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Our niche is no niche, at the ReelHeART International Last year, our programming notes about production RHIFF ORGANIZERS Film Festival (RHIFF) as we continue to break away values to submitters echoed throughout the filmmaking K. Irenaeus MacKinnon (Founder) from the flurry of narrow themed festivals and return community, as the bar for sound and editing was Shannonn Kelly (Director) to the true spirit of a varied and open film festival. definitely raised on films for our 2006 season. As a Naznine Ali (Office Coordinator) result, the RHIFF committee made the decision to add Katie Bosch (Submissions Clerk) Francesca Nocera (Judges Coordinator) Late in 2005, an interesting thing happened. In the two new awards for RHIFF 2006: Best Sound and Best Francisco Corroy-Moral (Spanish Language Liason) midst of our submission season, we started to see Editing. Blake Daley (Tech Director) changes that held vast importance to the team at Di Gallo (Event Coordinator) RHIFF. Our website traffic was growing rapidly and our RHIFF stands very firm in our commitment to support GG Gianfranco (Marketing Coordinator,) international submissions were increasing on a daily the need for exposure for all levels of independent Shirley Gretts (Office & Sponsorship, Coordinator) basis. filmmakers around the world, where filmmakers can be Kojenwa Moitt (NYC Filmmakers & Sponsorship Coordinator) recognized for their art, rather than their credits. TJ Morray (Office & Sponsorship Assistant, Returning Volunteer) Ray J Nayoan (Sponsorship Assistant, Returning Volunteer) Now, as we launch the 2nd annual RHIFF, we have Rita Rode (Senior Submissions Coordinator) been able to include those numbers in everything we This year that aspect of our mission statement will be Vic Sable (Office & Sponsorship Assistant, Returning Volunteer) talk about these days. Why-because we are excited clear to all journalists and film buffs alike, as you see the Lawrence Shryane (Senior Photographer) and we want to shout it from the rooftops: breadth of filmmakers finding their voice at RHIFF; many International submissions are up over 40% for 2006 entrusting us with world premieres of their films. The And the remaining cast of RHIFF Volunteers! and web site traffic has increased by 170%. HeART and soul of each filmmaker is truly palpable and And the sequestered cast of RHIFF Programmers! up there on the big screen. There’s more that we know this year. We know our RHIFF PRINTING & DESIGN PARTNERS “Programmers Pledge” worked for our filmmakers last If you missed us last year, I urge you to find a place for Marc Cormier at Miquelon Consulting year. Many who won their first award at RHIFF have RHIFF this June in your culture and entertainment (Senior Web Master/Designer, Official RHIFF Program Designer) gone on to win awards at other festivals and have calendar. Show your support for RHIFF, known warmly secured broadcast and distribution deals. as the “upstart film festival” of Toronto. We’re making a CMN Productions (Print Materials, Programs) name for our self, for filmmakers submitting to RHIFF We also know that the quality of the films submitted to and, we're securing a solid foothold in the arts, RHIFF POSTER & TICKET DESIGN RHIFF this year are of a higher caliber because the entertainment and expressive framework of the city. Kit McAllister (Illustrator, Art Design) scoring rounds tell us so, with scores averaging 10% higher than last year across all categories. This makes Thank you for being film enthusiasts with ReelHeART! RHIFF THEATER PARTNER 2006 the awards competition tougher; increases the film Innis Town Hall going audience experience and boosts the filmmaker Shannonn Kelly, Director RHIFF camaraderie of the visiting filmmakers when they ReelHeART International Film Festival [RHIFF] RHIFF EXCLUSIVE VENUE PARTNER 2006 support each other’s screenings. www.reelheartfilmfestival.com Southern Accent Restaurant (Specializing in Cajun, Soul & Creole Food)

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Do you get the feeling that festival programmers PAY BLOC A Show Time 2:00 PM moment of revenge has come. But is she really able to only watch the first 10 minutes or less of your bring it to the deadly end? Lyra Lezama film? Canadian Premiere Inshallah Europa Director’s Choice North American Premiere “We, the RHIFF Programmers, pledge that we Clayton Haskell David Fontseca will watch every minute of every submission SF 00:17:38 SD 00:42:00 sent to the ReelHeART International Film Havana, Cuba/Brooklyn USA Morocco/Barcelona, Spain Festival. We will give each film the attention it deserves. From opening credits to the closing A young woman living in Havana Cuba wins a special Inshallah Europa explains Thank You’s, Location Credits and cruelty to US visa lottery. Based on a true story, Lyra explores her the life of sub-Saharan animals waiver. We will watch your film from inherited culture of post revolution Havana while trying immigrants that try to moment one-moment none...” to understand what the win means to her and those she reach Spain jumping the fence around the autonomous love. First time actress, Anabel Bouza who plays Lyra city of Melilla in the North of Morocco. Those who do Lezama will be immigrating to New York this year... not succeed go back to the camp, where they clean their injuries and get ready for a new attempt. ReelHeART International Film Festival The Letter Writer JUNE 19-24, 2006 Toronto, ON, Canada Canadian Premiere PAY BLOC B SHOW TIME: 4:00 PM Christian Vuissa SF 00:12:00 RHIFF MAIN PROGRAM The Endless Rayce Austria/Utah USA INNIS TOWN HALL, Innis College, Canadian Premiere Founder’s Favorite University of Toronto "The Letter Writer" is Brett Darken 2 Sussex Avenue about habits – the lovely habits some people can have, FD 01:25:00 by capturing the beauty of selfless service and love Nashville, USA RHIFF VENUE PROGRAM when Sam writes a warm and compassionate letter with SOUTHERN ACCENT RESTAURANT the fervor of a true master craftsman… Every two years, the Cajun, Creole & Soul Food

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PAY BLOC B Show Time: 4:00 PM uncle who gives Lucky a tape PAY BLOC D Show Time 9:15 PM From previous section ... of his mother’s last message made just before she died. Le Chase Ten Souls Rising Lucky struggles in his new Canadian Premiere Canadian Premiere environment searching for love Scott Teems & Charlie Shanian Programmers Pick and acceptance, the hardest Programmers Pick Founders Favorite Emily Rosdeitcher lesson for anyone to learn… SF 00:19:58 SF 00:19:15 Los Angeles, USA Brooklyn, USA Last Stop for Paul Canadian Premiere & Founder’s Favorite Shot in the cinematic style Eight New Yorkers and two Sponsored by Toronto Tours of French New Wave Film, French tourists get stuck in an elevator in a New York Neil Mandt Le Chase takes a comic look City. Mayhem ensues when the electricians’ union and FF 01:20:00 at the unlikely romance the mechanics’ union reach an impasse over who has Los Angeles, USA between Hero, an ordinary authority to fix the elevator, the passengers take matters man trying to bring beauty into their own hands… 30-somethings, Cliff and Charlie to the world, and Francie, a work together selling bathroom street tough trapped in a Return to Florence Canadian Premiere supplies. Charlie, the seasoned life of vandalism and petty Director’s Choice traveler, has been to over 50 thievery. With the help of a Nick Brandestini countries. Cliff dreams of travel, kindly French whore and an extreme make over, Hero LD 00:50:00 but, always find an excuse not to go. Things change is able to face his fears and convince Francie’s band of Italy/Zurich, Switzerland when Cliff gets a phone call informing him that his hoods, “Les Punks,” to give up their hooliganism and childhood friend Paul has suddenly died. At the funeral, allow Francie to unlock the heart that beats beneath "Return to Florence" takes a Cliff learns his friend Paul had been planning a trip her bad-girl shell. humorous look at Anglo- around the world. Cliff takes Charlie up on his offer to American art students in travel and, with Paul’s ashes in tow; all three embark Photomateurs romantic Florence, Italy. In an intimate school setting, on a trip of a lifetime. Canadian Premiere they learn the painting techniques of the Renaissance Programmers Pick period, while being isolated from modern influences. The High Infidelity Pascal Tosi documentary compares the students' expectations with World Premiere SF 00:18:48 what they actually experience, exploring as well, their David Hansen Paris, France love affairs and conflicts. SD 00:10:00 Melbourne, Australia PAY BLOC C Show Time 7:00 PM If you thought the ‘talking pictures’ from Harry Potter High Infidelity is a precise, distinct and conclusive short was inventive, you’ve yet to see Photomateurs. Set in Lucky documentary where the filmmaker examines his own 1952, an odd twist of a tale that’s part “The Secret Life Canadian Premiere ideas about sex and love. Hansen ventures into the Of Walter Mitty” with hints of “The Projectionist”. Hen- Avie Luthra world of swingers; where sexual partners are pecked and underappreciated Marcel daydreams of a SF 00:20:00 interchangeable and have nothing to hide in a world much different life, which inadvertently begins to S. Africa, London, United Kingdom where polygamy reins supreme and its lonesome happen every time he takes a picture with his very counterpart, monogamy is taboo. new, very strange camera… Upon the death of his mother, Lucky is forced to move from rural Zululand to Durban to live with his 4 TUESDAY JUNE 20, 2006 PAY BLOC D Show Time 9:15 PM Solutions Missing Pages (Amended Version) From previous section ... World Premiere Director’s Choice Programmers Pick Canadian Premiere Fudge 44 Kim Wai Yuen Jerome Olivier Canadian Premiere SF 00:13:33 AN 00:24:02 Programmers Pick Hong Kong, China Tokyo, Japan Graham Jones EXP 01:10:50 Yi Dan, a lonely woman finds that life is nothing but Kiyoshi Tanokura Dublin, Ireland boredom and emotional pain. She invents a little [played by the game; sending postcards that publicize ‘crimes of commanding Hasegawa Hatsunori], is the head In this Roswell New Mexico-type backwards spoof, the the heart’ committed by uncaring men she’s never engineer of a large research firm. After developing mockumentary, Fudge 44 recounts a series of events, met. Yan Song, works as a washroom attendant who a time machine, Tanokura learns how his invention which occurred in Tokyo last spring when hundreds of accidentally discovers a game of his own, stabbing is twisted to serve the purposes of an elite few. Japanese people claiming to have bizarre encounters women’s buttocks. The director says his film's "mark Along with a group of rebels, Tanokura must find a with eccentric, three-foot tall creatures. Many now your target-stamping-game" was inspired by the way to save himself and humanity from absolute believe they were puppets from an old children's Animal Channel... tyranny. Missing Pages (Amended Version) is an puppet theatre threatened with closure, pulling off a animation created entirely with still photos heist in a last ditch attempt to save their beloved Night Out manipulated in an original, award winning home. World Premiere technique dubbed Fotomation, a truly unique visual Wei Chen experience. PAY BLOC E Show Time 11:30 PM SF 00:20:00 Taipei, Taiwan Divide Know Your Nothing #2 Canadian Premiere Canadian Premiere Night Out focuses on Programmers Pick Ted Lee the myth behind the Masato Tsujioka MV 00:01:17 Ku-Nian Temple “A LF 01:00:00 Amherst, MA/USA holy land for no man” for girls who die young and Tokyo, Japan whose spirits contact young male travelers, while This is an extremely fast, extremely FUN, villagers pray for their souls. One traveler falls in “Youth is not inability, it’s a condition”. Divide, by nerdy, kooky, weird, music video from Ted love with a ghost and tries to create a dialogue popular Japanese actor, Masato Tsujioka, is the Lee. Just remember to know your nothing. between the real and illusion, hunting for story of unknowingly separated sisters; Saki an So, enjoy.... "touchable" reality. over-achieving high school senior and Yuki, the leader of a "girls for sex and crime gang" in Tokyo. Both girls are forced to mature through circumstances of their very different lives. Both share the experience of heartache and pain such as the death of a parent and the unwitting search to connect the bonds of sisterhood.

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PAY BLOC B Show Time: 4:00 PM Jonathan Yudis, who says: 'I want to make a movie.' Brothers McMullen) directs this cautionary tale of From previous section ... Sometimes the deepest and most beautiful Truths racial prejudice and personal redemption… are revealed in the most unexpected places (and in Awakening this case under two minutes). PAY BLOC C Show Time 7:00 PM World Premiere Joel Weber The Snowman Global, Inc. LF 00:47:40 Katarzyna Kochany Canadian Premiere Afghanistan/Santa Barbara SF 00:08:00 Rich Newey USA Mississauga, Canada SF 00:32:03 Venice, USA In Bihar, India’s poorest state, Sister Mary Lobo organizes A sweet story about women’s groups who learn to save small sums and invest finding joy when we'd What if the world were as a group. A new ideology is spreading that far rather not. A crusty old man’s heart is melted by a a corporation and transcends rural women’s traditional roles. In Afghanistan, chance encounter with a little girl. everyone who worked there each represented a Awakening reveals the lives of Afghan women few country? When the destruction of a prized trophy in Westerners have seen. They talk openly about life under Gone Postal the boss' office mimics thoughts of the Twin Towers the Taliban and their current initiatives for economic Canadian Premiere and being fired is likened to war...the result will development and rights specifically geared to the Lisa Sanow anger many, while others simply nod their head in country’s women. SF 00:19:20 agreement. No matter what your politics, you Los Angeles, USA cannot deny the controversy inside 'Global, Inc.' Are Anamnesis you ready for the revolution? Brendon Foster-Algoo When a 60ish widow EXP 00:09:55 played by Lee Meriwether (“Catwoman” on TV’s You Did What? 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11 FRIDAY JUNE 23, 2006 PAY BLOC A Show Time 2:00 PM never been taught the skills of independent living, it was PAY BLOC C Show Time 7:00 PM expected his younger, married sister to move in and Hog Island take over their role as caretaker Her husband threatens SON Canadian Premiere divorce if she becomes her brother’s caretaker, thus Canadian Premiere Programmers Pick setting up a battle between the husband, his wife and Tom Clyde her brother Wally... Directors Choice FF 02:00:00 Glynn Beard Berkeley, USA Spirit Of Tsunami Lunch n' Learn Spotlight Anne Burke, Chris Bell Sat June 24 Wearing only her robe Canadian Premiere SF 00:27:00 and slippers, a woman named Katherine drives north, Lunch n' Learn Spotlight Ventura, USA leaving behind her comfortable life in San Francisco. Sat June 24 She rents a house on Tomales Bay where she SD 00:37:36 A dying “been there, done that”, father, videotapes himself eventually befriends two drifters: Jake and Rich. As Denver, USA Jake and Rich vie for the affections of the mysterious giving his own unique brand of ‘fatherly advice’ to his son. Katherine, their rivalry grows tense and lies and hidden For weeks after the pasts erupt into a violent encounter... devastating tsunami in Southeast Asia in December of Tysta rop (Hidden 2004, news outlets around the world reported on death Despair) PAY BLOC B Show Time: 4:00 PM and destruction. 'Spirit of Tsunami' takes the viewer Directors Choice beyond the initial disaster coverage and reveals the road Canadian Premiere CREDO to recovery. This documentary profiles survivors in India Canadian Premiere and Sri Lanka and a group of Jesuit priests who work Jan-Eje Ferling Programmers Pick with the more marginalized people in these two SF 00:29:43 Keith Snyder countries. Stockholm, Sweden EXP 00:09:00 Rego Park NY USA Time & Tide The first of two terrifically complex films by Swedish writer, actor, Canadian Premiere director Jan-Eje Ferling. The story of Tysta rop tries to untangle a CREDO is a 9-minute Programmers Pick original screen musical in which God, realizing 'Thou Julie Bayer, Josh Salzman very complicated knot of love and acceptance as a young wife shalt not kill' has never worked, takes responsibility for LD 01:00:00 suspects her husband is being unfaithful. She consults her setting a bad example and withdraws all endorsement Venice, USA mother-in-law who denies every suspicion, only to eventually find of murder. CREDO blends opera, cinema, humor, and out that her husband is seeing someone: an older man… verse in a response to those who use religion to justify Time & Tide is a poetic and absorbing documentary violence. Amen...for the incredible wit and voice of about a land and its people as they head toward Little Auteur Larry Picard... irreversible tragedy. The story is told through the eyes of a group of expatriates from the island nation of World Premiere WALLY Tuvalu. When they return to their home island after Darren Heroux Canadian Premiere being away for many years, they find a place vastly SD 00:34:11 Programmers Pick different from the one they remember- the forces of Vancouver, Canada Bob Fink globalization and global warming are severely reshaping FD 01:17:00 the land and people they once knew so well. Everett, WA USA Darren Heroux always dreamed of being an 'auteur' -- a director of distinction. But faced with rejection from film schools, he opted Wally is a cinema verité for a different path to fame. He enlists his daughter Sophie and style documentary, which embarks on a three year endeavour to teach her the art of follows a family crisis when the parents of a 56 year-old filmmaking. The result of Sophie’s movie will surprise you… profoundly disabled man die in rapid succession without making any plans for his future care. As Wally has 12 FRIDAY JUNE 23, 2006 PAY BLOC C Show Time 7:00 PM The Faith of Joey Rail “zombastic” proportions. Heads fly, breasts heave and From previous section ... Matt Robertson love is in the polluted green air. Canadian Premiere Final Curtain Call SF 00:07:08 Netherworld World Premiere Austin, USA Canadian Premiere Founders Favorite Programmers Pick Jan-Eje Ferling On a whimsical Sunday afternoon, Greg Connors LF 00:45:20 Noel Howard lures Joey Rail out of EXP 00:15:20 Stockholm, Sweden church and into the backwoods of Mermaid Waters, QLD East Texas to take a closer look at the big picture. Australia Final Curtain Call gives a close and uncomfortable portrait of the characters and the claustrophobic feeling of an old After sacking a small Latvian village for worshipping a handicapped actress and her symbiotic relation to her son, Nearer My God To Thee Golgotha demon all Gabriel wanted to do was to also an actor, on the fall of their careers. This film has Programmers Pick unwind with a warm mug of goat’s milk. Fate humor and tragedy but made with great love and care for World Premiere however, can ruin any evening. God has bet against the characters. The screenplay is based on the book "Edit" Marc Israel his finest angel in the next boxing match and the by Swedish film actor, director, writer Jan-Eje Ferling. FD 01:26:11 stakes are high, the fifth millennium high. Will Gabriel Northampton, MA USA throw the fight to save the fifth millennium and stay PAY BLOC D Show Time 9:15 PM in God’s good graces? See you at fight night.

In Religioso Disagio (Disturbing Religion) Suffering from ongoing mental troubles, heartbreak, The End of The North American Premiere and severe tendonitis, filmmaker Marc Israel embarks Beginning Programmers Pick on a desperate journey to Brazil to seek out famed Sabu Quinn Massimiliano Maci healer & psychic surgeon John of God. Here Israel World Premiere Verdesca encounters not only this controversial "Miracle Man" FF 01:35:37 SF 00:18:00 but, unavoidably, his own Self. Nearer My God To New York, USA Milan, Italy Thee emerges as a deeply personal yet surprisingly humorous process in which the very act of filmmaking Geoff Wyman is almost 30. An age where he should Marcello, a heavy metal guitarist, is chosen by God to is perhaps the best medicine. grow up and get a real job, because working at The take the signs of his sorrow: Stigmata. This event will Chicken Shack won’t cut it forever. Freshly dumped totally change the balance in Marcello’s life, who finds PAY BLOC E Show Time 11:30 PM by his girlfriend, he moves out to a boring life in a himself completely lonely as he makes his efforts to bachelor pad. That is, until he finally hooks up his achieve worthiness to accept the role God gave him. Confederate Zombie phone and it rings. But that first call is for Annie Massacre! Danilov. As Geoff is bombarded with calls for Annie, Devi Snively his imagination begins to wander, as callers seem so Canadian Premiere desperate to find her… SF 00:15:52 Mishawaka, IN USA

It's love and gore in the Civil War. The very true story of a fictitious battle during the Civil War in which the use of chemical weapons results in mayhem of 13 SATURDAY JUNE 24, 2006 PAY BLOC A Show Time 2:00 PM Invisible Jazz Funeral for Democracy Canadian Premiere Canadian Premiere After Roberto Konstantin Bojanov Giveaways Provided By Jazz FM 91 Canadian Premiere FD 01:30:00 Luke Fontana Programmers Pick Bulgaria/Brooklyn USA SD 00:43:58 Louis Fusco, Marc Fusco Metairie, LA USA Lunch n' Learn Spotlight After the crumbling of Sat June 24 the Soviet empire, heroin Jazz Funeral for Democracy: A Wake FF 01:58:00 flooded the streets of for Peace took place January 20, Pound Ridge, NY USA many cities behind the former Iron Curtain. It offered 2005 in New Orleans, Louisiana. an alternative lifestyle largely unknown until then. In Thousands of concerned citizens, war A Mystery? A Fantasy? A love story? This psychological the late 1990s heroin addiction in Eastern Europe had veterans and persons of peace from drama takes you on a journey through undiscovered reached epidemic proportions. 'Invisible' takes place in all walks of life joined hands, locales as Roberto, a displaced New Yorker living in Sofia, Bulgaria and follows a group of six young people protesting the inauguration of George Genoa, northern Italy, finds himself the subject of a on a three-year journey through the highs and lows, W. Bush. This documentary records a traditional New mysterious stalker. Travel with Roberto through the dreams and tribulations of life with heroin addiction. Orleans Jazz Funeral, mourning the death of America… transient streets of Genoa's historic port, complete with shady characters, suspense, intrigue and disillusionment. PAY BLOC C Show Time 7:00 PM Mississippi Forgotten Who is 'After Roberto'…? Canadian Premiere The Cole Nobody Sponsored by Southern PAY BLOC B Show Time: 4:00 PM Knows Accent Restaurant Canadian Premiere Timothy Burdick The Wolves' Alphabet Giveaways Provided By SD 00:15:03 Programmers Pick Jazz FM 91 Ventura, USA Canadian Premiere Clay Walker Arnaud Kühlein SD 00:21:00 Mississippi Forgotten is a FF 01:35:45 Atlanta, USA moody and awakening piece dealing with the issues and Haute-Garonne, France emotions that Mississippi Gulf Coast residents are still Musician Freddy Cole often refers to himself as “The Cole struggling with many months after Hurricane Katrina, A young hitchhiker named Dante is dropped off in a Nobody Knows” because he is the somewhat unknown which finally gives the citizens of Mississippi a chance to small village, lost in the middle of the desert. As younger brother of legendary pianist-vocalist Nat 'King' speak their concerns and needs that many will never get Dante’s journey unwinds, a handful of villagers from a Cole and uncle of renowned singer Natalie Cole. Cole’s to express. “We still haven’t seen FEMA” and “All we heard desert town decide to push a young wanderer to his vocals - suave, elegant, formidable and articulate - are on the news was New Orleans, New Orleans, New limits to make his mind grow stronger. But their plan is among the most respected in jazz. Even though he has Orleans…” these are the voices that have been ignored very disorganized and the game of strength spins out been nominated for a Grammy Award and a recording and forgotten until now. of control when the wanderer's wolf gets killed. Slowly, artist for more than fifty years, Cole has yet to be the desert makes new rules for everyone. accepted into the mainstream public’s consciousness. Featuring never-before-seen performance material…

14 SATURDAY JUNE 24, 2006 PAY BLOC C Show Time 7:00 PM Ten 'til Noon EXIT From previous section ... Canadian Premiere Canadian Premiere Official Closing Film RHIFF 2006 Glynn Beard The Healing Gardens Scott Storm Lunch n' Learn Spotlight of New York Lunch n' Learn Spotlight Sat June 24 Canadian Premiere Sat June 24 SF 00:19:15 Sponsored by Raindrops FF 01:27:40 Ventura, USA Programmers Pick USA Alexandra Isles Jim, played by (the “Nicolas Cage LD 00:54:00 In this very strongly crafted and School Of Acting” newest poster New York, USA efficient suspense filled thriller, boy, Ethan Wilcox), is an ambitious middle manager in Larry Taylor wakes to find two a growing but dubious corporation who is given an In a city dominated by steel, glass, jackhammers and complete strangers in his bedroom and he is told that aggressive time-lined project. Corporate has given a cranes, the importance of green spaces as a source of in the next ten minutes, everything in his world will mandate that all of the middle managers must re-do stability and emotional well-being is generally overlooked. drastically change… and it does! their fiscal budgets to reflect a 24 month model after The Healing Gardens of New York is about lives and completing the work on a 12 month model with very communities that have been transformed by gardens PAY BLOC E Show Time 11:30 PM little lead time for a very important shareholders created in response to crime, neglect, poverty and meeting. Eventually, Jim snaps under the pressure recidivism ranging from gardens in Times Square, to Fly with horrifying results… Rikers Island to Harlem and more. Canadian Premiere Ben Weeks Four Weeks, Four Hours PAY BLOC D Show Time 9:15 PM SF 00:12:33 Programmers Pick Evaston, IL USA Canadian Premiere STOP Sponsored by You-Topia Canadian Premiere Ben Weeks is a 21 year-old Alexis Hurkman Richard Chassler Northwestern University film FF 01:21:00 SF 00:34:45 student, who submitted his Venice, USA Los Angeles, USA film, while looking for a place to live. His next stop might be Two women are stranded in Daniel Martin gets LA, because he has made a the desert on opposite ends of the earth. A pulled over for running a stop sign. When the very funny comedy about photographer gets lost when her plane crashes in a policeman takes his license he realizes that Daniel was Louie, played by Nick Kanellis war-torn middle-eastern country. Halfway around the the bully from elementary school through high school who has great difficulty making a good first impression world, a Malibu socialite finds herself abandoned in the that terrorized him. A suspenseful psycho-thriller with with women. Much of this is a product of Louie's own American southwest when her car breaks down on a a twist of an ending that will keep you on the edge of insecurities and odd idiosyncrasies: namely, his deserted stretch of road. Their stories are woven your seat! Look for George Clooney's favorite funny crippling habit of constantly checking that his fly is together as they struggle to survive the unforgiving guy and BFF - Spint City’s Richard Kind. zipped up... landscape, one in four weeks, the other in four hours...

15 Venue Programming SOUTHERN ACCENT, 595 Markham Street Monday, June 19, 7:30 PM share their harrowing experiences of violence YOU BE THE SKY... perpetrated upon them by their partners. Programmers Pick Danielson: A Family Movie LAVLIN THADANI, LD 00:54:20, New Delhi, India Official Venue Opener By The Wayside JL Aronson, FD/MR 01:45:00, Brooklyn, USA Director’s Choice The desire to empower human mind with positive Soozie Eastman, LD 00:57:37, Los Angeles, USA thinking motivated Dr. Kiran Bedi, to try to reform the 'Danielson: a Family Movie' is a documentary about criminal mind of the diehard criminals by way of unbridled creativity vs. accessibility, Christian faith vs. Every night in America, 600,000 men, women and Vipassana meditation. popular culture, underground music vs. survival, and children go to sleep homeless. Every one has hope in family vs. individuality. their fight for a better life. Follow their stories as they Wednesday, June 21, 7:30 PM struggle to rebuild lives ... Riverside Elephant Cemetery Director’s Choice Pillow Girl World Premiere & Programmers Pick Todd Tinkham, SF 00:11:40, Chapel Hill, NC USA Programmers Pick Mehran Vaziri, FD 01:23:00, Iran/ Wayne, NJ USA Ronnie Cramer, 00:08:00, Denver, USA On a warm summer day, while having fun with her A young Iranian film student arrives in the U.S. with the friends, one young woman finds out what it means to Pillow Girl was originally a sound-art work created for the dream of becoming a movie director. Life then takes a have her life flash before her. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. The film makes sudden detour when he falls in love and marries a Jewish use of 150 covers, with one morphing into the next. American girl. In Memory Of Me Samantha Lavin, SF 00:24:27, Los Angeles, USA Post No Bills (1992) Invite (non-competition) Banou Hoshech Legaresh Clay Walker, LF 00:57:00, Atlanta, USA Canadian Premiere After eight years, a young successful lawyer reluctantly Ziva Postec, FD 01:30:00, Jaffa, Israel goes back to her small hometown for her best friend’s Political heavy-weights from the 90’s such as Daryl wedding and the memories of a love affair she had with Gates, Ronald Reagan and Oliver North populate this An experimental workshop of educators from different another girl during high school start to resurface. urgent and humorous documentary on the detonative ethnic groups in Israel gathers in order to write a 'different' mix of art and politics as embodied in the work of educational book on common citizenship for all Mending Spirits infamous "guerilla" poster artist Robbie Conal. communities without ethnic, religious, and communal Programmers Pick differences. Monica Plunkett, LD 00:58:16, Cleveland Heights, USA Plip & Plop Christiane Doering, 00:06:10, Weissenhorn, Germany Variatzyot al noseh: Liiyot Israelite Featuring LEA An often-neglected aspect of domestic violence, this Canadian Premiere & Founder’s Favorite documentary is an artistic presentation of healing that Two drops jump out of running water and take a girl on Ziva Postec, FD 01:02:00, Jaffa, Israel conveys both pain and celebration, featuring three importance of water conservation. northeast Ohio women. A saga about Israeli society from five feminine points of The Unbroken Circle view: We focus on Lea, a settler born in Israel. The film Tuesday, June 20, 7:30 PM John C. Ludwig, SF 00:27:57, Irvine, USA examines the meaning of identity in a land of immigrants like Israel. Welcome to My World The Unbroken Circle tells the “true to life” story of an Jiri Bakala, SD 00:28:13, Kelowna, BC, Canada Israeli family and a Palestinian family in Israel. Their young sons, hospitalized from injuries in the ongoing Director Jiri Bakala mixes a combination of powerful Israeli Palestinian conflict, are the catalyst for an interviews from a group of brave women, who unexpected bond. 16 Venue Programming SOUTHERN ACCENT, 595 Markham Street Thursday, June 22, 7:30 PM With non-stop fighting since 1949, it’s the longest Saturday, June 24, 7:30 PM ongoing conflict in the world today. Zoltan Istvan, a Mary's Garden regular contributor to the National Geographic Channel, The World's Greatest Fair World Premiere is traveling alone in the region, trying to capture the Sponsored by Kernels Popcorn Programmers Pick story of the 12 million Kashmiris who forge their lives in Bob Miano Canadian Premier, FD 01:59:00, St. Louis, Sam Hampton, SD 00:28:00, Alexandria, VA USA this land. USA

In the summer of 2005, filmmakers Sam Hampton and Friday, June 23, 7:30 PM Some might remember the song by Judy Garland, “Meet Sumit Ghose spent some time with glassblowers Paul Me In St. Louie, Louie”. This feature-length documentary, Willsea and Carol O'Brien. PLEASE KILL MR KINSKI Invite (non-competition) co-directed by first-time documentary filmmakers, Bob David Schmoeller, SF 00:09:00, Las Vegas, USA Miano and Scott Huegerich is about the 1904 St. Louis Vanishing Cultures: Bushmen of the Kalahari World’s Fair. World Premiere, Programmers Pick Filmmaker David Schmoeller gives an amusing, first Paula Ely, LD 00:55:00, Sherman Oaks, USA hand account of what it was like directing enfant terrible BIG ENOUGH Klaus Kinski in a movie shot in Rome, Italy. Director’s Choice The San people, are believed to be the earliest Canadian Premiere inhabitants of southern Africa. They have lived for 80,000 The Absolute Truth About Pro Wrestling Jan Krawitz, FD 00:53:00, Stanford, USA years as hunter-gatherers, and are well known for their Canadian Premiere expert survival skills in a harsh environment. Mark Ezovski, FD 02:00:00, Brooklyn, USA In this intimate portrait, several dwarfs who appeared in Jan Krawitz and Thomas Ott's 1982 film “Little People” How Come You Walk Funny? For six years, Mark Ezovski followed three individuals to welcome the camera back into their lives once again. Programmers Pick explore the strange, fascinating and secretive world of Through a prism of "then and now," the characters Tina Hahn, FD 01:19:12, Toronto, Canada professional wrestling. confront physical, emotional and lifestyle challenges with humor, grace, and often, frustration. This documentary takes us inside a unique experiment in HERO TO ME early childhood education, following nine physically Canadian Premiere Arborian challenged kids as they are joined by twelve able-bodied SCOTT HALFORD, SF 00:20:00, Farmington, UT USA Andre Kocsis, SF 00:12:40, Willowdale, Canada kids who come to live and learn on their ‘turf’. RyanPearce is an athletic karate instructor who one night The marketing company that employs Bruce (played by Children of Fate happens upon a girl who’s being assaulted. Ryan Damien Atkins) decides to launch a new religion rooted Nastasha Baron, SF 00:11:38, Richmond Hill, Ontario intervenes and is brutally beaten by the gang of punks in convenience and targeted toward the stupidity of its and winds up in a wheel chair – or does he? followers. After the Soviet Army enters Hungary in the dead of winter 1945, and destroys most of Budapest, Anna, her Irritation: A Radio Saga SUCCESS Canadian Premiere critically injured husband and their two children find Canadian Premiere Glynn Beard, Lunch n’ Learn Spotlight, Sat June 24 refuge in a barn with a kind country family. Sam Baharvar, SF 00:36:28, New York, USA SF 00:27:00, Ventura, USA

Pawns of Paradise: Inside the Brutal Kashmir Sam Baharvar, has a second career as a filmmaker and The 3rd film in RHIFF 2006 is actually the 1st film from Conflict brings us the in-your-face documentary on Dead Air the “Oceans Of Storms” series by from writer, director World Premier Dave, irritated New York radio personality and in-house actor Glynn Beard. Follow lead actor Ethan Wilcox [Exit] Programmers Pick censor at the Howard Stern show. on an uncertain and confusing job interview that asks the Zoltan Istvan, LD 00:54:30, Brookings, OR USA one simple question, no other candidate wants to answer: “At what price, success…?” 17 RHIFF Judges

Carl Liberman began his Carol Mark, Director of ACA written work has appeared in publications such as career as an actor, mainly for gallery (www.acagallery.com) Fireweed, Contemporary Verse, She Speaks, and the radio and television at the age of has been involved in the arts African Canadian theatre review. d’bi.young’s first book of 11. An Honours graduate of York promoting visual and poetry, “Art on Black”, was just published this year. Her University’s Fine Arts Programme performance art. Images are an latest appointment is a two-year residency at the in theatre, Carl was the founder important part of our psyche and SoulPepper theatre academy. We welcome d’bi back for of the literary department at the is a universal language crossing her 2nd year as a RHIFF celebrity judge. Characters Talent Agency [CTA], all borders in promoting the the largest in Canada with billings interconnectedness of us all. ACA Gallery was founded in June over $20 million dollars Murtz Jaffer started his career nationwide. In addition to screenwriters, Carl also 2004 by Carol to create an incubator for art and at the age of 17 when he e-mailed represents top directors, producers, a-list social change. She is involved in humanitarian the Sports Network everyday for a cinematographers and internationally renowned grassroots projects locally and globally and has seen year to land his first writing gig. His production designers and film editors. first hand how “love in action” can change lives for tenacity was rewarded when he was the better. From establishing a medical clinic in given the opportunity to write for “We’re open for business and were very merit driven. Afghanistan, to performing medical aid in the TSN’s wrestling section on line. In other words, if something is good, and presses all Yucatan, and helping build communities in Pine Soon after, Murtz started his own the right buttons we’ll sell it, no matter who wrote it. Ridge Indian Reservation. Carol believes that art in website, survivor-central.com, [You don’t have to have a “name attached to it”]”, say any genre has the ability to shape attitudes and dedicated to the popular reality Carl. This business is all about relationships and in my promote change. television program. He also managed to recruit many humble opinion we have the best!” We welcome Carl former contestants to write for the site, making his mark back for his 2nd year as a RHIFF celebrity judge. by predicting or publishing a “spoiler” for before the next d’bi.young a Jamaican- episode aired. Canadian dub poet, actor, and An entertainment writer for Entertainment Tonight Bee Sack is the flautist for playwright has performed Canada and the Toronto Sun; interviewing everyone from Canada's only all-female klezmer throughout Canada, the Vernon Wells to Donald Trump; Murtz expanded survivor- band, the Pomegranate Squad. A Caribbean, Latin America and central, and is currently co-owner, TV/Movie editor and community activist as well as a Europe in numerous productions Chief Content Officer of insidepulse.com, an musician, Bee says she always including hit musical drama “da entertainment website that receives millions of hits per has a sci-fi film or two playing in Kink in My Hair”, and Canada’s day. her head and enjoys a good story first Afro-Canadian sitcom Lord woven into thoughtful visuals. Have Mercy”. She’s produced Murtz, a graduate from the University of Toronto with an The dark circles under her four dub poetry albums and is honors bachelor of arts degree in political science and bloodshot eyes reflect her currently working on her fifth, entitled “Ky.Ky” (a English, enjoys movies with a dramatic flair and considers dedication to late night videos. She likes to keep her Cuban-Canadian musical collaboration) launching in himself to be a “Toronteeno”, a Tornto-based Quentin hands busy and can be found drawing, planting seeds June at “Buddies in Bad Times” theatre. Her next Tarantino admirer. and pruning shrubs in graveyards. She has organized publication is an English-Spanish edition of the first community film festivals and is currently developing a play in her “Three Faces of Mudgu” trilogy entitled short film about a queer pro-Palestinian klezmer band. “Blood.Claat”; set for launch August 2006. Her 18 RHIFF Judges

John Pungente SJ, has artists and DJ’s, providing and Trinity Square Video, was a FADO board member, venues and forums for their worked in media education for collaborated with groups such as Tops'n'Bottoms, Just musical expression. More over 40 years. He has co- Like the Movies and Instant Coffee, and has been importantly, she has authored Media Literacy: A featured in eye Weekly, Toronto Star, and the dearly managed to add an air of Resource Guide (1989), Meet the missed Lola Magazine. consciousness and political Media (1990), More than Meets awareness to many of those the Eye: Watching TV Watching events, and this awareness is Us (1999) and Finding God in the the most distinctive factor of Safiya Randera is an award-winning filmmaker and Dark: The Spiritual Exercises of her music. experienced editor who has enjoyed international acclaim for St. Ignatius Go To The Movies films that have been featured in New York, Paris, Berlin, (2004). He has contributed to She grew up singing and dancing traditional Bengali Italy and Toronto. She was awarded Best Experimental international journals and books on media education. folk music and dance in the Bangladeshi community Short, Audience Choice Award for best short film and He has degrees in English, Film, and Theology as well where politics and art went hand in hand. Ropsina Directorial Innovation (Italy). Her films are experimental as two honorary doctorates for his work in media moved to Toronto when she was 19 to attend documentaries tempered with sensitivity and insight. education. university and while working part-time at a record Layering images and sound, creating texture in the canvas store, she discovered the courage to pursue music. of moving light. Randera is a first generation South Asian- John is creator and host of the award-winning Bravo! Her latest projects include programming music and Canadian whose extensive volunteering experience both at television show - Scanning The Movies and producer of co-producing the CD compilation for Masala! Mehndi! home and abroad ensures that her work reflects a deep the award winning video A Heart To Understand, and Masti! and for theatre Passe Muraille’s “Stage 3 understanding of cultural and global issues. She currently the 1996 award winning teaching resource, Scanning music series: Word. Sound. Power’. lives and works in Toronto. Television and Scanning Television 2 (2003) – both of which have received a number of awards.

Since 1985 he has given over 500 presentations across Chandra Bulucon is Canada and Australia, in Europe, Great Britain, the USA LUNCH N LEARN the sole proprietor of seven- and Japan. He serves as a consultant to media year-running audio professionals including CHUM Television and Warner Tuesday June 20. VideoFact! "The Making Of..." Music production company Puppy Bros. Canada. Video Funding : Paul Gagnon, Cherie Sinclair, John Nadlin, Machine Productions, an Ken Clarke interdisciplinary artist, and Currently John is president of the Canadian Association Wednesday June 21.TIPS:Toronto Indie Production touts the official financial of Media Education Organizations (CAMEO) and Director Programme Inside ACTRA : Tasso Lakas advisor badge. A recent of the Jesuit Communication Project in Toronto where Thursday June 22. Convergence & Creative Thinking for recipient of the Untitled Art he continues to promote media education. Film & TV: Howard Rosen. Awards, she has been Friday June 23. Documentaries, Lifestyle Series and Tools showing her work for over ten years in such places Of The Trade: Barbara Barde, Muriel Rosilio as the AGO, YYZ Artists' Outlet, and the Saidye Rosina Kazi is one of the primary foot soldiers in Saturday June 24. “I Made This”, 2006 Filmmakers Talk Bronfman Centre for the Arts, as well as helped About Their Films ...: Glynn Beard, Louis Fusco, David Toronto’s underground electronic music scene. Rosina is many families with their crucial financial needs. Finley, Scott Storm, Paul Osborne, Katherine Lee, Robin the lead singer of the band Lal and has been Chandra has sat on many art and film committees Lindsey, Marco Aquilar, Cheyenne Quintanar, Anne Burke & instrumental in the growth of many of the city’s female such as the Inside Out Gay + Lesbian Film Festival Chris Bell 20 ReelHeART International Film Festival

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