FILMS

Shitty Little

Animation

00:06:39

D: Takashi Iwasaki, Jeff McKay

P: Takashi Iwasaki, Jeff McKay

This playful, yet poignant, animated sevenminute film shows us what our short-sighted “shitty selfishness” has brought us. A collaborative film by a Canadian filmmaker and a Japanese visual artist.

Shuvit

Student Productions

00:05:54

D: Kyleigh Brooks

P: Iain Nicholson, Kyleigh Brooks

Shuvit observes several women and queer individuals and the struggles that come with participation in the male-dominated sport of skateboarding. The misogyny, homophobia, and search for a sense of community are illustrated throughout the film seeking as many voices as possible. Shuvit examines the highs and lows of skate culture for minorities and provides exposure for these groups.

Signs Of Our Times

Experimental

00:09:50

D: Lisa Birke

P: Lisa Birke

A seemingly endless parade of empty platitudes and paradoxical life affirmations trouble entitlement and question who determines and owns the American Dream. Original footage serve as visuals for a slightly redacted found audio track from a 1960 film in the public domain called “Your Name Here”, produced by The Calvin Company as a spoof on the industrial film.

Sissy

Short Subject – Fiction

00:09:50

D: Caleb Harwood, Simon Paluck

P: Caleb Harwood, Simon Paluck, Lana Maclin, Graeme Blythe

An intimate exploration of a child and father navigating grief through gender expression.

Smoke Eater

Short Subject – Fiction

00:12:00

D: Gloria Mercer

P: Gloria Mercer, Aidan West, Thea Loo

In 1981, a young girl spends a day at the fire station with her mother, the only female firefighter on the force, and witnesses what a typical day of work looks like, for better and for worse.

SOLID GROUND (ALAMBIC)

Animation

00:02:50

D: Beatriz Carvalho

P: Anne-Marie Bousquet

Solid Ground is a poetic and sound-rich travelogue—a personal journal that reveals the thoughts of an expatriate returning to her native land. Employing the rarely used monotype animation technique, Solid Ground reflects the personal experience of discovering different lands and feeling as though one were simultaneously at home and elsewhere.

SPINDRIFT - THE BARRY BLANCHARD

STORY

Documentary History & Biography

00:29:33

D: Ivan Hughes

P: Andy Arts, Hank Van Weelden, Ivan Hughes

After sustaining a serious major brain injury alpinist Barry Blanchard reflects on his adventures and reconciles his life in the mountains.

SPOTLIGHT FEATURES: INDIGENOUS

STORIES

Community Television Productions

00:30:00

D: Tommy Johnson

P: Sarah Love, Chas Zahorchak, Willi Whiston, Sarah Smith, Paul Andersen, Lily Li, Blaine Evans, Lydia Frederick, Tommy Johnson

Join host Crystal Harrison Collin as she shares teachings from her Indigenous culture. Discover story poles in Lower Similkameen BC, meet the captain of the Vernon Tigers who uses lacrosse to connect to his roots, a Big Grassy First Nation resident helping preserve the Anishinaabemowin language, and more.

SPUD ISLAND?

Documentary Social/Political

00:10:47

D: Man Long Ho

P: Brian Pollard

The documentary examines the destructive nature of industrial potato production on Prince Edward Island through the voices of island farmers, while the Island’s giant potato processing plant, Cavendish Farms, plays a critical role in the continuing degradation of Island soils. And the documentary offers an alternative to large-scale food potato farming, with illustrations of successful small acreage food production on the farms of Reg Phelan and Byron Petrie.

STAN PERSKY: COURSE CORRECT

Documentary History & Biography

00:22:00

D: Nik Sheehan

P: Nik Sheehan

Stan Persky: Course Correct is both biography and vérité documentary. We follow the charismatic Stan as he teaches his last University philosophy classes in Vancouver and bids a farewell to Canada. He worries about his students. They aren’t going to the library any more, even as the library has come to them. For Stan, identity is knowledge –“Who you are is what you know.” Now, at 75, he is moving to Berlin because, he tells us, he wants a new adventure.

STAY

Short Subject – Fiction

00:12:31

D: Elena Sturk-Lussier

P: Elena Sturk-Lussier

A 17-year old boy tries to do the right thing by assuming responsibility for his pregnant girlfriend, but he feels pulled in two directions: staying, or leaving.

STAYING WILD

Documentary Series

00:22:30

D: Lisa Unrau

P: Jackie Kripki, George Tsougrianis, Ell McEachern, Hanna Hermanson