Festival Screening – July 30, 2015 @ 8 PM, Screen 1 – Lighthouse Cinema Smithfield Headlining this strand is Out to Win, a documentary from award-winning LGBT filmmaker Malcolm Ingram. It is an examination of the lives and careers of aspiring and professional gay and lesbian sportspeople from all over the world. Director – Malcom […]
Video Services Corp. presents: When TV’s ‘War of the Words’ began – Buckley vs. Vidal makes history all over again in the acclaimed Best Of Enemies Directed by Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon Official Selections of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, the 2015 SXSW Film Festival, and the 2015 Hot Docs International Documentary Festival Opens […]
Festival Screening – July 25, 2015 @ 10:30 AM, New Farm Cinemas – Bronze Room Episode of the Sea is the product of a two-year collaboration of the filmmakers with the residents of Urk, a small fishing community in the Netherlands. The former island of Urk was fused with the mainland in the mid-twentieth century […]
First Festival Screening – Sunday, July 19, 2015 @ 7:30 PM Cinema Nouveau Young fisherman Fettah has befriended many of the European windsurfers that visit his tiny village on the Moroccan Atlantic coast every summer. He has eagerly adopted their way of life and with the help of old equipment the tourists left behind has […]
Last Festival Screening July 17, 2015 @ 5:00 PM (Director’s Guild of America) DGA 2 A typical online flirtation between two strangers developed into shocking international intrigue. Sophie Deraspe’s gripping Sundance hit follows the virtual romance between Sandra, a journalist from Montreal, and a Syrian girl named Amina whose blog “A Gay Girl in Damascus” […]
Festival Screening – Thursday, July 16,2015 @ 7:00 PM (Directors Guild of America) DGA 2 In 18 states, it is still lawful to fire someone based on their sexual identity and orientation. ADD THE WORDS tracks the inspiring campaign of an Idaho-based LGBTQ activist group to change state legislation through effective civil disobedience. Directors – […]
PROGRAMME SCREENING ON JULY 16, 2015 – 6:30 PM AT TIFF’S BELL LIGHTBOX, TORONTO, ON. Digitally restored versions of four 3D films by the great Norman McLaren and some of his closest collaborators anchor this programme of classic Canadian animation, which also includes the new documentary Norman McLaren: Animated Musician. To view details and the […]
Only Festival Screening – June 13 @ 7:40pm TIFF Bell Lightbox This is the story of sports idol, Gino Bartali and other courageous Italians who helped rescue the Jewish community, partisans and refugees from extermination in a Nazi-occupied Italy. Bartali worked within a secret network alongside thousands of other like-minded Italians who risked their lives […]
First Festival Screening – Sunday, April 26 @ 8:45pm “There have always been eccentrics among us; it’s finally time to illuminate and celebrate them. Perhaps, in doing so, we’ll shed some light on our own neglected passions and potential.” – John Zaritsky Synopsis: An eclectic globe-trotting adventure, A Different Drummer: Celebrating Eccentrics, introduces us to […]
Festival Screening – Sunday, April 26 @ 2:45pm Synopsis: This is the story of an American Original, a true legend of the Wild West. On her own from her early teens, she learned to survive on her own and quickly became the kind of woman to follow her own path. She maneuvered her way into […]
