Canadian & International Shorts II
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Saturday – November 7, 2009 – 1:00 PM
Venue: Charlotte Street Arts Centre
$5.00 adult
$3.00 student / senior (65 plus)
(Tickets sold at the door only on the day of the screening).
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Presented by:
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Afloat At Dawn
Director/Writer/Producer: Elise Simard
Length: 4:20
Contact: elise.simard@gmail.com
Screening Format: Beta Sp
Montreal, Quebec, 2009
Inspired by the secrets and the sorrow that lay between the lines of Robert Louis Stevenson’s verses for children, this film is but a tiny baroque ode to fleeting darkness and pretty make-believes.
Partly made in Fredericton with the support of the New Brunswick Film Co-op and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec’s artist-in-residence Program, the National Film Board of Canada’s Filmmaker Assistance Program and TAIS, the Toronto Animated Image Society.
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alice & huck
Director: Kaleena Kiff
Writer: Robert Gray
Producer: Galen Fletcher
Cast: Allison Mack, Matthew MacCaull, Ryan Robbins
Length: 14:50
Contact: robertwgray@gmail.com
Screening Format: Beta Sp
Fredericton, New Brunswick, 2008
Alice and Huck are probably meant to be together, but they're hopeless. In parallel universes they stumble across one another, in moments of heartbreak, impossibility, and sometimes in the arms of others. Across these universes, they ask how many missed mouths before you can kiss the right one?
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Don’t Turn Around
Director/Writer/Producer: Pardis Parker
Cast: Kyle Hickey, Ambyr Dunn, Matthe Nette, Jim Lindsey, Cheryl Hann,
Arno Van Heyningen
Length: 6:00
Contact: pardisparker@gmail.com
Screening Format: Beta Sp
Stillwater, Nova Scotia, 2009
Hip-hop artist Ghettosocks offers up a cautionary urban tale in this stylish music video.
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Everything Burns
Director/Writer:Aram Kouyoumdjian
Producer: Tara MacDonald
Length: 3:00
Contact: roomtone@gmail.com
Screening Format: Beta Sp
Bayside, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2009
Using Marionettes in a gingerbread - style town, this video for Mike Bochoff's "Everything Burns" offers some caustic advice about revenge.
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How To Be Alone
Writer: Andrea Dorfman, Tanya Davis
Producer: Walter Forsyth
Cast: Tanya Davis
Length: 4:00
Contact: walterforsyth@gmail.com
Screening Format: Beta Sp
Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2009
Filmmaker Andrea Dorfman interprets spoken word artist Tanya Davis’ friendly meditation on being alone by blending portraiture and whimsical animation.
Program: Official Selection 6: Rebels with a Cause
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Pawnshop
Director: Andrew Bush
Writer: Evany Rosen
Producer: Angus Swantee
Cast: David Hughes, Matthew Amyotte, Lee J. Campbell
Length: 6:00
Contact: aswantee@hotmail.com
Screening Format: Beta Sp
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2009
An indecisive young man walks into a pawn shop with the intention of buying an engagment ring, but the crusty owner is determined to make him jump through some existential hoops in this wry comedy with a twist ending.
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Project Ion
Director/Writer/Producer: Dawn Westlake
Cast: David Razowsky, Dawn Westlake, Antonello Stornelli, Johnny Cross
Length: 11:05
Contact: dawnwestlake@gmail.com
Screening Format: Beta Sp
Los Angeles, California, 2008
A famous Hollywood filmmaker guards his deepest secrets by projecting them onto others.
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The Strange Case of ‘Dr.’ Victor Von Dictor
Director/Writer: John Woods
Producer: Blair Dykes, John Woods
Cast: Blair Dykes, Adrianna Spence, Sean MacPherson, Dan Hill, Henry Wilde, Kevin Miller
Length: 12:00
Contact: jawoods01@yahoo.ca
Screening Format: Beta Sp
Vancouver, British Columbia, United States, 2009
A ramshackle melodrama about a snake oil salesman who finds money, romance and intrigue in a remote, plague stricken town when he discovers that his ‘miracle tonic’ actually works! |
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Super Science
Director: Joel MacKenzie
Writer: Joel MacKenzie, Mark Purdy
Producer: Mark Purdy
Cast: Mark Little, Matthew Carswell, Alice D’Eon, Shawn Forrest, Mary Fay Coady, Marc Tetreault
Length: 8:00
Contact: mbpurdy@gmail.com
Screening Format: Beta Sp
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2009
Tomorrow is the World's First Adult Science Fair, and Eugene has a dilemma. He cannot make it to his favourite party of the year and complete the project in time. He decides to genetically engineer a SMART CREATURE to finish the project for him. Unfortunately for Eugene, all hell breaks loose when his great plan is foiled and everything spirals out of control.
Winner for Best Short at 2009 Atlantic Film Festival.
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Tanks
Director/Writer/Producer: Aram Kouyoumdjian
Length: 5:08
Contact: roomtone@gmail.com
Screening Format: Beta Sp
Bayside, Nova Scotia, 2009
A live-action stop-motion apocalypse set to the song "Tank" by "Down with the Butterfly"
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What Goes Around
Director/Writer/Producer: Pardis Parker
Length: 3:00
Contact: pardisparker@gmail.com
Screening Format: Beta Sp
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2009
The music video for the first single off al-rock-trio Mir's latest EP,
OK2GO!
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