Broken Promises - FREE SCREENING
Shorts Program II
Sunday, Oct 23 2011, 2:45PM
TIFF Bell Lightbox, Cinema 1
Co-presented by Planet in Focus International Environmental Film & Video Festival
2011, Canada, 2 min, Digital Beta, PG
World Premiere
Director: Terril Calder
Arresting and intelligent, director Terril Calder uses stopmotion animation to explore the deadly legacy of betrayal wrapped neatly in a Hudson’s Bay blanket....more
2011, Canada, 4 min, HDCAM, PG
World Premiere
Miss Chief is back! Referencing two biblical allegories – Mary Magdalene washing Christʼs feet and Delilahʼs betrayal of Samson – the trickster Miss Chief points a beautifully polished finger at the relationship of betrayal and entreatment Indigenous people have had with Eurpoean colonizers....more
2010, USA, 6 min, MiniDV, PG
International Premiere
Director: Eve-Lauryn Little Shell LaFountain
A meditation on the loss of land and culture, this cinematic 16mm hand-processed film resonates as it reveals the haunting landscape of a New Mexican ghost town....more
2011, Canada, 15 min, Digital Beta, PG
Director: Myron A. Lameman
Surrounded by tar sands that threaten their Indigenous ways of life, the people of the Beaver Lake Cree Nation are suing the Alberta and Canadian governments for treaty infringement....more
