This Place I Stand
Shorts Program II
Sunday, Oct 18 2009, 1:00PM
Al Green Theatre
Co-presented by Spafax Canada Inc.
2009, Canada, 3 min, Digital Beta, World Premiere
Director: Shane Belcourt
A young woman’s job application turns into an embodiment of identity and challenges her to break out of the confines of prescribed individuality.
2009, USA, 15 min, Digital Beta, Navajo, Canada Premiere
Director: Blackhorse Lowe
Set in the 1920s on a tranquil Navajo reservation, a woman faces relinquishing her traditional lifestyle for a new life just over the mountain.
2009, Russia, 17 min, Beta SP, Russian and Evens, World Premiere
Director: Philipp Abryutin
The beautiful bond between a grandfather and grandson is documented in this deeply moving and tender portrait of love and connection to land.
2008, Canada, 8 min 5 sec, Digital Beta, Toronto Premiere
Director: Daniel Gerson
Filmed on location in Winnipeg’s disintegrating Chinatown district, Welcome is a starkly honest look at a lonely boy’s travels along broken streets riddled with addiction.
2009, Australia, 12 min, Digital Beta, Wurramungu, International Premiere
Director: Dena Curtis
A haunting portrayal of one man’s struggle to accept his illegitimate child.
2009, Australia, 11 min, Digital Beta, International Premiere
Director: Adrian Wills
Aided by his adoptive father, a young man travels to his birth place only to find out that the issue of identity isn’t so black and white.
2008, New Zealand, 15 min, 35mm, English and Maori, North America Premiere
Director: Nancy Brunning
When a young Maori soldier is killed in WWII, his extended family swoops in to take away his baby son from his European mother to protect the bloodline.
The Light
2008, USA, 10 min, Beta SP, English and Hawaiian, Canada Premiere
Director: Emily Anne Kaliko Spenser
Producer: Merata Mita
Ancient and modern rituals of Hawaiian culture are challenged when a young woman reflects on their purpose in this visually stunning and poignant piece about the misappropriation of tradition.
