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.