ImagNATIVE Film and Arts Festival
October 15th, 2008 by Gilbert Seah
The 9th Annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival
on now until October 19, 2008
For Tickets:
Online http://www.imagineNATIVE.org
In-Person Box Office Venues:
Manulife Centre
In person or by phone until October 19
Monday – Saturday, 10am-6pm; 55 Bloor Street W, Tel: 416.967.1528
Al Green Theatre, Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre
October 16 – October 19
750 Spadina Avenue - Tickets on sale at theatre ½ hour before each screening
Royal Cinema
October 19 - 608 College Street
Closing Night screening tickets on sale at theatre 1 hour before screening
Special Screening
“Women Who Are Shaping Our World: Kaneshsatake: 270 Years of Resistance”
Directed By Alanis Obomsawin
Canada – 119 min – 1993 – Beta SP
NFB Mediatheque, 150 John Street, 10:30am & 1:30pm
followed by a reception for Alanis Obomsawin at 3:30pm
Voices of Tomorrow Youth Program
Al Green Theatre, 11:00am
Followed by
Takin’ Charge: Filmmaker Panel for Indigenous Youth
NCC Auditorium, 16 Spadina Rd, 2:00pm-4:00pm
Afternoon Screenings at Al Green Theatre – 750 Spadina Avenue
Let My Whakapapa Speak - Directed by Tainui Stephens – 1:00pm
Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn and Back – Directed by Reaghan Tarbell – 3:00pm
Into The Looking Glass: Experimental Shorts Program – films from around the world - 5:00pm
TRAIN TO NOWHERE (À Quelle Heure Le Train Pour Nulle Part)
Directed By Robin Aubert
Canada · 78 min · 2008 – Digital Beta
French with English subtitles
World Premiere
Co-presented by Images Festival
7:00pm
Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina Avenue)
In his audacious new feature, writer/director Robin Aubert plays with cinematic form to tell the story of a brother searching for his lost twin in India. Poetic and elliptical the film uses flashbacks and hallucinatory moments to generate an atmosphere of mystery, leaving its interpretation open to debate. Provocative and wholly original, Train to Nowhere is challenging and thought provoking cinema from one of Canada’s rising young filmmakers.
Robin Aubert is an actor and filmmaker living and working in Montreal. He was nominated for a Genie in 1997 for his role in La Comtesse de Baton Rouge. Train to Nowhere is his second feature.
Playing with:
From One Dream To Another
Directed By Jason Lujan
Canada · 1.5 min · 2007 · Digital Beta
A little girl journeys from the forest to the city in this ephemeral portrait of identity constructed through photography and animation.
Jason Lujan’s (Apache) work has been screened throughout Canada and the US. From One Dream to Another is his third short film, and was awarded the Bronze Experimental Video Award from Worldfest Houston International Film Festival.
WELCOME TO ENURMINO
Directed By Aleksei Vakhrushev
Russia · 60 min · 2008 · Digital Beta
Russian and Chuchki with English subtitles
Canadian Premiere
Co-presented by Hot Docs
9:00pm
Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina Avenue
In a town so remote it takes a miracle to enter or leave, life unfolds with a cinematic style and rhythm influenced by Tarkovsky. This observational documentary takes us to the town of Enurmino, population 314, in the far north east of Russia, just across the Bering Strait from Alaska. The stark geography of the town is littered with the rusting relics of its past industrial hopes, symbolizing the neglect and isolation surrounding the community. Through a handful of fascinating portraits of the town’s inhabitants, a compelling picture of life unfolds in Enurmino.
Siberian Yupik filmmaker Aleksei Vakhrushev was at imagineNATIVE in 2002 with his masterful 35mm trilogy A Seagull’s Fight Against the Wind. His film received a Honourable Mention at imagineNATIVE for the Alanis Obomsawin Best Documentary Award in 2003.
Playing with:
Sikumi (On the Ice)
Directed By Andrew Okpeaha MacLean
USA · 15 min · 2008 · 35 mm
Inupiaq with English subtitles
Canadian Premiere
When an Inuit hunter is the only witness to a murder amidst the barren, silent Arctic landscape, he is forced to decide the murderer’s fate.
Andrew Okpeaha MacLean (Inupiaq) is an award-winning filmmaker whose previous films have screened at imagineNATIVE and internationally including the Sundance Film Festival and the Museum of Modern Art. His documentary When the Season is Good: Artists of Arctic Alaska was acquired by ARTE after its Canadian premiere at imagineNATIVE in 2006.
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