ReelHeART International Film Festival (RHIFF )

JUNE 18 - 23, 2007 Toronto Welcome to ReelHeART!

Welcome to the 3rd Annual ReelHeART International RHIFF ORGANIZERS K. Irenaeus MacKinnon (Founder) Film Festival (RHIFF). On the matter of “auteur filmmaking” vs. “commercial Shannonn Kelly (Director) films” we at ReelHeART look at filmmakers for their art Blake Daley (Tech Director) As we remain dedicated to being a “truly open festival”, and not their industry credits. But don’t let that fool, Cindy Lemus (Office Coordinator) we find more friends and supporters of the ReelHeART you. We are very interested in the commercial aspect of David Remar (Submissions Tech Support) mantra “Our niche is no niche”-“Our niche is no all films submitted to ReelHeART. We want longevity for Francisco Corroy-Moral (Spanish Language Liaison) niche”… We received countless emails from filmmakers our filmmakers. We want them to know there may be a GG Gianfranco (Filmmaker & Marketing Liaison) stating how “refreshing it is to find a festival like market for them. Katie Bosch (Submissions Clerk) Katherine Mark (Mentor Program) ReelHeART to submit their projects to and to garner Kojenwa Moitt (NYC Filmmakers & Sponsorship Liaison) respect for their efforts. At ReelHeART, we give each film a good hard look, on all Mark Bernhardt (PR Assistant) levels. You just don’t have to be an A-list filmmaker for Carolyne Hutt (PR Assistant) This year, as with last, overall screening round scores us to do so- Maria Lioutaia (PR Assistant) were higher again this season, with many surprises in Patsy Morrow (Driver, Host) all eight categories. As we grow, more and more industry experts get to Ray J Nayoan (Film Print & Tech Tests) acquaint themselves with ReelHeART who ultimately Rita Rodé (Senior Submissions Coordinator) Peter Teng (Volunteer Coordinator) During one screening I was even brought to tears with embrace and appreciate what we do for filmmakers and Saidah Wilson-Gomez (Screenplay Competition Casting) a story that pierces the screen. But you’ve got to filmmaking on all levels. Arwen Smith (Screenplay Competition Casting Assistant) believe in the story in order for it to take you away as Shirley Gretts (Office & Sponsorship Assistant) it did for me. I cannot wait to see if other filmgoers will Participating in the RHIFF Lunch n Learn Series , helps Tina Li (Sponsorship Assistant) have the same experience. bring the industry professional that much closer to the TJ Morray (Office & Sponsorship Assistant) filmmakers in the audience and find the gems they are Vic Sable (Office & Sponsorship Assistant) We always strive to introduce new ideas and 2007 looking for. Being a Celebrity Judge allows them to And the remaining cast of RHIFF Volunteers! brings the ReelHeART Screenplay Competition with understand why we showcase real films with real heart. And the sequestered cast of RHIFF Programmers! it’s own bit of drama. We received and scored feature Apart from the filmmaking budget, the quality of story screenplays from around the world. During the scoring always shines through… RHIFF PRINTING & DESIGN PARTNERS rounds we keep the identity of the writers a secret. Marc Cormier at Miquelon Consulting Right up until we sent short listed scripts off to The Show your support for “The Filmmakers Festival”. Show (Senior Web Master / Program Designer) Characters Agency to have esteemed agent and you’re support for the art of filmmaking. We’re the only CMN Productions (Print Materials, Programs) founder Carl Liberman pick our top three scripts. Toronto film festival where that is the purpose. Kit McAllister (Illustrator, Art Design) Here’s the drama: Two of the top three scripts are by the same writer! Thank you for being film enthusiasts with ReelHeART! RHIFF THEATER PARTNER 2007 Innis College, University of Toronto These three scripts get showcased with Live Reads Shanno nn Kelly, Director RHIFF during ReelHeART. Who will win a one-on-one lunch ReelHeART International Film Festival (RHIFF) RHIFF EXCLUSIVE VENUE PARTNER 2007 with Carl Liberman? Who might get representation…? The Filmmakers Film Festival Southern Accent Restaurant We’ll let the drama continue for the live read audience. www.reelheart.com (Specializing in Cajun, Soul & Creole Food) 2 RHIFF PROGRAMMERS PLEDGE TUESDAY JUNE 19, 2007 Do you get the feeling that festival programmers BLOC A - Tuesday - 2 PM The Clinton 12 only watch the first 10 minutes or less of your RHIFF MAIN PROGRAM B *ReelHeART Official Opening Film* INNIS THEATER Room 222 Canadian Premiere (SLD) film? Dir. Keith McDaniel One Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA “We, the RHIFF Programmers, pledge that we Canadian Premiere (AN) will watch every minute of every submission Dir. Christopher Potter On August 27, 1956, twelve sent to the ReelHeART International Film Bloomington, IN, USA black teenagers entered Festival. We will give each film the attention it Clinton High School, in deserves. From opening credits to the closing 'One' mixes split screen Clinton, Tennessee, for the first time. What and documentary into a followed shocked the world, and changed a Thank You’s, Location Credits and cruelty to collage of image and sound representing one nation. Narrated by James Earl Jones. animals waiver. We will watch your film from person at one time in their life. moment one-moment none...” FISSION Gone Canadian Premiere (AN) Canadian Premiere (MV) Dir. Kun-I Chang Dir. Andrew Watson Taiwan / New York, NY, USA ReelHeART International Film Festival Newport Beach, CA, USA JUNE 18-23, 2007 Toronto, ON, Canada A motion graphic film about Gone by socially concious a man who sees himself as a graffiti RHIFF MAIN PROGRAM “A” & “B” singer/songwriter Bill Madden brings the worlds Innis College (University of Toronto) of film and music together with a metaphorical BLOC B - Tuesday - 4 PM 2 Sussex Avenue, 1 Block South of St. George Subway environmental warning alert. This compelling RHIFF MAIN PROGRAM B video raises questions, fusing art, social INNIS THEATER Room 222 RHIFF VENUE PROGRAM commentary, and music to spark debate on SOUTHERN ACCENT RESTAURANT what it means to be alive and grapple with the We, The Screenwriter Cajun, Creole & Soul Food consequences of environmental change. Canadian Premiere (FD) 595 Markham Street Directed by Andrew David Watson of Current Dir. 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The Restore mood environment.In the cloudy and gloomy night BLOC E - Tuesday - 9:15 PM Canadian Premiere (SLF) of the village, however, are shining two moons... RHIFF MAIN PROGRAM A Dir. Inx Neeve Sehatzadeh The village, gradually transforming with the INNIS TOWN HALL North York, ON, Canada disturbing machinery noises. The village reflected in the two eyes of the main character, running away Evocation A foreign action flick suffers a to some place, is.... North American Premiere (AN) massive stroke and begins to Dir. Jaeyoon Park lose its recollection of image and I Love You, I'm Sorry, South Korea / New York, NY, USA sound.The dying film's narritive And I'll Never Do It Again is explored through incisions and Canadian Premiere (SLF) Evocation is a visual ode influenced by the poem splices on the operating room table unfolding a Dir. Keith Snyder "evocation" written by Kim So Wol which consists of complex analogy between the process of Rego Park, NY, USA strong emotional conflicts that occurs from losing a loved filmmaking, storytelling and the concept of one. And these develop Han, known as ironic or memory. Mobsters terrorize a man while dispensing marital paradoxical emotions... advice. A short crime musical by the same people BLOC C - Tuesday - 5:30 PM who brought you CREDO. Wine Bar RHIFF MAIN PROGRAM A Special Invite (SLF) INNIS TOWN HALL No Bigger Than A Minute Canadian Premiere Canadian Premiere (SLD) Dir. Christian Remde Iraq: The Truth Denied Dir. Steven Delano New York, NY, USA North American Premiere Denver, CO, USA Dir. Cristiano Barbarossa When blue-collar Henry orders a beer in a snooty wine Rome, RM, Italy (SLD) “No Bigger Than A Minute” is a head-on bar run by the William Sandler (Tales From The Crypt), confrontation with conventional misperceptions he offends everyone and has to defend himself and the This documentary is the result of the meeting about dwarfs. Do not miss this engrossing woman sitting next to him... between an Italian director, storytelling Iraqi documentary with Delano's incredible access to people a few days before the war and an Iraqi 'inside Hollywood', as well as historical footage and Dark Circus director who at first in his present day interviews with the likes of Meredith Canadian Premiere (AN) country renovated the view Eaton-Gilden (Boston Legal) Randy Newman Dir. Tania E. Padilla once the war ended. (writer, composer "Short People") and Peter San Francisco, CA, USA Dinklage (The Station Agent) BLOC D - Tuesday - 7 PM Two puppeteers travel into the forest to unleash a circus RHIFF MAIN PROGRAM A Big Dreamers from a magical trunk. There in the chaos of a dancing INNIS TOWN HALL Canadian Premiere (SLD) skeleton circus barker, shape shifting opera singer and a Dir. Camille Hardman gravity defying serpentine dancer, a little marionette girl NEST Sydney, NSW, Australia learns how to love. Based on a childhood memory of the North American Premiere late humanitarian heroine Helen Rodriguez-Trias with an Dir. Suin Choi Big Dreamers is the quixotic original score by Daniel Corral. Seoul, South Korea (AN) struggle of one town in far north Queensland, Australia to build the A beautiful and abundant village in a festal World's Biggest Gumboot to bring tourism back to a once thriving town... 4 RHIFF SPONSORS RHIFF SPONSORS

TUESDAY JUNE 19 Codes Pro-Media Miquelon Consulting Voilà l'histoire 123 Niagra Street. 27 St Clair Ave East - 811 (French, Arabic w English Subtitles) Toronto, ON M5V 1C6 Toronto Ontario M4T 1L8 North American Premiere (SLF) 416-504-2400 416-531 0946 Dir. Elías Brossoise Republica De Mexico, D.F. Mexico The Curl Ambassadors Nanopod 159 Harbord Street Commentary on the traffic of weapons in Kosovo 322 Harbord Street - The rest is said in this powerful documentary... Toronto, ON Toronto, ON 416-922-2888 647-219-0585 Interstate Canadian Premiere (FF) Denisons Brewery Raindrops Dir. Marc Samson 416-500-BEER (2337) 100 Front Street West Los Angeles, CA, USA www.denisons.ca Toronto, ON M5J 1E3 A DJ, following his girlfriend to Lower concourse level of Los Angeles, falls into a deadly The Fairmont relationship with a couple of female hitchhikers. Divine Scents & Spa Royal York Hotel 151 Harbord Street, 1-866-901-RAIN Toronto, Ont. www.raindropsto.com 1-866-572-8928 416-962-0000 Vision TV Liberty Market Building RHIFF SPONSORS Hutoshi 171 East Liberty Street 112 Harbord, Suite 230 Toronto M6K 3P6 ACA Gallery Toronto, Canada 416-368-3194 183 Queen Street East 416-922-3264 www.visiontv.ca Toronto, Ontario M5A 1S2 Local-Group Southern Accent Restaurant (416) 823-4039 Concierge Services Cajun, Creole & Soul Food www.acagallery.com 416-973-9807 x3 (TO) 595 Markham Street 212-714-5480 (NYC) Toronto, ON M6G 2L7 Australian Boot Company www.local-group.org 416-536-3211 2644 Yonge Street www.southernaccent.com Toronto ON M4P 2J5 416-488-9488 Subway Restaurant L’Espresso Bar | Mercurio www.australianboot.com @ Spadina 321 Bloor Street West 656 Spadina Ave Toronto, ON M5S 1S5 Toronto ON M5S 2H7 416-585-2233 416-925-6020 www.barmercurio.com www.subway.ca 5 HOTEL PARTNERS

WEDNESDAY JUNE 20, 2007 HOLIDAY INN MIDTOWN BLOC A - Wednesday - 2 PM context of the birth control movement 280 Bloor Street West RHIFF MAIN PROGRAM B throughout time. Learn what it took to gain the M5S 1V8 INNIS THEATER ROOM 222 right to birth control and safe legal abortion, www.ichotelsgroup.com and what it will take to protect these basic Turkey Alibi human rights. Canadian Premiere (FF) Dir. Ruthie Aslan BABYCAKES MADISON MANOR New Milford, NJ, USA North American Premiere BOUTIQUE HOTEL Dir. Julie, Owen-Moylan 20 Madison Avenue Cardiff, Wales, UK (SLF) Suicides collide when a M5R 2S1 girl who thinks she's lost everything is assaulted Growing up can be hard but www.madisonavenuepub.com by a guy who thinks he's got nothing to lose, when you are sixteen and six in this romantic comedy for the suicidally months pregnant life can throw challenged. one surprise after another at you. Congratulations: You've Won The Lottery TRAVEL PARTNER BLOC C - Wednesday - 5:30 PM Canadian Premiere Air Canada Dir. Elizabeth (Leza) RHIFF MAIN PROGRAM A Lidow (SLF) INNIS TOWN HALL www.aircanada.com El Segundo, CA, USA 1-888-247-2262 Underdogs A tender loving lady, in North American Premiere her declining years, is Dir. Silvana Jakich rescued by two outlandish New Zealand via New Laurel and Hardy-type angels. They escort her York, NY, USA (FF) royally and with vim and vigor to a life of bliss in the seventh heaven. A celebration of New York's unsuccessful, uncommercial and just plain bad wannabe BLOC D - Wednesday - 7 PM BLOC B - Wednesday - 4 PM artists doggedly unleashing their art on RHIFF MAIN PROGRAM A RHIFF MAIN PROGRAM B suffering audiences. INNIS TOWN HALL INNIS THEATER ROOM 222 Slipping into Darkness The Defenders (German, English) Canadian Premiere (FD) North American Premiere (FD ) Dir. Dawnee Dodson & Emily Rumsey Dir. Boris Castro Seattle, WA, USA Hamburg, HH, Germany This powerful documentary frames the Story about a Outlaw Biker from East L.A. Although seventy year history of Planned Parenthood of loosing one leg, his house and his freedom in prison, Wisconsin around the broader historical he always takes care about his family. But then the story takes a twisted turn, that nobody could foresee. 6 WEDNESDAY JUNE 20, 2007 Notes The Beehive Aaton Canadian Premiere (SLD) North American Premiere Dir. Robert Sickels Dir. Stefan Alexander Vilner Walla Walla, WA, USA Kassel, HS, Germany (SLF) Growing town, growing family, cutting hair... A memorable moment in what a tangle. history of mankind: When the struggle for survival determined the daily Gangsta Knitter life of humans, by accident, and because of Special Invite elementary needs, the stoneage man Aaton Canadian Premiere (MV) invents a first form of artistic skill. As he tries Dir. Thomas Florek to implement these new assets of human art to Lambertville, NJ, USA his tribe, he faces grim resistence. Gangsta Knitter is the ultimate fusion of Hip- 'Hello, Lucy' hop culture with (yes you're reading this right) North American Premiere the Knitting Culture. Knit one, Pearl two - Word Dir. Demian Sabini to your Mutha... Barcelona, Spain via Astoria, NY, USA (SLF) BLOC E - Wednesday - 9:15 PM RHIFF MAIN PROGRAM A Edmund Darling, a retired INNIS TOWN HALL and lonely writer, receives an unexpected visit that will make him face ghosts from the past. Universal Remote Canadian Premiere (FF) Can it be? Unconditional Dir. Gary Hardwick North American Premiere (MV) Pasadena, CA, USA Dir. John 'JJ' Johnson London, UK Welcome to the world's first Digital Comedy. A magical TV remote control sends Bubba and Can it be? Unconditional is Leroy tumbling into an un-PC TV land where an interaction between the channel keeps changing and the shows get words, images, rhythm, more and more bizarre. music and electronica concluding with a universal message/question...

ABOUT YOUR CELL PHONES Please turn your cell phones off. IF you really are a “brain surgeon”, you should not be at the movies but in trauma unit 108, 4th floor. Proud Sponsor of Films From The UK 7 THURSDAY JUNE 21, 2007 BLOC A - Thursday - 2 PM Hunter the three faces of this multifaceted personality. The RHIFF MAIN PROGRAM B North American Premiere question we all knew we were set up to ask: Who is INNIS THEATER ROOM 222 (SLF) Desiré Dubounet? Dir. Nigel Douglas Road to Victory Aylesbury Bucks, UK Atonement Tonight Canadian Premiere (FF) North American Premiere (SLF) Dir. Mike Reilly Two men begin on a journey of Dir. Anny Slater Carmichael, CA, USA obsession but as their target Balmain, NSW, Australia eludes them, the pressure grows. "An injured college A beautiful woman is their target "Atonement Tonight -True athlete, accused of but what drives them is an Hollywood" goes behind the taking steroids, falls for a stripper, but is obsession that only they scenes to uncover the True Hollywood story behind unable to perform sexually. The relationship understand. the capture of Saddam Hussein... oscillates between tender and cruel; issues of infidelity, along with doubts about his ability Raven Gets a Life The Squares 'I'm Sorry You're Perfect' to father children arise, as his on-field Canadian Premiere (SLF) Canadian Premiere (MV) performance begins to decline, putting his Dir. Devi Snively Dir. Psychic Bunny draft status at stake." Mishawaka, IN, USA Los Angeles, CA, USA

Alex Scott: A Stand For Hope When a 150-year old vampire, trapped in the In The Squares' first music Canadian Premiere body of a 12-year-old girl, is diagnosed with video, a clever combination of Dir. Larry Mendte (SLD) manic depression, she seeks solace from animation and live action, an Philadelphia, PA, USA prescription drugs, Bela Lugosi and the Grim artist constructs a band out of Reaper... South Park-like pieces to take Thousands of children may over the charts, or possibly the world? As long as live cancer free one day because Alex Scott BLOC C - Thursday - 5:30 PM they don't kill Kenny, it's all good. lived.A little girl with a dream and a RHIFF MAIN PROGRAM A lemonade stand can do amazing things. INNIS TOWN HALL BLOC D - Thursday - 7 PM RHIFF MAIN PROGRAM A BLOC B - Thursday - 4 PM Who's Afraid of Desire INNIS TOWN HALL RHIFF MAIN PROGRAM B Dubounet? INNIS THEATER ROOM 222 Canadian Premiere (FD) The Revenants Dir. Bruce Marshall Canadian Premiere (FF) Moth Balls Lanham, Hungary Dir. Christopher Sage Canadian Premiere (FF) Portland, OR, USA Dir. Chris McCallion We're taken through the curious second and Sloansville, NY, USA third life of medical inventor Dr. Bill Nelson and 'The Revenants' is a fresh and birth of Desiré Dubounet: Film director, insightful look at the struggles of people who cope When two guys decide producer, musician and live entertainer. Filled with the brutality of life, and find a way to feel to go into the antique business all they wind with kung fu fighting tales of Desiré Dubounet's whole and alive. A highschoo drama transcends age. up with is Moth Balls. All worlds meet at the real-life cartoon hero adventures kicking flea market... criminal ass, film maker Marshall tries to share 8 THURSDAY JUNE 21, 2007 Arranging Love change. But when their future is threatened, is RAFFLE GIVEAWAYS Canadian Premiere (SLD) love enough to save them from themselves? Dir. Sheila Jayadev Perth, WA, Australia Glas (German w English An arrangement, a formal Subtitles) introduction, a chance Canadian Premiere (SLF) encounter. 3 couples, 3 weddings, 3 stories Dir. Achim Bieler of how they came together. Windorf, DE, Germany Australian Boot Company Madison Manor Rad Racers The newly in love student Florian absconded a Canadian Premiere (SLF) hit-and-run accident. The victim is Cordelia, the Dir. Neil Jesuele person he fell in love with the night before. Fort Lee, NJ, USA Driven by feelings of guilt he visits her regularly 93 Harbord at the hospital unknown to her that he's the They're mad. They're rad. They're plastic. one that hit her...

When We Were Release Beings North American The Bike Joint Rowers pub North American Premiere (SLF) Premiere (EX) Dir. Thomas Kerr Dir. Alaric Tay Newmarket, QLD, Singapore, Singapore Australia Two mischievous brothers. One very suave Release is a universal story that explores the but very bad gangster. Somebody is gonna human fear of death. Seventy-four year old kernelspopcorn.com get a beat down... Francis is drawing closer to her death and when faced with her own mortality she learns to let Southern Accent BLOC E - Thursday - 9:15 PM go of her fears through an intimate relationship RHIFF MAIN PROGRAM A she develops with her sculpture. This is a film INNIS TOWN HALL about letting go. ReelHeART Film Category Legend REDHEAD Never Ending AN Animation, New Media Category Canadian Premiere (FF) North American Premiere Dir. Jason Heinrich Dir. Martin Chab DMR Dance or Music Related Category Grandview, Ohio USA Sweden via Malmo, EX Experimental Category Argentina (MV MV Music Video Category For Ian, life has become as mundane FD Feature Documentary Category as the machinery he operates. Each Never Ending is a dreamy music video featuring FF Feature Film Category passing day leads him farther from his a hot guy in a bathtub full of bubbles in the dreams - until he meets Ally. In a single middle of a field of flowers. Those Swedes... SLD Short or Long Form Documentary Category gesture she shows Ian that it's possible to SLF Short or Long Form Film Category 9 SPECIAL THANKS

FRIDAY JUNE 22, 2007 Bohdan Vandiak Sanderson Library BLOC A - Friday - 2 PM BLOC B - Friday - 4 PM 327 Bathurst St. RHIFF MAIN PROGRAM B RHIFF MAIN PROGRAM B Budget Car Rentals Toronto ON INNIS THEATER ROOM 222 INNIS THEATER ROOM 222 150 Cumberland St. 416-393-7653 Toronto ON Behind the Mask An American Opera Parkdale Library Canadian Premiere (FD) Canadian Premiere (FD) (416) 927-8300 Dir. Shannon Keith Dir. Thomas McPhee 1303 Queen Street W Studio City, CA, USA Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA Toronto ON 416-393-7686 The Animal Liberation In the aftermath of Front is comprised of Hurricane Katrina tens of thousands of house clandestine animal rights activists. Behind the pets were left to perish all across the gulf Mask exposes exclusive underground footage when owners were forced to evacuate without revealing heart-thumping action, while them. Thomas McPhee went to Louisiana capturing the hearts and souls of people who knowing he needed to help and found himself unveil their struggles for Animal Liberation. spending four days taking pictures of thousands of house pets rescued from flooded TRAVEL PARTNER TRAVEL PARTNER The Mighty Humble Blueberry New Orleans. American Airlines Canadian Premiere Avis Car Rental (SLF) My Silent Sadness www.aa.com www.avis.com Dir. Nancy O'Mallon Special Invite (SLF) 1-800-433-7300 1-800-331-1212 AL, USA Canadian Premiere Dir. Stephan Szpak-Fleet Learn about the lives Los Angeles, CA, USA of a cranberry grower's daughter, and her prominent botanist partner, A Polish Jewish Artist (played by character who cultivated the blueberry in 1916. This actor Larry Hankin) in America struggles to film knits together an analysis of remember painful memories of the Holocaust BLOC C - Friday - 5:30 PM contemporary blueberry in order to find a connection with a young RHIFF MAIN PROGRAM A commerce and science and woman who has recently intruded upon his INNIS TOWN HALL compelling dialogue of those life. who labored to bring the Angels of Change blueberry into a global Sensational City Canadian Premiere (SLD) marketplace... Canadian Premiere (AN) Dir. Sam Hampton *Codes Pro Media ReelHeART Nominee* Dir. Tarik Cherkaoui Alexandria, VA, USA Morocco via New York, NY, USA Angels of Change is a unique look of the daily challenges of a small educational non-profit 'Sensational City' is an animation which organization working in some the poorest communities explores the sounds we hear everyday but of Washington, DC. *Codes Pro Media ReelHeART have learned to filter out of our consciousness. Nominee*

10 FRIDAY JUNE 22, 2007 Wanted An Open Door BLOC D - Friday - 7 PM Canadian Premiere (SLF) Dir. Sean Jourdan (SLF) RHIFF MAIN PROGRAM A INNIS TOWN HALL Dir. Michael Savisky Chicago, IL, USA Pittsburgh PA, USA As her world falls apart, When They Could Fly Canadian Premiere (SLF) A man finds life in a strange, Michelle Watson must convince her husband dead, and haunting land. that the price of keeping their marriage Dir. Piotr Kajstura together is worth the cost of keeping a Krakow, Poland via New York, NY, USA BLOC D2 - Friday - 7 PM secret between them. This poetic film is a cinematic adaptation of a RHIFF MAIN PROGRAM B INNIS THEATER ROOM 222 Salvatore Aquia Scholarship magical folktale, which uses the period of American Canadian Premiere (SLD) slavery, as a stage to show how people can survive and overcome the most extreme experiences by the Silences Dir. David Reiss Canadian Premiere (SLD) Towson, MD, USA power of their own will. In the film, a group of slaves on a South Carolina cotton plantation learn Special Invite that people in Africa practice magic, and have Dir. Octavio Warnock-Graham After the tragic loss of New York, NY, USA their son Salvatore, the developed the ability to fly. This idea of Aquia family starts a memorial scholarship in transcendence is a necessity for human existence in times when there is nothing else to believe in. In this film Octavio Warnock-Graham, a bi-racial son his name and learn just how special this confronts his mother and her refusal to acknowledge young man really was. Produced by Towson that he is of African American descent. While trying University as a public service. Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil to understand his mother's choices, the filmmaker Canadian Premiere (SLD) discovers that too often the truth reveals itself in the MIRAGE unspoken. North American Dir. Faith Morgan Yellow Springs, OH, USA Premiere (AN) Millions (A Lottery Story) Dir. Youngwoong Jang Canadian Premiere (FD) New York, NY, USA The collapse USSR was an economic disaster for Cuba. Oil and food imports were cut drastically and Dir. Paul La Blanc New York, NY, USA I have been trying to people were desperate. From hardships to creativity, make my life better but now I am thinking from industrial to organic farming and urban gardens, Cuba, is an example A documentary about six different about what I have been missing? The way is people with several million things in common. not in the sky. The way is in the heart.' of options and hope. Traces Parallel Lives North American Premiere (SLD) (Italian w English Subtitles) Dir. M Pasanen Canadian Premiere (SLD) Finland Dir. Luca Cusani Milano, Italy One person's quest to re- establish a family connection broken by the PARALLEL LIVES is the diary of a day in the prison of Holocaust and the Iron Curtain. Milan, Italy. The protagonists are a prison guard and a prisoner.

11 FRIDAY JUNE 22, 2007 BLOC E - Friday - 9:15 PM Perceptions Highway Amazon RHIFF MAIN PROGRAM A Canadian Premiere (DMR) Special Invite INNIS TOWN HALL Dir. Karen Nielsen Canadian Premiere (SLD) Delta, BC, Canada Dir. Ronnie Cramer Dan Yuan Ren Chang Jiu Denver Colorado, USA Tangshan Tangshan A woman is torn between two (Japanese,Mandarin Chinese loves; the love for her boyfriend The strange saga of w English Subtitles) and her addiction to drugs Christine Fetzer, a female bodybuilder who Toronto Premiere (FF) travels the country wrestling men on beds in Dir. Kevin Chu BLOC E2 - Friday - 9:15 PM hotel rooms. Between 'sessions,' she discusses Hong Kong, Hong Kong RHIFF MAIN PROGRAM B her unique method of earning a living. INNIS THEATER ROOM 222 Han Wei's husband, Zi Gang, Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend died protecting her during a 7.8 Richter **FOCUS ON RONNIE CRAMER** Special Invite Scale earthquake that killed 240,000 in Canadian Premiere (FF) Tangshan, China, on July 28, 1976. Her 30 Miles Dir. Ronnie Cramer buddy Ding Yi survived the earthquake and Special Invite (EX) Denver Colorado, USA takes care of Han and her daughter for 30 Toronto Premiere years. When Han finally proposes to Ding, he Dir. Ronnie Cramer A lonely security guard can't seem refuses... Denver Colorado, USA to get even a decent blind date, so he begins peeping at women 4° (Four Degrees) Reminiscent of Claude Lelouche's infamous drive through their bedroom windows. Canadian Premiere (SLF) at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris, Before long he's paying call girls to Dir. Adam Lipsius Cramer's 30 Miles is the documents a thirty mile come over to his place and he Los Angeles, CA, USA journey down a Colorado canyon road; taken secretly videotapes every session. twenty-three years apart, shot taking roughly Within two weeks he's blown his life savings. Philip Long is accused of the same route. In 1980 shot with a Super 99% of this story is true... three murders he knows 8mm film camera and in 2003 using digital nothing about. But the video. people closest to him in the world are dead, and he could be responsible. Did he do it? A Moment in Time Will he confess? Special Invite Canadian Premiere (SLD) Madison's Résumé Dir. Ronnie Cramer Canadian Premiere (AN) Denver Colorado, USA Dir. Adam Bertocci Bronxville, NY, USA A Moment in Time explores ABOUT YOUR CELL PHONES the work of Colorado’s A short animation about the fascinating sculptor John Please turn your cell phones off. IF you really futility of summing up one's DeAndrea. This documentary includes an are a “brain surgeon”, you should not be at the life in one page. interview with DeAndrea and shows him at work movies but in trauma unit 108, 4th floor. in his rural Colorado studio.

12 SATURDAY JUNE 23, 2007 BLOC A - Saturday - 2 PM BLOC A2 - Saturday - 3:15 PM says 'can't be done'. In addition to RHIFF MAIN PROGRAM B RHIFF MAIN PROGRAM A getting one determined truck driver's INNIS THEATER ROOM 222 INNIS TOWN HALL views on life, it's a story about everyday people trying to make a Las Peregrinas: The Jazz Funeral for Democracy difference in the aftermath of the Women Who Walk Encore Presentation (SLD) humbling force of Hurricane Katrina. (Spanish, English) Dir. Luke Fontana Canadian Premiere (FD) Metairie, LA, USA *Codes Pro Media ReelHeART Nominee* Dir. Sue Kenney Long Haul Big Hearts is Sponsored by VisionTV Washago, ON, Canada Jazz Funeral for Democracy: A Wake for Peace took place January 20, 2005 in New Orleans, BLOC B - Saturday - 4 PM Las Peregrinas is a powerful, human Louisiana. Thousands of concerned citizens, war RHIFF MAIN PROGRAM B and moving film experience. What is veterans and persons of peace from all walks of INNIS THEATER ROOM 222 lacking spiritually, emotionally, and life joined hands, protesting the inauguration of physically from the apparently George W. Bush. Pursuit of Honor: The secure and comfortable lives of Made possible with support from VisionTV Rise of George modern North American women? Washington This documentary is about 5 women Mississippi Forgotten Canadian Premiere (FD) who walk for 12 days and hundreds of Encore Presentation (SLD) Dir. Robert Matzen kilometers along the Camino de Santiago de Dir. Timothy Burdick Bethel Park, PA, USA Compostela, in Spain. Ventura, USA 'Pursuit of Honor' chronicles the evolution of the real All Days Are Good An awakening piece dealing George Washington into the man capable of for Being Born with the issues and emotions that Mississippi Gulf successfully leading the revolution that produced the Canadian Premiere Coast residents are still struggling with many United States. It examines his quest for honor, his Dir. Mary Townsend months after Hurricane Katrina. “We still haven’t personal relationships, and the internal struggle to Santa Fe, NM, USA (SLD) seen FEMA” and “All we heard on the news was accept a most difficult destiny at the risk of his New Orleans, New Orleans, New Orleans…” these home, family, and life. This film follows the creative process are the voices that have been ignored and of sculptor Monika Kaden, as she creates a life- forgotten until now. Father, Unblinking size bronze sculpture of Pope John XXIII at the Made possible with support from VisionTV Canadian Premiere (SLF) Shidoni Foundry in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Dir. Ziggy Attias Monika escaped from behind the iron curtain in Long Haul Big Hearts Southampton, NY, USA Germany in 1988 to seek artistic freedom. Canadian Premiere (SLD) Dir. Doug Raby Set in rural America, a father Magnolia 2 Ajax, ON, Canada discovers his young daughter Canadian Premiere (MV) dead of fever and makes the decision to bury her Dir. Brett Eichenberger A Canadian trucker and his secretly, without informing his wife... Resonance Productions blind dog set out in an 18- Beaverton, OR, USA wheeler on a relief mission to the Katrina-ravaged Mississippi Gulf Coast, to do what the government Girl finds a way to give freely to the world via a green bike and some rusty old keys. 13 SATURDAY JUNE 23, 2007 BLOC D2 - Saturday - 7:00 PM BLOC C - Saturday - 5:30 PM multimillionaire? Not really, we are talking about RHIFF MAIN PROGRAM B RHIFF MAIN PROGRAM A teachers, programmers and old-age pensioners. INNIS THEATER ROOM 222 INNIS TOWN HALL *Codes Pro Media ReelHeART Nominee* After the Fall Slowly Surfacing - quiet BLOC D - Saturday - 7:00 PM Special Invite (SD) music for quiet people RHIFF MAIN PROGRAM A Work-In-Progress Preview North American Premiere INNIS TOWN HALL Dir. Joe Pacheco (MV) Brooklyn, NY Dir. Shahane Bekarian Make It Funky! Westleigh, NSW, Australia Special Invite (DMR) AFTER THE FALL documents two American Canadian Premiere journalists’ trip to Vietnam for the 30th A narrative depiction of the Singer/Songwriter Dir. Michael Murphy Anniversary of the fall of Saigon. Sharing a drowned by her own fervour for life Los Angeles, CA, USA common interest in the country that profoundly impacted their families, Tom Bissell—the son of Absolute Zero MakeIt Funky! is the story of New a Marines Captain who fought in the war—and North American Premiere Orleans, and the people who Morgan Meis—the son of a draft dodger who (SLF) composed songs that changed the moved to Canada during the war— return to Dir. Alan Woodruff world of music and influenced the Vietnam to explore the cultural, political and St Kilda, VIC, Australia course of Rhythm & Blues and Rock personal implications of the war and its & Roll. aftermath. This film is supported by Cinema Based on a true story,this Obscura DVD account of the grim and ironic death by Calder's Song freezing of a man trapped inside a refrigerated Canadian Premiere (EX) Home For Good meat wagon, told using a combination of Dir. Greg Singer Canadian Premiere (SLF) archival and imagined material to speculate on New York, NY, USA Dir. Todd Tinkham the man's final hours. Father and son short Chapel Hill, NC, USA (collaborative) experimental IMMORTALS video work. "Amy Trentham dreams of one thing; her North American Premiere young husband returning home from the war. (SLD) Lucky Sevens When that happens, everything will be Dir. Francesca Fini Canadian Premiere (SLF) perfect." Rome, Italy Dir. Zac Nicholson New York, NY, USA In Times of War This is the story of a few Canadian Premiere hundred people who took Marvin Zigglebaum wakes Dir. Mark C. Bonn arrangements to have their one morning to find that he Dir. Christine Bonn bodies frozen after death. The process is is being evicted from his house. In his destitute Hermosa Beach, CA, USA scientifically called “cryonic suspension”. Their state, the old man decides to risk what little he dead bodies will be preserved, until the magic has left at the local racetrack and on a horse with Shot down behind enemy lines during World science of the future is able to bring them back whom he shares a cosmic connection. War II, Ray Parker survived the parachute fall to life. The last crazy idea of some eccentric only to be captured by the enemy and taken to

14 SATURDAY JUNE 23, 2007 Maps a prison camp deep in German territory. He spent the next 14 months secretly editing the underground La Sortie (The Outside) newspaper for the 9,000 allied prisoners interned (French w English Subtitles) INNIS TOWN HALL there. *Codes Pro Media North American Premiere ReelHeART Nominee* Dir. Franka Joel Brussels, Belgium (SLF) Chin Music Canadian Premiere (SLD) The film revolves around Dir. Mark Hood two people, Simon (Hervé Hiolle) and Marie Cincinnati, OH, USA (Christelle Cornil). Both find themselves facing a hostile world. Marie confronts this head on Hans Dam is a relentless hunter for the spectacular. when she arrives to meet her father who is He demonstrates that life does not have to slow down being released from prison. Simon encounters with age. a world that he left 17 years ago. Both are in unknown world. Ode to Peace and Love - Armed Forces Tribute Big Story in a Small City Canadian Premiere (MV) *ReelHeART Official Dir. John Ponton Closing Film* Wilmington, NC, USA Canadian Premiere (FF) Dir. Gor Kirakosian A compilation of pictures of Glendale, CA, USA our military personnel and Armenian SOUTHERN ACCENT their families. A tribute to the great sacrifices these people made during these The story, begins in the city of Yerevan, turbulent times of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Armenia. Grigor Janoyan, dies from a freak The background music is an original composition. accident. The relatives bring the deceased into their home for the "viewing" by his friends and *Codes Pro Media ReelHeART Nominee* family before the burial. The family, consumed with grief fails to realize that the body on the BLOC E - Saturday June 23 - 9:15 PM dining room table is not Grigor. Thus, it’s left RHIFF MAIN PROGRAM A up to his son Hayk and his friends to begin the INNIS TOWN HALL quest of finding his father's body... Dammi il La (Run and Look) North American Premiere (SLF) Dir. Matteo Serventa Torino, Italy A priest succumbs to the urge to recount the story of an inexplicable friendship to a blocked composer who visits his church every day

15 ReelHeART Venue Program SOUTHERN ACCENT, 595 Markham Street Monday, June 18, 8 PM Tuesday, June 19, 8 PM In the Name of God Canadian Premiere (MV) Business Johnson Be My Oswald Dir. Lisa Seidenberg Canadian Premiere, Westport, CT, USA Special Invite Canadian Premiere (FF) Dir. Casper Frank Dir. Don Cato Sept 11, 2001 to the present: Five & Talia Raine (SLF) Jackson Heights, NY, USA years in Five minutes Hollywood, CA, USA A militant female vegetarian conspires to assassinate That Darn Jesus Business Johnson features urban comedy funny men Santa Claus at the NYC Thanksgiving Day Parade. Canadian Premiere (AN) Alonzo Bodden, Larry B. Scott, Rodney Perry, and Dir. Gary Hardwick Jerod Mixon. Leave your PC sensitivity and home but *Codes Pro Media ReelHeART Nominee* Pasadena, CA, USA bring your funny bone with you! Surfari! What Dreams Are Made Of James, the brother of thirteen year old As Smart As They Are Canadian Premiere (FD) Jesus faces challenges growing up as the brother of the son Canadian Premiere, Dir. Amir Epstein Special Invite (LFD) Thursday, June 21, 8 PM Dir. Joe Pacheco Dir. Farouk Algosaibi Oakland, CA, USA Brooklyn, NY, USA Little Tiger (Chinese, English) North American Premiere (DMR) Exploring the relationship between music and Three middle-aged men decide to learn to surf and make Dir. Cecilia Pang literature of the community that fostered the band a movie about their ultimate goal: catching a wave in Boulder, CO, USA One Ring Zero. This film is supported by Cinema Hawaii. But following their dream turns out to be much Obscura DVD harder than the pros make it look on TV. A Chinese opera icon and Cultural Revolution elite gives up fame and fortune in her homeland to move to the United My Name Is Wallace States in pursuit of artistic freedom and the American dream. *Official Opening Venue Film* (SLF) I'm A Big Brother Canadian Premiere Canadian Premiere, Shadow Vignettes: Dir. David Lawrence Special Invite (SLF) Odd Eye O Mumbo Jumbo Burbank, CA, USA Dir. Ian Bonner Canadian Premiere (DMR) Chicago, IL, USA Dir. Jonathan Woods A lonely, high functioning Chicago, IL, USA mentally challenged man falls in love with a 900 sex-line Chrissie comes to stay with her older brother, at college. Shadow Vignettes: Odd Eye O Mumbo Jumbo is an operator. Jim decides that he wants to initiate his little sister into uproarious romp through the life and times of America's adulthood but she already knows more than he thinks. premiere African American Avant-Garde jazz big band. Detention Teacher Canadian Premiere (SLF) Wednesday, June 20 Breathe Me Dir. Ben Weeks Canadian Premiere (DMR) West Palm Beach, FL, USA 8 PM Dir. Carmen Rozestraten San Francisco, CA, USA After a fight with his wife over Twelve the fact that they don't talk anymore, a teacher Canadian Premiere (FF) This exquisitely shot film takes us on a forces two people who would never talk otherwise -- Dir. Lawrence Bridges dreamy and hypnotic voyage of a a beautiful girl and a geeky boy -- to have a non-stop Santa Monica, CA, USA beautiful young woman, cast ashore on a sun-drenched conversation. beach to be awakened by the lover of her past. A half-sister and brother, illegitimate offspring of Zeus, must find a play fated by their father and perform it for the gods' amusement. If they do not act well, they will die.

16 ReelHeART Venue Program SOUTHERN ACCENT, 595 Markham Street 4 from 48 of their vision quest in search of a new mythology that experience happiness in one another for a brief moment Canadian Premiere (MV) includes gay and lesbian consciousness. Think Bill & Ted's in their lives until circumstances out of their control rip Dir. Cameron Striewski Excellent Adventure starring your 2 wacky new-age gay them apart. However their paths may once again Lake Balboa, CA, USA uncles... intersect down the line.

4 from 48 is the collaborative work between Spoken Masizakhe: 'Let Us Build Together' Run Word Artist/Musician, IN-Q and Artist/Filmmaker (Afrikaans,English) Canadian Premiere (SLF) Cameron Striewski. Envisioned as 'Visual Poetry,' four Canadian Premiere (FD) Dir. Nathan, Brunskill songs are bridged together by animation, prophetic Dir. Angelica Macklin & Scott Macklin Los Angeles, CA, USA teachings and searing social commentary. Shoreline, WA, USA A man out for some early morning exercise around his What's with the Hijab This film highlights the efforts of cultural activists who are local high school track soon finds some unexpected Canada Premiere rebuilding a nation that has by aparthied. competition and some surprising obstacles. Dir. TVbyGIRLS Minneapolis, MN USA Startle Pattern Sadie Turns Seven Canadian Premiere (EX) Canadian Premiere (SLF) A short video about group of Dir. Eric Patrick Dir. Todd Tinkham Somali teenage girls and their thoughts about the hijab. Greensboro, NC, USA Chapel Hill, NC, USA This headdress is the base of the most commonly asked question - "What's With The Hijab"... The interior space of a puppet becomes increasingly On her 7th birthday, a young girl reflective, revealing the artifice of his own creation. takes daring action... We Don't Let Labels Stick Saturday, June 23, 8 PM Canada Premiere Wheels of Love Dir. Casey Haarstad, Die Besucher Canadian Premiere (SLF) Katie Helde & Hannah Nemer (German w/ English Subtitles) Dir. Anne Michaud Minneapolis, MN, USA Canadian Premiere (SLF) St-Hilaire, QC, Canada Dir. Ulrike Molsen When society labels groups according to economic class, Berlin, Germany A perverted man in a wheelchair has his 'perfect' life race, gender or interest, people are stripped of their interrupted by the only woman who won't respond to individuality. A young woman hosts a couple in trouble and becomes the his abuse. target of their cruel game. Die Cut Me & Mom Canadian Premiere 21 Carbs Canadian Premiere (SLD) Dir. Kevin Jacobs Canadian Premiere (SLF) Dir. Mark Huelsbeck Olympia, Washington USA Special Invite Coralville, IA, USA Dir. Ian Bonner Imagine if 'The Wizard of Oz" were set in a junkyard... Chicago, IL, USA What's it like when your own mother doesn't know who Four droids battle out their existence in this landscape. you are anymore?A 'one-shot' documentary, Me & Mom A spoof of 21 Grams that targets fad diets and how takes a look at the performance of identity within the Friday, June 22, 8 PM overweight people are treated. context of of Alzheimer's Disease. Connected Pneumatic Cinematic Out & About with Brewer & Berg Canadian Premiere (MV) - A Multidimensional Travelogue *Official Closing Venue Film* Canadian Premiere (SLF) Dir. Mark Borowski Canadian Premiere (FD) Victoria, BC, Canada Dir. Michael Brewer Dir. Nathan Brunskill Los Angeles, CA, USA Zufikon, AG, Switzerland An eclectic blend of movie genres set to electronic music... Join us in this philosophical travelogue of Europe with “Connected” is a short about two lonesome people who find two zany guys in this quirky, idiosyncratic, documentary each other via a chance encounter on a subway train. They 17 ReelHeART Judges

Carol Mark , Director of ACA television expert he managed to recruit many China in English at the Toronto Documentary Forum with former contestants to write for the site, making his gallery (www.acagallery.com) has co-production partners from China. mark by correctly predicting and publishing been involved in the arts "spoilers" before every episode. promoting visual and David Finley is a published performance art. Images are an writer of short fiction, a Gemini Award A former writer for the Toronto Sun and a former important part of our psyche and nominated television writer and a Dora freelance producer at Entertainment Tonight is a universal language crossing Award winning playwright. David also Canada, Murtz has interviewed everyone from Don all borders in promoting the writes for musical theater with such McKellar to Donald Trump. interconnectedness of us all. Toronto productions “Aladdin” which was remounted last year and "Snow In 2004, Murtz expanded Survivor-Central and is ACA Gallery was founded in June 2004 by Carol to White and the Group of Seven" which currently the co-owner and Chief Content Officer of create an incubator for art and social change. She is ran at the historical Elgin Theatre. He InsidePulse.com an entertainment website that involved in humanitarian grassroots projects locally and wrote, directed and produced the receives millions of hits per week. He is also the globally and has seen first hand how “love in action” terrifically cast short film "My Last on-air entertainment expert every Tuesday morning can change lives for the better. From establishing a Confession" which screened and won an award at at 8:30 AM on Z103.5 FM. medical clinic in Afghanistan, to performing medical aid ReelHeART 2006. My Last Confession has been an official in the Yucatan, and helping build communities in Pine selection in 34 International Film Festivals in 12 Murtz enjoys movies with a dramatic flair and Ridge Indian Reservation. Carol believes that art in any countries. Currently David has a feature film in considers himself to be a “Toronteeno”, a Toronto- genre has the ability to shape attitudes and promote development. For more information on David, please visit based Quentin Tarantino admirer. This is his second change. www.finworks.ca stint as a judge with ReelHeART. Be sure to check out ACA Gallery during Nuit Blanche Tasso Lakas has evaluated September 29, 2007 for the innovative 3 tier Tina Hahn is the founder of and approved production on over installation of art, interactive social expression and Symmetree media and was 200 films in just four years in his films. This is Carol’s second season as a judge with nominated for two Gemini awards role as Coordinator for ACTRA’s ReelHeART. as producer and editor of the film Toronto Independent Production “Life’s a Twitch.” Tina has created or “TIP” program. With over 3 Murtz Jaffer started his and produced a poetry series for decades in the entertainment Book Television and Bravo! career at the age of 17 when he industry experience, which Canada entitled “The Heart of a emailed The Sports Network include: CBC TV Variety Network where he developed Poet” and directed and produced everyday for a year to land his comedy talent and programming; Telefilm Canada as an programming for CTV, TVOntario, first writing gig. His tenacity was Senior Operations Officer developing and promoting Discovery Health Channel Canada, rewarded when he was given the Canadian independent films, television programs and The Documentary Channel Canada, Knowledge opportunity to write for TSN.ca‚s series as well as feature films nationally and Network and SCN. She is in production on a wrestling section online in 1997. internationally. At ACTRA, he participated in the documentary about global movements in cycling for development of Writers Guild of Canada. OMNI Television and an international documentary Soon after, Murtz started his own website, Survivor- series on Stickler Syndrome. She recently pitched a Central.com, dedicated to the popular reality television In addition to his media consulting activities, he is documentary on children learning Shakespeare in program. Regarded as the world's foremost reality currently working on several independent film projects

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Lunch n Learn Monday June 18, 2007 Check out these 3 LIVE READS for 2007! including the development of some new innovative 11:15AM-1:45PM multi-media packages. Last season Tasso was a Lunch Lunch n Learn Wednesday June 20, 2007 n Learn participant and this will be his first season as a Inside Out! Legal Ins & Outs Of Film Production 11:15AM-1:45PM judge with ReelHeART. Featured Speakers #1 LIVE SCRIPT READ Bee Sack is working on Bob Tarantino From Heenan Blaikie Feature Script “Married Seeking Same” creating sense from what is left. Amy Goldberg From Pushback Productions By Joe Acton Most days this feels impossible and some days, this is the only L'Espresso Bar Mercurio Lunch n Learn Thursday June 21, 2007 thing to do. The bumpy road of 321 Bloor Street West 11:15AM-1:45PM her Diasporic Ashkenazi Jewish heritage has etched in her a feisty Lunch n Learn Tuesday June 19, 2007 #2 LIVE SCRIPT READ commitment to social justice and 11:15AM-1:45PM Feature Script “Willing” to supporting Indigenous and By Jason Coleman Palestinian Peoples land rights. It’s Out There! Distribution! She has been performing klezmer Who Wants What You Got Lunch n Learn Friday June 22, 2007 inspired music on her flute for the 11:15AM-1:45PM last 10 years with various questionable characters. True Featured Speakers to her cultural roots, she likes to keep her hands busy Lauren Howes, Canadian Filmmakers Distribution #3 LIVE SCRIPT READ and can be found drawing, woodworking, filmmaking, Centre (CFMDC) Feature Script “Channel 79” planting seeds and pruning shrubs in graveyards. When Howard Rosen From Novapix and Trebas Institute By Joe Acton not creating satirical animated movies in her head, she tries to remember to breathe. This is Bee’s second Theater 222, Innis College, 2nd Floor Note: All LIVE READS are Located at Theater 222, Innis season as a judge with ReelHeART. 2 Sussex Street U of T Campus College, 2nd Floor 2 Sussex Street U of T Campus

ReelHeART Screenplay Competition Lunch n Learn Saturday June 23, 2007 New For 2007! 11:15AM-1:45PM

The top 3 scripts of the season’s screenplay I Made This! competition get a live read with commentary and ABOUT THE PROGRAM feedback from the founder of the prestigious The The ever-popular “I Made This”” features a panel of Characters Agency. visiting filmmakers from ReelHeART 2007, revealing the The proportions of the program are intimate, frustrating and sometimes weird experiences based on the sacred geometry of the Who will win! Who will enjoy a one-on-one lunch while making their films. golden rectangle. The ratio of sides with chief literary agent Carl Liberman and possible is 1 to [ (1 + √5) / 2] or 1 to representation...? Theater 222, Innis College, 2nd Floor 1.61803398875. This number is also known as PHI ( φ) 2 Sussex Street U of T Campus and has strange properties such as: 1 ÷ φ = 1 - φ

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