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Lest We Forget |
Lest We Forget at the Reel World Film Festival
Lest We Forget will have its Toronto première at the Reel World Film Festival on Friday, April 15 at 9pm. This powerful documentary considers the post-9/11 treatment of Muslims, Arabs and South Asians in the U.S. and Canada, comparing their harsh experiences with the Japanese internment of World War II. Director Jason DaSilva skillfully weaves together personal accounts from those who have felt the severity of wartime racism, both past and present. Jason will be in attendance at the screening, returning to Reel World after winning one of last year's Trailblazer Awards.
| What: | LEST WE FORGET at the Reel World Film Festival | |
| When: | Fri, Apr 15 at 9pm | |
| Where: | Rainbow Cinemas Market Square, Theatre 3 (80 Front Street East) |
For more information on the festival, visit the Reel World Film Fest web site.
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Vancouver Première of Drawing Out the Demons
April 15 @ 7:30 PM and April 16 @ 7:30 PM &
9:20 PM
Pacific Cinémathèque
Moving Images Distribution is pleased to join Screen Siren Pictures, Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society, Pacific Cinémathèque, DOXA Documentary Film & Video Festival, and the Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design to present David Vaisbord's feature documentary, DRAWING OUT THE DEMONS: A Film About the Artist Attila Richard Lukacs as part of the 80th Anniversary celebrations of ECIAD. Graduates of Emily Carr, director David Vaisbord will attend all three screenings and artist Attila Richard Lukacs will attend the opening night of the Vancouver première at the Pacific Cinémathèque.
gifted artist, tormented soul, egomaniacal bad-boy hyped up on crystal-meth. This is the snapshot, circa summer 2001, as this raw and uncensored documentary begins tracking the dramatic career of Canadian-born painter Attila Richard Lukacs. A bold visionary whose life-size homoerotic renderings of neo-Nazi skinheads fetch as much as $150,000, Lukacs fails in his attempt to crack New York City and the world's toughest art scene. He spirals into depression and drug addiction, alienates arts associates, angers his boyfriends and pushes away his saintly parents. But the wired West Coast artist manages to make it to the other side, retreating from his disastrous NYC exploits to find detox, redemption and creative renaissance in Maui.
Nearly five years in the making, and incorporating footage spanning 19 years, Drawing Out the Demons is an artist's journey. With unparalleled access and active participation of the artist, the film is an uncensored and highly original work that brings the audience face-to-face with one of the most gifted painters alive today.
"Drawing Out the Demons may be the most honest and substantial documentary ever made about a world-class artist." – Atlantic Film Festival 2004
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Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design: 1925-2005
Emily Carr Institute is proud to support the Vancouver première
of Drawing Out the Demons. For 80 years, ECIAD has nurtured students
who have influenced art, design and integrated media internationally.
Congratulations to Attila Richard Lukacs (class of '85) and David Vaisbord
(class of '87).
Drawing Out the Demons is produced with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund created by the Government of Canada and the Canadian cable industry, Telefilm Canada: Equity Investment Program, CTF: License Fee Program; Rogers Cable Network Fund; the province of British Columbia: Film Incentive BC; the Canadian Film or Video Tax Credit; and Rogers Telefund. Produced and developed in Association with BRAVO! Canada, a division of CHUM Limited. Produced in Association with TVOntario. Developed with the participation of British Columbia Film and in Association with Telefilm Canada and CTV.
Media Contact: Helen Yagi (604) 736-5517, or e-mail: yasuko at radiant.net
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The Artist's Life, Series Two (13 parts)
Michael Glassbourg
TickleScratch Productions
2004
Also available on DVD
The Artist's Life continues its engaging profiles of emerging and established Canadian artists in this second 13-part series. Passionate and exacting in their creative pursuits, these painters, photographers, sculptors, printmakers, mixed media, installation and performance artists share insights into their work and creative process.
- Harold Klunder (Painting)
- Badanna Zack (Sculpture/Installations)
- Jeff Winch (Photography)
- Sarah Jane Gorlitz (Painting)
- Peter Rotter (Painting)
- Kathy Vatcher (Painting/Illustrating)
- Ian Lazarus (Sculpture/Installations)
- Tim Whiten (Sculpture/Installations)
- Claire Weissman Wilks (Sculpture/Painting/Lithography)
- Gretta Gibney (Painting/Collage)
- David Urban (Painting)
- Paul Roorda (Mixed Media/Painting)
- Karen Azoulay (Mixed Media)
The Big V
Michelle Welygan/Erin Mussolum
Artizan Productions
47 minutes •
2004
Also available on DVD
This bold documentary tackles head on popular misconceptions about virginity. A host of celibate men and women¡in their teens, twenties, thirties and beyond (!)¡talk candidly about the choice to abstain. For some it's a question of emotional health; for some, a matter of culture; and for others, a choice to honour spiritual beliefs.
A pop-culture critic looks at standard virgin interpretations in the arguably sex-obsessed media. A 21-year-old university student shares surprising views on masturbation and reveals his fear of being thought a freak. A 30-something gay man looks at the all-too-common stereotype that homosexual means promiscuous, but admits he's holding out for love. Born-again virgins address the spectre of their sexual past. A self-professed sex addict talks about the painful process of recovery. A young Muslim woman argues that she's choosing culture over sex by undergoing hymen reconstruction. These virgins examine the Big V from every vantage point, but for all of them…it's not about losing it, it's about keeping it!
Chiefs and Champions, A 6-part series
Directed by Annie Frazier Henry (except where noted)
Produced by Annie Frazier Henry/Ken Malenstyn
Big Red Barn Entertainment
2005
Also available on DVD
Written and directed by Annie Frazier Henry and co-produced by Ken Malenstyn, Chiefs & Champions takes an intimate look at six exceptional Aboriginal athletes. Besides being world class performers in their chosen sport, they have gone on to become leaders in their communities, as well as role models and advocates on the international level.
- Chief Roger Adolph – Boxing 24 minutes
- Ross Powless – Lacrosse 24 minutes
- Alwyn Morris – Kayaking 24 minutes
- Waneek Horn-Miller – Water Polo 24 minutes
- Fred Sasakamoose – Hockey 24 minutes
- Tom Longboat – Distance Runner 24 minutes
Comrade Dad
Karin Lee
26 minutes •
2005
Writer/director Karin Lee reflects on her father Wally Lee and the communist bookstore that he ran on Vancouver's Skid Row from the mid-1960s until the early 1980s. This short biography explores both the person and the effect that his ideological beliefs had on his family, set within the political landscapes of Canada and China at the time of the Cultural Revolution. Comrade Dad is a little-known story about a grassroots movement in Vancouver's Chinatown that recalls the rise and fall of socialist idealism.
A Family Tree Narrative, A 6-part series
Martin de Valk
Chiaro Productions
2005
Also available on DVD
A Family Tree Narrative portrays six First Nations families in Canada through the oral tradition of storytelling. Celebrating their ancestry as far back as the stories go, they share the relationships that have given them strength, pride and love throughout the years. Through an exploration of each family's legacy, the stories weave hope and challenge, loss and triumph in the lives of the First People of this land.
- Assu of Cape Mudge 24 minutes
- Marchand of the Okanagan 24 minutes
- Lavallee of the Piapot 24 minutes
- Dorion of Prince Albert and Cumberland House 24 minutes
- Hungry Wolf of the Blood Tribe 24 minutes
- Dion of the Kehewin 24 minutes
Flight of BIRD
Martin de Valk
Chiaro Productions
48 minutes •
2005
Also available on DVD
In 1940, Costa Rica boasted over three million hectares of natural forest. By 1983, less than a third remained—most of it lost to extensive cattle grazing after the World Bank injected big money into the country's beef industry. Among the many people who have worked to reduce this trend is Canadian Dirk Brinkman who, in 1995, brought his team of silviculture experts to the clearcuts of Costa Rica.
Using investments from friends and family, they purchased a small tract of deforested tropical land to begin a reforestation experiment with teak and mixed native species. With that, the BIRD project—Brinkman International Reforestation Development—took off. Its goals: to create an entrepreneurial-driven, self-sustaining enterprise that drew on Canada's expertise in reforestation and created employment for locals.
Ten years later, Martin de Valk's fascinating documentary tracks the resounding success of BIRD. Forestry and resource management experts from the Technological Institute of Costa Rica and Earth University share their excitement over the ecological benefits of this unique project. With several initiatives underway, the BIRD team has reforested over 500 hectares, provided silviculture training and employment to the local people, established an elementary school for employees' children, and developed native tree species into a potentially viable and sustainable commercial product.
Fuga Island: A Tale of Visionaries, Dreamers and Schemers
Arthur Holbrook/Karie Garnier
27:30 minutes •
2005
Also available on DVD
Fuga Island, a small island off the northern tip of Luzon in the Philippines, has attracted visionaries, dreamers and schemers for centuries. After years of abuse at the hands of wealthy landlords trying to make the island into a playground for the rich, the islanders live in limbo. There are no doctors and few educational opportunities. The people have no rights to the land they have lived on for generations.
Canadian Karie Garnier and his Filipina wife Violeta have devoted their lives to helping the people of Fuga Island overcome some of the horrible conditions they face. Now doctors visit the area and children leave the island to attend secondary schools. The next challenge—ownership of the land—pits Karie and the islanders up against powerful forces. But there is hope as Karie, and the Filipino activists who have joined him, strive for justice.
Josef's Daughter
Ilana Linden/Sylvie Van Brabant
Films du Rapide-Blanc
52 minutes •
2005
A Montreal woman delivers a compelling meditation on mortality and family dynamics. At 50, as Ilana Linden enters menopause, her father Josef is dying of Parkinson's. Immobilized by fear, she tries to hold back her own decline by molding a new body¡making herself robust and resilient, so that mid-life can become a place of promise. Speaking directly to the camera, Ilana shares her most intimate thoughts about her relationship with Josef and her terror of growing old.
When Josef dies she finds herself mourning a man she hardly knew. A Jew who escaped to Palestine from Romania during the Holocaust, Josef was an emotionally distant man who had a powerful impact on Ilana's self-image. He scrutinized her physical appearance in a way no other man did. In emotionally naked exchanges with her mother and sister, Ilana explores what has shaped her personal take on aging, death, youth and beauty.
o.com: Cybersex Addiction
Melanie Wood/Nick Orchard
Stranger Productions/Soapbox Productions
45 minutes •
2005
Also available on DVD
o.com: Cybersex Addiction is a cautionary tale of the Internet's profound effect on human sexuality. Each day, hundreds of thousands of individuals access the Internet to make sexual contact with each other without ever having met eye-to-eye or having said a simple hello. In that most intimate of human interactions, sexual encounters, the boundaries no longer exist between computer and human. o.com: Cybersex Addiction is the story of real people whose virtual worlds become more compelling, more “real” than the outside world. Two Canadian professionals—a computer tech-support worker and a lawyer so affected that he entered a treatment program—share their stories of battling what psychologists refer to as one of the most rapidly growing addictions. Cybersex addicts carry a message for all of us about technology's ability to accelerate our alienation from each other.
Pnina Granirer: Portrait of an Artist
Mehdi Ali
Fountain Productions
24 minutes •
2005
Pnina Granirer: Portrait of an Artist explores the development of an art career spanning five decades. It follows Granirer's life in art, from Romania during the war, to Israel, the U.S., and finally Canada. The film reveals the breadth of her work¡from figurative works to powerful interpretations of the BC landscape, to collaboration with dancers who become part of unusual life-size drawings on clear mylar. This film is a testimony to an artist's passionate and personal experience, sparkling experimentation, and daring association of form and ideas.
A Song for Daniel
Jason DaSilva/Suzanne Cort
In Face Films
10 minutes •
2004
Also available on DVD
Jason DaSilva's latest short film compares a routine day for two nine-year-old Iraqi boys¡one living in Baghdad and the other born and raised on Long Island. Like most boys their age, Ahmad and Daniel are enthralled by TV cartoons, spend the best part of their day playing with friends, and radiate a natural optimism about the world around them. But their everyday lives reveal stark differences, too¡like when Ahmad shows off his family's electric generator and explains the frequent gas shortages in Baghdad. Without dwelling on politics, A Song For Daniel is a simple but profound examination of culture and place through the eyes of two Iraqi youth living on opposite sides of the world.
The Vanishing Tattoo
Jack Silberman/Vince Hemingson
49 minutes •
2003
Also available on DVD
Not long ago, the Iban people of Borneo were elaborately decorated with boldly designed tattoos depicting the story of their life experiences. But today, among younger generations of Iban, this unique traditional art is dying out. In what little tattooing remains, the ancient method of hand-tapping has been replaced by electric machines, and the deeply spiritual and personal traditional designs have been replaced by widely adopted western images.
In an attempt to document these ancient tattoo practices before they vanish, renowned Canadian tattoo artist Tom Lockhart, and writer and historian of tattoo lore Vince Hemingson take a grueling journey deep into the heart of Borneo's jungle to meet the last remaining Iban tattoo artists.
What if…a film about Judith Merril
Helene Klodawsky/Richard Elson
52 minutes •
2005
Some remember her as the host of the original Dr. Who series; to others, she was a shining star in science fiction's golden age of the 1940s and 50s. Others, like Canadian writer Dennis Lee, recall her as an inspiring mentor at Toronto's newly formed Rochdale College.
Filmed shortly before her death at the age of 74, this film salutes Judith Merril—writer, editor and icon of the science fiction literary genre. A candid and clever trailblazer, she was one of the first writers to create stories with believable female characters in a medium notorious for "she-devil" aliens and damsels in distress. Merril muses on the role science fiction played as an outlet for socio-political criticism during the McCarthy era and its influence as a blueprint for exploring space and other future frontiers. Looking back on her career, she recalls the ingenious men and women who dared to dream of different worlds and mischievously declares, "You have to make your own reality out of your dreams."
Award(s): Best Portrait Award, International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA)
Writers' Confessions
(a 13-part series)
Michael Glassbourg
TickleScratch Productions
24 minutes per part •
2005
Also available on DVD
This crisp, fast-paced documentary series considers the issues central to the complex craft of writing. Each half-hour episode focuses on three different topics, with some of Canada's most lauded scribes weighing in. Wry and provocative, candid and thoughtful, the series is a must for those who read Canadian Literature or aspire to write it themselves.
Authors featured throughout the series include: Guy Vanderhaeghe, Elizabeth Ruth, Russell Smith, Ray Robertson, Camilla Gibb, Robert Sawyer, Tim O'Brien, Sally Cooper, Michael Crummey, Mary-Lou Zeitoun, Stevie Cameron, Diane Baker Mason, and more.
Use the following links to see detailed descriptions of each episode:
For more information, contact Moving Images Distribution
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