Rendezvous with Madness #19

The 19th ANNUAL RENDEZVOUS WITH MADNESS FILM FESTIVAL
NOVEMBER 4 - 12, 2011
PROGRAM SCHEDULE

http://www.rendezvouswithmadness.com

LOCATIONS:  TIFF Bell Lightbox - Reitman Square, 350 King St.
West/ Workman Arts - 651 Dufferin Street/ NFB - 150 John St. / Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), 33 Russell St. / T.A.N. Coffee, 992 Queen St. West

BOX OFFICE (OPENS OCT. 17): 
- Online: http://www.rendezvouswithmadness.com
- By phone: 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. daily,
416-599-TIFF (8433) / Toll free: 1-888-599-8433

- In person: 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. daily,
TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King St. West
- Tickets may be purchased at the venue one hour before each screening, if available.

PRICE:  Regular Programs: $10 or pay what you
can at the door (suggested min. $2) / Opening Night Gala: $30 / Special Presentation (Big Daddy Tazz and reception): $15 / Closing Night Gala (Carnivale of the Mind): $15 / Artist Talks, Industry Events: Free!

Friday November 4
5:15pm ― Opening Night Pre Gala Reception
TIFF Bell Lightbox, BlackBerryÆ Lounge
Reitman Square, 330 King St. West

7:00pm ― Opening Night Gala
Feature: Sisters & Brothers
Carl Bessai, Canada, 2011, 90 min, English
A comedic, endearing look at dysfunctional families and the bonds that hold them together. Featuring an ensemble cast including Glee’s Cory Monteith and Corner Gas’s Gabrielle Miller. Director in attendance.
Saturday, November 5

1:00pm
Workman Arts, 651 Dufferin St. West
Feature: Gods of Youth
Kate Twa, Canada, 2009, 95 min, Canadian Premiere, English
Paul and Jay are getting desperate. What started as an adventure is spiralling out of control. When the drugs run out, the ride doesnt always stop.

3:00pm
TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 330 King St. West
Feature: Isolerad (Corridor)
Johan Lundberg, Sweden, 2010, 80 min, Canadian Premiere, Swedish with English subtitles, Brussels European Film Festival: Cineurope Prize 2010
A withdrawn medical student suspects something terrible is happening in the apartment above him.  Without a friend to confide in, paranoia and reality converge and terror becomes real.

7:00pm
TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 330 King St. West
Feature: U.F.O.
Burkhard Feige, Germany, 2010, 95 min, Toronto Premiere, German with English subtitles
Bodo’s always loved science fiction, but in 1986 the lines between fantasy and reality blur when the Challenger explodes, Chernobyl erupts, and his mother, Christa, falls apart.

Sunday, November 6
1:00pm
Workman Arts, 651 Dufferin St. West
Our Stories, Our Voices: Canadian Shorts
When someone has a mental illness, it can change everything. As friends, family, and individuals struggle with the impact, the affects can ripple through generations.
Pins and Needles
Nicole Nyholt, Canada, 1 min, No Language
Wilderness
Dawn Wilkinson, Canada, 2011, 10 min, World Premiere, English
Nowhere Elsewhere
Annick Blanc, Canada, 2010, 15 min, French with English Subtitles
Beyond the Pale
Maureen Bradley, Canada, 2010, 18 min, Toronto Premiere, English
I Need My Best Friend Back
Gina Simone, Canada, 2011, 15 min, World Premiere, English
Burning Blossom
Kathryn Threlkeld, Canada, 2010, 9 min, World Premiere, English

3:00pm
TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 330 King St. West
Feature: Baderech Lemalla (The Way Up)
Shirly Berkovitz, Israel, 2009, 52 min, North American Premiere, Hebrew with English subtitles, Best Documentary: Romania International Film Festival
From the streets and alleys of Tel Aviv, Lian searches for a family, fights her addictions, and rebuilds her life in this powerful and intimate portrait.

Short:  Latzuf (Floating)
Inbal Gibrolter, Israel, 2010, 33 min, North American Premiere, Hebrew with English Subtitles
Two young women battle with their weight: one is a binge eater, the other an anorexic. They share a hospital room in the facility in which they have been committed. Both girls rebel against their rehabilitation, bonding over the experience, but to terrible consequence. This film is a cautionary story about female body image.

7:00pm
TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 330 King St. West
Feature: Part Time Fabulous
Alethea Root, USA, 2011, 78 min, Canadian Premiere, English, Best Narrative Feature Audience Award: Berkshire International Film Festival 2011
Blending documentary and drama, Alethea Root captures the ups and downs of loving someone with mental illness with an accuracy rarely seen on screen. Filmmaker in attendance.

7:00pm
Workman Arts, 651 Dufferin St. West
Industry Artist Talk: Jenn E Norton
Jenn will discuss how working intimately with the technology used in the production of her practice in a DIY capacity marries intuitive and formal approaches to her creative process.
8:00pm
Workman Arts, 651 Dufferin St. West
Wee Requiems: Shorts
Curated by Deirdre Logue and Erik Martinson

A program of short experimental videos in lament. Mourning for the increasingly complex worlds of animals, plants and people, these works wander in and around the real and the alien, animated, mutated, recorded and illustrated.
How to Care for Introverts

Leslie Supnet, Canada, 2010, 2 min
Bird
Julieta Maria, Canada, 2010, 3 min
Wee Requiem
Jenn E Norton, Canada, 2010, 7 min
Beauty Plus Pity
Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby, Canada, 2009, 14 min
The Fire Theft
Isabelle Hayeur, Canada, 2010, 9 min, Toronto Premiere
Thaie
Barry Doupe, Canada, 2009, 5 min
Golden Room
Michael Stecky, Canada, 2008, 5 min, Toronto Premiere
Cartoon For Those Who Have A Certain Fondness For Ideas but Are Tired Of Thinking
Steve Reinke, Canada, 2010, 2 min, Toronto Premiere

Monday, November 7
1:00pm
Workman Arts, 651 Dufferin St. West
Feature: 22 Mei (22nd of May)
Koen Mortier, Belgium, 2010, 86 min, French with English subtitles, Golden Palm: Mexico International Film Festival
It’s a quiet day at the mall, until a suicide bomber destroys the tranquility. Immediately afterwards, Sam struggles to make sense of the chaos, the terror, the loss.

5:00pm
Workman Arts, Lower Hall, 651 Dufferin St.
Opening Reception ― Between the Temporal and the Eternal Falls the Shadow, Raja Moussaoui (Runs until November 12th)
The installation explores the potential for architecture to reveal beauty and communicate meaning through the simple but powerful use of light, shadow and reflection ó elements that characteristically serve to animate architecture.

7:00pm
Workman Arts, 651 Dufferin St. West
Feature: People in White
Tellervo Kalleinen, Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Netherlands, Finland, 2011, 65 min, Dutch with English subtitles
In this performative doc, the directors manage to subtly undermine the power imbalances inherent in psychiatric treatment by capturing the haunting reflections of people whoíve been through it.

Short: Art Works
Julie Pasila, Canada, 2011, 19 min, World Premiere, English
Art Works explores the transformative, regenerative, and healing power of the arts through a look at the practices of three Toronto artists.

Tuesday, November 8
1:00pm
Workman Arts, 651 Dufferin St. West
Feature: Yelling to the Sky
Victoria Mahoney, USA, 2011, 95 min, Canadian Premiere, English
With an alcoholic father, and mentally ill mother, Sweetness has had to grow up tough.  But is she strong enough to make it alone in the slums of New York? Starring Zoe Kravitz and Gabourey Sidibe (Precious).

Short: Collect Call
Christopher Mills, Canada, 2010, 5 min, English
A meditative short film that follows a young woman as she faces her mortality, death, and her ultimate renewal.Part ‘goodbye lullaby,’ part steampunk hallucination, and part music video (Metric).

7:00pm
Workman Arts, 651 Dufferin St. West
Feature: We’ll Get Used to It
Mohsen Ostad Ali Makhmalbaf, Iran, 2009, 52 min, Canadian Premiere, Farsi with English subtitles
In Iran, women end up institutionalized for mental illness, addiction, and disobeying their fathers. The women in this film, struggle with patriarchy as much as mental health.

7:00pm
NFB, 150 John St.
Industry Presentation: Portrayals of Suicide: Shifting the Lens,
featuring clips from The Next Day, The High Bridge, and Burning Blossom
Industry panel discussion and multi-media interactive exhibition of documentary approaches to suicide, in conversation with filmmakers, academics, journalists and clinicians exploring the changing attitudes around presenting this difficult issue.

Wednesday, November 9
6:00pm
Workman Arts, 651 Dufferin St. West
Laughing like Crazy: Shorts Program
A lighter look at mental illness and addiction in this collection of short films.
Hello Caller
Andrew Putschoegl, USA, 2011, 6 min, English, Toronto Premiere
Distilled Love
Joe Kicak, Canada, 2010, 14 min, English, National Screen Institute Drama Prize
What the Fud?
Phillipp Berg, Canada, 2011, 4 min, English
Blunderkind
Zak Mechanic,USA, 2011, 20 min, Canadian Premiere, English
Monster Flu
Brian Wiebe, USA, 2010, 6 min, Canadian Premiere, French with English Subtitles
Cataplexy
John Salcido, USA, 2010, 7 min, Canadian Premiere, English
8:00pm
Workman Arts, 651 Dufferin St. West
Performance: The Bi-Polar Buddha
A stand-up comedy performance by Big Daddy Tazz. Acclaimed as “one of the most talented comics in the business,” Tazz brings his unique worldview of life after mental illness to the Festival. Hosted by Yuk Yuk’s founder and Toronto-native Mark Breslin, followed by a conversation with Big Daddy Tazz and Dr. Kwame McKenzie of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

Thursday, November 10
12:00pm *Media must reserve
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), 33 Russell St.
CAMH Grand Rounds Presentation: Bob and the Monster
Clips and discussion with Keirda Bahruth, Bob Forrest and Dr. Ken Harrison

6:30pm
TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 330 King St. West
Television Presentation: Intervention Canada
Karen Wookey, Canada, 2011, 44 min/episode, English
Join Rendezvous with Madness and DOC Toronto as we explore the balance between exploitation and recovery with the creative team of one of Canadaís hottest new shows.

9:30pm
TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 330 King St. West
Feature: Bob and the Monster
Keirda Bahruth, USA, 2011, 86 min, English, Gold Coast International Film Festival: Audience Award Best Documentary, Rated 14A
Bob Forrest was an indie rock god, but he was destined for a different type of celebrity. After hitting bottom, Bob found redemption helping other musicians overcome their addictions.

Friday November 11
6:45pm
TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 330 King St. West
Feature: Finding Kind
Lauren Parsekian, USA, 2010, 75 min, English, Student Choice Award: Sprockets Film Festival
In this acclaimed documentary, filmmaker Lauren Parsekian travels the USA with a mission of healing: to stop the emotional trauma girls inflict on one
another.

9:30pm
TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 330 King St. West
Feature: Amphetamine
Scud, China, 2010, 97 min, Toronto Premiere, Cantonese and English with English subtitles
For Kafka and Daniel, finding the perfect love was easy. Keeping it conflicting sexual identities is a bit harder.

Saturday, November 12
12:00pm
Workman Arts, 651 Dufferin St. West
Feature: Sisters & Brothers (encore screening)
Carl Bessai, Canada, 2011, 90 min, English
A comedic, endearing look at dysfunctional families and the bonds that hold them together. Featuring an ensemble cast including Glee’s Cory Monteith and Corner Gas’s Gabrielle Miller.

Saturday November 13
8:00pm ― Closing Night Gala: Carnivale of the Mind featuring “Lens of Illusion” with Dr. Bruce Ballon
Workman Arts, 651 Dufferin St. West

Multimedia Performance: The Lens of Illusion with Dr. Bruce Ballon
Leah Cherniak, Director; Andy Moro, Designer; Lisa Brown, Producer
For your consideration, a collection of possible inner truths and outer deceptions ― or is it inner deceptions and outer truths? Please join your guide on a mysterious multimedia journey through distorted perceptions and uncertain realities. Experience mysteries that unite us; for people are more alike than different. A gala party to close the Festival will follow Dr. Ballon’s performance; the Workman Theatre will be transformed into a carnival of the mind~with midway refreshments, buskers, sideshow amusements and flim flam.

Rendezvous with Madness continues to bridge the arts and mental health worlds through our post-screening panel discussions featuring over 100 panelists from the arts, mental health and consumer survivor communities. The Festival is proud to thank its more than 50 presenting partners from the arts and mental health fields. As part of our commitment to bring artists to new audiences, each panel discussion will feature one of our presenting filmmakers in person when possible, or via internet video conferencing.

Workman Arts presents Rendezvous with Madness and supports artists who live with mental illness and addiction issues in their art practice.  It is an award-winning arts organization like no other and is recognized globally as a model for its outstanding programming. Its dedication to the development of its artists, its contribution to the Toronto arts community, and its ability to create meaningful dialogue that increases knowledge of mental illness and addiction through the arts is exceptional.

Each year, Workman Arts presents hundreds of programs and productions to its membership and the public. In 2010, more than 97,000 people attended its visual art exhibitions, theatre productions, film festival and other public performances. Over 250 member artists hone their artistic skills in annual training programs offered for free and instructed by the best and brightest in their field.