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Acknowledgements ...... 4 Greetings ...... 5-9 . . Spotlight on Year-Round Programs . . . . .10-11 . Festival Staff ...... 12 . . Festival Guide ...... 13 Festival Schedule at a Glance ...... 14- . 15
Virtual Space ...... 16-17 . . CONTENTS Wednesday, November 14 Emerging Directors’ Spotlight ...... 18- . 19 Thursday, November 15 Time for Ilhan ...... 2 .0 . Rock Rubber 45s ...... 21 Friday, November 16 Black Cop ...... 22. . The Feeling of Being Watched ...... 23 . Saturday, November 17 Breakfast and a Movie: The Breadwinner . . . 24 . Home Made Visible ...... 25-. . 27 Ghost-Landing ...... 28-30 Closing Night Film & Awards Ceremony: Rafiki . 3. 1 Workshops & Panels Intro to Shooting on Film ...... 3 2 . Digital Activism Panel ...... 33 . . Live Script Lab ...... 33 Festival Awards ...... 34. .
3 Board of Directors Support Team Shortlisting Advisory Alana Hood Chad Mohr Alyssa Bistonath Chair Web Developer Arika Jiang Asad Ali Moten Derek Aubichon Babs Hopkinson Vice Chair Graphic Designer Cayley James Dasola Dina Christine Peplinski Emeike Geldof Dija Mambu S ecretary Bookkeeper Gursimran Datla Arzu Abbasova Saroja Ponnambalam Melissa Gonik Dina Awad Trailer Maker Soni K Mark Lawson Michelle Mulgrave Additional Support General Program Advisory Ravi Srinivasan AbuBaker Al Bach Aman Vellani Sonia Jog Juneille Celso Amber Williams-King Mandeq Hassan Chrisann Hessing Past Board Members Nora Duffy Hanako Fujii Deanna Wong Jason To Gail Picco
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Ali Vanderkruyk Jason Maghanoy Michael Oszlak Alison Duke Jermyn Creed Michèle Pearson Clarke Amanda Neale-Robinson Jillian Peever Michelle Lovegrove Thomson Ambereen Siddiqui Judy Lung Mona Gedi Ariel Smith Katrina Cohen-Palacios Richard Fung Cayley James Kerry Swanson Robin Cass Christina Sackeyfio Kimberly Christmas Sureya Ibrahim Denise Soueidan-O’Leary Konrad Skreta Sandra Cunningham Elle Alconcel Lisa Murzin Sabrina Jahan Elsa Ngan Lissette Mejia Stephen Gong Gracia Dyer Jalea Matt Hardstaff Suze Morrison Greg Woodbury Melissa Gonik Tim Sebert Gursimran Datla Mercedes Watson Wanda Vanderstoop Indu Vashist Michael Moir
4 On behalf of the Regent Park Film Festival Board of Directors, welcome to the 16th Annual Regent Park Film Festival! Every year we offer programming that is meaningful to the community we serve, bringing people together through shared experiences and interests. Our 16th year has been no exception. We hosted Under the Stars, which was attended by thousands in the Regent Park community and beyond. We had another successful year of industry internships through Live It to Learn It and we launched Home Made Visible, a project that expands representation of Indigenous and Visible Minorities in Canada’s media archives. Alana Hood I’d like to thank our donors, sponsors and contributors. Without you, none of this would be possible. I’d also like to Chair extend my sincere congratulations to the Regent Park Film Regent Park Film Festival Festival staff for another excellent year. You embody our values of community, authenticity, accessibility and diversity. I think you’ll find that the films we show at this year’s festival exemplify what the Regent Park Film Festival is all about:
Breaking stereotypes and showing that no one place or personETIN G has just one story. Enjoy! RE G
I arrived to the Regent Park Film Festival this past summer, S and I spent my first moments listening to community mem- bers who have rode the wave of change. Common points of tension and triumph emerged, as did shared and disparate hopes for the future of this community. But something deeper emerged, a sense that change had not arrived without their participation in shaping it, that they, themselves, had been transformed into change-makers. Drawing from this same change-making spirit, we bring to you a festival that explores transformation and resilience, history and memory, renewal and decay. As you experience the festival, I encourage you to listen deeply to the micro-stories, the ones Tendisai Cromwell that move you and the ones that infuriate you. And consider Executive Director how they weave together, just as this community has, to tell a Regent Park Film Festival larger one about the power of individual and collective action.
5 al al estiv estiv F F hri O ilm ilm F F ark ark P P Programmer Ananya Artistic Director, Artistic Director, Home Made Visible Aaditya Aggarwal Regent Regent Regent Regent - 6 Indigenous, Black and People of Colour have fought to tell to fought have Colour of People and Black Indigenous, difficult and important our past in this stories that mark past also of our stories when the What happens nation. include joy? How does it change us? joy is at the heart of Home Made Visible. HMV Remembering to families for free of old home movies digitization provides of the concept while also engaging with re-framing enjoy, archives. As part reflection, of this we are presentcommis to proud 7 sioned works at the 16th annual Regent Park Film Festival. Park sioned works at the 16th annual Regent HMV Project Manager, Mudenyo, Elizabeth Huge thanks to artists commissioned and the our Advisory, the RPFF Team, this all possible making the Arts for for Council Canada In this year’sIn this of remembering rituals the consider we program, are that textures in the rooted and recovering and affects Exhibiting with that play works domesticity. of immigrant genrethe and “docufiction,” of video, home footage, found with rife archive to diasporic geography, it means we ask what architectures.razed peoples and spectres We displaced of intimacies with “home”: articulate, our varied in this lineup, with a occupied structure built one inhabits—either the literal in transit. leased or prolonged impunity, How did we arrive here? How do we realize that the home inherited memory ancestral, recover is now lost? How do we of a quiet, tepid violence: by way that the cityraze tends to the or misogyny, racialized of anti-black policing, in the form of working-class demands made continual of communities peripheries. economic deeper into shrink to colour in and the value the pain in these losses, consider We to way, we strive, in a humble In this program, mourning. ground, in this on this address the joy of living, the agony and moment. G REETINGS Simon Brault, o C. ., o Q. . Director and CEO Canada Council for the Arts ETIN G RE
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The Ontario Arts Council (OAC) is proud to support the Regent G Park Film Festival (RPFF) in its celebration of the many stories found in our communities. S Now in its 16th year, RPFF continues to thrive. It is faithful to its mission to showcase films that speak to the lived experiences of culturally diverse audiences and of people from low-income communities. Throughout the year, RPFF continues the fes- tival energy—empowering and supporting emerging filmmak- ers from Regent Park and beyond by offering free workshops, screenings and real-life opportunities in film and television. On behalf of the OAC’s board and staff, I wish all the filmmakers, Rita Davies organizers and attendees an excellent 2018 Festival. Chair Ontario Arts Council
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9 Spotlight on Year-Round Programs
Under the Stars: Movies in the Park
School Program Under the Stars: E ach year, the Regent Park Film Festival kicks off Movies in the Park with the School Program, a specially designed In 2018 Under the Stars: Movies in the Park saw great series of films for younger audiences from the success with over 5,000 people in attendance from community. The program is unique in its focus on the Regent Park Community and across the GTA. crucial social issues affecting Toronto’s diverse stu- This outdoor screening series is one of a kind in the dent population, all the while including them in an city, with a focus on showing widely loved films that exciting film festival experience. Featuring films represent and resonate with audiences of colour. from around the world and across genres, the pro- gram not only reflects these students’ lived expe- riences, but asks them to situate themselves and Live it to Learn it their community within a broader context. This year’s program introduces Grades 1-3 to the Live it to Learn it is a paid internship program concept of community, identity, and overcoming geared towards facilitating greater diversity in challenges. The Grades 4-6 program expands on the film & TV Industry in Toronto by creating op- these themes, asking students to reflect on bar- portunities for culturally diverse youth. Now in its riers and accessibility. The Grades 7-8 program third year, the program engaged three interns, further develops these concepts, introducing stu- bringing them to supply houses, training sessions dents to key terms describing discrimination in so- and the sets of some of the city’s best known ciety, as well as the possibility for change through shows: Kim’s Convenience, Murdoch Mysteries and civic engagement. Frankie Drake Mysteries. All the films featured in ourS chool Program and Congratulations to this year’s Live it to Learn it par- the accompanying lesson plans can be found on our ticipants: Chelsey Payette, Michael Amponsah and website. Nathan Allen.
10 Spotlight on Year-Round Programs
Under the Stars: Movies in the Park Live it to Learn it
RPFF School Program RPFF2017 School Program
Home Made Visible —Re:Collections Home Made Visible —Re:Collections
Regent Park Project Home Made Visible A Kick Start Arts initiative hosted by the Regent Home Made Visible preserves and celebrates the Park Film Festival domestic histories of Indigenous, Black and People The Regent Park Project empowers youth from Re- of Colour across Canada by digitizing old home gent park and beyond with opportunities to develop movies for free. The Project is nationwide and has their acting, writing and filmmaking skills through digitized over 130 pieces of film and tape since all. hands-on workshops in creating their own web series. its launch last F The Project also engages with This project is an example of inter-cultural dialogue the difficult histories of archives through our art- in action! The project has completed two seasons ist commission. Their completed works premiere estiv See pg 25. of their webseries. Visit RegentParkProject.com to at this year’s F al ( ) and will go on t learn more. to tour libraries across the country in 2019. S ay in touch with us at HomeMadeVisible.ca
11 Assistant Assistant Assistant Assistant Weeda Azim Weeda Keisha James Keisha Special Projects Kendra St Cyr St Cyr Kendra Festival Associate Natsuhi Yasuda Natsuhi Yasuda Volunteer Coordinator Coordinator Volunteer Volunteer Coordinator Volunteer subronie O 12 Jennifer Su Su Jennifer Co-Programmer Camille Johnson Camille David Festival Coordinator Festival Coordinator Outreach Coordinator Manager Programmer Special Projects Marketing and Marketing Celine Moore Celine Executive Director Aaditya Aggarwal Outreach Manager Tendisai Cromwell Tendisai Elizabeth Mudenyo
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13 16th Annual WEDNeSDAY TH URSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY N OVEMBER 14 N OVEMBER 15 NOVEMBER 16 NOVEMBER 17 9:00 am 9:30 am 10:00 am 9:00 - 11:30 AM BREAKFAST & MOVIE: 10:30 am The Breadwinner 11:00 am 11:30 am 12:00 pm 12:30 pm 12:00 - 1:30 PM Digital Activism 1:00 pm 12:00 - 3:00 PM Panel 1:30 pm Intro to Shooting on Film Workshop 2:00 pm 2:30 pm
3:00 pm 2:30-4:30 PM 3:30 pm SPECIAL PRESENTATION: Home Made Visible 4:00 pm + Talkback V 4:00 4:00 - 5:30 PM O 4:30 pm - 8:00 PM Live Script Lab N 5:00 2018 14-17 EMBER pm Panel 5:30 pm SPACE 6:00 pm 5:30 - 7:30 PM Shorts Program: FEATURE 6:30 pm 6:00 - 8:00 PM 6:00 - 8:00 PM Ghost Landing BLACK COP 7:00 pm TIME FOR ILHAN VIRTUAL + Talkback with EMERGENCY F eature + Talkback SHORTS 7:30 pm Short + Feature + Talkback PRoGRAM 8:00 pm 7:30 - 10:00 pm 8:30 pm OPENING NIGHT 8:00 - 10:30 PM WORKSHOP / Emerging Directors’ Closing Night Film: 9:00 pm 8:30 - 10:30 PM 8:30 - 10:30 PM Panel Spotlight Rafiki 9:30 pm Talkback + Pitch Contest ROCK RUBBER 45s THE FEELING with Continuum with True North OF BEING WATCHED Short + Feature 10:00 pm S hort + Feature Feature + Talkback + Awards Ceremony VIRT UAL SPACE 10:30 pm
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Lisa Jackson, Matthew Borrett, Jam3, and the National Film Board of Canada Virtual Reality | Canada | 2018 | 6-8 min Wendat, Kanien’keha (Mohawk) Made This Way: Redefining Masculinity and Anishinaabemowin The town square is flooded. The infrastructure has merged with local flora and people commute via canoe. In this radically different future, urban life is thriving. Biidaaban: First Light illuminates how Indigenous languages can provide a framework for understanding our place in a reconciled version of Canada’s largest urban environment. Lisa Jackson (Anishinaabe) is one of Canada’s most celebrated contemporary artists working in film and VR. In Biidaaban: First Light, Lisa joins forces with 3D artist Mathew Borrett to create a future where now? for Canada’s largest urban centre from an Indig- enous female perspective.
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Elli Raynai and Irem Harnak Amani Bin Shikhan Mixed Media Installation/Virtual Reality Documentary, Video Installation | Canada Canada | 2018 | 18 min | English 2018 | 104 min | English Comprised of photographs and virtual reality volu- Produced by sisterhood media, where now? is a metric testimonials, Made This Way: Redefining narrative-driven documentary series expounding Masculinity is an interactive mixed-media docu- on what Toronto and its residents truly stand to mentary that explores how transgender subjects are gain — and, of course, lose — in its climb to become challenging gender norms and redefining traditional an internationally-recognized cultural hub. Who masculinity. By exploring the photographic series, reaps the benefits? And who is its first casualty? Biidaaban: First Light and by moving around the virtual space in which the Amani Bin Shikhan is a music and culture writer, subjects exist, this project allows audiences to vis- researcher on the Netflix series Hip-Hop Evolution, cerally experience fluid masculinity. and director, among other things. In her work, she Elli Raynai is a writer, producer, director, and VR film- aims to frame and reframe questions of tradition maker. He formed the production company Cinehack- and movement through the lens of black cultural ers in early 2015 to focus on making interactive virtual expressions and their multidisciplinary histories. reality experiences with a strong focus on storytell- ing. Before getting into the medium, he had complet- ed two feature films and eight short films. Reunion; self-determination Irem Harnak is a visual artist born and raised in of the Black American South Istanbul, Turkey, and has then lived and studied in London. She is a photographer interested in creat- M elisse Watson ing narratives through her own visual language. Mixed Media Installation | Canada | 2018 Her editorial work has been in publications such as Please see page 27 Reunion; self-determination of the Black American South Marie Claire China, Flare and Fashion.
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Kourtney Jackson Maddy Pilon Experimental | Canada | 2018 Documentary | Canada | 2018 5 min | English 20 min | English A young woman’s inner monologue as she con- Indigenous youth are dying at alarming rates in fronts the intersections of faith, womanhood, Canada. This film gives a voice to these youth and the immigrant experience. and questions why these tragedies continue to Kourtney Jackson is a writer and filmmaker happen. from Toronto who has always been invested Maddy Pilon is a Ryerson Film Studies graduate in storytelling in its various forms. Through based in Toronto, Ontario. She has spent a lot prose, poetry, collage, and now film, she con- of her time teaching filmmaking to youth, and tinues to explore the histories, nuances, and recently produced a feature film titled Goliath. intersections in her ethnic, cultural, and spiri- tual identity.
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Ryan Sidhoo Bobbito García Documentary Series | Canada | 2018 Documentary | USA | 2018 15 min | English 96 min | English Canada produces the most NBA talent outside of A cinematic odyssey exploring the connectivity the United States, and Toronto is at the epicentre of global basketball, sneaker, and music life- of this boom. True North provides an intimate look style through the firsthand lens of authentic at the rise of the Toronto hoop dream through the NYC culture orchestrator Bobbito García. stories of five young athletes, inspired by the wave NYC native and world-renowned DJ Bobbito Gar- of NBA talent coming from their city. cía is a ballplayer and critically acclaimed author/ Ryan Sidhoo gravitates toward projects of DJ/filmmaker.I n addition to hosting ESPN’s “It’s global relevance, aiming to bring them to life the Shoes” series, in 2007 Nike released seven through a local and personal lens. Ryan con- co-designed Air Force 1 sneakers bearing his sig- tinues to direct and develop documentary nature. As an award-winning filmmaker, García projects focused on contemporary social issues has directed three documentaries. that bring sport and culture together.
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Assia Boundaoui Documentary | USA | 2018 | 87 min | English, Arabic When journalist Assia Boundaoui investigates rumors of surveillance in her Arab-American neighbourhood in Chicago, she uncovers one of the largest FBI terrorism probes conducted be- fore 9/11 and reveals its enduring impact on the community. Assia Boundaoui is an Algerian-American journalist and filmmaker based in Chicago. She has reported for BBC, NPR, Al Jazeera, VICE, and CNN and was the recipient of a first placeM ark of Excellence Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for her reporting in Yemen. She directed a short film on hijabi hair salons for the BOH LENNY docu-series, which premiered as an official selection of the 2018S undance Film Festival. This is her feature directorial debut.
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BIPOC communities are disproportionately underrepresented in all media. How do past images unearthed from personal and institutional archives come to shape new stories? This collection of six short films and an installation highlights how examining archival material through a personal lens can complicate our understandings of Canada’s many histories and identities.
All artists will be present for a talkback with the Project’s Artistic Director.
PMS: 2925 PMS: 3005 Home Made Visible is a nationwide archival project by the Regent Park Film Festival. Find out more about this initiative at HomeMadeVisible ca.
Home Made Visible is one of the 200 exceptional projects funded through the Canada Council for the Arts’ New Chapter program. With this $35M investment, the Council supports the creation and sharing of the arts in communities across Canada. Co-presented with Charles Street Video and York University Libraries Content Advisory: PG. One scene in this program includes mentions of sexual assault.
Portrait of a Zamboni Driver Anishkutapeu
Nadine Arpin Lisa Jodoin Documentary | Canada | 2018 Documentary | Canada | 2018 10 min | English 10 min | French, English, and Innu-aimun Growing up in Colombia, Luis España dreamed of a Anishkutapeu is a short documentary that explores different life. When he married aC ree woman from the connection between land and archives in the Innu Canada and returned to her small town Luis found community of Uashat in Sept-Îles, Quebec. A source a sense of place driving the Zamboni at the local of well-being, traditional knowledge, and identity, ice-rink where hockey is King. land and familial territories are an essential part of what it means to be Innu. Nadine Arpin is a Two-Spirited Métis filmmaker based in Sioux Lookout, Ontario where her film Lisa Jodoin is a writer/filmmaker working out of production company Cedar Water Films is located. Fredericton, New Brunswick. Her short films in- Since 2014 she has been producing and directing clude Tracing Blood, a video poem about Indigenous independent short films which have screened both identity, and In Search of Laura Fearn. She recently nationally and internationally. completed a feature-length documentary for the New Brunswick Aboriginal People’s Council and the Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network Atlantic.
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Reunion; self-determination of the Black American South
Caribou in the Archive
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Reunion; self-determination of the Black American South
Melisse Watson Mixed Media Installation | Canada | 2018 A painting and multi-media installation that creates a personal, emotional space for the viewer to step into — a Reunion — meeting Pictures of Departure family, and home(land), for the first time. Melisse Watson is a disruptionist, earthworker and multidisciplinary artist, utilizing direct ac- tion, performance, visual, aural and installation art to provoke experiences that shift a viewers’ course. Through archiving of activism by Black and Indigenous peoples in Tkaronto, and explor- ing access, gender, conflict,M elisse explores speculative futures and their preparations.
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G IN D AN Viewer discretion is advised R 17, 2018 | 5:30-7:30 | 5:30-7:30 2018 R 17, L . ectors in attendance. ectors Africville Street 66 Street 28 OST- NOVEMBE Y A This program contains mature subject matter, including some including mature subject matter, contains This program GH . alkback with dir alkback with RD T his program explores with transitory human intimacies his program This shorts program is sponsored This shorts by the program T Regent Park of Directors. Film Festival Board Regent violent and sexual content SATU o-pr C Asian Visual Arts and Black Gold (South Centre) withSAVAC esented censure under forces of colonialism, racism, and financialization. racism, of colonialism, censure under forces as specters? as specters? peoples and diasporic settlers come to occupy constructed landscapes occupy constructed to come settlers peoples and diasporic turned to relics or converted to newer structures—undergoing erosion and erosion newer structures—undergoing relics to turned to or converted Content Advisory:Content 14A landscapes—built urban neighbourhoods and homes that have been razed, urban neighbourhoods and homes landscapes—built How do severed architectures become sites of memory? How do severed architectures sites become How do
S atURday, NOVEMBER 17 Welcome to Africville Four Faces of the Moon
Four Faces of the Moon Welcome to Africville
A manda Strong Dana Inkster Animation | Canada | 2016 Short | Canada | 1999 | 15 min | English 12 min | Michif, Nakoda, Cree and Anishinaabe A “docufiction” of an African-Canadian commu- In Four Faces of the Moon, we witness the impact nity in Halifax that was razed for “urban renewal” and legacy of the railways, the slaughter of the in the late sixties. Against a backdrop of archival buffalo and colonial land policies. This multi-lay- footage of this neighbourhood under demolition ered approach to storytelling may leave you with unfolds a slice-in-time narrative, highlighting more questions than answers: it is an invitation to three generations of women in an Africville fam- look into your own understanding of history, legacy ily. Lushly photographed against brightly coloured and the importance in knowing who you are and settings, the film raises the question, not only of where you’re from. a lost community history, but also of lost sexual Amanda Strong is an Indigenous (Michif) interdis- histories and identities. ciplinary artist with a focus on stop motion anima- Dana Inkster is an Alberta-based Canadian media tions. Strong is the owner/director/producer of artist and filmmaker. Her portfolio includes short Spotted Fawn Productions, based on unceded Coast videos and broadcast documentaries including the Salish territories, a studio that utilizes a multi-lay- award-winning NFB production 24 Days in Brooks. ered approach and unconventional methods cen- She is also the President and CEO of EM Workshop tered in collaboration on all aspects of their work. Inc., a communications firm and documentary pro- duction company that shares knowledge and infor- mation with community. Africville
Raoul Olou Street 66 Animation | Canada | 2018 6 min | English Ayo Akingbade An animated documentary on the history of Africville Short | UK | 2018 | 13 min | English a Black community that got displaced in Halifax, This documentary chronicles the life of Ghanaian Canada during the sixties. housing activist Dora Boatemah and her influence Raoul Olou is a multidisciplinary artist based in To- on the regeneration of Angell Town Estate in Brix- ronto, whose work focuses on home, belonging and ton, South London. archiving the mundane. Ayo Akingbade is a British Nigerian artist and film- maker who lives and works in London.
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Sira AN L 30 ootage, , 16mm anada and C uper 8 S OST- ahir T GH uper 8 and video f S onto-based filmmaker who filmmaker onto-based Over Time Rolla Rolla or bsessed with the durability, durability, the with bsessed Inuk Hunter T سي رة Sira - Sira O 2018 | 6 min | Arabic amily from Kuwait as a result of the Kuwait amily from xperimental, Documentary | Canada E udanese f his experimental essay traces the exodus of ahis experimental essay traces raqi War, using 16mm, War, raqi longevity and spontaneity of the analog filmanalog spontaneityand the of longevity with has worked medium, Rolla excavated from various sources. various from excavated is a Tahir Rolla internationally. and its explore to and 35mm the analog process possibilities. I has lensed short, and experimen- narrative films, which screenedtal across T S S atURday, NOVEMBER 17 Rafiki
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 17, 2018 8:00-10:30 PM CLOSING NIGHT FILM & AWARDS CEREMONY: RAFIKI Content Advisory: PG13 Co-Presented with TIFF Next Wave and Toronto Queer Film Festival Continuum The 16th Annual Regent Park Film Festival comes to a close Rafiki with a screening of Rafiki and an awards ceremony. Wanuri Kahiu Drama | Kenya/South Africa/Germany/ Netherlands/France/Norway/Lebanon 2018 | 82 min | Swahili, English Continuum “Good Kenyan girls become good Kenyan wives,” but Kena and Ziki long for something more. Despite the Noncedo Khumalo political rivalry between their families, the girls resist and remain close friends, supporting each other to pur- Experimental | Canada | 2016 | 3 min | English sue their dreams in a conservative society. When love In the loneliness of a colourful space that floats blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to gently, yet lacks the true concept of time, two of choose between happiness and safety. society’s rejects find one another. Born in Nairobi, Wanuri Kahiu is part of the new Noncedo Khumalo is an animator and filmmaker generation of African storytellers. Her stories and based in Montreal and raised in Swaziland and films have received international acclaim. Her films South Africa. She is largely interested in making have screened in numerous film festivals around black queer art that humanizes our future and the world. To date, Wanuri has written and directed blends storytelling with the abstract. six films. Rafiki is her second feature film.
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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 15, 2018 | 12:00-3:00 PM Introduction to Shooting on Film Workshop
C o-presented with the8fest Facilitated by Marnie Parrell
Have you ever wondered what making your own home movie would be like? In this hands-on filmmaking workshop hosted in partnership with the8fest, participants will learn how to shoot on and develop Super 8 film.S uper 8 film—a motion picture film format that was first released in 1965 by Eastman Kodak—is considered as the classic “home movie” video format.
Participants must be 16 years old or over. We encourage candidates from all walks of life to apply, however, Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) residents will be prioritized in the selection process. No previous experience necessary. Applications are available in person, on our website, or by phone at 416-599-7733. This workshop is a part of Home Made Visible, a project that digitizes old home movies for Indigenous people and people of colour.
Marnie Parrell is a Métis filmmaker, writer and artist. Experimental, lyrical, and humor- ous, her work endeavours to expose what is hidden in the everyday. She attempts to re- frame objects, scenes and stories in such a way as to make the familiar, or some aspect of it, seem new or strange thus creating the potential for reinterpretation. Currently working in new media, she is exploring the potential of fiducials and augmented reality, as well as interactive filmmaking.
Intro to Shooting on Film
2017 workshop 2017 Live Script Lab
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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 17, 2018 | 12:00-1:30 PM Digital Activism Panel C o-presented with York University
In the wake of #MeToo, locally-based filmmakers and artists explore the implications this moment may have for women and femmes belonging to communities of colour, Black communities, and Indigenous communities locally and beyond. This discussion will focus on how each panelist’s work engages with ideas of racialized misogyny, sexual literacy, consent, and gender-based justice.
Content Advisory: This program contains mature subject matter. Discussion of sexual violence and trauma.
PANELISTS Azeezah Kanji (moderator) is a legal Erica Violet Lee is a graduate academic and writer, who holds a JD student in Social Justice Education and a Masters of Law specializing at the University of Toronto. She in Islamic law. Her work focuses on is an Indigenous feminist, com- issues relating to racism, law, and munity organizer from inner-city social justice. Her writing has appeared in the Toronto Saskatoon, and a Nēhiyaw philosopher queen learn- Star, National Post, and various academic antholo- ing how to be a writer in the wastelands. gies. She also serves as Director of Programming at Self-taught artist, curator and Noor Cultural Centre. writer Anique Jordan works in pho- Shazia Javed is an award-winning tography, sculpture, social practice filmmaker. Her documentary film and performance and has lectured Namrata was produced by the Na- on her artistic and community-en- tional Film Board of Canada and gaged curatorial practice at Harvard University, Uni- was a finalist for three AMPIA versity of the West Indies, MIT, University of Toronto awards. Shazia’s work has screened at prestigious and UCLA. Her art practice plays with the aesthetics film festivals including Hot Docs, OD XA, Global Vi- found in traditional Trinidadian carnival and the theo- sions, and Durban International Film Festival. ry of hauntology challenging historical narratives and creating, what she calls, impossible images.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 17, 2018 | 4:00-5:30 PM LIVE SCRIPT LAB
C o-presented with ACTRA Toronto and CaribbeanTales International Film Festival
The Live Script Lab returns to the festival in partnership with ACTRA Toronto. Now in its second year, four emerging screenwriters will have their scripts performed by professional actors selected by the ACTRA Diversity Committee, in front of a live audi- ence with industry leaders in attendance.
33 FESTIVAL Awards
All Regent Park Film Festival award recipients will receive a Friend Membership to the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television .
RBC Emerging Director Award is presented to a filmmaker who delivered a pitch at ourE merg- ing Directors’ Spotlight on Opening Night. The recipient will receive a cash award of $1000. Documentary Organization Canada Best Doc Award is presented by DOC and DOC Institute to the strongest Canadian documentary in the 16th Annual Regent Park Film Festival. The recipient will receive professional consultation and a DOC membership. Rogers Audience Choice Award is presented to the film that receives the greatest number of audience votes during the 16th Annual Regent Park Film Festival.
DGC Ontario New Visions Award recognizes a young emerging talent who demonstrates great potential as a filmmaker. They receive $500 towards supporting their education. Solomon Maenga grew up in Regent Park, and has been a Company Member of Kick Start Arts’ Regent Park Project for the past four years. He is an accomplished actor and demonstrates great promise as a filmmaker. His input in the development, and writing of the scripts for the Regent Park Project has been hugely significant. Solomon’s insight, thoughtfulness as a writer, collaborative skills, and good nature make him someone everyone enjoys working with.
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