Schedule About the Festival FRIDAY, NOV 16

1:00 PM canadore college showcase 10 5 min North Bay Film Festival The North Bay Film Festival is dedicated to showcasing the best in contemporary 4:00 PM the discarded 86 min — Filmmaker Q&A to follow cinema with a focus on emerging Canadian and Northern Ontario filmmakers. 5:30 PM CTV & Canadore present: Made in Northern Ontario Gala Reception From our home on the shores of Lake Nipissing, we encourage audiences to Kennedy Gallery explore a variety of programs while aiming to present stories from a diverse

7:30 PM falls around her 101 min background of perspectives. We believe a film festival is more than just screenings and is a vital venue where artists can connect, share, learn and exchange to help 9:30 PM angelique’s isle 90 min grow the local and regional sector.

2018 Official Short Film Thank you to our SATURDAY, NOV 17 Selection Committee Selection Committee many dedicated Ian Lapante Alexander Rondeau volunteers! We could 11:00 AM Movie Trivia Brunch with Cole & Kevin • Raven & Republic (Doors 10:30) Kirsten Kosloski Lieann Koivukoski not make this festival 11:00 AM shoplifters 121 min — Director Q&A after the film Zophie Nucara Darren MacDonald possible without you. Holly Cunningham Jerry Poliszczuk 1:30 PM the tri-town ski and snowboard village 6 min anthropocene 87 min Matthew Mcdonald

4:00 PM seeing sound 5 min rafiki 83 min Near North Mobile Media Lab

7:00 PM silver light 5 min North Bay Film Festival is presented by Near North Mobile Media Lab. beautiful boy 120 min The Near North Mobile Media Lab Collective provides tools for contemporary

9:30 PM shark 8 min time-based and media artists at every level of their career including youth, the sisters brothers 121 min students, and emerging artists and audiences in Northern Ontario so they may produce, present and enjoy all forms of media arts, and foster emerging media SUNDAY, NOV 18 arts communities across Northern Ontario.

11:00 AM the hole is reservoir hill 13 min the fruit machine 81 min North Bay Film 1:30 PM michael klein is dead 8 min North Bay Film has been a rich local tradition for 25 years. We are a non-profit, the miseducation of cameron post 90 min volunteer-run community of film lovers seeking culturally-enriching films. 4:00 PM rachel 6 min North Bay Film is a member of the Toronto International Film Festival Circuit. trouble in the garden 79 min

7:30 PM l’homme et le poisson 4 min the fireflies are gone 96 min

feature film canadian shorts showcase student showcase Capitol Centre & Kennedy Gallery 150 Main Street East Raven & Republic 246 First Avenue West 1 Feature Films

The Discarded Angelique’s Isle Anthropocene Beautiful Boy PIOTR SKOWRONSKI • 86 MIN MARIE HÉLÈNE COUSINEAU, EDWARD BURTYNSKY, JENNIFER BAICHWAL, FELIX VAN GROENINGEN • 120 MIN MICHELLE DEROSIER • 90 MIN When Maggie finds her efforts to NICHOLAS DE PENCIER • 87 MIN Teenager Nicolas Sheff seems to have become a nurse derailed, she looks Based on a true story that occurred A sobering meditation on psychedelic it all—good grades, editor of the to the last viable option for getting during the copper rush of 1845, potash mines, expansive concrete school newspaper, actor, artist and out of debt and building a future; an Angelique, a young Anishinaabe woman, seawalls, mammoth industrial athlete. When Nic’s addiction to meth obscure program that promises debt and her French-Canadian voyageur machines, and other examples of threatens to destroy him, his desperate forgiveness in exchange for a work husband Charlie find themselves left for humanity’s massive, destructive father does whatever he can to save term commitment. dead on Lake Superior’s Isle Royale by reengineering of the planet. his son and his family. a corrupt Detroit copper hunter.

Falls Around Her Shoplifters Rafiki The Sisters Brothers DARLENE NAPONSE • 101 MIN HIROKAZU KORE-EDA • 121 MIN WANURI KAHIU • 83 MIN • 121 MIN Tantoo Cardinal stars as Mary Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2018 “Good Kenyan girls become good Based on Patrick Dewitt’s acclaimed Birchbark, an internationally famous . A family of small- Kenyan wives,” but Kena and Ziki novel of the same name, The Sisters First Nations musician who returns to time crooks take in a child they find on long for something more. When love Brothers follows two brothers—Eli and her home community to recharge and the street. blossoms between them, the two girls Charlie Sisters—who are hired to kill reevaluate her life, only to find that her will be forced to choose between a thieving prospector in 1851 Oregon. fame is not so easily left behind. happiness and safety. The film is Jacques Audiard’s follow- up to his 2015 Palme D’Or-winning Dheepan.

2 3 Feature Films Canadian Shorts Showcase

Each year NBFF extends a call for submissions to independent filmmakers across Canada to showcase their short films on screen at the festival. This year we are proud to announce the selections of the NBFF programming committee of the following independent filmmakers to be featured in our shorts showcase for 2018. These films will play with feature films throughout the festival weekend.

The Hole in L’Homme et le Poisson The Fruit Machine Trouble in the Garden Reservoir Hill LEWIS LEON • 4 MIN SARAH FODEY • 81 MIN ROZ OWEN • 79 MIN SHASHA NAKHAI • 13 MIN Set against the backdrop of a vast, During the Cold War, the Canadian Bailed out and taken in by a A timely revisiting of a Cold War-era frozen tundra; a grizzled fisherman government hunted down, interrogated brother she hasn’t seen in years, an bunker in North Bay, Ontario and the gets his comeuppance from a and fired thousands of civil servants Indigenous protester and her adoptive individuals who know its secrets. vindictive, yet familiar fish. and soldiers who were suspected of family reckon with love and betrayal. Screening with The Fruit Machine Screening with The Fireflies are Gone being LGBT. This documentary shares the story of people who were targeted. RACHEL Silver Light DAVID LATREILLE • 5 MIN BRAD MCDERMOTT • 5 MIN There’s no place like home. Unless A man returns to his hometown for you travel the world for 3 years and the funeral of his male high school dread your return. Memories last sweetheart, and has to confront the forever but don’t lose yourself in them. family that didn’t know their secret as Screening with Trouble in the Garden: well as his own feelings of loss and regret. Screening with Beautiful Boy The Miseducation The Fireflies are Gone of Cameron Post (La disparition DESIREE AKHAVAN • 90 MIN des lucioles) After teenage Cameron is caught in SÉBASTIEN PILOTE • 96 MIN the backseat of a car with the prom Karelle Tremblay stars as an angst- queen, she’s sent to a remote treatment ridden teenager teetering between center called God’s Promise. While malaise and wanderlust in a small subjected to gay conversion therapies, industrial town. she bonds with fellow residents, pretending to go along with the process while waiting to be released.

4 5 Student Showcase Canadore College Showcase

Each year NBFF extends a call for submissions to student filmmakers across Chungo Post-Script Canada to showcase their emerging talent at the festival. This year we are TYLER WATSON • 6:40, COMEDY SHORT ERIC ROBILLARD & 3RD YEAR DIGICINE CLASS proud to announce the selections of the NBFF programming committee of He’s an inter-dimensional weirdo 13:00, SHORT DRAMA the following student films to be featured in our Student Showcase for 2018. and he’s coming for you. A writer attempts to describe what makes love work. Closing Time RAIN TAE • 3:50, COMEDY SHORT How to Tell Rachel Michael Klein is Dead Shark Time travel has its complications. I Love Her MAXIME LAUZON • 5:00, SHORT COMEDY SEAN CULLEN, SHERIDAN COLLEGE • 8 MIN CURTIS CARRIERE, Sinner Lucas realizes today is the day he Two girls accidentally kill a student CANADORE COLLEGE • 8 MIN BEN FARIA • 6:50, SHORT DRAMA needs he needs to tell her. presidential candidate in the school Marty is dead beat loan shark, sick A street fighter grapples with the I am BOBBY washroom and must find a way out. of his 9-5. So he decides to quit his inner demon that defines him. SYDNEY LEE • 4:40, SHORT DOCUMENTARY Screening with The Miseducation of Cameron Post job the only way he knows how, with a bullet & a pack of cigarettes. Lou What can make-up do for defining Screening with The Sisters Brothers an identity? Seeing Sound MORNINGSTAR DEROSIER • 3:00 SHORT DOCUMENTARY ALEC JORDAN, CANADORE COLLEGE • 5 MIN Premonition The Tri Town Ski & What love for animals can teach us MATT MCNEIL • 2:50, SHORT COMEDY about living. Seeing Sound is a short documentary Snowboard Village Martin J. Smith has a full life ahead of him. about a young musician that is unable JORDAN VANDENBERG, to read sheet music and could care Pure Bliss Flood Blow CANADORE COLLEGE • 6 MIN less if his socks match or not. The story KY BRYSKI • 6:20, SHORT DRAMA MATT CLOSE & 3RD YEAR DIGICINE CLASS showcases his skills on various musical Some places have a bit of magic Bliss both giveth, and taketh away. 17:30, SHORT COMEDY instruments including the accordion. to them for a variety of reasons. A miracle drug that stops the bleeding Screening with Rafiki In the case of the Tri Town Ski Village Known Associates gets used for nefarious purposes.

it’s the volunteers. Without such a LAUREN BENNIE • 5:00 COMEDY/MOCKUMENTARY SHORT Chip dedicated group it might cease to The Known Associates believe they are JORDAN HEWITT • 3:45, SHORT COMEDY exist, and deny future generations one of the best bands in North Bay. Should Chip listen to the voice in his an opportunity to experience such head? Steve thinks so. a wonderful facility. Comorbid Screening with Athropocene CATHERINE ORR • 7:40 Daze of Dreams DRAMA/EXPERIMENTAL SHORT AARON MARTINI & 3RD YEAR DIGICINE CLASS 18:30, SHORT COMEDY A slick fashion film about a young man searching for artistic meaning. Dylan is a day-dreamer who, through the help of his girl-crush, finds a way

to stop them from becoming real.

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Enhance your festival experience with receptions, filmmakers in conversation and more!

CTV & Canadore Present Filmmaker Q&A with In conversation with Filmmaker Q&A with Made in Northern Dave Clement, Producer Sarah Fodey, Director Roz Owen & Jennifer Ontario Gala Reception of Angelique’s Isle of The Fruit Machine Mesich, Director of FRIDAY • 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM FRIDAY • 9:30 PM, FOLLOWING THE FILM SUNDAY • 11:00 AM, FOLLOWING THE FILM Trouble in the Garden W.K.P. KENNEDY GALLERY SUNDAY • 4:00 PM Dave is co-owner of Thunderstone An accomplished producer and writer, FOLLOWING THE SCREENING OF THE FILM Get into the spirit while celebrating a Pictures Inc. and a professor in the Sarah Fodey’s 21 year career in motion day of Northern Ontario filmmaking! Digital Cinematography and Applied storytelling has spanned feature films, Born in the UK, based in Toronto, With CTV live on location, you’re Filmmaking program at Canadore College. scripted series, factual entertainment, Roz is an award-winning filmmaker sure to catch a local filmmaker or two. A true Northern filmmaker much of his documentary production, and branded working in socially engaged drama career having been spent in remote locales corporate communications. Sarah has and documentary. Trouble In The Complimentary tasty eats brought to in open collaboration with Indigenous executive produced, produced, and Garden is her first feature drama. She you by Savoir Faire Catering. Cash filmmakers and communities between line produced for networks including teaches film production at Ryerson bar. Show your pass, ticket stub or Northern Ontario and the High Arctic. the CBC, Global, APTN, Comedy, University’s School of Image Arts. North Bay Film membership for entry. Bravo!, TVO, TFO, City, and TMN. She is currently co-producing the 7th season of Qanurli, and producing a feature film funded by Telefilm Canada and Unis. Sarah has also written and produced hundreds of hours of award- winning content in branded corporate storytelling. Sarah led a team of writers, directors, researchers, designers, and Filmmaker Q&A with Awards announcement Movie Trivia Brunch creative post personnel on a large-scale Piotr Skowronski, Director project for the Canadian Museum for and presentation for SATURDAY • 11 AM – 2 PM (DOORS 10:30) of The Discarded Human Rights in Winnipeg, Canada, Best Short Film and RAVEN & REPUBLIC FRIDAY • 4:00 PM, FOLLOWING THE FILM delivering dozens of original films and Best Student Film two sound landscapes for the It’s back by popular demand! First come, SUNDAY • 7:30 PM Born in Poland, Piotr Skowronski Museum’s inaugural launch. Sarah first served. Join us for brunch with a PROCEEDING THE FIREFLIES ARE GONE immigrated to Canada at an early age. earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in side of movie trivia. No cover, a-la- He is a graduate of the Film Production English Literature from Queen’s carte brunch menu, open to the public. Program at Confederation College and University and an honours diploma in is based in Northern Ontario, driving the Television Broadcasting program at independent film production forward and Algonquin College. Sarah is a member developing the industry in the region. His of the Writers Guild of Canada. debut feature film These Lovers premiered at the 18th Shanghai International Film Festival and was one of twelve Canadian films screened as part of Telefilm’s The Best of Canada section. 8 9 Thank You to Our Sponsors Title Sponsors Government Supporters

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