HAMILTON FILM FESTIVAL
NOVEMBER 4 - 12, 2017
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL : The 12th annual Hamilton Film Festival screens a juried selection of local & international independent films. We have hosted filmmakers travelling to our event from Australia, Austria, Cyprus, France, Germany, Italy, US and all across Canada. We connect filmmakers and give them another voice. We celebrate the art of movie making from concept to completion. From the budding filmmaker to the pro, we are always working to move the film industry in Hamilton...a little further each year. ~Nathan Fleet, Festival Director 2017 BOX OFFICE Box office opens 1/2 hour before each screening during the week of the festival Nov 4- 12th. We hold 20 tickets at the box office for walk-up sales. Sorry, no reservations! The box office is inside the Stair-case Theatre at 27 Dundurn Street North. You can also purchase tickets at the venues 1/2 hour before each screening. Tickets will be available online throughout the festival at HamiltonFilmFestival.com. SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 4 7:00pm Gala + Concert Z SUNDAY NOVEMBER 5 10:00am Workshop / Pineville Heist SC MONDAY NOVEMBER 6 6:00pm Gala SC 8:00pm When They Awake SC 8:00pm Memories of Summer EMT 9:30pm Imperfect EMT TUESDAY NOVEMBER 7 7:00pm Cana-Doc Shorts SC 7:00pm Exorcism of the Dead CS 7:30pm Kupal EMT 9:00pm Music Films SC 9:00pm Experimental Shorts EMT 9:00pm Short Trip CS WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 8 7:00pm Ontario Shorts CS 7:00pm Emerging Shorts SC 7:30pm Di Journey EMT 9:00pm Animated Shorts SC 9:00pm Canadian Shorts CS 9:30pm Tempus Tormentum EMT THURSDAY NOVEMBER 9 6:00pm Family Films RT 7:00pm Silent Film w/ Live Score by Robert Bruce SC 7:00pm Canadian Shorts - Encore CS 7:30pm Short Mix EMT 9:00pm Jamland / Et Tu, Dude SC 9:00pm Fun Little Shorts EMT FRIDAY NOVEMBER 10 10:00am Canadian Film Market SH 6:00pm Factory Media Centre AGM + Members FM 7:00pm That Never Happened Z 7:00pm 3 Dead Trick or Treaters SC 7:30pm LIVE in Kingston EMT 9:00pm Thriller Shorts SC 9:30pm I go Back Home Jimmy Scott EMT 9:30pm Canadian Comedy Shorts Z midnight Midnight, Eh! Canadian Madness SC SATURDAY NOVEMBER 11 10:00am Canadian Film Market SH 3:00pm Clearing the Way SC 7:00pm Scream For Me Sarajevo + Prismind Z 7:00pm Drama Shorts 1 SC 7:30pm Waking the Sleeping Giant EMT 9:00pm Drama Shorts 2 SC 9:30pm All The Wild Horses EMT SUNDAY NOVEMBER 13 10:00am Canadian Film Market SH 10:00am Kids Can Film / Zoetic Z 1:30pm Rust and Bone + Author Craig Davidson Z 7:00pm Awards SC 8:00pm Pinebox Fast SC 10:00pm The Lone Paddler SC
SC Staircase Theatre 27 Dundurn St N SH Sheraton Hamilton Hotel 116 King St W CS Cinestarz Burlington 460 Brant St, Burl. EMT Elaine May Theatre 25 Dundurn St N Z The Zoetic 526 Concession St FM Factory Media Centre 228 James St N RT Right on Target 1211 Barton St E SATURDAY NOVEMBER 4 GALA + NATHAN FLEET IN CONCERT Z : Doors 7pm/Concert 8pm - $12
OPENING GALA The band will include inspires in a 90-minute Nathan Fleet (Lead Guitar interactive presentation This kicks off the 12th and Vocals) Michael Scott that includes: Annual Hamilton Film (drums), Marty Fleet Festival in a unique way. (Bass), Vince Tarlton • How to break in to the There will be a small block (Rhythm Guitar), MIke film business of short films leading up to Alonzo (Piano) and Kevin • Producing and directing a rock concert performed Tarlton, Norm Quesnel and tips by festival executive Ian Venema all on backing • Balancing the Business director Nathan Fleet as he vocals. with the Art launches the Hamilton Film • Appreciation of the craft Festival to promote his up- • Life on set: War Stories coming CD "Love Hate and Movie Stars City". With music being the SUNDAY theme of the festival, it only seems fitting that it NOVEMBER THE PINEVILLE HEIST starts with music. SC : 10am (Lee Chambers/90min/ Fleet's background is Canada) music. He has been playing guitar for 30 years and has 5 Fourteen year old Aaron played in the rock bands stumbles into the aftermath THE ACTION STARTS AT of a five million dollar bank Slayed Angel, Madman CUT: A HUMOROUS LOOK Symphony and Park Row. heist gone wrong. Hiding After disbanding in 2000, AT THE FILM INDUSTRY under a canoe, Aaron Nathan went on to work in SC : 10am partially catches the murder film and tv creating scores of one of the robbers. In and songs and in 2004, For 12 years Chambers has the chaos he sneaks away running the Hamilton Film been teaching filmmaking with the money and heads Festival. at a practical film school in straight for the closest Thunder Bay, Ontario, place of safety, his high When released, the 12 Canada. He has presented school. Terrified, Aaron tells Song rock album will at events across Canada, his shocking tale to Amanda include plenty of Australia, England and the Becker, his drama teacher, "Hammer". Songs like Love USA. but it doesn't take long for Hate City", Death To Me, one of the psychotic The Staircase and Turn It In stand-up style with robbers to show up. In the On are all 100% Hamilton. heavy doses of humour, locked down school the pair Chambers educates and are relentlessly pursued in a quest to get the money WHEN THEY AWAKE back and wipe out the SC : 8pm - $12 evidence. (P.J. Marcelo/Herman Farahi/Documentary/ The Pineville Heist is based Canada/90m) on the screenplay by Todd Gordon & Lee Chambers. We are inspired by the Script consultants included prescient words of Métis a (former) Senior VP of leader Louis Riel, who Production at Universal bestowed this film with its Pictures and the author of title: 'My people will sleep the Screenwriter's Bible. for 100 years, but when they awake, it will be the artists that give them their spirit back.' Witness the awakening. It's nothing short of a renaissance. Right now, following on the footsteps of trailblazers like Buffy Sainte-Marie and Robbie Robertson, Indigenous musicians in POLISH with English Canada (and elsewhere) Subtitles are carving paths into mainstream consciousness, PAST IMPERFECT and reclaiming their rightful place as key pieces of the EMT : 9:30pm social fabric that composes (Nathalie Teirlinck/ contemporary society. Belgium/110m) When Alice’s ex-boyfriend MEMORIES OF SUMMER dies in a car accident, she’s EMT : 8pm unexpectedly confronted (Adam Guzinski/ with her six-year-old son, Poland/87m) whom she had abandoned - Workshop + Film at birth. His presence not Summer. Late 1970s. Small only threatens her routine MONDAY provincial town. Twelve- existence as a luxury escort year-old Piotrek lives with but also exposes strongly NOVEMBER his mother - there is a very suppressed emotions. strong bond between them. Doubt strikes again. Will While his father is away, she be able to be a mother Piotrek's mother starts this time? going out almost every night. Instantly their simple FRENCH/English Subtitles 6 and clear relationship starts TRADITIONAL GALA to get complicated. NIGHT Entangled in the affairs of the adult world, Piotrek Since 2008, the Staircase feels lost and lonely. Theatre has held it's Gala Spending time with his opening on the first Monday peers brings first in November. As the fascinations and festival is growing and disappointments. Upon his moving into more venues father's return, Piotrek and adding dates, we want must confront with to keep the tradition of a uncomfortable truth. Will he Monday Night gala at the support his mother? Will he Staircase Theatre, our be loyal towards his father? home base. How his painful and difficult experience will influence his relationship with his mother?
ambitious demon. Her • SEE WEEDS TUESDAY family has tried every (Dawn George/ conventional method to Canada/3) NOVEMBER heal her, but both medicine and psychology have failed. • PLASMA VISTA As a last resort, they reach (Sarah Cockings/Harriet out for aid from the church. Fleuriot/UK/7m) They are unaware that the • TWO 7 priest who arrives to deal (Christopher Spencer- with the situation has his Lowe/Canada/12m) CANA-DOC SHORTS own dark secrets. • BRUTES ARE AFRAID SC : 7:00pm John Migliore is a writer, an actor, and a filmmaker. He OF SILENCE (Etienne Boulanger/ • A SPARK IN THE has appeared in a number of films, including Return to Canada/5m) DARK : TINDER USERS Nuke 'Em High: Volume 1, • ROGER BALLEN'S IN THE NORTH Homicycle, and Raiders of THEATRE OF (Christopher Healey/ the Lost Shark. He also APPARITIONS wrote and directed The James Healey) (Emma Calder/Ged • MICROPLASTICS IN Friday Night Death Slot, Poltergeist Encounters, and Haney/UK/5m) THE GREAT LAKES Exorcism of the Dead. John • CROWDED PLACE (Brett Rogers) wrote for comic books as (Robert Ezergailis/ • HANDMADE FILM well. He created The Grad, Canada/6m) (Christina Ienna) and scripted Stargate • TAKE MY HAND • WHYTE SNUFF movie adaptations for (Francesco Siro (Jonathan Benny/ Entity Comics. Brigiano/Italy/4m) • ORNAMENT OF BEAUTY Melanie Raevn Brasch) KUPAL • TOMATO TOWN (Andy Fortenbacher/ (Nathan Black) EMT : 7:30pm USA/4m) • (Kazem Mollaie/Drama/ • 165708 WESTDALE Iran/81m) (Andy Reid) (Josephine Massarella/ • STATELESS “Kupal” is the story of a Canada/6m) hunter and a taxidermist, • CALIGO (Amar Wala) called “Dr. Ahmad Kupal”. • ABOUT EMPLOYMENT (Mariya Miloshevych/ On the last day of the year, Canada/5m) (Lindsay Fitzgerald) moments before the turn of • the year, he faces an VOYEUR/ unexpected challenge. EXHIBITIONIST (Jae Woo Kang/ ENGLISH and PERSIAN with Canada/12m) English Subtitles • SHEZHIRE (Yelena Romanova/ MUSIC FILMS Kazakhstan/18m) SC : 9:00pm • ANANTA YATRA (THE ETERNAL JOURNEY) • 100 PROOF MUSICAL (Sunil Pandey/Nepal/15) THEATRE • FADED TROPICS (David Finley/ (Valentina Alvarado/ Canada/48m) Spain/6m) • HEARST OF STEEL (Gayle Wilmot/ SHORT TRIP Canada/20m) CS : 9:00pm • REUNION TOUR A Collection of short films (Jeremy Griffiths/ • FINAL EXAM Canada/12m) (Philippe Gosselin/ • KAYAM KHOONI Canada/9m) EXORCISM OF THE DEAD (Ali Nikfar/Iran/6m) • TIMEBOX (Tate Young/ CS : 7:00pm - $4 EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS Canada/7m) (John Migliore/ EMT : 9:00pm • Canada/84m) PENDULUM ( Lauren Cooney/ Candace is a deeply • MUDDELKUDDEL UK/20m) troubled young woman who (Oliver Bittner/ • NUMBNESS is possessed by an Germany/14m) (Milad Jarmooz/ Iran/12m) (Oliver Whitfield-Smith/ (Nancy Beiman/ • UNBOUND Canada/13m) Canada/5m) (Boncrek Films/ • ESCAPE • LIGHT SIGHT Jamaica/30m) (Hanna Khoury/ (Seyed M. Tabatabaei/ Canada/20m) Iran/7m) • CONSENSUS • ROOHANGIZ (Lettie Costea/ (Elmira Bagherzadeh/ Canada/14m) Iran/6m) • SLUT • THE BAKEBOOK (Rhea Goddard/UK/7m) (Suri Parmar/ • COLD HANDS Canada/10m) (Eric Bizzarri/ • MIDNIGHT STORY Canada/17m) (RIFF Animation Studio/ Iowa/4m) DI JOURNEY • EMANATIONS EMT : 7:30pm (Patrick Jenkins/ (Maria Khan/ Canada/4m) Documentary/107m) Di Journey is a socio- CANADIAN SHORTS! historical documentary CS : 9:00pm comprehensively exploring immigration and race • IMPRINTED relations through the (Maurice Cormier/ chronicles of the African- Canada/10m) Caribbean community in • 45 WEDNESDAY Britain. (Danny Hamilton/ ANIMATED SHORTS! Canada/11m) NOVEMBER • THE ATTWOOD SC : 9:00pm PARADOX With introduction by our (Craig F. Watkins/ friend and Head of R&D at Canada/10m) 8 Peregrine Labs, Colin • #ACTORSLIFE Doncaster ONTARIO SHORTS! (Clint D'Souza/ Canada/13m) CS : 7:00pm • PANIC ATTACK! • BREAK ROOM (Eileen O'Meara/ • STELLA MARIS (Andy Hourahine/ USA/3m) Canada/15m) (Kalainithan • NUTAG-HOMELAND Kalaichelvan/Canada/ • THE CURTAIN (Alisi Telengut/ (Crystal Lowe/ Drama/17m) Canada/6m) • THE FROZEN GOOSE Canada/17m) • SOLITUDE • THE HIDER (Margaret Lindsay (Alisi Telengut/ Holton/Ontario/ Canada/6m) (Deborah Jayne Reilly Drama/25m) Smith/Canada/9m) • SERVANT • BLACK DONNELLYS • (Farnoosh Abedi/ TEMPUS TORMENTUM • (Aaron Huggett/Ontario/ Iran/9m) Drama/40m) EMT : 9:30pm • MÜTTER (James Rewucki/ EMERGING (Mikel Guillen/ Canada/81m) Canada/8m) SC : 7:00pm A drifter passing through a • ASCRIBED small town is drugged by A collection of diverse ACHIEVEMENTS three masked psychopaths shorts by First-Time (Samaneh Shojaei/ and forced into a bizarre Filmmaker, Student and Iran/4m) game of cat and mouse. He Emerging • THE BRIDGE OVER THE is chased through a series RIVER of more and more bizarre • LEMONADE THEORY events until, in the end, he (Jadwiga Kowalska/ finds that this evening of (Paul Persic/ Switzerland/6m) Canada/13m) terror has lasting • MEETING MACGUFFIN consequences. It’s a feel • IMPRESSION (Catya Plate/USA/10m) bad film, nasty and brutish, (Joe Simmons/UK/12m) • A SHORT HISTORY OF red in tooth and claw. Student • INCONVENIENCE INDIANS IN CANADA
The Sunrise Storyteller dancer from the ballet The THURSDAY follows the hero's journey Sleeping Beauty. of teenage filmmaker & NOVEMBER social justice advocate, SHORT MIX Kasha Sequoia Slavner, as EMT : 7:30pm she sets out for six months For those who like a bit of on her 16th birthday across everything the world in search of stories of hope and 9 • FROM UP NORTH resilience that shine a light FAMILY FILMS on what it means to be a (Trudy Stewart/ RT : 6:00pm - $5 global citizen and how we Canada/13m) (kids under 5 free) can all make a difference. • THE TRANSFER Kasha Sequoia Slavner is (Michael Grudsky/ an 18 year old first-time Germany/22m) documentary filmmaker • NIGHT DANCING who comes to the profession as a seasoned (Barney Cokeliss/ photographer, entrepreneur UK/6m) and social justice advocate • TESTING GRETA for over a decade. Using (Abbie Lucas/UK/11m) her passion for visual • NICOLE’S CAGE storytelling to make the (Josef Brandl/ world a better place, she Germany/15m) was recently selected as the recipient of the very • THE KEY-RING first Kim Phuc Youth Award (Caroline Pascal/ for Peace. At the age of 14 France/10m) Kasha was the youngest • AIMEE SHORT FILM member to join Canada’s (Lee Whittaker/ longest-standing & only USA/10m) feminist peace organization, • SAHIL The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace. Since (Salar Pashtoonyar/ then, she has accompanied Canada/9m) the organization as a youth PRINCESS SPARKLY BUTT JAM/DUDE AND THE HOT DOG KID delegate 5x times on their annual trip down to New SC : 9:00pm (Ages 6-12 : (Brandon York to The Commission on Lane/Canada/ 60m) The Status of Women at the JAMLAND Based on a hit musical from United Nations. (Robert Waldeck/Mark The Toronto Fringe 2015, Tonin/Canada/38m) “Princess Sparkly Butt & ROBERT BRUCE/ The Hot Dog Kid” is an epic SHERLOCK JR Jamland is more than a and absurd musical space concert in the woods. It’s a SC : 7:00pm state of mind. This quest about a tradition- (Buster Keaton/44m) defying Princess who documentary explores a discovers that she can A movie house projectionist grassroots music festival control time with her butt. dreams himself into a and includes poignant She must use her butt movie. Robert Bruce will human interest stories. It’s powers for good, not evil, if perform a live piano score a film about music, life, and she hopes to save her to the silent classic love, and the way music planet from totally SHERLOCK JR! Preceding can take us out of our day exploding. Enter Prince the performance will be a to day problems and make Doofmuncher (who comes short film called The us feel better. to realize he identifies, not Sleeping Beauty, a dance as a boy, but as a hot dog) film with a piano ET TU, DUDE? to tag along on the mission accompaniment. (Travis Welowszky/ with hopes of also locating Preceded by : Canada/50m) an elusive warlock named Set against the backdrop of Gary who specializes in THE SLEEPING BEAUTY the fading, post-industrial turning people into hot (Fabio DAndrea/UK/6m) London, Ontario, an dogs. uncelebrated underclass of A young father, still dealing with grief from the loss of Do-It-Yourself musicians THE SUNRISE his wife and coping with stare down a bleak, STORYTELLER single parenthood, looks marginalized future while (Kasha Sequoia Slavner/ after his young daughter searching for meaning in Canada/60m) who dreams of becoming a their community. (Philippe David Gagné/ craft, the stories chronicle Canada/7m) grisly tales of Halloween • THE LAST AIRBNB rites, rituals and traditions. (Logan O'Neill/ USA/ Absent of dialogue and 12m) heavy on atmosphere, 3 Dead Trick or Treaters is a horror chiller unlike any you've seen before.
FRIDAY LIVE IN KINGSTON NOVEMBER EMT : 7:30pm
LIVE in Kingston is a romantic comedy and snapshot of downtown 10 Kingston’s live music scene. Emily, an eternal grad THAT NEVER HAPPENED: student, scrambles to save CANADA'S FIRST the campus radio station NATIONAL INTERNMENT and earn her final credits. Revelations and catharsis Racing between twelve live for their powerful histories CAMPS music concerts in six nights are only revealed in an Z : 7:00pm she desperately searches underground venue circuit (Ryan Boyko/Documentary/ for love and acceptance - of dimly lit basements, Canada/75m) all in time to go on air for sleazy apartments, and THAT NEVER HAPPENED her new radio show, LIVE in empty art galleries where Kingston. Featuring live they perform and continue reveals the story of Canada’s first national music performances from to go virtually unnoticed by Kingston bands, filmed and a placid, indifferent city. Et internment operations between 1914 - 1920, recorded on location - Tu, Dude? serves as an including Sarah Harmer, PS intimate and captivating when over 88,000 people were forced to register and I Love You, Forty Seven documentation of small- Teeth, Sheesham and town Canadian musicians more than 8,500 were wrongfully imprisoned in Lotus, and more! screaming unheard into the void. concentration camps across Canada, not for anything THRILLER SHORTS! FUNNY LITTLE SHORTS! they had done but because SC : 9:00pm of where they came from. EMT : 9:00pm In 1954, the public records • SCALES were destroyed and in the • 2 BY 2 1980s a few brave men and (Jessica Lea Fleming/ Canada/ 8m) (Mark Playne/UK/15m) women began working to • FOREST OF ECHOES • DOWNTOWN ALLEY reclaim this chapter in history and ensure future (Luz Olivares Capelle/ • (Bill Boyd-Wilson/ generations would know Germany/30m) Canada/9m) about it. • SUFFER • THE TALK (Filip Terlecki/Canada/ (Tyler Boyco/Canada/ Music Note: "Silent" film, 14m) 12m) entire film is scored. • THE GOOD MOTHER • DEMONOID 1971 3 DEAD TRICK OR (Juan F. Moctezuma II, (Sarah Clift/UK/5m) Mexico /16) • TREATERS ROGER • BABY'S CRYING SC : 7:00pm (Brendan Cleaves/UK/ (Bob Pipe/UK/ 2m) 7m) (Torin Langen/Canada/ • ALFRED J. HEMLOCK • Horror/83m) SCHWARTZY (Edward Lyons/ (Aleks Vujosevic/ Hosted by Hexploitation Australia/ 14) Canada/ 6m) Film Festival's Aaron Allen! • FUN • CANCEL THE F—ING (Greg Kovacs/Canada/ INTERNET After stumbling upon the graves of three murdered 3m) (Ryan Kayet/Canada/ trick or treaters, a small • THE SWELLING 13m) town paperboy discovers a (Tom Bewilogua/ • OUIJA SEX series of handwritten horror Germany/ 15m) (Mondo Ghulam/UL/ stories tacked to the 4m) children's headstones. • DESTRIER Penned by a deranged pulp author driven mad by his I GO BACK HOME - JIMMY (Florian Francois/2m) Britain” is a remarkable SCOTT • COLD CALL tale of how a small group (Philippe Bovet/10m) of Canadian service club EMT : 9:30pm members rallied millions of (Yoon-ha Chang/Germany/ • RENCONTRE men, women, and children USA/96min) (Brennan Martin/8m) across Canada to help Featuring Jimmy Scott, Joe • WHAT ABOUT thwart Hitler’s plan to Pesci, Quincy Jones and SHELLEY starve Britain into more. This award winning (Kyle Reaume/13m) submission. documentary by young • DOLLAR KING German director Yoon-ha CLEARING THE WAY Chang is the story of a (Trevor Smith/15m) • MRS RAFFERTY'S RED (Paul Culliton/ man, Ralf Kemper, driven Documentary/Canada/ to celebrate a long ROSES 70m) forgotten music legend. (Greg Kovacs/6m) The true story of 23 Field Kemper crosses between • BULLY Europe and the United Squadron, Canadian States, finding the best (Justin Sanchez/19m) Combat Engineers in players, arrangers and Kandahar Province, producers to create the Afghanistan, 2006-2007 album of his dreams. He MIDNIGHT, EH! showcases Jimmy Scott in CANADIAN MADNESS SCREAM FOR ME the finest way possible, SC : midnight - $8 SARAJEVO virtually bankrupting Z : 7:00pm himself in the process. • FREEZER BURN (Dir. Tarik Hodzic, Wrt, (Marina Bruno/Canada/ Jasenko Pasic, English Subtitles 8:17) Documentary, 90min, • DON'T CLICK Bosnia and Herzegovina) (Ghey Kim/ Canada/4:35) One price, both events Bruce Dickinson (Iron • BLOCKED Maiden) revisits the (Luke Meneok/ location where the concert Canada/7m) took place during the '94 • BIT BY BIT siege of Sarajevo. (Colin Baxter/ Canada/4m) PRISMIND • HUMAN CATTLE Z : 9:30pm (Carlos Henriques & (Heavy Metal concert) Phil Pattison/ This night is all about the Canada/10m) power and celebration of • EXPECTING music, specifically Heavy (Michael Lippert/ Metal, as we journey back Canada/ 60m) to 1994 when a live concert, by Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden frontman), changed the SATURDAY lives of the town's people CANADIAN COMEDY who struggled to simply SHORTS NOVEMBER feel human again during Z : 9:30pm the seigein Sarajevo. This film deals with the impact Guaranteed to be an of the seige, and a concert amazing night! 9 amazing that almost didn't comedies and they are 11 happen.After the film we connected to the Hammer! CLEARING THE WAY/ will celebrate with a local Our comedy nights do band performing their really well and always sell MILK FOR BRITAIN brand of Heavy Metal, with out. SC : 3:00pm perhaps a few inspiring tunes related to the film!
• MILK FOR BRITAIN I PHUB YOU Scream For Me Sarajevo is (Shannon Hunt/10m) (Danijel Margetić/ a documentary film about • YES I CANADA Animated/Documentary/ Sarajevo during the 1992- (Katarzyna Kochany/ Canada/ 14m) 95 siege; specifically a film 5m) about the music scene in • GLOVE ME TENDER The story of “Milk for the besieged Bosnian capital with special focus on story of the attempt to 20m) a concert held in the city's build a 21st century • ASYLUM ( BKC music hall by Bruce progressive movement in Craig F. Watkins & Brent Dickinson (Iron Maiden) on the United States. Five Laderoute/Canada/3m) December 14, 1994. It is a remarkable individuals film about people who wrestle with persistent • SHADOW risked their lives to perform racial injustice, growing (Paul Shammasian/UK/ for the people who risked economic inequality, and 16m) their lives in order to live the corrupting influence of • FIVE BY FIVE them. Watch the trailer money in politics against (Kate Herron/UK/22m) here the backdrop of an extraordinary 2016 ALL THE WILD HORSES PRISMIND is a Canadian presidential race. EMT : 9:30pm metal band based out of (Ivo Marloh/Documentary/ Hamilton, Ontario. Formed From the presidential UK/90m) in 2013, the group is campaign trail with Senator known for its intricate Bernie Sanders to a local All The Wild Horses follows guitar solos, amazing race in the failing economy five international riders rhythm section and soaring of rural West Virginia, from from the USA, Canada, vocals. Their sound is a mass sit-in on the U.S. South Africa, Ireland and reminiscent of traditional Capitol steps to racially the UK as they compete in British heavy metal with a charged police commission the Mongol Derby horse strong modern American hearings in Los Angeles, race in Mongolia. This multi metal influence. Prismind Waking the Sleeping Giant -horse, multi-station race has just released their makes sense of this over a 1000 kilometers of debut album, "Disciples By moment in American Mongolian steppe is the Design". The group’s politics, probing widespread longest and toughest horse popularity is steadily discontent during the 2016 race on the planet. The growing amongst metal election cycle, Donald riders are out on their own fans across the globe. Trump’s dramatic electoral and navigate with GPS from Check out Prismind victory, and the challenges horse station to horse www.prismindband.com ahead for those building a station, where they change re-energized progressive their horses every 40 DRAMA SHORTS 1 movement. kilometers, staying the nights out in the wild or SC : 7:00pm with nomad families along the way. • TOM WORKS NIGHTS (Aleks Vujosevic/ Canada/ 15m) • THE FRUIT MACHINE (Omer Khan/Canada/ 16m) • BLACKPOWDER AND GUILT (Faran Moradi/Canada/ 25m) • BACKSTORY (Joschka Laukeninks/ Germany/ 8m) • THE PECULIAR ABILITIES OF MR. MAHLER DRAMA SHORTS 2 (Paul Philipp/Germany/ SC : 9:00pm 29m)
WAKING THE SLEEPING • SHARE OF SHARE GIANT: THE MAKING OF A (Kaveh Jahed/Iran/1m) POLITICAL REVOLUTION • JUST ONE WORD (Jani Lauzon/Canada/ EMT : 7:30pm 11m) (Jon D. Erickson/USA/ DOCUMENTARY/93M) • TO LIVE AGAIN (Aron Safranyos & Chris "Waking the Sleeping Smith/Canada/ 17m) Giant: The Making of a • Political Revolution" is the MY BROTHERS RIFLE (Adam King/Canada/ phone number. He is poor, Hamilton, he quickly finds SUNDAY she is beautiful and self- himself under the thumb of assured, a princess: his Nemesis Farrell, a mob NOVEMBER complete opposite. boss looking to reclaim the Stephanie trains killer four million dollars that whales at Marineland. When Chase stole from her a performance ends in brother. He is recruited to tragedy, a call in the night carry out a number of tasks 12 again brings them together. in order to pay back his When Ali sees her next, his debt to her. Chase is KIDS CAN FILM princess is confined to a quickly introduced to the Z : 10:00am - NOON wheel chair: she has lost new players of Hamilton's (Free tickets : sponsored by her legs and quite a few seedy underworld. The KIDS CAN FILM ) illusions. He simply helps Ratchet gang, a group of her, with no compassion or psychotic looking drug Movies made by kids! pity. And she comes alive dealers, the Karma Crime again. Syndicate, sophisticated RUST AND BONE WITH and highly organized AUTHOR CRAIG French w/Eng Subtitles criminal and two hilarious, DAVIDSON bounty hunters set to track Z : 1:30pm After the film, Craig Chase's every move. Chase Davidson will be available seems to be in over his Presented by for a Q&A and will be selling head, or maybe this is GritLit and the Hamilton and signing his new book, exactly what he has Film Festival Precious Cargo. CRAIG planned. Pineboxfast is a Hosted by Annette Hamm DAVIDSON was born and fun, action filled ride and from CHCH TV grew up in St. Catharines, the first part in the new Ontario, near Niagara Falls. series. Pineboxfast - The He has published three quickest way to end up previous books of literary dead! fiction: Rust and Bone, which was made into an THE LONE PADDLER Oscar-nominated feature SC : 10pm film of the same name, The (Derek Lucosious/ Fighter, and Sarah Court. Horror/85m) Davidson is a graduate of A group of friends venture the Iowa Writers’ out on a camping trip, but Workshop, and his articles have no idea that they are and journalism have been the target of a twisted published in the National madman, set on tearing Post, Esquire, GQ, The them apart. Produced by Walrus, and The West Park Productions & Washington Post, among Equill Entertainment other places. He lives in Toronto, Canada, with his partner and their child.
HAMMER IT HOME RUST AND BONE DOUBLE FEATURE/LOCAL (Jacques Audiard/120m/) FEATURES It all begins in the North of France. Ali suddenly finds Two films. One price : himself with a five year-old What better way to end the child on his hands. Sam is festival with the very thing his son, but he hardly we've always championed, knows him. Homeless, local films. There is no penniless and friendless, Ali better place to do this than takes refuge with his sister where it all began, the in Antibes. There things historic Staircase Theatre. improve immediately. She puts them up in her garage, PINEBOX FAST she takes the child under SC : 8pm her wing and the weather is (Allen Saulnier/Action glorious. Ali first runs into Comedy/71m) Stephanie during a night When the infamous car club brawl. He drives her thief, "Chase" returns to home and leaves her his CANADIAN SATURDAY SUNDAY FILM NOVEMBER NOVEMBER MARKET
All events take place at the 11 12 Sheraton Hamilton Hotel in the MacNab Room. 10am 10am HAMILTON FILM PAGE TURNER: SCRIPT TO INDUSTRY PANEL SCREEN INCLUDES: FRIDAY • Fred Fuchs (Producer / • Screenwriter / Producer Westdale Cinema Group) Meet-Up NOVEMBER • Hamilton Music and Film Office All Day - Private Market • Nathan Fleet (Lights Screenings Camera Hamilton / Hamilton Film Festival / 10 Canadian Film Market WELCOME TO HAMILTON Come and meet Hamilton- 12 noon based businesses that SPEED-MEETING service the film industry. Learn about the growing • (Industry Development) film community while networking. 1pm
3pm DISTRIBUTION PANEL • Agency 71 / Black Fawn SCREEN COMPOSERS Distribution / Fibe TV1 GUILD OF CANADA • Bowed Metal and a Power 3pm Saw: • A Case Study of the FILM FINANCE PANEL music for TIMEBOX • Kathy Ceroni ( Lewis Birnberg Hanet, LLP) All day - Private Market • Dan Lyon (Telefilm) Screenings All day - Private Market Screenings
TRULY INDEPENDENT AWARD 2017
This year's Truly Independent award will go to Sharon Borbill! Sharon has dedicated countless volunteer hours since the festival began. You've seen her the most in the box office at the Staircase Theatre. Thank you so much for dedicating so much of your time to the Hamilton Film Festival!
We are extremely proud to offer her this award!
Previous recipients: Colette Kendall, Hugh McLeod, Kathy Garneau, Eves Raja, Craig F. Watkins, Ken Turner, Robert Ezergailis, Katie and Joanne Uhlmann PLATINUM SPONSORS
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