 13 Date Wednesday October 23

Our first visual in SWEETIEFACE is the back of a young man’s head, which is appropriate for a film about a man who just can’t show the woman with vodka sodas his true self. A relatable and true story about a young man and a young woman who explore every aspect of relationships except their own desire for one another – he does so haltingly and cautiously, while she fakes bold – SWEETIEFACE is gorgeously shot and expertly acted.

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We all know marriage can be risky business but oh brother, this gorgeous and suspenseful little film gives a whole new meaning to family drama. Certainly, nothing is quite as it seems when a woman meets a man outside a wedding. We can’t say much more without giving it away but trust us, you have to see this through to the end.

Mmmm, now here’s a slice of provocative filmmaking, a short narrative essay on the vicissitudes of breaking up, or falling for another, or looking for perfection… well, you decide. Which state of being is this? One thing is for sure. You’ve been here before. We all have.

SHORT CUTS (LSPU HALL) 7:00-8:30PM

CAN

Director Bruce Alcock

Country

Producer Tina Ouellette Annette Clarke Michael Fukushima

Runtime

Writer Ed Riche Bruce Alcock

Bruce Alcock

CAN 10 Date Wednesday October 23

All your absolutely favourite people are here, all the hip townies who contributed in the service of this little masterpiece by animator Bruce Alcock. No one draws lines in such elegant continuity any better than Alcock. IMPROMPTU conjures the elaborate preparations for a spontaneous dinner party. Wine is poured, onions are chopped, laughter and music fill the air, but the course of true love can be strained by the pressure of one person cooking. We’d say don’t try this home but, of course, that’s the whole point.

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23 MooseDate.com

Village At The End Of The World

SHORT CUTS (LSPU HALL) 7:00-8:30PM

DOCS WITH A VIEW (THE ROOMS) 7:00-8:30PM

Director Sam B. Friedman

Country

Producer Sam B. Friedman

Runtime

Writer Sam B. Friedman

Director Sarah Gavron David Katznelson

USA

Producer Sarah Gavron David Katznelson

3 Date Wednesday October 23

Writer Sarah Gavron David Katznelson

This animated short has been to so many festivals this year it’s got tire marks. Morris (who else?) is a large and awkward beast, to be sure.

Preparing for a hot date with an internet hook-up, he stumbles from one near catastrophic task to another. Will the evening turn out for the better?

Well, you know what they say about males with big antlers, don’t you?

Sam B. Friedman

Sarah Gavron David Katznelson

Country UK/Denmark Runtime 78 Date Wednesday October 23

The end of the world, in this case, is Niaqornet in north west Greenland.

Newfoundlanders will feel an affinity: the fish plant has closed and the community is in awkward transition from the past to the harsh reality of now. How will the village survive and what kind of life does it offer its young people? Filmmaker Gavron totally immersed herself in the community for a year and so this documentary is strikingly intimate. While it is about a particularly remote place it is also about all communities everywhere. The 21st century promises urban growth and small town struggle; here we are talking teeny weeny village. The landscape, however, is very large. Enormous icebergs form majestic backdrops to the theatre of the everyday. The film tracks a few characters closely, notably Lars, who is connected not to the land or its past but to the now of virtual reality. He sends his time on Facebook and imagines a life far from the smallness of home. Also notable is Illannguaq who empties waste from the villagers’ homes every morning with the precision of a clockmaker. This is a world beset by extreme temperatures and startling beauty, but as Greenland’s ice sheet melts and the villagers turn their backs on hunting one wonders whether this documentary will be a lasting legacy of a world that no longer exists.

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Pictured above left: Carol Whiteman of the CWWA and WIDC at the 2013 Vancouver International Women’s Film Festival. At left: Filmmakers Elsa Morena and Jordan Canning with Garwin Sanford at the 2012 St.John’s International Women’s Film Festival.

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23 Mary & Myself

Buying Sex

CORTO Y BUENO (LSPU HALL) 9:30-11:00PM Director Sam Decoste

Country CAN

Producer Annette Clarke

Runtime 6

Writer Sam Decoste

Sam Decoste

GOVERNING BODIES (LSPU HALL) 9:30-11:00PM Director Kent Nason Teresa MacInnes Producer Annette Clarke

Date Wednesday October 23

Eschewing the talking heads and stock footage of regular documentaries, this doc is an animated tale of two Chinese Canadian women practicing their roles as “comfort women” for the Vagina Monologues. Sitting in the Mu Lan Teahouse in Halifax, Jia Tsu Thompson and Mary Mohammed read their lines over and over, sip tea, and tell each other their own stories and experiences of wartime. MARY & MYSELF honours the thousands of girls and women from Korea, China, Japan and the Philippines who, in the 1930s and 1940s, were forced into sexual slavery, providing “comfort” to soldiers in the Imperial Japanese military.

Writer Teresa MacInnes

Kent Nason Teresa MacInnes

Country CAN Runtime 75 Date Wednesday October 23

Timely and wise, this feature documentary explores the state of prostitution laws in Canada. BUYING SEX captures the complexity of the issue by listening to the frequently conflicting voices of sex workers, policy-makers, lawyers and even the male buyers who make their claim for why prostitution is good for society. Examining the realities in Sweden and New Zealand, and respecting the differences of ideology as Canada works its way toward an uneasy consensus, the film challenges us to think for ourselves and offers a gripping and invaluable account of just what is at stake for all of us. Sounds dry, but actually juices up your thinking on this complicated subject.

Micta DOCS WITH A VIEW (THE ROOMS) 9:30-11:00PM Director Elisa Moar Meky Ottawa Producer Wapikoni Mobile Writer Elisa Moar Meky Ottawa

181 Water Street downtown St. John’s 709-722-7477

Country CAN Runtime 1 Date Wednesday October 23

A short experiment in texture, sound, sensuality—in beauty.

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Elisa Moar

Meky Ottawa

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23 Treaty Number Three

Spring & Arnaud

DOCS WITH A VIEW (THE ROOMS) 9:30-11:00PM

DOCS WITH A VIEW (THE ROOMS) 9:30-11:00PM

Director Danielle Sturk

Country CAN

Producer Danielle Sturk

Runtime 4

Writer Danielle Sturk

Director Marcia Connolly Katherine Knight Producer Marcia Connolly Katherine Knight

Date Wednesday October 23

Writer N/A

This short and compelling piece features the remarkable work of Native artist Rebecca Bellmore. You don’t need a history lesson to understand the intent of the artistic act, but you will appreciate Bellmore’s work in an entirely new way, we are sure. When aesthetics are married to protest the result is quite extraordinary. Bellmore rocks it.

Danielle Sturk

Marcia Connolly

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Katherine Knight

Country CAN Runtime 67 Date Wednesday October 23

You do not have to be an artist to appreciate the lush, architectural beauty of this tribute doc to talented Canadians Spring (Hurlbut) and Arnaud (Maggs), the couple at the epicentre of this film.

Spring’s art takes up themes of immortality, underscoring the tentative, delicate nature of being itself, while Arnaud has always been more interested in the patterns of identity, recognition, and difference. Very much collaborators in this film, they speak tenderly, insightfully of their love and purpose. Twenty-five years in age apart, they made it work, and good work happened.

Treat yourself to a stunningly crafted love story, set largely in the France they loved. The film is so rich and sensual you’ll smell the lavender.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24 Day at a Glance 9:30am-11:30am: FILM FORUM – How To Finance Your Project (NIFCO)

Social Business, A New Path For Capitalism LUNCH DOX (LSPU HALL) 12:30-1:30PM

Panelists Susan Kelly (CBC), Gretha Rose (Cellar Door Productions), Stephanie Azam (Telefilm) and Francesca Accinelli (Canada Media Fund) are here to help you discover what resources are available to fund your project.

12:00pm-1:30pm: FILM FORUM – In Conversation With…

(The Rocket Room) (LUNCH PROVIDED, PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED)

Director Nicolas Jouvin

Country

Producer Stéphanie Failloux

Runtime 50

Writer Stéphanie Failloux

Date Thursday October 24

France

Jane Hawtin, director of My Mother, The Nazi Midwife and Me, and the producer and subject of this incredible documentary, Gina Roitman, share their journey together in making this film.

12:30pm-1:30pm: SCREENING – Lunch Dox (LSPU Hall) Social Business, A New Path For Capitalism, Nicolas Jouvin (France).

2:00pm-4:00pm: FILM FORUM – Face 2 Face Pitch Session (NIFCO) (PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED)

Here’s your chance to pitch your ideas to broadcasters, distributors, funders and producers in 15 min one-on-one sessions and hear what they’re looking for as well. Please visit www.womensfilmfestival.com/industry-film-forum/ for a list of industry members participants.

2:30pm-3:30pm: SCREENING – This Hour Has Many Shorts (LSPU Hall)

Nicolas Jouvin

A rare and optimistic look at the future through the good work people are doing now. This highly inspiring doc both defines the concept of social business and demonstrates it appealing effects.

Specifically, a team of French former bankers and profit-seekers bring their skills to villages in Cambodia. Where once they colonized now they work to make Cambodians economically independent, and the businesses they run self-sustainable. It’s a model for a hopeful future, considering the impossibility of our consuming endlessly into the future without sequences. Profit for profit’s sake got us into this mess, and produced the market-ethos of a Donald Trump and his ilk. Time to reboot the revolution. Come see how it’s done.

Kindling, Amy Doherty (Canada), Paper, Ivan Kraljevic (USA), Moi, C’est Julien, Kristina Wagenbauer (France/Switzerland), Incident At Elysian Fields, Judy Holm and Michael McNamara (Canada), Fireflies, Tamara Segura (Cuba).

4:30pm-6:00pm: SCREENING – What’s Up Doc? (LSPU Hall) Tales From The Organ Trade, Ric Esther Bienstock (Canada).

7:00pm-8:30pm: SCREENING – Actra Presents…Get Your Shorts On (LSPU Hall) The Pamplemousse, Jonathan Watton (Canada), Där Barn Jag Lekt, Sophia Bösch (Sweden), Me2, Martine Blue (Canada), The Earthquake, Danielle Lessovitz (USA), Tengri, Alisi Telengut (Canada), The Tunnel (The Big Dirty Ol’ Hole), Jordan Canning (Canada), Douche, Marie-Ève Beaumont (Canada), Distraction Of A Stationary Nature, Shyra De Souza (Canada), The Pool Date, Patrick Sisam (Canada).

7:00pm-9:00pm: SCREENING – MUN Cinema Presents...

(Empire Theatres Studio 12) Hannah Arendt, Margarethe von Trotta (Germany).

9:30pm-11:00pm: SCREENING – New Beginnings (LSPU Hall)

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Spring Equinox, Yinuo Wang (China), The Defector, Ann Shin (Canada).

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24 Kindling

Moi C’est Julien

SHORT CUTS (LSPU HALL) 2:30-3:30PM Director Amy Doherty Producer Elsa Morena Writer Amy Doherty

THIS HOUR HAS MANY SHORTS (LSPU HALL) 2:30-3:30PM Country CAN/NL Runtime 5 Date Thursday October 24

A clever tale about being careful what you wish for, KINDLING is about an elderly couple who happen upon the Fountain of Youth. This is Amy Doherty’s first film, made through NIFCO’s First Time Filmmaker program, and it’s a huge success – it’s warm, alive, and insightful. We look forward to her next project.

Kristina Wagenbauer

Paper

Incident At Elysian Fields

Producer Kristina Wagenbauer

Runtime 7

Writer Kristina Wagenbauer Arielle Moens

Date Thursday October 24

THIS HOUR HAS MANY SHORTS (LSPU HALL) 2:30-3:30PM

Director Ivan Kraljevic

Country USA

Producer Daniel Shultz

Runtime 23

Writer Elena Talan

Country France/Switzerland

You will admire the skilled naturalism of this short drama set on the murky waters of the Seine. A bunch of French friends are hanging out, talking and laughing and looking very cool in their inimitable French-casual way. Their obvious comfort level is suddenly displaced, however, through a sudden encounter with a stranger. What’s remarkable here is the way a good film can executive so much social complexity through a strong script and some pretty perfect acting.

This amuse-bouche is sure to cleanse your palate. Il est parfait!

Tamara Segura Amy Doherty

THIS HOUR HAS MANY SHORTS (LSPU HALL) 2:30-3:30PM

Director Kristina Wagenbauer

Director Judy Holm Michael McNamara Producer Judy Holm Stéphanie Chapelle Michael McNamara

Date Thursday October 24

Country CAN Runtime 9 Date Thursday October 24

Writer Judy Holm A one-word title suggests many things, but in this case the noun speaks to legal paper, the kind you need to work and live in a country not your own.

This well executed short drama about the search for legitimacy has played many major festivals this year. No wonder. The well-told story perfectly captures one woman’s desperation as she seeks a more permanent way to the land of her dreams. How far would you go to escape invisibility?

Ivan Kraljevic

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Ever wonder what happened to aging models? All the surgical work in the world doesn’t help anyone over 50 in that biz, let’s face it. The runway was meant for those who can pirouette without bunions. But some models refuse to fade away. They do fashion shows in senior residences. If that sounds depressing don’t fret. A trio of skilled actors, including Mary Walsh, know how to take the stage when they have to.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24 Fireflies

Tales From The Organ Trade

THIS HOUR HAS MANY SHORTS (LSPU HALL) 2:30-3:30PM

WHAT’S UP, DOC? (LSPU HALL) 4:30-6:00PM

Director Tamara Segura

Country Cuba

Director Ric Esther Bienstock

Country CAN

Producer Juan Carlos Godoy

Runtime 8

Producer Ric Esther Bienstock Felix Golubev

Runtime 82

Writer Tamara Segura

Date Thursday October 24

Writer Ric Esther Bienstock

Sometimes you just have to shed a little light on a tough situation to brighten up the mood. This charming short from Cuba about a harried mom and her sensitive son is most illuminating.

Tamara Segura

Ric Esther Bienstock

Date Thursday October 24

This incredibly gripping doc has nothing to do with pipe organs—but everything to do with the harrowing global phenomenon of trafficking in body parts. Ok, so now you’re thinking, why do I want to see this? Well, consider that David Cronenberg narrates. If ever a director understood the complexities of the corporeal self then it was he. Consider that the film offers us a much nuanced portrait of the social nexus of the trade—the arguably well-meaning surgeons, the Asian poor who are needy and willing to donate, the North American patients who endure the torture of long waiting lists, the almost indifferent public and the conservative medical establishment. This is such a terrific piece of filmmaking, shrewdly setting before us all the possible points of view—without judgement—that you should mark it on your calendar.

Prepare to think for yourself. That doesn’t happen every day.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24 The Pamplemousse

Där Barn Jag Lekt (Summers Past)

GET YOUR SHORTS ON (LSPU HALL) 7:00-8:30PM

GET YOUR SHORTS ON (LSPU HALL) 7:00-8:30PM

Director Jonathan Watton

Country CAN

Director Sophia Bösch

Sweden

Producer Mika Collins Sonia Despars Marc Biron Jonathan Watton

Runtime 9

Producer Anna Warfvinge

Runtime 11

Date Thursday October 24

Writer Sophia Bösch

Writer Mika Collins Jonathan Watton

Date Thursday October 24

This is a lovely moody tone poem of a story about Frida who takes some time alone in the woods to think about an important decision. Unexpectedly, the person with whom she shares the decision shows up, and so the rest is a delicate interpersonal choreography of Bergmanesque subtlety. Well, it’s Swedish, you know—and so it’s emotionally cloudy with meatballs.

Lovely lovely lovely short film about a girl from Paris (Ont) who encounters a gent from (new) France. Their random interaction has profound consequences. Filmmaker Watton mixes animation and live action to create an utterly wonderful landscape for the mind – and soul. La plume de ma tante, indeed.

Jonathan Watton

Country

Sophia Bösch

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24 Me2

Tengri

GET YOUR SHORTS ON (LSPU HALL) 7:00-8:30PM

Martine Blue

GET YOUR SHORTS ON (LSPU HALL) 7:00-8:30PM

Director Martine Blue

Country CAN/NL

Director Alisi Telengut

Country CAN

Producer Sherry White

Runtime 11

Producer Alisi Telengut

Runtime 6

Writer Martine Blue

Date Thursday October 24

Writer Alisi Telengut

Date Thursday October 24

Of course your life would be easier if you clone yourself! After all, you’re efficient and knowledgeable in your own affairs, you’re driven, you’re charming, you’re witty and good-looking… but are you really so wonderful? Writer Margaret Moores is pretty sure she’s got it all figured out when she has herself duplicated. Inconveniently for her, her duplicate is a bit more fun than she is, and a better writer, too. Spoiler alert: the film is just as clever as its premise.

Wow, what a luscious experiment in animation this is. Lines, colours, sounds—they all add up to an evocative expression of wind burial, a time-honoured approach to the cycles of life. It’s all appealing, both spiritual and sensual. Be prepared to be meditative.

Alisi Telengut

The Earthquake

The Tunnel (The Big Dirty Ol’ Hole)

GET YOUR SHORTS ON (LSPU HALL) 7:00-8:30PM

GET YOUR SHORTS ON (LSPU HALL) 7:00-8:30PM

Director Danielle Lessovitz

Country

Producer Danielle Lessovitz

Runtime 10

Writer Danielle Lessovitz

Date Thursday October 24

USA

The catastrophe in question is the one that rocked Haiti in 2010. Here the filmmakers focus on the displaced after-effects.

A family, torn asunder and as skittish as hot peppers on a grill, have moved to Brooklyn, an urban jungle of unfamiliar sounds and tremors. This is a very effective and evocative short film that will make you grateful for terra firma, let alone terra nova.

Danielle Lessovitz

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Director Jordan Canning

Country CAN

Producer Andrew Nicholas McCann Smith Laura Perlmutter

Runtime 6

Writer Kate Corbett

Jordan Canning

Date Thursday October 24

Well, we know she’s got talent in spades and so we are not surprised by the achievement of THE TUNNEL. It’s Canning’s latest foray into live action drama, this time a study of two people encountering the end of the season and the relationship that came out of it.

Penny and Jerry, sitting by a tree, one has to go, the other’s not so sure. The tunnel of love never looked quite like this.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24 The Pool Date

Douche (Shower)

GET YOUR SHORTS ON (LSPU HALL) 7:00-8:30PM

GET YOUR SHORTS ON (LSPU HALL) 7:00-8:30PM Director Marie-Ève Beaumont

Country CAN

Director Patrick Sisam

Country CAN

Producer Marie-Laurence Lévesque

Runtime 14

Producer Michael Pratte Patrick Sisam

Runtime 6

Writer Marie-Laurence Lévesque, Guillaume Lambert

Date Thursday October 24

Writer Patrick Sisam Leah McLaren

Date Thursday October 24

How do you spot the Canadian at a Caribbean resort? If the maple leaf towel doesn’t give it away the goggles scream nerd. What would you do with him when you found him? This is cute as it gets.

As in shower, baby shower. Women meet and giggle and open presents and anticipate new life. Yet all might not be what it seems. Here we see the underbelly (sorry) of choice. Not everyone feels like celebrating and when you get right down to it, one sister’s happiness might be another sister’s nightmare.

Marie-Ève Beaumont

Patrick Sisam

Distraction Of A Stationary Nature GET YOUR SHORTS ON (LSPU HALL) 7:00-8:30PM Director Shyra De Souza

Country

Producer Shyra De Souza

Runtime 10

Writer Shyra De Souza

Date

CAN

Thursday October 24

Perhaps this should be called Procrastination of a Stationary Nature. It’s pretty awesome what you can do when you have to write something and don’t really want to get started. Witty and fresh, this live action play with office supplies is a wonderful tribute to self-distraction. Don’t put off watching it.

Shyra De Souza

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Festival Information

MUN CINEMA PRESENTS (EMPIRE THEATRES STUDIO 12) 7:00-9:00PM Director Margarethe von Trotta Producer Bettina Brokemper, Johannes Rexin Writer Margarethe von Trotta, Pam Katz

Country Germany Runtime 113 Date Thursday October 24

Screenings For screenings at the LSPU Hall, tickets must be purchased through the LSPU Hall box office or at the door.

For screenings at the Arts & Culture Centre (Closing Night Galas), tickets must be purchased through the Arts & Culture Centre box office.

For the MUN Cinema Series screening of HANNAH ARENDT at Empire Theatres Studio 12 (Avalon Mall) tickets must be purchased at the MUN Cinema table at Empire Theatres between 6:00 pm and 7:00 pm on Thursday, October 24.

Screenings taking place at The Rooms are FREE. No ticket is required to attend these events.

Margarethe von Trotta

Not many directors would have the guts to make a movie about one of the more famous philosophers of the modern age, but von Trotta has been nothing but fearless throughout her career. Most famous for coining the phrase “the banality of evil” to describe Adolf Eichmann and the events of the Nazi Holocaust, Arendt is here imagined as the writer who covered the trial over a period of four years for The New Yorker.

Harrowing archival film of Eichmann himself is intercut to lend veracity and chills to the proceedings. While Arendt was covering the trial she was also deeply involved with the highly influential German philosopher Martin Heidegger, still controversial for his own Nazi sympathies. What a pair of brainy thinkers. Someone had to do the biopic, after all.

Merchandise Festival merchandise will be available for purchase at the LSPU Hall and during the Closing Night Gala at the Arts & Culture Centre.

Delegate Registration To all local and visiting delegates, please register for the Festival at the LSPU Hall (Cox & Palmer Second Space on the main floor, 3 Victoria Street) to claim your delegate kit which includes your pass.

Registration will be open 9:00am-5:00pm, Tuesday, October 22 – Saturday, October 26.

Film Forum Events All Film Forum events (workshops, master classes, panels, etc.) will be held at the Newfoundland Independent Filmmakers Cooperative (NIFCO), 40 Kings Road, with the following exceptions: In Conversation With… and The Women In View Annual Report will each be held at the Rocket Room (above the Rocket Bakery, 272 Water St.), with lunch included. Pre-registration required for both events. pUNK Films Presents The Making Of The Animal Project will be held at the LSPU Hall (this talkback after the film screening is FREE!) Reading the Room & The Ethics of Pitching workshop is $40 regular admission, $30 for students or seniors. All other Film Forum events are $20 regular, $15 students/seniors, except Lunch events are $25 regular, $20 students/seniors. Tickets are available through the LSPU Hall Box Office. You may pre-register for Film Forum events by emailing Film Forum Coordinator Jenn Brown at jenn@womensfilmfestival.com or by calling 709-754-3141. There are capacity limits on some events so please ensure you pre-register to reserve your spot. All lunch events must be pre-registered, as well as the Face 2 Face Pitch Session.

Festival Headquarters Visit our headquarters at the LSPU Hall Cox & Palmer Second Space on the main floor, 3 Victoria Street. We’ve got Wifi/data jacks, snacks, coffee, merchandise, schedules and more!

For More Info Phone: 709-754-3141 (SJIWFF Office) or 709-753-4531 (LSPU Hall) Email: info@womensfilmfestival.com WWW: womensfilmfestival.com, Twitter: @sjiwff #SJIWFF24 #SJIWFForum, Facebook: womensfilmfestival

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22 TUESDAY REGISTRATION & DELEGATE WELCOME 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (LSPU HALL - Cox & Palmer Second Space)

23 WEDNESDAY

24 THURSDAY

25 FRIDAY

26 SATURDAY

FILM FORUM

FILM FORUM

FILM FORUM

FILM FORUM

9:30 – 10:30 AM Marketing & Distribution Strategies For Features (NIFCO)

9:30 – 11:30 AM How To Finance Your Project (NIFCO)

9:30 – 11:30 AM Doc Talk (NIFCO)

1:30 – 2:30 PM pUNK Films Presents…Making Of The Animal Project (LSPU HALL)

11:00 – 12:00 AM Marketing & Distribution Strategies For Shorts (NIFCO)

12:00 – 1:30 PM In Conversation With…

(ROCKET ROOM – LUNCH PROVIDED)

12:30 – 2:00 PM Get Your Synopsis Firing (NIFCO – LUNCH PROVIDED) 2:30 – 4:30 PM How To Run A Production Company (NIFCO)

2:00 – 4:00 PM Face 2 Face Pitch Session (NIFCO)

12:00 – 2:00 PM Women In View Annual Report (ROCKET ROOM – LUNCH PROVIDED)

3:00 – 5:00 PM Nuts & Bolts of Protools (NIFCO)

3:00 – 5:00 PM Tales From The Writers’ Room (NIFCO)

FILM FORUM

SCREENINGS

SCREENINGS

SCREENINGS

SCREENINGS

10:00 AM – 4:00 PM CREATIVE WOMEN WORKSHOPS ASSOCIATION AND WOMEN IN THE DIRECTOR’S CHAIR PRESENTS… Reading The Room & The Ethics of Pitching (NIFCO)

12:30 – 1:30 PM LUNCH DOX (LSPU HALL) A Walk In The Woods / Home / Meshkanu: The Long Walk Of Elizabeth Penashue

12:30 – 1:30 PM LUNCH DOX (LSPU HALL) Social Business

12:30 – 1:30 PM LUNCH DOX (LSPU HALL) The Way To Nowhere Island

12:00 – 1:30 PM (LSPU HALL) The Animal Project

2:30 – 3:30 PM THIS HOUR HAS MANY SHORTS (LSPU HALL) Kindling / Paper / Moi C’est Julien / Incident At Elysian Fields / Fireflies

2:30 – 3:30 PM CORTO Y BUENO (LSPU HALL) Presence Required / Terapia / Tercera Oportunidad / La Boda / Ojos Que No Ven / Jamón

3:00 – 5:00 PM SHORT STUFF (LSPU HALL) Miss Todd / MyLovely Monster / OMG / Best, April / Wind Money / Hannah Cohen’s Holy Communion / rid-of-it / Dismissed / Kids On Courage / Up Against The Wall

4:30 – 5:30 PM WHAT’S UP, DOC? (LSPU HALL) Courage To Remember 4:30 – 5:30 PM DOCS WITH A VIEW (THE ROOMS) My Mother, The Nazi Midwife And Me

EYE ON CANADA OPENING NIGHT GALA 8:00 – 10:30 PM (ARTS & CULTURE CENTER) The Grand Seduction

4:30 – 6:00 PM WHAT’S UP, DOC? (LSPU HALL) Tales From The Organ Trade

4:30 – 6:00 PM WHAT’S UP, DOC? (LSPU HALL) How To Lose Your Virginity

7:00 – 8:30 PM WIFT-ATLANTIC PRESENTS...

SHORT CUTS (LSPU HALL) Partly Cloudy / Soup Of The Day /Role Play / Ending Up / Another Man / Sweetieface / They Wore Pink / Impromptu / MooseDate. com

7:00 – 8:30 PM ACTRA PRESENTS… GET YOUR SHORTS ON (LSPU HALL) The Pamplemousse / Där Barn Jag Lekt / Me2 / The Earthquake / Tengri / The Tunnel / Shower / Distraction Of A Stationary Nature / The Pool Date

7:00 – 8:30 PM CBC PRESENTS…LIFE’S TOO SHORT (LSPU HALL) Cinephilia / Newcomers Swim, Every Friday / We Wanted More / The End Of Pinky / Fetch / Sept Heures Trois Fois Par Année / Talus & Scree / How To Keep Your Day Job

7:00 – 8:30 PM DOCS WITH A VIEW (THE ROOMS) Village At The End Of The World

7:00 – 9:00 PM MUN CINEMA PRESENTS...

(EMPIRE THEATRES STUDIO 12) Hannah Arendt

9:30 – 11:00 PM FIRST WEEKEND CLUB PRESENTS…(LSPU HALL) All The Wrong Reasons

OPENING NIGHT PARTY

9:30 – 11:00 PM GOVERNING BODIES (LSPU HALL) Mary & Myself / Buying Sex

10:30 – 12:00 PM (ARTS & CULTURE CENTER) The Dardanelles

9:30 – 11:00 PM DOCS WITH A VIEW (THE ROOMS) Micta / Treaty Number Three/ Spring & Arnaud

9:30 – 11:00 PM NEW BEGINNINGS (LSPU HALL) Spring Equinox / The Defector

COX & PALMER CLOSING NIGHT GALA 8:00 – 10:30 PM (ARTS & CULTURE CENTER) The Passenger / Hold Fast

CLOSING NIGHT PARTY 11:00 – 1:00 AM (THE SHIP PUB) TBD

FESTIVAL AND BOX OFFICE INFO Box Office Information LSPU Hall Box Office

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24 Spring Equinox NEW BEGINNINGS (LSPU HALL) 9:30-11:00PM

3 Victoria Street, St. John’s Phone: (709) 753-4531 Email: boxoffice@rca.nf.ca Website: www.rca.nf.ca Hours: Monday to Friday 12:00 – 5:00pm, closed on Saturday and Sunday unless there is a performance. If there is a performance, the LSPU Hall is open from 2pm until the time of the performance.

Director Yinuo Wang

Country China

Producer Xiaolong Wang

Runtime 13

Writer Yinuo Wang Yun Jung Lee

Date Thursday October 24

Arts & Culture Centre Box Office 95 Allandale Road, St. John’s Phone: (709) 729-3900, 1 (800) 663-9449 Email: boxoffice@artsandculturecentre.com Website: www.artsandculturecentre.com Hours: Monday to Friday 12:00 - 6:00pm, on event days the box office will remain open until 8:00pm.

Rates Tickets for regular screenings are $12 regular, $10 for students/seniors.

Tickets for Closing Night Gala are $25 regular, $18 for students/seniors.

Tickets for the MUN Cinema screening are $10 regular, $9 for students/seniors.

Screenings at The Rooms are FREE. Tickets for Film Forum events are $20 regular, $15 for students/seniors (please see page 49 for details)

Yinuo Wang

We were really taken with this short film from the People’s Republic. Set in 1990s China, it’s all about a young girl who lives with her single mom and rebellious sister. She dutifully attends school where all the nationalist dogma is hammered daily. A new teacher comes to school, however, a young guy who suggests other possibilities, other ways of learning. It’s very affecting. Half hour after watching it you’ll want to see it again.

Festival Passes Festival Passes are a fantastic deal! $100 regular, $75 students/seniors. Passes are nontransferable. Festival Passes may be redeemed for one ticket per screening (except for MUN Cinema) and per Film Forum event. Festival passes are available for purchase through the LSPU Hall Box Office.

PLEASE NOTE: A Festival Pass does not guarantee a seat at a screening. Festival Pass holders still need a physical ticket to enter a screening. For LSPU Hall screenings, obtain a ticket by showing your Festival Pass at the screening location on the day of the screening. For Arts & Culture Centre screenings, you will receive a ticket voucher for each night to be redeemed at the Arts & Culture Centre Box Office. A block of tickets will be held for pass holders at each screening. The earlier you pick up a ticket, the better, as they will be dispersed on a first-come, first-served basis. Be sure to get there 30 minutes before the screening because after that time the remaining tickets being held for Pass Holders are released to the RUSH line.

IF THE BOX OFFICE TELLS YOU A SHOW IS SOLD OUT, BE SURE TO ASK ABOUT THE TICKETS BEING HELD FOR PASS HOLDERS AND SHOW YOUR PASS!

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NIFCO

NEW BEGINNINGS (LSPU HALL) 9:30-11:00PM

Ann Shin

Director Ann Shin

Country CAN

Producer Ann Shin

Runtime 71

Writer Ann Shin

Date Thursday October 24

This hot property at this year’s Hot Docs festival will leave you breathless.

Fearless director Ann Shin follows a guy brokering the escape of several North Koreans. Is he a human rights activist or a hustler? You decide.

Either way, it’s all a hair-raising experience and even more astounding for the intimacy Shin manages to capture on screen. Hiding her camera, tagging along for the bumpy, scary ride, she specifically tracks two young women who are at once determined and uneasy about the possible retribution for their families. The trip takes the escapees—and the camera – through China, Laos, and Thailand, with lots of paranoia in the rear-view mirror. Viewers will find the journey quite exhilarating. The film is itself a chronicle of courage—that of the escapees and the filmmaker herself.

The Passenger

Talus & Scree

Newfoundland Independent Filmmakers Co-operative

Me2

40 Kings Rd. St. John’s, NL 709-753-6121

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FRID 25 R 25 OBER OCTOBE AY, OCT FRIDAY, Day at a Glance 9:30am-11:30am: FILM FORUM – Doc Talk (NIFCO)

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 The Way To Nowhere Island LUNCH DOX (LSPU HALL) 12:30-1:30PM

Hear what it’s like to make documentaries in today’s world from panelists Ric Esther Bienstock (Tales From The Organ Trade), Teresa MacInnes (Buying Sex), Annette Clarke (Buying Sex, National Film Board) and Debra Zimmerman (Women Make Movies).

12:00pm-2:00pm: FILM FORUM – Women In View Annual Report (The Rocket Room) (LUNCH PROVIDED, PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED)

Presenting this year’s annual report looking at the representation of women and visible minorities in Canadian feature films are Women in View’s Executive Director, Rina Fraticelli, and Professor Emerita, Kay Armitage.

12:30-1:30pm: SCREENING – Lunch Dox (LSPU Hall) The Way To Nowhere Island, Kate McNaughton (UK/Denmark).

2:30pm-3:30pm: SCREENING – Corto Y Bueno (LSPU Hall) Presence Required, María Gordillo (USA/Spain), Terapia/Therapy, Beatriu Vallès (Spain), Tercera Oportunidad/Third Chance Love, Xudit Casas (Spain), La Boda/The Wedding, Marina Seresesky (Spain), Ojos Que No Ven/What The Eye Doesn’t See, Natalia Mateo (Spain), Jamón, Iria Lopez (UK).

3:00pm-5:00pm: FILM FORUM – Tales From The Writers’ Room: How To Write For TV (NIFCO) Canadian screenwriters Tassie Cameron and Sherry White share how writing for TV works and what you need to know to survive the Writers’ Room.

Kate McNaughton

Director Kate McNaughton

Country UK/Denmark

Producer Kate McNaughton

Runtime 58

Writer Kate McNaughton

Date Friday October 25

If you don’t yet know about Tamsin Osmond, this exciting documentary will ensure you never forget her. A force of change in the environmental movement, this powerful young British woman with a fabulous haircut is hard to dismiss. She has the confidence of a lioness and the charisma of a thoroughbred, a combination of characteristics that ensures her success, if not a wholesale shift in the environmental paradigm. The film follows her tactical moves to turn the spotlight on the cause, and you will recognize some of her most notable attention-grabbing stunts. Where does personal power end and vanity and self-interest begin, however? These are questions implicitly raised by this doc which doesn’t judge so much as show us what it takes to get the message out there in today’s noisy and indifferent environment. Afterwards you’ll either hug a tree or want to dress it up for a photo shoot in Vogue.

4:30pm-6:00pm: SCREENING – What’s Up Doc? (LSPU Hall) How To Lose Your Virginity, Therese Shechter (USA).

7:00pm-8:30pm: SCREENING – CBC Presents…Life’s Too Short (LSPU Hall) Cinephilia, Leah Chen Baker (USA), Newcomers Swim, Every Friday, Meghna Haldar (Canada), We Wanted More, Stephen Dunn (Canada), The End of Pinky, Claire Blanchet (Canada), Fetch, Gwyneth Baillie (Canada), Sept Heures Trois Fois Par Année, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette and André Turpin (Canada), Talus & Scree, Ruth Lawrence (Canada), How To Keep Your Day Job, Sean Frewer (Canada).

9:30pm-11:00pm: SCREENING – First Weekend Club Presents (LSPU Hall) All The Wrong Reasons, Gia Milani (Canada).

Scenes from SJIWFF23: Producer Barbara Doram at the 23rd annual Women’s Film Festival.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 Presence Required

Tercera Oportunidad (Third Chance - Love)

CORTO Y BUENO (LSPU HALL) 2:30-3:30PM Director María Gordillo Producer María Gordillo, David Figueroa, Miguel Ángel Fernández Belando

CORTO Y BUENO (LSPU HALL) 2:30-3:30PM Country USA/Spain

Director Xudit Casas

Country Spain

Runtime 12

Producer Xudit Casas

Runtime 17

Date Friday October 25

Writer Xudit Casas

Date Friday October 25

Writer María Gordillo A Brooklyn couple is experiencing a profound sense of loss. Seems their long-standing apartment presence, a ghost named Sebastian, has flown the coop. It’s impossible to replace him. Ghosts have become so demanding these days? Who knew they were unionized?

It’s time someone made a film about the lighter side of haunting.

Watch and listen carefully. This is all about point of view, gesture, words, and how the slightest detail can change everything. A couple is trying to decide whether or not to end their relationship. The conversation goes round—and round. Have fun with this. You’ll only see it once.

María Gordillo

Xudit Casas

Terapia (Therapy)

La Boda (The Wedding)

CORTO Y BUENO (LSPU HALL) 2:30-3:30PM

CORTO Y BUENO (LSPU HALL) 2:30-3:30PM

Director Beatriu Vallès

Country

Producer Albert Grau Lopez

Runtime 10

Teresa Rosado del Moral

Writer Javier Muñoz Pizarro

Spain

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Producer Álvaro Lavin

Runtime 12

Writer Marina Seresesky

Date Friday October 25

Emilia is grieving and withdrawn. Slowly, surely, a therapist of the physio variety opens her up and returns her to herself. This is such a lovely, sensual expression of discovery and transition you’ll find it as satisfying as an afternoon at the spa.

Beatriu Vallès

Director Marina Seresesky

Date Friday October 25

Totally charming short drama about a day that goes from bad to worse, and then some. Mom needs to be at her daughter’s wedding but the boss won’t give her the time, the credit’s run out, and she needs a manicure. This short comic drama is also a slice of the contemporary Cuban experience, what you don’t see on the beaches of Veradero.

Marina Seresesky

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 How To Lose Your Virginity

Ojos Que No Ven (What The Eye Doesn’t See)

WHAT’S UP, DOC? (LSPU HALL) 4:30-6:00PM

CORTO Y BUENO (LSPU HALL) 2:30-3:30PM Director Natalia Mateo

Country

Producer Stefan Schmitz María Zamora

Runtime

Writer Natalia Mateo

Spain 15 Date Friday October 25

Therese Shechter

Jamón CORTO Y BUENO (LSPU HALL) 2:30-3:30PM Director Iria Lopez

Country UK

Producer Casey Herbert

Runtime 9

Writer Iria Lopez

Iria Lopez

Country USA

Producer Therese Shecter Lisa Esselstein

Runtime 66

Writer Therese Shechter

You’ll not know whether to laugh or cry with this spirited short drama about a family suffering a loss or too on Christmas Eve. Everyone is trying to keep some bad news from Grandma, and the family is in a bit of a whirl. Perhaps only the Spanish could play this for farce with so much gusto. Bunuel would have approved, seguro!

Natalia Mateo

Director Therese Shechter

Date Friday October 25

Ok, we know you are coming too late to this film, but even if you have already lost it you can find much to laugh and muse about in this fabulous doc about the big V. Therese Schechter takes her typically wry approach to a loaded cultural subject: the value of no sex in a society steeped in promoting it. Apparently the US Government has spent 1.5 billion dollars advocating abstinence. Go figure. The filmmaker expertly weaves the personal and the political, illuminating the myths and assumptions behind the sign of virginity. What is virginity these days, anyway? Good question to ask when you are having fun, or about to. Just when you thought you knew everything…. Highly entertaining while teaching us a trick or two, this doc is bound to liven up your coffee conversations.

Date Friday October 25

We love this weird and wonderful animated tale about a teenage pig living in a Spanish town. He is the only pig in the family and so you can imagine how disconcerting that might be. Perhaps only a precocious student could have created something as original as this, an awardwinning riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma that is the tail end of the story. This winner really brings home the bacon.

Scenes from SJIWFF23: CWWA/WIDC’s Carol Whiteman and filmmaker Ruth Lawrence at SJIWFF23

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Cinephilia

LIFE’S TOO SHORT (LSPU HALL) 7:00-8:30PM

LIFE’S TOO SHORT (LSPU HALL) 7:00-8:30PM Director Leah Chen Baker

Country USA

Producer Leah Chen Baker

Runtime 19

Writer Leah Chen Baker

Date Friday October 25

Producer Jennifer Shin

Runtime 16

CAN

Date Friday October 25

This well-crafted psychological drama comes to us from the talented folks at the Canadian Film Centre and specifically from our festival darling, Stephen Dunn and his peeps. This is such an accomplished film, a near flawlessly enacted living nightmare of a journey. A young artist is faced with a life-altering decision or two and sometimes, well, the pressure’s just too much. What does it take to make it big? When does a gag become a gig? If you want more you’ll find more in this stunningly original short film.

Leah Chen Baker

Stephen Dunn

Newcomers Swim, Every Friday

The End Of Pinky LIFE’S TOO SHORT (LSPU HALL) 7:00-8:30PM

Director Meghna Haldar

Country CAN

Director Claire Blanchet

Country CAN

Producer Meghna Haldar

Runtime 9

Producer Michael Fukushima

Runtime 8

Writer Shana Myara

Date Friday October 25

Writer Claire Blanchet

Did you know that the proportion of swimming accidents is greater in immigrant families? This utterly charming short drama takes the premise and dives right in. Aisha and her family are new to the new world and determined to adjust. No sinking, all swimming here, as Canadian filmmaker Haldar balances her subject most elegantly.

Meghna Haldar

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Writer Stephen Dunn Margaret Lester

What a loving, well-crafted tribute to the history of cinema this is.

You don’t have to know a camera obscura from a zoopraxiscope to appreciate the love of genre here. Almost all movie history has boy-meets-girl at its centre, and so plus ca change… plus c’est la même chose. And then she walked into my life dot dot dot.

LIFE’S TOO SHORT (LSPU HALL) 7:00-8:30PM

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Talk about accomplishment, this brilliantly realized exercise in film noir captures the flavour and mood of the popular genre, all set in Montreal’s dingy Lower Main. If those streets could talk they would probably never have the class of this animated film. The method is stereoscopic and the effect most harmonic. Based on a story by Heather O’Neill who narrates the tale of a guy en route to where the sidewalk ends.

Claire Blanchet

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Talus & Scree

LIFE’S TOO SHORT (LSPU HALL) 7:00-8:30PM

LIFE’S TOO SHORT (LSPU HALL) 7:00-8:30PM

Director Gwyneth Baillie

Country

Producer Gwyneth Baillie

Runtime 6

Writer Gwyneth Baillie

Date Friday October 25

CAN

Ruth Lawrence

Sept Heures Trois Fois Par Annee

How To Keep Your Day Job

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Country CAN

Director Sean Frewer

Country CAN

Runtime 4

Producer Lea Martin

Runtime 9

Date Friday October 25

Writer Lesley Krueger

Date Friday October 25

This is somewhat of a brutal primer on just what the title says. 1) Watch this film with good humour. 2) Be grateful you don’t have to keep a day job like this, unless, you do.

Holy crap, this short near silent drama will shake you up. You’ll see what we mean. You just have to live it.

Anaïs BarbeauLavalette

Runtime 11

LIFE’S TOO SHORT (LSPU HALL) 7:00-8:30PM

Director Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette André Turpin

Writer Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette

Producer Krysta Rudofsky

Local multi-tasker Ruth Lawrence’s latest short film is a lovely drama that captures the heavy doubts of childhood. The title takes its inspiration from different sized rocks. These are, indeed, at the core of this beautifully wrought story about two sisters, and especially the one whose memory endures. Congratulations to Ruth for delivering another big piece of her heart.

Gwyneth Baillie

Producer Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette

Country CAN/NL

Writer Ruth Lawrence

Can’t say too much about this short comic drama without giving it all away, but suffice to say that this dog does tricks for lesbians.

Relax, you can bring your daughters to this. Woof woof!

LIFE’S TOO SHORT (LSPU HALL) 7:00-8:30PM

Director Ruth Lawrence

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Country

Producer Phyllis Laing Tony Whelan Gia Milani

Runtime 119

Writer Gia Milani

Gia Milani

CAN

Date Friday October 25

This feature just shows you what a lot of talent and a strong script can bring to a low-budget feature. Directed by New Brunswick darling, Gia Milani, the fully entertaining ALL THE WRONG REASONS centres its interweaving narratives at a big box store where four employees at different rungs on the corporate ladder are pursuing their destinies.

Karin who manages security operations is married to store manager James. Nicole works the cash and Simon stalks likely shoplifters on the floor. Each is suffering from some kind of trauma or limitation—whether physical or psychological—and each yearns to escape his/her condition.

Milani directs with a deft hand. Characters are fully realized, flaws and all, and each earns a measure of sympathy and harsh judgment, each being far from perfect. This debut feature is subtle and charming, and Milani has an amazingly light touch in her treatment of some heavy themes. Good humour is never far below the surface and the film conveys a rare and sensitive intelligence. There’s no denying that part of the appeal lies in watching Cory Montieth in the role of James, a hapless husband in search of his version of happiness. Here he is the office nerd that Finn might have been. This was one of Montieth’s last roles and so there something bittersweet about seeing him perform so effectively on screen. You can’t help but lament the loss. Bravo to Milani for winning the Best Emerging Filmmaker prize at TIFF and for thinking so creatively out of the big box.

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SAT 26 R 26 OBER OCTOBE AY, OCT URDAY, SATURD Day At A Glance 12:00pm-1:30pm: SCREENING – pUNK Films Presents – (LSPU Hall)

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26 The Animal Project PUNK FILMS PRESENTS (LSPU HALL) 12:00-2:30PM

The Animal Project, Ingrid Veninger (Canada).

1:30pm-2:30pm: FILM FORUM – pUNK Films Presents…The Making Of The Animal Project (LSPU Hall) Following the screening, join filmmaker Ingrid Veninger to learn more about her filmmaking approach and methods.

Director Ingrid Veninger

Country CAN

Producer Ingrid Veninger

Runtime 95

Writer Ingrid Veninger

Date Saturday October 26

3:00pm-5:00pm: FILM FORUM – Nuts And Bolts Of Protools (NIFCO) Hands-on workshop with sound engineer Marco Dölle who reveals postproduction sounds techniques for film.

3:00pm-5:00pm: SCREENING – Short Stuff (LSPU Hall) Miss Todd, Kristina Yee (UK), MyLovely Monster, Ben Campbell and Carlos Saiani (UK), OMG, Siobhan Devine (Canada), Best, April, Scott McCord (Canada), Wind Money, Latonia Hartery (Canada), Hannah Cohen’s Holy Communion, Shimmy Marcus (UK/Ireland), rid-of-it, FRAMED, (Canada), Dismissed FRAMED (Canada), Kids On Courage, FRAMED (Canada), Up Against The Wall, FRAMED (Canada).

8:00pm-10:30pm: SCREENING – Cox & Palmer Closing Night Gala (Arts & Culture Centre) The Passenger, Jacqueline Hynes (Canada), Hold Fast, Justin Simms (Canada).

Ingrid Veninger

Festival favourite, indie genius Ingrid Veninger brings her latest lowbudget experiment to our screens. Typically inventive, the feature film involves the cast in much of its improvised dialogue and plot line, the result being an affecting, spontaneous rush of creativity.

Actor Aaron Poole plays a theatre director suffering personal and professional frustrations. He seeks a way out of this emotional impasse and, sure enough, hits on a wacky idea. His troupe will dress up in animal costumes and embrace or at least encounter the real world.

How do you think that washes in Toronto? Poole is commanding in the sensitive role and the rest of the cast are obviously having a blast with Ingrid at their side. Fresh and quirky hardly cover it, but ANIMAL PROJECT will have you purring in appreciation.

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26 Miss Todd

OMG

SHORT STUFF (LSPU HALL) 3:00-5:00PM

SHORT STUFF (THE ROOMS) 3:00-5:00PM

Director Kristina Yee

Country UK

Director Siobhan Devine

Country CAN

Producer Suzanne Mayger

Runtime 13

Producer Siobhan Devine Lucy MacLeod Woojo Jeon Roslyn Muir

Runtime 10

Writer Frances Poletti Kristina Yee

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Date Saturday October 26

Writer Roslyn Muir There’s ingenuity here on every level. This gorgeous animated film is a short, stop-motion, musical animation about the first woman in the world to build and design an airplane. There is something utterly magical way about how the scrupulously crafted images of this tale pile up to celebrate Miss Todd’s own transformational mission—as hypnotic as flying was for the intrepid Miss Todd.

This short film will have u LOL. The 411 on this – it’s all abt POV. One generation has a cord phone, the other texts: how can the 2 RL8? Made with TLC, OMG really earns its props. It’s wut you like and wut you need. DNT mss it. It’s 2GTB4G.

Kristina Yee

Siobhan Devine

MyLovely Monster

Best, April

SHORT STUFF (THE ROOMS) 3:00-5:00PM Director Ben Campbell Carlos Salani Producer Bella Hird Writer N/A

SHORT STUFF (LSPU HALL) 3:00-5:00PM Country UK

Director

Runtime 12

Producer Juli Strader Christine Tyson Priya Rao

Date Saturday October 26

You want perky, we got perky! This lively 12-minute doc tells the story of two young actresses who make the cast of GLEE look like slackers. Liz McMullen and Noor Lawson created their very own monster: MyLovely Productions – a theatre production company.

The doc follows their journey from disheartened victims of the financial crisis to optimistic overachievers, finally staging their own first-class theatrical production and showing how it’s done when there’s not only a will but a creative way to professional happiness.

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Writer Juli Strader Priya Rao

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We are seeing more and more films about the consequences of electronic communication. Texting is at once liberating and astoundingly confounding, leading to more misunderstandings than you can shake your booty at. Poor April, she falls harder than an investor in Blackberry.

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26 Wind Money

rid-of-it (FRAMED West)

SHORT STUFF (LSPU HALL) 3:00-5:00PM

SHORT STUFF (LSPU HALL) 3:00-5:00PM

Director Latonia Hartery

Country CAN/NL

Producer Latonia Hartery

Runtime 8

Writer Latonia Hartery

Participants Stephen Evans Jose Gonzalez Tyler Herridge Jonathan Lewis Philip Power Ernest Power

Date Saturday October 26

The key words in this satisfying little drama are luck, fate, and newcomer. It’s a lovely little swirl of a tale about how quickly things can change when you’re down and pouty. St John’s is a charmer here, for sure, even on a cold windy day.

Writer Victoria Graham and FRAMED Participants Country CAN/NL Runtime 5

Producer Jacqueline Hynes (Mentor)

Date Saturday October 26

Margo (Morgan Mouland) has hit a crossroads, when friend-since-childhood Andrea (Jenn Furlong) arrives on the scene. This little adaptation says a lot about the big differences that can bring us together in spite of it all.

Latonia Hartery

Hannah Cohen’s Holy Communion

Dismissed (FRAMED Drama)

SHORT STUFF (LSPU HALL) 3:00-5:00PM Director Shimmy Marcus

Country UK/Ireland

Producer Rachel Lysaght Shimmy Marcus

Runtime 12

Writer Lana Citron

Shimmy Marcus

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Hannah is Seven years old, lives in Dublin, and all her friends are attending their first communion, dressed like little princesses and eager to be blessed. Her name is Cohen, however, and that means she belongs to the other tribe, the one that wrote the Testament they call Old. The only communion Hannah knows is the festival meal at Passover. But where there’s a will there’s a feisty Irish girl who finds a way towards those awfully thin wafers the priest gives out. Utterly charming, this short is another festival favourite. All religions accepted.

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Writer Brandon West and FRAMED Participants Country CAN/NL Runtime 3 Date Saturday October 26

At school, Dennis (Jacob Keiley) and Susan (Erica Foote) cope with a profound change. A compassionate exploration of bonds that can become harder to see, but guide us always.

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26 The Passenger

Kids On Courage (FRAMED) SHORT STUFF (LSPU HALL) 3:00-5:00PM

COX & PALMER CLOSING NIGHT GALA (ARTS & CULTURE CENTER) 8:00-10:30PM

Participants Members of the Boys & Girls Clubs of St. John’s Producer Victoria Wells & Eilish Mc Brearty (Mentors)

Country CAN/NL

Director Jacqueline Hynes

Runtime 4

Producer G. Patrick Condon Elsa Morena

Date Saturday October 26

Writer Jacqueline Hynes

Writer N/A The kids of the Boys & Girls Clubs of St. John’s brave the camera to share their most intrepid influences and experiences.

Jacqueline Hynes

Up Against The Wall (FRAMED Doc) SHORT STUFF (LSPU HALL) 3:00-5:00PM Participants Jake Cutler Antoinette Fekete Janelle Hilier Tracey McGuire Chris Mullett Holy Nelson Ashley Rotchford Heather Rumancik Tamara Segura

Writer N/A Country CAN/NL Runtime 8m21s Date Saturday October 26

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Jackie Hynes, the director of this dark and ambitious short about a woman who carries, and then confronts, her troubled past, was the winner of the 2012 RBC Michelle Jackson Emerging Filmmaker Award. Administered by the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival, the award – affectionately known as the RBC MJAward – supports emerging female filmmakers in Newfoundland and Labrador. And Hynes has certainly emerged with this film. Beautifully shot, scored and paced, the film gently and poignantly presents an intimate snapshot of one woman’s fear and vulnerability, and her strength to just leave it all by the side of the road and carry on.

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Producer Peter Walsh (Mentor) This documentary is bracing, daring and raw, and it was made by a group of people with little to no film experience. This film was made during one of our FRAMED filmmaking camps and the expertise of its mentor shines as brightly as fresh paint. Featuring candid interviews with a retired graffiti artist, a new artist and the Mayor of St. John’s, this doc perfectly encapsulates the state of an issue that has some city councillors in a spray. Well done, crew.

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Hold Fast COX & PALMER CLOSING NIGHT GALA (ARTS & CULTURE CENTER) 8:00-10:30PM Director Justin Simms Producer Rosemary House Judy Holm Michael McNamara Writer Rosemary House

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Country CAN/NL Runtime 94 Date Saturday October 26

Producer Rosemary House wisely saw the filmic potential in Kevin Major’s hugely popular novel by the same name. How clever was she! Described by one smart reviewer as a “more generous and reflective work” than Catcher In The Rye, with which it has often been compared, Major’s 1978 Governor General Award-winning novel centres on a tough but sensitive 14-year-old from Newfoundland with a lot of growing up to do.

HOLD FAST, the film, transmutes the novel to the screen by focusing on youngster Michael’s awkward encounter with adolescence, set against the stunning landscape of this sometime emerald isle. Director Justin Simms rightly lingers on the stunning vistas of Gros Morne, Woody Point, Green Gardens and other recognizably gorgeous island locations where Michael and his cousin experiment with independence and the qualified appeal of freedom. Newcomer Avery Ash plays Michael with precocious authenticity, while Douglas Sullivan as cousin Curtis is the perfect tentative foil for Michael’s determined bravado.

The impressive cast boasts Andy Jones, Des Walsh, Aiden Flynn, and Molly Parker, among others, who play roles borrowed from the kingdom where adults live. Newfoundland itself has a starring role—naturally. What better way to close the Festival than with this loving tribute to a fine novel. The film does more than respectful justice to it. HOLD FAST plainly shimmers with tender loving care.

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FILM FORUM Tuesday, October 22, 2013 CREATIVE WOMEN WORKSHOPS ASSOCIATION AND WOMAN IN THE DIRECTOR’S CHAIR PRESENTS...

Reading The Room And The Ethics Of Pitching (MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE WIDC OUTREACH INITIATIVE POWERED BY NBC UNIVERSAL)

10:00 AM – 4:00 PM (INCLUDING A LUNCH BREAK), NIFCO “Anyone can read the room after the meeting is over. Imagine how much more effective you could be if you could read the room while you are still in it!”

Carol Whiteman and Garwin Sanford have a cumulative 60 years of hands-on experience conveying ideas, building teams, closing deals, engaging audiences, and advancing careers in the film and television industry. Through a process of dialogue and interactive demonstrations, this ‘how to’ workshop offers career-launching tips for the emerging filmmaker, polishing notes for the seasoned professional, and common sense concepts designed to set ‘creative’ and ‘business’ types alike on the path to success.

Participants will learn how to maximize pitch-appropriate situations, harness the power of their communications styles, be more memorable and effective in personal meetings, and most importantly how to ‘read the room’ while they are still in it! A variety of scenarios will be explored, including introductions, first conversations (e.g. at a cocktail party), job interviews, the audition, and the traditional business meeting (e.g. pitching an idea or story to executives).

Open to the general public. Selected participants will have the opportunity to practice learned techniques, to pitch their own stories, ideas and/or career goals, and receive feedback.

Carol Whiteman is a respected moderator, guest speaker, facilitator and professional coach. A two-time Governor General Award-nominee and multiple award-winner for promoting women’s equality and advancing talent in Canada’s screen-based media industry, Carol is a co-creator of the internationally respected Women in the Director’s Chair (WIDC) program. A founding member, President and CEO of Creative Women Workshops Association (CWWA), she has produced over 150 short films through WIDC since its inception in 1997. Carol holds a BFA with Honours from York University’s Theatre Performance program and is a graduate of the Alliance Atlantis Banff Television Executive Program, and is currently undertaking her doctorate in Education in Transformational Change at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.

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FILM FORUM Garwin Sanford is one of the most successful Canadian actors emanating from the highly respected acting program of Langara College’s Studio 58.

Cast in hundreds of projects including recurring roles in over 15 television series, such as STARGATE SG1, STARGATE ATLANTIC and HAWKEYE, Garwin has been nominated four times for Best Actor. Garwin co-created the Langara College Film Arts program with writer/producer Alyson Drysdale in 2003. Since then, Garwin has juggled his acting career while heading the LCFA Acting Stream; executive producing over 60 short films since the program’s inception. In 2009, Garwin started directing short films and in 2010 he directed his first feature, RAIN DOWN.

Wednesday, October 23, 2013 Marketing & Distribution Strategies For Features 9:30 – 10:30 AM, NIFCO You’ve completed your feature – no easy feat. Now, how are you going to distribute this thing?

The landscape of content delivery is ever-changing and we have assembled the best of the best to help you develop effective marketing, distribution and sales strategies for your feature.

Join Robin Cass and Sandra Cunningham (Strada Films/Union Pictures), Mark Slone (E1 Entertainment – distributor of THE GRAND SEDUCTION and HOLD FAST) and Paul Pope (Pope Productions) to learn how to get your film to market.

Sandra Cunningham has over 25 years of experience in the international film industry and is the founder of Strada Films, producing with partner Robin Cass, a Gemini award-winning television and film producer. Together, the team represents a stamp of commitment to character-driven storytelling and strong working relations with the best of talent. Under their Union distribution banner the team recently released Sally Potter’s acclaimed GINGER AND ROSA in Canada. Upcoming on the distribution slate are Nik Sexton’s HOW TO BE DEADLY and Jefferson Moneo’s BIG MUDDY. As producers the team have worked with some of the country’s best directors and actors. With titles such as Atom Egoyan’s THE SWEET HEREAFTER (Oscar nominee for best screenplay and director), Mary Harron’s MOTH DIARIES (Venice premiere, 20011), and Thom Fitzgerald’s THE HANGING GARDEN (audience award for most popular film at TIFF), their films screen regularly at the world’s top festivals.

Mark Slone is a Senior Vice President of Acquisitions at Entertainment One, Canada’s leading motion picture distributor. A graduate of McGill University, he specializes in acquisitions and communications for wide release, Canadian, genre and art house films. He serves as a Board Director for a several non-profit film organizations, including The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, and provides mentorship to emerging filmmakers.

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Paul Pope has been a dynamic force in Newfoundland’s film industry for over two decades. As Senior Producer at Pope Productions, a St. John’s based company specializing in feature film, documentary and television formats, Paul is committed to bringing high quality and innovative, creative projects to national and international audiences. His multi-award winning productions include Sundance favourite GROWN UP MOVIE STAR (dir.

Adriana Maggs), BEAT DOWN (dir. Deanne Foley), ABOVE AND BEYOND (dir. Sturla Gunnarsson), MY LEFT BREAST (dir. Gerry Rogers), among many others.

Marketing & Distribution Strategies For Shorts 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM, NIFCO As with feature film distribution, the game of short film marketing and distribution is also changing. Over the past few years, the number of short films available online has exploded and opened up new channels for rising filmmakers. In a world of Vimeo, YouTube, iTunes, online film festivals and short film channels, the question seems to be – do you go for glory or gold, or both? We don’t have the answers, but our panelists do. Join Fred Joubaud (OUAT Media), Linda Olszewski (Shorts International/Movies That Matter) and St. John’s native Stephen Dunn (WE WANTED MORE) to discuss the unique world of short film marketing, distribution and sales.

Fred Joubaud oversees all aspects of acquisitions, sales and operations for leading short film sales/distribution company Ouat Media. Before joining the team, he was Head of Acquisitions and Sales at Premium Films in France and a line producer for more than 20 short films at Paris-based Stellaire Productions, two French television series’ and post-production of JEUNESSE, a feature film starring Arielle Dombasle and Bernard Lecoq. He has represented nine Academy Award-nominated short films and three Academy Award-winning short films, including THE MOZART OF PICKPOCKETS, GOD OF LOVE and THE LOST THING. Linda Olszewski is a seasoned film professional who is in process of launching a new entertainment company, Movies That Matter, focussing on final cut development, festival and Academy Award strategy and distribution of “movies that matter.” Linda held the position of Vice President of Global Acquisitions at Shorts International (originally BritShorts) and ShortsHD for seven years. Her tenure began when she brought the Oscar Shorts release to the company and shepherded the release to grow it to its current multi-million dollar worldwide potential while supporting the nominees in their Oscar journey. She continues to consult for ShortsHD in the Oscar Shorts release and broadcast acquisitions. A recognizable face at most international film festivals, she searches for film gems and promising talent while serving on juries, panels and workshops.

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FILM FORUM Stephen Dunn is an award-winning filmmaker and graduate of Norman Jewison’s Canadian Film Centre and Ryerson University’s Film Program.

His thesis film, LIFE DOESN’T FRIGHTEN ME, starring Gordon Pinsent, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and has won numerous awards, including the Student Visionary Award at the Tribeca Film Festival and Best Live Action Film at the TIFF Student Film Showcase.

Dunn is the youngest filmmaker ever selected for the TIFF Talent Lab where he won two TIFF RBC INTERNATIONAL EMERGING FILMMAKER AWARDS for his film, SWALLOWED. In 2009, Dunn attended the Cannes Film Festival - Short Film Corner with his film, THE HALL, where film critic Roger Ebert highlighted Dunn as an upcoming filmmaker to watch. Dunn is currently developing his first feature, CLOSET MONSTER, with Niv Fichman at Rhombus Media.

Get Your Synopsis Firing 12:30 – 2:00 PM, NIFCO (LUNCH PROVIDED, PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED) We’ll keep this description short. We are inviting you and your big, unwieldy but brilliant idea to lunch. You eat your lunch and we’ll eat your words – trimming them down into a precise, concise morsel of truth. Just in time for the Face 2 Face Pitch Session on Thursday. It won’t be pretty, bring a bib.

Dave Sullivan is a founding member of the Dance Party of Newfoundland, and as an actor has appeared on stages in Canada, Asia, the United Kingdom and the US. Sullivan has also appeared in CBC Television’s THE REPUBLIC OF DOYLE and MURDOCH MYSTERIES. Dave works as a copywriter for Target Marketing and Communications and has written for brands like Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism, Canada Bread, Maple Leaf Foods, Larsen, Irving, Parks Canada and Memorial University.

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How To Run A Production Company 2:30 – 4:30 PM, NIFCO We all know starting a film production company requires more than just a bank account and a desire to make movies happen. But what exactly? We turn to two experts in the field for lessons on what’s needed to form a solid company from the start and keep it running like a well-oiled, inthe-black, production machine. Sandra Cunningham, President and Co-Founder of Strada Films, along with entertainment lawyer Sandra Richmond (Partner, Stohn Hay Cafazzo Dembroski Richmond LLP) share their DOs and DON’Ts – take good notes.

Sandra Cunningham, as President and co-founder of Strada Films, has over 25 years of experience in the international film industry. She began her career in Montreal in distribution and promotion, which led to a five-year stretch working on independent productions in Rome. Upon her return to Canada, Sandra worked as a programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival for two years, and went on to start her own production company in the mid 1990s. Strada Films has been successful in bringing critically acclaimed Canadian feature films to the big screen, including John L’Ecuyer’s CURTIS’S CHARM, Robert Lepage’s POSSIBLE WORLDS and a series of high-profile international co-productions with Robert Lantos’ Serendipity Point Films, such as Atom Egoyan’s ARARAT and WHERE THE TRUTH LIES, Norman Jewison’s THE STATEMENT, Istvan Szabo’s BEING JULIA and recently, Jeremy Podeswa’s FUGITIVE PIECES. Sandra is an active member of the Canadian production community, sitting on a number of advisory committees and is the current Board Chair of the Canadian Film and Television Production Association.

Sandra Richmond’s practice focusses on entertainment and media law and on corporate law within those industries. She represents a variety of clients (including producers, writers, broadcasters, distributors and financiers) in all aspects of the financing, development, production and exploitation of film, television, publishing and interactive media projects, such as rights acquisition, co-production and shareholder structures, interim financing, corporate matters, and exploitation agreements. She has presented lectures and seminars for various organizations, including the Canadian Film Centre, Ontario Media Development Corporation, Telefilm Canada, Women in Film and Television, National Screen Institute, Women in the Director’s Chair, Interactive Ontario and the Worldwide Short Film Festival.

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How To Finance Your Project 9:30 – 10:30AM, NIFCO You’ve got a winning idea for a TV series, a short film or a feature but what resources are out there to either help you develop that idea, or produce it, or get it to market? You’ll be seeing dollar signs after these resourceful panelists are through with you. Susan Kelly (CBC), Gretha Rose (Cellar Door Productions), Stephanie Azam (Telefilm) and Francesca Accinelli (Canada Media Fund) are here to help. Cha-ching!

Susan Kelly is the Senior Director of Business & Rights for CBC’s Scripted & Acquired Programming. She leads the business groups that negotiate deals with the independent producers who produce original scripted programs for CBC, such as REPUBLIC OF DOYLE, MR. D, ARCTIC AIR, HEARTLAND and THE RICK MERCER REPORT, as well as all of CBC’s acquired programming. She has a background in law, having started out her career at a large Bay Street law firm. She has been in the film and television industry for 16 years; prior to joining CBC in 2002, she worked at CHUM Television, at a boutique entertainment law firm representing producers and talent, and in-house at a leading edge interactive television production shop.

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Gretha Rose, as owner of Cellar Door Productions Inc., has built her company’s reputation as a creative and diverse television/cross media company, specializing in brand development, financing, producing and distributing quality, value-based reality, travel, animated and live-action productions with national and international partners. CHEF MICHAEL’S KITCHEN, THE VILLAGE FEAST, CHEF AT HOME, CHEF ABROAD, ARE WE THERE YET?, DOODLEZ, among many others, are some of Cellar Door’s original programming. Cellar Door is an award-winning company with a focus on executive producing and content development for branded entertainment opportunities in all media through various formats.

Francesca Accinelli holds the position of Director, English Market for the CMF Program Administrator at Telefilm Canada. In this position she manages the business affairs processes for both Convergent and Experimental Programs for English Canada and works with TV and digital media producers providing support during the CMF application process.

Previously, Francesca was Deputy Director of the Television Business Unit at Telefilm Canada. Before joining the organization, Francesca was the Manager of Operations and Business Analyst for the Canadian Television Fund where she started in 2001.

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FILM FORUM Stephanie Azam is Telefilm Canada’s National Feature Film Executive – English Market. After receiving a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Ottawa, she worked at Industry Canada and then with the Business Development Bank of Canada for four years before pursuing film.

Stephanie joined New York’s Zeitgeist Films (distributor of The Corporation and the Academy Award-nominated Nowhere in Africa) as the Director of Theatrical Marketing, directing major campaigns across various media including Oscar runs, as well as engaging in acquisitions and harnessing international festivals. Stephanie then joined Telefilm Canada as Marketing and Distribution Specialist for English-language, overseeing investments from the English-language marketing component of the Canada Feature Film Fund and coordinated joint efforts with promotion, broadcasting, theatrical and Web partners.

In Conversation With…

12:00 – 1:30 PM, ROCKET ROOM (LUNCH PROVIDED, PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED)

Jane Hawtin, director of MY MOTHER, THE NAZI MIDWIFE AND ME, and the producer and subject of this incredible documentary, Gina Roitman, share their incredible journey together in making this film.

Gina Roitman is the author of TELL ME A STORY, TELL ME THE TRUTH, and co-producer of the documentary, MY MOTHER, THE NAZI MIDWIFE AND ME. Gina has enjoyed numerous careers including: theatrical publicist, professional fundraiser, advertising executive, administrative director of a chimpanzee sanctuary and communications consultant in the travel and tourism industry. Her stories have aired on CBC Radio and her writing has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Montreal Gazette, Quills Poetry Magazine, Living Legacies, roverarts.com, the Montreal Review of Books, carteblanche.org, and the anthology, The Poet’s Word. She is currently studying the art of short, snappy titles.

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Jane Hawtin is the President/Executive Producer of Amberlight Productions. Jane was Canada’s first female News Director at Q107 and first female talk show host on CFRB 1010. Jane broke ground again when she created, executive produced and hosted the innovative radio program, Stranded, for CBC Radio One making her the first independent producer to sell a radio series to the public network. In 2007, Canadian Women in Broadcasting recognized Jane with the Rosalie Award. Jane is a familiar voice on CBC Radio One as the back-up host on a number of radio shows including METRO MORNING, HERE AND NOW, THE CURRENT, and AS IT HAPPENS. She has been the Executive producer and/or host of a wide range of award winning television programming including: JANE HAWTIN LIVE, LINEHAN, DOCTOR ON CALL, CARE GIVING, PRIME BUSINESS, TEEN TRIBUTE TV, ROAD SCHOLARS, and THE LINK. She was twice nominated for an ACTRA, won the Hollobon Award for excellence in medical and science reporting and after her first year in television, a Gemini nomination as Best Host/Interviewer. Jane is currently doing International marketing and publicity for her dynamic and moving documentary about an untold post-war atrocity called MY MOTHER, THE NAZI MIDWIFE AND ME.

Face 2 Face Pitch Session 2:00 – 4:00 PM, NIFCO (PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED) Now is the time to deploy your honed pitching skills and make 15 minutes really count. We have a very impressive line-up of broadcasters, funders, producers and distributors waiting for you to wow them. Or simply have a chat – no pressure! Don’t miss out on an incredible opportunity to have a one-on-one pitch session right here in St. John’s with some of the industry’s biggest resources.

Sandra Cunningham has over 25 years of experience in the international film industry and is the founder of Strada Films, producing with partner Robin Cass, a Gemini award-winning television and film producer.

Together, the team represents a stamp of commitment to character-driven storytelling and strong working relations with the best of talent. Under their Union distribution banner the team recently released Sally Potter’s acclaimed GINGER AND ROSA in Canada. Upcoming on the distribution slate are Nik Sexton’s HOW TO BE DEADLY and Jefferson Moneo’s BIG MUDDY. As producers the team have worked with some of the country’s best directors and actors. With titles such as Atom Egoyan’s THE SWEET HEREAFTER (Oscar nominee for best screenplay and director), Mary Harron’s MOTH DIARIES (Venice premiere, 20011), and Thom Fitzgerald’s THE HANGING GARDEN (audience award for most popular film at TIFF), their films screen regularly at the world’s top festivals.

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FILM FORUM Fred Joubaud oversees all aspects of acquisitions, sales and operations for leading short film sales/distribution company Ouat Media. Before joining the team, he was Head of Acquisitions and Sales at Premium Films in France and a line producer for more than 20 short films at Paris-based Stellaire Productions, two French television series’ and post-production of Jeunesse, a feature film starring Arielle Dombasle and Bernard Lecoq. He has represented nine Academy Award-nominated short films and three Academy Award-winning short films, including THE MOZART OF PICKPOCKETS, GOD OF LOVE and THE LOST THING. Linda Olszewski is a seasoned film professional who is in process of launching a new entertainment company, Movies That Matter, focussing on final cut development, festival and Academy Award strategy and distribution of “movies that matter.” Linda held the position of Vice President of Global Acquisitions at Shorts International (originally BritShorts) and ShortsHD for seven years. Her tenure began when she brought the Oscar Shorts release to the company and shepherded the release to grow it to its current multi-million dollar worldwide potential while supporting the nominees in their Oscar journey. She continues to consult for ShortsHD in the Oscar Shorts release and broadcast acquisitions. A recognizable face at most international film festivals, she searches for film gems and promising talent while serving on juries, panels and workshops.

Helen Asimakis is part of the team responsible for managing the creative development and production of CBC Television’s slate of original scripted programming, including series, pilots, limited-series, mini-series and TV movies. She has worked in the television industry since 1988 and has a broad knowledge of production, distribution and management. She has held a variety of positions, including Supervisor of Program Development and Production at CTV; Story Editor and Director of Development at Sullivan Entertainment; Associate Producer at Sarrazin Couture Entertainment. Helen joined the CBC in 2001 and has served as the Executive in Charge of Production on such series as HEARTLAND, REPUBLIC OF DOYLE, DAVINCI’S CITY HALL; the mini-series, KEEP YOUR HEAD UP KID: THE DON CHERRY STORY and its sequel THE WRATH OF GRAPES, TRUDEAU II: MAVERICK IN THE MAKING; and MOWs such as, MR. HOCKEY: THE GORDIE HOWE STORY, A HEARTLAND CHRISTMAS; and is currently overseeing the production of the six-part film adaptation of THE BOOK OF NEGROES.

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FILM FORUM Susan Kelly is the Senior Director of Business & Rights for CBC’s Scripted & Acquired Programming. She leads the business groups that negotiate deals with the independent producers who produce original scripted programs for CBC, such as Republic of Doyle, Mr. D, Arctic Air, Heartland and the Rick Mercer Report, as well as all of CBC’s acquired programming.

She has a background in law, having started out her career at a large Bay Street law firm. She has been in the film and television industry for 16 years; prior to joining CBC in 2002, she worked at CHUM Television, at a boutique entertainment law firm representing producers and talent, and in-house at a leading edge interactive television production shop.

Gretha Rose, as owner of Cellar Door Productions Inc., has built her company’s reputation as a creative and diverse television/cross media company, specializing in brand development, financing, producing and distributing quality, value-based reality, travel, animated and live-action productions with national and international partners. CHEF MICHAEL’S KITCHEN, THE VILLAGE FEAST, CHEF AT HOME, CHEF ABROAD, ARE WE THERE YET?, DOODLEZ, among many others, are some of Cellar Door’s original programming. Cellar Door is an award-winning company with a focus on executive producing and content development for branded entertainment opportunities in all media through various formats.

Stephanie Azam is Telefilm Canada’s National Feature Film Executive – English Market. After receiving a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Ottawa, she worked at Industry Canada and then with the Business Development Bank of Canada for four years before pursuing film.

Stephanie joined New York’s Zeitgeist Films (distributor of The Corporation and the Academy Award-nominated Nowhere in Africa) as the Director of Theatrical Marketing, directing major campaigns across various media including Oscar runs, as well as engaging in acquisitions and harnessing international festivals. Stephanie then joined Telefilm Canada as Marketing and Distribution Specialist for English-language, overseeing investments from the English-language marketing component of the Canada Feature Film Fund and coordinated joint efforts with promotion, broadcasting, theatrical and Web partners.

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FILM FORUM Anne Frank is currently Feature Film Executive (Interim), Telefilm Canada - Atlantic region. Prior to this she was Regional Director, (Ontario & Nunavut) Industry Promotion, and Feature Film Content Analyst – part of the decision-making team that selects and oversees the development and production of feature films. As Production Executive for Global Television she supervised the development and production of national priority prime time dramatic television series. She has been working in the film and television industry for over 25 years as executive producer, independent producer, story editor and script consultant. She produced the Gemini and Gémeaux award-winning documentary Claude Jutra: an Unfinished Story, and worked on the critically acclaimed and Caméra d’Or winning Atanarjuat; the Fast Runner and was editor of the book Telling It, Writing for Canadian Film and Television.

Annette Clarke As an accomplished producer whose films have received many awards, Anne is committed to stories that challenge stereotypes and bring marginal voices to the centre. Her credits include INSIDE TIME, winner of a Golden Sheaf Award; three-time Gemini nominee COTTONLAND; TIFF and Sundance selection VIVE LA ROSE; Emmy-nominated FLAW, which screened at Hot Docs and Silverdocs and won a special jury prize at the Palm Springs ShortFest; and IDFA selection THE BOXING GIRLS OF KABUL, among others. Clarke’s most recent productions are BUYING SEX and BUBBLE DANCERS, an interactive experience that takes place in the dish pit with a cast of dishwashers.

FILM FORUM Marguerite Pigott (Super Channel) is Super Channel’s Head of Creative Development. She handles the pre-licensing of original Canadian feature films, documentaries and series for the network and directs a crosscountry team of development executives to invest Super Channel’s Creative Development Fund. In addition to her work for Super Channel, Marguerite is Principal of Megalomedia Inc., a consulting company focused on project development and marketability. Through Megalomedia she has worked with clients to develop many projects including the TV series BOMB GIRLS (Shaw, Reelz), PLAYED (CTV) and feature films ONE WEEK, STILL MINE and MY AWKWARD SEXUAL ADVENTURE. For the Toronto International Film Festival, Marguerite programmed the Canadian feature film selection for the 2006 and 2007 festivals. Previously, Marguerite was Vice President of Development and Production for Odeon Films, an Alliance Atlantis Company. She Executive Produced Saint Ralph, Fubar, waydowntown and others. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Ontario Media Development Corporation and is Chair of the Governance Committee. Marguerite denies having spent a decade as a professional actor despite substantial evidence to the contrary.

Paul Pope has been a dynamic force in Newfoundland’s film industry for over two decades. As Senior Producer at Pope Productions, a St. John’s based company specializing in feature film, documentary and television formats, Paul is committed to bringing high quality and innovative, creative projects to national and international audiences. His multi-award winning productions include Sundance favourite GROWN UP MOVIE STAR (dir. Adriana Maggs), BEAT DOWN (dir. Deanne Foley), ABOVE AND BEYOND (dir. Sturla Gunnarsson), MY LEFT BREAST (dir. Gerry Rogers), among many others.

Debra Zimmerman (Women Make Movies?) has been the Executive Director of Women Make Movies, a non-profit New York-based film organization which supports women filmmakers, since 1983. During her tenure it has grown into the largest distributor of films by and about women in the world and its internationally recognized Production Assistance Program has helped hundreds of women get their films made. Films from WMM? have won prizes at the last three Sundance Film Festivals including THE OATH by Laura Poitras, ROUGH AUNTIES, Best Documentary World Cinema and Best Director, Natalia Almada for EL GENERAL. She is in great demand around the world as a speaker on independent film distribution, marketing and financing as well as on women’s film. She has moderated panels and given master classes at the Sundance Film Festival, MIPDOC and Reel Screen as well as film festivals in Europe, Africa, Asia and South America.

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FILM FORUM Friday, October 25, 2013 Doc Talk 9:30 – 11:30 AM, NIFCO We’re talking docs with a rockstar panel of documentary directors, producers, funders and distributors from Canada and the USA. We’re asking them to bare all and share what it’s like to make documentaries in today’s world. Panelists Ric Esther Bienstock (TALES FROM THE ORGAN TRADE), Teresa MacInnes (BUYING SEX), Annette Clarke (BUYING SEX, National Film Board) and Debra Zimmerman (Women Make Movies) discuss the state of the documentary and those who dare to make them.

Ric Esther Bienstock is an Emmy Award-winning Canadian documentary filmmaker from Montreal. She has produced and directed an eclectic array of films from award-winning investigative social issue documentaries like SEX SLAVES, an investigation into the trafficking of women from former Soviet Bloc Countries into the global sex trade and EBOLA: INSIDE AN OUTBREAK which took viewers to ground zero of the Ebola outbreak in Zaire. She has garnered dozens of awards for her films including a U.S. Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism, an Edward R. Murrow Award, an Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism, two Geminis, a Genie, a British Broadcast Award, a Royal Television Society Award, an Overseas Press Club of America Award, a Gracie Award, among others, and was also nominated for a BAFTA. Teresa McInnes came to the film and television industry from a background in social work and psychology. While completing her Bachelor of Arts degree at Simon Fraser University in 1988, she became involved in filmmaking. Working as an independent producer and director, Teresa has gone on to direct a dozen documentaries for television, including NORM (2008), GENERATION XXL (2007), HOPE FOR THE FUTURE (2006), among many others including BUYING SEX (screening at this year’s Women’s Film Festival). Her films have aired nationally and internationally, and have garnered top awards at many film festivals, including New York, Yorkton, Columbus, Houston’s WorldFest, the Silver Wave Film Festival and the Atlantic Film Festival.

Annette Clarke As an accomplished producer whose films have received many awards, Anne is committed to stories that challenge stereotypes and bring marginal voices to the centre. Her credits include INSIDE TIME, winner of a Golden Sheaf Award; three-time Gemini nominee COTTONLAND; TIFF and Sundance selection VIVE LA ROSE; Emmynominated FLAW, which screened at Hot Docs and Silverdocs and won a special jury prize at the Palm Springs ShortFest; and IDFA selection THE BOXING GIRLS OF KABUL, among others. Clarke’s most recent productions are BUYING SEX and BUBBLE DANCERS, an interactive experience that takes place in the dish pit with a cast of dishwashers.

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Debra Zimmerman (Women Make Movies?) has been the Executive Director of Women Make Movies, a non-profit New York-based film organization which supports women filmmakers, since 1983. During her tenure it has grown into the largest distributor of films by and about women in the world and its internationally recognized Production Assistance Program has helped hundreds of women get their films made. Films from WMM? have won prizes at the last three Sundance Film Festivals including THE OATH by Laura Poitras, ROUGH AUNTIES, Best Documentary World Cinema and Best Director, Natalia Almada for EL GENERAL. She is in great demand around the world as a speaker on independent film distribution, marketing and financing as well as on women’s film. She has moderated panels and given master classes at the Sundance Film Festival, MIPDOC and Reel Screen as well as film festivals in Europe, Africa, Asia and South America.

Women In View Annual Report 12:00 – 2:00 PM, ROCKET ROOM (LUNCH PROVIDED, PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED)

Women In View is a national not-for-profit that advocates for greater gender and racial balance in Canadian media. Rina Fraticelli (Women In View) along with Kay Armitage (University of Toronto) are back to present this year’s annual report looking at the representation of women and visible minorities in Canadian feature films. Interested in how we’ve scored this year? Join us to find out and discuss the results.

Rina Fraticelli is the Executive Director of Women in View and SexMoneyMedia. She is a filmmaker, teacher, writer, translator, dramaturge, publisher and policy advisor. Over the last 35 years, she has produced several national festivals, conferences, and meetings addressing a broad range of issues touching on the status of women, including DocFemmes, Women and the Law in Quebec, Firewords, and FemCab; and served as consultant to numerous arts and culture organizations across Canada.

Kay Armitage is a Professor Emerita, Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto, as well as the author of The Girl From God’s Country: Nell Shipman and the Silent Cinema (2003); co-editor of Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women’s Cinema (1999); is a former international programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival. Kay is currently researching women’s film festivals around the world.

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FILM FORUM Tales From The Writers’ Room: How To Write For TV

Saturday, October 26, 2013

3:00 – 5:00 PM, NIFCO pUNK FILMS PRESENTS… Just what goes on in The Writers’ Room anyway? How does a team of diverse wordsmiths disappear behind closed doors and later emerge with an award-winning TV series? How many Post-It notes are used? Curious about where to start and what do you need to know? Join two prolific Canadian screenwriters, Tassie Cameron and Sherry White, as they discuss their careers as television writers and the obstacles, challenges, and accomplishments they’ve experienced along the way.

Tassie Cameron is a Gemini Award-winning screenwriter, who has written for television series, MOWs, mini-series, and feature films. Tassie is currently co-creator, executive producer and showrunner on the hit series, ROOKIE BLUE, now entering its fifth season on Global and ABC. She is also working on a cable pilot with author Dennis Lehane and screenwriter Esta Spalding, and is in development on a new police series for NBC and Global. Co-Executive Producer on the first season of CTV’s hit series, Flashpoint, Tassie’s other credits include THE ROBBER BRIDE, WOULD BE KINGS, THE ELEVENTH HOUR, DEGRASSI: THE NEXT GENERATION, TOM STONE, WILD ROSES, FAST FOOD HIGH, RAISING THE BAR (TNT), and the romantic comedy, CAKE. Tassie has a Masters in Film from NYU, and is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre.

Sherry White is a screenwriter and filmmaker originally from St. John’s, now based in Toronto. She has written and performed on numerous television series such as HATCHING, MATCHING AND DISPATCHING, 18 TO LIFE, and MVP: THE SECRET LIVES OF HOCKEY WIVES. Sherry was consulting producer and writer on her third season of the ABC/Global drama series, ROOKIE BLUE, and is currently writer and consulting producer on the new NBC/CTV series SAVING HOPE.

The Making Of The Animal Project 1:30 – 2:30 PM, LSPU HALL The godmother of Toronto’s D.I.Y. filmmaking scene, Ingrid Veninger is back this year with THE ANIMAL PROJECT. Toronto actor Aaron Poole stars as Leo, a frustrated theatre director and acting teacher who—inspired by a short film he once made with his now-teenaged son Sam (Jacob Switzer)—pushes his alienated students to re-engage with the world around them by donning animal suits. Join us after the screening of her film (which screens 12:00 – 1:30 pm) to learn more about Veninger’s filmmaking approach and the methods behind her madness (how did she manage to shoot in 44 Toronto locations with only a production crew of 4?).

“Veninger is definitely a director worth following, as she proves the value of women filmmakers, and the great power of storytelling that they hold.” Ilse de Mucha Herrera, The Arts Scene Ingrid Veninger, born in Bratislava and raised in Canada, formed pUNK Films Inc. with a ‘nothing is impossible’ manifesto. In 2012, she was awarded the Jay Scott Prize from the Toronto Film Critics Association and executive produced five features for $5,000, launching the 1KWAVE in Toronto. Since 2008, Ingrid has been garnering acclaim with six feature films: ONLY (TIFF 2008, Slamdance), NURSE.FIGHTER.BOY (TIFF 2008, 10 Genie Nominations, including Best Motion Picture), MODRA (TIFF 2010, Canada’s TOP TEN), i am a good person/i am a bad person (TIFF 2011, MoMA, Goa), THE END OF TIME (TIFF 2012, Masters), and THE ANIMAL PROJECT.

The Nuts & Bolts Of Protools 3:00 – 5:00 PM, NIFCO In this hands-on workshop, sound engineer Marco Dölle reveals post production sound techniques for film, including ADR, Foley, effects tracks, music, among others – and how to bring it all together smoothly and soundly in Protools.

Marco Dölle has over a decade of experience in professional sound engineering. Sharing his time between Berlin and St. John’s, Marco’s work has taken him to Saudi Arabia, Greece, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, France, Finland, Denmark and Canada.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank YOU! This Festival would not be possible without the generous contributions of our government, corporate, and individual sponsors. We are incredibly grateful to Scott Courish, Michele Haire, Felipe Diaz, Carolann Pollett, Randy Follett, Libby Creelman, Eleanor Dawson, Patricia Voogt, Jean-Claude Mahé, Carolle Brabant, Valerie Creighton, Maurice Boucher, Denise Wilson, Maureen Anonsen, Amy Joy, Krista Davidson, Yvonne Fowler, Thea Morash, Carolyn Cook, Reg Winsor, Joshua Jamieson, Ken Murphy, Chris Bonnell, Dorian Rowe, Laura Churchill, Patricia Poirier, Steve Cook, Bern Hammond, Jennice Ripley, Brad Gover, Tiffany Martin and the rest of the NIFCO Board.

We’re looking forward to the features, docs, and shorts oh my!

Our sincere appreciation goes out to Paul McDonald, Jennifer Barnable, Margot Bruce-O’Connell, Carol Whiteman, Will Pinsent, Roxanne Morrissey, Cathy Bennett, Julie Sheppard, Christina Parker, Dave Chaulk, Priya Rao, Terry Hart, Crystal Parsons, Jan Miller, Shara Desiree King, Andrea Levesque, Marlene Cahill, Elinor Gill Ratcliffe, Wanda Mooney, Jena Mitchell, Caroline Stone, Aimee Sheppard, Jill and Julie Curran, Craig Rowe, John and Peggy Fisher, Jeremy Bonia, Sean Munro, Nan MacDonald, Susan Norman, Nigel Markham and Kelly Mansell.

A big thanks to the LSPU Hall team of Suzanne Mullett, Peter Rompkey, Katie Butler and Chantal Cahill and Aiden Flynn, Doreen McCarthy, Katie Jackson, Karl Simmons and the Arts & Culture Centre gang. Thanks to NIFCO for creating a lovely red house in which we are able to hold our Film Forum! To all of our program guide advertisers, we thank you from the bottom of our heart for your support, and cheers to the amazing creative team at Waterwerks Communications for making our program guide so darn gorgeous.

Special thanks to Theresa Rahal for helping us find focus and direction, to Living Planet for the awesome swag, to the wondrous Lynn Kristmanson for our exciting new trailer (and our staff for starring in it). A huge shout-out to those who participated and nurtured our Our Films On The Go and FRAMED programs this year (I’m afraid there are too many to list but you know who you are), and to our RBC Michelle Jackson Emerging Filmmaker Award sponsors, jurors, submitters, recipients past and present, and our mentor Anita Reilly McGee, we are so proud of this Award and thank you sincerely.

At this year’s festival, you will find yourself continually rubbing elbows with a star-studded cast of visiting and local filmmakers, media, actors, broadcasters, distributers, producers, and other industry members. Thank you for all that you do and for participating in our Festival – YOU are why we’re here.

Congratulations to our outstanding Board of Directors for screening a record 500 (on the nose!) film submissions this year and programming a stellar Festival: Noreen Golfman, Angela Antle, Clara McCue, Anna Petras, Maria May, Erin Best, Gillian Marx, Sharon Pippy, Barbara Janes, Allison White and Miriam MacLeod.

For information about the Sustaining Program for Professional Arts Organizations, or any of our grant programs visit www.nlac.ca The Newman Building 1 Springdale Street P.O. Box 98 St. John’s, NL A1C 5H5 (709) 726-2212 (866) 726-2212 nlacmail@nlac.ca

To our Festival Team of Jessie Greenwood, Sarah Smellie, Jenn Brown, Marie Jones, Victoria Wells, Eilish McBrearty, Stephanie Guzzwell and Phil Winters – thanks for the megapickels of hard work, over-time, professionalism, side-splitting laughs, creativity and treks to Fixed. Special thanks to our wonderful volunteers, the tireless Jackie Hynes for elevating FOTG and FRAMED to new heights and to the amazing Maggie Keiley who provided me with a worry-free maternity leave – merci beaucoup! [OMG, I nearly forgot Scout, our Director of Morale – tell Jessie to give you extra treats this week, you deserve it!]

Again, thank you to everyone listed here, and especially to those we have forgotten to mention.

We are truly grateful for your support, which has enabled the Festival to thrive over the past 24 years. We are so happy to have YOU here – enjoy!

Kelly Davis

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