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he Reel Shorts Film Festival is in the seven-week Youth Film Mentor- Tits eighth year and recently be- ship Project and went on to win the came one of only four film festivals Best Overall Youth Short Film at the in Alberta to become a qualifying Calgary International Film Festival festival for the Academy of Canadian and the Young Filmmakers Competi- Cinema & Television. I am proud that tion at the Austin Film Festival. The Grande Prairie Live Theatre has been Horizon Project, directed by Scott able to play a supporting role in the Belyea, was part of a two-week spectacular achievement of bringing internship program called Shoot for quality entertainment and media arts Reel and went on to screen at the opportunities to the Peace Region. MOTELx – Lisbon International Hor- ror Film Festival, the Edmonton Inter- Under the leadership of festival di- national Film Festival, ScreamfestLA, rector Terry Scerbak, the Reel Shorts and the Phoenix International Horror volunteers have made a positive & Sci-Fi Film Festival. Congratulations impact on our community over the and thank you to everyone involved years and created a spark for the lo- in the festival’s past and present cal media arts to begin to flourish. successes. This is evident with the recent for- mation of a filmmakers’ cooperative Enjoy the festival and all it has to and non-profit organization called offer. the Peace Region Independent Media Arts Association. We wish them great Cyril Cook success on achieving their goals. President, GPLT Board of Directors With the Reel Shorts Film Festival, we have the pleasure to welcome and view films from around the globe. There were submissions from 55 countries and territories for consid- eration this year and I am impressed at how well this melds seamlessly with the locally produced films from our community. Three locally produced films that world premiered at the fest in 2013 have been able to achieve success beyond the Peace Region. Sophia, directed by Rory Mells, was nominat- A PROUD SPONSOR ed for Best Short Film at the Alber- OF THE 2014 REEL SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL ta Film and Television Awards. HB, directed by Nathan Fast, was part of 4 SHORTS ON PARADE Director’s Notes

e are thrilled to bring you 101 Wfilms from 28 countries that were selected after considering 1,255 short films including 625 submissions from 55 countries. More than a third of the films are North American, Canadian, or Alberta premieres, and many of them are award-winning. The big story of this year’s festival is how Hansen Ford Lincoln came to be the Presenting Sponsor. When I started the festival in 2007, there was very little filmmaking going on in the region and there was no community will be premiering the first five of of filmmakers. The training initiatives them at the festival! This fusion of art we’ve implemented over the years and commerce is a testament to how have changed that. The one that had much the film community has grown the biggest impact was Shoot for in such a short period of time! Reel, the two-week internship proj- Shoot for Reel had another big im- ect in July 2012 that resulted in the pact. Many of the interns and oth- festival-produced short film THE HO- ers who worked on THE HORIZON RIZON PROJECT directed by Scott PROJECT formed PRIMAA (Peace Belyea. Chris Beauchamp interned Region Independent Media Arts As- on that film as the 1st AC (Assistant sociation), a non-profit filmmakers’ Camera) and then went on to be the cooperative. The festival is collaborat- Cinematographer for SOPHIA which ing with PRIMAA on the Frantic 48, a was directed by Rory Mells and was 48-hour film challenge the weekend nominated for a 2014 Alberta Film & of May 2-4. The completed films will Television Award. Chris then won our screen at 3:30 pm on Sat, May 10. 2013 screenplay competition which Community Futures will be present- was judged by Gordie Haakstad. His ing a $500 cash prize to the winner of film is still in post-production so we the Best Film Award and to the win- weren’t able to include it in this year’s ner of the Audience Choice Award. fest. One of the co-stars of that film is Cam White who was also an actor in We’re offering another youth mentor- THE HORIZON PROJECT. How this all ship opportunity this year – the Youth comes together is that Chris, as Cre- Screenwriter Mentorship Project and ative Director of nine10, and Gordie Screenplay Competition. Encana will wrote the scripts for 12 webisodes present a $500 cash prize to the best starring Arnie, the Viking played by script written by a Peace Region resi- Cam. Gordie directed them and we dent between the ages of 16 and 24, REELSHORTS.CA 5 and a $2,000 production prize when presenting Filming Wolves: Secrets the film is produced. of Wildlife Cinematography at 1:30 pm on Sat, May 10. Another big change this year is the festival has become competitive. Jury We couldn’t celebrate short films members Scott Belyea, Meaghan and the filmmakers who make them Brander, and Gordie Haakstad will without the support of our funding be choosing the winners of the Best partners and sponsors who make it Live Action Short, Best Animated possible. Please take a moment to let Short, and Best Documentary Short. them know that you appreciate their support of our festival. We are so grateful to local sculptor Grant Berg for designing the award I’d also like to thank Mark Picard for we will be presenting to all seven doing such a great job of the intro award winners and to Mack McDon- reel, Eric Durnford for taking a week ald of Decca Industries in Clairmont off of work and driving up from Cal- for producing it! It is a unique fusion gary to volunteer doing anything of art and industry that could only and everything, my wonderful hus- happen in this region. I hope the band Greg Scerbak who also takes a award winners will love it as much week of holidays to help out any way as I do. he can, and all the other volunteers who help put on the festival. And a We also have two great present- HUGE thank-you to Kate Foote from ers this year and both of them live Calgary who designed this souvenir here in Grande Prairie when they’re program on a very tight deadline. not out in the wilderness: Horacio You’re amazing, Kate! Galanti will be talking about his pursuit of the Grand Slam of Moun- And lastly, thank you for joining us. taineering after the screening of the It wouldn’t be a festival without you! feature documentary ANTARCTICA: A YEAR ON ICE at 7:00 pm on Tues, Terry Scerbak May 6; and Andrew Manske will be Festival Director 6 SHORTS ON PARADE Frantic 48 Film Challenge

RIMAA (Peace Region Inde- Frantic 48 Audience Choice Award. Ppendent Media Arts Associa- tion) and the festival have joined Monty Simo, Vice-President of forces to create a 48-hour film the PRIMAA Board, is the creative challenge the weekend of May force behind this adrenaline-filled 2-4 with the finished films screen- weekend of filmmaking in the Peace ing during the Frantic 48 & Youth Region. At 7:00 pm on Fri, May 2, Screenplay Awards at 3:30 pm on each team will have 48 hours to Sat, May 10. Prizes of $500 will make a short film of 2-7 minutes be presented by Community Fu- using an assigned prop and line of tures to the winner of the Frantic dialogue (the same for all teams) 48 Best Film Award as determined and one of six genres that will be by our jury members (Scott Bely- randomly assigned to each team. ea, Meaghan Brander, and Gordie Finishing in 48 hours will be a huge Haakstad) and to the winner of the accomplishment! Youth Screenwriter Mentorship Project & Screenplay Competition

ade possible with funding from Awards at 3:30 pm on Sat, May 10. MAlberta Human Services, this Gordie Haakstad, who judged last new initiative of the festival provided year’s Screenwriting Competition, one month of mentorship to Peace will judge the final batch of entries Region screenwriters aged 16 to and also cast and direct a table-read 24 who submitted their scripts of the winning screenplay following (maximum 15 pages) by the dead- the screening of the Frantic 48 films. line of March 31. After a month Concept practicality will be a factor of mentoring and feedback from in his decision since the intent is to award-winning filmmaker Scott Bely- develop a script that can be made in ea, they had until May 4 to submit their the Peace Region and showcased at revised scripts. Encana will present a next year’s festival. cash prize of $500 to the screenwriter and a $2,000 production package at reelshorts.ca the Frantic 48 & Youth Screenplay

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Our festival has always been non- these awards, but winners will competitive … until now. With this, receive an award designed by Grande our 8th festival, films will be eligible Prairie sculptor Grant Berg and made for juried awards. Of the 101+ films by Decca Industries in Clairmont. in our program, 89 are eligible for one of three awards: Best Live Ac- The jury members – Scott Belyea, tion Short, Best Animated Short, Meaghan Brander, and Gordie Haak- and Best Documentary Short. There stad – will also determine the winner are no cash prizes associated with of the Frantic 48 Best Film Award.

terned under cinematographer Don Burgess (FORREST GUMP, SPIDER- MAN, CAST AWAY) on the set of TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MA- CHINES. Gordie was the cinematographer behind the award-winning 11 Minutes Ago, a feature-length film that was shot entirely in one day.

Gordie taught cinematography and editing at the New York Film Academy, developing much of the curriculum for those two departments. He moved to Grande Prairie from Los Angeles in January 2013 to visit family and decid- ed to stay while maintaining filmmak- GORDIE HAAKSTAD ing ties in Los Angeles and Austin, Texas. He judged the Screenwriting ordie directed his first feature- Competition and taught the Editing Glength film, ABEL’S FIELD star- for Filmmakers workshop during the ring Kevin Sorbo and Samuel 2013 fest. In August he taught a multi- Davis, in Texas in 2012. It was re- day workshop called Emotion on Film: leased on DVD by Sony Pictures in The Director/Actor Collaboration, and January 2013. in the fall term, taught the Introduc- tion to Video Production course at Born in Grande Prairie and raised GPRC (Grande Prairie Regional Col- in the United States, Gordie gradu- lege). ated with honours from the Univer- sity of Southern California’s School Gordie directed the set of 12 Arnie the of Cinema-Television. He then Viking webisodes for Hansen Ford helped to create industrial, short Lincoln, five of which we’ll premiere and feature-length projects. He in- at the fest. REELSHORTS.CA 9

In addition to being a member of the promoting Canadian cinema across jury, Gordie is the judge for the Youth Canada. Screenplay Competition and will In this capacity, she has had the op- cast and direct the table read of the portunity to program screenings winning script. of some of Canada’s best and most popular films at festivals and other venues across the country, as well as international locations as far-reach- ing as Australia and South America. Since beginning her employment with TIFF in 2004, Meaghan has trav- eled to several international festivals to preview films and serve on both feature and short film juries. Meaghan holds a degree in Film Studies from Queen’s University.

“If you want to tell original stories, tell stories about MEAGHAN BRANDER women, because those eaghan is the Manager of Film stories are never told.” MCircuit with the Toronto Interna- – Jason Reitman tional Film Festival, TIFF’s outreach programming division devoted to

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ceived a glowing review from Greg Klymkiw who called it “a deeply moving post-apocalyptic thriller with superb production value, gorgeous photography and the most impres- sive mise-en-scene I’ve encountered in a genre short in some time.”

Scott has developed and led a pro- gression of training initiatives at the Reel Shorts Film Festival from the very first one in 2007. He developed a 2½-day Youth Filmmaking Challenge workshop for the 2009 festival and led it for the next four years, creat- ing 11 short films that were hits with the fest’s audiences. It was replaced Scott Belyea with more ambitious training pro- grams during the fest’s production of cott is a Vancouver filmmaker two short films: THE HORIZON PROJ- Swho grew up in Grande Prairie. ECT created during Shoot for Reel, a Scott directs commercials for Bar- two-week internship program in July bershop Films and has several fea- 2012, has screened at festivals in ture-length scripts in development Canada, the US, and Europe; and HB with his own production company, created during a spring 7-week Youth Ricebrain Media. Film Mentorship Project in 2013 has screened at festivals in Canada and Five of the short films Scott has writ- the US, winning Best Overall Youth ten, directed, and edited have won Short Film at the 2013 Calgary Inter- awards during their festival tours national Film Festival and the Young including CHILDREN OF THE DARK Filmmakers Program Competition which won the Audience Choice Grand Prize at the 2013 Austin Film award and Best Film award at the Festival. 2011 Bloodshots Filmmaking Chal- lenge. It went on to screen at many In addition to being a member of the film festivals including the Toronto jury, Scott is the mentor for the Youth After Dark Film Festival where it re- Screenwriter Mentorship Project.

“Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.” – Robert McKee Use this version of the logo A for greyscale (black and white) applications on white or light backgrounds.

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Use this version of the logo Presenters and B for greyscale (black and white) applications on black or dark Filmmakers backgrounds. Remove black box (for reference only) JASPER: A FERRET TALE which won Best Short Film at the Nevada Film Festival and the Gold Remi Award at Houston International Film Festival. Parker’s pet, Falcor the Ferret, stars in the majority of her films, is profes- Use this version of the logo sionally trained as an animal actor, C for single colour applications and has his own IMDb page. on white or light backgrounds. Alison is the Director of THE MAGIC FERRET which won Best Short Film This is Pantone 280. at the 2014 Canada International Film Festival in Vancouver. It’s in the Mag- ic Time (Grade 1-3) package at 9:30 am and 12:30 pm on Tues, May 6 at the Jan Cinema, and at 10:45 am on Wed, May 7 at Grande Prairie Live Alison Parker Theatre, and at 11:30 am on Sat, May Use this version of the logo lison Parker is a Canadian film 10 at Grande Prairie Live Theatre. She D for two-colour applications Adirector and producer living in will participate in a 15-minute Q&A Vancouver. She began her career as a after these screenings. Alison will on white or light backgrounds. sound engineer and editor. She then also visit classrooms upon request. This is Pantone 280 and 131. went on to build and run her own film Unfortunately, Falcor was unable to studio. In 2010, Alison turned her fo- make the trip with her. cus to directing her own films. Unde- terred by the old adage, “Never work with children or animals,” Alison created a franchise of movies featuring children and animals, specifically fer- Use this version of the logo rets. Her films have garnered a fol- E lowing of enthusiastic fans from all for most colour applications over the world. on white or light backgrounds. Alison’s credits include JAKE &

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with David Suzuki”, SCN, Knowledge Network, and APTN. His productions have earned 11 international and 4 Alberta Motion Picture awards, and numerous nominations at film festivals throughout the world. Andrew recently won a 2013 Emmy Award for ‘Outstanding Cinematography’ for his work in National Geographic’s “Untamed Americas”. His expertise continues to grow by expanding into all forms of high resolution 4K and 5K HD cinematography. In his drive to film the top predators of North America, Andrew has devot- Andrew Manske ed decades of his life to the company of wolverines, bears and wolves. He ndrew is an Emmy award-win- thrives on taking his audiences into ning cinematographer with 20 A the secret lives in our natural world. years of filmmaking experience spe- He specializes in documenting pred- cializing in natural history and wild- ator-prey relationships and is known life productions. He has produced, for capturing rare sequences of wolf, directed, shot, and edited over 50 black bear, polar bear and grizzly be- documentaries broadcast on Na- haviour throughout North America. tional Geographic Channel, Nat Geo Wild, Discovery Channel, Canada, Andrew’s presentation, Filming Discovery World HD, Animal Planet, Wolves: Secrets of Cinematogra- OASIS HD, Canadian Broadcasting phy, is at 1:30 pm on Sat, May 10 at Corporation “The Nature of Things Grande Prairie Live Theatre. REELSHORTS.CA 13

HORIZON PROJECT directed by Scott Belyea. Due to the remarkable experience on set, Devon and four friends created the Grande Prairie Youth Film Club. HOUSE CALL, the short film she wrote, directed, and produced, was the first film produced by the GPYFC. It screened at the 2013 Reel Shorts Film Festival. Devon also was involved with another local film SOPHIA, directed by Rory Mells, which screened at the 2013 Reel Shorts Film Festival as well as the Edmonton International Film Festival. Devon Burbank Devon is the Writer/Producer/Direc- evon Burbank is a recent St. Jo- tor of THE VISITOR which is in the Dseph Catholic High School gradu- Pizza Party & Psycho Shorts package ate. She was introduced to filmmak- at 11:30 pm on Fri, May 9 at the Jan ing during the festival-produced THE Cinema. 14 SHORTS ON PARADE

and Kilimanjaro) he has climbed. In April 2014, he completed the North Pole Marathon, a full marathon on ice with the finish line at the North Pole. Within the year, he will travel to Papua/New Guinea to climb the Carstensz Pyramid. Then the final trip to complete the Grand Slam of Mountaineering will be to Antarctica to climb Mount Vinson and then walk 140 km to the geographic South Pole. With that, he will join only a handful of people who have completed the Grand Slam of Mountaineering. To follow his adventures, check out his Horacio Galanti website at www.7Summits2Poles. com. oracio is a Civil Engineer, origi- Horacio’s presentation is part of nally from Argentina, who moved H the Antarctica & the Grand Slam of here in April 2013 when he became Mountaineering package at 7:00 pm the Community Safety Director for on Tues, May 6 at Grande Prairie Live the City of Grande Prairie. He is an Theatre. After the screening of the avid long distance runner and high feature documentary ANTARCTICA: altitude mountain climber who has A YEAR ON ICE and an intermission, set out to complete the Grand Slam he will give a 35-minute presentation of Mountaineering: climb the high- with pictures from the five summits est mountain of each continent (the he’s already conquered as well as his Seven Summits) and reach by foot recent North Pole Marathon followed the North and South Poles. by a 15-minute Q&A. In May 2013, Horacio reached the summit of Mt. Everest, the fifth of the highest Seven Summits (Ever- est, McKinley, Aconcagua, Elbrus,

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Friday, May 9 Grande Prairie Live Theatre 9:30 AM 33 Portrait of Fatherhood CL $12/$6 Students 12:30 PM 35 Looking for Love CL, SC $12/$6 Students 3:30 PM 43 Connect/Disconnect CL $12/$6 Students 6:30 PM 45 Here Now & Hereafter CL, SA $12/$6 Students 9:00 PM 46 Weapons of Choice CL, SA, V $12/$6 Students Jan Cinema Location TBD 11:30 PM 49 Pizza Party & Psycho CL, GV $20 Shorts Saturday, May 10 Grande Prairie Live Theatre Jan Cinema 9:00 AM 30 A New World (Gr 4-6) $12/$6 Students 11:30 AM 21 Magic Time (Gr 1-3) $12/$6 Students 1:30 PM 51 Filming Wolves: Secrets of $12/$6 Students Grande Prairie Live Theatre Wildlife Cinematography 3:30 PM 52 Frantic 48 & Youth Any or All $12/$6 Students Screenplay Awards 6:00 PM 24 Hidden Stories CL, GS $12/$6 Students (Gr 10-12 Social Studies) Jan Cinema 8:30 PM 52 Families Like Mine MSM, SC $12/$6 Students 10:30 PM Families Like Mine After-Party Sunday, May 11

Grande Prairie Live Theatre Grande Prairie Live Theatre 9:00 AM 54 Oscar Animated Shorts $12/$6 Students 11:30 AM 18 Step this Way (Gr 7-9) N, V $12/$6 Students 2:00 PM 56 Best of the Fest Any or All $12/$6 Students 5:00 PM Best of the Fest Any or All $12/$6 Students 8:00 PM Best of the Fest Any or All $12/$6 Students

Jan Cinema Locations Grande Prairie Live Theatre, 10130 - 98 Ave. GPLT BOX Jan Cinema, 9820 - 100 Ave. Grande Prairie Live Theatre OFFICE Advisories 780-538-1616 CL - Coarse Language N - Nudity GS - Gory Scenes V - Violence www.gplt.ab.ca GV - Gory Violence SC - Sexual Content SA - Substance Abuse MSM - Mature Subject SV - Sexual Violence Matter 18 FILMS + PACKAGES Films & Packages

Advisories CL - Coarse Language GS - Gory Scenes GV - Gory Violence SA - Substance Abuse SV - Sexual Violence N - Nudity V - Violence Harald V SC - Sexual Content Germany, 2012, 7 minutes MSM - Mature Subject Matter Writer/Director Moritz Schneider Harald is a champion wrestler with a monster mother for a coach. She FILM PACKAGE cares only about winning while he Step this Way just wants to grow flowers. When she (Grades 7-9) threatens to harm one of his beloved plants to keep him fighting, he finds (Violence, Nudity) another way to fight back. Won Best Mon, May 5 @ 12:30 pm - GPLT Student Animation at the 2013 Palm Springs International ShortFest. Thur, May 8 @ 9:30 am - Jan Cinema Sun, May 11 @ 11:30 am - GPLT

Chosen by teachers, these films are about self-awareness and resist- ing the pressures to conform. This package includes a documentary, three comedies, and a great stop motion animation film illustrating how to do stop motion animation. The First Step Two foreign-language films with (Le Premier Pas) English subtitles are also included: France, 2012, 20 minutes (French a French drama about a 12-year- with English subtitles) old figure skater and a Dutch docu- Co-Writer/Director Jonathan Comnène mentary about a boy in the Nether- lands who finds a way to deal with Sacha is a 12-year-old solo figure the bullying he suffers because of skater trained by his father to be- his love of ballroom dancing. come a champion, but Sacha wants to be Rebecca’s ice dancing partner This package contains the despite her doubts and his father’s following films: disapproval. REELSHORTS.CA 19

Eugene is a 14-year-old ballroom dancer frequently bullied in school for his love of dance. When a coun- sellor suggests a course of action for him to try, he doesn’t know whether the idea will work or make the bullying much worse. Tryouts USA, 2013, 14 minutes Writer/Director Susana Casares Being a teenager isn’t easy, espe- cially for Nayla, a Muslim American girl who wants to join her new high school’s cheerleading squad. CANADIAN PREMIERE Room 8 UK/Poland, 2013, 7 minutes Co-Writer/Director James W. Griffiths A prisoner discovers a magical box and can’t resist the temptation to use it. Won the 2014 BAFTA Award for ALBERTA PREMIERE Best British Short Film. Dancing with Style (In Stijil Dansen) SIMPLY CLICK LIKE. Netherlands, 2012, 18 minutes FEST UPDATES AND MORE: (Dutch with English subtitles) FACEBOOK.COM/REELSHORTS Writer/Director Xander de Boer

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Sleight of Hand N Tandem Australia, 2012, 10 minutes Ireland, 2013, 10 minutes Writer/Director/Animator Michael Writer/Producer/Directors Matthew Cusack Helfgott & Jared Hillman This stop-motion animation about A man reluctantly agrees to go sky- a man who creates a character diving with his soon-to-be brother- in his own image for a stop- in-law only to discover mid-air that motion animation is an allegory on his tandem instructor is suicidal and the concept of free will. Won Best refuses to pull the cord. Screened Animation at the 2013 New York with the kind permission of Net- City Short Film Festival among work Ireland Television and Mathew other awards. Helfgott. REELSHORTS.CA 21

On a tabletop mountain, a mahout and his strange herd make a surprising and never-ending journey. Won Honorable Mention at the 2013 Curtinhas Competition Vila do Conde.

ALBERTA PREMIERE Chopper Netherlands, 2012, 2 minutes Directors Lars Damoiseaux & Frederik Palmaers A highly entertaining, rapid-fire illus- ALBERTA PREMIERE tration of how the food chain works. Jonah and the Crab USA, 2012, 9 minutes FILM PACKAGE Writer/Director Laurel Cohen Magic Time A young boy finds a hermit crab on (Grades 1-3) the beach and brings it home. He’s thrilled to have a pet until he realizes Tues, May 6 @ 9:30 am - Jan Cinema that the crab belongs to a neighbour- Tues, May 6 @ 12:30 pm - Jan Cinema hood girl. Wed, May 7 @ 10:45 am - GPLT “Every writer I know has Sat, May 10 @ 11:30 am - GPLT trouble writing.” Chosen by teachers, this delight- ful package contains 7 films with a – Joseph Heller focus on friendship. There will be a Q&A with filmmaker Alison Parker (THE MAGIC FERRET). This package contains the following films:

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Room on the Broom Shame and Glasses UK, 2012, 26 minutes Italy, 2013, 7 minutes Directors Max Lang & Jan Lachauer Writer/Co-Producer/Director Ales- sandro Riconda A story about a kind witch who invites a surprising collection of ani- A young boy is too embarrassed to mals to join her on her broom much wear his glasses in front of his cute to the frustration of her cat. Based classmate, but he must wear them on the picture book written by Julia to read the questions on his exam. Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Won Best Short at the 2013 San Di- Scheffler, this magical tale about ego International Kids Film Festival friendship and family is produced among other awards. by Magic Light Pictures who made The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo’s Child which were highlights of our 2011 and 2012 festivals respectively. Nomi- nated for an Oscar in 2014 for Best Animated Short.

ALBERTA PREMIERE The Magic Ferret Canada, 2013, 12 minutes Director Alison Parker Alison Parker in attendance ALBERTA PREMIERE Sam is a six-year-old orphan with a The Window pet ferret named Booger. When pro- spective parents come to visit his (La fenêtre) orphanage, Sam decides to impress Switzerland, 2012, 5 minutes them with a few magic tricks with Writer/Director/Animator Camille Booger as his assistant. When their Müller most amazing trick flops, Sam and Booger must conjure up a different When a young boy sees from his win- kind of magic. Won Best Short Film dow that a girl his age is being bullied, at the 2014 Canada International Film he realizes that he’s not at all like the Festival. hero of his book. REELSHORTS.CA 23

Lift Off Antarctica: A Year on Ice Netherlands, 2013, 4 minutes New Zealand, 2013, 92 minutes Director Sandra Welte Writer/Producer/Cinematographer/ Director Anthony Powell Joey is a clumsy bird who lives in the jungle and can’t fly because of his New Zealand photographer Antho- small wings. When he finds the love ny Powell spent a decade document- of his life at the top of a tree, he has ing his experience at the bottom of to be inventive. the world – from the awe-inspiring auroras and animal ecosystems to the freezing and terrifying ice FILM PACKAGE storms. But most importantly, he pointed his camera at the people – Antarctica & the Grand not just the scientists, but the ev- Slam of Mountaineering eryday workers who live on base to keep the stations running. In the Tues, May 6 @ 7:00 pm - GPLT process, Powell developed his own specialized camera technology that Presented by Capstan Hauling enabled him to capture Antarctica’s this wonderful pairing of a New winter on film for the first time. His Zealand feature-length docu- remarkable time-lapse imagery and mentary about Antarctica with panoramic vistas have been fea- a presentation by mountaineer tured in BBC’s Frozen Planet and Horacio Galanti on the progress in National Geographic. Won Audi- he’s made in attaining the Grand ence Award for Best Documentary Slam of Mountaineering: climb at the 2014 Irvine International Film the highest mountain of each Festival among numerous other continent (the Seven Summits) awards. and reach by foot the North and South Poles. Antarctica will be the final step in achieving this goal which only a handful of peo- “When in doubt, have a man ple have accomplished. After the come through the door with documentary, there will be an in- a gun in his hand.” termission followed by Horacio’s presentation and Q&A. – Raymond Chandler 24 FILMS + PACKAGES

FILM PACKAGE Hidden Stories (Coarse Language, Gory Scenes) Wed, May 7 @ 9:45 am - Jan Cinema Sat, May 10 @ 6:00 pm - GPLT The Grand Slam of Chosen by teachers and presented by CKUA, these award-winning Mountaineering films explore world events through 35-minute presentation by Horacio the hidden stories of individual peo- Galanti followed by a 15-minute ple. Spanning Europe, Africa, South Q&A America and the US, this package includes an Oscar-nominated Horacio set out on his Grand Slam documentary, an Oscar-nominated of Mountaineering goal twelve years drama, and four subtitled films with ago and has summited the big- dialogue in Somali, Spanish, and gest 5 of the Seven Summits (Ever- German. In all of them, the strength est, McKinley, Aconcagua, Elbrus, of the human spirit to connect, to and Kilimanjaro) and recently ran a forgive, and to find hope is inspiring. full marathon at the North Pole. He will share photos of his summits This package contains the and the North Pole, but the majority following films: of the slides will be from his Ever- est Expedition. A year ago he was climbing on the same spot where an avalanche recently killed 16 sherpas. reelshorts.ca

Asad South Africa/USA, 2012, 18 minutes (Somali with English subtitles) Writer/Director Bryan Buckley In a war-torn fishing village in Somalia, a young boy must help support his family by becoming a pirate like the older boys in his village or by becoming a fisher- man despite his bad luck at fishing. Nominated for an Oscar in 2013 for Best Live Action Short. REELSHORTS.CA 25

liefs and fears, eventually leading to an improbable collaboration… and friendship. Nominated for an Oscar in 2014 for Best Short Documentary.

Captive Radio USA/Colombia, 2012, 23 minutes (Spanish with English subtitles) Director Lauren Rosenfeld CANADIAN PREMIERE Every Sunday morning, men and Great CL women held hostage by rebel guer- Germany, 2012, 23 minutes (German rilla groups deep in the Colombian with English subtitles) jungle listen to messages from their Co-Writer/Director Andreas Henn families on The Voices of Kidnapping In 1942, Nazi Germany occupies all of radio show. The harrowing personal Yugoslavia. Nikola Radosevic is sent accounts of police major Guillermo for desperately needed ammunition Solórzano and the parents of Juan by a group of Partisans involved in the Camilo Mora represent thousands resistance movement, but instead he of people who rely on the show to brings back a weapon he believes to keep hope alive. Won Best Short be more powerful than guns. Despite Documentary at the 2013 San Diego their scorn, he risks his life to use it Latino Film Festival. in this World War II drama based on a true story. Won the Audience Award at the 2013 Eberswalde Film Festival among other awards.

Facing Fear CL USA, 2013, 23 minutes Writer/Producer/Director Jason Cohen When a former neo-Nazi skinhead and the gay victim of his hate crime meet by chance 25 years later at the Museum of Tolerance, they embark on a journey of forgiveness that chal- A PROUD SPONSOR lenges both to grapple with their be- OF THE 2014 REEL SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL 26 FILMS + PACKAGES

tell him a good story. Won Best Inter- national Short Film at the 2013 Rain- dance Film Festival in London.

A Good Story (Eine Gute Geschichte) Germany, 2013, 20 minutes Director Martin-Christopher Bode Oh Sheep! GS Germany, 2012, 7 minutes When Helga Landowsky discovers a Director Gottfried Mentor broken jug in an antiques store near the German/Polish border, she wants Two shepherds go to increasingly it at any cost, but the shopkeeper extreme lengths to keep their flocks inexplicably refuses to sell it to her separated. Symbolic of the efforts even as she offers 10,000 euros for it. that governments use to delin- But she can have it for free… if she’ll eate their territory and control their

A PROUD SPONSOR OF THE 2014 REEL SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL REELSHORTS.CA 27 citizens, the most effective method relationship. When Annabelle sees of separation leads to the most de- no way out, she takes drastic action structive consequences. Won the to reclaim her childhood. Audience Award at the 2013 Mon- stra Festival in Lisbon among other awards. FILM PACKAGE Mark the Day (Grade 10-12 English/ Languages) Eat (Coarse Language, Gory Scenes) Germany, 2012, 8 minutes (German Wed, May 7 @ 12:30 pm - Jan Cinema with English subtitles) Director Moritz Krämer Thurs, May 8 @ 6:00 pm - GPLT A model becomes consumed by the Chosen by teachers, these films re- demands of her profession. Winner flect on questions of identity, adver- of Best Short Film at the Puchon In- sity, and adventure. In addition to a ternational Fantastic Film Festival in drama, two documentaries, and a South Korea among other awards. very funny black comedy, there are four foreign-language films with English subtitles: two in French and SIMPLY CLICK LIKE. two in German. FEST UPDATES AND MORE: This package contains the FACEBOOK.COM/REELSHORTS following films:

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Beauty Mark Canada, 2012, 14 minutes Co-Writer/Director Mark Ratzlaff Eight-year-old Annabelle is a child beauty queen whose mother’s am- bitions for her daughter’s beauty pageant success dominate their 28 FILMS + PACKAGES

ALBERTA PREMIERE Dancing Deaf Rhino Full Throttle CL South Africa, 2013, 10 minutes (Nashorn Im Galopp) Director Danielle Sher Germany, 2013, 15 minutes (German Simoné Botha was born complete- with English subtitles) ly deaf in both ears and was the Co-Writer/Director Erik Schmitt youngest recipient of cochlear im- Bruno roams the streets of Berlin, gaz- plant surgery in Africa at the age of ing behind the many facades and sur- 22 months. Against enormous odds, faces as he seeks the soul of the city. she has succeeded in becoming a Unexpectedly, he meets an ally in his professional ballet dancer. quest and immediately falls in love, but she’s only in the city for one more week and he must find the right way to say goodbye. Won Audience Award for Best Short Film at the 2013 Cambridge Film Festival among other awards.

The Questions We Ask Canada, 2013, 3 minutes Director/Editor Kalum Ko As Canadian adventurer Bruce Kirk- by crosses the Georgia Strait from Vancouver to Victoria on a stand-up The Parakeets paddleboard in the spring of 2013, (Les Perruches) he ponders the true meaning of France, 2013, 14 minutes (French adventure. with English subtitles) Writer/Director/Actress Julie Voisin “Writing takes the most time, directing takes the When Lili starts losing her hair one morning as a result of cancer treat- most talent and producing ments, the hospital-provided wig takes the most guts.” only increases her anguish. Her – Aaron Sorenson friend Laura decides a radical make- over is called for. REELSHORTS.CA 29

The End CL Fool’s Day CL, GS USA, 2013, 19 minutes France, 2011, 17 minutes (French with Co-Writer/Director/Editor Cody Blue English subtitles) Snider Co-Writer/Director Didier Barcelo A 4th grade class pulls an April When Charlotte Rampling watches Fool’s prank on their teacher with a rerun on TV of a 1985 film that she catastrophic results. Panicked and starred in, she discovers that she has convinced that they will all go to jail, been replaced by a young actress they set out to cover up the accident whom the media is calling the “new before their D.A.R.E. officer arrives Charlotte Rampling.” for his weekly lesson.

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FILM PACKAGE A New World (Gr 4-6) Wed, May 7 @ 12:45 pm - GPLT Thurs, May 8 @ 12:30 pm - Jan Cinema ALBERTA PREMIERE Sat, May 10 @ 9:00 am - GPLT Ravi & Jane Australia, 2013, 13 minutes Chosen by teachers, this package Writer/Director Stuart O’Rourke contains films about friendship, Ravi is a 10-year-old boy from Sri prejudice, bullying, dinosaurs, and Lanka whose family is seeking asy- pet ownership. In addition to three lum in Australia. They just moved comedies, there is a documentary, a into Sydney’s Villawood detention story from Inuit oral history, and two centre and school is the only time foreign-language films (French and that Ravi is allowed outside its fenc- Dutch) with English subtitles. es. On his first day of school, he is This package contains the befriended by Jane, but can their following films: friendship withstand circumstances that are beyond their control?

CANADIAN PREMIERE Cootie Contagion Miss Todd USA, 2012, 8 minutes UK, 2013, 13 minutes Writer/Director Josh Smooha Director/Co-Writer/Animator Kristina Yee Concerned friends set out to protect Matt from the clear and present dan- Based on the true story of the first ger of catching cooties from his friend- woman to build and design an air- ly but infected female lab partner. plane, this animated musical takes place in 1909 when Miss Todd dreams of becoming one of the brave pio- SIMPLY CLICK LIKE. neers of flight, but as a woman, she’s FEST UPDATES AND MORE: got more than gravity holding her FACEBOOK.COM/REELSHORTS down. Won the Gold Medal in the Foreign Film Category at the 2013 Student Academy Awards, the first REELSHORTS.CA 31 animated film in the history of the speech, could shift their appearanc- awards to win in this category. es, and could even assume human form. In this tale, a neglected orphan is adopted by a polar bear elder. Un- der the bear’s guidance, the little orphan learns the skills he will need to survive and provide for himself.

ALBERTA PREMIERE Hear This! (Moet je Horen!) Netherlands, 2013, 15 minutes (Dutch with English subtitles) Director Soulaima El Khaldi Ten-year-old Tristan’s parents are The Centipede and the Toad deaf, but he and his sister can hear (Mille-pattes et Crapaud) just fine. Even though Tristan’s father France, 2013, 10 minutes (French plays for the Dutch national football with English subtitles) team for the deaf and he has offered Co-Writer/Director Anna Khmelevs- to coach Tristan’s football team, the kaya club won’t allow it because commu- nication may be too difficult. Tristan In a faraway forest, the graceful Cen- sets out to prove that his Dad would tipede is admired by all the other make a good coach and that his team creatures except for an old jealous members would feel the same way if Toad who devises a plan that will his father was given the chance. stop the Centipede in its tracks. Won the Adult Jury Prize for Best Animat- ed Short Film at the 2013 Chicago International Children’s Film Festival among other awards.

ALBERTA PREMIERE “Drama helps us dream The Orphan and the about what we could be, Polar Bear but comedy helps us live with who we are.” Canada, 2014, 9 minutes Writer/Producer/Director Neil Christopher – Steve Kaplan According to Inuit oral history, long ago animals had the power of 32 FILMS + PACKAGES

CANADIAN PREMIERE Mr. Hublot The Lost World Luxembourg/France, 2013, 12 minutes UK, 2013, 12 minutes Directors Laurent Witz & Alexandre Writer/Director Ben Smith Espigares Stressed businessman Bob heads to Suffering from OCD and with- a remote island to get away from it drawn from the world, Mr. Hublot’s all, but the island isn’t quite as de- life is satisfyingly predictable… until he serted as he thought it would be and witnesses what appears to be the tragic crazy scientist Lizzie is the least of his end of a robot puppy whom he rushes worries. into the street to save. But can his small home survive the addition of a mutt who just keeps growing? Won the Os- reelshorts.ca car in 2014 for Best Animated Short.

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FILM PACKAGE But then Hamoudi’s television breaks down and getting it fixed in time for Portrait of Fatherhood the game becomes so important to him that he ignores the risk. Won (Coarse Language) Best Film at the 2013 Gulf Film Fes- Wed, May 7 @ 5:00 pm - GPLT tival in Dubai among other awards. Fri, May 9 @ 9:30 am - GPLT This package portrays fathers from the perspective of their children, young or grown up, and ends with a documentary about three men about to become fathers. Though sometimes flawed, these men are CANADIAN PREMIERE loving fathers trying to do their best for their children. There are two Group Photo CL documentaries and three foreign- (Gruppenfoto) language films (Arabic, Dutch, and Germany, 2012, 19 minutes (German German) with English subtitles. with English subtitles) This package contains the Writer/Director Mareille Klein following films: At Clara’s piano recital, her father’s drinking problem and bullish per- sonality become a source of embar- rassment for her in this heartfelt portrait of a child torn between love and shame for her imperfect but devoted father. Won Best Short Film at the 2013 Max Ophüls Festival.

Bhagdad Messi Iraq/Belgium, 2013, 18 minutes (Ara- bic with English subtitles) Co-Writer/Director Sahim Omar Kalifa In Iraq, ten-year-old Hamoudi is obsessed with football. Like many fans around the world, he and his friends are eagerly looking forward A PROUD SPONSOR to the 2009 Champions League fina- OF THE 2014 REEL SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL le between Barcelona and England’s Manchester United, the long-awaited clash between Messi and Ronaldo. 34 FILMS + PACKAGES

CANADIAN PREMIERE ALBERTA PREMIERE The Portrait CL Just As I Remember UK/Ireland, 2013, 20 minutes Canada, 2012, 18 minutes Director Chris Forster Director/Producer Andrew Moir When Laura’s daughter Eva choos- When filmmaker Andrew Moir was es her German émigré grandfather three years old, his father was diag- as the subject of a portraiture as- nosed with ALS, a fatal and incur- signment in the final year of her art able illness. Seventeen years later, degree, Laura is forced to revisit Andrew meets Brad who has ALS family secrets about her father’s war- and three young children just like time past that she’d been trying to Andrew’s dad had when he was di- forget. Should she tell her daughter agnosed. Each father must make a what her mother had told her about heartbreaking choice that will affect his involvement with the T4 Eutha- their children’s lives forever. Won nasia Programme at the Psychiat- the Best Student Film Award in 2013 ric Hospital at Hadamar? Or should from the Toronto Film Critics Asso- she finally confront her father ciation and was nominated for Best with what she knows about him? Short Documentary in 2014 at the Ca- Screened with the kind permission nadian Screen Awards. of Network Ireland Television and Eclectic Films.

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By Her Side N, MSM (Ik stond erbij) Netherlands, 2012, 25 minutes (Dutch with English subtitles) Director/DOP Niels van Koevorden Pregnancy and birth through the viewpoint of three young Dutch men REELSHORTS.CA 35 about to become fathers. Won Best Short Film at the 2013 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. FILM PACKAGE Looking for Love (Coarse Language, Sexual Content) Wed, May 7 @ 7:30 pm - GPLT The Date CL Finland, 2012, 7 minutes (Finnish Fri, May 9 @ 12:30 pm - GPLT with English subtitles) Presented by Q99 and the Stanford Writer/Director Jenni Toivoniemi Hotel, this entertaining package Sixteen-year-old Tino has to host a charts the bumpy course of love, date for Diablo, the family’s stud cat. from sweet and romantic to pure While he pours tea for the middle- animal attraction. It includes three aged woman and her daughter after comedies and four foreign-language they arrive with their cat, he must try films (Finnish, Hebrew, Swedish, to make polite conversation over the and Persian) with English subtitles. distracting sounds coming from the This package contains the next room. Won the Short Film Jury following films: Award for International Fiction at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

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ALBERTA PREMIERE ALBERTA PREMIERE Auschwitz on My Mind Gaming (Spel) CL, SC Israel/Poland/UK, 2012, 16 minutes Sweden, 2013, 14 minutes (Swedish (Hebrew with English subtitles) with English subtitles) Writer/Producer/Director Assaf Writer/Director Ylva Forner Machnes Elisabet comes home from a disap- Two Israeli teens on a school trip to pointing online date to find Adam, Poland to visit death camps and me- her teenage son’s friend, playing morials are torn between the remote video games while her son has gone events of the Holocaust and a more to a party. Letting her hair and her immediate biological attraction. Won guard down, she enjoys Adam’s Best Short Film Award at the 2013 Je- playful company until neither is sure rusalem Jewish Film Festival. if they are still playing. REELSHORTS.CA 37

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More Than Two SC, MSM Hours (Bishtar az do Saat) CANADIAN PREMIERE Iran, 2013, 15 minutes (Persian with Alfred & Anna English subtitles) Spain, 2012, 16 minutes Co-Writer/Director Ali Asgari Director Juanma Suárez In this gripping drama, a young cou- As a young married couple, Alfred ple wanders the city in the middle of and Anna move to a new town and the night in hopes of finding a hos- open the Alfred Music School, pro- pital to treat the girl. Desperation ducing a string of winners of the grows as the hope of getting much Young Music Talent Contest. Decades needed aid and compassion begins later, the town’s factory closes, many to fade. Won Grand Jury Prize for families move away, and Alfred is Best World Cinema Short at the 2013 left with no children to teach. When Indianapolis International Film Festi- a new student arrives one day, Alfred val among other awards. is overjoyed and focuses all of his attention on the young boy. Feeling increasingly rejected, Anna finally decides there is only one thing she can do.

CANADIAN PREMIERE The Exchange USA, 2013, 7 minutes Co-Writer/Director Robert L. Poole thereelcan.ca Desperate to solve the seemingly irreconcilable problems in his marriage, a man goes to a mysterious fixer for help. There is a A PROUD SPONSOR catch – the process is irrevers- OF THE 2014 REEL SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL ible and he’ll have to live with the consequences forever. Won Audi- ence Choice Award at the 2013 In- 38 FILMS + PACKAGES

and both groups are battling for the music room. As the turf war escalates, the star-crossed lovers are forced to make decisions that might cost them their friends, their place in school, and each other. Won Special Mention for the Crystal Bear Award NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE for Best Short Film at the 2014 Berlin Emo (the musical) Film Festival. Australia, 2013, 16 minutes Writer/Director Neil Triffett When Ethan, an Emo kid who hates “Good writers borrow almost everything, falls in love with from other writers. Trinity, a good Christian girl with a Great writers steal from passion for life and her Lord Jesus them outright.” Christ, they dare not let their friends find out because she belongs to a – Aaron Sorkin group of Christian musicians and Ethan belongs to a group of Emos, REELSHORTS.CA 39

FILM PACKAGE A psychiatrist must decide on the sanity of Mr. Voorman, a maximum Oscar Live Action Shorts security prisoner who believes he (Coarse Language, Violence) is a god: is he a faker or a lunatic? Nominated for an Oscar in 2014 for Thurs, May 8 @ 3:30 pm - GPLT Best Live Action Short. A package of the five live action shorts nominated for an Oscar in 2014. This package contains the following films:

Just Before Losing Everything (Avant que de tout perdre) France, 2013, 29 minutes (French with English subtitles) Writer/Director Xavier Legrand Helium MSM A woman takes her children to her Denmark, 2013, 23 minutes (Danish workplace and asks to be paid im- with English subtitles) mediately because she’s going away. Co-Writer/Director Anders Walter Tension escalates when her husband A young dying boy is helped by the shows up looking for her. Nominated hospital’s eccentric janitor who tells for an Oscar in 2014 for Best Live Ac- him stories about Helium, the magi- tion Short. cal world the boy will live in after death. Won the Oscar in 2014 for Best Live Action Short. A PROUD SPONSOR OF THE 2014 REEL SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL

The Voorman Problem MSM UK, 2012, 13 minutes GPTOURISM.CA Co-Writer/Director Mark Gill 40 FILMS + PACKAGES

That Wasn’t Me CL, V Do I have to Take Care of (Aquel no era yo) Everything? (Pitääkö mun Spain, 2012, 26 minutes (Spanish kaikki hoitaa?) with English subtitles) Finland, 2012, 7 minutes (Finnish Writer/Director Esteban Crespo with English subtitles) Director/Editor Selma Vilhunen At a border crossing point in Africa, two aid workers are captured by the When a family oversleeps, it’s up to child soldiers they had wanted to the mother to get them to a wedding help. Nominated for an Oscar in 2014 on time because nobody else seems for Best Live Action Short. to be doing anything right. Who has made a mess of her husband’s shirt FEST UPDATES AND MORE: and hidden the girls’ dresses as well FACEBOOK.COM/REELSHORTS as the gift? Nominated for an Oscar in 2014 for Best Live Action Short.

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Presented by Free FM, these films in- Cold Warrior SV volve situations that drove people to UK, 2012, 19 minutes take extreme measures to get what Writer/Director Emily Greenwood they want. Sometimes their actions were admirable, but more often, In 1980, 14-year-old Romanian gym- they were not. Award-winners in this nast Ana trains hard with her coach package include a documentary, an Teodor in the run-up to the Moscow animated short, and a black comedy. Games. They want to win and the The package includes three foreign- government has a plan that will give language films (German, Spanish, them an edge, but at what price? and Norwegian) with English subtitles. This package contains the following films:

ALBERTA PREMIERE Double Occupancy (Zweibettzimmer) Germany, 2012, 9 minutes (German with English subtitles) Writer/Producer/Director Fabian Giessler Win or Lose MSM USA, 2012, 16 minutes Two old men share a hospital room. Director/Cinematographer/Editor There is only one window that gives Daniel Koehler the nearest patient a view of the out- In this inspiring story about the side world, while the other fellow, struggle for marriage equality, Pho- confined to his bed, can only stare tographer Curtis Brown takes up his at the walls and his more fortunate camera to fight a proposed amend- roommate until a fateful choice pres- ment to North Carolina’s Constitu- ents itself. Won Best Animated Short tion. Won Student Academy Award Film at the 2013 Cleveland Interna- for Best Documentary. tional among many other awards. 42 FILMS + PACKAGES

diers of Blue Division. Won Best Com- edy at the 2013 Tolfa International Film Festival in Italy among many awards.

CANADIAN PREMIERE Blue Division CL, V (División azul) Spain, 2012, 13 minutes (Spanish with English subtitles) Cowboys and Dissidents CL Writer/Producer/Director Sergi Marti Ireland, 2012, 18 minutes Maltas Writer/Director Will Maloney In the summer of 1943, German at- A young man confronts Northern tempts to conquer the strategic loca- Ireland’s legacy of violence when he tion of Leningrad have failed miser- breaks into a home to avenge his fa- ably. As a last resort, Hitler decides to ther’s death and meets the boy who send in his best men – the Spanish sol- will be left fatherless as a result.

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Strange Fish Drone Strike CL (Framand fisk) UK, 2013, 21 minutes Co-Writer/Director Chris Richmond Norway, 2012, 23 minutes (Norwe- gian with English subtitles) A day in the life of a devoted father Director Mikal Hovland and RAF drone pilot – juggling the normality of his domestic life with Margarethe and her husband run the reality of firing Hellfire missiles the only restaurant on an island that 4,000 miles away in Afghanistan … tourists visit by the busload. One day until one fateful decision shatters his a young couple opens a sushi bar resolve. Won the Grand Prize for Best next door. While her husband easily Short at the 2013 Rhode Island Inter- makes friends with the newcomers, national Film Festival. Margarethe devises a plan to encour- age them to go back to where they came from.

FILM PACKAGE Connect/Disconnect (Coarse Language) Fri, May 9 @ 3:30 pm - GPLT Speechless CL (Sin Respuesta) This package contains films about Spain, 2014, 11 minutes (Spanish connecting at a distance, whether by with English subtitles) phone or by bomb. It includes two Writer/Director Miguel Parra award-winners, a documentary, and a Spanish-language film with Eng- Lola works for a financial institution. lish subtitles. From her tiny cubicle, she spends the day phoning people who are late on This package contains the their payments. It’s a job she does following films: without giving it a lot of thought, but that’s about to change. www.reelshorts.ca 44 FILMS + PACKAGES

CANADIAN PREMIERE The Phone Call MSM SLOMO UK, 2013, 21 minutes USA, 2013, 16 minutes Co-Writer/Producer/Director Mat Director/Producer Josh Izenberg Kirkby Depressed and frustrated with his Heather (Golden Globe winner Sally life, Dr. John Kitchin leaves his ca- Hawkins), a shy Crisis Centre worker, reer as a neurologist and moves to takes a call from a suicidal man (Os- Pacific Beach where he undergoes car winner Jim Broadbent) and tries a radical transformation into a roll- to change his mind. Screened with erblading legend known as SLOMO. the kind permission of Network Ire- Won Audience Award for Best Short land Television and RSA Films. Documentary at the 2013 Ashland Independent Film Festival among many other awards.

“Drama helps us dream about what we could be, but comedy helps us live with who we are.” CANADIAN PREMIERE Ufologist – Steve Kaplan USA, 2012, 17 minutes Producer/Directors Ewan McNicol & Anna Sandilands Peter Davenport runs the National UFO Reporting Center, a one-man operation fielding phone calls and collecting data from UFO sightings around the U.S. Prank calls, hoaxes, and misguided interpretations mix in with legitimately breathless reports of the extraordinary. As a quiet bachelor in solitary scientific pursuit, Peter re- A PROUD SPONSOR mains something of an enigma in the OF THE 2014 REEL SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL small town of Harrington, Washington. REELSHORTS.CA 45

FILM PACKAGE Finland, 2013, 9 minutes (Finnish with English subtitles) Here Now & Hereafter Co-Writer/Director Jani Ilomäki (Coarse Language, Substance Abuse) When eight-year-old Antti’s parents Fri, May 9 @ 6:30 pm - GPLT tell him that it’s time for his old dog to go to the vet to be put down, the From the profound (Vultures of Ti- boy begins to think about death and bet) to the darkly hilarious (The Fu- wonder what it means. Won the Youth neral of Harald Kramer), these films Jury Prize for Finnish Short Film Un- take the darkest subject and find der 30 minutes at the 2013 Tampere light, humor or insight. International Short Film Festival. This package contains the following films:

Vultures of Tibet MSM CANADIAN PREMIERE USA/Canada, 2013, 21 minutes Director Russell O. Bush Rúbai CL Sky Burial, a private ritual that in- Ireland, 2013, 12 minutes volves offering the bodies of Tibetan Director Louise Ni Fhiannachta dead to wild griffon vultures, has be- As her classmates prepare for their come a tourist attraction. Burial sites First Holy Communion, Rúbai an- are now highlighted on tourist maps nounces that she is an atheist and and local officials charge admission refuses to participate. Screened with to visitors who take photos and vid- the kind permission of Network Ire- eo, often posting them online against land Television and Maga Media Teo. the wishes of affected families. This documentary exposes an ideological conflict often hidden to the outside world and reveals the potential for oppression in the act of looking.

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one thought to check if he was still alive. Despite his doubts that such a story could be true, the young mortician can’t keep from asking to hear more. Won the Prix Interculturel at the 2013 Munich International Festi- val of Film Schools.

This Way Out MSM FILM PACKAGE UK, 2013, 20 minutes Writer/Director/Producer Staten Weapons of Choice Cousins-Roe (Coarse Language, Violence, Minnie and Maude struggle to keep Substance Abuse) Minnie’s Euthanasia Center afloat, Fri, May 9 @ 9:00 pm - GPLT but competition and government bureaucracy threaten to end it all … The weapons used in these films until the two come up with a plan to include fire, fists, bombs, poison, find people who really want to die, and of course guns. This diverse but just don’t know it yet. Sometimes package includes an animated docu- people just need a helping push. mentary, award-winning films, and three foreign-language films (Dutch, Spanish, and German) with English subtitles. This package contains the following films:

CANADIAN PREMIERE The Funeral of Harald CL, SA Kramer (Das Begräbnis des Harald Kramer) Austria, 2013, 30 minutes (German with English subtitles) Writer/Director Marc Schlegel MatchHead CL On his first day of work, a young UK, 2012, 14 minutes mortician is told the story of Harald Producer/Director Ian Barnes Kramer, a man who suffered a head injury and appeared to be dead, but When a ten-year-old arsonist is wasn’t. Harald could hear though court-ordered to attend a counsel- and, due to the excellent chili his wife ling session, she meets ex-arsonist had served him the night before his George which sparks a battle of wills apparent death, be heard, but still no and an unusual friendship. Screened REELSHORTS.CA 47 with the kind permission of Network Ireland Television and Swing & Shift Films.

CANADIAN PREMIERE Mr. Invisible UK, 2013, 14 minutes Director Greg Ash I Love Hooligans CL, V, SA An old man seems invisible to the Netherlands/Belgium, 2013, 12 min- world around him. With only a utes (Dutch with English subtitles) cat for company, is he just a sad Writer/Director Jan-Dirk Bouw stereotype? Won the Audience In this animated documentary, a Dutch Choice Award at the 2014 Aspen hooligan loves his football team above Shortsfest. Screened with the kind all else and gives up any chance of permission of Network Ireland happiness at home because of it. Television and Tin Monkey Films. 48 FILMS + PACKAGES

Homemade V The Red Valentine Ireland, 2012, 5 minutes Australia, 2012, 15 minutes Director Luke McManus Writer/Director Glenn Stewart An elderly gentleman wants to im- A young couple escapes the press his new lady friend by baking a Ukraine and settles in Australia dur- cake, but he knows he has to get past ing World War II. When their bod- a neighbourhood gang of feral girls ies are discovered on the beach, a first. Screened with the kind permis- detective notices discrepancies in sion of Network Ireland Television their apparent suicides. Won Gold- and Park Films. en Reel Award at the 2012 Nevada International Film Festival among other awards.

Underground V (Subterráneo) Blackstory CL, V Spain, 2013, 14 minutes (Spanish Wallis and Futuna, 2012, 30 minutes with English subtitles) (German with English subtitles) Co-Writer/Director Miguel A. Car- Directors Stefan Brunner & Chris- mona toph Brunner The underground parkade is deserted Because Max loves Lucille, and at 3 in the morning except for a pair of Lucille toys with Gabriel, and Ga- clandestine lovers who hide when a briel gets in the way of Fred, and car arrives carrying three hooded guys Fred has a grudge against Sylves- and a victim in the trunk. Horrified, they ter, and Sylvester’s been sleeping watch as the victim is killed and then with Lucille, their lives intersect try to agree on what they should do so on a pitch-black night, a combina- they won’t be next. Won the Audience tion that leads to just one thing – Award at the 2013 Cortopolis Interna- death. tional Short Film Festival in Madrid. REELSHORTS.CA 49

FILM PACKAGE Pizza Party & Psycho Shorts (Coarse Language, Gory Violence) Fri, May 9 @ 11:30 pm - Jan Cinema Presented by Rock 97 and Pizza The Visitor Hut, this popular package of horror Grande Prairie, 2013, 3 minutes shorts starts with a pizza party at Writer/Director/Producer Devon 11:30 pm followed by a package of Burbank horror shorts at midnight. Local filmmaker Devon Burbank will introduce Devon Burbank in attendance her film THE VISITOR. A noise wakens a young woman in This package contains the the middle of the night. As she walks following films: through the house looking for the cause, she realizes that she’s not alone.

Honeymoon Suite China, 2012, 14 minutes (English and Lights Out Chinese with English subtitles) Sweden, 2013, 3 minutes Co-Writer/Director Zao Wang Writer/Director David F. Sandberg For the Guest Service Manager at a When a woman turns out the lights, posh boutique hotel in Beijing, Chi- she sees a figure in the shadows, but na, service is the top priority. When when she turns them back on, there is a mysterious American guest wreaks nothing. Is she alone in her apartment havoc, she risks her life to maintain and just seeing things? Or is there that ideal. Won Best Short (Action- something sinister waiting for her in Adventure/Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Horror) at the darkness? Won Best Director, 2013 the 2014 Asians On Film Festival. Bloody Cuts Horror Challenge.

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Jack Attack CL, GS USA, 2013, 9 minutes Writer/Directors Bryan Norton & Antonio Padovan Jack’s favourite babysitter introduc- es him to the art of pumpkin carving CANADIAN PREMIERE on Halloween night, but that turns The Gas Man out to be a really bad idea. Won the Audience Award for Best Short at Ireland, 2013, 14 minutes the 2013 Fantasia International Film Writer/Director Matt Palmer Festival in Montreal. A woman who lives alone begins to feel uneasy about the gas man making repairs in her home and asks him to leave. Screened with the kind permission of Network Ireland Television and Rankin Film Productions/Wellington Films. ALBERTA PREMIERE Don’t Move GV UK, 2013, 14 minutes Producer/Director Anthony Melton Six friends get together for their month- ly “games night” and accidentally un- leash a demonic force that might tear them – and their friendships – to pieces. The Meeting CL Canada, 2013, 16 minutes Writer/Producer/Director Karen Lam SKAnon (Serial Killers Anonymous) members offer support to each other during a meeting, but when a new- comer joins, tension escalates to the breaking point.

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Steve and his wife are on their way to a family dinner in New York City on Christmas Eve when their car breaks down. Luckily, the lights are on at a mechanic shop so Steve knocks on the door not realizing that there’s a crime scene inside and the murder- One Please GS ers are expecting the notorious USA, 2013, 6 minutes cleaner, Mr. Bear. Writer/Director Jesse Burks An ordinary summer day in suburbia FILM PACKAGE turns darkly weird when horror legend Michael Berryman (AKA The Ice Cream Filming Wolves: Secrets Man) comes to town. Nominated for the of Cinematography Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Short at the 2014 Slamdance Film Festival. Sat, May 10 @ 1:30 pm - GPLT 60-minute presentation by Andrew Manske followed by a 30-minute Q&A GV Presented by YL Country Radio, this talk covers Andrew Manske’s incred- ible experiences filming wolves in some of the most remote regions in North America from coast to coast CANADIAN PREMIERE to coast, and highlights several The Chef GS projects still in the making. He has been in pursuit of wild wolves for UK, 2013, 7 minutes two decades. With five internation- Director/Editor Robbie Gibbon ally broadcast wolf documentaries under his belt, he isn’t stopping yet! A chef seeks revenge against the critic With loads of never before seen who savagely reviewed his cooking. wolf footage and glimpses behind the scenes, filmmakers and wildlife enthusiasts won’t want to miss this event! Andrew will reveal some of the secrets of his craft and dis- cuss the challenges of filming in an ever-changing landscape and film industry.

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FILM PACKAGE FILM PACKAGE Frantic 48 & Youth Families Like Mine Screenplay Awards (Sexual Content, Sat, May 10 @ 3:30 pm - GPLT Mature Subject Matter) The Frantic 48 films produced, shot, Sat, May 10 @ 8:30 pm - GPLT and edited in only 48 hours May 2-4 Presented by Moose FM, these films will screen in this package. Each team’s about families show how love is the captain will be called up on stage to common ingredient that families all say a few words about their film. Then over the world have in common. Scott Belyea will call up on stage the This package has two documen- youth screenwriters he mentored taries, two foreign-language films during the Youth Screenwriter Men- (Swedish and Finnish) with English torship Project and ask them to say a subtitles, and three comedies. few words about their scripts. While everyone enjoys an intermission in This package contains the Encores, the jury members will deter- following films: mine the winner of the Frantic 48 Best Film Award and volunteers will count audience votes to determine the winner of the Frantic 48 Audience Choice Award. Following the intermission, Gordie Haakstad will announce the winner of the Best Youth Screenplay Award presented by Encana. A table read of the winning script will follow. The jury will announce the winner of A Family Like Mine MSM the Frantic 48 Best Film Award present- USA, 2012, 22 minutes ed by Community Futures followed Director Katherine Kearns by an announcement of the winner of the Frantic 48 Audience Choice Award A documentary about children grow- presented by Community Futures. ing up with same sex parents.

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ALBERTA PREMIERE ALBERTA PREMIERE Sunday Punch Grandpa and Me MSM Canada, 2013, 9 minutes and a Helicopter to Heaven Writer/Director Alan Powell (Morfar och Jag och He- A couple’s kitchen becomes a live likoptern till Himlen) sporting event when their argument Sweden, 2012, 15 minutes (Swedish is broadcast on Domestic Fight TV with English subtitles) complete with a referee and sports- Directors Johan Palmgren & Åsa caster Rod Black calling the play-by- Blanck play. The gloves come off and low blows fly as the combatants strive to A touching documentary about the win at any cost. Won Best Short Film special relationship between a boy at the 2014 Reel Islington Film Festi- and his grandfather as they make a val in London, England. trip to the woods on a final adventure. Won Best Documentary at 2013 Aspen ShortsFest.

ALBERTA PREMIERE A Different Tree USA, 2013, 15 minutes Director Steven Caple, Jr. Dotty New Zealand, 2012, 11 minutes When eight-year-old Pearl has to Directors Mick Andrews & Brett complete a family tree assignment O’Gorman for school, she tries to find out more about her father, who she’s never Dotty, a stubborn nursing home resi- met, from her single mother, and dent struggling to send a text mes- then sets out to find him herself. sage to her daughter, ultimately ropes the woman who brings her morning tea into her seemingly end- FEST UPDATES AND MORE: less fight with her cell phone. Won FACEBOOK.COM/REELSHORTS Best Short Film 2013 Nantucket Film Festival among others. 54 FILMS + PACKAGES

as the gift? Nominated for an Oscar in 2014 for Best Live Action Short. FILM PACKAGE Oscar Animated Shorts Sun, May 11 @ 9:00 am - GPLT A package of eight animated shorts OMG SC including the five nominated for an Canada (BC), 2012, 10 minutes Oscar in 2014. Director Siobhan Devine This package contains the After a big fight with her mom over her following films: texting habit, 14-year-old Kaylee runs away to her grandma’s house where she is free to text as much as she wants … until her cell phone battery dies and she can’t find her recharger. While helping her grandma search through grandpa’s old things for a replacement, she finds something far more interest- ing. Won Best Short Comedy at the 2013 Niagara Film Festival. Get a Horse! USA, 2013, 6 minutes Director Lauren MacMullan This homage to the first animated shorts featuring Mickey Mouse pairs new black-and-white, hand-drawn animation with full-color, 3D, CG filmmaking in the same frame. Mickey gets separated from Minnie when Peg-Leg Do I have to Take Pete tries to run them off the road while Care of Everything? they’re enjoying a musical hay wagon (Pitääkö mun kaikki hoitaa?) ride, and he must find a way to get back to her. Nominated for an Oscar in 2014 Finland, 2012, 7 minutes (Finnish for Best Animated Short Film. with English subtitles) Director/Editor Selma Vilhunen When a family oversleeps, it’s up to the mother to get them to a wedding on time because nobody else seems to be doing anything right. Who has made a mess of her husband’s shirt and hidden the girls’ dresses as well REELSHORTS.CA 55

Mr. Hublot Possessions Luxembourg/France, 2013, 12 min- Japan, 2012, 15 minutes (Japanese utes with English subtitles) Directors Laurent Witz & Alexandre Writer/Director Shuhei Morita Espigares Deep in the mountains on a stormy Suffering from OCD and withdrawn night in the 18th century, a man from the world, Mr. Hublot’s life is who has lost his way takes shel- satisfyingly predictable … until he ter in a small shrine but the aban- witnesses what appears to be the doned objects he finds there and tragic end of a robot puppy whom the room itself prevent his escape he rushes into the street to save. But until he finds a strategy to appease can his small home survive the addi- their bitterness. Nominated for an tion of a mutt who just keeps grow- Oscar in 2014 for Best Animated ing? Won the Oscar in 2014 for Best Short. Animated Short.

Room on the Broom Feral UK, 2012, 26 minutes USA, 2012, 13 minutes Directors Max Lang & Jan Lachauer Writer/Director Daniel Sousa A story about a kind witch who in- A wild boy is found in the woods by vites a surprising collection of ani- a hunter and brought back to civili- mals to join her on her broom much zation. Bewildered by a strange new to the frustration of her cat. Based environment, the boy tries to adapt on the picture book written by Julia by using the same strategies that Donaldson and illustrated by Axel kept him safe in the forest. Nomi- Scheffler, this magical tale about nated for an Oscar in 2014 for Best friendship and family is produced Animated Short. by Magic Light Pictures who made The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo’s Child which were highlights of our 2011 and 2012 festivals respectively. Nominated for an Oscar in 2014 for Best Animated Short.

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À la Française The Blue Umbrella France, 2012, 7 minutes USA, 2013, 7 minutes Directors Boyer, Hazebroucq, Hsu, Director Saschka Unseld Leleu, and Lorton Amidst the rain in a city, a blue um- The courtly life at Versailles falls into brella falls in love with a red one. chaos when an observer’s notes are carried by the wind into the hands FILM PACKAGE of the ones being observed. Won Best of the Fest the Jury Prize at the 2013 Sequence Court Festival in Toulouse, France. Sun, May 11 @ 2:00 pm – GPLT Sun, May 11 @ 5:00 pm – GPLT Sun, May 11 @ 8:00 pm – GPLT

Presented by Big Country and ATB Financial, this package includes the winners of the Best Live Action Short, Best Animated Short, and Best Documentary Short as deter- The Missing Scarf mined by our jury. It also includes Ireland, 2013, 7 minutes the winner of the Audience Choice Writer/Director Eoin Duffy Award and the runners-up. This black comedy narrated by George Takei appears to be a children’s story as a squirrel meets vari- ous forest animals and helps them “Over the years, I have with their fears of the unknown, fail- been subjected to many ure, rejection, and death. Won Best Animation at the 2013 LA Shorts Fest indignities, all for the among other awards. sake of Art. If I ever catch him, I’m going to kill the SIMPLY CLICK LIKE. guy.” FEST UPDATES AND MORE: – Bob Hope FACEBOOK.COM/REELSHORTS REELSHORTS.CA 57

Film Index

53 A Different Tree 51 Mr. Bear 52 A Family Like Mine 47 Mr. Invisible 26 A Good Story 26 Oh Sheep! 56 À la Française 54 OMG 35 Adonis 51 One Please 37 Alfred & Anna 55 Possessions 23 Antarctica: A Year on Ice 30 Ravi & Jane 24 Asad 28 Rhino Full Throttle 36 Auschwitz on My Mind 19 Room 8 27 Beauty Mark 22, 55 Room on the Broom 33 Bhagdad Messi 45 Rúbaí 48 Blackstory 22 Shame and Glasses 42 Blue Division 20 Sleight of Hand 34 By Her Side 44 SLOMO 25 Captive Radio 43 Speechless 21 Chopper 43 Strange Fish 41 Cold Warrior 53 Sunday Punch 30 Cootie Contagion 20 Tandem 42 Cowboys and Dissidents 40 That Wasn’t Me 28 Dancing Deaf 56 The Blue Umbrella 19 Dancing With Style 31 The Centipede and the 40, 54 Do I Have to Take Care of Everything? Toad 50 Don’t Move 51 The Chef 53 Dotty 35 The Date 41 Double Occupancy 29 The End 43 Drone Strike 37 The Exchange 27 Eat 18 The First Step 38 Emo (the musical) 46 The Funeral of Harald 25 Facing Fear Kramer 55 Feral 50 The Gas Man 29 Fool’s Day 32 The Lost World 36 Gaming 22 The Magic Ferret 54 Get a Horse! 50 The Meeting 53 Grandpa and Me and a Helicopter to 56 The Missing Scarf Heaven 31 The Orphan and the 25 Great Polar Bear 33 Group Photo 28 The Parakeets 18 Harald 44 The Phone Call 31 Hear This! 34 The Portrait 39 Helium 28 The Questions We Ask 48 Homemade 48 The Red Valentine 49 Honeymoon Suite 21 The Smortlybacks 47 Love Hooligans 49 The Visitor 50 Jack Attack 39 The Voorman Problem 21 Jonah and the Crab 22 The Window 34 Just as I Remember 46 This Way Out 39 Just Before Losing Everything 45 Thoughts About Dying 23 Lift Off 19 Tryouts 49 Lights Out 44 Ufologist 46 MatchHead 48 Underground 30 Miss Todd 45 Vultures of Tibet 37 More Than Two Hours 41 Win or Lose 32, 55 Mr. Hublot 58 SHORTS ON PARADE Thank you! A reely big thanks to all our sponsors who have been so generous with their support! Find them throughout this program guide. And to our funding partners below, a reely, reely big thank you: we couldn’t do it without you!

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