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3 Messages President's Message 6 Editing Workshop ongratulations to the volunteers Scott Belyea on the success of these 6 Screenwriting Competition Cwho have worked all year at put- new initiatives and on the invita- ting together the 7th Reel Shorts tion they received to host a panel 8 Youth Film Mentorship Workshop Film Festival. As a result of the Fes- at the International Film Festival tival’s enthusiastic, indefatigable and Summit in Austin, Texas in December 10 Shoot for Reel downright brilliant leadership, the called Kickstarting the Formation of a Festival has gone from strength to Filmmaking Community. strength and has become the largest 12 Special Guest The mandate of Grande Prairie presenter of short films of any film Live Theatre is to encourage the festival in Alberta. 14 Filmmakers in Attendance development of the performing and This year there are 102 films in media arts in our community and we 22 Festival Schedule the festival including two festival- are proud to present the Reel Shorts produced films resulting from the Film Festival. 24 Films and Packages two-week Shoot for Reel intern- I am sure that you will enjoy this ship program last summer and the delightful and inspiring art form. On 58 Thank You seven-week Youth Film Mentorship a personal note I would like to thank Project that is currently underway. Terry and the rest of the festival team With the addition of the screenwrit- for introducing me to this art form ing competition, the Reel Shorts Film Beauchamp Creative Menzies Graphics Group seven years ago and giving me the Festival has added three new initia- FESTIVAL BRANDING, PROGRAM DESIGN, PHOTOGRAPHY PROGRAM PRINTING opportunity of enjoying short films 2013 PROGRAM LAYOUT: KATE FOOTE © COPYRIGHT 2013 GRANDE PRAIRIE LIVE THEATRE tives this year aimed at developing a ever since. filmmaking community in the Peace Region. On behalf of the Board, I’d like to congratulate Festival Direc- Tom Hawkesworth GET YOUR BUNS tor Terry Scerbak and Filmmaker President, GPLT Board of Directors TO THE LOBBY... TWIZZLERS FOR SALE

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and the filmmakers who make them event put on by Grande Prairie Live Director’s Notes without the support of our funding Theatre. partners and sponsors who make it A big thank-you to Chris Beauchamp possible. Please take a moment to of Beauchamp Creative who does n behalf of myself and the rest let them know that you appreciate fantastic design work for the fest. of the festival team – Chris their support of our festival. O This year’s poster and the tag line Beauchamp, Laura Beauchamp, I’d also like to thank Mark Picard of SHORT FILM REVOLUTION are Sarah Harwood, Gail Littleton, Mark for doing such a great job of the standout examples! And a HUGE Shpur, Abby Stanley-Melia, Adrian intro reel, Eric Durnford for tak- thank-you to Kate Foote from Cal- Tanasichuk, Kelly Thomas, and Dave ing a week off of work and driving gary who helped out so much by de- Watson – we are thrilled to bring up from Calgary to volunteer do- signing this souvenir program on a you 102 films from 22 countries: ing anything and everything, my very tight deadline. You’re amazing, Canada, Afghanistan, Australia, wonderful husband Greg Scerbak Kate! Austria, Belgium, China, France, who also takes a week of holidays Germany, Iceland, India, Iran, Ire- And lastly, thank you for joining us. to help out any way he can, and all land, Israel, Netherlands, New Zea- It wouldn’t be a festival without you! the other volunteers who help put land, Norway, Poland, South Africa, on the festival. Every member of Spain, Switzerland, UK, and the US. Region films we’ve ever screened! the festival team is a volunteer and Terry Scerbak More than a third of these films are we are so proud to be an annual Festival Director world, North American, Canadian, It is always a pleasure to welcome or Alberta premieres, and many of back from Vancouver homegrown them are award-winning. filmmaker Scott Belyea as well as Scooter Corkle and Dave Rice as In addition to presenting the world they mentor the Youth Film Mentor- premieres of two festival-produced ship production team along with films – THE HORIZON PROJECT local filmmaker Michael Bourree. It directed by Scott Belyea during is a special treat this year because Shoot for Reel, and HB directed by we’ll be presenting the world pre- Nathan Fast during the Youth Film miere of THE HORIZON PROJECT Mentorship Project - we will also that they all worked on. be presenting four other Peace Re- gion films: HOUSE CALL directed We are very pleased to welcome by Devon Burbank (Grande Prairie), Los Angeles filmmaker Gor- SOPHIA directed by Rory Mells die Haakstad who will be teach- (Grande Prairie), THE TRAP directed ing a workshop called Editing for by Rio Fitch (Rolla, BC), and WOM- Filmmakers – Exploring the Final EN OF WILLMORE WILDERNESS di- Rewrite as well as judging our first rected by Susan Feddema-Leonard screenwriting competition. (Grande Cache). We are proud to say this is the highest number of Peace We couldn’t celebrate short films A PROUD SPONSOR Visit reelshorts.ca for more info. OF THE 2013 REEL SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL 6 SHORT FILM REVOLUTION REELSHORTS.CA 7 Editing Meet instructor Workshop Gordie Haakstad diting is seldom an understood Editing for Filmmakers: ordie Haakstad recently Eart form. Often it’s regarded as a G directed his first feature film, mechanical assembly of shots, only Exploring the Final ABEL’S FIELD, starring Kevin considered once principal photogra- Rewrite Sorbo and Samuel Davis. The phy has wrapped. In Editing for Film- film is being released by Sony makers, attendees will delve into Pictures Home Entertainment. 1 pm – 4:30 pm, Saturday May 4 the artistic and emotional concepts Gordie gained his directing that go into the final writing stage of Workshop Fee background as a filmmaker making a movie. By analyzing award- specialized in cinematography winning films and exploring the sto- $40 adults | $25 students and editing. He began his educa- rytelling tools afforded the editor, tion at the University of Southern they will discuss how filmmakers Instructor California’s School of Cinema and can best prepare themselves during Television where he graduated pre-production, whilst filming, and Gordie Haakstad Magna Cum Laude from the pres- once in post. tigious Production Program. (The only requisites for attending are Muskoseepi Pavilion Following school, Gordie in- a love for filmmaking and a desire to (Park entrance 102 St. & 102 Ave.) terned under cinematographer better understand the artistic world while helping to create a number Don Burgess (FORREST GUMP, of editing.) of industrial, short, and feature- SPIDERMAN, CAST AWAY) on length projects. Notably, Gordie the set of TERMINATOR 3: RISE was the cinematographer behind OF THE MACHINES. He main- the award-winning 11 MINUTES tained his ties with academia by Screenwriting Competition AGO, a feature-length film that teaching both cinematography was shot entirely in one day. The deadline for the first Reel Shorts Screenwriting and editing at the New York Film Competition is noon on April 29. Peace Region filmmak- Academy – as well as developing Gordie was born in Grande ers who submit a screenplay of no more than 20 pages much of the curriculum for those two Prairie but moved to the US with have the chance to win a $2,500 production package to departments. his family when he was very make their short film. Applicants have to be 18 years of age or young. He lives in Los Angeles He continued his creative pursuits older, and can enter no more than one script. but has been back in Grande Prai- rie to visit relatives and to write By the first week of Feature filmmaker and workshop presenter Gordie Haakstad two feature screenplays. He will will judge the competition and announce the winner at 8:30 shooting, you know exactly teach the Editing for Filmmakers – pm on Saturday, May 4 at Second Street Theatre. where your film is heading Exploring the Final Rewrite work- based on the psychology of shop on Sat, May 4. He will also your director. judge the Screenwriting Competi- Visit reelshorts.ca for more info. tion and announce the winner at - Jodie Foster 8:30 pm on Sat, May 4. 8 SHORT FILM REVOLUTION REELSHORTS.CA 9

needs in order to complete an exam have been impressed by their talent Youth Film while being supervised by a zero-tol- and professionalism, and we are ex- erance teacher. cited about sharing their film with you, our audience. Since then, this team of students Mentorship Project from Grande Prairie Composite High School has been busy developing A PROUD the script, refining their production plan, adding crew members, and SPONSOR OF THE 2013 casting actors. Training on the gear REEL SHORTS (the RED EPIC camera from FAVA in FILM FESTIVAL Edmonton and a package of grip and lighting gear from William F. White International) began on April 20. With great support from their school which also served as the location of their film, principal photography for HB took place from 4:00 pm until late into the evening over the three days of April 22-24. Post-production must be finished by May 4 and the film will have its world premiere when it leads off the Best of the Fest (L to R) Imogen Pohl, Chillton Alstad, Mike Evans, and Nathan Fast film packages on May 5. The mentors who have worked with this team he Youth Film Mentorship Proj- sion of filmmaking training led by Tect is an exciting new initiative Scott Belyea that we’ve offered since reelshorts.ca of the festival that awards a produc- the first festival in 2007. tion package of $10,000 to an Alberta Peace Region production team of The project was announced in early writer, director, producer, cinema- February and the deadline to submit tographer, and editor between the a script of approximately 10 pages as ages of 13 and 25 as they develop, well as a production plan was March shoot, and edit their own short film in 11. The winning team of Imogen Pohl or near Grande Prairie while receiv- (Writer/Producer), Chillton Alstad ing mentorship from Scott Belyea, (Cinematographer), Mike Evans (Edi- Scooter Corkle, and Mike Bourree. tor), and Nathan Fast (Director) was There is no cost to apply and no cost announced on March 18. They won to the winning team. It was made with a comedic script about a high possible with funding from the pro- school student who tries many crazy vincial government and the gener- and out-of-the-box strategies in an ous support of Encana, the Stanford effort to retrieve the pencil that he Hotel, and the Willmore Wilderness accidentally drops but desperately Foundation. It builds on a progres- 10 SHORT FILM REVOLUTION REELSHORTS.CA 11

over sixty people, thou- Shoot for Reel sands of dollars in community donations, and a whole bunch of can-do attitudes, the project was a resound- ing success and there’s even a film to show for it. The team came together to become a family on THE HORIZON PROJECT and have since kickstarted an independent film scene in the region that now includes PRIMAA (Peace Region In- dependent Media Arts As- sociation) which is a filmmakers’ cooperative, and a group on Facebook called the Grande Prairie Youth Film Club. screenings in the North Peace En- core film package). With the film bug firmly planted and irector Scott Belyea has attended known as Shoot for Reel, a two-week an army of skilled filmmakers in We’re happy to premiere THE the Reel Shorts Film Festival ev- intensive training and production ex- D place, the graduates of the program HORIZON PROJECT in Reel Shorts ery year since its inception in 2007. ercise in which twelve hand-picked have gone on to create a handful of 2013 in the Out of This World Not only has he been able to show- interns would learn the craft from their own productions, two of which film package (with an encore screen- case his work in the festival, he’s industry professionals the old-fash- are screening in the festival this year ing in the North Peace Encore film presented filmmaking workshops ioned way: by being on a film set. - SOPHIA in the I See You film pack- package) and look forward to many for young people every year. In 2009 So in the summer of 2012, they age, and HOUSE CALL in the Crimi- more projects to come from the he, along with Festival Director Ter- brought a film set to Grande Prairie. nal Minds film package (with encore Peace Country! ry Scerbak, developed a workshop called the Youth Filmmaking Chal- Six film professionals from Vancou- lenge designed to demonstrate the ver with backgrounds in lighting, art and craft of filmmaking over a camera, sound and production came two-day period to a group of inter- to Grande Prairie with all the expe- ested students. Each group would rience it would take to turn a group go through the stages of production of novices into filmmaking veter- - concept, writing, casting, shooting ans. Truckloads of necessary equip- and editing - and the kids would walk ment was shipped in and the group away with a short film to call their learned by being thrown into the own. fire... Two days to learn the gear, six days to shoot and two days to sam- Always wanting to expand the proj- ple post-production editing. ect into something greater, Scott and Terry dreamt up what would be With a combined cast and crew of 12 SHORT FILM REVOLUTION REELSHORTS.CA 13 Special Guest Phil Richards by Derek May in 1980. Three films were completed in 2012 concern- ing the painting of the Diamond Jubilee portrait. The NFB film, THE PORTRAIT, is a short documentary by the Oscar-nominated director Hubert Davis which aired on CBC in January. This film will screen as part of the Artist Talk at the Art Gal- lery of Grande Prairie at 1:30 pm on In collaboration with the Art Gallery A Q&A session will follow the screen- Saturday, May 4. of Grande Prairie, we are pleased to ing of A ROYAL COMMISSION in the offer the following opportunities to A Woman’s Place film package at Montreal-based filmmaker Ninon learn more about Toronto artist Phil 6:30 pm, Thursday, May 2 and 11:00 Larochelle’s full-length documen- Richards and his experience painting am, Sunday, May 5 tary, ELIZABETH II AND CANADA, A the portrait of the Queen that hangs PORTRAIT, and her short documen- in Rideau Hall in Ottawa. tary, A ROYAL COMMISSION, both feature Richards. A ROYAL COM- Phil Richards studied at the Ontario MISSION will screen in the A Wom- College of Art, graduating with his an’s Place film package at 6:30 pm, An Afternoon with Phil Richards AOCA in 1973. Since then, he has Thursday, May 2nd and 11:00 am, worked full-time as a visual artist. Sunday, May 5th. It won Best Docu- Two FREE events at the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie (lower level) Richards has exhibited commer- mentary at the 2013 Canada Inter- cially since 1969, with numerous national Film Festival in Vancouver. Artist Talk Portraiture Master Class one-man and group shows in Can- ada, the United States and Europe. 1:30 – 2:30 pm, Saturday, May 4 3:00 – 5:30 pm, Saturday, May 4 Since 1981, the Mira Godard Gallery Canadian artist Phil Richards, Phil Richards will lecture in depth in Toronto has been his principal creator of the official Diamond on the process he employed when dealer. Richards works in a variety Jubilee portrait of Queen Eliza- creating the Queen’s portrait, of genres including large-scale mu- beth II for the Government of and he will perform an extended rals, figure paintings, landscapes, Canada, will discuss his career demonstration of his drawing still life, and portraiture. He also and motivations for a general method. Audience members will works in a variety of media: acrylic, audience. Phil will screen THE be welcome to participate in the casein, watercolour, graphite and PORTRAIT, a short NFB docu- drawing lesson in their sketch- sculpted relief. mentary by Oscar-nominated books or to simply observe as they Over the course of his career, Rich- director Hubert Davis as part of please. This is a rare opportunity to ards has been featured in a number A PROUD SPONSOR his presentation. learn the working methods of one of documentaries, the first being a OF THE 2013 REEL SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL of Canada’s premier painters. full-length NFB film, OFF THE WALL, 14 SHORT FILM REVOLUTION REELSHORTS.CA 15

He also produces music videos and records, mixes, and masters albums Filmmakers in for local bands. Michael has been a leader of the attendance Michael Bourree Youth Filmmaking Challenge work- (Grande Prairie) shops since the first one at the 2009 DARK won the Bloodshots festival’s Reel Shorts Film Festival. Those Audience Choice and Grand Prize workshops have been replaced with awards. Judge and filmmaker Larry the Youth Film Mentorship Project ichael Bourree graduated from Scott Belyea Fessenden called the short “confident and Michael is one of the mentors. the two-year Interactive Digital (Vancouver, grew up and sharp” and warned “this is not M He is Co-Producer of THE HORIZON Design program at Grande Prairie in Grande Prairie) the last we’ll see from Scott Belyea.” PROJECT, the film shot last summer Reginoal College in 2010. He is the After a successful festival run, the during Shoot for Reel, the two-week owner/manager of Ground Up Audio film’s Canadian rights were secured internship program. It screens in the Video Production which produces cott has completed seven short by CBC and it will be globally repre- Out of This World film package and in corporate orientation and safety vid- films as writer, director and edi- sented by Shorts International. the North Peace Encore film package. S eos for an oilfield services company. tor. His 2006 film, IDAHO, won vari- Scott was raised in Grande Prairie ous cinematography awards as well and moved to Vancouver to pursue a as Best English Language Film of the Scooter helped develop the Youth career in filmmaking. His films have Year at the 2006 Young Cuts festival in Filmmaking Challenge workshops screened in the festival every year Montreal. that were first offered at the 2009 Reel since our first festival in 2007 and Shorts Film Festival. Those workshops His horror shorts SOYLENT RED and every year he has led very popular have been replaced with the Youth AFTERBIRTH garnered acclaim for filmmaking workshops for youth. Scooter Corkle Film Mentorship Project and Scooter their distinct visual style from film- Last summer he and five other pro- (Vancouver) is one of the mentors. He is Director maker Robert Rodriguez, who called fessionals from Vancouver trained a of Photography for THE HORIZON SOYLENT RED “genuinely disturb- dozen interns during the two-week PROJECT, the film shot last summer ing.” It won the Audience Choice Shoot for Reel project which involved cooter graduated from the two- during Shoot for Reel, the two-week award in the 2007 Bloodshots Film- working on a real film, THE HORIZON year digital Film and Independent internship program. It screens in the making Challenge. In 2009, his film PROJECT that Scott directed. For the S Filmmaker program at the Arts Insti- Out of This World film package and in TEN MINUTES BEFORE SHOWTIME 2013 festival, he is (1) mentoring the tute of Burnaby in May 2003 and has the North Peace Encore film package. won the festival’s Best Film award. production team that won the Youth worked extensively in the Vancouver Film Mentorship Project, (2) partici- In 2009, he teamed with Domoge- film industry, including as a gaffer on pating in a Q&A after the screening neous to create NOMANSLAND, a feature films and music videos, as a of THE HORIZON PROJECT in the Out surreal tale of love lost that enjoyed a lamp operator on television series of This World film package and North successful festival run including a Best and features, and as director of pho- Peace Encore film package, (3) par- Film win in Philadelphia and a stop in tography on commercials, short films ticipating as an actor in a Q&A after the Mediterranean for Spain’s illustri- (including CHILDREN OF THE DARK), the screening of ADJUST TRACKING ous Sitges Festival of the Fantastic. and corporate projects. He’s also di- in the Psycho Shorts package, (4) and rected commercials and short films, In 2010, he was the Editor and Post- visiting junior high and high school the most recent of which, CHLOE AND Production Supervisor for Reel One’s classes with Producer Dave Rice dur- ATTIE, had a successful festival run DEAR MR. GACY starring William For- ing which they’ll screen THE HORI- A PROUD SPONSOR and was a Reel Shorts Official Selec- sythe. ZON PROJECT and participate in a OF THE 2013 REEL SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL tion in 2010. discussion afterwards. In 2011, his film CHILDREN OF THE 16 SHORT FILM REVOLUTION REELSHORTS.CA 17

countless festivals all around the She was introduced to films in THE globe and received awards for social HORIZON PROJECT directed by Scott commentary and creative style. With Belyea. She acted as a survivor and a background in theatre, Eva has also was responsible for costume manage- created media installations and visual Devon Burbank ment along with Elise Schermerhorn. Eva Colmers backgrounds for theatre, dance, and (Grande Prairie) Devon became one of the founding (Edmonton) music performances. five members of the Grande Prairie Youth Film Club. HOUSE CALL, the Eva first read about so-called “granny short film she wrote, directed, and dumping” in a newspaper article of va Colmers is an independent film- evon Burbank is a Grade 12 student produced, was the first film produced the National Post and felt compelled maker in Edmonton who has writ- at St. Joseph Catholic High School. by the GPYFC. E to explore the topic in an artistically D ten, directed and produced a dozen She started stage acting in school creative way. Directing the NFB docu- Devon also was involved with an- award-winning short films including at the age of 13 when she played mentary, THE ELDER PROJECT, had other local film, SOPHIA, directed by THE WEIGHTLESS TRAVELLER, END The Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of already made her aware of the com- Rory Mells. She played the Pig Lady, OF THE ROPE, HAND SUM, BLINK! Oz. Acting was never a large interest plexity of the issue and some of the created the makeup and supplied the and NO PROBLEM. For the NFB she of hers until she was in the Grande challenges faced by both the frail el- props, and helped out as much as pos- has written and directed THE ENEMY Prairie Live Theatre production of The derly and the burned-out caregivers. sible with the effects and grip work. WITHIN, based on her Father’s experi- Twelfth Night when she was 16. She Her decision was to write a fictional ence as a POW in Canada; and more had three small roles in the play, two HOUSE CALL will screen in the Crimi- story grounded in reality and to juxta- recently, THE NFB ELDER PROJECT, of them being male (with intense facial nal Minds film package at 8:30 pm on pose the end of life against the begin- an episodic story collection about hair), which is when her creative side Saturday, May 4. Devon will do a Q&A ning of life. GRANNY BABY screens seven different elderly people. burst out and introduced her to the art afterwards. in the I See You film package. She will of theatrical makeup. She has acted Eva’s short films have been seen at participate in a Q&A afterwards. in many stage productions including SIMPLY CLICK LIKE. Mad Moose Mayhem in 2012, and has FEST UPDATES AND MORE: DREN OF THE DARK and THE HORI- been a part of the makeup backstage FACEBOOK.COM/REELSHORTS ZON PROJECT. CHILDREN OF THE team with Cats in 2013. DARK won best short film at Blood- shots Film Festival and went on to screen at the CFC Worldwide Short David Rice Film Festival and Toronto After Dark. A PROUD SPONSOR (Vancouver) OF THE 2013 REEL SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL THE HORIZON PROJECT is one of the largest undertakings for a short film in British Columbia, with a budget, avid Rice is a lead producer/edi- visual effects treatment and sound tor at Finale Editworks Post Pro- D design to rival some independent duction, Vancouver’s leading inde- feature films. It will have its world pendent post production facility in premiere in the Out of This World British Columbia. Since 2004, Dave film package and will also screen in has moved up the ranks in every as- the North Peace Encore film pack- pect of post and has worked on proj- age. Dave will be visiting junior high ects ranging from shorts, TV series, and high school classes with Direc- commercials and feature films. tor Scott Belyea during which they’ll Dave recently produced two post- screen the film and participate in a production heavy short films, CHIL- discussion afterwards. 18 SHORT FILM REVOLUTION REELSHORTS.CA 19

mer of 2012, Rory was selected as would have eaten the rotten le- an intern for Shoot for Reel, the fes- gume? This comedic adaptation of tival’s two-week internship program. the song’s narrative answers that As such, he was part of the crew that question. Rory Mells worked on THE HORIZON PROJECT Rio & Billie Fitch Rio has spent quite a lot of time (Grande Prairie) which will screen in the Out of This (Rolla, BC) learning and refining this craft, and World film package as well as the experimenting with a wide variety North Peace Encore film package. of subjects, but currently finds ver the last decade, Rory has Rory’s next film was SOPHIA which himself focussing mostly on short Oproduced several short films in- he wrote, produced, and directed. It Rio’s first two films (DAYDREAM comedies for and about children. cluding award-winning CATLEIDO- screens in the I See You film package and A DAY OF HUNTING AND THE TRAP is Rio’s sixth short film SCOPE. He also produced and direct- at 6:30 pm on Friday, May 3rd. GATHERING) screened at the 2010 and stars his eight-year-old daugh- ed the feature-length 8 DATES WITH Reel Shorts Film Festival. Daughter ter Billie who was seven at the PAUL. He’s had no formal training in Billie also starred in DAYDREAM. time the film was made. This is the film school but has taken directing, Rio’s award-winning film THE fourth year in a row that Rio has writing, and acting workshops put on reelshorts.ca DRIVING ACCIDENT has screened had a film in the festival. It screens by the Reel Shorts Film Festival over at many film festivals around the in the Flights of Imagination film the past six years. During the sum- world including the 2011 Chicago package. Rio and Billie will partici- International Children’s Film Festi- pate in a Q&A after the screening. val which is widely recognized as the major festival of films and vid- A PROUD SPONSOR eos for children in North America. In feature films the direc- OF THE 2013 REEL SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL Rio’s fifth short film, FOUND tor is God; in documentary A PEANUT, is based on the old films God is the director. camp song of the same name. - Alfred Hitchcock If you have heard the tune, you may have wondered why someone

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As a resident of Grande Cache, Su- san has authored three books about the people and peaks of the Cana- dian Rockies. She is the Executive Susan Feddema- Director of the Willmore Wilderness Leonard Foundation / People & Peaks Pro- (Grande Cache) ductions and is currently mentoring four film students who are on work experience. Susan also serves on Susan is an accomplished life-long the Board of Directors of Women in photographer and entered the world Film and Television Alberta. of cinematography in 2005 when her film was featured on APTN’s Susan has produced corporate “Road Scholar” and a year later on movies and short vignettes since “The Link”. She was excited when 2007. She has also produced three she saw her work on primetime Na- documentaries: LONG ROAD HOME, tional TV, and decided to embrace WILDIE, and WOMEN OF WILLMORE the world of filmmaking. WILDERNESS. These documentaries are part of the People & Peaks Pro- Susan is a graduate of the Serac ductions Canadian Rockies Series. Adventure Film School which was LONG ROAD HOME premiered at the held in Vale, Colorado under the Dreamspeaker’s International Film instruction of Michael Brown. Smit- Festival in 2011. WILDIE has been ten by Brown’s amazing skill, Susan nominated for five AMPIA Awards in attended the 2008 and 2009 Banff 2013. WOMEN OF WILLMORE WIL- Adventure Film Seminar and stud- DERNESS is in the A Woman’s Place ied under two world-renowned film film package. She will participate in producers: Michael Brown and Keith a Q&A afterwards. Partridge.

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Evening & Weekend Film Packages Festival Schedule $10 adults | $5 students Full Festival Pass: Only $50 Wed, May 1 5:00 PM 32 First Comes Love 8:00 PM 34 Out of This World Daytime Film Packages $5 10:00 PM Out of This World after-party Thur, May 2 3:30 PM 42 Oscar Live Action Shorts Mon, Apr 29 9:30 AM 24 Both Sides Now 6:30 PM 44 A Woman’s Place (Gr 10-12 Social Studies) 9:00 PM 34 Out of This World 12:30 PM Optional school screening Fri, May 3 3:30 PM 32 First Comes Love Tues, Apr 30 9:30 AM 26 Flights of Imagination (Gr 1-3) 6:30 PM 45 I See You 1:00 PM 26 Flights of Imagination (Gr 1-3) 9:00 PM 47 Prejudice & Pride

Wed, May 1 9:30 AM 24 Both Sides Now Sat, May 4 5:30 PM 34 Out of This World (Gr 10-12 Social Studies) 8:30 PM 50 Criminal Minds 12:30 PM 29 Watch Your Language 10:30 PM Criminal Minds after-party (Gr 10-12 English/Languages) Sun, May 5 11:00 AM 44 A Woman’s Place Thur, May 2 9:30 AM 36 Bless the Beasts… (Gr 7-9) 1:30 PM 55 Best of the Fest 12:30 PM 39 Starstruck (Gr 4-6) 4:15 PM 56 North Peace Encore 6:30 PM 55 Best of the Fest Fri, May 3 9:30 AM 26 Flights of Imagination (Gr 1-3) 9:00 PM 55 Best of the Fest 12:30 PM 36 Bless the Beasts… (Gr 7-9) Filmmaking Workshops Sat, May 4 9:00 AM 29 Watch Your Language (Gr 10-12 English/Languages) $40 adults | $25 students 11:00 AM 39 Starstruck (Gr 4-6) Sat, May 4 1:00-4:30 PM 6 Editing for Filmmakers - 1:00 PM 26 Flights of Imagination (Gr 1-3) Exploring the Final Rewrite 3:00 PM 24 Both Sides Now Muskoseepi Park Pavilion (Gr 10-12 Social Studies) (Park entrance 102 St. & 102 Ave.) A NOTE ON RATINGS: Sun, May 5 9:00 AM 53 Oscar Animated Shorts In the past, Alberta Film Classification (AFC) allowed film festivals, including our own, to rate films according to the AFC classification system of G, PG, 14A, 18A and R. This is no longer the case, so for unrated films we have adopted our own rating system based on age: 5+, 10+, 14+, and 18+. When AFC has rated a film, we must Pizza Party and Psycho Shorts show their rating rather than our own, so you will see a mixture of AFC ratings and our ratings throughout this $15 program. The teachers on our festival team—Kelly Thomas, Adrian Tanasichuk, and Dave Watson—have determined which films are appropriate for Elementary, Junior High, and High School classes. 48 Pizza Party & Psycho Shorts Fri, May 3 11:15 PM REEL SHORTS: AFC: 24 FILMS+AND PACKAGES REELSHORTS.CA 25

an unknown person on the Palestin- have been pulled to keep the other Films & Packages ian side. Won Audience Award at the friend safe at home. Can their friend- 2013 Ashland Independent Film Fes- ship survive the bitterness of the in- tival among others. jured soldier when he returns home? FILM PACKAGE without creating a scene, but panic Both Sides Now breaks out. Should he try to calm things down? Or encourage his fian- (Grades 1-3) cée to take another bus? Won Best Mon, Apr 29 @ 9:30 pm Short at the 2010 Ashland Indepen- dent Film Festival. Wed, May 1 @ 9:30 am

Sat, May 4 @ 3:00 pm ALBERTA PREMIERE Chosen by teachers and presented The Basketball Game Five Ways to Kill a Man by CKUA, these films explore com- Canada, 2011, 5 minutes Germany, 2012, 12 minutes plex issues from both sides: ter- Writer/Director/Editor Hart Snider Co-Writer/Director Christopher Bis- rorism and the West Bank separa- set A poignant and humorous account of tion wall; anti-Semitism and a 1983 the filmmaker’s experience as a boy In this contemporary parable, a summer camp basketball game in in 1983 when kids who’d been taught man’s consumer choices have an im- Alberta; friendship and betrayal in The Other Side anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial pact that he can see with every de- the Spanish civil war; and the ef- Israel, 2012, 25 minutes (Hebrew at their school in Eckville, Alberta are cision he makes. Over the course of fects of globalization. Four of the with English subtitles) invited to a basketball game against the day, the people he has relied on six films are award-winning. Writer/Director Khen Shalem his team at Jewish summer camp. in the global economy begin to de- This package contains the An unusual friendship forms when Won Most Inspirational Short Film pend on him, and he is left with the following films: a soccer ball becomes the link be- at the 2012 Reel 2 Real International problem of what to do with them at tween a boy on the Israeli side of Film Festival for Youth in Vancouver. the end of the day. the West Bank separation wall and

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FILM PACKAGE Flights of Imagination (Grade 1-3) Tues, Apr 30 @ 9:30 am Tues, Apr 30 @ 1:00 pm ALBERTA PREMIERE ALBERTA PREMIERE Unravel Fri, May 3 @ 9:30 am Snap A Sea Turtle Story UK/India, 2012, 14 minutes (Hindi UK/Belgium, 2012, 7 minutes Canada, 2012, 10 minutes with English subtitles) Sat, May 4 @ 1:00 pm Writer/Co-Producer/Lead Director Director Kathy Shultz Producer/Director Meghna Gupta Thomas G. Murphy Chosen by teachers and presented An exquisite stop-motion animated Reshma works in a textile recycling by Moose FM, this delightful pack- Snap is the smallest Water Haggis film that chronicles the life cycle of factory in Panipat, a small town in age of 11 films is tied together by and he’s very hungry because he this critically endangered species Northern India. In this delightfully a focus on imagination … or the hasn’t mastered the art of spearing and captures the beauty of the eco- ironic documentary, she shows how lack of it. There will be a Q&A with fish. With the help of an unlikely new systems they inhabit. the Western world’s least wanted filmmaker Rio Fitch (THE TRAP) and friend, he’s inspired to try a new way clothes get transformed back into his eight-year-old daughter and star of catching fish. Won the Children’s yarn while she and the other women Billie Fitch. Choice Award at the 2013 Bay Area workers speculate on how people International Children’s Film Festival live in the Western world, using their This package contains the among others. imaginations and the cast-off clothes following films: as clues. Won the Audience Award at the 2012 Worldwide Short Film Festi- ALBERTA PREMIERE val in Toronto among others. Big Mouth Canada, 2012, 8 minutes Writer/Director/Animator Andrea & A Dorfman pl.ink! When Trudy starts school, she is ea- n n ger to make new friends, but her c Norway/Poland, 2010, 3 minutes w CANADIAN PREMIERE habit of honestly pointing out what h Director/Animator Anne Kristin o she sees – be it a big mole or a big

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G b 10, No. 4 for piano provides the mu- teacher … and no friends. How to r u a n P A bird who’s afraid of flying does sic accompaniment to this story of speak the truth without being rude d d e o everything he can to avoid head- a minimalist painter who loses his may be the biggest lesson Trudy has P o ra Pub rh ing south for the winter, but when toddler inside one of his own paint- to learn. iri bo e’s gh Favorite Nei a squirrel raids his food and a win- ings and must follow the child into ter storm rages, he must find a way a world of imagination where a toy SIMPLY CLICK LIKE. A PROUD SPONSOR south or perish. Screened with the xylophone becomes a flying piano, FEST UPDATES AND MORE: OF THE 2013 REEL SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL kind permission of Network Ireland doodles grow into forests, and ink FACEBOOK.COM/REELSHORTS Television and Lovely Productions. spills become giant monsters. 28 FILMS+AND PACKAGES REELSHORTS.CA 29

Director Jacob Wyatt FILM PACKAGE After her train ticket is stolen by a Watch Your Language mysterious fox, a young girl must pursue the thief into a strange new (Grade 10-12 English/ world of secrets. Languages)

ALBERTA PREMIERE (Coarse Language, Substance Abuse) Snack Attack Brad & Gary Wed, May 1 @ 12:30 pm France/USA, 2011, 4 minutes Canada, 2012, 5 minutes Sat, May 4 @ 9:00 am Writer/Director Pierre Coffin Writer/Director Andrew Cadelago Chosen by teachers, these fasci- The director of Despicable Me cre- Waiting to board the train, an old nating films make reference to CANADIAN PREMIERE ates a supremely silly tale of mis- lady just wants to eat her cookies in literature (Shakespeare’s plays, The Trap adventure as two friends, stuck for peace, but then a young punk sitting Edgar Allan Poe’s poetry) as well something to do, find it increasingly next to her starts eating them too! Peace Region, 2013, 5 minutes as raising some very interesting difficult to get unstuck. This could mean war. Writer/Producer/Director/Editor Rio questions that could spark much Fitch discussion. A little girl sets a trap for her unsus- FEST UPDATES AND MORE: This package contains the pecting visitor. Won Best of Show at FACEBOOK.COM/REELSHORTS following films: the 2013 Epiphany Children’s Film Festival in New York City.

Imaginary Friend USA, 2012, 3 minutes Writer/Director Joshua Orr A lonely boy watches other children CANADIAN PREMIERE 11401 100TH AVENUE having fun in the playground until a GRANDE PRAIRIE, ALTA. young girl offers to play with him, but T8V 5M6 Mira’s Night 780-539-5678 will he be abandoned when her friends USA, 2011, 4 minutes TOLL FREE 1-800-661-8160 want her to play with them again? Writer/Director Elyse Kelly

On a summer evening full of mag- PROUD TO BE A ic a young girl learns that some things are not meant to be cap- SUPPORTER OF THE tured. Won Programmer’s Choice A PROUD SPONSOR Award for Narrative Short at the OF THERE 2013EL S HREELORT SHORTSS FILM FILMFEST FESTIVALIVAL 2012 Virginia Film Festival. 2011 Metro reelshorts.ca USA, 2011, 5 minutes 30 FILMS+AND PACKAGES REELSHORTS.CA 31

Short Film at the 2011 H.P. Lovecraft During interrogation, he learns Film Festival. that he has broken several laws and the penalties are huge. Won Special Jury Mention at the 2011 Festival du cinema international en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Rouyn- Niranda. CANADIAN PREMIERE Food of Love Good Karma $1 USA, 2012, 17 minutes USA, 2012, 14 minutes Writer/Director/Actor Sarah Rosen Talking Dog for Sale, 10 Euros Co-Directors Jason Berger & Amy (Se vende perro que habla, 10 Laslett Iris is a shy baker who lives a vivid fantasy life inspired by the works of euros) A documentary about acclaimed Shakespeare. The real world inter- France/Spain, 2012, 8 minutes ad-guru Alex Bogusky’s fascina- venes when she develops a crush (Spanish with English subtitles) The Maker tion with collecting homeless signs. on a regular customer. Will cupcakes Writer/Director Lewis-Martin Soucy What starts out as a project to under- Australia, 2011, 6 minutes and couplets be enough to turn her stand the world’s simplest form of When a man sees a curious adver- Writer/Director Christopher Kezelos imaginary romance into true love? communication becomes an enlight- tisement for a talking dog for sale A strange creature must race ening journey into authenticity and cheap, he pursues the offer with nat- against time to make the most generosity. ural scepticism. Won the Audience important and beautiful creation Award at the 2012 San Jose Inter- of his life. Won Best Short Film at national Short Film Festival among the 2012 Indianapolis International many other awards. Film Festival among many other awards.

Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven ALBERTA PREMIERE Punched (Abgestempelt) (Substance Abuse) (Coarse Language) USA, 2011, 12 minutes Austria, 2012, 11 minutes (German Directors Don Thiel III & Chris ALBERTA PREMIERE with English subtitles) Saphire The Man Who Didn’t Know (L’homme qui ne savait Writer/Director Michael Rittmanns- December, 1959: Poe, a young pas) The Grand Design berger writer, has locked himself inside a (Coarse Language) After getting hassled by subway po- seedy hotel room with a bottle, an Australia, 2012, 9 minutes Canada, 2011, 12 minutes (French lice on the way home with his young 8mm projector, and the haunting Writer/Director Samuel Bartlett with English subtitles) son, a man spares another passen- memories of his “lost Lenore.” A ra- Producer/Directors Berge Kasparian A young man’s theory about fate is ger the same fate at the hands of ven visits him and Poe turns to the & Martin Tremblay tested on the basis of whether he the subway’s ticket takers. Instead bird for answers and the promise explains the theory to his friend. The of being grateful, the man he helped of being reunited with his lost love, It is midnight. An inspector on night ripple effect of that minor decision is verbally abusive and throws the but the bird’s only reply damning- patrol pays a surprise visit to Mr. will determine who lives and who boy’s toy off the train. How does a fa- ly echoes, “Nevermore.” Won Best Tremblay who is sleeping soundly. dies that night. ther explain these things to his son? 32 FILMS+AND PACKAGES REELSHORTS.CA 33

CANADIAN PREMIERE CANADIAN PREMIERE ALBERTA PREMIERE ALBERTA PREMIERE Transparency Harry Grows Up After the Credits Cockatoo (Transparence) USA, 2012, 12 minutes (Coarse Language) (Coarse Language) (Coarse Language) Co-Writer/Director/Editor Mark Nick- Australia, 2011, 15 minutes Australia, 2011, 11 minutes France, 2011, 14 minutes (French elsburg Writer/Director Josh Lawson Writer/Director Matthew Jenkin with English subtitles) A young New Yorker struggles with Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy runs A man with a broken heart tries to re- Directors Martin Guyot & Ivan Rous- heartbreak after his first love leaves to the airport to win her back in this live his failed relationship by hiring seau for college. Won Audience Favorite hilarious take on the real-life conse- a young woman to play his ex-girl- A young man has a job interview at Award at the 2012 DC Shorts Film quences of a romantic grand gesture. friend, but is there any hope when Greendays, a company where trans- Festival among other awards. Won Best Comedy at the LA Shorts she can’t even get the accent right? parency is the governing principle of Fest in 2011 among other awards. Won Audience Favourite Award at the workplace. By the end of the in- 2012 DC Shorts Film Festival among terview, it is clear what he must give other awards. up to get it. FILM PACKAGE First Comes Love (Coarse Language) The Fiddler’s Reel ALBERTA PREMIERE Wed, May 1 @ 5:00 pm (Ruidhle an Fhìdhleir) My Sweetheart (Mon ALBERTA PREMIERE Fri, May 3 @ 3:30 pm Canada, 2011, 18 minutes (Gaelic Amoureux) with English subtitles) Shanghai Love Market (Coarse Language) Falling in love is easy. What comes Writer/Director Marc Almon China, 2011, 9 minutes (Mandarin France, 2011, 23 minutes (French afterwards is hard. This entertain- with English subtitles) A tale of love and intrigue set in De- with English subtitles) ing package charts the bumpy Writer/Director Craig Rosenthal pression-era Cape Breton, this film Writer/Director Daniel Metge course of romantic love. about a farm girl, the wandering Shanghai has a park where parents Romain and Laurie are in love, but This package contains the musician she loves, and her father’s can match-make their unmarried they are forbidden to have sex at the following films: fierce opposition to their match pays children. This is just one love story in Centre where they live so Laurie’s tribute to the island’s Gaelic heritage. a city of 20 million lovers. younger sister takes them on a romantic weekend getaway where they can “do it” for the first time. Won When I grow up, I still want Best International Short Film Award to be a director. reelshorts.ca at the 2012 Odense International Film Festival in Denmark among many - Steven Spielberg other awards. 34 FILMS+AND PACKAGES REELSHORTS.CA 35

Writer/Director Timothy Reckart Writer/Director Tom Van Avermaet Finn finally gets a chance to go on a space mission but he starts expe- A husband and wife have grown Stuck in a dark limbo between life riencing strange hallucinations be- apart over the years. He lives on the and death, a deceased solder col- fore deciding whether to go. It be- floor, she lives on the ceiling, and the lects shadows of the dying to buy comes more and more difficult for marriage hangs in the balance. Nom- back his own second chance at life him to differentiate between reality inated for an Oscar in 2013 for Best so that he can be with the woman he and illusion, until he finally realizes Animated Short. loves. When he discovers that she’s the truth. Won the Studio Hamburg in love with someone else, the temp- Nachwuchspreis for Best Short Film Time 2 Split FILM PACKAGE tation to use his other-worldly pow- 2012. France, 2012, 5 minutes ers becomes impossible to resist. Writer/Director Fabrice Bracq Out of This World Nominated for an Oscar in 2013 for Wed, May 1 @ 8:00 pm Best Live Action Short. A couple with a young child makes the painful decision to separate. Won Thur, May 2 @ 9:00 pm 1st Prize Short Movie at the 2013 St. Sat, May 4 @ 5:30 pm Albans Film Festival in the UK. Presented by Q99 and the Stanford Hotel, this package of other-worldly ALBERTA PREMIERE films will take you into outer space Spacewrecked or into an alternate past and future on earth. It features the world pre- CANADIAN PREMIERE (Blikkboks) miere of THE HORIZON PROJECT, Bunker 731 Norway, 2012, 14 minutes (Norwe- the film directed by Scott Belyea USA, 2011, 21 minutes gian with English subtitles) CANADIAN PREMIERE as part of the festival’s Shoot for Writer/Directors Jacob Scarpaci & Writer/Director Kalle Doniselli Record/Play Reel internship program last sum- Kerrie Scher Gulbrandsen mer. There will be a Q&A with Scott (Violence) A married couple learns that their Twenty years after witnessing the Belyea and Producer Dave Rice fol- USA, 2012, 11 minutes release from a government regulat- total destruction of planet Earth, ex- lowed by an after-party. Co-Writer/Director Jesse Atlas ed bomb shelter has been delayed treme boredom becomes too much This package contains the due to persistently high radiation to handle for two astronauts living War, fate, and a broken Walkman following films: levels. Starving and desperate, they inside a cramped space station. transcend space and time in this debate their last resort for survival. sci-fi love story. Won the Audience Choice Award at the NYC Shorts Film Festival among others.

Death of a Shadow (Dood CANADIAN PREMIERE van een Schaduw) Light Years (Lichtjahre) Head Over Heels Belgium/France, 2012, 20 minutes Germany, 2012, 25 minutes (German A PROUD SPONSOR (Flemish and French with English with English subtitles) OF THE 2013 REEL SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL UK, 2012, 10 minutes subtitles) Director Florian Knittel 36 FILMS+AND PACKAGES REELSHORTS.CA 37

WORLDWIDE PREMIERE The Horizon Project Unwieldy Beast (notes on) Biology Abiogenesis Grande Prairie/Vancouver, 2013, 25 USA, 2011, 6 minutes USA, 2011, 6 minutes New Zealand, 2011, 4 minutes minutes Director/Cinematographer/Editor Director Danny Madden Writer/Director/Producer/Animator Director/Editor Scott Belyea Brandon Loper Richard Mans A bored high school student turns his Survivors of a biological pandemic A delightful doc about Gary Frank Biology notes into a wildly adventur- Inspired by animations for Mars Rov- find refuge with Horizon Corpora- Skaggs, a musician who wanted to ous flip book. Won Best Animated er missions, the filmmaker creates a tion, a company that’s spearheading play a piano in the streets of San Fran- Short at 2012 South by Southwest sci-fi spectacle in which a startling the global rebuild. cisco so he invented a bizarrely funky Film Festival. mechanical device lands on a bleak way to do it. Won Audience Choice and desolate world to enact a pro- FEST UPDATES AND MORE: Awards at the 2011 GSP Film Festival. found transformation. Won Audience FACEBOOK.COM/REELSHORTS Choice Award at the 2012 Maui Film Festival. FILM PACKAGE Bless the Beasts

(Grade 7-9) CANADIAN PREMIERE Thur, May 2 @ 9:30 am ABC ALBERTA PREMIERE Fri, May 3 @ 12:30 pm Bow Tied (Noeud Germany, 2012, 12 minutes (Loma with English subtitles) Chosen by teachers, these films papillon) Director Madli Lääne range from the frustrations of 55 Socks Canada, 2011, 11 minutes (French school to the joys of pet ownership After countless years of Liberian civil with English subtitles) Canada, 2011, 9 minutes (especially when that pet poops war, 17-year-old Vele just wants to Writer/Director Fernand-Philippe Director Co Hoedeman out money). This eclectic package learn to read and write, along with Morin-Vargas of ten films includes three docu- her 7-year-old daughter. Now that During the winter of 1944-45 near mentaries and five comedies. Two A regular morning becomes a night- she finally has the opportunity to go the end of World War II, a German foreign-language films with Eng- mare for young Jacob when he is to school, her hope for a better future blockade causes widespread famine lish subtitles are also included: forced to wear a suit on school pic- and her determination to achieve it in occupied Holland. Three women a French-Canadian comedy and ture day. He will once again have to are inspiring. and a young girl unravel a beautiful a documentary about a Loma- suffer through this day, unless he bedspread so they can knit 55 socks speaking teenage girl who goes to can find a way to keep this night- Filmmaking is a chance to to barter for food. Based on a poem school in Liberia. mare from recurring. Won Best Short live many lifetimes. by Marie Jacobs, this film pays trib- Film at the 2012 Festival du film fran- ute to the ingenuity of the Dutch This package contains the cophone de Hamilton among other - Robert Altman people during a dark period of their following films: awards. history. 38 FILMS+AND PACKAGES REELSHORTS.CA 39

FILM PACKAGE Starstruck (Grade 4-6) Thur, May 2 @ 12:30 pm

CANADIAN PREMIERE ALBERTA PREMIERE Sat, May 4 @ 11:00 am Bird Food Rising Hope The Money Pet Chosen by teachers, these films present many situations that kids Ireland, 2012, 5 minutes Germany, 2012, 9 minutes Canada, 2011, 11 minutes will be familiar with: the school play, Writer/Director/Editor Richard Keane Co-Writer/Director Milen Vitanov Writer/Director Gary Hawes a first crush, bullies, and being dif- A man plans to eat his lunch in the Rising Hope was the fastest horse After his mutt accidentally eats some ferent. This entertaining film package park, but the local pigeons have in the world until suddenly he loose change, a man is soon bewil- includes two documentaries and a other ideas! Screened with the kind turns into a loser. With the help of dered to discover that his furry com- subtitled comedy from Germany. permission of Network Ireland Televi- a new friend, he finds hope and panion has passed the currency with This package contains the sion and Brown Bag Films. himself again. compounded interest. A modern day following films: fairy tale, this playful re-imagining of Aesop’s timeless fable “The Goose reelshorts.ca that Laid the Golden Eggs” is doggy- doo delightful.

Eyes on the Stars USA, 2012, 3 minutes Directed by The Rauch Brothers A Senior Moment On January 28, 1986, NASA Chal- USA, 2012, 6 minutes lenger mission STS-51-L ended in Writer/Director Michelle Davidson tragedy when the shuttle exploded Three “hot” elderly women living in 73 seconds after takeoff. On board a retirement home fumble with mod- was physicist Ronald E. McNair, who ern technology as one of them texts was the second African American to a message to a man she’s interested enter space. But first, he was a kid in. with big dreams in Lake City, South Carolina. Every great film should seem new every time you see it. FEST UPDATES AND MORE: FACEBOOK.COM/REELSHORTS - Robert Altman 40 FILMS+AND PACKAGES REELSHORTS.CA 41

ALBERTA PREMIERE CANADIAN PREMIERE When the Wind Turns Kidnapped The Decree The Vacuum Kid (Wenn Der Wind Dreht) (Gekidnapped) UK, 2012, 10 minutes USA, 2011, 11 minutes Director Mel Melcer Producer/Director Katharine Mahalic Switzerland, 2011, 6 minutes Germany, 2011, 20 minutes (German Writer/Director Elena Madrid with English subtitles) Nine-year-old Henry is scared of Few things are as unexpected as a Director Sarah Winkenstette monsters lurking in the dark. The 12-year-old boy who collects, dreams Annoyed with his neighbours, a man only thing that keeps them at bay is about, and can’t wait to use … vacu- sets off to find a peaceful and quiet An 11-year-old boy is kidnapped by a the decree from his father, a Royal um cleaners. Kyle Krichbaum’s fam- place to live, but wherever he goes, classmate who has a crush on him Marine. When his father is killed in ily was sure he would outgrow the something always disturbs him. An in this sweet story of captivity and action, Henry must find a way to face obsession that started when he was a amusing allegory about not appreci- freedom. Won Audience Award Chil- the monsters alone. Won Best For- toddler, but he hasn’t. In this charm- ating what one already has. dren’s Film at the 2012 Landshuter eign Drama Short Film at the 2012 ing documentary, Kyle talks about his Kurzfilmfestival in Germany among International Family Film Festival in passion, demonstrates a few models other awards. Raleigh, California. from his collection of over 160 vacuum cleaners, and shares some clips from the TV shows he’s been on including The Tonight Show.

CANADIAN PREMIERE Out of Hand ALBERTA PREMIERE USA, 2012, 7 minutes ALBERTA PREMIERE Writer/Director Katie Aldworth A Shadow of Blue Paulie France, 2011, 12 minutes Knowing that his mother will record ev- USA, 2012, 11 minutes Writer/Director Carlos Lascano ery moment of his performance in the Director Andrew Nackman school play, Nathan struggles to rehearse A young girl’s imagination sets her My First Spellbook Paulie is a nine-year-old prodigy his tongue-twister lines while scrambling shadow free to recapture the blue UK, 2011, 11 minutes in the seventh grade. He is used to to throw, trash and flush a mysterious butterfly that the wind tore from her Writer/Director Gavin Laing being the smartest kid in the class, fingered appendage that he unearthed grasp. Won Best Animation Award at acing every test and winning every When Katy discovers that a book of and can’t seem to shake, but things are the 2012 Short Shorts Film Festival of spelling bee, so when bully Tony spells she borrowed from the library about to get really out of hand! Tokyo among many other awards. beats him in an essay contest, Pau- really works, she starts dressing like lie’s mission becomes proving that a witch and then realizes she’s turn- No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes Tony cheated. Won the Panavision ing into a real witch. Will she be able directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our Grand Jury Award at the 2012 Palm to return to her former self, or will souls. - Ingmar Bergman Springs ShortFest. magic end up ruling her life forever? 42 FILMS+AND PACKAGES REELSHORTS.CA 43 ALL FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMS ARE PRESENTED WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES.

so that he can be with the woman he FILM PACKAGE loves. When he discovers that she’s in love with someone else, the temp- tation to use his other-worldly pow- Oscar Live Action ers becomes impossible to resist. Shorts (Coarse Language, Violence) Thur, May 2 @ 3:30 pm Death of a Shadow (Dood Buzkashi Boys van een Schaduw) Afghanistan/USA, 2012, 28 minutes Co-Writer/Director Sam French Belgium/France, 2012, 20 minutes A package of the five live-action (Flemish and French with English Revered as Afghanistan’s national shorts nominated for an Oscar in subtitles) sport, Buzkashi is a brutal game 2013. Writer/Director Tom Van Avermaet Henry of horse polo involving a headless (Mature Subject Matter) goat. Becoming a skilled player of This package contains the Stuck in a dark limbo between life Canada, 2011, 21 minutes (French the game is a dream shared by a following films: and death, a deceased solder col- with English subtitles) blacksmith’s son and a street urchin, lects shadows of the dying to buy Writer/Producer/Director Yan Eng- best friends who struggle to escape back his own second chance at life land their lives in Kabul. When his wife disappears, Henry desperately searches for her, but strangers seem intent on keeping him from her.

Asad South Africa/USA, 2012, 18 minutes Proud supporters (Somali with English subtitles) of the Reel Shorts Writer/Director Bryan Buckley Youth Film Project Curfew In a war-torn fishing village in Soma- (Coarse Language) lia, a young boy must help support USA, 2012, 19 minutes his family by becoming a pirate like Writer/Director Shawn Christensen the older boys in his village or by becoming a fisherman despite his ter- At the lowest point of his life, Richie rible luck at fishing. gets a call from his estranged sister asking him to look after his nine- year-old niece. Won the Oscar for Film is a battleground. Facebook / Twitter / YouTube Best Live Action Short. encana.com -Sam Fuller reelshorts.ca 44 FILMS+AND PACKAGES REELSHORTS.CA 45

portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in cel- they reveal how their experiences Based on a true story. Won Best Short FILM PACKAGE ebration of her 60 years as monarch. in mountain culture deeply inspired Film at the 2012 Boston Film Festival. A Woman’s Place Won Best Documentary at the 2013 them. Meet free-thinking individuals Canada International Film Festival in who blazed trails into a man’s rugged Thur, May 2 @ 6:30 pm Vancouver. world. Sun, May 5 @ 11:00 am

A woman’s place may be in a por- FILM PACKAGE trait hanging in Rideau Hall … if I See You that woman is Queen Elizabeth II. ALBERTA PREMIERE (Coarse Language) Or it may be in the shops of Tehran Attack of the searching for a forbidden item for a Fri, May 3 @ 6:30 pm daughter who’s starting school. Or CANADIAN PREMIERE Brainsucker A dentist’s office, hospitals, a corn- it may be on horseback retracing Canada, 2012, 14 minutes Barbie field in northern Alberta … the set- the trails of previous generations Co-Writer/Director Sid Zanforlin Iran, 2012, 13 minutes (Persian with tings for the films in this package of Willmore Wilderness women. English subtitles) presented by Free FM are con- Samantha, a little girl growing up in There will be a Q&A with filmmaker Writer/Director/Editor Ali Asgari nected by the ability (or inability) the sixties, loves classic b-movies Susan Feddema-Leonard (WOMEN of the characters to see what’s re- and monsters … until they start to in- OF WILLMORE WILDERNESS) and Soniya is excited about going into ally there. There will be a Q&A with vade her bedroom and her obsession artist Phil Richards (A ROYAL COM- the first grade and buying school filmmakers Eva Colmers (GRANNY compels her parents to seek help. MISSION). supplies, especially a Barbie back- BABY) and Rory Mells (SOPHIA). pack. It is forbidden in some schools, This package contains the so she is very happy when her moth- This package contains the following films: er finds one for her. But her happi- following films: ness is short-lived when she learns that she will have to conform to cer- tain restrictions. Won Best Short Film at the 2012 Fiaticorti Short Film Fes- tival in Italy. NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Alexis Spain, 2012, 10 minutes (Spanish with English subtitles) CANADIAN PREMIERE Co-Writer/Director/Editor Alberto A Royal Commission Willowbrook Evangelio Canada, 2012, 20 minutes (Mature Subject Matter) A ten-year-old boy exhibits symp- Producer/Director Ninon Larochelle USA, 2012, 17 minutes toms of schizophrenia. Did his psy- Director Ross Cohen chosis cause the brutal deaths of his From the techniques he used to con- Women of Willmore parents? ceptualize and plan the painting to In 1964, a young pediatrician begins its unveiling at Rideau Hall in 2012, Wilderness his residency at Willowbrook State this fascinating documentary reveals Producer/Director Susan Feddema- School in Staten Island only to dis- I wanted to be an actor. the creative process of Canadian art- Leonard cover that the institution is conduct- ist Phil Richards who was commis- ing Army-funded experiments on - Quentin Tarantino This documentary shares the sto- sioned in 2010 to paint a life-sized developmentally disabled children. ries of women, past and present, as 46 FILMS+AND PACKAGES REELSHORTS.CA 47

the 2011 Miami Short Film Festival FILM PACKAGE among others. Prejudice & Pride (Coarse Language, Nudity) Fri, May 3 @ 9:00 pm CANADIAN PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE These wonderful films have char- High Maintenance Sophia acters in them who are not part of the mainstream heterosexual (Coarse Language) Grande Prairie, 2013, 15 minutes crowd. Their stories show the prej- USA, 2011, 17 minutes Writer/Producer/Director Rory Mells udice that they face but also the Ursula’s Victory (La Writer/Director Shawn Wines Upon waking, Sophia doesn’t know pride they have or develop in be- Victoria de Úrsula) Hank’s just an ordinary guy trying to where she is. She wants to find her ing who they are. (Nudity) get his wife pregnant. Then his moth- way home but isn’t sure who to trust. Spain, 2011, 17 minutes (Spanish er-in-law shows up, thus ruining their This package contains the with English subtitles) baby-making plans. His desperate at- following films: Directors Nacho Ruipérez & Julio tempts to get rid of her escalate into Marti a crisis so out of control that his marriage, his life, and his embarrassing- On a stormy night, a teenaged girl ly low sperm count hang in the bal- uses a shovel to break into the cem- ance. Won Jury Award for Best Short etery and start unearthing a recent Film at the 2011 Friar’s Club Comedy grave. She is knocked unconscious Film Festival among other awards. Granny Baby by the caretaker who thinks she’s a graverobber. To convince him that Alberta, 2013, 9 minutes she’s not, she tells him about the per- Writer/Producer/Director Eva Colm- son who’s buried there and pleads ers The Maiden and the for his help. A young boy is excited about pick- Princess ing up his mom and new baby sister (Mature Subject Matter) at the hospital but the process takes USA, 2011, 18 minutes longer than expected. In the wait- Co-Writer/Director Ali Scher ing room, he meets an old confused I Can’t See You Anymore When their 10-year-old daughter woman. Nobody seems to notice her (Coarse Language) kisses another little girl during re- and nobody seems to care. He wants Ireland, 2012, 14 minutes cess, Emmy’s parents convince her to help her, but how? ALBERTA PREMIERE Director Michael Kinirons that the kiss must have been “an accident.” Wishing to set her on the Hatch When a man wakes up in hospital af- “right” path in life, the Grand High (Coarse Language) ter a car crash, he believes that his The importance of the Council of Fairy Tale Rules and Stan- Austria/USA, 2012, 20 minutes life will return to normal, but strange assistant director cannot dards assigns Hammond to narrate (German and Serbian with English things start happening that he “The Maiden and the Prince” to her subtitles) doesn’t understand. Screened with be overemphasized. and he is ordered to follow the text Co-Writer/Director Christoph Kus- the kind permission of Network Ire- - John Frankenheimer exactly or lose his magical tongue chnig land Television and Blinder Films Ltd. forever. Won Special Jury Prize at A couple has a baby but is unable to 48 FILMS+AND PACKAGES REELSHORTS.CA 49 keep it. On the other side of town, another couple desperately wants FILM PACKAGE a baby but is not allowed to have Pizza Party & Psycho one. For a brief moment, their Shorts lives intersect at a baby hatch in (Coarse Language, Nudity, Gory Vienna. Won the Festival Prize for Violence) Best Overall Film at the 2012 Poppy Jasper Film Festival among other Fri, May 3 @ 11:15 pm awards. Game I Will Survive (Je te survivrai) Presented by Rock 97 and Pizza (Violence) Hut, this popular package of hor- (Coarse Language) Canada, 2012, 8 minutes ror shorts starts with a pizza party France, 2011, 15 minutes (French Writer/Director Josh MacDonald at 11:15 pm followed by a package with English subtitles) of horror shorts at midnight. There Hunting season is open as a terrified Writer/Director Gomis Mathias will be a Q&A with Scott Belyea woman tries to escape her captors How does one become a memorable who plays the villain in ADJUST by fleeing through the woods. Won villain like Michael Myers of Hallow- TRACKING. Best Horror Short at the 2012 Buried een and Ghostface of Scream? Go to Alive Short Film Festival in Atlanta serial killer school, of course. Queen This package contains the among other awards. (Coarse Language) following films: USA, 2011, 22 minutes Co-Writer/Director Adam Rose After her plans to start a family fall apart, Nikki Holiday, a drag queen cabaret star, tries to fill the void in her life. Won Best Narrative at the CANADIAN PREMIERE 2012 Humboldt International Film Baby-Sitting Festival. Brutal Relax (Gory Violence) Undying Love (Ódau leg (Gory Violence, Nudity) France, 2012, 20 minutes (French Spain, 2010, 15 minutes (Spanish with English subtitles) ást) with English subtitles) Writer/Director Lucas Masson Iceland, 2011, 11 minutes (Icelandic Directors Adrián Cardona, Rafa Den- A young woman accepts a babysit- with English subtitles) grá, David Muñoz ting offer from a couple she doesn’t Writer/Director Omar Orn Hauksson A man with anger management issues know. Puzzled by the children’s odd As zombies prowl the streets look- appears to be cured, but his nervous behaviour, she invites some friends Flamingo Pride ing for fresh meat, a young man is in psychiatrist urges him to take a vaca- to keep her company. They should constant danger as he looks for food. tion and suggests the beach as a nice have said no. Germany, 2011, 6 minutes Equipped with a baseball bat and place to relax. That would be true if Co-Writer/Director Tomer Eshed padded clothes, he carefully checks only his music had continued to drown In the midst of a giant flock of fla- every corner before proceeding. In out the screams as vicious monsters mingos, there is one bird who thinks a city that seems to have only one emerge from the sea and start killing FEST UPDATES AND MORE: he might fit in better with the other pulse – his own – he meets a strang- people. 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Writer/Director Matt O’Mahoney In this grisly homage to 80’s anthol- ogy horror, a miserable stepfather has trouble adjusting the VCR after removing the horror video his step- son was watching. CANADIAN PREMIERE The Sleepover Alba Shirin USA, 2012, 6 minutes Spain, 2012, 19 minutes (Spanish (Disturbing Content) Co-Writer/Director Chris Cullari with English subtitles) UK, 2011, 13 minutes Writer/Director/Editor Isak Férriz Writer/Director Stephen Fingleton The town of Derry has a secret that the new kid discovers during A man’s hope of finding his lost Shirin eats dinner alone with her a sleepover at a neighbour boy’s ALBERTA PREMIERE daughter becomes an obsession father in their small north London house. Won Best Super Short Film at Foto that his estranged wife can no home. Without her mother at home, the 2012 Shriekfest Film Festival in longer ignore. Won Best Fiction little is said between them until Shi- Spain, 2011, 7 minutes (Spanish with Los Angeles. Short Film at the 2012 Kinofest In- rin reveals she is going out for the English subtitles) ternational Digital Film Festival in evening. Received a Jury Honour- Writer/Director/Editor Ismael Ferrer Rumania. able Mention at the 2012 Cleveland Pacin International Film Festival. A young woman receives a digital camera as a birthday present. She is delighted with the gift … until she reviews the photos she’s taken. Won ALBERTA PREMIERE Best Fright Award at South African Adjust Tracking Horrorfest among other awards. (Coarse Language, Gory Violence, ALBERTA PREMIERE NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Nudity) FILM PACKAGE Penny Dreadful Canada, 2012, 5 minutes Criminal Minds (Violence, Not Recommended for The Cross (La Cruz) Children) Spain, 2012, 10 minutes (Spanish (Violence, Disturbing Content) USA, 2012, 18 minutes with English subtitles) Sat, May 4 @ 8:30 pm Writer/Director Shane Atkinson Writer/Director Alberto Evangelio Presented by KIX FM, these films Desperate for money, a bungling A young woman’s driving lesson include riveting dramas and a few crook agrees to kidnap a little girl. with her father reconnects them after comedies to lighten the mood. It When things go terribly wrong, he years apart, but they are on a cliff- also features HOUSE CALL, the doesn’t know who to fear most: little hugging road that may not be the first film produced by the Grande Penny or the vindictive crime lord best location for an inexperienced Prairie Youth Film Club. There will who hired him. Won International driver. A PROUD SPONSOR be a Q&A with Devon Burbank Audience Prize at the 2013 Cler- OF THE 2013 REEL SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL (HOUSE CALL). mont-Ferrand Film Festival among other awards. reelshorts.ca This package contains the following films: 52 FILMS+AND PACKAGES REELSHORTS.CA 53

In a prison visitor’s room, a mother USA, 2012, 5 minutes confronts her son over his part in an Director David Silverman epic failed hold-up. Maggie Simpson spends a day at the Ayn Rand Daycare Center where she is diagnosed at an average intel- ligence level, but longs for the en- CANADIAN PREMIERE riched environment enjoyed by the High Heels and Hoodoo The Unusual Suspects gifted children. USA, 2012, 8 minutes Australia, 2012, 6 minutes Director Brian Rish Writer/Director Steve Mitchell A greedy party girl is so determined Noise A clown is interrogated by two in- to get what she wants that she em- Netherlands, 2011, 10 minutes spectors and soon realizes that break- ploys the dangerous magic of a (Dutch with English subtitles) ing the law is no laughing matter. Gullah root doctor to help her cross Director Jan Doense over into the spirit world for one last FILM PACKAGE At 5 in the morning, a woman can’t conversation with her grandmother. sleep because the neighbours are Oscar Animated Adam and Dog arguing. Her husband says there’s Shorts (Nudity) nothing to worry about, but when USA, 2011, 16 minutes Sun, May 5 @ 9:00 am she finally decides to call, she real- Writer/Director Minkyu Lee izes that he was wrong. A package containing the five ani- In the beginning, there was Adam mated shorts nominated for an and Eve … and dog who’s never en- Oscar in 2013 (the first five that countered such strange creatures be- screen) along with other award- fore, but who finds himself drawn to winning animated shorts includ- the world of Man. Matriarche ing THE GRUFFALO’S CHILD which (Violence) was a hit in the festival last year. France, 2012, 9 minutes (French with English subtitles) WORLD PREMIERE This package contains the Co-Writer/Director Guillaume Pierret House Call following films: A PROUD SPONSOR OF THE 2013 REEL SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL Writer/Director Devon Burbank Grande Prairie, 2013, 7 minutes A PROUD SPONSOR A deep-voiced bad guy makes three OF THE 2013 REEL SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL phone calls and asks, “Wanna play a game?” But none of his intended vic- tims react the way they should.

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Fresh Guacamole Dripped Presented by Big Country, this USA, 2012, 2 minutes (Nudity) package includes the best films of Writer/Director/Co-Producer Adam France, 2011, 9 minutes the fest as voted on by you. The Pesapane (PES) Paperman Writer/Director Léo Verrier winning team of the first Youth USA, 2012, 7 minutes Film Mentorship Project (Director Familiar objects are transformed In the early 1950’s, a Manhattan art Director John Kahrs Nathan Fast, Writer/Producer Imo- into fresh guacamole in this thief steals paintings and then eats gen Pohl, Cinematographer Chill- The life of a lonely young man in them. After consuming every paint- visually punny, delightfully original ton Alstad, and Editor Mike Evans) mid-century New York City takes an ing he has stolen, he tries to feed short. will be introduced by Scott Belyea unexpected turn after a brief encoun- his hunger with his own artistic ef- and their film (HB) will lead off the ter with a beautiful woman on his forts in this joyful tribute to painters package. It is presented by Encana morning commute. When he sees and homage to Jackson Pollock. Won and the Stanford Hotel. her again from his office window, he Best Animated Short Film at the 2011 has only his heart, imagination, and Sitges-Catalonian International Film a stack of papers to get her attention. Festival. Won the Oscar in 2013 for Best Ani- mated Short. Head Over Heels UK, 2012, 10 minutes Writer/Director Timothy Reckart A husband and wife have grown HB The Gruffalo’s Child Grande Prairie, 2013, ~10 minutes UK, 2011, 26 minutes Director Nathan Fast Abiogenesis Directors Uwe Heidschötter & Jo- Presented by Encana and the Stan- New Zealand, 2011, 4 minutes hannes Weiland ford Hotel, this film is the result of Writer/Director/Producer/Animator Based on the classic children’s pic- the first Youth Film Mentorship Proj- Richard Mans ture book written by Julia Donald- ect. It’s a comedy about a high school Inspired by animations for Mars Rover son and illustrated by Axel Sheffler, student who tries many crazy and missions, the filmmaker creates a sci- this tale of a little Gruffalo’s curiosity out-of-the-box strategies in an effort fi spectacle in which a startling me- and a mouse’s ingenuity will delight to retrieve the pencil that he acciden- A PROUD SPONSOR chanical device lands on a bleak and young audiences as the little Gruffa- tally drops but desperately needs in OF THE 2013 REEL SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL desolate world to enact a profound lo ignores her father’s warnings not order to complete an exam while be- transformation. Won Audience Choice to go into the deep dark wood where ing supervised by a zero-tolerance Award at the 2012 Maui Film Festival. the Big Bad Mouse lives. teacher. 56 FILMS+AND PACKAGES REELSHORTS.CA 57

FILM PACKAGE HB Film Index North Peace Encore For film description, please refer to 37 55 Socks 35 Light Years (Lichtjahre) page 55. 44 A Royal Commission 53 Maggie Simpson in “The Longest Daycare” Sun, May 5 @ 4:15 pm 27 A Sea Turtle Story 52 Matriarche Sophia 39 A Senior Moment 28 Metro An encore screening of the five For film description, please refer to 40 A Shadow of Blue 28 Mira’s Night films from the northern Peace re- page 46. 37 ABC 41 My First Spellbook gion. There will be a Q&A with the 37, 54 Abiogenesis 33 My Sweetheart (Mon Amoureux) directors of the films. 53 Adam and Dog 52 Noise The Trap 50 Adjust Tracking 37 (notes on) Biology This package contains the For film description, please refer to 33 After the Credits 24 On the Road to Tel-Aviv 51 Alba 40 Out of Hand following films: page 28. 45 Alexis 54 Paperman 43 Asad 41 Paulie The Horizon Project 45 Attack of the Brainsucker 51 Penny Dreadful House Call 49 Baby-Sitting 27 pl.ink! For film description, please refer to For film description, please refer to 44 Barbie 31 Punched (Abgestempelt) page 52. page 36. 27 Big Mouth 48 Queen 38 Bird Food 34 Record/Play 36 Bow Tied 38 Rising Hope Open at noon on Saturday 29 Brad & Gary 33 Shanghai Love Market 49 Brutal Relax 51 Shirin for film fest patrons 35 Bunker 731 28 Snack Attack 43 Buzkashi Boys 27 Snap 33 Cockatoo 46, 56 Sophia 43 Curfew 35 Spacewrecked (Blikkboks) 34, 42 Death of a Shadow (Dood van een 30 Talking Dog for Sale, 10 Euros Schaduw) 25 The Basketball Game 55 Dripped 51 The Cross (La Cruz) 30 Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven 41 The Decree 39 Eyes on the Stars 32 The Fiddler’s Reel (Ruidhle an Fhìdhleir) Suite 160-10130 99 Ave. 26 Fear of Flying 31 The Grand Design 25 Five Ways to Kill a Man 55 The Gruffalo’s Child (780) 532-1849 48 Flamingo Pride 36, 56 The Horizon Project 30 Food of Love 47 The Maiden and the Princess 50 Foto 31 The Maker 54 Fresh Guacamole 30 The Man Who Didn’t Know (L’homme qui ne 49 Game savait pas) 31 Good Karma $1 39 The Money Pet 46 Granny Baby 24 The Other Side 32 Harry Grows Up 50 The Sleepover 47 Hatch 28, 56 The Trap 55, 56 HB 53 The Unusual Suspects 34, 54 Head Over Heels 41 The Vacuum Kid 43 Henry 34 Time 2 Split 52 High Heels and Hoodoo 32 Transparency (Transparence) 46 High Maintenance 48 Undying Love (Ódauleg ást) 52, 56 House Call 26 Unravel 46 I Can’t See You Anymore 36 Unwieldy Beast 49 I Will Survive (Je te survivrai) 47 Ursula’s Victory (La Victoria de Úrsula) 28 Imaginary Friend 40 When the Wind Turns (Wenn Der Wind Dreht) 25 Ingenuity (El Ingenio) 45 Willowbrook 40 Kidnapped (Gekidnapped) 44 Women of Willmore Wilderness 58 SHORT FILM REVOLUTION Thank you! A reely big thanks to all our sponsors who have been so generous with their support! Find them throughout this program guide. And to our funding partners below, a reely, reely big thank you: we couldn’t do it without you! Festival Presenter: School Program Presenters Beauchamp Creative Capstan Hauling Ltd. Smith Wells Trucking Tourism & Hotel Sponsors: Stanford Inn Film Package Presenters: Grande Prairie Regional Tourism Association Q99 Downtown Association Rock 97 Pizza Hut Youth Film Mentorship Project Big Country Supporters: Free FM CKUA Encana KIX Stanford Hotel Moose Willmore Wilderness Foundation Rural Alberta Development Fund William F. White International Fest Supporters: FAVA Art Gallery of Grande Prairie Pizza Hut Crown & Anchor Save On Foods Menzies IGA South Keddie’s Tack & Western Wear Safeway South Mr. Mikes Steakhouse Visa Rentals