November 4 - 12, 2017
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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.