The Klondike Institute of Art and Culture with Yukon Energy present th 12DAWSON CITY INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

APRIL 21-24, 2011 12th Annual

April 21-24,2011

Passes & Tickets Festival Pass $40 (DCAS members/seniors and students), $50 (general public) Note: A festival pass does not guarantee entry into a screening. Please arrive 15 minutes prior to a screening to ensure entry.

Single screening admission $6 (DCAS members/seniors & students), $7 (general public)

DCAS (Dawson City Arts Society) membership: $15 single, $25 family

All events take place at The Odd Fellows Hall, 2nd & Princess unless otherwise noted. www.dawsonfilmfest.com

Festival Producer: Dan Sokolowski Programming: Dan Sokolowski, Kerry Barber, Tara Rudnickas Projectionists: Florian Boulais, Aaron Burnie, Evan Rensch, Ben Rudis Front of House Manager: Karen MacKay Concession Manager: Georgia Fraser Poster and Program Design: Dan Sokolowski

Festival Committee Lulu Keating: Chair, Florian Boulais, Gail Calder, Stephanie Davidson, Kit Hepburn, Bill Kendrick, Gord MacRae, Daisyanne Maguire, Karen MacKay, Evan Rensch, John Overell, Meg Walker, Elaine Corden

The Dawson City International Short Film Festival is presented by the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture. We gratefully acknowledge the support of KIAC’s funding agencies and partners for making this possible.

For further information on KIAC and its programs, please visit our website at www.kiac.ca

Executive Director: Karen DuBois Programs Manager: Tara Rudnickas Programs Coordinator: Jenna Roebuck Administrative Assistant: Megan Graham Gallery Director: Lance Blomgren

Klondike Institute of Art and Culture Box 8000, Dawson City, Yukon Y0B 1G0 Canada tel: 867 993 5005 • fax: 867 993 5838 [email protected] • www.kiac.ca

2011 Dawson city international Short Film Festival 1 At a glance At a glance All events in the ODD Fellows Hall Ballroom (2nd and Princess) unless otherwise noted. All events in the ODD Fellows Hall Ballroom (2nd and Princess) unless otherwise noted. Thursday, 7:30 pm Painted HOUSEs SATURDAY, 7 pm at the confluence A live multi-media show with musician Rozalind MacPhail Carpe Diem These Blazeing Starrs Smolarze El Cortejo Mokhtar The Red Hood Mrs. Birks’ Sunday Roast Don’t Tell Santa You’re Jewish Friday, 12 noon – 5 pm (at YSOVA, 3rd and Queen) from documentary to documentary opera FREE saturday, 8:30 pm Artist talk & Screening FREE An interactive workshop with Brenda Longfellow in the ODD Gallery, 2nd and princess Isabelle Pauwels will introduce her weekend installation in the ODD Gallery. Friday, 7 pm the spell of the yukon Gone Fishin for BJ Poppa Come Back Little Star UU: Construction of the Whithorse Dam SATURDAY, 9:30 pm into the night Vadzaih Vakan Gwiidaandaii Ghost Rockets World Tour Elsa Mad Miners Muck Up Business as Usual The High Level Bridge La Guérison Die, Die — Don’t Die Our Changing Homeland, Her Man Plan Old Man and the Lady A Day of Hunting and Gathering Sum of its Parts Finding Milton Our Changing Lives Observation and Intention Futility Istvan — Even There No Kiddin Friday, 9:30 pm SECRET TALES SATURDAY, 11:30 pm beyond aurora Film Not Ready YESNO The Return of Old Man Kabura Belt Buckle/Quonset Hut Hell on Wheels Wald Von Versuchungen: Hidden Cities Coliva (The Cage) How to Pick Berries The Naughty List Dear Diary Forest of Temptation Family First Lot 22 Concession 5 Sad Bear Bloodstorm La Flora Carnivora External World The Doll Factory Geodaran, An Omnivorous Animal

Friday, 11:30 pm strange things done SUNDAY, 10 pm directing actors At YSOVA, 3rd & Queen FREE Figs in Motion The Devil’s Kitchen Wisdom Teeth Actor/Director Michael Greyeyes leads a workshop on the secrets between the lens and the set! The Devil Wears a Paper Hat Goths! On the Bus! You Are So Undead F**k Yeah Exlibris sunDAY, 1 pm FREE out of the cold: Yukon emerging artists FREE SATURDAY, 12 noon short and sweet Embroidered Guy Winter Plan: The Documentary Sunday Breakfast Soft Spoken The Cremation of Sam McGee 120 Seconds to Get Elected In The Groove Thursday Life is What We Make It Moving Pictures 48 Hour Sonnet Athletes In Motion: Hard Core Bonspiel The Canadian Shield Anniversary Present Longest Dream The Romance of Helen Trent The Second Time Around While You Were Sleeping Capital Sins: Sloth Sins: Envy Sixty Seconds of Regret The Drawing Tortugas Ice Road to Tuk Slow Dance Burnt Toast: The Argument I Met the Walrus

SunDAY, 3 pm Artists in residence SCREENING FREE SATURDAY, 1 pm youth screening FREE Inter-ruption: The Collaborative work of Marcia Conolly and Angela Joosse dawson city Museum, 5th avenue & harper Gwich’in Fights Sliding Randomness I am Gwich’in Trapping Muskrat Clayton’s Good-Bad Day SunDAY, 5 pm facing the north Me and My 2 Best Friends Gwich’in Beadwork In Motion Water Islands: Our Tradition of Harvesting Whales Dugout My Favorite Things Bear Creek Rocket Cam Icarus Recycling for the Earth Becky’s Art X-Cross Sledding SunDAY, 6:30 pm Street feast outside on princess street Join us outside KIAC on Princess Street for our first ever Film Fest BBQ broadcast live on CFYT, 106.9 FM SATURDAY, 2 pm the midday sun Surviving Hunger Alana Passport Photos SunDAY, 8 pm the Big finish Knock, Knock, (Who’s Dead) Winged Sing Me to Sleep Playtime Volta Perfect Detonator FREE Do I Come On Too Strong Kiki Never Happen Here: The Whitehorse 9/11 Story SATURDAY, 4 pm first eyes at DZCC, front & king Inuit High Kick Vadzaih Vakan Gwiidaandaii Seven Seconds SunDAY, 9:30 pm awards presentation FREE Lumaajuuq Keeping Quiet Cry Rock Stick around for a libation and the presentation of the MITY, Lodestar and Audience Awards! Burnt D.N.A. FREE SunDAY, 10:30 pm video Dance party FREE SATURDAY, 5:45 pm climate wars DJ Whitebread spins some tunes and videos to dance the night away and celebrate the end of another fest! A conversation with Gwynne Dyer

FREE events are made possible by the generous sponsorship of NOTE: Screenings may contain mature content. The Youth Screening and Emerging Artist screenings are suitable for all ages. 2 2011 Dawson city international Short Film Festival 2011 Dawson city international Short Film Festival 3 From the producer GET OUT!!!

Tourism BC “A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provideD they come close together.” Win a trip for 2 to Vancouver to attend the 2011 Vancouver International Film Festival Federico Fellini opening or closing gala in October 2011! Vote for your audience favourite at each screening and fill in your name on the back of the ballot to be entered in the draw. See the rules in the lobby (box office) or on our website The Klondike Institute of Art and Culture www.dawsonfilmfest.com/contest is a unique and truly northern art education and presentation centre. We offer a broad Draw to take place at the awards range of community, continuing education presentation on Sunday night at 9:30 pm and professional development programs and special events. • Dawson City International Short Film Festival • Riverside Arts Festival • ODD Gallery • Artist in Residence program • Concerts • Theatre presentations • and MORE!

www.kiac.ca 4 2011 Dawson city international Short Film Festival 2011 Dawson city international Short Film Festival 5 Special Programs PAINTED HOUSES Thursday 7:30pm We are pleased to present some unique programs of films we feel are of interest to our community. Look for the logos next to the film to identify it with a special program.

Former KIAC artist in residence, Rozalind MacPhail, returns to Dawson City to present a screening of the project “Painted Houses”. This project contains FIRST EYES 13 short films from St. John’s filmmakers. She will play live music to DCISFF First Eyes is a selection of films by Indigenous filmmakers from the Yukon and beyond. accompany the films in this multi-media presentation. Dawson filmmaker Kerry Barber fervently curated the Dawson City International Short Film Festival First Eyes selection of films while attending the 2010 ImagineNATIVE film + media arts SMALL PAINTED HOUSES by Elsa Morena festival in Toronto. The complex and well-crafted narratives of the dance films really surprised DREAMS IN BLACK & WHITE by Roger Maunder Kerry this year. From Alejandro Valbuena’s Burnt, a film about teenage angst told in dance, to BEST KIND by Shannon Cymbaly Michael Greyeyes’ beautiful film Seven Seconds, the dance-based cinematic ventures shone at COLD CITY DARK by Brad Gover the past year’s festival in Toronto. These films will be featured at the Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre, MILE 1 by Tyler Burry Saturday at 4 pm and throughout the program. We are pleased to have Michael Greyeyes in JELLY BEANS by Ruth Lawrence attendance at this year’s Festival. MOJO IN FLATROCK by Rozalind MacPhail YUM by Sherry Ryan and Phil Goodland SMALL PAINTED HOUSES by Elsa Morena Burnt Dear Diary Inuit High Kick Seven Seconds (S)NO by Ed Tanasychuk Bloodstorm D.N.A. Lumaajuuq Vadzaih Vakan Gwiidaandaii THERE IS LOVE by Darrell Power Cry Rock F**k Yeah ROWS AND ROWS by Colleen Power BEAUTY AND LOSS by Blair Downey SNOW DAY by Shannon Cymbaly

The other north Composer/Musician: Rozalind MacPhail Every year we are thrilled to exchange winning films with the Tromso International Film Festival Rozalind MacPhail aka Mystery Flute Girl has become one of Canada’s most in Norway, and their Films From the North program. In addition to that film (How to Pick Berries) unique and captivating multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriters. She effortlessly we have a few other gems from the northern hemisphere. loops guitar, flute, voice and toy instruments into her own blend of songs and soundscapes about the people and places she has connected with. How to Pick Berries Kiki The Old Man and the Lady The flute came into Rozalind’s life at the age of thirteen, after her grandmother read an article about how playing the flute helped asthmatics learn how to control OTTAWA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAl their breathing better. In fact, it did. One of the top animation festivals in the world brings us to the netherworld of the animator’s mind. Rozalind pursued a performance degree for flute at the University of Toronto, Film Not Ready External World Forest of Temptation Playtime studying with Douglas Stewart. She then moved to Ottawa to pursue a Masters Degree in Flute Performance with Robert Cram. As Mystery Flute Girl, she has made spontaneous guest appearances with celebrated indie music artists including Yo La Tengo, Great Lake Swimmers, Constantines, Lou Barlow and BELL MEDIA Fund Bravo!FACT many others. With a yen for traveling, she has acquired fans from the most A selection of films from the past 15 years of Bravo!FACT. Curated and presented by Bravo!FACT surprising places in Canada and abroad, having become both a long-term Executive Director, Judy Gladstone. See page 16 for more info. resident at the Banff Centre and an Artist-In-Residence at The Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida, studying with Robert Dick (NYU).

In 2009, Rozalind was invited to the Dawson City International Short Film Festival where she was an Artist-in-Residence, composing and performing original works in cooperation with Victoria filmmaker Scott Amos. Flexible and intuitive, she collaborates with filmmakers and artists of all sorts.

Rozalind is currently recording a new album in St. John’s, Newfoundland as she prepares for further tours across Canada and the rest of the world.

6 2011 Dawson city international Short Film Festival 2011 Dawson city international Short Film Festival 7 Friday 12 noon From Documentary to FREE Documentary Opera. At YSOVA, 3rd and Queen

This workshop will explore the process of transforming documentary source material into innovative forms, stretching and expanding the documentary palette to produce engaging and unexpected social issue interventions. Workshop participants will be involved in the production of a collective short, produced in a few short hours, that will use humour and performance to explore the local impact of climate change. The film will be conceived, shot and edited and then shown at the 7pm opening screening of the festival.

The general public will also be invited to attend and watch the process, which should be a highly educational and entertaining afternoon.

Most of Brenda’s work has involved smuggling fiction and enactment into documentary, writing fake diaries, creating fictional narrators, and stretching the boundaries of documentary. Over the last two years, she has been working on a series of musical shorts which use opera, animation, faux interviews and shamelessly anthromorphized animals to explore social issues, in this instance, the environmental disaster of the Alberta Tar Sands. Brenda’s latest film, Carpe Do the Weather Report (2008) Diem, will screen in competition at the festival on Saturday night.

Brenda Longfellow is an award-winning filmmaker, film theorist and professor in the Department of Film, York University. In 2008 she completed Weather 1 Minute film Report (2008) a television documentary that explores the effects of climate change on communities around the world. Her previous productions include Our Marilyn (1987), an experimental Challenge! documentary on Canadian swimmer Marilyn Bell; the feature-length drama Gerda (1992); A Balkan Journey/Fragments From The Other Side of War (1996); the Genie Award-winning documentary Shadow Maker: Gwendolyn Sign up to get a Super 8 camera and a roll of film! Shoot an “in-camera” film on MacEwen, Poet (1998); and Tina in Mexico (2002), a feature documentary on the silent film star and avant-garde photographer Tina Modotti. 1/2 roll and return the camera. We will process the film and digitize it and then you can work with festival guest Rozalind MacPhail to create a soundtrack for your film during the week following the festival. You’ll have access to KIAC Event Sponsor editing stations to finalize your work for a screening in the ballroom on May 1st. And guess what? It’s free!!! Sign up at the ticket counter!

8 2011 Dawson city international Short Film Festival 2011 Dawson city international Short Film Festival 9 Friday 7pm The Spell of the Yukon The Spell of the Yukon Friday 9:30pm

Gone Fishin’ for BJ Poppa Allan Code, Yukon, Documentary, 2 Our ChANging Homeland, Our If a man is too busy for fishing; he is too damn busy. ChANging Lives Tookie Mercredi, Yukon, Documentary, 27 The land that has sustained the Vuntut Gwitchin (Old Crow, Yukon) in Canada’s Arctic for millennia is undergoing rapid change due to global warming. This film Vadzaih Vakan Gwiidaandaii takes you on a journey from nearly 20 years ago to the present with a community (Caribou, our livelihood) whose very survival is at risk. Mary Jane Moses, Yukon, Documentary, 6 Vadzaih Vakan Gwiidaandaii tells a real story about the Vuntut Gwitchin who are Uu: construction of the part of the Gwich’in Nation and their existence with and their reliance on the caribou. As Gwich’in people they are spiritually connected to the caribou in many Whitehorse Dam ways. Edward Westerhuis, Yukon, Animation, 2 “Uu” is a new word, which describes barricading one’s self. Whitehorse is named after a set of dangerous rapids where many were killed as miners flocked Die, Die— Don’t Die! to the Klondike. Tourism refers to the hydro dam as the wall that Ian Basso, Yukon, Comedy, 10 “quelled the mighty waters”. Insurance selling ambulance drivers hold the power of life and death in their hands and are faced with a choice between good and evil, love and money. Elsa Mad Miners Muck Up Andrew Connors, Yukon, Documentary, 9 Finding Milton Memories of a Whitehorse high school teacher who grew up learning hockey on Daniel Janke, Yukon, Experimental, 4 an outdoor rink carved into the mountainside at Elsa. Finding Milton is a music driven (re)introduction to the work of Milton Acorn, the people’s poet. Her Man Plan Lulu Keating, Yukon, Drama, 5 Come back Little Star When Stephanie was a kid, she decided that in the year 2010 she would take a Andrew Connors, Yukon, Experimental, 3 man to father her children. In her isolated northern community in the Yukon, ‘the Emergency preparedness and maternal heartache come to light in a 1960s odds are good but the goods are odd’. She sets off by dog team to pick up her industrial outpost: the mining town of Elsa, Yukon. chosen man, but is ambushed by a man who has chosen her.

GHOST ROCKETS WORLD TOUR: Observation & Intention Chris Levett, Yukon, Drama, 8 10000 Megawatin Totuus The story of a young woman trying to find her place in the world and Charles Stankievech, Yukon, Experimental, 5 her place in Dawson. Fed up with her job and the people Returning to the origin of the Ghost Rocket theories, 10 000 Megawatin Totuus she encounters on a day to day basis she tries to leave town, documents a rocket launch at the tip of Sveaborg Fortress on the island of but it is sometimes easier said than done. Suomenlinna, Finland. The namesake of the Ghost Rockets World Tour spawns from the unidentified flying objects that flew over parts of Scandinavia post-WWII with a peak in sightings during 1946.

10 2011 Dawson city international Short Film Festival 2011 Dawson city international Short Film Festival 11 Friday 9:30pm Secret Tales Secret Tales Friday 9:30pm

Sorry, Film not ready Colivia Janet Perlman, Quebec, Animation, 1 Adrian Dorin Sitaru, Romania, Drama, 17 This film was made by accident using experimental animation invisible to the Love and survival in the tough struggle of maintaining the species. naked eye. At least that’s what I wrote on the festival entry form for a film called “Llama Cookin’”, which didn’t even exist. I then started making the film, but abandoned it after a few days, and changed the film’s title to “Sorry, Film Not Ready”. Two weeks later I received a notification saying that the festival had not yet received “Sorry, Film Not Ready”, but that the deadline had been extended by Lot 22, Concession 5 one week. I then decided to make the film after all, in one week. Penny McCann, Ontario, Experimental, 4 Hand-processed film imagery, tinted, toned, and transformed, is combined with memory fragments of a rural past to create a visual poem about family, place, Hidden Cities and time. The film’s title refers to the lot and concession number of my great- John Graham, Newfoundland, Experimental, 2 grandfather’s farm in Westport, Ontario, as recorded in the 1911 census. Dreams may awaken us in this fantastical montage of an imaginary city. The voice is a fragment of the past, taken from a recording of my father, Leonard McCann, who passed away in 1992. the return of OLD man kabura Family First Patrick NgedaKumana, Burundi, Drama, 7 Chris Hanratty, Ontario, Comedy, 7 An 82-year-old refugee comes home to Burundi and Rob and Ashley have a big announcement, but when their news brings a family tries to rebuild his life after 38 years in exile. dinner to a screeching halt, they’re forced to question their choice. Family First is a dark comedy about family approval and the blindness of love. HOW TO PICK BERRIES The Doll Factory (MITEN MARJOJA POIMITAAN) Ainhoa Menéndez Goyoaga, Spain, Drama, 11 Elina Talvensaar, Finland, Documentary, 19 Anna works in a doll factory. Her whole life revolves around performing Visitors from a distant place appear in the misty swamps of Northern Finland, mechanical motions to put in the doll’s eyes. But a small change at her work they seem harmless, but their foreign presence disrupts the local community. changed her life forever. How are they supposed to get along with these strangers when they are picking all “their” berries? How to Pick Berries is an exploration of the Finnish mind and the absurdities of global economy. YESNO Brian D. Johnson, Ontario, Experimental, 7 YESNO is a playful, poetic vision of the planet on the verge of a nervous Sad Bear breakdown. Based on the book by eminent Canadian poet Dennis Lee, it combines Liz Van Allen Cairns, Joe LoBianco, BC, Drama, 10 live action and animation in a narrative that jives between hope and despair. Lee’s Sad Bear is the tale of a creature that travels the world taking away people’s words are voiced by a pantheon of Canadian poets, including Leonard Cohen, saddest belongings. One day Sad Bear meets Steve, who is not yet ready to part Michael Ondaatje and Margaret Atwood. An apocalyptic montage takes us from with his saddest object: a pair of crocodile leather boots. the folds of the cerebral cortex to the jungles of ‘Fitzcarraldo’ and ‘The African This is the story of Sad Bear versus Steve. Queen’. Sleight-of-hand by conjurer David Ben forms the connective tissue. Moving from dark comedy to tender pathos, YESNO is a unique attempt to transform poetry into cinema: an experiment in film inspired by an experiment in language.

12 2011 Dawson city international Short Film Festival 2011 Dawson city international Short Film Festival 13 Friday 11:30pm Strange Things Done Short & Sweet Saturday 12 noon FREE Figs in Motion Trevor Anderson, Alberta, Comedy, 8 The Art and Business of the Short Film Two men become six ballerinas and several horses in a bestial, impromptu corps with Judy Gladstone, Bell Media’s Bravo!FACT de ballet. A riff on the imagery of Edgar Degas and the photography of Eadweard Muybridge. Commissioned by the Art Gallery of Alberta as part of their grand reopening celebrations. Featuring original music composed for the film by Bryce With years of experience viewing and funding short films through Bell Media’s Kulak and by The Wet Secrets. Bravo!FACT (Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent), Judy Gladstone has seen films from their conception to completion. In this workshop/screening she will break down the basic elements of the short film format in terms of what makes The Devil Wears a Paper Hat an excellent short. Curtis L. Wiebe, Manitoba, Animation, 17 An imaginative young girl is pursued by a paper clad gunslinger through a wintery In addition to screening Bravo!FACT-funded shorts, Judy will discuss the world inhabited by living paper birds and a moving, mysterious tree-man. elements necessary for the creation of a compelling project – concise project descriptions, budgeting, acquisition of mechanical and synchronization rights, F**K YEAH rights to previously published materials, and all other necessary clearances as Shane Belcourt, Ontario, Comedy, 9 well as support material required to enhance your proposal. Things are going really well for Jim, the lead singer in a rock band. His band really rocks. He really rocks. They are really rocking awesome. Substitute “really” with This workshop is an excellent opportunity for filmmakers to explore the funding profanity at its best and you have a hilarious short about band mutiny gone really, and broadcast models of short films with an open Q&A. There will also be an “really” wrong. opportunity to discuss with Judy individual projects and proposals.

Judy Gladstone has been the executive director of Bravo!FACT (Foundation to The Devil’s Kitchen Assist Canadian Talent) since 1997. Bravo!FACT was established in 1995 by the Nathan Bragg, Yukon, Comedy, 5 national cable arts channel Bravo!. The foundation is the largest funder of shorts Our demonic host prepares Hell’s Chicken and proves that he truly is the boss in Canada. Since its inception, twenty million dollars have been awarded in grants from hell in the process. An excerpt form the Hell Channel — “The Devil’s Kitchen” for the production of over 1,400 shorts across the country. Episode 786,665. Made during KIAC’s 48 Hour Film Competition. The shorts are broadcast in Canada on Bravo! and are often honoured at local, national and international film festivals. Watch for a new series of Goths! On the Bus! one-hour specials on Bravo! premiering in May 2011. Jaimz and Karen Asmundson, Manitoba, Comedy, 3 Bravo!FACT is a division of Bell Media, which is owned by BCE Inc., Canada’s A couple of über-goths ride the public transit to the mall to buy more lipstick. Pain, largest communications company. More information about Bravo!FACT – suffering and eternal damnation wrapped in velvety angst. It’s sunny outside, but including application forms and a digitized archive of shorts – dark in their souls. can be found at www.bravofact.com. WISDOM TEETH Films Don Hertzfeldt, USA, Animation, 5 The Cremation of Sam McGee (John Askwith) Wisdom Teeth, is about a man who’s had his wisdom teeth removed. A friend Athletes In Motion: Hard Core Bonspiel (John Kerr) asks to pull out one of his stitches. Capital Sins: Sloth (Alethea Arnaquq-Baril) Slow Dance (Joe Cobden) Exlibris 120 Seconds to Get Elected (Denis Villeneuve) María Trénor, Spain, Animation, 14 The Canadian Shield (Simon Ennis) How many people before me have read, touched and enjoyed an old book bought Sins: Envy (Bruce McDonald) at a second-hand bookstore? Four different people in four different locations, at Burnt Toast: The Argument (Larry Weinstein) four different times, read, touch and enjoy the same book. Exlibris is a visual poem In The Groove (Clarence Ford) Event Sponsor that pays tribute to old books, to bookstores and to the pleasure of reading as Anniversary Present (Douglas Karr) seen through a copy of ‘Don Quixote’. Sixty Seconds of Regret (Ed Gass-Donnelly) you are so undead I Met the Walrus (Josh Raskin) Alex Epstein, Quebec, Horror, 6 A teen vampire sex comedy. Teenage Mary Margaret no longer reflects in the mirror — she let her vampire boyfriend Drew go “all the way” and now she’s undead!

14 2011 Dawson city international Short Film Festival 2011 Dawson city international Short Film Festival 15 Saturday 1 pm Youth Screening FREE Youth Screening Saturday 1 pm At the Dawson City Museum, 5th avenue & harper

The first 8 films were made in Old Crow as part of the Our World Program. A collaboration between the Vuntut Gwitchin Heritage Branch and the National Film Bear Creek Rocket Cam Board of Canada, generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. Rory & Jake Duncan, Yukon, Documentary, 3 The Yukon is poised to take it’s rightful place in space, and from its Bear Creek Gwich’in Fights Training Facility, the Space Program Yukon (S.P.Y.) is busy training the next Marlon Abel Kendi, Yukon Youth, Animation, 2 generation of Yukon space travelers in all aspects of space flight. Contains Gwitch’in Fights is a story about hunters going out on the land to go get caribou recently declassified footage. for their people. When they return home something happens... Becky’s Art Becky Yuhasz-Bell, Yukon Youth, Animation, 1 I Am Gwich’in A film about nature and creative art. Nathaniel Schafer, Yukon Youth, Animation, 2 What Gwitch’in males do for a Gwich’in living. Randomness Lila Yuhasz-Bell, Yukon Youth, Animation, 1 Me and my 2 best friends This film is not really about anything in particular. It is just about random things. Brandie Vittrekwa, Yukon Youth, Animation, 4 Three best friends hanging out together in Old Crow, Yukon. A day of laughing, chatting and having fun! Clayton’s Good-Bad Day Clayton Buhler, Yukon Youth, Drama, 5 My Favorite Things Everyone had their good days and their bad days Darcy Andre Josie, Yukon Youth, Animation, 2 My favorite things in Old Crow, Yukon is to drive around on ski-doo, hunt and play video games. Hope you enjoy my favorite activities. in Motion Asia Procee , Yukon Youth, Drama, 5 Recycling for the earth Things that move in Dawson City! Sarah Learn, Yukon Youth, Documentary, 2 An informative video on how and what to recycle. An encouragement for people to recycle and help the Earth. ICARUS SLIDING Jack Amos, Yukon Youth, Drama, 5 Caleb Charlie, Yukon Youth, Animation, 2 In this exciting drama an evil warlord, Icarus, has just escaped from the A boy who is bored and decides to go sliding. What could possibly go wrong? underworld. He is on the verge to destroy all the Gods, but the battle to recapture him takes place with only two of the Gods, Horasinia – The Goddess of Death, and Ashen – The God of Hate. Walk with them to witness this death-defying battle! trapping muskrat Melanie Kyikavichik, Yukon Youth, Animation, 2 Muskrat trapping gives guidance on how to trap dzan (muskrat), skin and stretch X-Country sledding the furs, and all the items you can make with fur. Callum Wood & Simon Cash, Yukon Youth, Sport, 2 5 friends testing to see if cross country sledding is possible. gwichin beadwork Chelsea Charlie, Yukon Youth, Documentary, 2 This film is about the Gwichin people and our beadwork. A youth speaks about her experience and the culture of beadwork. Event Sponsor

16 2011 Dawson city international Short Film Festival 2011 Dawson city international Short Film Festival 17 Saturday 2 pm The Midday Sun First Eyes Saturday 4 pm at Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre, Front and York. FREE Surviving Hunger Inuit High Kick Balgum Song, USA, Animation, 3 Aletha Arnaquq-Baril, Nunavut, Documentary, 3 In a desert-like landscape where there are just sands and dry air with no foods, An ancient test of athleticism and skill is dramatically and sensuously portrayed. a big frog-looking character wanders around for food. A cute little character that comes towards the big character and a conflict ensues. Lumaajuuq Knock Knock (Who’s Dead?) Aletha Arnaquq-Baril, Nunavut, Animation, 8 Grâce Nzeyimana, Burundi, Comedy, 7 Lumaajuuq is a tragic and twisted story about the dangers of revenge. A cruel A morbid comedy following Rukwi’s botched attempts to earn a living by collecting mother mistreats her son, feeding him dog meat and forcing him to sleep in the the dead. cold. A loon, who tells the boy that his mother blinded him, helps the child regain his eyesight. Then the boy seeks revenge, releasing his mother’s lifeline as she harpoons a whale and watching her drown. As the boy’s sister cries over the fate Alana of their mother, the boy realizes the futility of seeking vengeance. Julie Plourde, Nova Scotia, Documentary, 25 Taken in by a loving family at the age of eight weeks, Alanna grew up in the majestic wilderness of the Yukon mountains. Because her mother drank heavily BURNT during pregnancy, Alanna’s development was seriously compromised. She has Alejandro Albuena, Canada/Columbia/USA, Dance, 14 Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. She will never be like other kids. Director Alejandro Valbuena interprets childhood memory to create an electric romance between two young men. Forbidden love has never looked this good! Winged Jennifer Hardacker, USA, Experimental, 3 Vadzaih Vakan Gwiidaandaii Her horoscope quoted from the poet Federico Garcia Lorca: ‘His heart was (Caribou, our livelihood) growing full of broken wings and artificial flowers. In his mouth, just one small Mary Jane Moses, Yukon, Documentary, 6 word was left.’ The horoscope assured her that her mouth would soon be full of Vadzaih Vakan Gwiidaandaii tells a real story about the Vuntut Gwitchin who are part vivid words. In this experimental short film, the filmmaker expresses her concern of the Gwich’in Nation and their existence with and their reliance on the caribou. As about her ability to protect her two young sons during a time of emotional Gwich’in people they are spiritually connected to the caribou in many ways. upheaval. Keeping Quiet Shane Belcourt, Ontario, Drama, 9 passport photos A lonely man finds classified dating only makes the ache greater. Preetam Koilpillai, India, Documentary, 14 A group of young Tibetans living in Bangalore, India, talk about their lives and what it means to be young and living in exile. D.N.A. Keesic Douglas, Ontario, Drama, 5 What’s hair got to do with it? Indigenous identity and protein strands fight for survival in the bathtub drain of life. Their connection and loss is taken to a Sing Me to Sleep humorous and poignant conclusion as the subject of this film. Magnus Arnesen, Poland, Drama, 30m Robert, a 45 year old postal worker, lives at home with his sick mother. Wanting to fulfill his mother’s last wish, Robert goes on a desperate search to find a Seven Seconds girlfriend...Or at least someone who will pretend to be. Michael Greyeyes, Ontario, Drama, 8 Set against the backdrop of a concrete jungle, one woman’s impassioned dance poses the question: What is the imprint of our existence?

Cry Rock Banchi Hanuse, BC, Documentary, 29 Less than fifteen Nuxalk language speakers and storytellers remain in Bella Coola, British Columbia. One of these elders is the director Banchi Hanuse’s 80 year-old grandmother. In a technologically obsessed century, it would seem easier to record Nuxalk stories for future generations, but Hanuse resists. Instead, she asks whether an electronic recording can capture the true meaning and value of these oral traditions and more importantly, can it be considered cultural knowledge? Event Sponsor

18 2011 Dawson city international Short Film Festival 2011 Dawson city international Short Film Festival 19 Saturday 5:45 pm G wynne Dyer At The Confluence Saturday 7 pm CLIMATE WARS FREE Carpe Diem Brenda Longfellow, Ontario, Experimental. 5 Gwynne Dyer joins us in the ballroom for a discussion on his most recent project: On board a direct flight from Houston to Fort McMurray, the capital of the ‘Climate Wars’, dealing with the geopolitics of climate change. Alberta Tar Sands, the VP of a fictitious oil company finds his world collapsing around him as the oil market goes into a tailspin. An operatic appetizer! GWYNNE DYER has worked as a freelance journalist, columnist, broadcaster and lecturer on international affairs for more than 20 years, but he was originally trained as an historian. Born in Newfoundland, he received degrees from El Cortejo Canadian, American and British universities, finishing with a Ph.D. in Military and Marina Seresesky, Spain, Drama, 14 Middle Eastern History from the University of London. He served in three navies Capi is the oldest gravedigger in the cemetery. Used to working amidst the and held academic appointments at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and suffering of others and the jokes of his colleagues, there is only one person Oxford University before launching his twice-weekly column on international capable of taking him out of his daily routine. She is his last hope. affairs, which is published by over 175 papers in some 45 countries. Mrs Birks’ Sunday Roast His first television series, the 7-part documentary ‘War’, was aired in 45 Kyoko Miyake, England, Documentary, 2010, 6 countries in the mid-80s. One episode, ‘The Profession of Arms’, was nominated A Japanese food writer embarks on her quest to cook the perfect Sunday roast. for an Academy Award. His more recent television work includes the 1994 Her gravy evokes a taste of home both gently Japanese and quintessentially series ‘The Human Race’, and ‘Protection Force’, a three-part series on English. Blending her passion for British food with the memories that accompany peacekeepers in Bosnia, both of which won Gemini awards. His award-winning each dish, it is a labour of love with all the trimmings. radio documentaries include ‘The Gorbachev Revolution’, a seven-part series based on Dyer’s experiences in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in 1987-90, and ‘Millenium’, a six-hour series on the emerging global culture. These Blazeing Starrs! Deborah Stratman, USA., Experimental, 14 Dyer’s major study “War”, first published in the 1980s, was completely revised Since comets have been recorded, they’ve augured disaster: catastrophe, and re-published in 2004. During this decade he has also written a trio of more messiahs, upheaval and end times. …These Blazeing Starrs! juxtaposes a modern contemporary books dealing with the politics and strategy of the post-9/11 empirical desire to probe and measure against older methods, when star gazers world: ‘Ignorant Armies’ (2003), ‘Future: Tense’ (2004), and ‘The Mess They were translators, explicating the sky more intuitively for predictions of human folly. Made’ (2006). The latter was also published as ‘After Iraq’ in the US and the UK and as ‘Nach Iraq und Afghanistan’ in Germany. Mokhtar Halima Ouardiri, Quebec, Drama, 16m Based on a true story, Mokhtar recounts the tale of a young boy in a remote Presented in association with The Yukon Research Centre of Excellence. Moroccan village as he adopts a fallen owl.

Don’t Tell Santa You’re Jewish! Jody Kramer, BC, Animation, 4 The story of a little girl who is encouraged by her mom to sit on Santa’s knee at her hockey club’s Christmas Party, and to get a present from him. Only trouble is, she’s got to remember NOT to tell him she’s Jewish.

Smolarze Piotr Zlotorowicz, Poland, Documenatry, 15 Every summer, Marek and Janina work as charcoal burners in the Bieszczady Mountains. Far from civilization, in the heart of the mountains, they live according to the rhythm set by nature. The documentary joins the man and the woman from dawn till dusk, observing the slow passage of time. A visual anthem to the beauty of life. The Red HOOD Danishka Esterhazy, Manitoba, Drama, 9 Set in the Canadian prairies during the great depression, the Red Hood is a dark retelling of the traditional fable, Little Red Riding Hood.

20 2011 Dawson city international Short Film Festival 2011 Dawson city international Short Film Festival 21 PRESS PLAY INTO THE NIGHT Saturday 9:30 pm AN ODD GALLERY VIDEO ART PROJECT The ODD Gallery, in conjunction with the Dawson City International Short Film Business as Usual Festival, is pleased to present Press Play, a short program of videos by Canadian Kevin D.A. Kurytnik, Alberta, Animation, 4 artists from across Canada. Business as Usual is an animated calaveras to the people of Earth, a darkly comic look at life in the city in the year 2110. ISABELLE PAUWELS ARTIST TALK Saturday, April 23, 8:30pm, ODD Gallery FREE Explicit adult content: Viewer discretion advised OLD MAN AND THE LADY (UKKO JA AKKA) Join Pauwels in the ODD for a presentation on her innovative video work, as well as Markku Heikkinen, Finland ,Documentary, 15m introduction to her video B-----+----+----+-----E (2008), shot in a decaying porn theatre Every day, 73-year-old Seppo shouts “Shut up” to the 102-year-old Linda. In a — the Fox Cinema on Main Street in Vancouver. small red hut in Northern Finland, in the middle of nowhere near the Russian border, they find joy in the little things in life. This is a short about life in the Born in Belgium, Pauwels is a graduate of Emily Carr Institute and has an MFA remote villages of Kainuu, and about a way of life that is disappearing. from the Art Institute of Chicago. She has had solo exhibitions at Artspeak, Contemporary Art Gallery, and Or Gallery in Vancouver; Blackwood Gallery in FUTLITY Toronto; and the Henry Art Museum in Seattle. She has been in group exhibitions Wayne Bradford, Australia, Drama, 11 at Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver; Alberta Art Gallery, Edmonton; Corporal Mick Flannigan discovered by chance, in the midst of a World War II and Signal, Malmo, Sweden. She is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery in battle, that his enemy was a man very much like himself. The only significant Vancouver. difference was the flag he fought under. What may have been the start of a friendship at another time in world history was destroyed by the war almost as quickly as it was discovered. In the ODD Gallery: ISABELLE PAUWELS The High Level Bridge Trevor Anderson, Alberta, Documentary, 2010, 5 Double-Bill: Trevor drops his camera from Edmonton’s High Level Bridge The Embellishers and W.E.S.T.E.R.N in memory of those who have jumped. Screening times: Friday: 12pm, 2pm, 4pm, 6pm • Saturday: 1:30, 3:30, 5:30 • Sunday: 2:30, 4:30, 6:30 A Day of Hunting and Gathering Rio Fitch, BC, Documentary, 8 THE EMBELLISHERS (2007) Running time: 16:22 + 15:35 In a world most people overlook, a daily struggle for survival takes place With its episodic structure, cheap theatrics, and low production values, The as small creatures go about their business of finding food Embellishers imitates popular entertainment formats. The video features the artist while trying to avoid becoming food. and her twin sister playing the roles of the actress and the artist respectively. From the safety of an apartment high above Hastings Street in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Pauwels and her sister re-enact a series of confrontations with the neighbours over spare change, lighters, crack, stalking, and eviction. Istvan – even there no kiddin’ Mike Yuhasz, Ontario, Experimental, 5 W.E.S.T.E.R.N. (2010) Running time: 33:45 Based on childhood memories and impressions, the filmmaker creates a tense W.E.S.T.E.R.N. uses the minor genre of the home movie to penetrate a massive and disturbing look at one man’s painful, dark and lonely inner world. ‘Istvan - even subject: the impersonal dynamics of global capitalism. The video cuts between there no kiddin’ is a compassionate portrayal of a troubled soul. two sources of home movies: 8mm film shot by the artist’s grandfather during his tenure as an agronomist in the Belgian Congo, and contemporary video footage shot in her parents’ home in suburban Richmond, BC. Neither a documentary La Guérison about colonialism nor a family portrait, W.E.S.T.E.R.N. privileges transition, Louis-Thomas Pelletier, Quebec, Comedy, 8 interruption, and repetition over linear narrative and moral content. On the eve of an important exhibit, a painter experiencing a creative void accuses his therapist of having killed the artist inside him, threatening to sue him if he doesn’t return him to ‘ how he was before ‘. The tension that will grow between the two men will drive them to commit acts with unforeseen consequences. PRESS PLAY VIDEO KIOSK Sum of its pArts Between films, be certain to check out the ODD Gallery’s selection of art videos made by well-known artists Kirby Hammond, Manitoba, Documentary, 22 throughout Canada. These films will be looping on a video station in the KIAC ballroom between screenings. Nancy Edell ‘corrupted’ the traditional craft of rug hooking with her own unique brand of kinky humour. Her family now grapples with the question of what to do The ODD Gallery is Canada’s northernmost contemporary art centre, dedicated to bringing outstanding with her legacy. Canadian and International artists of all levels of experience to Dawson City.

22 2011 Dawson city international Short Film Festival 2011 Dawson city international Short Film Festival 23 Saturday 11:30 pm BEYOND AURORA DIRECTING ACTORS Sunday 10 am At YSOVA, 3rd and Queen FREE Belt Buckle/Quonset Hut Terry Mialkowsky, Saskatchewan, Comedy, 2 Michael Greyeyes A picture and sound love poem to Saskatchewan. Standing firm against the harsh This workshop is designed to help new filmmakers and experienced directors prairie wind and sun, determined and proud: the Belt Buckle and the Quonset Hut. improve their communication with actors. Learn about the main acting techniques, discover the vocabulary used by actors, and come away with a solid The Naughty List understanding of the acting process. The course will lead you through Ben Mitchell, UK, Animation, 3 how to carry out successful auditions, approach rehearsals and help your Santa Claus is overcome by lethargy and it’s up to his worker elf to kick him actors give a great performance. Both actors and directors are into gear. encouraged to attend this workshop.

BLOODSTORM Michael Greyeyes is an actor, choreographer, and director. As an actor with Terry Haines, BC, Experimental, 10 seventeen years of experience in film and television, he has worked with a wide Bloodstorm sifts through notions of beauty, strength and hope in a visual range of directors, including Bruce McDonald, Clement Virgo, Paul Gross, John metaphor for the force of a storm. It is unpredictable and undeniable, much like Sayles, and Terence Malick. He has written for film (Triptych/Bravo) and directed HIV/AIDS. Blood and storm combine to reveal the inner turmoil and fear of living the first Cree opera, Pimooteewin (The Journey) for Soundstreams Canada and with a disease, which has no cure, in an intimate testament of survival. Almighty Voice and his Wife (★★★★ rating from Now Magazine) for Native Earth Performing Arts and directed a number of short films. His latest film, Seven Seconds (Super 16mm) was a product of the lift and imagineNATIVE 2010 Geodaran, An omnivorous animal Mentorship program and recently premiered at the 2010 Festival. It will play on Youngim Park, South Korea, Experimental, 6 Saturday afternoon in the First Eyes Program. Michael Greyeyes is a professor in This art work is based on The Wing by Lee Sang and we set this story in modern the theatre department at York University. space and sounds which made the story different. The original script of the novel is compounded with modern scenery. The linearly/non linearly reciting story montages modern space sounds. Hell on Wheels Brendan Preston, Yukon, Documentary, 9 A glimpse into the lives and philosophy surrounding the fast paced, adrenaline driven bike courier sub-culture. Event Sponsor Dear Diary Ariel Smith, Ontario, Comedy, 4 He loves me... He loves me not... One woman’s boredom, loneliness, and active imagination make for a sardonic, surrealist tale of longing and sensual escapism.

La Flor Carnivora Maria Lorenzo, Spain, Animation, 9 A woman alone at home. A man or maybe two. A venus flycatcher. Carnivorous flowers die when they hunt... but not all of them

Wald von versuchungen – forest of temptation Saki Murotani, Animation, 2 If you venture into this forest beware, for all that glitters is not gold. In this enchanted wonderland there lurks a dark presence. A tale of innocent curiosity with an unexpected disturbing twist. EXTERNAL WORLD David OReilly, Ireland/Germany, Animation, 17 A boy learns to play the piano. 24 2011 Dawson city international Short Film Festival 2011 Dawson city international Short Film Festival 25 Sunday 1 pm out of the cold out of the cold Sunday 1 pm yukon Emerging Artists Yukon Emerging Artists FREE

Embroidered Guy; a business card Tortugas flip book experiment Natalie Edelson, Yukon, Documentary, 14 Meshell Melvin, Yukon, Animation, 3 A portrait of a local heorine in Pescadero, Mexico, whose environmental, social Embroidered Guy, in a flip book sequence, tossed to the winds, reassembled, and spiritual vision underlines the power one person can have in creating a animated and coaxed into dancing. positive change on a local and global level. THURSDAY Sunday Breakfast Brendan Reese, Yukon, Experimental, 2 Reno Lazdins, Yukon, Drama, 4 A typical Thursday in Dawson City. Sunday mornings without bacon and eggs is like life without you. Produced in the KIAC 48 Hour Film Competition. Moving Pictures of organic The Drawing topography in the arctic Kenny Welsh, Yukon, Experimental, 2 Hugues Latour, NWT, Documentary, 6 A young artist struggles to draw what he thinks is his masterpiece. A montage of scenes from Inuvik. The land, the people, the events.

Winter Plan, The Documentary The Second Time Around George Maratos, Yukon, Documentary, 6 Cari Tangedal , Yukon, Animation, 5 A mockumentary that sheds light on the challenge of finding love in a small Two mice find themselves in a hunter’s shed and come across the scattered northern town during the long cold winter. Produced during the KIAC 48 Hour bones of a Lynx. They begin to reconstruct the skeleton which causes the bones Film Competition. to awaken. The mice facilitate in the reincarnation of a new creature, who is given one more moment of life. The mice invite the Lynx back and then tuck it away again. Life is what we make it Holly Haustein & Kirsten Lorenz, Yukon, Documentary, 15 ICE ROAD TO TUK About celebrating life, stories and becoming the story. The magic of the North Meg Walker, Yukon, Experimental, 4 and why we don’t want to be anywhere else and definitely not without dogs. The Arctic winter offers miracles. You can walk on water – even drive on it. Ice Road to Tuk is a spontaneous response to being a blip of humanity on the daunting Mackenzie River Delta between Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest LongeST Dream Territories. An ice highway trance in two seasons. Kim Beggs, Yukon, Animation, 4 A surreal dance of dreamlike images. SOFT SPOKEN Evan Rensch and Aubyn O’Grady, Yukon, Documentary, 5 They say that once you learn, you never forget - but what if it’s January in Dawson City? Over the course of this endearing documentary, a young man confronts his childhood fear of riding a bicycle on a cold winter day. The Romance of Helen Trent Co-winner of KIAC’s 48 Hour Film Competition. Trina Buhler, Yukon, Drama, 5 The Romance of Helen Trent, created by Frank and Anne Hummert in 1933, was a radio soap opera which ran for a total of 7,222 episodes, more than any 48-Hour Sonnet other radio soap. Rereleased as a lip-synced, one-woman, comedic-drama for the Kathryn Hepburn, Yukon, Animation, 3 Dawson City 48 Hour Film Contest, The Romance of Helen Trent explores Helen’s Swirls of finger-paint and layered recitations of Shakespeare’s Sonnet #56 meet ongoing search for romance after age 35. in this animation, which creator Kathryn Hepburn considers to be the apotheosis of her incessant doodling during English class. Co-winner of KIAC’s 48 Hour Film Competition. Event Sponsor While you were sleeping Emma Tius, Yukon, Animation, 1 A playful experiment in chalk animation illustrating a night that went unseen in Dawson City. 26 2011 Dawson city international Short Film Festival 2011 Dawson city international Short Film Festival 27 Sunday 3 pm ARtists In residence Facing North Sunday 5 pm FREE Inter-irruption: The Collaborative Water islands: our tradition Work of Marcia Connolly of harvesting whales and Angela Joosse Hugues Latour, NWT, Documentary, 25 For 500 years or more the Inuvialuit of the Western Arctic have succesfully Our relationship as collaborators began through shared questions concerning hunted beluga whales in the Beaufort Sea. This is a story of how whaling was the possibilities of the film form to represent the reckoning between interior and done in the old days and how it is today. exterior rhythms, between one’s internal “metronome” and the happenings of a given situation. Dugout During our KIAC residency we have continued to develop filmic games and Alan Code, Yukon, Documentary, 59 experiments that encourage us to occupy and respond to the “now.” In our A group of young people along with a master carver from Alaska attempt to presentation we will show the results of our latest collaborative work including carve a 30’ dugout canoe. The redemptive power of art, culture and community. hand-processed 16mm films that delve into the wondrous and uncanny contours that make up the unique place of Dawson City. We will each also present films from our independent bodies of work: Ghost Noise by Marcia Connolly (winner of the 2010 Dawson City International Short Film Festival Lode Star Award), and Shapes Eat Shapes by Angela Joosse.

BIOS: Marcia Connolly is an award-winning filmmaker, cinematographer and video- journalist. In response to Connolly’s documentary on artist Annie Pootoogook, Atom PHOTO CREDIT: Deborah McIntosh, Peabody’s Photography Parlour Egoyan stated, “Her camera has found a beautiful way of implicating itself into Pootoogook’s community in Cape Dorset, creating an intimacy and sense of spiritual kinship which is profoundly touching and rare.”

Connolly’s independent films have shown internationally and nationally including at the Galerie Nationale, du Jeu de Palme in Paris, the Toronto International Film Street Feast Sunday 6:30 Festival, International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the Vancouver International Film Festival, the Smithsonian Join us on Princess Street Institute and at the Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival. Ghost Noise received the 2010 Lodestar Award for Best Canadian or International film at the Dawson in front of the ODD Gallery City International Short Film Festival and Jury’s Choice First Prize at the Black Maria Film and Video Festival. for our first ever

Angela Joosse makes films, videos, and site-specific installations. Her body of Film Fest street BBQ. work centres on questions of embodiment, technology and the human-machine interface. Dear Ruth, a site-specific work she made in collaboration with Shana MacDonald, foregrounds the politics of domestic space and female practices of broadcast live on 106.9 CFYT personal archives. Joosse’s other collaborative installations include Collect My Junk, a collage piece that examines the appearance and disappearance of common The Spirit of DAWson! objects, and Film-Lab-Digestive-Track, an interactive textile installation that is evocative of the bodily processes of birth, generation and decay. Her recent films with Kit Hepburn of Meat and Potatoes and videos have screened at venues including the Korean Cinematheque, Edinburgh International Film Festival, DeLeon White Gallery in Toronto, Winnipeg Film Group’s and guests the KINGS of dawson! Event Sponsor Cinematheque, Toronto’s Nuit Blanche, aluCine Toronto Latin Film Festival, Montréal Festival des Films du Monde, and the Dawson City International Short Film Festival.

Angela Joosse is a PhD candidate in the Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture at York and Ryerson Universities. Her scholarly work has been recognized at the national and university level through a number of fellowships including the Canada Graduate Scholarship, and in 2007 she received a Governor General’s Gold Medal for her Master’s research which included four short films. Joosse is an active member of the Loop Collective of Independent Media Artists in Toronto, as well as L.O.T: Experiments in Urban Research (Collective).

28 2011 Dawson city international Short Film Festival 2011 Dawson city international Short Film Festival 29 Sunday 8 pm THE big finish Sunday 9:30 pm THE Glitter

Join us for a drink and some snacks as we present the MITY Youth Award PLAYTIME 2011 Dawson City International Short Film Festival Eligible Films Steven Woloshen, Quebec, Animation, 3 Awards. The Made In The Yukon (MITY) Awards Gwich’in Fights Sliding As a member of Canada’s art collective, Painters 11, the late Jock MacDonald (Professional, Emerging Artists and Youth), The Audience Becky’s Art I am Gwitchen painted in both worlds: figurative and the abstract. Playtime pays homage to his Favorite and the Lodestar Award for the Best of the Fest! Trapping Muskrat Randomness dedication, spirit and wonderful subject matter – both real and imaginary. Me and My 2 Best Friends Gwitchin Beadwork MITY Award Icarus My Favorite Things Do I Come On Too Strong? The Made In The Yukon (MITY) award is designed to Bear Creek Rocket Cam X-Cross Sledding Brenda Kovrig, BC, Comedy, 4 honour and enable Yukon artists. It provides tangible Recycling for the Earth In the comically jazz-styled one-song musical Do I Come On Too Strong a lonely benefits to Yukon filmmakers, allowing them to further • $100 cash (KIAC) and frustrated woman, immersed in her daily chores, laments on the challenges their craft. of finding a man. MITY AWARDS made by Tao Henderson The Lodestar Award Volta LODESTAR Ryan Mullins, Quebec, Documentary, 13 Eligible films 1. A star that is used as a point of reference; especially the The cinema has always been a place you could go, if only for an evening, to escape Ghost Rockets Tour Our Home North Star. your troubles... even in Africa. The Volta Cinema was such a place for the people of Caribou Elsa Mad Miners Mash Up 2. A guiding principle, interest, or ambition. the small town of Hohoe and beyond. Her Man Plan Never Happen Here Finding Milton Gone Fishing The Lodestar Award is given to the best Canadian or Come Back Little Star Observation & Intention International film, which exemplifies the guiding principles KIKI Die Die Dont Die Dugout of the art of independent short film/video making — Eilif Bremer, Norway , Drama, 16m Uu freedom of expression, authenticity, exemplary artistry The surfer Kiki lives in a caravan on a beach in Lofoten. He loves to surf, use snuff despite limitations, and clarity of vision. and eat fish balls. He has just returned from a long journey around the world, First Prize • $500 cash but things do not appear to be quite as he had expected. Kiki must make some • $1000 cash • Sterling Silver DCISFF pin important choices and fight a hard battle to get his old life back. • $1000 grip rental package (NFVIA) • Screening of their film at the 2011 Tromso International Film Festival Perfect Detonator 2nd Prize Audience Choice Award Jay White, BC, Animation, 10 • $500 cash (chosen by audience ballot) Cute pastel animal-people endure hard labour to keep the machinery of a • $500 Video Equipment Rental (KIAC) • $500 cash dystopian world running. Everything is going according to plan until the yellow mouse listens to his heart, and changes their world forever. PSA Contest winners PSA Contest Sponsors MITY Emerging Talent Reno Lazdins The MITY Emerging Talent Awards is open to non- Veronica Verkley Never Happen Here: professional Yukon-made films in the festival. This includes The Whitehorse 9/11 Story filmmakers in the early stages of their career and films DCISFF Signal Film creators Max Fraser, Yukon, Documentary, 45 made in various workshops and programs. Ben Rudis and Jessie Currell On 9/11, the safe peaceful world of a remote northern town was shattered Jill Delaney when a ‘hijacked’ 747 approached with fighter jets on its tail. Already shaken that Eligible films Karen Mackay day by images of the tragedy in New York, thousands of parents raced in panic 2nd Time Around Hell On Wheels David Curtis to find their children after hearing RCMP say on the radio that schools have been Moving Pictures Water Islands Terry Haines evacuated. Until 9/11, the people of Whitehorse thought that kind of thing could Life is what we make it Thursday Aubyn O’Grady ‘never happen here.’ Almost ten years later, questions are still asked about why Longest Dream Tortugas Merran Smith & Nial Fink a hostile Korean airliner was diverted to Canada instead of landing in Alaska. This Emboidered Guy The Romance of Helen Trent documentary reveals new information about the mysterious flight of KAL 085, a Sunday’s Breakfast Ice Road to Tuk strange but true story. A northern point of view documentary with national and Soft Spoken 48 Hour Sonnet international dimensions. The Devil’s Kitchen While You Were Sleeping Winter Plan 1st Place • $300 cash • $500 Video Equipment Rental (KIAC) 2nd Place • $200 cash • $400 Video Equipment Rental (KIAC) 30 2011 Dawson city international Short Film Festival 2011 Dawson city international Short Film Festival 31 A big thanks to all This event would not happen without the generous people of Dawson City giving their time and energy to make sure it all runs smoothly. We are deeply indebted to the greatest asset that Dawson City has to offer... it’s people.

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