80 Front Street East, Toronto, ONT CANADA 416 214 7006

Screenings: Rainbow Cinema      Friday,September 28 2007

SERIES A

Gone
Director: Andrew Watson
(2006, 3min)

Bill Madden brings the worlds of film and music together with a metaphorical environmental warning alert. This compelling video raises questions, fusing art, social commentary, and music to spark debate on what it means to be alive and grapple with the consequences of environmental change.

Hear The Story Director: Alison Duke
(Documentary, 2005, 29min)

The film is a frank look at the lives of three of the project participants. Ingrid is a young Hispanic woman who cannot find a job despite her college education. Steven is a young African-Canadian who overcame a history of abuse to reach a new level of self-understanding and an ability to help others. John is a Vietnamese-Canadian who continues to struggle against racism both within his family and his community as he faces choices about his future.

Enough is Enough , Director: Billy Jackson(Documentary2005 54m USA)

Narrated by Danny Glover, this film uses an African American motorist's death during a 'routine' traffic stop to focus on racial profiling, police misuse of force, criminal justice, police-community relations, and the need for citizen action to create change .

SERIES B

Meatrix 11 1/2
Director: Louis Fox
(Animation, 2007,3 min)

5.45pm

SERIES C

Wonderful Wonderful
Director; Trey Chance
(Documentary, 2007, 18 min,)Sarah Heer, 16 chooses anorexia to fill the void in her life.Willing to risk her friends, her family, and even her life for her new disease, she finds that in the end, perfection leaves her empty still.

8:00pm

SERIES D

Films From The Hood

This film program explores notions of community as it relates to youth living in and helping to build Toronto’s neighborhoods. A mix of short documentaries by new and emerging community filmmakers, it’s a rare opportunity to hear voices that are seldom part of the mainstream media.

What happens when you put a young person BEHIND a camera and ask them to express their views and the realities of their experience? This program offers a rare glimpse at the talent and energy embodied by the youth of Toronto.

Curated by Kathleen M. Smith, filmmaker, programmer, writer and former Director of the Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film and Video.

Included in the line up are the following:

Troymotion (5 minutes/2006)
Directed by Justin Lovell; performed by Troy Feldman
Troy Feldman and Justin Lovell take us on an aggressive street tour of motion. Elaborate cinematography exploits Troy's stunts that are a mixture of break-dancing, gymnastics, martial arts and running like hell.

Hello, My Name is Herman (9 minutes, 30 seconds/2007)
Directed by Karine Silverwoman
This short documentary poignantly and humorously describes the relationship of a 91-year old Jewish man, his lesbian granddaughter and her girlfriend. A meditation of the importance of family, tolerance and love.

Building Peace One Seed at a Time (13 minutes/2006)
Directed by Tyrone MacLean-Wilson.
Made with the support of the Regent Park Focus Youth Media Arts Centre, this short documentary follows a group of women called ‘The Dreamers’ and their aspirations to build a peace garden in Regent Park. ‘The Dreamers’ are mothers and family members of children who have died as a result of violence in the neighbourhood.

Alwyn (7 minutes 12 seconds/2007)
Directed by Alwyn Barrie.
Created through the “Shoot With This” Film Mentorship Project, Alwyn is a first documentary by and about Alwyn Barrie. “People assume that if you live at Jane and Finch you live by the gun and die by the gun.” Alwyn is proud to be from his neighbourhood but his life defies stereotypes.

Breakin’the Blues (30 minutes/2007)
Directed by Michael Bowe
A documentary about Jeff Murphy, an up-and-coming breakdancer in Toronto’s underground street culture. Despite family troubles and poverty, Jeff and his role model older brother James have used their passion for dancing to rise above their circumstances.

Bare It (2 minutes 27 seconds/2006)
Directed by Doug Campbell, Lisa Petrunia, Orion & Marnee
Created with the support of the Blitz Film Camp, Bare It features a group of four young people exploring their identities and facing society’s perception of them while telling their own stories.

This is My House (22 minutes/2006)
Directed by Sarah Sharkey Pearce
SKETCH (Working Arts for Street-involved and Homeless Youth) participants came together with a community documentary filmmaker and collaboratively created the documentary, This is My House. This film tells the story of SKETCH, a drop-in studio that is built with and for street youth to affirm their role in making culture and community.

Screenings: Rainbow Cinema
Saturday September 29

SERIES E

IN TIMES OF WAR the Ray Parker Story                               Director Mark Bonn (Documentary29m)USA 2007
One man's incredible WW II journey, told in his own words: the bomber flights, his capture and imprisonment, writing the secret underground newspaper for the prison camp of over 9,000 men, and finally, freedom ? for himself, and the world.
A garota (THE KID)(Child Labour) 3m Animation Director Fernando Pinheiro Brazil The Kid is a movie that propose, in a sensible and delicate way through a symbolic and poetic language, to raise questions and bring up reflection about human misery and the inequality in rent distribution, child labor and childhood loss.
Gem Slaves Irinfilms 16m Kenya 2006
Mererani in northern Tanzania is the only place on earth where the precious stone tanzanite is mined. Every day thousands of children risk their lives in poorly constructed mine shafts for barely a meal a day. Despite efforts to curb this deadly practice, the global thirst for tanzanite continues to drive these children underground.
Whistle While You Work 20m Ryan Claypool, Austin Smythe USA 2007   A short documentary that critiques capitalism by highlighting some of the problems that it has created within the working class. By utilizing found footage, coverage of recent struggles for workers rights and interviews including Michael Parenti; the film draws a connection between the historical creation of workers and the economic condition they are in today.
Making The Cut Director Michael Gorman12 Canada
At the age of 29, Larry Lowe, a hapless, desperate-to-please office worker is starting to feel a little restless and uneasy about his love life. Tired of the ups and downs of bachelorhood, Larry is determined not let to his present relationship backfire with Claire Haim, an affluent and attractive Jewish woman.

3.00pm

SERIES F

The Touch 3m USA Director Vanessa Woods 2007                       A meditation on Anne Sexton’s poem of the same name. The film examines melodies within spoken, written and visual language and how they can interact. Because the subject of the poem deals specifically with the idea of touch, the film sustains a highly tactile, textural quality.
Talking about Amy 8m Direcor Yorico Murakami 8min USA
Talking about Amy is an 8 min animated short about a Japanese pop artist Emi Iijima. Thorough her artwork and experience of pregnancy / child birth in US, the film approaches Emi’s unique notion about Family and social norm.
A Lesson in Biology Director, Keno Rider20m USA 2007
Shot in the style of and as an homage to Tennessee Williams, 'A Lesson in Biology,' unfolds on prom night, 1968, in the Deep South. Eighteen-year-old Tom confronts his mentor and biology teacher, Mr. Williams, about dangerous secrets they have shared and about what the future may hold for both of them. While Tom is able to move on and move away, Mr. Williams remains deeply entrenched in his place and in his past.
Courage Doesn’t Ask USA director Joe Acton-12min USA
The solitude of a military hospital can't prevent a gay veteran from reliving the traumatic events that took his leg and made him both a hero and a statistic.
YAYOI and MOTHERS Director Yosuke Sakai 26m Canada 2007
This portrait shows the change and evolutions in a dancer, Yayoi's life, in her style of dance and in her new performance. How did she change her style of dance and herself? What does she create and integrate into her new performance?

SERIES G  5.30pm

LETS BUILD THIS TOGETHER 67m USA, Director Scott/Angelica Macklin Although banned in 1994, apartheid is still a reality in South Africa today. This film highlights the efforts of cultural activists who are rebuilding a nation that has been physically and psychologically scarred. The youth who have inherited South Africa are using their cultural voices as instruments of change.
LOSING HOPE 20m Erinfilms premiere Kenya 2007
When Afghanistan's long civil war finally came to an end with the fall of the Taliban in 2001, its women dared to hope. But six years later, broken promises and a resurgent Taliban have left their dreams in shatters.

SERIES H 8.00pm

MAYDAY TUGS OF WAR 102m USA
director Robin williams Premiere
Deep Sea Rescue Tugs were assigned to save ships that were torpedoed in World War II convoys. Filmmaker Robin D. Williams found the men who were on those rescue tugs and made sure the men had a chance to tell their story. The film takes the audience from the Battle of the Atlantic through the Normandy invasion and D-Day, June 6, 1944. A story that has never been told. Filmed in High Definition video.Featuring The Empire Sandy

Screenings: Rainbow Cinema
Sunday, September 30

SERIES I

YOUTH PROGRAM

Rachels Fortune
Director: Ramon Hamilton(Drama 12m USA)

SERIES J
Barney The Terrier Director Anny Slater(Animation 2m Australia)

The White House Scottish Terrier 'talks' with his Secret Service security guard about life in the White House.

“Have I Got a Witness director Benjamin Greené,
co-directors of the film, P. Corwin Lamm and Brooke Shuman. (documentary 44m USA)

Almost two years after Katrina, thousands of public housing residents remain displaced from New Orleans and unable to return to their homes. Katrina gave the Housing Authority of New Orleans an excuse to shut down public housing and threaten demolition, under the false pretense of structural instability. The habitable projects remain intact, empty and surrounded by barbed wire, caging the echoes of an entire community.

Human Development director, David Munoz (documentary 2007 29min)SPAIN
For the fifth consecutive year, Norway has ranked as the first country of the world in terms of human development as defined by the UNO Report. At the same time, Niger has ranked as the last and therefore least developed country in the world in “human development” terms.

SERIES K

NORTHERN COLOUR Documentary, 19min, Produced by Women’s Art Resource Centre Directed by Linda Abrahams, Patti Habib, Catherine McKernan Written by Linda Abrahams 2007, CANADA

At the turn of the last century a generation of Lebanese immigrants, then known as Syrians, fled the political strife of the Turkish Ottoman Empire to gamble on a better life in a strange new land. That gamble paid off, both for themselves and for the mining towns of Northern Ontario. Theirs is a little known story…

BELONGING director Tarig Nasir Documentary 60min 2007 – JORDAN, USA 'Belonging' tells the personal story of displacement of a Palestinian/American family, told through the eyes of the surviving members

SERIES L
“Make goals not War,”
Director Matias E. Margulis (documentary26m, CANADA 2007) - Premiere
The film follows the journey of an Argentine-Canadian man, Maty Campeonisimo, and his mission to end all wars and instead resolve international conflicts with soccer matches. Armed only with an idea and a video camera, Maty travels to the 2006 World Cup in Germany and quickly finds his idea winning the support of fans, players, FIFA and the United Nations

NO VACANCY Director Michael Tobias(documentary 56m USA)

-During the 42 years I have been advising governments in Africa, Asia and Latin America on population policies and family planning, the world's population has more than doubled from 3 to 6.4 billion and is headed towards 9 to 13 billion. 'No Vacancy' chronicles what education, health and contraceptive needs are required before couples have replacement size families and the actions that are taking place around the world to achieve population stabilization. From environmental deterioration to zero-based fossil-fuel economies, from the AIDS pandemic to lifting 3 billion people out of poverty, from rapid urbanization to the potential of global warming, this film both informs and entertains.

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