Welcome to the 3rd Annual Women in Film Festival...
Saturday March 10, 2007.- KUDOS AND CUPCAKES
12:30pm
A Selection of Alternative Media
| Title | 12 QUESTIONS, Music Video |
| Length | 4 min |
| Showcasing | Director, Co-Producer, Tara Hungerford DOP, Shannon Kohli Producer, Kathy Campbell |
| Country | BC |
| Synopsis | Jim Byrnes returns home after a trip and contemplates his lift. Where is he going? How will the future unfold? This video celebrates music, the life of an artist, the natural beauty of rustic BC |
| Title | Upon You God, Music Video |
| Length | 6.5 min |
| Showcasing | Minji Kang (Producer/Director/Editor); Lauren Weinger (Sound Design) |
| Country | US |
| Synopsis |
This film depicts the true meaning of dignity; when immature behavior meets consequence; when old memories disturb young adults' future; when one becomes finally no one.
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| Title | ITHACA, Video Poem |
| Length | 6 min |
| Showcasing | Writer, Director, Larisa Asuaje |
| Country | US |
| Synopsis | The film shows some of the obstacles, romantic disillusions and expectations, self-imposed aesthetic paradigms a Latin American woman confronts when trying to connect with her creativity. |
| Title | WILL OF THE WISP, Visual Poem |
| Length | 6 min |
| Showcasing | Writer, Director, Producer, Lead Actor, Jody Thompson |
| Country | BC |
| Synopsis | "Will of the Wisp" follows the ferine ravings of a haunted young woman, as she fights to reclaim her body, her sexuality and her[self]. |
| Title | TRACES OF (E)MOTION, Dance Video |
| Length | 4 min |
| Showcasing | Director, Producer, Performer, Editor, Barbara Glazer DOP, Grace Salez |
| Country | BC |
| Synopsis | Bringing dance and architecture together, a dancer builds with red rope while summoning her power to keep pulling on |
| Title | JUST A PILGRIM, Music Video |
| Length | 4 min |
| Showcasing | Director, Co-Producer, Tara Hungerford Exec.Producer, Kathy Campbell |
| Country | BC |
| Synopsis | Jim Byrnes and his band "Fresh Horses" inspire and enchant a captive audience in a timeless a classic setting. The video in study tells the story of a journey through time and reconciliation of ones past. |
| Title | TWENTY, Music Video |
| Length | 7 min |
| Showcasing | Director, Susan Turner-Cray |
| Country | US |
| Synopsis | Robery Cray and his band inspire this video about a 23-year-old Iraq-war veteran who served in Nasiriyah and at Abu Ghraib prison, before securing conscientious objector status and returning to the U.S. |
| Title | PURPLE LIPSTICK, Video Poem |
| Length | 6 min |
| Showcasing | Director, Writer, Heather Haley Lead Actor, Alexandra Oliver-Basekic |
| Country | BC |
| Synopsis | Purple is the colour of a fresh bruise. "Purple Lipstick" confronts the insidious nature of domestic violence through compelling juxtapositions, employing vivid language, absurdist against a backdrop of banality, images of *normal* family life. |
| Title | PUHKI, Music Video |
| Length | 3 min |
| Showcasing | Naomi Peterson & Natalia Tudge (Producers) Shannon Kohli, Director/DOP Harj Uppal, Artist |
| Country | BC |
| Synopsis | A fun and poppy Indo-Canadian music video |
| Title | Patterns 3, Experimental Musical |
| Length | 18 min |
| Showcasing | Courtenay Webber (Lead Actor/Production Designer); Catherine Lutes (DOP) |
| Country | BC |
| Synopsis | Vibrant split-screen musical finale to The Patterns Trilogy. Pauline, having washed her hands all night, suffers from the driest of hands. Michael, having sent her paper airplane love letters all night, has a bad case of paper cuts. With damaged hands and anguished hearts, Pauline and Michael reveal through song the nature of their enigmatic relationship. |
4:00 - 5:30
BC Doc Block
| Title | 21st Century Nun |
| Length | 23 min |
| Showcasing | Director, Alicia Brady DOP, Lynsey Hamilton |
| Country | BC |
| Synopsis | A film about purpose and consequence, following three Catholic Nuns in their modern day lives discussing their journeys into Sisterhood. |
| Title | PETALS |
| Length | 10 min |
| Showcasing | Producer/Editor, Arwen Hunter |
| Country | BC |
| Synopsis | A journey exploring cultural perspectives about the esthetic beauty of the vulva. |
| Title | THE OLDEST BASKETBALL TEAM IN THE WORLD |
| Length | 60 min |
| Showcasing | Executive Producer, Peggy Thompson Producer/Director, Sharon McGowan Associate Producer, Roslyn Muir |
| Country | BC |
| Synopsis | In July 2005, the World Masters Games hosted the first women's basketball team for players 65 and older. To qualify for the Masters you just need to be the right age and "still breathing". This documentary follows the "Retreads " in training and through the final competition, there they find themselves playing against three younger, stronger and faster teams. |