The Klondike Institute of Art and Culture with Energy present Energy Yukon with Culture and Art of Institute Klondike The www.dawwsonfilmfest.com The Klondike Institute of Art and Culture with Yukon Enegry present 13TH DAWSON CITY INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMAPRIL FESTIVAL 5-8, 2012

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PASSES & TICKETS Festival pass: $40 DCAS members, seniors, youth; $50 General Public Note: A festival pass does not guarantee entry into a screening. Please arrive 15 minutes prior to a screening to ensure entry. Individual Screenings: $7 DCAS members, seniors, youth; $8 General Public Late Night (11:30pm), First Eyes, Emerging Artists screenings: $5

MEMBERSHIP FEES TO DAWSON CITY ARTS SOCIETY (DCAS). Individual – $15 Senior – $5 Family – $25

All events take place at The Odd Fellows Hall, 2nd & Princess unless otherwise noted.

Festival Producer: Dan Sokolowski Projectionists: Florian Boulais, Andrew Laviolette, Gail Calder, Caroline Haase Front of House Manager: Karen MacKay Concession Manager: Georgia Fraser Program Design: Dan Sokolowski Original poster image: Yukon Vengeance, A William F. Broidy Picture Corp Production, 1954. Inset Photos: Centre; Good Shot: 1990.43.162; Courtesy Dawson City Museum. Bottom left: 2004.5.229, JJ and Clara VanBibber Collection, Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Archives Bottom right: 2004.5.112, JJ and Clara VanBibber Collection, Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Archives Festival Committee Lulu Keating: Chair, Florian Boulais, Gail Calder, Elaine Corden, Stephanie Davidson, Kit Hepburn, Bill Kendrick, Gord MacRae, Karen MacKay, Evan Rensch, John Overell, Meg Walker

The Dawson City International Short Film Festival is presented by the KLONDIKE INSTITUTE OF ART AND CULTURE. We gratefully acknowledge the support of KIAC’s funding agencies and partners for making this possible.

For further information on KIAC and its programs, please visit our website at www.kiac.ca

Executive Director: Karen DuBois Presentation & Events Manager: Matt Sarty Programs Coordinator: Emma Tius Administrative Assistant: Robyn Olson ODD Gallery and Artist Residency Director: Tara Rudnickas

Klondike Institute of Art and Culture 2nd Ave. and Princess Street, PO BOX 8000, Dawson City, Yukon Y0B 1G0 Canada tel: 867 993 5005 fax: 867 993 5838 [email protected]

2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 1 FESTIVAL AT A GLANCE FESTIVAL AT A GLANCE All events in the Odd Fellows Hall Ballroom (2nd and Princess) unless otherwise noted. All events in the Odd Fellows Hall Ballroom (2nd and Princess) unless otherwise noted.

SUNDAY, 11-12:30 pm APPROACHES TO EDITING ( YukonSOVA, 3rd & Queen) FREE THURSDAY, 7:30 pm FREE EVENT! The Herd. Director Peter Lynch in attendance EVENT! with Caroline Christie

FRIDAY, 1-5 pm ( YukonSOVA, 3rd & Queen) FREE EVENT! SUNDAY, 1 pm OUT OF THE COLD: YUKON EMERGING ARTISTS Master Class with Peter Lynch. January Brain Lines & Other Weird Noises Gone with the Wind How to Make a Marshmallow Sandwich Coming This Fall Untitled Not Just in The Kitchen Lizard Light Yukon Voices Somewhere in the Afterglow The Provider Can’t Drive Slow Yodel FRIDAY, 7 pm THE SPELL OF THE YUKON Pianolio Demolition in a Secular Age Slab Sounds Opening Up The Community Chest: Underdogs Broken, but not Dead JJ Van Bibber: Tell the Children Getting Around in the Yukon SUNDAY, 3 pm ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE SCREENING FREE Open River Andreas Horvath and Joanna Priestly EVENT! Chew the Face Just Call Slay Your Dragon Fragments SUNDAY, 5 pm DOWN RIVER FRIDAY, 9:30 pm UP RIVER Point No Point Dark Horse Candidate There Are Strange Things Done Sidewalk Wars Flimmer We’re Leaving Wild Life Box Man Hong Kong Lonely Heart in the Midnight Sun North Boys Les Euax Martes La Lavadora All Night Long Fireline The Washing Machine Anima Mundi Sins of our Father SUNDAY, 6:30 pm STREET FEAST FREE Join us outside for BBQ grub and Kara- EVENT! FRIDAY, 11:30 pm STRANGE THINGS DONE oke led by Festival guest Man And The Mammoth Love Birds Scream of the Screaming Screamer Curtis Grahauer Score Ambition Takes Wing Steel Viper Force The Eater SUNDAY, 8:00 pm THE BIG FINISH CMYK Radiostan Nostradamos SATURDAY 12 noon QUÉBECAMOUR FREE The Bees Mother Tongue Paahtomahksikimii Master Class with Guy Édoin. EVENT! 41 Days The Goat and the Well

SATURDAY 2 pm FIRST EYES @ DÄONJÀ ZHO CULTURAL CENTRE (Front & York) FREE Choke Spirit of the Blue Bird Misawac Kâwi Na’wapamitin SUNDAY, 9:30 pm MITY AWARDS PRESENTATION AND MORE! EVENT! Amaqqut Nunaat Maiden Indian Throat Song Back Country Pictures Tashina Simirlik The Indian Word FREE SUNDAY, 10:30 pm VIDEO DANCE PARTY EVENT!

SATURDAY 2 pm YOUTH SCREENING ( YukonSOVA, 3rd & Queen) FREE How the Coyote Got his Cunning Appearance Fat Cat 2 EVENT! CSI:Whitehorse D•A•WS•O•N C•I•T•Y Ghost Hunters The Story Of Crow Red Eye: The Red Blade The Chase Explorer Fact Highlights Horse Play The Man and the Mammoth Aussie Bruce Bad Deture FILM FEST GRUB! SATURDAY 4 pm THE MIDDAY SUN The Mechanism of Spring Ecks Lover Bip Bip The Film Fest is pleaseed to be able Signage Workers Leaving the Factory Ruidhle an Fhìdhleir Falling Finding Home to serve up some amazing food at our concessions before SATURDAY 7 pm AT THE CONFLUENCE and between screenings. Trotteur The Yodelling farmer Bird Boy The Day we Danced on the Moon Tenri Temple Tabula Rasa Stop that stomach from growling La Ronde during the fi lms! SATURDAY 9:30 pm INTO THE NIGHT We are open 1/2 hour before Eruption Shambhala Alley Happy Birthday El Vampirito Plot La Battue the fi rst screening and The Last Norwegian Troll Written In Ink in between all screenings. SATURDAY 11:30 pm BEYOND THE AURORA Come early and avoid the lineups! Footloose Chicken Scene FTW La Familia de mi Novia Masks Forgotten I’m Fine Thanks Still Life Desanimado The Magus Pole

NOTE: Screenings may contain mature content. The Youth Screening is suitable for all ages. NOTE: Screenings may contain mature content. The Youth Screening is suitable for all ages.

2 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 3 IN THE ODD GALLERY FROM THE PRODUCER

Paul Litherland FORCE MAJEURE March 8 - April 13, 2012 ARTIST STATEMENT I am interested in the moment where control is lost or gained. What happens to a person’s self-image when physical forces outside of their control alter the borders of the body? What does it mean to be the observer? This work refers to emotions many of us choose to avoid; humiliation due to lack of control, a sense of being exposed, or being As the light returns to our corner of Eden, out of one’s element. We don’t enjoy being vulnerable, but lets take a few hours this weekend to enjoy the light created wanting to yearn, being free from gravity, and escaping are all dreams we commonly hold. We are occasionally by some passionate people. driven to take risks to experience something beyond what we know. Although people can’t fl y like birds, there are moments when we can be at home in the air. Thanks to all who come out and to all who helped bring this event together! With Force Majeure, I am creating an environment that moves between the anxiety of failure and the exhilaration that comes with moving through fear, the outcome Cheers! ...Dan remaining unended. These are portraits of freefalling Image: Paul Litherland, Force Majeure (installation view), 2010 Photo Credit: Bettina Hoffmann subjects living in a dramatic limbo. — PAUL LITHERLAND March 2011

JOIN THE DAWSON CITY ARTS SOCIETY! The purchase of an annual membership provides KIAC with funding we can count on from year to year. We invite you to contribute to KIAC’s sustainability by purchasing a membership at one of many levels.

Basic Membership Gallery hours are: n individual: $15.00/year n family: $25.00/year n senior: $5.00/year n sustaining: $100/year Tuesday - Friday: 11am-5pm Saturday: 12pm-5pm Benefits include: Sunday: 3pm-8pm n special prices at select events n receive weekly emailed newsletters, quarterly programming brochures, and event invitations n access to KIAC equipment and resources n contribute direction to DCAS (voice of the membership at our AGM, committees, Board of Directors) The ODD Gallery gratefully acknowledges the ongoing support of the Yukon Government Department of Tourism and Culture

4 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 5 SPECIAL PROGRAMS THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 7:30PM We are pleased to present some unique programs of fi lms we feel are of interest to our community. BURIED TREASURE Look for the logos next to the fi lm to identify it with a special program. THE HERD FIRST EYES Our popular screening of aboriginal fi lms at Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre returns with a great selection of fi lms from across Canada. Genie nominees, Top 10 fi lms and more! See pages 18 & 19 for a complete list. Also of interest is JJ Van Bibber: Tell the Children, (pg 10) and North Boys, (page 12).

QUÉBECAMOUR This year the DCISFF is pleased to focus on the short fi lms of Québec. In collaboration with LES RENDEZ-VOUS DU CINÉMA QUÉBÉCOIS we are presenting two fi lmmkers (Guy Édoin and Matthew Rankin) and a strong lineup of short fi lms from FREE “La Belle Province”. EVENT! Les Eaux Mortes, p12 Trotteur, p22 La Battue, p25 Score, p14 La Ronde, p22 The Washing Machine, p35 Bip Bip, p21 Tabula Rasa, p23 Nostradamos, p37

RURAL ROUTES We are thrilled with the return of the Best of the Rural Routes Film Festival in . A selection of the best rural themed fi lms from around the world. www. ruralroutes.com Anima Mundi, p12 Tractor Scene from our Footloose Remake, p26 We’re Leaving, p13 Fireline, p35 Plot, p24 The Bees, p36 Peter Lynch, 1999, 100 min The Herd traces the true-life tale of Andy Bahr’s reindeer drive across 2,400 km of OTTAWA INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL hostile and unmapped terrain. The 62-year-old See some of the best fi lms to come out of one of the world’s biggest animation festivals. set out from Alaska in 1929 with a small team Mechaism of Spring, p 20 I’m Fine Thanks, p27 of Inuit and Sami herders. And 3,000 reindeer! The Last Norweigian Troll, p24 The Goat and the Well, p36 They were heading for the Northwest

Territories. The Canadian government, in a

well-intentioned move to provide a livelihood for the Mackenzie Delta Inuit, had purchased TROMSO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL the herd. The reindeer drive, expected to take Our long standing exchange with Tromso continues with the screening of its winning about 18 months, lasted 6 years. Filmed on fi lm in the Films From the North program. This year’s MITY Award winner will screen at the 2013 Tromso Film Festival location from the Bering Strait in Alaska to Flimmer, p12 the Beaufort Sea in the , this stunning odyssey follows Bahr’s quest to the edge of the World. Filmmaker Peter Lynch continues to challenge the boundaries of fact and fi ction, fusing drama and documentary. The Herd features performances from some of Canada’s fi nest actors, as well as painstaking historical documentation, epic myth and irreverent humour.

Peter Lynch will be in attendance and host a Q&A after the screening.

6 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 7 FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1-5 PM MASTER CLASS GOT A MINUTE? MAKE A MOVIE!

Last years winner, 1 Minute Eclair by Rick Zimmer and Veronica Verkley Expanding The Boundaries of Documentary Story Telling with filmmaker Peter Lynch

this class, Peter Lynch will cover both the creative and technical approach to his new short fi lm, Sign up for our 4th Annual 1 MINUTE FILM “Paahtomahsikimii”–The Lakes Which Go Into The Mountain. (Part of the National Parks Project, INscreening at the festival on Sunday, 8pm). He will bridge the gap between content and craft and how to hone technique to bring a clarity of ideas to the work. CHALLENGE! NEW THIS YEAR... This fi lm itself poses a complex radical portrait of a National Park that teases and engages with the boundaries of MAKE YOUR FILM ON AN IPAD! the history of photography, art documentary and cinema. It subverts the conventional idea of the national park and its position in our national consciousness. It revolves around the most signifi cant new world tragedy the Sign out one of our IPads and shoot your fi lm massacre of the buffalo and decimation of our First Nations culture. It draws this through the frame of geological “in camera” (no editing). We will compile time; the Blackfoot culture, the history of photography of national parks and landscape painting. It also delves them and all fi lms will be screened in to art history, the notion of the “western” the mythic totemic and shamanistic. This story is also deeply FREE imbued with Lynchs personal obsessions and family history. This fi lm is made in the context and traditions EVENT! at Diamond Tooth Gerties on of photographers like Muybridge who went beyond traditional photographic documentation towards a new April 14th! You may use other mediums creative photography. and just bring us a quicktime fi le of your PETER LYNCH is one of Canada’s most widely acclaimed fi lmmakers. His fi rst dramatic short Arrowhead fi lm by Friday, April 13th and we will received a Genie Award in 1994. In 1996, Lynch made Project Grizzly, one of the most successful Canadian screen it! documentaries of all time – once referenced on The Simpsons. His 2001 fi lm Cyberman played at over fi fty Open to everyone. FREE! international fi lm festivals and was listed as one of the top ten feature fi lms of 2002 by Film Comment. Lynch comes out of an interdisciplinary background in the arts and is responsible for staging many seminal multimedia cultural events in and around the world, notably “Kitchen Sync.” He’s been a major player in the early video/new media revolution and chronicler of punk, new wave music, hip-hop, dancehall, and the avant-garde Note: to sign out an IPAD a credit card music scene. Lynch co-founded, co-produced and co-directed “Video Culture International,” a landmark video new media festival. impression will be taken, but destroyed www.peterlynchfilms.com upon return of the equipment.

8 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 9 FRIDAY 7 PM FRIDAY 7 PM THE SPELL OF THE YUKON THE SPELL OF THE YUKON

SLAB SOUNDS, CHEW THE FACE OPEN UNDERDOGS Gerard Parsons, Yukon, Documentary, 2 m Lulu Keating, Yukon, Drama, 3 m Celia MacBride, Yukon, Drama, 11 m Aubyn O’Grady, Yukon, Drama, 3 m A boy makes a homemade musical instrument to A woman regrets another birthday alone – until a A woman living alone in the bush has her solitude A man with hotdog wieners for eyebrows contem- harmonize his mood with the sounds of nature. stranger enters her life and changes her forever. plates his life in Dawson City on the shore of the Yukon River as it begins to freeze. Later on, in the hotel where he lives and drinks, he is surprised when a beautiful young stranger walks into the bar. Will sparks fl y when they meat?

JJ VAN BIBBER: TELL THE CHILDREN SLAY YOUR DRAGON Lulu Keating, Yukon, Documentary, 5 m Alan Code, Yukon, Fantasy/Documentary, 14 min JUST CALL GETTING AROUND IN THE YUKON A short documentary on the expansive life of In the Year of the Dragon; the Dragon here represents Naomi Mark, Yukon, Drama, 8 m Veronica Verkley, Yukon, Documentary, 10 m JJ Van Bibber. evil in the world. It is up to us to personally identify Louise, a twenty something girl is stood up by her An historical treatise recalling the methods and that evil. To slay it requires courage, half-naked war- love interest Dylan. Feeling jaded and angry, she practice of traditional modes of transportation unique riors and cooperation of the throng... not to mention a returns to the site of her very fi rst instance of rejection to the Klondike district of the Yukon. A documentary bit of pyromania. For 19 years on the evening of every and fi nds a surprisng truth. combining found archival footage, B&W stills, and Winter Solstice; one rugged Yukon individual gathers contemporary interviews. a secret society to generously give time and energy to semi-pagan ritual, backyard pyrotechnics (on a grand scale); and well-fueled doses of pyromania.

FRAGMENTS David Hamelin and Neil MacDonald Yukon, Horror, 8 m RIVER OPENING UP THE COMMUNITY CHEST: Early one morning, Robin witnesses a meteorite Daniel Janke, Yukon, Documentary, 10 min Broken, But Not Dead explode in the sky above her home. After she fi inds River is a narrative documentary fi lm about a river that Aubyn O’Grady & Evan Rensch a fragment and brings it to school, Robin begins to has fl owed against the trends of modern times. It is a Yukon, Documentary, 5 m fall ill with a strange sickness that will change her life poetic investigation of the river as providing a glimpse In the summer of 2011, seven musicians formed a forever. beyond the veil of time in to a world that once was: a musical super group that rocked the foundation of river that fl ows from the future into the past. Dawson City. Six months later there are only four members remaining in town. This is their story.

10 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 11 FRIDAY 9:30 PM FRIDAY 9:30 PM UP RIVER UP RIVER

SIDEWALK WARS ANIMA MUNDI SINS OF OUR FATHER LA LAVADORA Hans Montelius, Sweden, Animation, 2 m Kate Balsley, USA, Animation, 4 m Deco Dawson, , Experimental, 4 m Ana Aurora, Spain, Comedy, 13 m Late at night in a lonely city intersection, a life-and- Anima mundi,’ a latin phrase meaning Paying homage to Charles Laughton’s 1955 Master- A space-time hole. A faulty electrical appliance. A girl death battle breaks out amongst the little men trapped ‘spirit of the world.’ Filmmaker, animator, piece The Night of the Hunter, fi lmmaker Deco Daw- who dreams of giving her heart away. A boy who inside the street posts. video artist and UW-Milwaukee instructor son retells the chilling tale as if through the eyes of a prefers washing by hand. Underwear that vanishes. A Kate Balsley combines thousands of individual images child. Recreating vignettes of key, iconic scenes from centrifuge of emotions: the washing machine. of fl owers to create a unique, fl uid aesthetic. the movie using children’s models and miniatures, in-camera effects, 16mm footage of abandoned farm houses and a meticulously crafted sound design, Deco Dawson has created a collage fi lm that wholly captures the eerie doom of the original, in an uncom- promising, re-imagined, retelling of The Night of the Hunter.

NORTH BOYS: FLIMMER The Story of Jimmy and Charlie Line Klungseth Johansen, Norway, Lucy van Oldenbarneveld Experimental, 5 m , Documentary, 22 m All noise contains colored particles of Charlie Pete of Lower Post, B.C. lead a sometimes different substances and meanings. Fragile tortured and troubled life. So did his friend Jimmy and impressionable, the fragments glide into abstract Dennis. As children both were taken from their lines, colors and compositions, creating fl immer. families on the same day in 1944. Since then their Winner of Films From the North, Tromso, Norway. WE’RE LEAVING lives have never been the same. Now in their mid Zachary Treitz, USA, Drama, 13 m 70’s, these men have never given up. Rusty has to fi nd a new place to live with his wife and his teenage alligator, Chopper.

LES EAUX MORTES Guy Édoin, Québec, Drama, 17 m An old man lives alone in the countryside. His departed wife comes back to haunt him and convince him to join her in death.

12 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 13 FRIDAY 11:30 PM SATURDAY 12 NOON STRANGE THINGS DONE QUÉBECAMOUR FREE EVENT! This year the DCISFF is pleasd to focus on the short films of Québec. In collaboration with LES RENDEZ-VOUS DU CINÉMA QUÉBÉCOIS we are presenting two filmmkers and a strong lineup of short films from “La Belle Province”. For a complete list of films in the Québec program, see page 6. Master Class with Guy Édoin Starting with with a screening of his fi rst short Le Pont, the workshop THE MAN AND THE MAMMOTH, AMBITION TAKES WING will explore Guy’s career as short fi lmmaker, and how he evolved as Nathan Gilliss & Callum Paterson, BC, Animation, 7 m Shawn Swanky, BC, Drama, 4 m fi lmmaker from one fi lm to another, until his fi rst feature Marécages After rescuing a man eating mammoth from drown- We always need people with ambition. The greater (Wetlands). We are also presenting Guy’s other two fi lms of the trilogy ing in the arctic, the lonely hermit receives a strange good requires talented leaders showing the way and Les Eaux Mortes and La Battue during our regular screenings. Guy’s short gift that changes his life forever. bringing along the fl ock. Ambition, however, has a fi lms are among what is best in for the past 6 years. dark side. The most talented often show it by not patiently waiting their turn. The truly ambitious crown themselves. Even ducks do it. Guy Édoin After studying scriptwriting at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Guy Édoin went on to write several award-winning fi ctional short fi lms shown at international festivals, including a trilogy titled Les affl uents (Le pont, Les eaux mortes, La battue). Marécages is his fi rst feature fi lm.

Formé en scénarisation à l’Université du Québec à Montréal, Guy Édoin est l’auteur de plusieurs courts métrages de fi ction qui ont été primés et présentés dans plusieurs festivals internationaux, dont la trilogie Les affl uents (Le pont, Les eaux mortes, La battue). Marécages est son premier SCORE THE SCREAM OF THE SCREAMING SCREAMER long métrage. Lawrence Côté-Collins Jeffrery Palmer, USA, Comedy, 5 m Québec, Comedy, 9 m A woman, trapped in a recurring nightmare involving Audrey and David wash their dirty linen in an infl atable painting, vows to get a good night’s rest SATURDAY NIGHT 7:30 screening public while debating the question : “How much is – by any means necessary. too much?” Matthew Rankin in attendance Winnipeg native Matthew Rankin lives and works in . A director and creative consultant for television, he has made more than 20 short fi lms, including Cattle Call and Negativipeg.

Originaire de Winnipeg, Matthew Rankin vit et travaille à Montréal. Réalisateur et consultant créatif pour la télévision, il a signé une vingtaine de courts métrages, dont Cattle Call et Negativipeg.

THE EATER Steel Viper Force: Rise of Fiero Matthew’s latest fi lm Tabula Rasa plays in the 7:30 screening. Wally Chung, USA, Animation, 3 m Curtis Grahauer, BC, Comedy, 22 m A man has a strange experience that ends up affecting A blood-drenched homage to 80s and 90s action fi lms, the people around him. STEEL VIPER FORCE: Rise of Fiero follows Lance Fiero, a booze-ravaged member of ’s elite special ops team as he embarks on a quest of justice.

4 AVRIL – 1ER MAI | APRIL 4 – MAY 1ST 2012

LOVE BIRDS Brian Lye, BC, Comedy, 7 m A humorous love story that refl ects the similarities between bird and human life. 14 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 15 SATURDAY 2 PM @ YUKONSOVA SATURDAY 2 PM @ YUKONSOVA YOUTH SCREENING YOUTH SCREENING

HOW THE COYOTE GOT HIS CUNNING EXPLORER FACT HIGHLIGHTS RED EYE: The Red Blade GHOST HUNTERS Claire Niebergall, USA, Animation, 3 m RSS Grade 4 Class, Yukon, Animation, 4 m Oilver Flegel, Yukon, Animation, 3 m Youth Art Enrichment, Yukon, Drama, 7 m A story about the creation of the world, the ranking What happes when grade four students are given The Red Blade battles three bosses in another Hunting for ghosts in Dawson City is a dangerous of all its creatures, and the world’s fi rst (failed) all- 20 minutes each to animate one fact from their social dimension undertaking. nighter. studies explorer project.

CSI: WHITEHORSE AUSSIE BRUCE HORSE PLAY THE CHASE Ian Hogeboom-Burr & Howard Coyne Kieran Stacey, Yukon, Comedy, 8 m Gerard Parsons, Yukon, Documentary, 5 m Youth Art Enrichment, Yukon, Drama, 5 m Yukon, Comedy, 6 m In the outback of “Australia”, young “Aussie Bruce”, A light-hearted exploration of sincerity and The streets of Dawson City can be a dangerous place. Two crime scene investigation offi cers in Whitehorse explorer at large, is on the hunt for wild cougars. innocence, as seen through the created world of two try to solve an extremely strange murder case. young minds.

APPEARANCE THE STORY OF CROW Sam Crocker, Yukon, Animation, 3 m BAD DETURE THE MAN AND THE MAMMOTH, Yukon, Animation, 2 m A symbollic representation of the creation of the Youth Art Enrichment, Yukon, Horror, 5 m Nathan Gilliss & Callum Paterson The story of the crow legend animated in different world using hieroglyphics to represent the key Never listen to a creepy gas station guy. BC, Animation, 7 m styles. elements of light/earth/wind/water; sound, colour After rescuing a man eating mammoth from drowning in the arctic, the lonely hermit receives a strange gift that changes his life and life — in order of their appearance. forever.

FREE FREE EVENT! EVENT!

D•A•W•S•O•N C•I•T•Y FAT CAT 2 RSS Grade 2 Class, Yukon, Animation, 2 m Kate Crocker, Yukon, documentary, 2 m How do you spell Dawson City? The grade two class A sequel to Kate’s Award Winning “Fat Cat” (MITY at Robert Service School illustrates the heart of their Youth 2009). Featuring James, another fat cat and his hometown in 2-D stop motion. attempts to get thin. 16 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 17 SATURDAY 2 PM @ DÄNOJÀ ZHO (FRONT STREET &YORK) SATURDAY 2 PM @ DÄNOJÀ ZHO (FRONT STREET &YORK) FIRST EYES FIRST EYES

CHOKE BACK COUNTRY PICTURES MAIDEN INDIAN MISAWAC KÂWI NA’WAPAMITIN Michelle Latimer, Ontario, Animation, 6 m Jimmy Johny, Yukon, Documentary, 5 m The Ephermals, Manitoba, Documentary, 4 m Gail Maurice, Ontario, Drama, 14 m Upon leaving his First Nations reserve, Jimmy 71 year old Jimmy Johnny treats us to some of the Curious about the recent popularity of mukluks A granddaughter is called home to Northern Sas- encounters the lost souls of the city and is reminded amazing footage that he has collected “out on the and feathered headbands, three friends begin sifting katchewan, to say her fi nal farewell to her dying that no matter how far you travel, you cannot escape land” over the years. through racks of new trends collecting fashionable grandmother. In Cree/Michif we say Misawac Kâwi who you are. Inspired by the contemporary art of signifi ers of Indigenous identity. Their window Na’wapamitin (Until We Meet Again) because there is First Nation’s youth, Choke employs stop-motion shopping is contrasted by a museum visit full of no ‘goodbye’. animation to explore the themes of urban isolation artifacts and ethnographic dioramas meant to and the search for identity within modern society. represent historical Aboriginal culture. With fabric and sewing machines, they begin to stitch together their own dresses based on the pastiche of their experiences and understanding.

AMAQQUT NUNAAT SIMIRLIK Neil Christopher, , Animation, 12 m Zacharias Kunuk, , Documentary, 10 m A hunting excursion evolves into an otherworldly Building on themes explored in his recent encounter, as two brothers navigate the spirit realm in documentary feature, Inuit Knowledge and Climate TASHINA THROAT SONG this ethereal and haunting animation that celebrates Change, Zacharias Kunuk tells the story of Sirmilik’s Caroline Monnet, Manitoba, Documentary, 5 m Miranda de Pencier , Nunavut, Drama, 18 m the ancient art of Inuit storytelling. restless skies through the voice of an Inuit elder. A young Aboriginal girl’s hopes and dreams are A young Inuit woman seeks to reclaim her voice, lost Featuring new musical collaborations by renowned re-negotiated within the walls and tunnels of the in a community that’s been tragically separated from throat singer Tanya Tagaq and indie duo Apostle of institution of education. its past. Hustle.

SPIRIT OF THE BLUEBIRD THE INDIAN WORD Xstine Cook & Jesse Gouchey David Wilson, Manitoba, Documentary, 5 m Alberta, Animation, 6 m Is the word “Indian” a label for Canadian Aboriginals Using spray paint on a garage where Aboriginal to reject or reclaim? In this short documentary, David mother and grandmother Gloria Black Plume was Wilson hits the streets of Winnipeg to fi nd out if brutally murdered in 1999, Cree artist Jesse Gouchey people self-identify as “Indians” and why they do so. paints a large scale animation of a bluebird in fl ight. The beauty and freedom of the bluebird’s motion is contrasted with remembrances of Gloria’s surviving family members, who give an emotional glimpse of a woman lost to violence and the injustice of the legal system. 18 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 19 SATURDAY 4 PM SATURDAY 4 PM THE MIDDAY SUN THE MIDDAY SUN

THE MECHANISM OF SPRING FALLING FINDING HOME RUIDHLE AN FHÌDHLEIR Eva Colmers, Alberta, Animation, 12 m Atsushi Wada, Japan, Animation, 4 m Karim Azimi, Iran, Exprimental, 10 m Marc Almon, , Drama, 18 m Without any possessions to tie her down, young An expression of the itchy feelings everyone Human beings, exiled to the soil, human loneliness In a tale of love set in depression-era Cape Breton, a vagabond Bo is ready to take off – to the big city, the experiences when Spring comes. and roaming. farm girl falls for a mysterious wandering musician, desert and the jungle. She uses what others throw and together they must challenge her domineering away and with her touch of magic, overcomes father and escape from a powerful bootlegger determined to have her hand in marriage.

SIGNAGE ECKS LOVER BIP BIP Jonathan Raciunas, Ontario, Comedy, 12 m Scott Fitzpatrick, Manitoba, Experimental, 3 m Philippe Grégoire Quebec, Comedy, 5 m Friends and business partners Thomas Uncle and During an experimental seance conducted in a dark Lloyd Chaplin are very profi table home security sign Winnipeg warehouse in the summer of 2010, the Francis wants to fall asleep beside the salesmen until they put themselves out of business disembodied spirit Eck is prematurely conjured back woman he loves, but Caroline’s watch by doing too well. But after watching a news report to life and allowed to run amok on earth once more. goes ‘beep beep.’ about a protest against local politician John Butler, Thomas Uncle comes up with a plan to sell custom made protest signs to protesters at the rally. Thomas and Lloyd then devise a way to profi t from both the politicians AND the people in order to end up with their heads high and their profi ts even higher! .

WORKERS LEAVING THE FACTORY Anna Linke, Germany, Drama, 11 m In remembrance of the Lumiere Brothers: Karin works in a metal factory where she spends day after day, performing the same monotonous tasks. When a new worker begins his job in the factory, it seems to be the end of this drab life. .

20 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 21 SATURDAY 7 PM SATURDAY 7 PM AT THE CONFLUENCE AT THE CONFLUENCE

TROTTEUR LA RONDE TENRI TEMPLE TABULA RASA Arnaud Brisebois, Quebec, Drama, 9 m Sophie Goyette, Quebec, Drama, 23 m Joseph MacGuire, Alberta, Documentary, 3 m Matthew Rankin, Quebec, Drama, 10 m Metaphor of adversity, an infernal race A singular meditation on leaving, loss, and A fi lm that looks at the presence the temple in Tenri In the aftermath of the 1950 Winnipeg fl ood, against a merciless adversary. A duel to settle night’s power of abstraction. has, how the area around it looks, and how the Fernand fl oats listlessly through the sad, between a young man and a locomotive. practitioners visit. sunken landscape of ruin while his estranged wife, Marie-Oiseau, prays for the drowned souls of Saint-Boniface.

THE DAY WE DANCED ON THE MOON THE YODELLING FARMER Tristan Daws, UK, Documentary, 11 m Mike Maryniuk, Manitoba, Documentary, 6 m The story of THE CHANNEL ONE BAND, a reggae Stew Clayton of Manitou, Manitoba is the yodelling BIRD BOY band of mental health patients, as they journey to the farmer, portrayed with humour and wit in this Pedro Rivero, Spain, Animation, 13 m West Coast of Ireland. A journey out of ourselves into fantastic animated documentary that looks the way Little DINKY starts a new day on her way to school another state of mind that shows us that no matter yodelling sounds. with her beloved father, but a terrible industrial how extraordinary an experience might be, reality accident is going to change her life forever. will eventually come calling. We might all have our Now DINKY’s fate may ride on the wings of her day on the moon, but sooner or later we will all come eccentric friend BIRDBOY, a rootless and introverted crashing down to earth... . kid that hides in the forest lost in his fantasies...

22 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 23 SATURDAY 9:30 PM SATURDAY 9:30 PM INTO THE NIGHT INTO THE NIGHT

ERUPTION THE LAST NORWEGIAN TROLL WRITTEN IN INK LA BATTUE Jennifer Campbell, BC, Experimental, 4 m Pablo Navarro-Rubio Martin Rath, Poland, Documentary, 12 m Guy Édoin, Québec, Drama, 20 m The artist simulates the faux-eruption of Mt. Rainier. Norway, Animation, 13 m Written in Ink is a documentary about hope. The An autumn day spent hunting concludes in It aims to amusingly dramatize the contrast between Three young goats decide to get rid of an compelling story of a man trying to get back in touch confrontation between a mother and her the crude attempt at simulation and the implacable old Troll who lives under a bridge. Little do with his sister after they haven’t had any contact for daughter.. power of the mountain, existing at another level they know that he is the last survivor of his species, 14 years. But can one change what has already been of time and space. She also spoofs our desire to the very last Troll of Norway... (Narrated by Max Von Sydow)

EL VAMPIRITO SHAMBHALA ALLEY HAPPY BIRTHDAY Pablo Navarro-Rubio, Spain, Drama, 18 m Peter Sandmark, BC, Experimental, 4 m Kathrin Frey, Switzerland, Drama, 5 m All his life Benjamin has wanted, above all else, to Shambhala Alley is a mediatation on mortality and A man goes out for a late night stroll, making an become a vampire. However, the life of a vampire in awareness of the present moment, inspired by the last unexpected fi nd... reality is not the way it is portrayed in the movies. days of our dying dog.

PLOT George Sander-Jackson UK, Animation, 2 m In the heart of the city, behind green metal fences, the cycle of growth carries on regardless.

24 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 25 SATURDAY 11:30 PM SATURDAY 11:30 PM BEYOND THE AURORA BEYOND THE AURORA

TRACTOR CHICKEN SCENE FROM THE MAGUS DESANIMADO LA FAMILIA DE MI NOVIA OUR FOOTLOOSE REMAKE Jaimz Asmundson, Manitoba, Documentary, 12 m Emilio Martí, Spain, Animation, 7 m Mike Manasewitsch, Willy Roberts Guillermo Chapa, Spain, Comedy, 12 m USA, Drama, 5 m The Magus is a multi-format, process-based A cartoon character goes to therapy because he feels Manu faces the hardest test of his life: To meet his In October 2008 it was announced that experimental fi lm that explores the root of artistic rejected in a ‘live-action’ world what dislikes those girlfriend’s family. Paramount Pictures & Dylan Sellers creation. The fi lm documents visual artist, C. Graham who are different. The protagonist refl ects on the Productions would be remaking the Kevin Bacon Asmundson’s body of work over a rigorous six-month nature of prejudice and has to decide to either adapt classic. We were fed up. The Hollywood remake period. to the norm or dare live as he is. machine was going to take another solid movie, put it through the ringer, and make a buck from a younger generation. We decided “Let’s beat them to the punch.”

FTW POLE I’M FINE THANKS Tyler Funk, Alberta, Comedy, 5 m Peter Pasyk, BC, Comedy, 5 m Eamonn O’Neill, Ireland, Animation, 5 m 100 meters. 8 girls. 1 surprise. An absurd battle ensues when two postering guys ‘I’m fi ne thanks, how are you?’ working the same street collide at one pole and must negotiate over turf...a moment in the urban MASKS jungle. Patrick Smith, USA, Animation, 8 m ‘Masks’ illustrates modern exploitation, production and consumption in animated terms. ‘Masks’ projects itself as a musical interpretation, a contemporary and disturbing version of the Disney formula of ‘Fantasia’.

FORGOTTEN Alex Farah, BC, Experimental, 5 m A man wakes up in a canoe in the middle of the ocean, with nothing but a box, some Polaroids and a deteriorating sense of sanity.

STILL LIFE Lloyd Handley, UK, Experimental, 2 m Still Life follows the journey to work of a rather unusual commuter.

26 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 27 SPECIAL GUEST WORKSHOP SUNDAY 11 AM-12:30 PM PROJECT DEVELOPMENT APPROACHES TO EDITING CAROL GEDDES CAROLINE CHRISTIE his workshop will have selected participants send their outlines or scripts, or treatments, ahead of time so the instructor can review them before the fi lm festival. During the festival, Carol Twill meet one on one with the participants to workshop their idea. Feedback will be a view to FREE creating a story arc that is consistent with a structure that works with the right dramatic beats. It’s an EVENT! exercise in economy and having people go away with the knowledge that no matter what, there is a defi nite ‘blueprint’ that is needed before you shoot. Carol will also help the fi lmmakers tailor their ideas to specifi c target markets, which will help with developmental and production funding and broadcast windows. With Carol’s experience in numerous genres, having successfully produced and directed dramas, documentaries and animation, she will be able to give feedback to a wide variety of projects. It is very imperative for fi lmmakers to get advice and mentorship at the early stages of their projects. As it often takes many years to bring a script to production, being able to fi ne tune their ideas/scripts at an early stage, they can achieve more focused and professional applications to funders and broadcasters.

BIO Born in Teslin, Yukon, of the Inland Tlingit people, Carol’s fi rst major fi lm, Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief, won a Silver Medal for Educational Documentary in San Francisco and set her on an award-winning career in the industry. Since then Geddes, a now internationally acclaimed fi lmmaker and writer, has produced 25 documentary fi lms and television programs. Her second major fi lm, Picturing A fi lm can be made or lost in the editing BIO People, won an Outstanding Achievement Award room. This workshop will focus on the Caroline Christie has been editing television, and a Gemini nomination for the Best Canadian role of the editor working in today’s digital features and documentaries for over two decades. Documentary in 1997. Whether writing, producing A environment, (where there is now more footage to Her television comedy credits include Republic of or directing, her prolifi c output has highlighted deal with) and what broadcasters and funders are Doyle, Dan for Mayor, Insecurity, Howie Do It, and the stories and struggles of Aboriginal life in looking for in order to take a project to the next Puppets Who Kill. Christie’s other television credits Canada. Her latest fi lm, the animation Two Winters: level. include No Opportunity Wasted, Insomniac with Dave Tales From Above the Earth won nine national and Attell, The Nature of Things, and the cross platform international awards. In 2002, Geddes was the recipient of the Queen’s Royal Jubilee Medal for her Caroline will discuss role of the editor and their music series City Sonic. outstanding contributions to the cultural community. She has served on the Teslin Tlingit Council, importance in shaping the material and realizing the Yukon Heritage Resources Board, the Canadian Council for the Arts, the Yukon Human Rights the director or producer’s vision. Christie is well known for her skilful editing on Commission, the Canadian Conference of the Arts, the National Film Board of Canada, and the Women documentaries and fi lms and has an extensive in Media Foundation. The assembly cut is the foundation of any good list of credits including the critically acclaimed, fi lm. The next part of the workshop will focus on Emmy nominated series The Awful Truth with making a proper assembly, both for documentaries Michael Moore. Christie has worked closely with and dramas. Strategies for dealing with the large numerous other fi lmmakers on projects such Army amounts of footage common to today’s fi lms will of One, When We Were Boys, Zyklon Portrait, for also be covered. which she won a Hot Docs editing award, and Flicker. A third section will focus on the elements of a rough cut i.e. what it should include and what Christie continues to collaborate with the highly is currently acceptable to broadcasters and other regarded fi lmmaker, Peter Lynch, on projects funders. such as A Whale Of A Tale, Cyberman, the Genie nominated The Herd, the multi-award nominated, The workshop will fi nish with a discussion awe-inspiring Project Grizzly, Dem Bones, Animal on elements of style: form versus content and Nightmares and the Genie Award winning short strategies for fi nding style within content. Arrowhead.

Born in Montreal, Christie has lived in Edmonton and Vancouver before settling in Toronto.

28 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 29 SUNDAY 1 PM SUNDAY 1 PM OUT OF THECOLD OUT OF THECOLD YUKON EMERGING ARTISTS YUKON EMERGING ARTISTS

JANUARY BRAIN PIANOLIO, Meg Walker, Yukon, Comedy, 4 m THE PROVIDER, Moira Saurer, Yukon, Drama, 6 m Meg Walker, Yukon, Animation, 2 m Two northern women take up the gloves to settle Struggling through a long, dark Yukon winter with Interpret the following scene as it was your own a romantic confl ict with a musical duel, but their only her sled dogs for company, a lonely heorine, repeating dream... competition distracts them from the obvious and hungry for companionship fi nds a unique way to leads to a surprise ending. fullfi ll her needs. YUKON VOICES: 5 SHORT FILMS 5 x 5m, Documentaries The Yukon Film Society and the National Film Board have teamed up to organize Yukon Voices, an intensive fi lmmaking workshop that took place in March at Sundog Retreat. 5 short fi lms were produced by emerging fi lmmakers from Dawson City, Kluane Lake, Faro and Whitehorse aged 17 to 63. Instructors include -Dennis Allen, Whitehorse-based fi lmmaker, HOW TO MAKE A PEANUT BUTTER AND Lisa Jackson, Vancouver-based fi lmmaker, Carmen MARSHMALLOW SANDWICH DEMOLITION IN A SECULAR AGE Pollard, Vancouver-based editor and Tracy Friesen, LINES (AND WEIRD NOISES) Kathryn Hepburn, Yukon, Animation, 2 m Lisa Ewasko, Yukon, Documentary, 4 m Producer at the National Film Board in Vancouver. Created entirely on an iPad for the Tab2 workshop at Kathryn Hepburn, Yukon, Animation, 2 m St. Lukes Chapel situated in the Misericordia Hospital Visuals of repeating and varying lines meet with the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, this fi lm is in Winnipeg is slated for demolition. The Grey Nuns Participants are Wyatt Raymond, Sally Wright, a look at the director’s childhood through the act of a soundscape created from the noise of a paper- began the hospital 64 years ago. The fi lm is footage shredder, blocks of wood and a combination lock. Nathan Bragg, Carol-Ann Gingras, Julie Robinson, making her favourite sandwich. compiled from the old wing. Gerry Quarton, Teresa Earle, Aud Fischer, Kim Beggs, Paula Pawlovich, Sylvie Painchaud, Ruth Borgfjord and Lorraine Purvin-Good.

This project has been made possible thanks to the fi nancial support of the Economic Development branch of Yukon Government, Film & Sound Commission.

GONE WITH THE WIND NOT JUST IN THE KITCHEN COMING THIS FALL Kristen Poenn, Yukon, Animation, 2 m Karen MacKay, Yukon, Experimental, 3 m Jay Armitage, Yukon, Animation, 5 m Gone With The Wind: The hopeless love story of a Things that are not just from my kitchen. With TV and movie production at an all time high, cactus and a tumbleweed. local TV Station DCTV starts producing its own brand of shows. All these new shows are coming this fall.

CAN’T DRIVE SLOW YODEL Kim Beggs, Yukon, Animation, 4 m A musician speeding down the highway gets pulled over by a police offi cer. The story is a conversation between the musician and the offi cer where she talks SOMEWHERE IN THE AFTERGLOW... about why she can’t drive slowly and he tells her why DREAM FRAGMENTS 187 Daniel Brown-Hozjan, Yukon, Animation, 2 m Chris Clarke, Yukon, Documentary, 6 m she should. An experimental animation exploring the experience What with a dishwasher doin the dirty work this year... contestant clarko squeezes a no budget fi lm into a shoe-string of disturbing the mind and dreaming. The loops of LIZARD LIGHT Cole Pauls, Yukon, Animation, 2 m timeline. Juggling family responsibilities and faulty promises from this piece were created with a variety of different friends it’s a wonder this fi lm made it passed the fi nish line... Lizard’s brew is the true northern spell mediums on different materials. Winner of the 2012 KIAC 48 Hour Film Competition.

30 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 31 SUNDAY 3 PM KIAC ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE ANDREAS HORVATH & JOANNA PRIESTLY

Togeher with the KIAC/ODD Gallery Artist in Residence program, the DCISFF is please to present the 2 fi lmmakers who are currently in the Macaulay House residency. The fi lmmakers will screen some of their works and then host a Q&A.

ndreas Horvath was born in Salzburg, Austria in 1968. He studied photography in Vienna and multimedia- FILM FEST SWAG! A art in Salzburg. As a freelance photographer and fi lmmaker he publishes photo books and creates independent Get some sweet film fest gear as proof that you where here!!! fi lms.

Horvath’s documentaries have received awards at international fi lm festivals, such as International Documentary Film Festival and Karlovy Vary IFF. As a photographer Andreas Horvath published black and white photo albums about Yakutia, Siberia and rural America.

DCISFF Shot Glass orange with blue logo $7 oanna Priestley has directed, produced and animated 24 fi lms that explore abstraction, botany, landscape, aging Jand human rights. She has had retrospectives at MoMA (New York), Center for Contemporary Art (Warsaw, Poland), REDAT (), Stuttgart Animation Festival (Stuttgart, Germany) and the American Cinematheque (Los Angeles) and has received fellowships from Creative Capital, National Endowment for the Arts, American Film Institute, MacDowell Colony, Fundación Valparaíso and Millay Colony. Priestley teaches animation workshops worldwide, was founding president of ASIFA Northwest and has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1992.

She has served on numerous juries and selection committees, Full Colour including Stuttgart International Animation Festival, Long Sleeve Canadian International Animation Festival, Texas Filmmakers Production Fund, Big Muddy Film Festival and the Annie Gildan T-Shirt Awards. Priestley enjoys medicinal herbalism, gardening and Burning Man and her fi lms are available at $30 www.primopix.com and www.microcinema.com. Look like Matt Sarty and BE COOL with a DCISFF Toque FREE EVENT! $12

32 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 33 SUNDAY 5 PM SUNDAY 5 PM DOWN RIVER DOWN RIVER

POINT NO POINT DARK HORSE CANDIDATE THERE ARE STRANGE THINGS DONE IN THE WASHING MACHINE Jennifer Campbell, BC, Experimental, 4 m Jason Britski, , Experimental, 15 m THE MIDNIGHT SUN Danny Lynch, Québec, Comedy, 17 m Set against the iconic landscape of the Pacifi c A portrait of a specifi c location over the course of Braden Brickner & Darryl M. Jordan After attending the funeral and exhibition of Alberta, Drama, 13 m Northwest, Point No Point documents a performance a year. One shot per day was selected and the 365 his mother’s urn, Samuel 7 years old, returns On the eve of the discovery of gold in the Klondike, staged specifi cally for the camera that offers novel images appears in sequence according to the calendar home with his father Mario. Life must resume and Bob Shaw and his partner Joseph Harper stumble contexts for the mind and the body. This video year. Mario decides to show his son to use the washing upon a large gold nugget. Bob murders Joseph as he continues to explore Jennifer Campbell’s subversion machine. At the same time, Mario tells a secret to his pushes himself deep into the violent cycle of greed of the body through absurd and explicitly physical son. The washing machine is special. Everything that and insanity. actions. goes in for a wash, travela back in time...

SUNDAY 6:30 PM STREET FEAST & KARAOKE BOX MAN HONG KONG LONELY HEART Join us outside on Princess Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenue for some great BBQ action. Brian Lye, BC, Drama, 5 m Win prizes and loosen up your gullet by singing some karaoke, A lonely box man looks for love in Hong Kong in this WILD LIFE hosted by fi lm festival guest Curtis Grahauer! (www.karaoke.weekendleisure.ca) Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby charming love story. Canada, Animation, 14m In 1909, a dapper young remittance man is sent from England to Alberta to attempt ranching. However, his affection for badminton, bird watching and liquor leaves him little time for wrangling cattle. It soon becomes clear that nothing in his refi ned upbringing has prepared him for the harsh conditions of the New World. This animated short is about the beauty of the prairie, the pang of being homesick and the folly of living dangerously out of context. FIRELINE Sara Newens, USA, Documentary, 7 m From the environmental factors that propel the fl ames, to the physical and emotional toll it takes to fi ght against nature day after day, this fi lm presents a visceral and meditative insight into the scope of fi ghting wildland fi res. As two fi refi ghters refl ect on their experiences, they reveal their unusual ways to cope with such intensity.

ALL NIGHT LONG Mark Cogan, Ireland, Drama, 13 m A brief but intense encounter between two lonely The Spirit of Dawson people changes both forever. Broadcast live on 106.9 FM CFYT...

34 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 35 SUNDAY 8 PM SUNDAY 8 PM THE BIG FINISH THE BIG FINISH

CMYK RADIOSTAN NOSTRADAMOS PAAHTOMAHKSIKIMII , BC, Animation, 7 m Tomas Sheridan Maxence Bradley, Peter Lynch, Ontario, Documentary, 13 m Elisabeth Olga Tremblay, Part personal love letter, part historical redress and An experimental animated short by Vancouver-based UK/Russian Fed., Documentary, 10 m Alexandre Lampron director Marv Newland, CMYK celebrates sound, Roaming across the frequencies of Central Asia over Québec, Mockumentary, 9 m part homage to early park photography, Peter Lynch’s colour and movement. Newland and animator Kunal the 3500 km that separate Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan Citizens living in the City of Amos (Quebec, Canada) fi lm is a surreal trip through the various pasts of Sen assembled multitudes of CMYK symbols, turning from Moscow we’re told by an eclectic mix of people and its surroundings are preparing for the worst. They Waterton Lakes. them into moving artwork. Coloured dots pulsate what’s on their mind. have to act fast and make some quick decisions. chaotically and primary shapes dance compellingly, while the music by composer Lisa Miller and the Quatuor Bozzini quartet is equally spontaneous and unrestrained. SUNDAY 9:30 PM-12PM AWARDS & VIDEO DANCE PARTY Stick around after the fi nal screening to see the presentation of the prestigious MITY (Made in the Yukon Awards). Also handed out will be the LODESTAR AWARD (best Canadian or International Film) and the Audience Choice Award. THE BEES MOTHER TONGUE Rana Ayoub, Lebanon, Documentary, 13 m Katherine Berger, Australia, Experimental, 3 m “The Bees” is a documentary portraying Approaching 16mm fi lm as a type of writing surface And then afterwards hang out and dance the night away at our the life of a Lebanese beekeeper. The story or canvas, found footage of an Inuit family was buried VIDEO DANCE PARTY, of the bees will reveal the hidden life secret so that the earth and natural elements could inscribe with Dawsons own DJ WHITEBREAD! story of this woman who is struggling to itself upon the fi lmstrip. Through the decay, the exist and overcome the wilderness she is vintage fi lm becomes reanimated and alive, bursting living in. with colour and movement whilst acting as a mystical rumination on a disappearing way of life.

41 DAYS THE GOAT AND THE WELL Ahmed Abdelaziz, Egypt, Drama, 21 m Benjamin Cady, UK, Animation, 5 m In 1994, Roberto Baggio headed to the United States A determined little goat causes endless to participate in the World Cup. He leads his national problems for a grumpy milking lady. team to the fi nal match, a penalty stands in his way to making history. But he has no idea that Youssef has to wait for 40 days to open his TV and watch the match.

36 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 37 THE AWARDS MITY AWARD MITY YOUTH AWARD The Made In The Yukon (MITY) award is designed to CSI Whitehorse honour and enable Yukon artists. It provides tangible Aussie Bruce benefi ts to Yukon fi lmmakers, allowing them to fur- Ghost Hunters ther their craft. The Deture The Chase MITY AWARD designed by Tao Henderson RED EYE: The Red Blade The Story of Crow MITY PROFESSIONAL Appearance ELIGIBLE FILMS Fat Cat 2 Chew The Face Explorer Fact Highlights Fragments D•A•W•SO•N C•I•T•Y Getting Around in the Yukon JJ Van Bibber: Tell the Children • $100 cash (KIAC) Just Call Open Opening Up the Community Chest: THE LODESTAR AWARD Broken but not Forgotten LODESTAR The Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (KIAC) is an active River 1. A star that is used as a point of reference; especially Slab Sounds the North Star. centre of cultural and social energy, hosting an ambitious schedule Slay your Dragon 2. A guiding principle, interest, or ambition. of courses, presentations, festivals, and exhibitions that follow Underdogs programming priorities determined by a volunteer Board of Directors First Prize The Lodestar Award is given to the best Canadian or International fi lm, which exemplifi es the guiding prin- • $1000 cash (KIAC) in consultation with KIAC staff. ciples of the art of independent short fi lm/video mak- • $1000 grip rental package (NFVIA) ing — freedom of expression, authenticity, exemplary • Screening of their fi lm at the 2011 Tromso artistry despite limitations, and clarity of vision. International Film Festival • Dawson City International Short Film Festival • $500 cash • Riverside Arts Festival 2nd Prize • Sterling Silver DCISFF pin • $500 cash • ODD Gallery • $500 Video Equipment Rental (KIAC) • Artist in Residence program AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD MITY EMERGING TALENT (chosen by audience ballot) • Concerts ELIGIBLE FILMS • $500 cash • Theatre presentations The MITY Emerging Talent Awards is open to non- professional Yukon-made fi lms in the festival. This • and MORE! includes fi lmmakers in the early stages of their career CBC North PSA Contest Winner and fi lms made in various workshops and programs. Moira Sauer Can’t Drive Slow Yodel Coming This Fall DCISFF Signal Film creators Demolition in a Secular Age Karen DuBois Gone With the Wind Aud Fischer How to Make a Marshmallow and Peanut Butter SandwichTerry Haines January Brain Matt Sarty Lines (and Other Wierd Nosies) Moira Sauer Lizard Light Meg Walker Pianolio Somehere in the Afterglow The Provider 187 1st Place • $300 cash • $500 Video Equipment Rental (KIAC) 2nd Place • $200 cash • $400 Video Equipment Rental (KIAC)

38 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival 39 PRECIOUS VOLUNTEERS

Every year starting in October we begin putting togteher the fi lm festival. From cold dark nights watching the submissions to planning and ultimately hosting the weekend. The value of the community if Dawson City and what it gives to every event in this town is beyind calculation. We couldn’t do it without them. A big thank you to every one! (See inserted list for even more volunteers!)

Gail Calder Owen Bayless Victoria Ponce Sue Parsons Michaela MacKenna Kristen Poenn Jim Regimbald Kit Hepburn Julie Leclerc Elaine Gaudet Elaine Corden Kay Linley Joyce Caley John Overell Lesley Grant Helen Winton Damien Griffi rths Daniel Lak Penny Soderlund Eryn Foster Manjushree Thapa Betty Davidson Jen Osborne Ed Pien Gaby Sgaga Matt Sarty Johannes Zits Elaine Codren Ben Rudis Curtis Grahauer John Steins Andrew Laviolette Joi Arcand Meg Walker Alexandra Macdonald Jp King Sarah Lenart Daniell Palmer Elizabeth Bill Kendrick Phil Wolters Sarah Smalik Gord MacRae Brian Stetham Connor Matak Lulu Keating Caitlin Erskine-Smith Ian Buntin Karen Mackay Sam Cheuk Molly Shore Florian Boulais Caroline Hasse Kyle Hammond Jim Taggart Cole Pauls Victoria Ponce Evan Rensch Dan Dowhal Ryan Paolini Kath Selkirk Matt Smith Dylan Meyerhoffer Stephanie Davidson Stefan Popescu

40 2012 Dawson City International Short Film Festival A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR SPONSORS

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