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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! 

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. 
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TRULY INDEPENDENT - STEVE PARTON

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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

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

BEST SHORT

Asset Management
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

BEST SCREENPLAY (film)

Asset Management - Winner - EWAN FLETCHER
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

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Break On Through
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

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

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

BEST STUDENT FILM

A Month
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

SPARQUIE THE SQUIRREL

Aliens With Knives
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 

13 Second Film Challenge
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1. Michael Penney - Hellfie
2. Christopher Basalo-Gonzalez
3. Jess Paquette - This Darkness

Before the Hamilton Film Festival

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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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2018 Digital Program
File Size: 1389 kb
File Type: pdf
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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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HFF 2017 Program
File Size: 5079 kb
File Type: pdf
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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)

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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

​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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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

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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

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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

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Nov 3rd - 8th, 2009

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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. 

Mar 1st - 13th, 2005

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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) 
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Nash the Slash
Robert Bruce - (Buster Keaton) 
​Nathan Fleet - (Alfred Hitchcock / The Lodger) 


Mar 23rd - 27th, 2004

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The Bread Maker
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
Lost in Translation
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

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