HAMILTON'S BIGGEST AND BEST FILM FESTIVAL!
We earn the "Hamilton" in our title!
If this year was a movie genre, well it would be a wide variety of them!
Fitting that our theme is Variety, and we are bringing you a wide selection and in multiple ways. Limited theatrical, the Drive-In, Broadcast and Online!
Get out your megaphone and shout it out that the 15th Annual Hamilton Film Festival is almost here!
Stay Safe. Stay Creative!
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 7th
OPENING NIGHT
KITTY MAMMAS
+ Live Music by the Michael Scott Trio
$20
(doors at 7pm)
7:30pm - 10pm
Westdale Theatre, 1014 King St. W
Limited Capacity (25 pairs only) No single seats.
COVID PROTOCOLS IN PLACE
Mask required when entering, exiting and moving throughout the theatre.
KITTY MAMMAS
(Comedy / Sci Fi, 90m, Dennis Alexander Nicholson, Canada)
We're kicking off, well...pawing off, opening night with a Canadian feature from first-time director Dennis Alexander Nicholson! Meeeoowww!!
A “documentary film crew” captures history unfolding, as a disgraced, but kind-hearted fertility specialist, Dr. William Han (Paul Sun-Hyung Lee) , tries to restart his career, embarking on a breakthrough medical trial in which four women will give birth to kittens!!!
Joan is in it for the money, trying desperately to pay law-school tuition, while her hippie-artist mother begs Joan to surrender to the arts. Sylvia, a working mom, can’t wait to surprise her kids by bringing home a furry pet that her husband isn’t allergic to. Maria and her fiancé, Jennifer, want to start a non-traditional family and put the money towards their wedding. And Rose…. Well, she just loves cats sooo damn much!
The cat-pregnancies must remain under-wraps for the duration of the medical trial, no easy feat considering the four kitty-mammas must hide their symptoms from their families and the world. But when William teams up with a savvy veterinarian from his past, Dr. Theresa Mackenzie, keeping the trial discrete becomes all but impossible. Her jealous ex-husband, Darryl, starts stalking the clinic, hell-bent on exposing the trial and ruining Dr. Han’s life… again.
Now, William must open up about his past, come clean about his feelings for Theresa and enlist the help of the four kitty-mammas if he wants to bring the world’s first truly hypo-allergenic cats into the word.
Tickets will be sold through our platform at FILM FREEWAY
https://filmfreeway.com/HamiltonFilmFestival/tickets/126213
Before the show, enjoy the instrumental funk / jazz sounds of the Michael Scott Trio. Michael is one of Hamilton's best drummers and he has assembled an incredible trio for the evening!
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 8th
KIDS CAN FILM
FREE
1pm
ONLINE
Movies made by the kids during the Strike Camps and the online Summer Camps!
After the movies, we will have a Q&A with the filmmakers live on Facebook and YouTube!
Photo taken in February, 2020, during the "strike camps".
DOUBLE BILL
Sunday November 8th, Starlite Drive-In
One ticket / two movies
MOVIE 1
CUP OF CHEER
Comedy / 90m / Jake Horowitz / Canada
59 Green Mountain Road East, Stoney Creek, Ontario
Tickets On Sale next week
not for kids
In a comedic shakeup of every cheesy Christmas film, a big city journalist goes to a small town for the holidays and finds herself in an unlikely romance with the owner of a struggling hot cocoa shop.
Director Jake Horowitz is an HFF alumni and won for Best Screenplay in 2019 for the film All About Who You Know. It was also nominated for Best Feature and Best Actress.
MOVIE 2
HOW TO IMPEACH A PRESIDENT
Comedy / 77m / Olivia Fasullo / Hamilton
Sunday November 8th, Starlite Drive-In
Diane Preston is the most qualified President in the history of the United States, with one small problem: appalling approval ratings. After being advised to smile more, her attempts are mistaken for constipation. Her efforts to plug up the scandal only lead her further up shit's creek.
Olivia Fasullo is a writer and director based in Hamilton, Ontario. In 2016, while working on her degree in Political Science and History at McMaster University, she founded Referendum Productions, a female-led production company which focuses on equality in story telling and pushing new boundaries. After writing and directing in theater with "...dialogue quick witted and littered with clever cultural references..."(Fringe Review) and finishing her degree, she transitioned to film. "How to Impeach a President" is her directorial debut in film.
Olivia Fasullo is a writer and director based in Hamilton, Ontario. In 2016, while working on her degree in Political Science and History at McMaster University, she founded Referendum Productions, a female-led production company which focuses on equality in story telling and pushing new boundaries. After writing and directing in theater with "...dialogue quick witted and littered with clever cultural references..."(Fringe Review) and finishing her degree, she transitioned to film. "How to Impeach a President" is her directorial debut in film.
MONDAY NOVEMBER 9th
BONE CAGE
Hamilton Premiere
Drama / 80m / Taylor Olson / Canada
Monday November 9th, 7pm
ONLINE - $5
Q&A with Taylor Olson and Melani Wood after the show on Hamilton Film Festival's facebook live.
Movies start on time and will only be accessible for 2 hours.
After purchasing a ticket, viewing link will be emailed one week before the screening.
Jamie works operating a wood processor, clear-cutting for pulp. At the end of each shift, he walks through the destruction he has created looking for injured animals, and rescues those he can. Jamie's desire to break free from this world is thwarted by the very environment and circumstance he's trying to escape.
Taylor is an actor, writer, and filmmaker based in K’Jipuktuk, Halifax. His feature film directorial debut “Bone Cage,” based on the Governor-General award-winning play by Catherine Banks, premiered at the 2020 FIN Atlantic International Film Festival and won four awards, including Best Atlantic Feature, Director, Screenwriting, and Cinematography. His short films have screened nationally and internationally. As an actor, Taylor has been nominated for seven ACTRA awards for performances and won the David Renton Award for Outstanding Performance at AIFF 2018.
Taylor is an actor, writer, and filmmaker based in K’Jipuktuk, Halifax. His feature film directorial debut “Bone Cage,” based on the Governor-General award-winning play by Catherine Banks, premiered at the 2020 FIN Atlantic International Film Festival and won four awards, including Best Atlantic Feature, Director, Screenwriting, and Cinematography. His short films have screened nationally and internationally. As an actor, Taylor has been nominated for seven ACTRA awards for performances and won the David Renton Award for Outstanding Performance at AIFF 2018.
FALL BACK DOWN
Hamilton Premiere
Comedy / Thriller / 105m / Sara Beth Edwards / Canada
MONDAY NOVEMBER 9th, 9pm
ONLINE - $5
Q&A following the film
Movies start on time and will only be accessible for 2 hours.
After purchasing a ticket, viewing link will be emailed one week before the screening.
A depressed ex-activist takes a job in a sweatshop where he and his coworker make a grim discovery.
Based in Vancouver and Los Angeles, Sara Beth (SB) is a dual New Zealand / Canadian citizen and speaks fluent French. With a background in the Fine Arts, she has spent the last decade creating scripted content for the disenfranchised and working in the Art Department of various films and television series.
SB is the Writer / Director / Producer of punk Romantic Comedy FALL BACK DOWN (2020) funded through Telefilm Canada’s “Talent to Watch” program. Her sophomore feature THE ESTATE is a serious Lesbian Horror set in Ireland, also supported by Telefilm.
Previously SB wrote on the Netflix original series Travelers and was a development writer on The Reckoner, a supernatural teen series produced by Buffalo Gal Pictures and Animiki See Digital for the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN). She recently completed her short film SALTY, which screened in the Cannes Short Film Corner.
SB is a past participant in the WGC Bell Media Diverse Screenwriters Program, Reykjavik Talent Lab, Geena Davis Fellowship and in 2017 won the ‘High Scribe’ award at Sun Valley Film Festival. The judge was Producer Chris Moore (Manchester by the Sea, Good Will Hunting) who is an Executive Producer on Fall Back Down.
Pronouns: She / Xir / Them
Based in Vancouver and Los Angeles, Sara Beth (SB) is a dual New Zealand / Canadian citizen and speaks fluent French. With a background in the Fine Arts, she has spent the last decade creating scripted content for the disenfranchised and working in the Art Department of various films and television series.
SB is the Writer / Director / Producer of punk Romantic Comedy FALL BACK DOWN (2020) funded through Telefilm Canada’s “Talent to Watch” program. Her sophomore feature THE ESTATE is a serious Lesbian Horror set in Ireland, also supported by Telefilm.
Previously SB wrote on the Netflix original series Travelers and was a development writer on The Reckoner, a supernatural teen series produced by Buffalo Gal Pictures and Animiki See Digital for the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN). She recently completed her short film SALTY, which screened in the Cannes Short Film Corner.
SB is a past participant in the WGC Bell Media Diverse Screenwriters Program, Reykjavik Talent Lab, Geena Davis Fellowship and in 2017 won the ‘High Scribe’ award at Sun Valley Film Festival. The judge was Producer Chris Moore (Manchester by the Sea, Good Will Hunting) who is an Executive Producer on Fall Back Down.
Pronouns: She / Xir / Them
HEALING THE NATION
Documentary / 44m / Jack Major, Ernest W. Matton (Elder Little Brown Bear, Athehsa Niohkwá:rita:a) / Canada
Monday November 9th, 11pm
Cable 14 - Broadcast
Free
Healing the Nation follows community members of the Toronto-based Aboriginal Healing Program as they rediscover their culture to heal from unresolved trauma. This empowering documentary dares us to think beyond mainstream medicine and embrace traditional ways for overcoming mental health and addiction issues.
ack is an LGBTQ+ documentary filmmaker and writer. He graduated from Sheridan College's Media Arts Program in 2012 and gained early experience working as a music video director in Toronto, as well as a freelance cinematographer and editor for creative agencies across Canada. He currently co-runs Mission + Theory Co., a purpose-driven video production company that reinvests its profits into creating documentaries with a social impact. Jack's first short documentary 'The Venus Project' won Best Social Impact Film at the Grenada Afterglow Film Festival, as well as Best Micro Short at the Oregon Documentary Film Festival.
Ernest W. Matton is an artist, mental health and addictions counselor, and an Elder in his community. He takes his years of experience in the field and in life to make wellness practices and spirituality accessible to others. He is a graduate of Canadore College and Brock University, and is a certified member of the Canadian Addiction Counsellors Certification Federation (CACCF), as well as the Ontario Association of Consultants, Counsellors, Psychometrists and Psychotherapists (OACCPP).
ack is an LGBTQ+ documentary filmmaker and writer. He graduated from Sheridan College's Media Arts Program in 2012 and gained early experience working as a music video director in Toronto, as well as a freelance cinematographer and editor for creative agencies across Canada. He currently co-runs Mission + Theory Co., a purpose-driven video production company that reinvests its profits into creating documentaries with a social impact. Jack's first short documentary 'The Venus Project' won Best Social Impact Film at the Grenada Afterglow Film Festival, as well as Best Micro Short at the Oregon Documentary Film Festival.
Ernest W. Matton is an artist, mental health and addictions counselor, and an Elder in his community. He takes his years of experience in the field and in life to make wellness practices and spirituality accessible to others. He is a graduate of Canadore College and Brock University, and is a certified member of the Canadian Addiction Counsellors Certification Federation (CACCF), as well as the Ontario Association of Consultants, Counsellors, Psychometrists and Psychotherapists (OACCPP).
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 10th
SpiderMable - a real life superhero story
Documentary / 106m / Kelly Wolfhert / Canada
Tuesday November 10th, 7pm
Online - $5
Movies start on time and will only be accessible for 2 hours.
After purchasing a ticket, viewing link will be emailed one week before the screening.
In the typical comic book superhero story arc, tragedy strikes, a superpower is revealed, and the hero must come to terms with their new abilities all while not losing track of who they are. But how often is that lived out in real-life ... especially by a child?
Mable Tooke was diagnosed with cancer at age 4. As she endured chemotherapy, unique traits in her character started to develop ... characteristics that most people don’t recognize until they are adults. Mable’s empathy for others and her desire to control her destiny led to the creation of an alter ego and she soon saw her “wish” granted to fight crime with Spider-Man, save the city, and begin an adventure no one could have predicted ... as SpiderMable.
Mable’s wish started the day as a charming local media story, turned to the topic to be discussed across Canada, and travelled across the globe making headlines in country tens of thousands of kilometres away. But that wasn’t the most amazing part.
Mable’s journey, followed for 5 years by a documentary crew, shows not only her battle against her biggest villain, cancer, but her potential for self-awareness, heroism, leadership, and inspiration from the most unsuspecting of people ... a small child.
With a start behind the lens and 25 years as a cinematographer, Kelly Wolfert transitioned from that award-winning role to add writing and directing to his skillset. As an emerging filmmaker, Kelly soon realized he had to tackle the role of producer as well to complete some of his story ambitions. Years later, Kelly has now rounded out his storytelling skills to have written, directed, shot, and produced his first documentary feature film, “SpiderMable – a real life superhero story”, utilizing what he has been lucky to absorb from many colleagues over his career to complete a charming, northern Canadian-look at true heroism and leadership in a 6-year-old cancer patient’s journey to give back to those that have helped her. Internationally experienced as a storyteller with projects filmed in Japan, China, Russia, Chile, Peru, and Sweden, to name a few, his passion for sharing character-driven stories has taught him to look around and just listen. That’s where he finds creative, socially relevant, inspiring ideas about the people that surround us every day. Kelly has learned that people will be honest and vulnerable if they are being engaged and heard, and that is when human truths are revealed, making for compelling storytelling.
Mable Tooke was diagnosed with cancer at age 4. As she endured chemotherapy, unique traits in her character started to develop ... characteristics that most people don’t recognize until they are adults. Mable’s empathy for others and her desire to control her destiny led to the creation of an alter ego and she soon saw her “wish” granted to fight crime with Spider-Man, save the city, and begin an adventure no one could have predicted ... as SpiderMable.
Mable’s wish started the day as a charming local media story, turned to the topic to be discussed across Canada, and travelled across the globe making headlines in country tens of thousands of kilometres away. But that wasn’t the most amazing part.
Mable’s journey, followed for 5 years by a documentary crew, shows not only her battle against her biggest villain, cancer, but her potential for self-awareness, heroism, leadership, and inspiration from the most unsuspecting of people ... a small child.
With a start behind the lens and 25 years as a cinematographer, Kelly Wolfert transitioned from that award-winning role to add writing and directing to his skillset. As an emerging filmmaker, Kelly soon realized he had to tackle the role of producer as well to complete some of his story ambitions. Years later, Kelly has now rounded out his storytelling skills to have written, directed, shot, and produced his first documentary feature film, “SpiderMable – a real life superhero story”, utilizing what he has been lucky to absorb from many colleagues over his career to complete a charming, northern Canadian-look at true heroism and leadership in a 6-year-old cancer patient’s journey to give back to those that have helped her. Internationally experienced as a storyteller with projects filmed in Japan, China, Russia, Chile, Peru, and Sweden, to name a few, his passion for sharing character-driven stories has taught him to look around and just listen. That’s where he finds creative, socially relevant, inspiring ideas about the people that surround us every day. Kelly has learned that people will be honest and vulnerable if they are being engaged and heard, and that is when human truths are revealed, making for compelling storytelling.
MARLENE
Drama / True Crime / 110m / Wendy Hill-Tout / Canada
Tuesday November 10th, 9pm
ONLINE - $5
Movies start on time and will only be accessible for 2 hours.
After purchasing a ticket, viewing link will be emailed one week before the screening.
Marlene Truscott is Canada’s Erin Brockovich, an ordinary housewife who fought for justice and for her husband, Steven Truscott to be exonerated from a crime he did not commit. The Truscott story is one of Canada’s most famous stories, and became an international story when it created an uproar when a 14 year old schoolboy was sentenced to hang for killing and raping a 12 year schoolmate. Marlene became involved in the fight for justice at a young age, and when Steven was released on parole after 10 years, she met him and eventually fell in love with him. But the couple had to live a life of hiding as their children grew up, and Marlene couldn’t let the story die, determined that the truth would some day come out. Steven’s case was largely responsible for the abolition of capital punishment in Canada. Steven’s case was truly a miscarriage of justice, as the police fingered Steven and ignored any evidence that pointed anywhere else, a story repeated to this day, as many innocents languish in jail. A very female story about an extraordinary woman, written and directed by women, Marlene finally takes a place in history with this untold story.
Wendy Hill-Tout started as a literary writer and journalist, and then directed a number of award winning documentaries for the National film Board. She wrote and directed her first feature in 1991, and then spent a number of years producing, from the Canadian co-producer on "Into the West" nominated for 16 Emmys and a Golden Globe for best mini-series executive produced by Steven Spielberg to “The Northlander”, Metis director Benjamin Ross Hayden’s first feature and “Parallel Minds”. This year she also cowrote with her daughter Lowell, a collaboration Bloodthirsty, featured in Frontieres Cannes and premiering at Fantastic Festival, directed by Amelia Moses.
With “Marlene” Ms. Hill-Tout has gone back to her roots in directing. “It’s funny to finally come into your own power. Young directors are the thing, but what’s cool is I’m celebrating female power at an older age. And the message is, it’s never too late to come into your own. And it’s possible.” “Marlene and I in this way, shared a similar path as she waited for her kids to be grown up before she embarked on the journey to free her husband from his past. I think we need to celebrate more housewives, more women who dared to believe, and who acted."
Wendy Hill-Tout started as a literary writer and journalist, and then directed a number of award winning documentaries for the National film Board. She wrote and directed her first feature in 1991, and then spent a number of years producing, from the Canadian co-producer on "Into the West" nominated for 16 Emmys and a Golden Globe for best mini-series executive produced by Steven Spielberg to “The Northlander”, Metis director Benjamin Ross Hayden’s first feature and “Parallel Minds”. This year she also cowrote with her daughter Lowell, a collaboration Bloodthirsty, featured in Frontieres Cannes and premiering at Fantastic Festival, directed by Amelia Moses.
With “Marlene” Ms. Hill-Tout has gone back to her roots in directing. “It’s funny to finally come into your own power. Young directors are the thing, but what’s cool is I’m celebrating female power at an older age. And the message is, it’s never too late to come into your own. And it’s possible.” “Marlene and I in this way, shared a similar path as she waited for her kids to be grown up before she embarked on the journey to free her husband from his past. I think we need to celebrate more housewives, more women who dared to believe, and who acted."
AFTER FACT
Documentary / 54m / Lindsay Fitzgerald / Canada
Tuesday November 10th, 11pm
Cable 14 - Broadcast
Free
After Fact (2020) is an unvarnished portrait of real-life news work. A CBC investigator switches between covering an unsolved celebrity-murder story and probing a policy chasm that costs schoolchildren’s lives. A small-city reporter watches colleagues’ desks empty as she fights to believe her job still matters. A tough young City Hall reporter puts a human face to decayed housing. Canada’s first crowdfunded independent journalist covers city council with no other reporters in sight. Filmed over the course of three years during a cataclysmic shift in the business of news, After Fact (2020) documents how the crisis in news is affecting reporters on the ground, and what we all stand to lose in the face of journalism’s decline.
Lindsay Fitzgerald is an emerging director and producer in Toronto. She has spent the last six years working in the media industry for major publications including the TVOntario, CBC’s Fifth Estate, The Toronto Star and the Hamilton Spectator. In 2017, Lindsay was chosen as one of eight high-potential producers in Canada for the Doc Institute’s Breakthrough Program. Her first short film, About Employment (2016), won the TVO Short Doc Contest, and has screened at festivals worldwide. Lindsay has also worked as an associate producer, cinematographer and writer for veteran documentary filmmakers Michele Hozer and Maureen Judge, and worked under the prolific documentary editor Manfred Becker for her thesis film "What Appears to be the Problem?" (Premiere, Victoria Film Festival 2017). She holds an MFA in Documentary Media and a Bachelor of Journalism from Ryerson University, and is currently a production manager for the feature-length film Betrayal (2021), licensed by CBC’s Documentary Channel. After Fact (2020) is Lindsay’s directorial debut for a feature-length production.
Lindsay Fitzgerald is an emerging director and producer in Toronto. She has spent the last six years working in the media industry for major publications including the TVOntario, CBC’s Fifth Estate, The Toronto Star and the Hamilton Spectator. In 2017, Lindsay was chosen as one of eight high-potential producers in Canada for the Doc Institute’s Breakthrough Program. Her first short film, About Employment (2016), won the TVO Short Doc Contest, and has screened at festivals worldwide. Lindsay has also worked as an associate producer, cinematographer and writer for veteran documentary filmmakers Michele Hozer and Maureen Judge, and worked under the prolific documentary editor Manfred Becker for her thesis film "What Appears to be the Problem?" (Premiere, Victoria Film Festival 2017). She holds an MFA in Documentary Media and a Bachelor of Journalism from Ryerson University, and is currently a production manager for the feature-length film Betrayal (2021), licensed by CBC’s Documentary Channel. After Fact (2020) is Lindsay’s directorial debut for a feature-length production.
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 11th
SHORT FILMS - WAR THEMED
Wednesday November 11th, 7pm
Online - $5
Veterans use code VET2020
Augustus
The Mirror Drama / 21m / Joel Kohn / USA
Dispatches from The Vietnam War Doc / animated / 4m / Keith Lane / UK
Argyll Urban Ops Documentary / 16m / Max Putinsev / Canada
When Mom Is Gone documentary / 29m / Zeynep Gulru Kececiler / Turkey
Augustus Drama / 16m / Jon Alston / USA
Maunga (Mountain) Drama / 15m / David J Strong, Wanda Lepionka / New Zealand
Dispatches from The Vietnam War Doc / animated / 4m / Keith Lane / UK
Argyll Urban Ops Documentary / 16m / Max Putinsev / Canada
When Mom Is Gone documentary / 29m / Zeynep Gulru Kececiler / Turkey
Augustus Drama / 16m / Jon Alston / USA
Maunga (Mountain) Drama / 15m / David J Strong, Wanda Lepionka / New Zealand
THE BADGER
Drama / 94m / Kazem Mollaie / Iran
Wednesday November 11th, 9pm
ONLINE - $5
Right before Soodeh Sharifzadegan’s second marriage, her 11-year-old son, “Matiar” is kidnapped. After considerable effort, Soodeh is forced to ask for the ransom money from her ex-husband, “Peyman”. After Matiar’s release, Soodeh, being curious, comes to the sudden realization that it was all her son’s plan to provide the grounds for his father’s return.
HFF Alumni award winner (Kupal)
Kazem Mollaie started filmmaking with a short film named "FROM GAME TO..." (1999). Mollaie holds a B.A. in Cinema Directing from "Soore University of Tehran" in 2005. He has been the member of several organizations such as "Iranian Young Cinema Society" (IYCS), the "Iranian Alliance of Motion Picture Guilds" (Khaneh Cinema) and member of Board of Directors of "Iranian Short Film Association" (ISFA). He is known for his first feature movie named KUPAL (2017) and short films like DELETE (2011) and MINUS (2009). His latest film is THE BADGER (2020).
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12th
SHORT DOCUMENTARIES (103m)
Thursday November 12th, 7pm
PLAYHOUSE CINEMA
177 Sherman Ave N., Hamilton
$15
(Limited Seating 25 Pairs Only)
Covid Protocols in effect at the theatre.
A selection of short documentaries from Hamilton, and area, filmmakers.
The Man In The Dress (Brandon Nicoletti / 5m)
Man With A Movie Projector ( Derrek Glen / 4m)
My Waking Nightmare (Erik Bajzert / 5m)
RNA (Brenden Bartolozzi / 7m)
Animal Calling (Candice Dixon / 6m)
Legacy Voices (Akil McKenzie / 15m)
The Protected Place (Cher Obediah / 5m)
541: A Place For The Community (Amanda Wright / 6m)
Four Days at the National Preservation Centre (Lindsay Fitzgerald, Sean Stiller, Andrew Bateman / 15m)
Apple Pie & Other Lessons (Emily Ryder / 6m)
Running Home (Michelle-Andrea Girouard / 30m)
Man With A Movie Projector ( Derrek Glen / 4m)
My Waking Nightmare (Erik Bajzert / 5m)
RNA (Brenden Bartolozzi / 7m)
Animal Calling (Candice Dixon / 6m)
Legacy Voices (Akil McKenzie / 15m)
The Protected Place (Cher Obediah / 5m)
541: A Place For The Community (Amanda Wright / 6m)
Four Days at the National Preservation Centre (Lindsay Fitzgerald, Sean Stiller, Andrew Bateman / 15m)
Apple Pie & Other Lessons (Emily Ryder / 6m)
Running Home (Michelle-Andrea Girouard / 30m)
DAVE NOT COMING BACK
(Documentary / 92m / John Malak / Canada
Thursday November 12, 9pm
ONLINE - $5
Two friends, Don and Dave, were diving in the cave of Boesmansgat: 283 meters. Right before surfacing up, Dave – who’d just broken a word record – finds a body. They decide to dive back and retrieve it.
Jonah Malak is a documentary filmmaker. He has directed and produced his documentaries with the Montreal-based production company Nemesis Films.
Two friends, Don and Dave, were diving in the cave of Boesmansgat: 283 meters. Right before surfacing up, Dave – who’d just broken a word record – finds a body. They decide to dive back and retrieve it.
Jonah Malak is a documentary filmmaker. He has directed and produced his documentaries with the Montreal-based production company Nemesis Films.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 13th
DRIVE-IN TRIPLE BILL
Short Comedy | Short Thriller | SciFi
Films are not rated
Friday November 13th
$26 Carload
59 Green Mountain Road East, Stoney Creek, Ontario
7pm - Local Comedy Shorts (100m)
Digging Up Dorothy (Aharon Jinjihashvilli / LGBTQ / 8m)
It's Desmond (Daniela Di Salvo / Travel / 6m)
Sweet Tofu ( Li Xiaolong , Brennan Martin / 14m)
Cheat Meal ( Jacqueline Godbout / 10m)
Girl Scout Cookies (Alex Dashwood / Action / 11m / USA)
Your Mother And I (Andy Reid / 13m)
Beacons of Gondor (Scott Paterson / Fantasy / 6m)
Close to Nowhere (Eric Toth / SciFi / Drama 8m)
Respect (Aaron Rothermund / Drama / 11m)
Around The Hole (Stefan Kuchar / Fetish / Kink / 7m)
Verbicide (Santiago Fernandez-Concha / 6m)
9pm - Local Genre Shorts - SciFi, Thriller and Horror / 103m
Parallel (Zachary Viola / SciFi / 12m)
Purgamentum ( Julie Bruns, Steven Kammerer, Shawn Major / 5m)
Blind text ( Katalina Kovecses / 11m)
Slit ( Oak Anderson / Horror / 8m)
Don’t Shoot The Messenger (Oscar Karam / Thriller / 12m)
Build-A-Baby (Chelsea Laufer / 9m / USA / from Hamilton)
Dagwood’s Brig (Alec J. Macri / Adventure / 13m)
Hypernova (Tate Young / SciFi / 13m)
Terra Beach (Mike Gallant / SciFi / Gangster / 20m)
11pm - Parallel Minds
(Benjamin Ross Hayden / Sci Fi / 86m / Canada)
In the near future, technology firm Red-Eye is on the verge of developing a revolutionary contact lens that records human sight to replicate memories. The device uses an artificially engineered intelligence known as U.R.M.
When the company’s lead researcher is strangely murdered at the time of the technology’s release, Thomas Elliot (Greg Bryk), an old-fashioned police detective investigates with intrepid researcher Margo Elson (Tommie Amber Pirie) who are drawn into searching deeper to apprehend the illusive digital shapeshifter.
Both soon are terrifyingly threatened by memories of their past the deeper they continue to seek in uncovering what this dangerous artificial intelligence is trying to consume.
Benjamin Ross Hayden is an Indigenous (Metis) film director from Western Canada. The youngest filmmaker in Canada accepted to the Telefilm Canada micro program in the roles of director, writer, and producer whose films have premiered at over 60 international film festivals worldwide.
Digging Up Dorothy (Aharon Jinjihashvilli / LGBTQ / 8m)
It's Desmond (Daniela Di Salvo / Travel / 6m)
Sweet Tofu ( Li Xiaolong , Brennan Martin / 14m)
Cheat Meal ( Jacqueline Godbout / 10m)
Girl Scout Cookies (Alex Dashwood / Action / 11m / USA)
Your Mother And I (Andy Reid / 13m)
Beacons of Gondor (Scott Paterson / Fantasy / 6m)
Close to Nowhere (Eric Toth / SciFi / Drama 8m)
Respect (Aaron Rothermund / Drama / 11m)
Around The Hole (Stefan Kuchar / Fetish / Kink / 7m)
Verbicide (Santiago Fernandez-Concha / 6m)
9pm - Local Genre Shorts - SciFi, Thriller and Horror / 103m
Parallel (Zachary Viola / SciFi / 12m)
Purgamentum ( Julie Bruns, Steven Kammerer, Shawn Major / 5m)
Blind text ( Katalina Kovecses / 11m)
Slit ( Oak Anderson / Horror / 8m)
Don’t Shoot The Messenger (Oscar Karam / Thriller / 12m)
Build-A-Baby (Chelsea Laufer / 9m / USA / from Hamilton)
Dagwood’s Brig (Alec J. Macri / Adventure / 13m)
Hypernova (Tate Young / SciFi / 13m)
Terra Beach (Mike Gallant / SciFi / Gangster / 20m)
11pm - Parallel Minds
(Benjamin Ross Hayden / Sci Fi / 86m / Canada)
In the near future, technology firm Red-Eye is on the verge of developing a revolutionary contact lens that records human sight to replicate memories. The device uses an artificially engineered intelligence known as U.R.M.
When the company’s lead researcher is strangely murdered at the time of the technology’s release, Thomas Elliot (Greg Bryk), an old-fashioned police detective investigates with intrepid researcher Margo Elson (Tommie Amber Pirie) who are drawn into searching deeper to apprehend the illusive digital shapeshifter.
Both soon are terrifyingly threatened by memories of their past the deeper they continue to seek in uncovering what this dangerous artificial intelligence is trying to consume.
Benjamin Ross Hayden is an Indigenous (Metis) film director from Western Canada. The youngest filmmaker in Canada accepted to the Telefilm Canada micro program in the roles of director, writer, and producer whose films have premiered at over 60 international film festivals worldwide.
