Official Program

March 3-5, 2017 downtowndocfest.ca   CONTENTS

1 Chair’s Welcome The Empire Theatre 321 Front Street 2 Mayor & Artistic Director Welcomes 3 Welcome Messages 5 Opening Gala & Green Carpet 6 Saturday Night at The Empire Pinnacle Playhouse 7 Feature Sunday at The Empire 256 Pinnacle St. 8 Film Listings 16 Schedule & Venue Map Belleville Public Library & Get the Most out of DocFest J o h n M . P a r r o tt A r t G a l l e r y 20 21 Hot Docs Showcase 254 Pinnacle St., 3rd Floor CORE Centre 223 Pinnacle St. 22 QFA Local Spotlight 24 Local Filmmaker Q&A 29 The Art of Changing The World 30 Loyalist TVNM Screening 31 DocFest for Schools

ALL DocFest venues are accessible. Entrance to Screen 1 32 DocFeast at the CORE Centre is on Campbell Street. 33 Sponsors and Partners

Festival Passes $ $ $ 50 25 10/each Opening Gala All Other Films Quinte Arts Council Gourmet Diem Bruinix Jewellers 36 Bridge Street E 249 Front Street 73-B Dundas Street W Rush Tickets Belleville, ON Belleville, ON Trenton, ON 613-962-1232 613-779-9995 613-392-5997 Sold at the door only, 15 minutes before screening and subject to availability. artists & artisans The Empire Theatre Books & Company 54 Bridge Street E 321 Front Street 289 Main Street Disclaimer: By entering any DocFest venue, you agree that Belleville, ON Belleville, ON Picton, ON photographs taken can be used for publicity, advertising and web 613-403-7329 613-969-0099 613-476-3037 content purposes.

Parking followed by the spectacular, Welcome to Koneline: Our Land Beautiful and the not to be missed ‘DocFest Finale’, The River of My Dreams: A Portrait of Belleville Downtown Gordon Pinsent. A unique part of DocFest Week is the Loyalist College Film and TV DocFest Production short film competition on March 1 from 6-9 pm. Twelve Holly Dewar four-minute films, each produced by Belleville Downtown DocFest four students are screened before an Organizing Committee Chair audience in Loyalist’s Alumni Hall. Local professional filmmakers give real-time feedback to students after IT IS VERY EXCITING TO BE presenting follows the film. This Toronto based each film screening. The top four films the sixth annual Belleville Downtown group merges sultry 20’s and 30’s are screened as Loyalist FourSquared DocFest International Documentary swing with blues, neo-soul and hip during DocFest’s ‘Local Spotlight’. Film Festival. We are proud this year hop. A special thanks to Pretsell Davies DocFest Week includes ‘DocFest to present 50 docs to move and inspire Thompson Benton, LLP Lawyers, the for Schools’. To accommodate more filmgoers in four downtown Belleville generous sponsors of our Opening Gala students the event has moved to The landmarks, the historic Empire since the Festival’s inception. Empire Theatre for the first time. Theatre, Pinnacle Playhouse, Visual artists Peter Paylor and Lisa The school screening provides an the CORE Centre and Belleville Morris have been part of DocFest since opportunity for local students to Public Library & John M. Parrott Art year one. The exhibits they curate are experience the film festival and this Gallery. All are conveniently located in an integral part of the Festival. This year they will be awed by The Eagle downtown Belleville. year’s show, ‘The Art of Changing Huntress a spectacular film that will be In keeping with past tradition, the the World’, opens Monday, February re-screened for all on Sunday March 5 Friday Night Opening Gala at The 27 at the CORE Gallery and kicks off at 10:30 am. Empire features an acclaimed music DocFest Week. The CORE Centre and Belleville documentary, The Music of Strangers: Last year we added a gourmet Public Library have provided Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble. food component to the festival with significant support and encouragement This stunning film about a collective Downtown DocFeast! Feasting and to Belleville Downtown DocFest since of 50 musicians and other artists film-going are a perfect pairing and our first year in 2012. We value their from around the globe has been participating restaurants and cafés partnership and their understanding of described as, “lovely to watch … and in the city’s downtown core will the importance of the creative arts in even more beautiful to hear.” A live again offer special prix fixe menus. our community and of the contribution music performance by award-winning With a later 8 pm start, there’ll be it makes to Belleville. We’re also Denielle Bassels and The MacDaddys plenty of time to enjoy full-course grateful for the generous support meals or substantial snacks and funding received from the Ontario before ‘Saturday Night at Arts Council, the City of Belleville and The Empire’s’ screening of from all of our presenting partners the thought provoking film, and sponsors. Freightened: the Real Price A huge thanks to all our volunteers of Shipping, that investigates who so generously give of their time the world (and underworld) of and of course to you, our audience, cargo transport. for your ongoing support. Check ‘Feature Sunday’ will out our exciting new website at project three powerful downtowndocfest.ca and subscribe to documentaries on The our eNewsletter. Please like and share Empire’s big screen. We start DocFest on social media. with, The Eagle Huntress,

Official Program 1 The Corporation of the City of Belleville Office of the Mayor

ON BEHALF OF MY COLLEAGUES on Council I am pleased to have this opportunity to welcome you to the City of Belleville and to the 2017 annual Downtown DocFest Event taking place March 3rd - 5th 2017. This popular downtown festival continues to be a large success in our community. DocFest has engaged our community and beyond by bringing awareness to global and local issues through the art of film. I would like to express our gratitude to the organizing committee of this event for their dedication and for fostering and showcasing filmmaking in our region. This is a wonderful, fun-filled weekend that is sure to create camaraderie and great memories here in the Quinte area.

Enjoy the festival!

Taso A. Christopher Mayor

talent and bringing their stories to an Message from encouraging audience of family, friends and new supporters. DocFest’s Lynn Braun ‘DocFest for Schools’ went in a new Artistic Director direction this year and the response Artistic Director Belleville Downtown DocFest has been phenomenal. Putting all the kids in one theatre at The Empire proved to be a prudent decision and Happy 6th Anniversary to all festival- the Best Canadian Feature winner, the only venue that would befit a film goers, presenting partners, film Koneline: Our Land Beautiful and the like The Eagle Huntress, best seen sponsors, volunteers, grant providers, the brilliant Werner Herzog’s Lo on the big screen with big sound. artistic consultants and especially to and Behold: Reveries of the (Everyone can see it on Sunday.) our hardworking, extremely devoted Connected World. We continue to give our First Nations organizing committee!!! It’s everyone We welcome all attending a voice which we hope will shed new working together that results in our filmmakers, whether established light on past and present injustices, programming high profile, high quality or up-and-coming. Providing them challenges and inequality faced by our documentaries while keeping the cost with an opportunity to screen their indigenous brothers and sisters. affordable to all. films, engage with audiences, network DocFest has stayed true to its It all started around a small round with seasoned and new-generation original vision of bringing films table in the Library lobby in November filmmakers, and have an opportunity about social justice/human rights, of 2010 when six enthusiastic to attend professional development the environment and arts & culture. visionaries concluded that, sessions is at the core of DocFest’s The selection process is rigorous and “We can do this.” raison d’être. hard decisions must be made. I hope We now partner with Hot Docs Our Local Spotlight initiative that you enjoy what is offered and Canadian International Documentary continues to thrive with 16 locally- whatever your causes, your passions Festival and will be ‘Showcasing’ some made films screening this year. or your visions for a better world, that of its best of films, including the 2016 Thanks to Quinte Film Alternative you find something this weekend that Audience Award-winner, Angry Inuk, for sponsoring this home-grown enlightens and inspires.

2 2017 Downtown DocFest PRETSELL DAVIES THOMPSON BENTON LLP Lawyers

Pretsell Davies Thompson Benton LLP, The success of the Belleville Downtown be. Here at the Library and Gallery we Lawyers are thrilled to again sponsor DocFest International Documentary have screened documentaries, hosted Belleville Downtown DocFest Opening Film Festival has been truly incredible filmmaker workshops and art shows, and Gala, an exciting night of film and live and the event is a wonderful example supported DocFest since the beginning music. Following the success of the past of how arts and culture thrive in our and we are excited to be part of the Opening Galas, we look forward to another City. Belleville Public Library and Festival’s sixth year in 2017. I would sold out performance. This is a wonderful John M. Parrott Art Gallery has been a like to congratulate DocFest and all of world-class event for all of us to enjoy in Presenting Partner and screening venue the participating film-makers on their Downtown Belleville. since the first DocFest took place in achievement with this wonderful event. 2012 and we are very proud of staff Mike Pretsell member Holly Dewar, Chair of the Trevor Pross Managing Partner DocFest Organizing Committee, and CEO Pretsell Davies Thompson Benton LLP, her team of dedicated volunteers. The Belleville Public Library Lawyers members of the Organizing Committee & John M. Parrott Art Gallery have put in countless hours of hard work to make this Festival the best it can

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Official Program 3 Downtown Belleville businesses also provide opportunities for local The BDIA musicians. The Belleville Club often hosts musicians for evening shows, and Pinnacle Music Studios is the place to fall in love with your next guitar, piano Welcomes or drum set. Not a musician yet, but you’ve got the music in you? Pinnacle also offers lessons to get you dancing to your own beat in no time and a full DocFans studio when you’re ready to make that first recording. We’d be remiss if we didn’t mention The Empire Theatre—host to DocFest’s Annual to DocFest Gala & screenings, as well as offering movies, theatrical performances and major music events throughout the Quinte Region. Our revitalized downtown is open for business. If you haven’t yet had DOWNTOWN BELLEVILLE WISHES stories, in mediums that inspire and an opportunity to visit our member to extend our warmest welcome to engage us. merchants, galleries and restaurants, guests of the 2017 DocFest. Arts and The Belleville Art Association is also we hope you take some time between cultural events breathe life into our a valued BDIA member. They offer screenings to explore the core and community and we are thrilled to be workshops, seminars and even an open support our local art scene. There is a part of this fantastic event. Events workshop for painting—open to all skill something here for everyone. like DocFest bring like-minded levels from beginners to professionals. community members together, spark If you would like to try your hand at interesting conversations and inspire painting in a supportive environment, our neighbours. The BDIA values and check out their website for membership respects the artistic community, and we information and event listings. Stop are proud to have strong representation by Barratt’s Office Pro for the largest among our membership. selection of artist supplies in the area. You may not be aware that Belleville has a rich and diverse artistic community, many of them right downtown. The Belleville Library and Parrot Gallery is always a great place to start if you are interested in dabbling in your own creative pursuits. Check out their website for upcoming events, workshops and activities—there is something for all ages and skill levels. Downtown Belleville is also home to the Quinte Arts Council, located on Bridge Street across from Century Village. You can buy books by local authors, and see some of the unique treasures created by area artists. sixth By supporting local artists, you are supporting the downtown community! ensuring they continue to tell our

4 2017 Downtown DocFest Opening Gala & Green Carpet Film The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble

Musical Guest Denielle Bassels and The MacDaddys The 2017 Opening Gala is once again proudly presented by 3 7:00 pm Pretsell Davies Thompson MARCH Benton LLP Lawyers— Following the film, Denielle Bassels whose unwavering and The MacDaddys will bring their Belleville Downtown DocFest has support since DocFest’s soulful sounds to the stage of The always focused on extraordinary inception has been Empire Theatre. A rising star in the stories from at home and abroad— pivotal to the presentation jazz scene, Bassels’ vocal styles have documentaries that showcase of such an outstanding event. drawn comparisons to Amy Winehouse the breadth and depth of human This year, DocFest is pleased to and Norah Jones. It promises to be a connection. Our Opening Gala present The Music of Strangers: Yo- performance you won’t want to miss! has established itself as a cultural Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble. highlight for the Quinte Region, with Directed by Academy Award Winner Be sure to arrive early at The Empire the combination of an acclaimed Morgan Neville (Best Documentary for our annual Green Carpet reception documentary and a rousing musical Feature, 2014 Twenty Feet From - DocFest MC Dug Stevenson performance running the gamut of Stardom), The Music Of Strangers interviews filmmakers, VIPs, sponsors emotions—from joy to sorrow to is a stunning chronicle of the 50- and other dignitaries, live, as they enter inspiration and everything in between. plus member Silk Road Ensemble, the theatre. We bring some of tinsel assembled by acclaimed cellist Yo- town glamour to Belleville each year— Yo Ma. These artists explore their don’t miss it! traditions and cultures through their instruments—some of which are becoming increasingly scarce as the musical traditions in countries like Proudly Presented by Iran and Syria are threatened. The Music of Strangers explores how music PRETSELL DAVIES keeps cultures alive, and how gaining THOMPSON BENTON LLP an understanding of music can help Lawyers gain an understanding of culture—an increasingly important topic in Denielle Bassels and The MacDaddys modern times. Official Program 5 WHAT IS THE REAL COST of our consumer culture? Saturday Most of the items in our homes have one thing in common—they were made more than half a world away. Yet most of us never consider what it means to have an item that was made in India, China, Night at Bangladesh or another country thousands of kilometers away sitting on our shelf. Freightened explores the global industry of cargo shipping­—an industry that has exploded alongside our global consumer culture. The Empire It pulls back the curtain to explore the underside of the shipping industry—the lifestyle of the crews and other seafarers, the environmental costs of our reliance Film on excessive transportation, the corruption and Freightened: The Real Price of Shipping questionable practices that have led to the continued Discussion to follow expansion of the global shipping trade. Above all else, Freightened aims to make the invisible visible when it comes to an industry that each and every one of us 4 8:00 pm relies on for our daily needs, but remains a complete MARCH mystery to most consumers. This film promises to be thought-provoking and eye-opening, and may prompt you to think a bit more carefully about the country of origin on the next thing you purchase.

6 2017 Downtown DocFest 4:00 pm Feature Sunday This year’s DocFest Finale brings a beautiful biographic film profiling one of Canada’s most beloved icons—actor, director, writer and painter—Gordon at The Empire Pinsent. The River of My Dreams: A Profile of Gordon Pinsent is a unique DOCFEST IS PLEASED to once again present Feature Sunday exploration of an actor whose career at The Empire for the final day of the festival—a showcase has spanned nearly six decades. A legend of both stage and screen, of three outstanding films that are a testament to the power Pinsent is known to be a modest man— of the documentary film genre. We’re thrilled to offer our making this biographic documentary festival-goers the chance to gather in one central location about his life and his career all the for the final day of the festival to watch films, discuss the more compelling. It follows his early life in Grand Falls, Newfoundland, festival and get to know their neighbours—after all, that’s where he realized that his calling was what DocFest is all about! acting, and worked ambitiously to fulfill his dreams. The film follows Films Pinsent’s remarkable career on stage 5 The Eagle Huntress and on film, from his role as Quentin MARCH Koneline: Our Land Beautiful Durgens, MP in the 1960s through to The River of My Dreams: A Profile of Gordon Pinsent and beyond his role in Sarah Polley’s 2006 film Away From Her, presenting 10:00 am on such developments—it simply a profile of an artist who always Feature Sunday kicks off with The presents them as a modern reality. leaves everything on the stage. Most Eagle Huntress, a visually stunning It’s a snapshot of where the region is remarkably, the film feels unfinished, film that follows Aisholpan, a 13-year- today, but with a strong recognition if only because the subject assures us old girl raised in a nomadic clan in the of the history that has shaped the that he still has more stories left to tell. Altai mountains of central and eastern modern context. It explores aboriginal At the age of 86, Pinsent continues to Asia. Aisholpan is determined to be a cultures, hunters, miners and more exude ambition and a youthful passion hunter, relying on a partnership with and finds that they all share one thing for his work and for new experiences. a golden eagle like her father and his in common—a deep love of this vast, “I did a lot of stuff in my life,” Pinsent father before him. The challenge is that striking wilderness. says, “And I’m in a hurry to do more.” hunting is viewed as a man’s role in the This film is a genuine tribute to all that traditional society in which Aisholpan we love about Canada’s Arts & Culture. is raised—women are supposed to make tea, not hunt. But with the support of her father and through her own determination, Aisholpan follows her own path in this inspiring, arrestingly beautiful documentary.

1:00 pm Koneline: Our Land Beautiful was the winner of the 2016 Hot Docs Best Canadian Feature award. Koneline is a visual exploration of British Columbia’s vast wilderness, juxtaposed with developments that are altering the landscapes and the traditional ways of life. The film doesn’t pass judgment Official Program 7 2017 DocFest Films

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ALL GOVERNMENTS LIE: TRUTH, ANGRY INUK THE BIRTH OF BELLEVILLE DECEPTION AND THE SPIRIT OF I.F. CANADA | 85 min CANADA | 5 min STONE Director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril Director Doug Knutson CANADA | 90 min Director Fred Peabody Captain John Walden Meyers was a An agency of the Government of Ontario Un organisme du gouvernement de l’Ontario notorious American Loyalist, a prominent Independent journalists are changing the Inuit are campaigning to challenge long- Canadian pioneer and known as a ‘founding face of journalism, providing investigative, established views of seal hunting. The meat father’ of Belleville. He gained a legendary adversarial alternatives to mainstream, is part of their traditional diet but they need reputation for his exploits during the corporate news outlets. As cameras follow, to sell the skins to take part in the global American Revolution and would later government and corporate deception is economy in a sustainable way. An army of establish himself as a leader in developing a exposed—just as the ground-breaking well-funded activists and well-meaning new society in Canada. independent journalist I.F. Stone did celebrities stand in opposition. decades ago. Sponsor Hastings County  In Inuktituk with subtitles Historical Society Featuring Carl Bernstein, Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman, Michael Moore, Winner Audience Choice Award  Saturday 12:30 pm CORE Screen Ralph Nader and Cenk Uygur Hot Docs 2016 Discussion to follow

 Friday 12:30 pm CORE Screen 1  Friday 4:00 pm Pinnacle Playhouse Saturday 4:30 pm CORE Screen 1 Saturday 4:30 pm Pinnacle Playhouse  The films marked with this symbol contain graphic and sensitive subject matter. Counsellors 8 2017 Downtown DocFest will be on hand to provide support to anyone who may be adversely affected by the content. BLUEFIN CAMERAPERSON THE CHILDREN NEXT DOOR  CANADA | 53 min USA | 102 min USA | 36 min Director John Hopkins Director Kirsten Johnson Director Doug Block

Set in “the tuna capital of the world,” North A young family’s journey to overcome years An agency of the Government of Ontario Un organisme du gouvernement de l’Ontario Lake, Prince Edward Island, the film explores of experiencing domestic violence and one the baffling mystery of why the normally Cinematographer Kirsten Johnson exposes horrific incident that shaped and shattered wary bluefin tuna no longer fear humans. At her many years behind the camera through their world. Years later, Penny Waldroup and the heart of the film lies a passionate fear a memoir made up of decades of footage her four children continue to struggle with by all concerned about the fate of this shot all over the world. What emerges is the impact. Within three short months, we giant species. a visually bold memoir and a revelatory witness an astonishing turn of events. interrogation of the power of the camera.  Saturday 4:30 pm Library Screen 1 Sponsors Quinte Coordinating Committee Winner Independent Spirit Award for Against Violence Best Documentary Feature Three Oaks Shelter & Services Sponsors Loyalist College The Intelligencer  Saturday 4:30 pm Library Screen 2 Screening with THE WAR AT HOME  Saturday 2:30 pm Pinnacle Playhouse

CITIZEN JANE: BATTLE FOR THE CITY THE EAGLE HUNTRESS THE FATHER, THE SON AND THE HOLY USA | 92 min UK/MONGOLIA/USA | 87 min JIHAD Director Matt Tyrnauer Director Otto Bell FRANCE | 120 min Director Stéphane Malterre The life of legendary writer and urban Executive producer Daisy Ridley narrates activist Jane Jacobs, who battled to save this visually stunning documentary about The Ayachis are a French Muslim family historic New York City neighbourhoods Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl who becomes whose patriarch and son have been from the redevelopment plans of the the first female in twelve generations of her radicalized by world events and propelled ruthless ‘master builder’ Robert Moses in Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter by a sense of ancestral religious duty to the 1960s. This film sets out to examine the and rises to the pinnacle of a tradition that return to defend their Syrian homeland. city of today through the lens of one of its has been handed down from father to Their dramatic lives are captured over three greatest champions. son for centuries. years, fighting against Daesh (also known as ISIS) and the Army regime. Sponsors St Lawrence Valley Society of  In Kazack with subtitles Architects  In French and Arabic with subtitles Jane’s Walk Belleville Sponsor Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association  Saturday 9:30 am CORE Screen 1  Friday 2:15 pm Library Screens 1 & 2 Showing with HOME  Monday 10:30 am The Empire Theatre* Wednesday 10:30 am The Empire Theatre* Sunday 10:00 am The Empire Theatre

*DocFest for Schools. Pre-registration required. Official Program 9 GOD KNOWS WHERE I AM USA | 99 min Directors Jedd Wider & Todd Wider

For nearly four months, Linda Bishop survived on apples and rain water, waiting for God to save her, during one of the FREIGHTENED: THE REAL PRICE OF SHIPPING coldest winters on record. As her story SPAIN/FRANCE | 83 min unfolds from different perspectives, Director Denis Delestrac including her own journal, we learn about our systemic failure to protect those who This eye-opening look behind the scenes reveals the mechanics and perils of an all- cannot protect themselves. but-invisible industry that holds the key to our economy and the very model of our civilization. The film utilizes expert opinions and informative narration to tell the story Sponsor United Church of of the cost of this insatiable appetite to the world. Canada-Kente Presbytery

 Saturday 8:00 pm The Empire Theatre  Friday 2:15 pm Pinnacle Playhouse Discussion to follow

THE GRANDFATHER OF ALL TREATIES GREEN RIGHTS: THE HUMAN RIGHT TO A HAND.LINE.COD CANADA | 57 min HEALTHY WORLD CANADA | 13 min Director Candace Maracle CANADA | 68 min Director Justin Simms Director Chris Beckett The ‘Two Row Wampum’ treaty became After a 20-year moratorium, the cod stocks the basis for all subsequent treaties Air, water and food—these are the sources are returning. Set in the coldest waters between the Haudenosaunee and European of life, and in most nations, more than 180 surrounding Newfoundland’s rugged Fogo settlers but the American and Canadian in fact, citizens are legally entitled to these Island, this film follows traditional fishers governments have refused to honour it, essential elements of life. But not in Canada who catch cod live by hand, by hook and resulting in the rise of the ‘Idle No More’ or the United States. Dedicated citizens and line, one at a time, and take their premium movement and shifting attitudes inside and brilliant lawyers are fighting to secure these product directly to the commercial market outside of Iroquois culture. rights for all of us. for the first time.

Sponsors Amnesty International Sponsor Green Wheel Farms  Saturday 8:00 pm The Empire Theatre Community Advocacy & Showing with FREIGHTENED: THE Legal Centre  Friday 12:30 pm CORE Screen 2 REAL PRICE OF SHIPPING

 Saturday 4:30 pm CORE Screen 2 Discussion to follow Showing with THE ROAD TO WEBEQUIE

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HERITAGE CRAMAHE MOMENT: CHARLES HISTORY LIVES HERE: ARTIST MANLY HOLLYWOOD OF THE NORTH SMITH RUTHERFORD VC MACDONALD CANADA | 30 min CANADA | 12 min CANADA | 2 min Director Doug Knutson Director Sean Scally Director Peter Lockyer The Trenton Film Studio celebrates its Charles Smith Rutherford was a Canadian During the early 20th century, artist Manly 100th Anniversary next year. Canada’s first recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest MacDonald was a common site in this area. ‘epic’ film, Carry on Sergeant!, was made and most prestigious award for gallantry in He painted the disappearing history of small there in 1928. This short doc is a tribute to the face of the enemy that can be awarded towns, rural life and the war, leaving behind its making as well as earlier and later films to British and Commonwealth forces. a wide body of work. The largest collection and the local locations. From Colborne, Ontario he is an important of his timeless art can be seen in the historical person of the local area. library’s John M. Parrott Art Gallery. Sponsor Hastings County Historical Society Sponsor Colborne Guest House Sponsor Quinte Arts Council  Saturday 12:30 pm CORE Screen 2  Saturday 9:30 am CORE Screen 2  Friday 4:00 pm Library Screens 1 & 2 Discussion to follow Discussion to follow Showing with PAINTED LAND: IN SEARCH OF THE GROUP OF SEVEN

HOME IN THE NAME OF CONFUCIUS KONELĪNE: OUR LAND BEAUTIFUL CANADA | 2.5 min CANADA | 52 min CANADA | 96 min Director Rami Katz Director Doris Liu Director Nettie Wild

This timely short film regarding the Syrian An exposé of the Chinese government’s An agency of the Government of Ontario Un organisme du gouvernement de l’Ontario refugee crisis, depicting a Syrian woman multi-billion dollar Confucius Institute describing her experience of leaving program and the growing global controversy A stunning portrait of the inhabitants of her home for a better life in Canada, at academic institutions around the world northern British Columbia—First Nations helps create a sense of awareness and as scholars, parents and others question the people who’ve been there for thousands of understanding for the many Syrian families program’s political influence and purpose. years and the non-natives who have wound who are starting new lives here. Is its primary aim to teach the Chinese up there for a variety of reasons. It takes language or infiltrate national security a unique person to choose to battle the  In Arabic with subtitles through espionage tactics? wilderness and turn it into a way of living.

Sponsor Quinte Immigration Services  Some subtitles Winner Best Canadian Feature Documentary Award  Saturday 9:30 am CORE Screen 1  Friday 4:00 pm CORE Screen 2 Hot Docs 2016 Showing with THE FATHER, THE SON Discussion to follow AND THE HOLY JIHAD  Sunday 1:00 pm The Empire Theatre Discussion to follow

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LET’S DANCE: BOWIE DOWN UNDER LIFTED LO AND BEHOLD: REVERIES OF THE AUSTRALIA/UK | 11 min CANADA | 19 min CONNECTED WORLD Director Rubika Shah Director Sean Scally USA | 115 min Director Werner Hertzog Late great rocker David Bowie is remembered Women who have chosen Olympic by the inhabitants of tiny Carinda, Australia, weightlifting as their sport share how they An agency of the Government of Ontario the small-town setting of his 1983 hit video discovered weightlifting, their experiences, Un organisme du gouvernement de l’Ontario for Let’s Dance. Taking inspiration from the expectations and support systems. They Heavily dependent on the Internet for nearly Australian Aboriginal struggle, the video offer advice to other women who may be everything, we rarely step back and recognize exposed the MTV generation to Indigenous reluctant to give it a try. Filmed entirely in its endless intricacies and unsettling issues and put Aboriginal politics on the Quinte region. omnipotence. From the brilliant mind of heavy rotation. Werner Herzog comes a playful yet chilling  Saturday 9:30 am CORE Screen 2 examination of our rapidly interconnecting  Saturday 12:30 pm Pinnacle Playhouse Discussion to follow lives—anecdotes and reflections woven Showing with STRIKE A POSE into a complex portrait of our brave new world.

Sponsor Quinte Biosphere Defenders

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LOYALIST FOURSQUARED MINIMALISM: A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT MY BELLEVILLE 200 CANADA | 16 min THE IMPORTANT THINGS CANADA | 20 min Directors Loyalist College Students USA | 90 min Director Aaron Bell Director Matt D’Avella DocFest is committed to supporting up- A sneak peak at a co-production with the and-coming student filmmakers. Four films How might your life be better with less? City of Belleville to commemorate its 200th will be selected at the Loyalist College Step inside the lives of minimalists from birthday. Local citizens talk about what they Television and New Media student film all walks of life—families, entrepreneurs, love most about our friendly city. screenings on March 1 and added to the architects, artists, journalists, scientists and ‘Local Spotlight’ line-up. Be sure to come even a former Wall Street broker—all of Sponsor United Nations Association- see these amazing short films about local whom are striving to live a meaningful life Quinte Branch stories from our next generation with less. of filmmakers!  Saturday 12:30 pm CORE Screen 2 Sponsor Community Development Discussion to follow  Saturday 2:30 pm CORE Screen 2 Council of Quinte Discussion to follow  Saturday 2:30 pm Library Screen 2

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ONE STEP AWAY CANADA | 46 min Director Gerry Fraiberg

After a near fatal workplace accident in 1992 left him a double amputee, Belleville man John Cairns turned his life around by THE MUSIC OF STRANGERS: YO-YO MA AND THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE becoming a motivational speaker and in USA | 90 min May 2016 participating in the local fund- Director Neville Morgan raising event ‘Dancing With The Stars.’ It’s a story of discovering inner strength and Over the past 16 years, an extraordinary group of musicians came together to overcoming life-altering misfortune. celebrate the universal power of music. Telling their moving individual stories, the filmmaker paints a vivid portrait of a bold musical experiment and a global search for  Saturday 2:30 pm CORE Screen 2 the ties that bind. Discussion to follow

Sponsor PRETSELL DAVIES  Some subtitles THOMPSON BENTON LLP Lawyers  Friday 7:00 pm The Empire Theatre

QUINTE FILM ALTERNATIVE A SPECIAL FREE GREAT MOVIE See It For FREE! QUINTE FILM ALTERNATIVE WEDNESDAYS GREAT MOVIE WEDNESDAYS First Run. Festival Quality. Must See. Cinema Canada On Screen PRESENTATION SPONSORED BY TIFF Film Circuit in CELEBRATION of ProudProud SponsorSponsor CANADA’S SESQUICENTENNIAL of the of the LIFE CLASSES A CANADIAN ESSENTIAL lm. LIFE CLASSES Canada, 1987 – Rated PG – 117 minutes The definitive ‘life-transformed-by-art’ movie. A gently satirical yet deeply moving portrait of a young Cape Breton woman as she moves to the big city (Halifax) and supports herself by posing for college art classes, on her way to QFA becoming an artist in her own right. QFA Named a Masterwork of Canadian Cinema ONE DAY ONLY GREAT MOVIE WEDNESDAY by Canadian Heritage and the AV Trust. LOCALLOCAL 2:00 and THE EMPIRE THEATRE, 321 Front Street, Belleville April 19 7:30 PM ALL ARE WELCOME but Seating is Limited. SPOTLIGHTSPOTLIGHT QFA GREAT MOVIE WEDNESDAY screenings are held ALTERNATE WEDNESDAYS CongratulationsCongratulations toto allall September - May at THE EMPIRE THEATRE - 321 Front Street, Belleville the local filmakers! Single Screening Tickets - Matinee (2 pm) $9 / Evening (7:30 pm) $11 / STUDENT (with ID) $5.50 the local filmakers! [email protected] / www.quintefilmalternative.ca

Official Program 13 PAINTED LAND: IN SEARCH OF THE PORTRAIT OF A GARDEN RESET GROUP OF SEVEN NETHERLANDS | 98 min FRANCE | 110 min CANADA | 70 min Director Rosie Stapel Directors Thierry Demaizière & Director Phyllis Ellis Alban Teurlai A poetic and meandering look at the Past meets present in a film that is natural world in the gardens of an historical Stunningly gorgeous and delicate in both evocative in approach, energized by Dutch estate. The 85-year-old pruning subject and treatment, the film depicts breathtaking cinematography and an master and the head gardener chat about renowned choreographer and dancer uplifting musical score, offering a new and food, weather, the world and their shared Benjamin Millepied (best known for articulate voice to the artists who were the knowledge of horticulture. The seasons go choreographing the dance sequences in Group of Seven. An historian, writer and by and everything has its time. Will the pear Black Swan) as he attempts to rejuvenate photographer are determined to track arbour finally close over after 15 years? the Paris Opera Ballet in his new position down the precise locations of the group’s as director. famous paintings.  In Dutch with subtitles  In French with subtitles Sponsor Artists of Tyendinaga Sponsor Watershed Magazine Sponsor Quinte Ballet School of Canada  Friday 4:00 pm Library Screens 1 & 2  Friday 12:30 pm Library Screen 2 Showing with HISTORY LIVES HERE:  Saturday 12:30 pm CORE Screen 1 ARTIST MANLY MACDONALD

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RICK OF ALL TRADES CANADA | 44 min Directors Brian Long & Maurice McFadden

Rick Cameron, an octogenarian from Northbrook Ontario, has always taken the road less traveled. Whether it was playing semi-pro hockey, entertaining thousands as a musician, a stand-up comedian, costumed mascot or professional clown, no one will ever say that Rick has led a dull life.

 Saturday 9:30 am CORE Screen 2 Discussion to follow

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THE RIVER OF MY DREAMS: A PORTRAIT THE ROAD TO WEBEQUIE SAMUEL IN THE CLOUDS OF GORDON PINSENT CANADA | 20 min NETHERLANDS | 70 min CANADA | 104 min Directors Tess Girard & Ryan Noth Director Pieter Van Eecke Director Brigitte Berman A mining company has promised to create Spectacular cinematography in the An actor, writer, director and painter, opportunities for the remote Webequie mountains of Bolivia, where the glaciers are Gordon Pinsent is one of Canada’s most First Nation. Through the eyes of three melting, provides this film with an intimate beloved artists. Filled with humour, passion youths facing an uncertain future, this look at the effect of climate change on one and complexity, this film by an Academy observational yet expansive documentary person, one small business, one family. Award-winning filmmaker is a brilliant shows the struggles—and hopes—of a Sometimes one modest documentary says portrait of this icon, as well as a universal community confronting challenges that more than reports of a thousand pages—an story about the human condition, while many Canadians will never experience. absolute must-see. making creative use of state-of-the art digital technology. Sponsor Amnesty International  In Spanish with subtitles

 Sunday 4:00 pm The Empire Theatre  Saturday 4:30 pm CORE Screen 2 Sponsor Quinte Field Naturalists Discussion to follow Discussion to follow Showing with THE GRANDFATHER OF  Friday 2:15 pm CORE Screen 2 ALL TREATIES

SHADOW WORLD SPIRIT UNFORGETTABLE THE STAIRS BELGIUM/DENMARK | 94 min CANADA | 86 min CANADA | 95 min Director Johan Grimonprez Director Pete McCormack Director Hugh Gibson

How the international trade in weapons Marty, Greg and Roxanne each survived An agency of the Government of Ontario Un organisme du gouvernement de l’Ontario fosters corruption, determines economic decades of street involvement in Regent and foreign policies, undermines democracy With the early onset of Alzheimer’s at age Park, Toronto. Now, each works in public and creates widespread suffering. The film 52, John Mann, front man for Canadian health helping others, while struggling reveals the real costs of war, the way the Celtic rock band Spirit of the West, to maintain their newly-found stability. arms trade drives it and how the weapons confronts the reality that he’s losing grasp The film defies stereotypes about drug of war are now being turned against the of the poetic and political lyrics he shared use, sex work and homelessness through citizens of liberal democracies. with millions. He and his lifelong band- anintimate portrait that is moving and mates decide to give their fans surprisingly funny.  Some subtitles a final goodbye. Sponsor Hastings & Prince Edward Winner Best Documentary Feature Sponsor Sponsor Alzheimer Society of Harm Reduction Task Force Edinburgh International Film Hastings-Prince Edward Festival 2016  Friday 2:15 pm CORE Screen 1  Friday 12:30 pm Pinnacle Playhouse Discussion to follow Sponsor Council of Canadians Quinte

 Saturday 2:30 pm Library Screen 1

Official Program 15 Friday, March 3 CORE BELLEVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY & PINNACLE PLAYHOUSE CENTRE JOHN M. PARROTT ART GALLERY 256 Pinnacle Street 223 Pinnacle Street 254 Pinnacle Street, 3rd Floor SCREEN 1 (150 seats) SCREEN 2 (200 seats) SCREEN 1 (75 seats) SCREEN 2 (100 seats) (150 seats)

All Governments Lie Green Rights Unlocking the Cage Portrait of a Garden Spirit Unforgettable 12:30 90 min 68 min 92 min 98 min 86 min

2:15 The Stairs Samuel in the Clouds Citizen Jane: Battle for the City God Knows Where I Am 95 min 70 min 92 min 99 min

History Lives Here: Artist Manly MacDonald To the Ends of the Earth In the Name of 2 min Angry Inuk 4:00 81 min Confucius Painted Land: In Search of the Group of Seven 85 min 52 min 70 min

OPENING GALA AT THE EMPIRE THEATRE (321 FRONT STREET) The Music of Strangers 7:00 90 min Denielle Bassels and The MacDaddys

The Empire Theatre 321 Front Street

Pinnacle Playhouse 256 Pinnacle St.

Belleville Public Library & J o h n M . P a r r o tt A r t G a l l e r y 254 Pinnacle St., 3rd Floor CORE Centre 223 Pinnacle St.

INTEGRITY EFFICIENCY SERVICE

16 2017 Downtown DocFest Saturday, March 4 CORE BELLEVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY & PINNACLE CENTRE JOHN M. PARROTT ART GALLERY PLAYHOUSE 223 Pinnacle Street 254 Pinnacle Street, 3rd Floor 256 Pinnacle Street SCREEN 1 (150 seats) SCREEN 2 (200 seats) SCREEN 1 (75 seats) SCREEN 2 (100 seats) (150 seats)

The LOCAL SPOTLIGHT 10 AM START Father, Lo and Behold: We Can’t Make the Home The Son Rick of All Trades 44 min Reveries of the Connected World Same Mistake Twice 9:30 2.5 min and the Lifted 19 min 115 min 163 min Holy Jihad Heritage Cramahe Moment 12 min 120 min

The Birth of Belleville 5 min Where the Universe Sings: Let’s Strike a Reset Vinyl Revolution 45 min The Spiritual Journey of Lawren Harris Dance Pose 12:30 110 min Hollywood of the North 30 min 90 min 11 min 83 min My Belleville 200 20 min

Ty Conn: My Brother the Outlaw 2:30 Sustainable 15 min Shadow World Minimalism Cameraperson 96 min One Step Away 45 min 94 min 90 min 102 min Loyalist FourSquared 16 min

The All Governments Lie The Road to Webequie 20 min Bluefin Children The War 4:30 90 min The Grandfather of all Treaties 53 min Next Door at Home Angry Inuk 57 min 36 min 53 min 85 min

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE EMPIRE THEATRE (321 FRONT STREET) Hand.Line.Cod 8:00 13 min Freightened: The Real Price of Shipping 92 min

Sunday, March 5

FEATURE SUNDAY - THE EMPIRE THEATRE 321 Front Street

10:00 The Eagle Huntress 87 min

1:00 Koneline: Our Land Beautiful 96 min

DOCFEST FINALE 4:00 The River of My Dreams: A Portrait of Gordon Pinsent 104 min

Official Program 17 STRIKE A POSE SUSTAINABLE TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH NETHERLANDS | 83 min USA | 96 min CANADA | 81 min Directors Ester Gould & Reijer Zwaan Director Matt Wechsler Director David Lavallee

In 1990, seven young male dancers joined What must be done to sustain our food How can we, as a society, transition into a Madonna on her most controversial tour. system for future generations? Farmer new energy age? Canada is in a favourable On stage and in the iconic film Truth or Marty Travis watches his land and position for a switch to renewable power. Dare they showed the world how to express community fall victim to the pressures What’s lacking is the political will to liberate yourself. Now, 25 years later, they reveal the of agribusiness but is determined to do us from the octopus grip of oil profiteers truth about life during and after the tour. A something to fix it and create a proud such as the Koch Brothers, who control 1.1 dramatic tale about overcoming shame and legacy for his son. million acres of Alberta tar sands. finding the courage to be who you are. Sponsors Rotaract Belleville-Loyalist, Sponsor Quinte Biosphere Defenders Sponsor Belleville Pride Community Gardens Network of Hastings & Prince Edward,  Friday 4:00 pm CORE Screen 1  Saturday 12:30 pm Pinnacle Playhouse Fresh For All Showing with LET’S DANCE: BOWIE DOWN UNDER  Saturday 2:30 pm CORE Screen 1

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TY CONN: MY BROTHER THE OUTLAW UNLOCKING THE CAGE VINYL REVOLUTION CANADA | 15 min USA | 92 min CANADA | 45 min Directors Adam Gray & Andrew Gray Directors Chris Hegedus & Director Aaron Bell D.A. Pennebaker At 11 years of age Max finds out that he has A look at the resurgence of vinyl records a teenage brother who is in prison for bank and the impact that it has had on the An agency of the Government of Ontario Un organisme du gouvernement de l’Ontario robbery, the notorious Tyrone Conn. This recording industry. Featuring Belleville’s touching and tragic true-crime documentary Lawyer Steven Wise and the Non-human Sam the Record Man, the lone surviving tells the story of two brothers’ friendship Rights Project file lawsuits to give animals store bearing the iconic chain’s name. through prison bars and across 10 years. such as chimpanzees, whales, dolphins and elephants limited personhood rights  Saturday 12:30 pm CORE Screen 2  Saturday 2:30 pm CORE Screen 2 in this affecting and thought-provoking Discussion to follow Discussion to follow documentary. Wise’s passionate advocacy aims to break barriers and become a major evolutionary step in the way we view and treat animals.

 Friday 12:30 pm Library Screen 1

 The films marked with this symbol contain graphic and sensitive subject matter. Counsellors 18 2017 Downtown DocFest will be on hand to provide support to anyone who may be adversely affected by the content. THE WAR AT HOME  WE CAN’T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE WHERE THE UNIVERSE SINGS: THE CANADA | 53 min TWICE SPIRITUAL JOURNEY OF LAWREN HARRIS Director Shelley Saywell CANADA | 163 min CANADA | 90 min Director Alanis Obamsawin Directors Nancy Lang & Peter Raymont A story that takes us into a private battlefield, where thousands of women The newest film from this celebrated An intimate portrait of Canada’s most live in fear in the one place they should documentarian chronicles the events renowned artist, and the expansive feel safe—their home. In a personal form following the filing of a human-rights landscapes that inspired him. Co-founder of terrorism, domestic violence killed more complaint by a group of activists, which and leader of the legendary Group of Seven, Canadian women in a ten-year period than charged that the federal government’s Harris has become the most valued artist in all our troops killed in Afghanistan. woefully inadequate funding of services for Canadian history and his canvasses sell for Indigenous children on Reserve constituted millions. What led this driven man to the Sponsors Quinte Coordinating Committee a discriminatory practice. spiritual realm of stylized abstraction? Against Violence Three Oaks Shelter & Services Sponsor Friends of the Community Sponsors Belleville Art Association Advocacy and Legal Centre Friends of the Belleville Library  Saturday 4:30 pm Library Screen 2 Showing with THE CHILDREN  Saturday 9:30 am Pinnacle Playhouse  Saturday 12:30 pm Library NEXT DOOR Screens 1 & 2

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Official Program 19 10 Ways to Get The Most Out Of DocFest

NEW TO THE FILM FESTIVAL SCENE? No worries! film buffs and newbies alike can have an equally awesome time at DocFest. Here are some of Belleville’s best kept secrets for getting the most out of your Festival Pass this year. 7 SNUGGLE UP. There’s no need to be afraid of your neighbours at any 1 4 DocFest venue, so take a seat right LOOK FOR THE GREEN SHIRTS. These BE AN EARLY BIRD TO THE GALA. The next to someone and strike up a people are your friends! Our volunteers first event of the weekend will start conversation! Our venues are small, so wear vibrant ‘DocFest Green’ shirts with a bang on Friday, so be sure to ensuring that there are no empty seats each year so that they’re easy to spot show up with time to spare. Don’t in the middle of rows allows for more when you’re seeking a seat, looking for miss the Green Carpet interviews at ticket holders to experience the films. the loo or caching your coat. The Empire Theatre, where attending filmmakers will give their unique take 8 2 on their work. EXIT IN AN ORDERLY FASHION. We CHECK OUT THE LEAD UP. There are ask each viewer to use the designated multiple DocFest events happening 5 exits and leave the room after every in the days leading up to the festival. CHECK THE SCHEDULE FOR screening so that there’s equal The Events page on our website ATTENDING FILMMAKERS AND opportunity for all ticket holders to (downtowndocfest.ca) will give you SPECIAL GUESTS. Over the course of get a seat. You wouldn’t want a seat the times, dates and locations. Check the weekend, you’ll find many local and hog to prevent you from a fair chance out the visual art exhibit ‘The Art of regional filmmakers and special guests at a seat, so please respect the exit Changing the World’ opening at the attend for question and answer (Q&A) protocol! CORE Gallery, Monday, February 27 discussions following the screenings. at 5 pm and the four-minute student Check the schedule to find out who’ll 9 documentaries that will be adjudicated be at your top picks, and take the TWEET IT UP! We’re on social media at Loyalist College Alumni Hall opportunity to reach out with your own all week long, so tweet us your March 1 at 6 pm. questions. favourite flicks, tell us what you think and talk up the festival! You could 6 3 even find yourself in conversation STRATEGIZE. The schedule includes KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR DOWNTOWN with a filmmaker via Twitter, so almost 50 individual films, so you SPECIALS. DocFeast is a Saturday let that blue bird loose! (Find us @ won’t be able to see every film playing evening opportunity for festival- downtowndocfest) in the festival. Decisions have to be goers to enjoy full-course meals or made. So do your research, map out substantial snacks at many of the city’s 10 your viewing strategy and familiarize downtown eateries. ‘Saturday Night at VOLUNTEER NEXT YEAR! You can get yourself with the venues ahead of time. The Empire’ will start at 8pm this year one of those awesome green shirts for so that participating restaurants can volunteering your time, plus some rush ensure that festival-goers’ meals are tickets to watch screenings when you‘re finished in time to get a good seat. not on duty. It’s a pretty sweet deal! 20 2017 Downtown DocFest An agency of the Government of Ontario partners with DocFest Un organisme du gouvernement de l’Ontario

Belleville Downtown DocFest welcomes back a prestigious Presenting Partner from outside the area. We were indeed honoured last year to be approached by Hot Docs, Canadian International Documentary Festival, to participate in their outreach initiative.

“Through Hot Docs Showcase, with support from Ontario Trillium Foundation, indie exhibitors across Canada can easily bring outstanding Hot Docs titles to their communities,” says Erin Lau, Hot Docs Associate Director, Culture & Community Development. DocFest chooses films from the Showcase line-up and Hot Docs pays a good portion of the screening cost as well as providing marketing and publicity support material.

ANGRY INUK CAMERAPERSON KONELĪNE: OUR LAND BEAUTIFUL CANADA | 85 min USA | 102 min CANADA | 96 min Director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril Director Kirsten Johnson Director Nettie Wild

Winner Audience Choice Award Winner Independent Spirit Award for Winner Best Canadian Feature Hot Docs 2016 Best Documentary Feature Documentary Award Hot Docs 2016  Friday 4:00 pm Pinnacle Playhouse  Saturday 2:30 pm Pinnacle Playhouse Saturday 4:30 pm Pinnacle Playhouse  Sunday 1:00 pm The Empire Theatre

LO AND BEHOLD: REVERIES OF THE SPIRIT UNFORGETTABLE UNLOCKING THE CAGE CONNECTED WORLD CANADA | 86 min USA | 92 min USA | 115 min Director Pete McCormack Directors Chris Hegedus & Director Werner Hertzog D.A. Pennebaker  Friday 12:30 pm Pinnacle Playhouse  Saturday 9:30 am Library  Friday 12:30 pm Library Screen 1 Screens 1 & 2

Official Program 21 Quinte Film Alternative presents ‘Local Spotlight’

BELLEVILLE DOWNTOWN DOCFEST is proud to screen works submitted by local filmmakers. We are grateful to Quinte Film Alternative for sponsoring our local talent again this year and congratulate this organization for bringing Canadian and international films to the Quinte region on Great Movie Wednesdays for over 20 years. Unless otherwise indicated, Local Spotlight films screen Saturday, March 3 at the CORE Centre.

The Loyalist College Film and TV Production (TVNM) student screenings take place on campus on Wednesday March 1, 6-9 pm at Alumni Hall. For the fourth year, teams made up of four students present their four- minute documentaries before an audience and to a panel of established local filmmakers who adjudicate, provide feedback and choose the top four. Everyone is welcome to attend. This year’s winners will screen as Loyalist FourSquared on Saturday at 2:30 pm. Aaron Bell’s My Belleville 200 is a sneak peak at a co- production he is working on with the City of Belleville to commemorate its 200th Birthday. You will recognize lots of local faces in this one. Aaron’s second submission, Vinyl Revolution, pays tribute to the resurgence of records and its affect on the recording industry. Aaron lives in Belleville and owns an online marketing agency.

22 2017 Downtown DocFest DocFest first-timers Brian Long & Maurice McFadden submitted Rick of All Trades about an octogenarian from Northbrook, Ontario who has had a storied past. Brian and Maurice are both from this area and are now 2nd career elementary school teachers in Madoc. Candace Maracle is an Indigenous filmmaker and journalist from A still from Hollywood of the North, a film by Doug Knutson Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. Her work includes reporting for the APTN’s Gerry Fraiberg’s One Step Away is a of an infamous young lawbreaker. National News and producing for CBC tribute to local Belleville resident John Adam And Andrew Gray grew up Radio. Her most recent documentary, Cairns and his journey participating in in Belleville, went to film school in The Grandfather of All Treaties, ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ a local fund- Montreal and lived in “big cities” for premiered at the 2015 imagineNATIVE raising event. Gerry lives in Belleville awhile before returning back home to Film Festival to a sold-out audience. and has 20 years experience as a radio create films together. She is currently studying the news announcer, has produced many Belleville’s Doug Knutson of endangered Kenienke’ha language so videos for education, marketing and Windswept Productions has two entries that she can include her Native tongue public relations and is a contributing in this year’s festival. His deep interest in her work. photographer for County & Quinte in history shines through in both: The Sean Scally has two films Living Magazine. Birth of Belleville focuses on John screening—his Heritage Cramahe Tess Girard and Ryan Noth create Walden Meyers, one of Belleville’s Moment: Charles Smith Rutherford films in their Fifth Town Studio founding fathers and Hollywood of the VC chronicles a WWI veteran from in Cherry Valley, PEC. The Road North celebrates the 100th Anniversary Colborne, Ontario and Lifted is a look to Webequie screened at the 2016 of the Trenton Film Studios and the at female Olympic weightlifters. Sean, Toronto International Film Festival epic production of Carry on Sergeant! a veteran himself, is a former Technical and provides a look, through their that took place there. Trade Trainer and award-winning own eyes, into the uncertain future of Peter Lockyer lives in Picton and photographer. He lives in Quinte West three First Nations youth in a remote is known for his History Lives Here and enjoys bringing local stories to life Northern Ontario community. Ryan vignettes. Artist Manly MacDonald on the screen. was also editor for Hugh Gibson’s screens at the library with Painted Support your local filmmakers by award-winning, The Stairs, screening Land: In Search of the Group of Seven attending their films and voting for on Friday. on Friday March 2 at 4 pm, This is your favourite on the evaluation forms The Gray Brothers are back. the perfect opportunity for film-goers at each DocFest venue throughout the Remember Fly Colt Fly, 2014’s to take a break viewing the Parrott weekend. The Audience Choice Award Audience Award Winner for best local Gallery’s permanent Manly for Best Local Film goes to the winner. film? Ty Conn: My Brother the Outlaw MacDonald Collection. again uses animation to tell the story

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Official Program 23 Local Filmmaker Spotlight Each year, DocFest is proud to showcase films that have local roots, and 2017 is no different. We asked several of the filmmakers whose films are showing during the 2017 festival a few questions. Doug Knutson

Hollywood of the North The Birth of Belleville Saturday 12:30 pm CORE Screen 2 Saturday 12:30 pm CORE Screen 2

One Tweet that summarizes your film (max 140 characters, @’s One Tweet that summarizes your film (max 140 characters, As a result of war, politics and rivalry, & #’s encouraged. 100 years of movie making in Quinte @’s & #’s encouraged). Belleville got its name 200 years ago One person who was instrumental to your film getting made. Queen’s Professor Peter Morris - where I first heard this story One person who was instrumental to your film getting made. Gerry Boyce - Belleville’s Mr. History One story about the making of this film that everyone should know. Trenton produced Canada’s first big “Epic” movie - also its One story about the making of this film that everyone should biggest “flop”! know. This is an excerpt from an upcoming documentary feature Damned Rascal: the Story of Captain John Walden Meyers One piece of NEW technology you cant live without in filmmaking. 4K - while I don’t agree that its necessary in the home, it opens up many options in production! One piece of NEW technology you cant live without in filmmaking. The Non-Linear Editor (NLE) or computer-based editing. One piece of OLD technology you can’t live without in filmmaking. My old tripod from the early-80’s—pretty beat up but still using it! One piece of OLD technology you can’t live without in filmmaking. This project has been in the works for decades! So One parting word you’d like to share. One hundred years ago, a number of old formats including S-VHS and 16mm film are Trenton and area played a large role in the development of Film combined with new 4K and RAW video - all thanks to the NLE. Production in Canada including documentaries - it became the “Cradle of the Canadian Film Industry”! One parting word you’d like to share. Belleville was originally spelled “Bellville” and was previously an Indian Burial Ground!

Official Program 25 Aaron Bell

Vinyl Revolution My Belleville 200 Saturday 12:30 pm CORE Screen 2 Saturday 12:30 pm CORE Screen 2

One Tweet that summarizes your film (max 140 characters, @’s One Tweet that summarizes your film (max 140 characters, @’s & #’s encouraged. Vinyl is making a huge comeback and it just & #’s encouraged). Belleville is celebrating its 200th birthday might save the music business. #VinylRevolution and we’re helping tell her unique story through the words of the community. #Belleville200 One person who was instrumental to your film getting made. The last SAM The Record Man is located right here in Belleville One person who was instrumental to your film getting made. and owners Spencer and Holly were our inspiration for making Mayor Taso Christopher is passionate about this community and this film. wanted to make sure that we did something fun to celebrate our 200th birthday. One story about the making of this film that everyone should know. We were in Louisville, KY working on another film project One story about the making of this film that everyone should and we came a cross the “Crosley Cruiser”, a 1960’s style van full know. We’ve met some amazing people while putting this film of records and record players. We were fascinated by it. Before together. Everyone has a unique story but they all come back to we went in, we thought it would be a swap meet of old records. the quality of people that have made this a special community. When we walked in, it was full of 20-somethings and the very first record we saw was by Meghan Trainor. Right away, we knew One piece of NEW technology you cant live without in there was something going on here that we wanted to know filmmaking. 4K footage - it makes editing interviews so much more about. easier - one camera, multiple shots!

One piece of NEW technology you cant live without in One piece of OLD technology you can’t live without in filmmaking. OSMO. It’s a little camera that shoots super smooth filmmaking. Pen and paper - it’s all about the script and no one footage. And it’s fun! has come up with anything better than good old pen and paper for putting it together. One piece of OLD technology you can’t live without in filmmaking. The shotgun mic has been used in filmmaking for One parting word you’d like to share. We’d love to hear your decades and we use one on pretty much every shoot we do. Belleville 200 story too. Please stop by mybelleville200.ca to share your story about our community. One parting word you’d like to share. There is something magical about experiencing music on vinyl once again. Just taking the time to slow down for 45 minutes and really listen to what the artist was trying to say to you. It’s worth it every time.

26 2017 Downtown DocFest Aaron Bell Ryan J Gerry Noth Fraiberg

The Road to Webequie One Step Away Saturday 4:30 pm CORE Screen 2 Saturday 2:30 pm CORE Screen 2

One Tweet that summarizes your school and stay off of drugs. He must One Tweet that summarizes your film (max film (max 140 characters, @’s & #’s have caught 15 or more fish later on 140 characters, @’s & #’s encouraged. encouraged). Through the eyes of the trip, and also shot a duck - things Double amputee John Cairns Dancing three youth, The Road to Webequie is a few 17 year-olds can do. When we got With The Stars. It’s a story of discovering poetic observation of life on a remote back he thanked us for letting him talk inner strength and overcoming life-altering first nations community about his struggles, and we took that misfortune. facing development. as a sign that we were going about making the documentary with the One person who was instrumental to your One person who was instrumental to right intentions. film getting made. John Cairns, the subject your film getting made. Bob Wabasse, of the film. Without him there is no story. a counsellor in Webequie, invited us One piece of NEW technology you to visit the community, helped us gain cant live without in filmmaking. We One piece of NEW technology you cant live access to the people, and encouraged used a drone in this short, but we tried without in filmmaking. Apple Final Cut Pro us to tell an honest story. to use it in a way that isn’t the cheesy X editing software. In the five years since its flyover way most people use it now, introduction, FCPX has become fast, solid One story about the making of this rather more as part of the visual design and dependable. film that everyone should know. Only and narrative fabric. on our last afternoon in Webequie did One piece of OLD technology you can’t we meet Brennan, when he walked One piece of OLD technology you live without in filmmaking. My Sennheiser by us and casually invited us to go can’t live without in filmmaking. microphones. I bought them in 2004 and fishing. Director of Photography John Dedication. There were so many I’m on my third camera upgrade. Sound is Price and myself got in the boat with times where just being patient and 50% of what we see, and the Sennheiser him and headed out on the lake. After dedicated to the craft of microphones help me deliver a product that about 20 mins of solid driving, he cut observational cinema yielded our sounds great. the engine and pulled over in the calm most interesting encounters. water, and started to talk directly to us One parting word you’d like to share. about his life. Really heavy stuff about Follow your dream, but make sure you can his struggles, as a 17 year old, to finish pay the rent and put food on the table. Sean Scally

Lifted Cramahe Heritage Charles Rutherford VC Saturday 9:30 am CORE Screen 2 Saturday 9:30 am CORE Screen 2

One Tweet that summarizes your film (max 140 characters, @’s One Tweet that summarizes your film (max 140 characters, 100 years ago WW1 was reaching its & #’s encouraged. Strength - Empowerment - Determination @’s & #’s encouraged). don’t try to tell these women they can’t end marginalization in toughest challenges many Quinte residents answered the call sport. Why? because it’s 2017. and Charles Rutherford made history #courage

One person who was instrumental to your film getting made. One person who was instrumental to your film getting made. Michelle and Kevin Wallace of CrossFit Trent and Adamantium Robin Young of Colborne Cramahe Heritage committee was the lifting club and their amazing dedication. driving force of this film

One story about the making of this film that everyone should One story about the making of this film that everyone should Barrie Wood the actor in the film wrote / performed and know. In my youth I was an Olympic weightlifter and making this know. film reminded and reaffirmed my love of the sport. perfected the character of the narrator in this film.

For [question] 4,5 and 6, see above. One piece of NEW technology you cant live without in filmmaking. Can’t live without Adobe premier pro software.

One piece of OLD technology you can’t live without in filmmaking. My full frame Nikon still camera

One parting word you’d like to share. Film making for me is all about people, we all have a story and so little time to leave our legacy.

28 2017 Downtown DocFest ‘The Art of Changing The World’ at the CORE Gallery

ART HAS ALWAYS BEEN an “Artists to my mind are the “Art is the highest form of “Art should comfort the integral part of Belleville real architects of change, hope.” disturbed and disturb the and not the political Gerhard Richter comfortable.” Downtown DocFest and, legislators who implement Cesar A. Cruz along with social justice change after the fact.” “What do you think an and the environment, is William S. Burroughs artist is? ...he is a political “ Art is anything you can being, constantly aware get away with.” one of the key themes we “I think art certainly is the of the heart breaking, Marshall McLuhan explore in our choice of vehicle for us to develop passionate or delightful films. This year, along with any new ideas, to be things that happen in the “We must never forget co-curators Lisa Morris creative, to extend our world, shaping himself that art is not a form of imagination, to change the completely in their image. propaganda; it is a form of and Peter Paylor, we’re current conditions.” Painting is not done to truth.” bringing those themes Ai Weiwei decorate apartments. It is John F. Kennedy together in the CORE an instrument of war.” “In a decaying society, art, Pablo Picasso “They always say time Gallery with an exhibition if it is truthful, must also changes things, but you of visual art called ‘The Art reflect decay. And unless “To be an artist means actually have to change of Changing the World’. it wants to break faith never to avert one’s eyes.” them yourself.” Dozens of local artists with its social function, art Akira Kurosawa Andy Warhol must show the world as working in a wide variety changeable. And help to “Now there are no priests “Some sort of pressure of media have been invited change it.” or philosophers left, artists must exist; the artist exists to participate in what is Ernst Fischer are the most important because the world is not people in the world.” perfect. Art would be sure to be an engaging and “If we are to change our Gerhard Richter useless if the world were provocative show. world view, images have to perfect, as man wouldn’t change. The artist now has “Graffiti is one of the look for harmony but would a very important job to do. few tools you have if you simply live in it. Art is The Art of Changing The World He’s not a little peripheral have almost nothing. And born out of an ill-designed figure entertaining rich even if you don’t come world.” Opens Monday, Feb 27 people, he’s really needed.” up with a picture to cure Andrei Tarkovsky 5 pm - 8 pm David Hockney world poverty you can make someone smile while Closes Sunday, March 5 they’re having a piss.” Banksy Location CORE Gallery 223 Pinnacle Street

Official Program 29 Loyalist our local documentary film festival of the films giving four minutes of TVNM with our community college’s film fame to our community’s stories. The and media faculties. Teams of four panel’s feedback has proven invaluable TVNM students produce four-minute for the students, offering honest Screening documentaries (4 x 4) on topics of critique and insight into techniques local interest and a panel of local from storytelling to production. The Date Wednesday, March 1 professional filmmakers provides on- top four presentations are selected, Time 6-9 pm the-spot feedback and scoring. Behind edited together to become Loyalist Location Alumni Hall the scenes, Public Relations (PURE) FourSquared and screened for the Loyalist College students handle the event logistics general public as part of DocFest’s from start to finish—from promotion to ‘Local Spotlight.’ popcorn, if you will. Loyalist TVNM Student Screening is WHEN ORGANIZATIONS in a small The first year saw an audience of 50 a free event and everyone is welcome town work side by side for the same watch 12 four-minute submissions. By to attend. goals, magic happens. That was the year three, over 150 attended, filling plan when, four years ago, Belleville Alumni Hall to the seams. Under Downtown DocFest approached the mentorship of staff, the fledgling Loyalist College’s TVNM program for filmmakers work day and night to the first time. finish their 4 x 4 submissions in time The aim was simple: to create an for the public screening. Students on-campus event that tied together have a keen eye and ear with each

30 2017 Downtown DocFest DocFest for Schools

DocFest for Schools is an opportunity we’re offering one film at one location. Contact info@downtowndocfest for to engage students with current issues, The DocFest organizing committee more information or to register. vital ideas, critical questions, new felt this film, with its stunning aerial The film will be shown again on perspectives and perhaps a diversion photography and lush soundtrack, Sunday, March 5, 10:00 am, at The from the hours they spend on their including a new song by Sia, would Empire Theatre for all Festival Pass- smart phones and tablets. be best experienced on The Empire holders. Rush tickets are available at the The Eagle Huntress (UK, Mongolia, Theatre’s big screen and superb door, space permitting (See inside cover USA – 2016 – 87 min), directed by Otto sound system. The film was on for more information). Bell, screens Monday, February 27 and this year’s Academy Award’s Best Wednesday, March 1, 10:30am, at The Documentary shortlist. Empire Theatre. There is no charge to attend and In the past, we’ve offered a choice of admission is limited to pre-registered films at different venues but this year students, their teachers and chaperones.

Dates Monday, February 27 Wednesday, March 1 Time 10:30 am Location The Empire Theatre

“GIRL POWER SOARS ON THE WINGS OF EAGLES IN THIS STUNNING DOCUMENTARY.”

– Linda Barnard, Toronto Star

Official Program 31 DocFeast: CAPERS Participating in Quintelicious, A Celebration of prix fixe menu available. 272 Front St., Belleville Food and Film 613-968-7979 SANS SOUCI Participating in Quintelicious, prix fixe menu available. 240 Front St., Belleville 613-968-2952

PAULO’S ITALIAN TRATTORIA Participating in Quintelicious, prix fixe menu available. 38 Bridge St. E., Belleville 613-966-6542 FOR THE SECOND YEAR, DocFest is proud to partner with downtown restaurants to offer our festival goers an opportunity to savour some of EARL AND ANGELO’S Participating in Quintelicious, the best food that the Belleville area has to offer! prix fixe menu available. Several local restaurants are offering prix fixe 182 Front St., Belleville menus as part of Quintelicious, so be sure to call 613-962-1182 and reserve early at these popular downtown spots for Saturday night before the feature film, CHILANGOS Freightened: The Real Price of Shipping showing Participating in Quintelicious, at The Empire Theatre at 8 pm. prix fixe menu available. 394 Front St., Belleville 613-771-9292

Show your CAFÉ E Offering regular menu. DocFest 357 Front St., Empire Square, Belleville Festival Pass HAV A 613-968-1412 and receive a CAFE NICE ICE BABY ICE CREAM CAFÉ Prix fixe menu available. coffee for only 26 Victoria Ave., Belleville $1.00 613-848-4802 Belleville Public Library Location ONLY during the festival!

32 2017 Downtown DocFest 6th Annual Belleville Downtown DocFest

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