Fact, Eh:
The Hamilton Film Festival has screened more Canadian films than any other festival in the Hamilton and area!
The Staircase Theatre: A tradition of Canadian Films
Long before the Hamilton Film Festival came to be, the Staircase Theatre was a stop for something called the Travelling Canadian Film Festival. Being one of the first places in town to operate an indie theatre, it quickly became a hub for indie and aspiring filmmakers. Local artists Lorne Kredle and Brian Van Adel hosted "Lost and Underground" which screened Hamilton indie and experimental cinema. In 2004, the "Hamilton Film Festival" was branded and here we are today!
The theatre has been a home to Canadian films for almost 2 decades now and we want to continue waving that flag!
The theatre has been a home to Canadian films for almost 2 decades now and we want to continue waving that flag!
A listing of all the films that have screened during the Hamilton Film Festival.
If you screened at the festival and don't see your film listed,
please contact us and let us know the title and the year it screened.
please contact us and let us know the title and the year it screened.
TRULY INDEPENDENT - STEVE PARTON
The TRULY INDEPENDENT award goes to someone who is a champion of the film festival. It can be a filmmaker who has contributed films over the years, a super volunteer or simply someone who shouts about us from the mountain top...or the escarpment.
Steve Parton has been all three. His earliest contributions came through his Avalon Movie-Making Camp, where kids would make a film and HFF would show it. It was really the birth of us showing youth-made films. Steve offered help to the festival where ever it was needed. A few years ago he put his music and filmmaking skills on our screens in SUPERGROUP and JUDAS' DEMISE. If a young filmmaker crosses his path, he always directs them to the Hamilton Film Festival. This year, during the KIDS CAN FILM screening, we have a film called AVALON that we will present. It's a short documentary about Steve and his music school, made by a former student of Avalon Music. I could go on about his impact on the music scene but I would need a few more pages. Truly honoured to name Steve as the 2018 TRULY INDEPENDENT award recipient. Peace and Love
Past winners include Eves Raja, Ken Turner, Craig Watkins, Robert Ezergailis, Katie and Joanne Uhlmann, "Colette Kendall, Kathy Garneau, Hugh Macleod" & Sharon Borbill
Steve Parton has been all three. His earliest contributions came through his Avalon Movie-Making Camp, where kids would make a film and HFF would show it. It was really the birth of us showing youth-made films. Steve offered help to the festival where ever it was needed. A few years ago he put his music and filmmaking skills on our screens in SUPERGROUP and JUDAS' DEMISE. If a young filmmaker crosses his path, he always directs them to the Hamilton Film Festival. This year, during the KIDS CAN FILM screening, we have a film called AVALON that we will present. It's a short documentary about Steve and his music school, made by a former student of Avalon Music. I could go on about his impact on the music scene but I would need a few more pages. Truly honoured to name Steve as the 2018 TRULY INDEPENDENT award recipient. Peace and Love
Past winners include Eves Raja, Ken Turner, Craig Watkins, Robert Ezergailis, Katie and Joanne Uhlmann, "Colette Kendall, Kathy Garneau, Hugh Macleod" & Sharon Borbill
2018 NOMINEES & WINNERS
JURY CHOICE (Special guest Juror Stephen Hayes)
A MONTH (Kosovo)
BEST FEATURE
Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made
Break On Through
Hellmington
Isabelle - Winner
Sideboob
Waiting For You
Break On Through
Hellmington
Isabelle - Winner
Sideboob
Waiting For You
BEST SHORT
Asset Management
Bless Me Father
Earthy Encounters - Winner
Manicure
Milk
Room Tone
Bless Me Father
Earthy Encounters - Winner
Manicure
Milk
Room Tone
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Above the Drowning Sea - Winner
Before the Plate
Madagasikara
Met While Incarcerated
Nana
Surviving Bokator
Before the Plate
Madagasikara
Met While Incarcerated
Nana
Surviving Bokator
BEST SCREENPLAY (film)
Asset Management - Winner - EWAN FLETCHER
The Human Project
Isabelle
Je Suis (i am)
LÉO
Open Roads
The Human Project
Isabelle
Je Suis (i am)
LÉO
Open Roads
BEST EDITING
Asset Management
Foraldraskap - Winner - ROSS WILSON / BRIAN ALLAN STEWART
Hellmington
Milk
Snowstorm Roulette
The Villagers
Foraldraskap - Winner - ROSS WILSON / BRIAN ALLAN STEWART
Hellmington
Milk
Snowstorm Roulette
The Villagers
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Break On Through
Flin Flon: A Hockey Town - Winner - SOREN NIELSEN / CHRISTINE NG
Hellmington
Milk
Manicure
Seven
Tulsa
The Villagers
Flin Flon: A Hockey Town - Winner - SOREN NIELSEN / CHRISTINE NG
Hellmington
Milk
Manicure
Seven
Tulsa
The Villagers
BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC
Break On Through
Earthy Encounters
Fermata
Isabelle / Mark Korven - Winner
The Legend of Bob Leonard
Room Tone
Earthy Encounters
Fermata
Isabelle / Mark Korven - Winner
The Legend of Bob Leonard
Room Tone
BEST ACTRESS
Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made - ???
Break On Through - Amber Bissonnette - Winner
Earthy Encounters - Jessica Barden
Isabelle - Amanda Crew
Je Suis (i am) - Heather Tyler
Seven - Dagny Backer Johnsen
The Villagers - Shannon Ashlyn
Break On Through - Amber Bissonnette - Winner
Earthy Encounters - Jessica Barden
Isabelle - Amanda Crew
Je Suis (i am) - Heather Tyler
Seven - Dagny Backer Johnsen
The Villagers - Shannon Ashlyn
BEST ACTOR
Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made - ???
Bless Me Father- Phelim Drew
Bless Me Father- Francis Magee - Winner
Earthy Encounters - Fionn O'Shea
hashtagwill - Malte Myrenberg Gårdinger
Isabelle- Adam Brody
Off By Heart - Vlad Alexis
Off By Heart - Bill MacDonald
Bless Me Father- Phelim Drew
Bless Me Father- Francis Magee - Winner
Earthy Encounters - Fionn O'Shea
hashtagwill - Malte Myrenberg Gårdinger
Isabelle- Adam Brody
Off By Heart - Vlad Alexis
Off By Heart - Bill MacDonald
BEST STUDENT FILM
A Month
Ariane's Sky - Winner
Fermata
Nana
Poilus
Tiny Houe
Ariane's Sky - Winner
Fermata
Nana
Poilus
Tiny Houe
BEST SFX
Earthy Encounters
Foxed
Hellmington
Isabelle
The Noise of the Light - Winner - VALENTIN TUIL
The Villagers
Foxed
Hellmington
Isabelle
The Noise of the Light - Winner - VALENTIN TUIL
The Villagers
SPARQUIE THE SQUIRREL
Aliens With Knives
Dogged - Winner
Fowl Play
High Tea
The Noise of the Light
Paro Caro
Dogged - Winner
Fowl Play
High Tea
The Noise of the Light
Paro Caro
Sparquie The Squirrel is an award given to the most electrifying film in the festival. Something that zaps us! In 2011 at our opening Gala, a squirrel knocked the power out, leaving us in the dark for about 20 minutes. The power came back, but Sparquie did not. This award is in honour of that squirrel who made a lasting impression on us, as did your film!
SCREENPLAY (Written) SEMI-FINALISTS
BLACK GOOSE
by Janet Hetherington
Call of the Buck
by Adam Schafer
Carry On
by JD Dorfman
Foxed - 1st Place
by JAMES STEWART
Generation
by George Rubino
PIGJUICE
by Casey Laing
Secrets - 3rd place
by Lori Allred
Thank You, Amelia Earhart
by Al Mertens
The Dark - 2nd Place
by Joe Becker
Within
by Adam Schafer
by Janet Hetherington
Call of the Buck
by Adam Schafer
Carry On
by JD Dorfman
Foxed - 1st Place
by JAMES STEWART
Generation
by George Rubino
PIGJUICE
by Casey Laing
Secrets - 3rd place
by Lori Allred
Thank You, Amelia Earhart
by Al Mertens
The Dark - 2nd Place
by Joe Becker
Within
by Adam Schafer
13 Second Film Challenge
1. Michael Penney - Hellfie
2. Christopher Basalo-Gonzalez
3. Jess Paquette - This Darkness
Before the Hamilton Film Festival
The Staircase Theatre was ahead of it's time in Hamilton! Currently, it is common in Hamilton for someone to take an existing space and turn it into a multi-use arts space. Looking back to 1997, that is exactly what Hugh and Kathy did and, thankfully, they installed an LCD projector and a screen and started screening indie films! Keep in mind, this was at a time when many film festival were rejecting the idea of screening digital films, The Staircase Theatre embraced that with open arms.
Lost and Underground was a series of experimental films curated by Lorne Kredl and Brian Van Adel and screened at the Staircase Theatre. Eventually, others started screening there including something called the Canadian Travelling Film Festival. 2017 marks 20 years of this amazing theatre that gave birth to so many projects and events...including the Hamilton Film Festival!
Nov 3rd - 11th, 2018
13th Edition
Theme: Darkness
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'Him'
"It's getting darker every day" A Racing Heart A Silent Transformation A Thing of Dreams Abnegation Aliens With Knives ALL THE WORLD IS A STAGE Alley Trash (Director's Cut) Angel Anna Karenina Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made Audrey Backyard Astronaut Balance Beautiful Things Before the Plate Between the Shades Bijou Baxter Baby BLACK EARED Brave Little Army Breathing Centenarian Chateau Laurier - The Web Series CHESTERFIELD Clean Ice Dana Darken Deadman's Punch Deafening Darkness Detective Steele Don`t Call Me Bro Drowning in Sands Earthling House Huntress Ermon County: Gateway of the Fallen Fell Fermata Five Star Fouad Fowl Play FOXED! Fred Remembers Dieppe 1942 Fugue Game Night |
Getting Away
God's Madmen GUION Hangover Food hashtagwill Heartbeat Heavy Losses Hellmington Hey Abbott! Hidden Feature High Tea I Love You More IDOL Immaculate Memories: The Uncluttered Worlds of Christopher Pratt Je Suis (i am) JiLL Kofi and Lartey L'Homme et le Poisson La Merde Lakesong Last Respects Legend of the Harvest Curse LÉO Little Italy, LA Love & Spirit Lunch Time MADAGASIKARA Maelstrøm manicure MASKS Men overboard Met While Incarcerated Milk MIMICRY Mr. Goody Nana Necropophagus: The Carter Document NEKO NO HI - CAT DAYS Nervosa Nostalgia Off By Heart Open Roads Paralysis Paro Caro Pass The Salt Poilus Poppies Pouring Out Two Plates In The Stillness |
Rainbow Children - Portrait of Elika
Rake reclusion Repercussion Room Tone Sacred Waterfall Saucha Scattered SEVEN Sideboob Simple Simon Snowstorm Roulette Sparta North Special Guest Squideye Stuck SURVIVING BOKATOR SWARM Tapping Tango The Details The Devil You Know The Feed The Guide The Human Project The Hunt The Last Minute of My Life The Legend of Bob Leonard The Observer Effect The Snag The Sunset Channel The True North Project The Villagers The Wedding Thousands of Lullabies Tiny House Too Much Noise Try A Little Tendernsa Tulsa Unconventional Unearthed UP TO SNUFF Waiting For You Wake Up War On Love why i hate the suburbs With my own two hands You Don't Belong Here Kids Can Film
Keelan Veng The Mysterious Journal Throne of Dracula Camilia's Magic Marker Business Card 13 Second Film Challenge Darkness This Darkness Glass Slipper Hellfie Lights Out 13 Second Film |
Nov 4th - 12th, 2017
12th Edition
Theme: Music
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#Actorslife
2 by 2 3 Dead Trick Or Treaters 45 100 Proof Musical 165708 About Employment Alfred J. Hemlock All The Wild Horses Aimee All The Wild Horses Ananta Yatra (The Eternal Journey) A Short History of Indians in Canada A Spark in the Dark: Tinder Users in the North Ascribed Achievements Asylum Attwood Paradox, The Baby's Crying Backstory Bakebook,The Bit by Bit Black Donnellys Blackpowder and Guilt Blocked Break Room Bridge Over The River, The Brutes Are Afraid of Silence Bully Caligo Cancel the F---ing Internet Chewed Clearing The Way Cold Call Cold Hands Consensus Crowded Place Curtain, The Destrier Demonoid 1971 Di Journey Dollar King Don't Click Downtown Alley Emanations Escape Et Tu, Dude? Exorcism of the Dead Expecting Faded Tropics Final Exam Five By Five Forest of Echoes Freezer Burn From Up North Frozen Goose, The Fruit Machine, The Fun Glove Me Tender Good Mother, The |
Handmade Film
Heart of Steel Hider, The Human Cattle I Phub You I Go Back Home Jimmy Scott Imperfect Impression Imprinted Inconvenience Jamland Just One Word Kayam Khooni Key Ring, The Kupal Last Air B n B, The Lemonade Theary Light Sight Live in Kingston Lone Paddler, The Memories of Summer Meeting MacGuffin Microplastics in the Great Lakes Midnight Story Milk For Britain Mrs. Rafferty's Red Roses Muddlekuddle Mutter My Brother's Rifle Nicole's Cage Night Dancing Numbness Nutag-Homeland Ornament of Beauty Ouija Sex Panic Attack Peculiar Abilities of Mr. Mahler, The Pendulum Plasma Vista Pineboxfast Pineville Heist Princess Sparkly Butt and the Hotdog Kid |
Recontre
Reunion Tour Roger Roger Ballen's Theatre of Apparitions Roohangiz Rust and Bone Sahil Scales Scream For Me Sarajevo See Weeds Servant Shadow Share of Share Sherlock Jr. Shezhire Schwartzy Sleeping Beauty, The Slut Solitude Stateless Stella Maris Suffer Sunrise Storyteller, The Swelling, The Take My Hand Talk, The Tempus Tormentum Testing Greta Timebox Tomato Town Tom Works Nighhts To Live Again Transfer, The Two That Never Happened: Canada's First Internment Camps Unbound Voyeur / Exhibitionist Waking The Sleeping Giant: The Making of a Political Revolution What About Shelley Westdale When They Awake Whyte Snuff Yes I Canada KIDS CAN FILM Donut Spy on Me Dr. Fart Murder On Planet Earth Sheepdog Animation Reel Streetz Media Camp Werewolf Camp (Avalon Music Academy Movie Making Summer Camp) |
Nov 5th - 13th, 2016
11th Edition
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#Murderselfie
24x36 3-Way (Not Calling) 79 Years (The Years After Lovecraft) Adorn Adventures of Jimmy & Chaz, The After Work Age Of Unreason, The Aides Alien Transmission Anima Radix Art Of A Lost Trade Asphyxia At Dawn At Dawn B.A.R.F. Ballad of Gloria Sedgwick, The Be My Cat: A Film For Anne Beat Around The Bush Bickerman's Grove Blind Eyes Bombshell Boxers Breaking Bumpy Ride, A Calling Occupants Candy Girl, The Chasing Valentine Christmas Evil Cover Up Cure Dark Dreamer Dark Harvest Divorce Photographer Dog Days Dorothy's Secret Drown Or Swim |
Eat Snow
Echoes Echoes of Chloe Cooley, The Ecstasy Empty Bed Et Ta Prostate, Ca Va? Face Value Face Wash Family, The Fantassut / Rain On The Borders Farm Is A Four Letter Word Final Cassette Finder Flush Footprints Fork, The Fox Troubler From Me To You Generation Wolf Gettin Fat In A Healthy Way Glimpse Grand Journey, The Grozota HCA Kidscrawl Film Hear Me Hear The Silence Hidden Window Homeschool Reunion How Sweet And Sad And Strange If We Must Die Antoneta In The Distance In The Mourning Infirmity Jadon Just Desserts Kaddish Kapunka Ken Foster Keys, The Kryo |
L'Encenedor Quantic
Land of Laos Land of the Rock And Gold, The Last Latte Lighthouse In Breaking Waves, A Lila Little Dougie Little Pieces of Paper Lock-In, The Lockpicker, The Lola The Great Looking for Inclusiveness: David Story Love Love Stinks Magician Food & Fortune, The Man Mad Epidemic Mariner Mayham Mice Guy Mikelis Milton's Secret Monster, The Must Escape My Baba's Kitchen Nelly No Matter Who Obsolenscence Occupy Me On Air On the Line Only Lovers Leave To Die Orange Support Orange You Gonna Dance With Me? |
Paper Store, The
Peelers Penrose Triangle Pitter Patter Play Your Gender Pretty Dangerous Random Attempts Raven Steals The Light Red Maple Leaf, The Reservation Restoring Tomorrow Risky Game Ruth's Great Escape Samba #2 Scratch Second Spring Secrets Shriner's Creek Silence, The Spot, The Stand Up For Steel Still Closed Stir Sublet, The Substrate Surgery Sushi The Break Up There Is No Undo Third Wave This Modern Man Is Beat Tik-Tik Time Portal Glory Tiny Tracks Toaster Toilet Brush True Colours Umbrella Girl Under Pressure Under The Sun Vive La Mort We R The World/Mold Weather The Storm Weenis Welcome To Delish Whale Valley What Goes Up What Matters Whole Lotto Love Wind, The Year By The Sea |
Nov 2nd - 8th, 2015
10th Edition
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1500 Ninos
7 Days in Syria After the Last River All You Do I Shag Amadeus Anna's Pet Project Artificio Conceal Autumn Blood Backward Fall Bad Mother, The Banana Seat Bloodbath Beauty That Remains, The Below The Surface Between Black and White Black Christmas (1974) Blue Thunder Bright Side, The Bright Side, The Buyer Beware Canis Belli Cart, The Chosen, The Circus Without Borders Clara Codey Contacty Cycle of Life, The Daniel Dark Horse Candidate David Lambert: Master Knot Tyer Dead Air Disco Templ End of Season Sale Et Tu, Dude? Eve, The Eye Drum |
Fall
Feeling Like Eric Ferdinand Knapp Fixed Frozen Marbles Getaway, The Gnaw Goran Guess Who's Not Coming to Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner? Gutless Guy With The Knife, The Haiku 7 Happy Endings How To Find Friends I Can't Remember (2014) I've Just Had A Dream If It's Not Something It's Something Else: The Story of the Reason Incredible Adventures of Jojo (and his Annoying Little Sister Avila), The Jackpot (2008) Judas' Demise Junk Girl Jupiter Applause Just One More Bite Keeper of the Past Lake Ouentironk Lashes Last Call Laura Lester Coloma: For Ernesto Letterbox Little Bay Islands Little Men Longhand Lost Between Worlds Love |
Malleus Maleficarum
Man of the House Man Who Fed His Shadow, The Mannish Boy Matrix Mature Young Adults Mer Depre Mount Lawrence Night Is Meant For Sleeping Nimmikaage No End Offer, The Ojibway Switchback, The On The Horizon On Top Of Me One Day Rental One with the Devil Out of the Heavens B Parking Gods Parklife Pinky Pit Playdate Poop on Poverty Portal to Hell!!! Power of Poo Present, The Project M Push, The Pyramid Scream Rainbow Kid, The Razor Real Miyagi, The Rooster, The Sand Mother Search, The Selfish Heart Shut Up Sinaptica Sir John A. and the Curse of the Anti-Quenched |
Skool Daze
Sonambulo Sonia's Story Soverign Paperwork Spyk Stay With Me Stealth Stories Struggle To Survive, The Studies On Hysteria Sun City Suspects, The That Bitch Becky There Should Be Rules This Is My Time (2012) Tom in America Tomorrow (2007) Toy Boy Trademarked Turtle Island (2011) Twice Underground, The Underwater Unshakeable Vault, The Visitor Wanderer Westdale Film Festival Whisper, The Who is Hannah? Winter Hymns Wizard Stole My Baby, A Wrecker Yorkville |
Nov 3rd - 9th, 2014
9th Edition
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February 28
#Hamont 21st Chromosome, The A Mile In These Hooves After The Rain Alouette Am I Awake? Answer To Every Question Is Love, The As In The Movies As Seen On TV Attack of the Gorilla B-Movie Avalanche Ax Man & Dog Babooska Be In The Snow Bergmans Grandchild Big Little Girl Bird Doggin Blood Riders: The Devil Rides With Us Bob Bow to your Prince Brew Love Bundle Of Joy Carry On Carry On, Sergeant Casting Session Cautionary Tales For Children Champ, The Cooking With Carl Corinthian Dad In Mum David: Living and Working with Autism Davids And Goliath Dead Hearts Deux Mondes Dream Shreds Dunkel Dingens Dreary Show Dzieri Oszusta (The Cheater Day) Electric Indigo Estonians In Afganistan Eyes In Tuna Care F/Rno Fallow Faster Firefly Fishing At Lethe Florence And The Fish Flowers Foster Dog Getting There Gifts Given Your History Gone South Grind Growing Up Grateful |
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Haiku 2: Still
Haiku 4: Wait Hail Fellow Well Met Hanging By A Thread Hide Your Eyes Hold The Mayo Hold Up, The Homages How To Be Deadly Humanexus I Need My Monster In The Blink of an Eye Intelligent Weeds It's Coming It's Not Fake Jaskolka (The Caged Swallow) JUXT 6 Kiko's Paradise Kindred Spirit Kisses In Zocalu La Donna Lami Like in the Movies Lily In The Grinder Littel Blue Tapir Lotus Love At First Sight Lucy & The Limbs |
Magic Ferret, The
Massacre At Femur Creek Michel Midwater Mourning Has Broken Mousse Mr. Used My Ex-Ex My Guys My Jenny Nevermind No Love Lost Not Anymore Oasis Affair, The Only Gilt Onus Orisha's Journey Out Of Bounds Paper Perfect Lover Pink Elephant Plastic Glory Plundering Tibet Present, The Prodigy Psychopath For A Day Reunions Robbing Blind Sabotage Sadie Scumbag Second Wind Short Love Simorgh Someone You Love - HPV Stay Warm Straight Up: The Issue of Alcohol In Ontario Summer That's Not Me The 99th Annual Renaissance Review Tell Me These Hopeless Savages Through The Gravestones Ticket To Ride Too Bad Two Of Hearts Two Oranges And A Lemon Underground, The Walk, The Walking Proof War Bloody War Wind Winterlude Wolf Call Yeah Rite Year After Year Zugzwang |
Nov 4th - 10th, 2013
8th Edition
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167
Aakhir (At Last) Aayna Ka Bayna (Delinquent Dancers) Alias Animal Control Archon Defender Artless Awaken Balls Deep Better Not Touch Better People Binocular Vison Boudicca: The Second Coming Bring Them Back Bruce Cockburn: Pacing the Cage Bunker 6 Candy Colored Dementia Chore Wars Common Chord Cookie Monster, The Cooks Day Off Date, The Dead All Night Don't Get Man Just Get Used To It Dust Esmè Eugenia Face Fairview House Fate Fisher Price Town Flying Pig, The Follow Following, The Garbage Art Genes Revolution Green Guest House Gun & A Ring, A Halloween 1977 Hand, The Hobo and the Clown, The I Hate Change iCup Janet Johnny Ghost Juxt 1: Splitsville Juxt 2: Follow Med Juxt 3: F%$k Off and Die Juxt 4 Juxt 5 |
Killer, The
Le Train Bleu Life With Lupus Light Study Loraine Lucky 7 Maker - Iron Age Pigs, The Maya Meet Zoe Millers Road Mr. I Love You Mr. Spontaneous Mrs. Neverlate Mr. Betterlate Old Sanguine On The Horizon Origin: Call To Minds Panic Pool Apocalypse Portrait of Ryan Promises Red Light Redemption Riverbank, The Roadmaps Rules for Romance Rusty Girl Secret Life of Victoria, The Secretary, The Separation By Violence, A Shelter Sisters Brothers Small Talk Somnium Steven Myerschmidt Bites The Big One Store, The Supergroup: The First Gig Sweet Something Sweetieface Teenage Dance This Is Hamilton To Far Top Of The World Torontopia Torturous Touch Touchfree Training Day Travelling Guru Trip To Mars Umbrella of Damocles Volition White Who Knows Zombie Puppets Anonymous |
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Nov 5th - 11th, 2012
7th Edition
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52
21 Brothers 4 Pounds Absolution Amare Anna Logov Apres La Peine Auraly Betsiamites Bicycle Lesson, The Bird, The Guy and the Dancing Tiger, The Broken Heart Syndrome Broken Mike Bury The Sky Call of the City Chitkabrey: Shades of Grey Circle vs. Square: Battle Royale Columbarium Cutaway Dark Rum Demon's Secret, The Devil Walk Among You, The Die Farbe Dummling & Co. Eden Espace natal Femelle First We Take Hamilton First Words Food Stories For Clearer Skies Forevermore Fragile Froglight Get the Show on the Road Goodbye Robot Army Grandure nature GuM Here to Inspire Hotel Alpha Mike Immigrant, The Into The Ground It Came From Uranus |
Jake and Jasper
Junkboxx Kara L'etat des lieux L'hbrydee L'homme de glace L'homme qui ne savaid pas L'homme qui plaintait des arbres La Pilule Lady of Names, The Le Future proche Les ailes due monde Like Father Love and Sociopathy Love Infatuation Lucene's Story Meherjaan Memoires d'un magasin general Mlle Clara dompteuse de lapins Noeud Papillon Pathways Picture, The Pluto's Prize Powerful as God: The Children's Aid Society of Ontario Primordial Radiance Rainbow Connection Rewire Roachfar Rueben's Cube Senior Barista Sex On Wheels Siesta Small Talk Struggle Suggestions Under the Table Unity: Hip Hop's Next Chapter Waiting For Summer What Happens Next You Will Not Die |
Nov 1st - 6th, 2011
6th Edition
After She's Gone Angels of Death Asylum Bartender, The Beginning, The Behind The Camera Bird, The Birth of Cool, The Brush, The Pen & Recovery, The Clone of Carl Jung, The Club Scene Corpus Dark Show, The Death to the Different Det. Mark Waters Distilled Love Enfant Passant Finding Odo For God and Ulster Fork in the Road, A Game Night Girl in the Road, The Goldirocks I Like To Watch If I Should Fall |
If Only She Knew
IRIS Liminal Loser Leg Love Sick Lucky 7 Move Music From The Big House Night Moves Odds On the Mountain Prince's Sword, The Psycho Scarecrow Reflections Requiem Rest fo Your Life Rises to the Surface Sea Shells Shore, The Slug Gargantuwon Soggy Bottom Funhouse Stolen Concert, The Stuffer Survival The Second Times of Troubles Tinder TO in 24 Tree, The UBBY: The Movie Umbrella Project, The Under-ager Video Tape Whale and the Dog, The |
Nov 2nd - 7th, 2010
And Now A Word From ...
Anguished
Behind the Subdivisions
Beware Pickpocket
Can We Sit on the Same Bench
Change Required
Circus Temps
Day of the Living
Duel
Eleventh Hour of Copyright
Hope
I Annoy You
I Heart
I Want to be a Desi
Imago
Infected, The
Jackass Parody
Journal, The
Kingdom of Frog
Manbattlebot
Mickey Montgomery Show, The
Morning After, The
Parking Space
Path, The
Provoke
Remains
Remix to Rio
Return to Antarctica
Rhodes Scholars PHd's & Skull Babies
Sandman, The
Skinning the Cat
SLUT
Socks and Paper = Love
Story of Furious Pete, The
Tale of Two Peters, The
Title Match
Tragedy of Henry J. Bellini, The
Uh Yeah
Venture
And Now A Word From ...
Anguished
Behind the Subdivisions
Beware Pickpocket
Can We Sit on the Same Bench
Change Required
Circus Temps
Day of the Living
Duel
Eleventh Hour of Copyright
Hope
I Annoy You
I Heart
I Want to be a Desi
Imago
Infected, The
Jackass Parody
Journal, The
Kingdom of Frog
Manbattlebot
Mickey Montgomery Show, The
Morning After, The
Parking Space
Path, The
Provoke
Remains
Remix to Rio
Return to Antarctica
Rhodes Scholars PHd's & Skull Babies
Sandman, The
Skinning the Cat
SLUT
Socks and Paper = Love
Story of Furious Pete, The
Tale of Two Peters, The
Title Match
Tragedy of Henry J. Bellini, The
Uh Yeah
Venture
Nov 3rd - 8th, 2009
11:50 Club, The
Abattoir
Bracelet, The
Daily Routine
Day 3
Incommunicado
Laughology
Myths for Profit
Nagasaki Circus
Never Everywhere
Not Another Reality Special
Omnivac (Jury Choice)
Opus One and Two
Paper Places
Paranoia
Seedless Suicide
Sharp Teeth
Shattered
Slow and Painful Death, A
Soap Scum
Soft Shoe
Terminus Terminal
Tobacc-os
Yard Sale, The (Audience Choice)
Nov 5th - 9th, 2008
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1000 Journals 25% of Everything The Agoraphobe The Ballad of AJ Weberman Bronze Babes in Gore Park Bull The Calling Confusions of an Unmarried Couple Dewey, Dewey & Gouch The FBI Got Their Eye on You Franco & Zippy Frozen Seed Fueled Fishy Gobbledee Geek A Hopeful Plea Lemonade Maybe I'm Dead My Last Confession Nara Poetic Holocaust Seal Clubbing Sidecar: The Race 2 Road America Subdivisions - Jacob Moon Travis Unexplained Mysteriousnesses The Watchmaker Your Ex Lover is Dead |
This is the year the film festival moved to a submission-based, juried film festival for independent films.
FOR SALE / 2006-2007
The Staircase Theatre was up for sale and the festival was put on hold. Once the theatre remained with it's owner, the festival started up again in 2008, this time with Nathan Fleet acting as the sole artistic director of the festival on behalf of the Staircase Theatre.
Listen to Nathan Fleet's song "The Staircase" on his latest album "Love Hate City". The song was written when the venue closed it's doors.
Listen to Nathan Fleet's song "The Staircase" on his latest album "Love Hate City". The song was written when the venue closed it's doors.
Mar 1st - 13th, 2005
Local Shorts
We have no programs from this event. If you screened with us this year, please let us know!
Not So Silent (Live music / Silent Films)
Nash the Slash
Robert Bruce - (Buster Keaton)
Nathan Fleet - (Alfred Hitchcock / The Lodger)
Mar 23rd - 27th, 2004
The Bread Maker
Browse by Idea
In America
*Lost and Underground (local short films)
Mambo Italiano
A Mighty Wind
My Life Without Me
Rabbit Proof Fence
Spellbound
Spirited Away
Together
Browse by Idea
In America
*Lost and Underground (local short films)
- Marshmallow, Nathan Fleet
- What Makes Your Heart Sing, Laura Hollick
- With Intent, Derek Dwyer
Mambo Italiano
A Mighty Wind
My Life Without Me
Rabbit Proof Fence
Spellbound
Spirited Away
Together
This was the year the film event was branded "Hamilton Film Festival" and was run by the Staircase Theatre, then manager Rob Newberry and local volunteer filmmaker Nathan Fleet. The festival was also a mix of studio and independent films. Lost and Underground was a single evening screening of local films.
*If your short film played during the Lost and Underground segment, please submit your title to us here
*If your short film played during the Lost and Underground segment, please submit your title to us here