AVAILABLE LIGHT LIVE

Tuesday February 15 8pm – 9pm MT Livestream

Rob Dickson

Rob Dickson is a songwriter and singer. His songs emerge from a place of discovery, of seeking solidity and forming identity. At the center of Dickson's world is his family, and his writing is profoundly linked to the emotional expanse of these relationships. Through an autobiographical lens, Dickson reveals himself with a sound that is both raw and modest, inviting reflection, inviting us to consider the people we become as we grow up.

Dickson is known for his gentle humour, quiet intensity, and often intimate performances—his strong lyricism often paired with modern folk rock and experimentation with fingerstyle guitar. He will be joined by Nic Hyatt (keys), Sarah Hamilton (bass & violin), and Adam White (drums). Friday February 18 7pm – 8pm MT Livestream

John From Dawson

Live from Halifax, NS! Tune-in for a special Art Shed Show.

The Yukon’s own John from Dawson is combining his love of cooking and hip-hop into a performance never seen before! Join him and cook along, or just sit back and listen while JFD performs his Yukon inspired hip-hop with beats created by NiTPIK. The perfect combination of two arts in one performance! Including songs from his recently released album “John Leaves Dawson Pt.1”, and some unreleased tracks from the anticipated “John Leaves Dawson Pt.2”! Saturday February 19 8pm – 9pm MT Livestream

Victoria Parker

Victoria Parker is a singer-songwriter who lives in Whitehorse Yukon Territory. Parker’s musical style is described as indie folk, indie pop and electronic ambient. Victoria received her Master’s in Music Education from Western University and a Bachelor of Music Performance from Acadia University. Parker has performed with many musicians across Canada and most notably with the band Wet Denim (Halifax, NS), with whom she released the debut album WWWDD. Victoria is writing music for a forthcoming album and working on a new experimental project named Prism.

These events will be livestreamed on the ALFF Eventive platform. Participants are encouraged to ask questions through the chat feature. The recorded versions will be available on our ONLINE festival until February 28. Access is included with ALFF Industry Pass. Non-pass holders can access by “pay-what-you-can.”

ALFF Creator Talk:

Zacharias Kunuk (Atanarjuat)

Saturday February 12 at 11am MST

Born in 1957 in a sod house on Baffin Island, Zacharias Kunuk was a carver in 1981 when he sold three sculptures in Montreal to buy a home-video camera and 27" TV to bring back to Igloolik, Nunavut, a community which had voted twice to refuse access to outside television due to lack of Inuktitut programming. Kunuk co-founded Igloolik Isuma Productions Inc. in 1990 with Paul Apak Angilirq, Pauloosie Qulitalik and Norman Cohn. In addition to the 2001 feature Atanarjuat The Fast Runner, Kunuk has directed more than 30 documentaries and feature films including The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change, Maliglutit (Searchers), and the 7-part documentary series Hunting With My Ancestors. He was also executive producer on SGaawaay K'uuna (Edge of The Knife), the world's first Haida-language feature film which premiered at TIFF last year. In 2019, Kunuk, Cohn, and the Isuma collective were chosen to represent Canada at the 58th Biennale di Venezia with One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk as its main video installation along with a new live documentary series called Silakut: Live from the Floe Edge which can be viewed and streamed at www.isuma.tv/live.

Attendees of the inaugural Available Light Film festival 2003 were fortunate enough to hear Zacharias speak after two soldout screenings of Atanrjuat. Zacharias also traveled to Old Crow and Dawson City for screenings and Q&As in those communities. Atanarjuat is available to watch online at ALFF 2022 as part of our ALFF Redux series. Zacharias also has a new award-winning short, Angakusajaujuq: The Shamans’s Apprentice, screening at this year's festival. This talk will be hosted by Festival Director, Andrew Connors.

ALFF Creator Talk:

Jeremy Podeswa on directing Station Eleven

Thursday February 17 at 5pm MST

Twenty years after a flu pandemic resulted in the collapse of civilization, a group of survivors who make their living as traveling performers encounter a violent cult led by a man whose past is unknowingly linked to a member of the troupe. Station Eleven is a limited series that debuted on HBO Max and Crave in December 2021 and stars an incredible international cast, including Mackenzie Davis, Himesh Patel, Gael Garcia Bernal, Lori Petty, David Cross and Caitlin FitzGerald. It was largely filmed in Ontario with Canadian crew, actors and with Canadian filmmakers Helen Shaver and Jeremy Podeswa directing 3 episodes each.

ALFF is excited to host a Canadian filmmaker and one of the show’s executive producers, Jeremy Podeswa in conversation about this hit postapocalyptic series based on Canadian novelist Emily St John Mandel’s 2014 novel. In conversation with Yukon composer and filmmaker, Daniel Janke. Jeremy Podeswa is an award winning feature film and television director who has been nominated four times for the Best Director Emmy Award (for HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire” and “Game of Thrones” (twice), and for “The Pacific” (HBO, also nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award). He has most recently directed on Apple’s “The Mosquito Coast” (starring Justin Theroux), on Showtime’s mini-series “The Loudest Voice” (starring Russell Crowe and Naomi Watts), and “On Becoming a God in Central Florida” (starring Kirsten Dunst).

He has directed for many of the most ground breaking cable television series and mini-series, including “The Handmaid’s Tale” for HULU; for HBO, “Game of Thrones”. “True Detective”, "The Newsroom”, “Here and Now”, “Boardwalk Empire”, “True Blood”, “Rome”, “Six Feet Under”, “Carnivale” and “The Pacific; for Showtime, “Homeland”, “Ray Donovan”, “The Borgias”, “The Tudors”, “Dexter”, “Weeds”, “Queer as Folk”, “The L Word”; for AMC “The Walking Dead”; for F/X “American Horror Story: Asylum and Coven”; and for TNT the mini-series “Into the West” (produced by Steven Spielberg and nominated for 16 Emmy Awards).

Jeremy Podeswa

ALFF Creator Talk:

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun and Paisley Smith

Unceded Territories: A VR experience

Friday, February 18 at TBD

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun is a Cowichan/ Syilx First Nations contemporary artist from Canada. His paintings employ elements of Northwest Coast formline design and Surrealism to explore issues as environmentalism, land ownership, and Canada's treatment of First Nations peoples.

Paisley Smith is Queer Indo-Canadian filmmaker and virtual reality creator who grew up on the unceded land of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səlílwətaʔ/ Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.