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17 March 2 5, 2017 17 THE WORLD’S LARGEST ALL-CANADIAN FILM FESTIVAL MARCH 2- 5, 2017 presented by kingcanfilmfest.com TABLE OF CONTENTS SCHEDULE AND VENUES 2 17 SPONSORS 4 FESTIVAL GREETINGS 7 ATTENDING KCFF AND TICKETS 8 FEATURE FILMS 10 SHORT FILM PROGRAMS 26 SPECIAL EVENTS 29 RECEPTIONS 30 KCFF FILM LAB 31 SCHEDULE THURSDAY, MARCH 2 7:00 pm BEN CAPLAN / Mansion 7:00 pm THE RIVER OF MY DREAMS / Isabel 9:00 pm OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION / Delta 9:00 pm MOTHER MOTHER / Ale House FRIDAY, MARCH 3 10:15 am WE CAN’T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE TWICE / Theological Hall 2:00 pm THE STAIRS / Baby Grand 2:15 pm NELLY / Screening Room 2:30 pm BREAKING IN: STARTING A CAREER IN FILM AND MEDIA / Isabel 6:15 pm THE LOCKPICKER / Baby Grand 6:20 pm WINDOW HORSES / Screening Room 6:25 pm JERUSALEM, WE ARE HERE / Isabel 6:30 pm BITTER HARVEST / Theological Hall 9:00 pm LOCAL SHORTS: EPICS A / Isabel 9:05 pm JEAN OF THE JONESES / Baby Grand 9:10 pm THE INTESTINE / Screening Room 9:15 pm LIVE IN KINGSTON / Theological Hall 9:15 pm CANADIAN SHORTS / Screening Room 11:00 pm FORTY SEVEN TEETH / Toucan VENUES Baby Grand (Grand Theatre) 218 Princess Street BLU Martini 178 Ontario Street Davies Lounge (Grand Theatre) 218 Princess Street Delta Hotels by Marriott Kingston Waterfront 1 Johnson Street Tango Nuevo 331 King Street East Theological Hall (Queen’s Campus) Behind Grant Hall, 43 University Avenue by car, enter at corner of University and Division The Ale House 393 Princess Street The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts 390 King Street West The Mansion 506 Princess Street The Screening Room 120 Princess Street The Toucan 76 Princess Street Need directions? Our mobile-friendly website has maps to all of our venues and helpful travel hints whether you’re traveling by foot or car. 2 B Special Events B Reception B Workshop SATURDAY, MARCH 4 10:00 am NELLY / Screening Room 10:05 am WEIRDOS / Theological Hall 10:10 am JEAN OF THE JONESES / Baby Grand 1:00 pm KIDS’ ANIMATION WORKSHOP / Davies Lounge 1:00 pm STILL NIGHT, STILL LIGHT / Screening Room 1:00 pm YOUTH SHORTS / Theological Hall 1:05 pm THE STAIRS / Baby Grand 1:15 pm MIX AND MINGLE RECEPTION / Tango 3:55 pm SEARCHERS / Theological Hall 4:00 pm WINDOW HORSES / Screening Room 4:05 pm SIR JOHN A AND THE CURSE… / Baby Grand 5:00 pm MAKE A PITCH / Mansion 6:45 pm CELTIC SOUL / Theological Hall 6:50 pm ONTARIO SHORTS / Baby Grand 6:55 pm OPERATION AVALANCHE/ Screening Room 7:00 pm CATHY JONES / Blu Martini 9:15 pm NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW + DAMIAN ABRAHAM / Baby Grand 9:20 pm BOUNDARIES / Screening Room 9:25 pm BONEYARD / Theological Hall 11:00 pm P.S. I LOVE YOU / Toucan SUNDAY, MARCH 5 10:00 am OLD STONE / Screening Room 10:05 am BITTER HARVEST / Theological Hall 10:15 am C IS FOR CANADA / Baby Grand 12:45 pm PRANK / Baby Grand 1:00 pm ALL GOVERNMENTS LIE / Screening Room 1:15 pm LIVE IN KINGSTON / Theological Hall 3:30 pm THOSE WHO MAKE REVOLUTION HALFWAY… / Baby Grand 4:00 pm WEREWOLF / Screening Room 4:15 pm THE SECRET PATH / Theological Hal 6:30 pm LOCAL SHORTS: EPICS B / Theological Halll 7:00 pm ANGRY INUK / Baby Grand / Free screening! 8:30 pm CLOSING NIGHT AWARDS / Delta 3 PRESENTING SPONSORS PRIMETIME AND PROGRAM SPONSORS GOVERNMENT AND FOUNDATION PARTNERS FEATURE FILM SPONSORS 4 SPONSORS FILM SPONSORS MEDIA SPONSORS FESTIVAL FRIENDS AWESOME KINGSTON | KINGSTON COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION | LONG & MCQUADE | STATION 14 | TRAILHEAD | WELLINGTON FOREIGN EXCHANGE HOSPITALITY FRIENDS AMADEUS CAFE | CONFEDERATION PLACE HOTEL | HOLIDAY INN KINGSTON WATERFRONT | OLIVEA | TANGO NUEVO | TIR NAN OG | TRAYNOR FAMILY VINEYARD THANKS TO OUR COMMUNITY AND INDUSTRY PARTNERS Bergeron Estate Winery, Campus One Stop, CJAI Amherst Radio, Creative Display, David’s Tea, Davies Charitable Foundation, Eat Lover, Engage for Change, Feed the Bear Design, Film Circuit, Fusix, Iron Duke on Wellington, Kingston Brewing Company, Kingston WritersFest, LD Comm, Morrison’s Restaurant, National Film Board, Original Bubba’s, Pan Chancho, Pasta Genova, Pattison, Pita Pit, Pop Montreal, Queen’s Film and Media, Queen’s Film Production Club, Selena Martin Catering, Secret Garden Inn, Smoke’s Poutinerie, Staples, Tara Natural Foods, The Queen’s Inn, The Works Gourmet Burgers, 5 Tommy’s, Upper Canada Commercial Insurance Group, VIA Rail, YGK Studios FESTIVAL GREETINGS MARC GARNISS, Festival Director Weirdos, Searchers, Window Horses, and Prank(sters). The Fest has an interesting assortment up its sleeve for Canada’s sesquicentennial. You’ll hear stories told by Oscar-winners and first-timers, from east to west, north to south, bursting beyond our borders all the way to the moon and back! But do not fear: KCFF is a place where you can make yourself at home. This is an all-access festival where you can approach filmmakers, ask questions, challenge the programmers, and make friends with the person sitting next to you. With films, workshops, guest talks, receptions, music, and miscellaneous festival action crammed into four short days, we encourage you to see lots, sleep little, and have a great KCFF. MEGAN SIRETT, Development Manager Welcome to KCFF’17! Kingstonians are great hosts (even if I do say so myself) and I am so happy that you’re here to welcome filmmakers and festival guests to our city. It’s through the stories they tell that we build our capacity for compassion, empathy and tolerance and continue to talk about what matters, whether it’s in a Q+A, at a party, or just chatting in line. Thank you for your continued support that allows us to bring the festival to life each year. I hope you have a weekend full of discovery and delight! JASON ANDERSON, Director of Programming Every year, the programming team at the Kingston Canadian Film Festival spends countless hours in dark places seeing amazing new work by filmmakers who hail from coast to coast. If there’s one thing that becomes clearer to us – which is really saying something given the toll of all that binge-watching on our eyesight – it’s Canadian cinema’s breadth, depth and diversity of talent. Once again, we’re thrilled to present the best of what we’ve found in an exciting program that ranges from masterful features and docs by celebrated directors, to exciting first films by new discoveries, to soon-to-be crowd favourites by intrepid filmmakers telling stories that emerge from Kingston’s own streets (and sometimes its pubs, too). We hope you’ll have as much fun discovering them as we did. ALISON MIGNEAULT, Board of Directors On behalf of the board of directors, welcome to the 17th annual Kingston Canadian Film Festival. From a few screenings one winter weekend in 2001 to the current-day robust program of features, shorts, workshops, receptions, music and more, KCFF shines a spotlight on our national cinema and its long-lived success is a testament to the need. While the board is tasked with overseeing the festival, what you will experience has very little to do with us. That glory goes to Marc, Megan, Jason and a large cast of dedicated staff and volunteers. They make this thing happen and we are grateful. 7 PASSES, TICKETS AND RUSH LINE We’ve expanded pass and ticketing options this year. With film passes, advance tickets and the last-minute rush line, you can design your festival experience to suit your movie-going style. HOW IT WORKS FILM PASSES The festival does work a bit differently than a With a pass, you do not select any films normal movie theatre. At each screening venue or pick up tickets to the screenings in we have two lines: one for patrons with passes advance. You simply show up at the and tickets purchased in advance (PASS-HOLDER venue and head to the PASS-HOLDER LINE) and the other for patrons who still need LINE and your pass acts as proof of to buy tickets (RUSH LINE). purchase to get into the screening. We will start to admit the PASS-HOLDER LINE For movies, we reserve over 70% of line into the venues starting 30-40 minutes the seats from each venue for our before each screening right up until showtime. pass-holders, who are admitted into We will open the venue up to the RUSH LINE the theatre 30-40 minutes before approximately 20 minutes before the screening showtime until our pass-holder until we reach the capacity, cut the lights, and allotment is reached. Pass-holders cue the Canadian movie. If you have questions nearly always attain entry, especially or need help determining where you need to when arriving on time. We can’t admit be in the line-up, please ask a volunteer or a additional patrons, including pass- venue manager! holders, if we reach capacity (those are the rules and we want to stay friends with the fire marshall). Passes are available in limited quantities and normally sell out one week prior to the festival start date. When passes are gone, you can still purchase single tickets or enter via the RUSH LINE. ATTENDING KCFF 8 PASS PICKUP RUSH LINE TICKETS If you ordered your pass online, you will need CASH ONLY to pick it up before you attend a screening. $12 regular; $8 student with valid ID You can pick up your pass at the KCFF Info Booth in the Grand Theatre Whig Walkway, If you’ve missed the pass and single daily from 12–6 pm, starting February 27.
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