Sunday 1pm | OCT. 18 THIS PLACE I STAND: SHORTS PROGRAM II Al Green Theatre
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Ivan and Ivan
Boxed In
Ivan and Ivan
Director: Shane Belcourt Canada · 3 min · 2009 · Digital Beta
Director: Philipp Abryutin Russia · 17 min · 2009 · Beta SP Russian, Evens with English subtitles
World Premiere World Premiere A young woman’s job application turns into an embodiment of identity and challenges her to break out of the confines of prescribed individuality. Shane Belcourt is a Toronto-based filmmaker whose film Tkaronto played as the Opening Night film at imagineNATIVE 2007.
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Filmmaker Philipp Abryutin (Chukchi) spent his youth on the Russian tundra. After studying Film and Clinical Psychology, Abryutin is currently focusing on telling stories of the Indigenous people of the Russian North.
Director: Blackhorse Lowe USA · 15 min · 2009 · Digital Beta Navajo with English subtitles
Welcome
Canadian Premiere
Director: Daniel Gerson Canada · 8.5 min · 2008 · Digital Beta
Set in the 1920s on a tranquil Navajo reservation, a woman faces relinquishing her traditional lifestyle for a new life just over the mountain. Blackhorse Lowe (Dine) is an accomplished filmmaker who hails from Farmington, New Mexico, near the Navajo reservation. He studied Filmmaking and Art at San Juan Community College and continued his studies in Scottsdale, Arizona. His works have screened in many national and international festivals including the Sundance Film Festival in 2004 and 2005. In 2004 Lowe was named one of the 25 new faces of indie film by Filmmaker Magazine.
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The beautiful bond between a grandfather and grandson is documented in this deeply moving and tender portrait of love and connection to land.
Toronto Premiere Filmed on location in Winnipeg’s disintegrating Chinatown district, Welcome is a starkly honest look at a lonely boy’s travels along broken streets riddled with addiction. Bent on capturing the social relevance around him, Winnipegbased filmmaker Daniel Gerson has spent years developing social programs for inner-city kids, street workers, and military youth. His other vérité style films are Robert’s Walk (2006) and The Achiest (2007).