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The Bay Street Film Festival is indebted to many people for
their contributions to making this event a success and we
would like you to know who they are. Please feel free to
congratulate them on their efforts because these are the
people that made this event possible.
Festival Organizing Committee
Jackie D'Acre, Melanie and Brendan Berbenuik, Dave Clement,
Ronald Harpelle, Tina Monroe and Kelly Saxberg, Hubert Den
Drak, Jacomyn Gerbrandy.
Selection Committee
Kelly Saxberg, Gabriel Harpelle, Tina Munroe, Steve Ross
Britten Barton, Dave Clement, Jacqueline D'acre, Melanie
Berbeniuk, Brendan Berbeniuk, Christine Jenson-Bode, Donald
Delorme, Michelle Derosier, Robin Frigeri, Frank Pollari
Special Thanks
A special thanks is also due to the following people for their volunteer efforts during the planning stages of the film festival. Without
them the Bay Street Film Festival would never have happened.
Britten J. Barten, Michel Beaulieu, Tom Dunk, Gabriel Harpelle,
Tina Munroe, Ari Lahdekorpi, Steve Ross, Reijo Nikkila, Bonnie
Nistico, Piotr Skowronski, and Catherine Saxberg
Thanks to Dave Clement for designing the Program cover,
Christian Nelson for animating our logo, as well as Hubert den
Drak and Greg LaFramboise for their animations of our logo,
Jacomyn Gerbrandy for designing the logo and the website.
We also acknowledge the many volunteers whose jobs began after
the program went to press. You can find them working at the festival while everyone else is enjoying the films. Let them know you
appreciate the work they are doing to make the Bay Street Film
Festival a success.
The Bay Street Film Festival also acknowledges the support of the
members of the Bay-Algoma Business Association and several
other business owners in Thunder Bay. These are the people to
thank and you can thank them by shopping in the stores, buying
their services or simply by telling them that you appreciate a business that supports in events your community.
Arno Peuras, manager of the Finlandia Club, deserves special
recognition for his assistance to the organizers. Arno’s faith in our
idea and his generosity with his time was a constant source of support.
People’s Choice Awards
The Bay Street Film Festival relies on the audience to choose which
films are the best. Ballots are available at the entrance before each
screening. The top ten films will be announced and the top three
will each receive a People’s Choice Award.
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From climate change
to coming of age...
See it all at the NOSFA 2006/07 season opener!
An Inconvenient Truth
Quinceanera
Directed by Davis Guggenheim
Featuring Al Gore
Directed by Richard Glatzer &
Wash Westmoreland
“In 39 years, I have never written these
words in a movie review, but here they are:
You owe it to yourself to see this film. If you do
not, and you have grandchildren, you should
explain to them why you decided not to.”
Roger Ebert
Audience Award & Grand Jury Prize
2006 Sundance Film Festival
“...Saucy, rowdy, heartfelt, and terribly sweet...
a vital slice of Latino life with a loving sense of
place and a giddy, improvised feel...”
Village Voice
See both films free
with purchase of $10 membership
Thursday, September 21
7:00 & 9:00 pm
The Cumberland Cinema, 115 N. Cumberland St.
More about the films at www.nosfa.ca
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BAY STREET FILM FESTIVAL 2006
The Big Finn Hall:
314 Bay Street
The venue for the Bay Street Film Festival is one
of the most historically important buildings in
Thunder Bay and, arguably, the entire country.
“The Big Finn Hall,” as 314 Bay Street is commonly called, has been the epicenter of the
Finnish Community in Thunder Bay and Canada
for nearly a century. Inseparably linked to the
activities of Finnish-Canadian workers, its story is
about the desire to strengthen the bonds of
community and provide assistance for those in
need.
Built in 1909 largely through the combined
efforts of the Finnish-American Workers’ League
Imatra #9 and the Finnish New Attempt
Temperance Society, the Big Finn Hall was built
to replace the Temperance Society’s old Hall at
217 Wilson and the Torppa, Imatra #9’s hall
located at 309 Dufferin Street. Together these
two groups formed the Finnish Building
Company and, through a contest, decided to
name the building the “Finnish Labour Hall,” to
reflect the two societies desire to build a place
for members of the local Finnish community to
meet.
By 1910, locals referred to 314 Bay Street as the
“Port Arthur Finnish Socialist’s Local Temple”
because of its connection to first the Port Arthur
Branch of the Socialist Party of Canada, and later
(after the Finnish workers left in protest) the
Social Democratic Party of Canada. Between
1910 and 1912, the Finnish Building Company
also published the widely read newspaper
Työkansa in its basement. With the outlawing of
many workers’ organizations following the First
World War, many Finnish workers joined the
newly formed One Big Union and gave their
shares in the Finnish Building Company to the
regional support circle (something very similar
also occurred with the Fort William Finnish Hall
located at 211 Robertson Street).
In 1922, a split occurred at the One Big Union
National Convention held in the Hall. As a result,
a number of Finnish Socialists left and bought
their own building, the adjacent 316 Bay Street–
thus the “Little Finn Hall” was born. Those
Finnish workers who remained at 314 Bay Street
soon sought, after the collapse of the One Big
Union, affiliation with the Industrial Workers of
the World and not, as is often mistaken, to the
Communist Party of Canada. Despite these
many changes, though, the hall continued to
support the efforts of both Finnish and nonFinnish members of the community to improve
the conditions of workers throughout the
region. This included the continued operation of
the Hoito Restaurant and the establishment of a
chain of People's Co-operative stores in
Northwestern Ontario.
The Second World War brought with it many
more changes within the Canadian labour
movement. New unions were created and old
ones disappeared. The Big Finn Hall, however,
remained a place for workers to get a decent
meal and a place for the Finnish community to
voice their concerns. In 1962, the Finlandia Club
of Port Arthur was established and control of the
building passed into the hands of this new
organization. Since then, 314 Bay Street has
continued to act as one of the cultural centres
for the Port Arthur Finnish community.
Throughout the last forty years, it has been
home to a number of Finnish newspapers, theatrical productions, concerts, motion pictures,
sporting events, and festivals.
While much has changed during the last 60
years, 314 Bay still functions much as it has
when is was built close to a century ago. The
building acts as the cultural anchor of Bay
Street’s revitalization and serves the Finnish
community of Thunder Bay much as it did
almost a century ago. The Big Finn Hall is still
home to the internationally renowned Hoito
Restaurant and the Finnish-Canadian weekly
newspaper Canadan Sodomat. The Bay Street
Film Festival is merely a continuation of the
Finnish Community’s commitment of culture to
charity.
Michel S. Beaulieu is a local historian and writer.
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Hiroshima: 60 Years Later
The Remnant*
Lorne Saxberg, director
Japan
25 minutes, Documentary
Drama,
18 minutes,
Canada , Thunder Bay
Dave Clement, director
Lorne Saxberg, a respected radio personality, died unexpectedly earlier this year. One
of the passions in his life was film.
Hiroshima: 60 Year Later is an award winning short television documentary about
the bomb that changed the world. Lorne
made this film shortly before his untimely
death.
This special screening is a tribute to Lorne,
and the passion of one of Northwestern
Ontario’s most talented broadcasters and
filmmakers.
Struggling to survive the post-apocalyptic
winter, two strangers are brought together
by the discovery of an old violin. A tale of
love and sacrifice, “The Remnant” looks at
what it is to be human after the fall of a civilization based on materialism and consumption. This is an all-local production,
featuring some Thunder Bay’s most talented
performers and film crew.
finlandia club
of port arthur
314 Bay St., Thunder Bay,
Ontario, P7B 151
Tel. 344-7081
see our website www.hoito.ca
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Dorthea Mitchell: A Reel Pioneer
ON THE RAILS IN RED
Kelly Saxberg, Director
Canada, Thunder Bay
52 mins.
Piotr Skowronski, Director
Canada, Thunder Bay
24 mins
From the Wilds of Silver Mountain – to the
silver screen. Dorothea Mitchell: a Reel
Pioneer recounts in her own words the
amazing life of a pioneer filmmaker. 70
years later, a group of local enthusiasts in
Thunder Bay, reinvent the silent pictures, by
finishing “The Fatal Flower”, the murder
mystery Dorothea had bequeathed to the
National Archives of Canada. With no script
to work from and some missing scenes, the
group nurtured “The Fatal Flower” back to
life. In doing so they also remind us of a
remarkable women.
Restless and weary on an overnight train, a
traveller, Luke, finds himself enticed by a
shadowy stranger in a red dress. Their relationship develops rapidly as the woman, an
actress, draws him into her world of performance. Luke steadily begins losing track
of his own tenuous grip on reality as he
takes on a primary role in a dangerous
scheme, spurred on by his boredom and
seduced by his own curiosity. Led to the
spotlight, Luke faces the woman's wild
demands, but is hurtled back into a clearer
existence as the train slows to its journey's
end.
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Congratulations to Flash Frame
and the organizers of the Bay Street Film Festival
Marc L. Bode, LL.B.
Barrister & Solicitor
Labour & Employment Advocacy for Unions and Employees
Suite # 816 – 34 N. Cumberland Street, Thunder Bay ON P7A 4L3
Tel: (807) 344-9444
Fax: (807) 344-3420
E-Mail: HYPERLINK "mailto:[email protected]" [email protected]
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Marvelous Mary Maple
(Persian Best Editing)
Directed by Jennifer Murray
Canada, Thunder Bay
Drama
9 mins
After the death of her Grandfather, nine
year old Mary decides not to speak anymore. Picked on at school, Mary hides
from her troubles using fantasy and imagination. One day Mary decides to make
her mark, after which everything changes
forever. Marvelous Mary Maple is a children’s fantasy film that is both humorous
and thought provoking.
Art From The Streets
Layton Blaylock, director
USA,
Documentary
73 mins
Art From the Streets is a documentary
about homelessness, art, and community
service. It tracks the lives of five homeless
artists who participate in a unique art program. Viewers will visit homeless camps and
the weekly art classes and will see first hand
how this grassroots program changes lives
for all involved.
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Looking for my Brother
Luonto Ja Terveys
Nathaniel McCullagh, director
UK
Drama
23 mins
Panu Heikkila, director
Finland
Drama
55 mins
Set in contemporary Buenos Aires, Looking
for My Brother cinematically portrays fifteen life-shattering minutes in the life of a
young Argentinean girl named Alejandra.
Caught up in a tragic case of revenge, the
innocent Alejandra struggles to make sense
of deception, valor, and questionable heroism. While searching for her brother,
Alejandra becomes witness to the assassination of a politician. When interrogated,
she must think quickly to protect the
honor of her family, and preserve her own
freedom.
Finnish-Russian Kostya is in his thirties and
lives an unstable life. He keeps his distance
from his father and his thoroughly Russian
friends. When Kostya meets Masha, a young
stripper girl from St. Petersburg, the difficult
relations with his father get a new turn.
Inspired by the real life history of the
‘Disappeareds’ of Argentina, writer/director
Nathaniel McCullagh creates a world
where nothing is what it seems, pitting
morality and ethics against loyalty and
family.
HOITO
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Finnish Pancakes”
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Sticky Situation
CUBA CAPETOWN
Pascale Leblond, Director
Canada, Thunder Bay
10 mins
Joe Davidow, director
Finland
documentary
50 mins
If inanimate objects could speak, what
would they say? Imagine a poster on a
wall battling gravity via four pieces of sticky
tape. In Sticky Situation, Shamus (the
‘scotch’ tape) and his friends deal with life
against the wall. Live fast and die young is
their motto, but the afterlife holds even
more surprises for them.
This film describes a journey by a South
African HIV activist, parliamentary lobbyist,
who travels to Cuba to see how they have
managed to realize a HIV National
Program which has maintained one of the
lowest AIDS rates in the world. The South
African government has claimed that the
costs of AIDS medicines is beyond their
means, while Cuba - a much poorer country - has been supplying these medicines
to their population. The traditional close
relationship between Cuba and the present
South African government makes this contradiction all the more revealing.
A search for answers to today's most burning questions of the global HIV situation...
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Bad Blood
Dax Dalton
Kyle Leydier, director
Canada
21 mins
Adam Stephenson, director
Canada, Thunder Bay
Davie (Alan Cumming) befriends the rapist
responsible for his girlfriend's HIV related
death and his own infection. He soon learns
that the rapist has an eight year old son,
and uses the boy to exact his revenge. BAD
BLOOD is based on a chapter from the
novel TRAINSPOTTING by Irvine Welsh.
Dax Dalton and his girlfriend Portia Porter,
ditch the music industry on the Eve of
New Years. Sam Bronson, Dax's manager is
relentless and unforgiving, in attempts to
sign Dax with a well-known producer. The
producer, Dino DeVilainitino, works to
break Dax's intentions of being happy with
a girl and focus on more important things
like career and finances. Dax is forced to
make a choice between the business or the
girl. In a bold move, Dax ditches the two
men and makes a daring escape with his
girl. Sam chases them down while the
New Years countdown rolls off second by
second. In the final moments before freedom, Dax and Portia are forced to make
their final New Year’s Resolution.
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Kerrigan’s Passion (Man Dancin’)
Norman Stone, director
Ireland
110 mins
Kerrigan's Passion is a gangster movie with
a difference. After nine years in a Northern
Ireland jail, Jimmy Kerrigan returns to his
family home in a tough Glaswegian estate.
It's only been a few years, but the Glasgow
that he knew has changed and more immportantly, to those who knew him, so has
Jimmy Kerrigan. Some think he has gone
soft, others suspect he's found religion, but
they don't ask and he doesn't say.
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11:00 am Meet the Directors
~ Finlandia Club Bar ~
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Atonement Tonight
When I Close My Eyes
Anny Slater, Director
Australia
Documentary
5 mins
Sarah Stewardson, Director
Canada, Thunder bay
8 mins
Entertainment program ATONEMENT
TONIGHT -True Hollywood with the help
of “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” asks
the hard question “Saddam Hussein Despot or Desperate Housewife? - this
investigative report uncovers what happened in Saddam’s bunker the fateful day
of his capture and who really captured
Saddam Hussein- a report no-one should
miss. The documentary features a rare
cameo appearance by Barney- The White
House Scottish Terrier and a song by Mr
Hussein.
In this fantasy Fairy Tale, true love is elusive
but still worth pursuing. Our heroine
seeks to escape the confines of her mental
situation through her active imagination
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The cameras are rolling for a great success!
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Monks At Bat
My Backyard was A Mountain
Robert Purman, Director
Canada
Documentay
46 mins
Adam Schlachter, Director
USA
Drama
24 mins
MONKS AT BAT is a story about the intersection of baseball, Buddhist monks, and
lobster fishermen in a remote Canadian village where the struggle of living in a
demanding environment has a way of
bringing together very different cultures.
Ten-year-old Adan lives a carefree life in
the rural town of Palmarejo, Puerto Rico, in
the late 1950's, surrounded by his friends,
his caring mother, Lilliam, and his beloved
pet goat, Chivo. His father, Pablo, returns
home from New York City after a brief
absence, bringing good news that he has
found employment there and announcing
he will be moving the family to the distant
city immediately. Although Adan initially
thinks the trip will be fun and exciting, he
discovers that he cannot take Chivo along
with him. With the help of his childhood
friend, Denise, Adan embarks on a quest to
find a new home for his goat.... A compelling, personal story with emotional resonance for anyone with a loving heart.
The American Outsourcing
Epidemic
Jaime Gonzalez, Director
USA
Documentary
16 mins
Outsourcing, It has gone from affecting our
livelihood to affecting our very lives. This is
a story that goes beyond conventional discourse.
Heroes
Lynn Estomin, Director
USA
Documentary
26 mins
HEROES looks at the war in Iraq through
the eyes of two Americans: Celeste
Zappala. whose son, Sgt. Sherwood Baker,
was killed on April 26, 2004 in an explosion in Baghdad and Patrick Resta,
Specialist/E4, who served as an Army
medic in Iraq. Stark imagery is complemented by Ritsu Katsumata’s haunting
musical score.
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Space Chase
Atul Gupta, Director
India
Documentary
39 mins
Daniel Duncan, director
UK,
Comedy
5 mins
This is a story of the people missing in
Kashmir. Boys and men picked up by security forces and then disappeared. _Since the
men are missing and not declared dead
their wives are not widows but half widows.
The half widows need extraordinary
courage in living. They have to suddenly
switch from being the woman in the veil at
home to a bread-earner. Face society who
treats them as unattached property as it
treats most single woman in India._Their
faces reflect their tension. As the years have
gone by, many have learnt to live with their
hopes and aspirations while some are still
caught in conflicts with their in-laws, the
state, religion and day to day livelihood.
These women are alive and the survivors.
'Space Chase' is a fast-paced short film from
Catsnake Studios. Our hero and heroine
become locked in a frantic race using elements of Parkour to reach their goal.
Parkour, or ‘Free-running’, as seen on
Channel 4’s ‘Jump London’, is an increasingly popular pastime which involves using
obstacles to perform jumps and acrobatics
whilst continually running forwards An
incredible team of film and television professionals have been brought together to
work on this project, including those more
used to working on large Hollywood blockbusters. Our team is further enhanced by
the involvement of some of the world’s best
‘Free Runners’.
Let Go
(Hate) Machine
Brian McQuery, Director
USA
Comedy
18 mins
Phil Caron, Director
Canada
Documentary
5 mins
Producers Luke Miller and Neal Prosansky
bring you Let Go, writer-director Brian
McQuery’s tale of a single guy in search of
the perfect woman. Marty is a nice guy,
but he finds something wrong with every
woman that he dates. His best friend Bob
criticizes him because Marty can’t even
decide what he wants. But when one of
the women confronts Marty and sizes him
up, he goes into a funk that only Bob can
snap him out of. It seems that Marty’s
problems are much more complicated
than just being a perfectionist. Let Go was
filmed on location in Chicago with a
Chicago cast and crew and features cinematography by Luke Miller and an original
score by Karl Sundstrom.
Innocent words, beautiful children, transparent direction, disturbing results: these
are the elements of (Hate) Machine, a short
video that explores the subjective process of
creating media. Produced in reaction to
media inspired xenophobia, this video
explores the boundaries of what can be
extracted and constructed from harmless
raw footage.
(Hate) Machine challenges the notion that
media can portray “real” truth. And asks the
audience to consider elements of media
that often go unnoticed or unquestioned:
editing, beauty, honesty, intention. Similar
elements are used and abused in many
forms of media; however, with (Hate)
Machine’s transparency, the viewer is invited to ask questions and consider a larger
picture.
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LOUISIANA FENCELINE
God's Hand in Cancer Alley
Mark Hamilton, director
USA
Documentary
49 mins
In the heart of Cancer Alley, Louisiana, the
residents of a small trailer park discover
their drinking water has been contaminated by vinyl chloride for at least four years.
Vinyl chloride is manufactured by Dow
Chemical a few kilometers away. People
who live on the fenceline face constant
toxic chemical exposure. They live in fear
of deadly industrial accidents. They must
battle unheeding governments.
Unexplained illnesses and diseases among
their families, friends and neighbours are
the norm. The trailer park residents, led
by a fiery matriarch, organize a spiritual
revival at the local church. Some people
turn to God for help in times of crisis.
Others take matters into their own hands.
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Sex Slaves
Rich Esther Bienstock, director
Canada,
Documentary
89 mins
Sex Slaves is a gripping documentary
exposé inside the global sex trade in
women from the former Soviet Bloc.
The spine of this feature documentary is the
remarkable story of 'Viorel', a Ukrainian man
on a mission to find his pregnant, trafficked
wife in Turkey. Hidden cameras follow Viorel
as he tries to find the pimp who 'owns'
Katia, his wife, so as to buy her back.
Bienstock interviews traffickers, cops and
victims as she takes us deeper into the
world of modern sex slavery then anyone
has before.
Part cinema verité, part investigation, Sex
Slaves puts a human face on this most inhuman of contemporary issues.
Valery's Ankle
Peace Dreams
Brett Kashmere, director
Canada
20 mins
Martha Gorzycki, director
USA
8 mins
VALERY’S ANKLE takes Bobby Clarke’s
breaking of rival Russian hockey star Valery
Kharlamov’s ankle during the 1972 Summit
Series as its point of departure and site of
research. The film proposes a way of viewing this event through the filter of
Canada’s political and cultural history, the
particular circumstances of the Summit
Series and its semiotic function in the
mediascape/public memory. By aggressively challenging the way we characterize
ourselves as a country it is my assertion
that Team Canada’s performance throughout the tournament, and Clarke’s twohanded slash in particular, signify a discernable “glitch” in the production of
Canadian nationalism, identity and masculinity. This fracture disrupts Canadian
self-identification as polite, peaceful and
sportsmanlike and enacts a shadow identity as frustrated, aggressive and vengeful.
‘Peace Dreams' chronicles the language of
symbols as experienced in dreams over a
period of eleven years. This film is an experiment in translating the unconscious directly
to celluloid. Image, rhythm, light and sound
are crafted in a manner succinct with these
immersive visceral experiences. Dreams
from sleeping as well as waking states constitute revelations from places of deep
silence where logic is mythical. 'Peace
Dreams' explores symbols as fluid identities
within a cyclical context. Life affirming
meanings and metaphors unfold into a
drama of harmony and suggest we are a
part of all life surrounding us.
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The Official coffeehouse of the
Bay Street Film Festival
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Stars
Nostalgia
Eoghan Kidney, director
Ireland
Animation
11 mins
Matthew Toffolo, director
Canada
Drama
9 mins
‘Stars’ tells a tragic story of Sophie an ill
young woman who experiences synesthetic hallucinations. Using animation the film
constructs a dual reality between our perception and the woman’s altered perception of reality through treatment induced
hallucinations. The film uses the concept of
synesthesia (a condition where one sense is
confused with another) to explore our
inner relationship with the outer world.
This allows the film to visualise Sophie's
fears and dreams, eventually leading the
viewer into a place where neither life nor
death exists. The style of the film switches
from 2D rotoscoped animation to fully rendered CGI to motion graphics in order to
reflect the experience of the characters.
A man and a woman run into each other
years after breaking up and reflect from
their past memories of why they separated.
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Blowburn
Chris Lovick, director
Canada
Drama
11 mins
Bob’s brain-damaged brother, Jake, burns
to death. After disappearing for a couple
days, Bob shows up at his girlfriend’s place
to tell her what really happened to Jake.
The Pros and Cons of
Breathing
Seth Manheimer, director
USA
Drama
22 mins
A twisting tale of tragedy, self-hatred,
repression and survival. Jude Mulvey is a
hopelessly troubled youth cursed from
birth with the degenerative lung disease,
Cystic Fibrosis. After losing the one person
jude cared for most, the path of his life
takes a dark turn. Abandoning his eligibility
for a lung transplant and hospital institutionalism, he exchanges his hope with a
pursuit of death and control over his own
destiny.
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The Rhythm of Youth
Ulysses
Brendon Foster-Agoo, director
Canada
Documentary
7 mins
Alberto Diamante, director
Canada
85 mins
A short documentary about Steven
Eliopoulos -an 11-year old boy who plays
the drums in a rock band with his older
brothers. A story of the sacrifices of immigrant parents, and the blurring of the line
between brotherhood and surrogate parenthood; this documentary provides a snapshot of a boy's life unified by his unique talent for drumming.
The story of a young girl in love with an
older man. Through humour, adventures,
music and tragedy, they are bound to be
together. But will it be love or just friendship?
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Nilesh Patel, director
Canada
Documentary
98 mins
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AT HOME!
Check out our feature film collection on DVD and
video for home use
For a full listing of feature* films available
go to
www.tbpl.ca
•Click on Library Catalogue
•Enter feature films *Feature films include all foreign
films. To search for foreign films only, enter foreign films.
These titles and more are available at your library:
•The Island
•The Village
•War of the Worlds
•Vera Drake
•March of the Penguins
•The Merchant of Venice
•Being Julia
•Crash
•Triplets of Belleville
•The Taste of Others
•Shall We Dance?
•Narc
•House of Sand & Fog
•In the Bedroom
•Mansfield Park
•Winged Migration
•Sylvia
•Amélie
•Divided We Fall
•Iris
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Sentry
Windigo
Jason Lalonde, Director
Canada, Thunder Bay
12 mins
Stefan Fjeldsted, Director
Canada, Thunder Bay
8 mins
In the near future, one passenger could
make all the difference. Space and time take
on a new meaning.
Windigo is a western thriller based upon
the old Native American Legend of the
same name. When a gang of outlaws rides
into town to seek their fortune, what they
discover is their tomb in waiting. Soon one
of the outlaws and the gangs horses disappear. As the gang searches what appears to
be a ghost town for their lost member,
they are startled by a pair of youths. The
youths, hoping to find their saviors from
the threat within the town, instead find
only more bloodshed. Quickly the gang
realizes that the town is inhabited by
something far more threatening than any
ghost, and that survival is best kept to the
spirits within.
This experimental film by Jason Lalond pays
its due respects to the best of current science fiction. A good space adventure needs
a good story and lots of effects. This film
has all its parts working.
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Super-Anon
Stephen Plitt, Director
Canada
Comedy
10 mins
Wojciech Lorenc, Director
Poland
Comedy
10 mins
A young man's quest for a condom turns
strangely surreal as he is bothered by an
army of supermarket sellers soliciting their
products. If he doesn’t outsmart them on
time he will lose his chance with a beautiful girl waiting in his apartment. Will he
make it on time? And what surprise will he
find once he arrives? This short is a commentary on today’s world dominated by
advertising. To best express its theme, the
film consists of fake commercials put
together in a way that tells a story of the
main character’s mission. Each part was
made in a different style to present various
approaches that advertisers use to lure in
and manipulate the potential consumer.
There's a group of people overlooked by
the media, who have an amazing story to
tell. Downtrodden and ignored, they wrestle with living in the shadow of a greater
sibling, fear of losing a loved one, keeping
a deep secret, and general angst. These are
the members of Super-Anon, the support
group for family relatives of superheroes.
And this is their story. Beginning with intimate interviews and actual footage of a
Super-Anon session, we follow the group
as it goes through several kinds of therapy,
and finally finds hope in community.
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Moving Pictures
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Robots Are Blue
Linear Progression
Robots Are Blue
Bill Sebastian, director
USA,
Comedy, Drama
8 mins
Kat Kosmala, director
USA,
Comedy, Animation
5 mins
Complete with mindless humanoids and
talking cats, 'Robots Are Blue' is an absurd
comedy about life in the future. In 2021,
robots live and work among humans.
Tensions rise at the workplace when John
(a robot) writes Tom a poem for his birthday. Tom tries to silence his 'worker' before
he is found out and reprogrammed. When
upper management gets wind of the situation, Tom must decide whether to expose
himself as a sympathizer or live in an
opressive work environment under the
cloak of secrecy.
A breezy day, a straight path ahead, and all
the grass you can eat. What more could
anyone ask for? In such a comfortable existence lives the orange, warty and zoologically untraceable protagonist of Linear
Progression. In just a few moments, however, life may not be so easy. Complications
arise when a second warty and equally asof-yet-scientifically-undefined creature green this time - enters the scene. What do
you do when you see an obstruction on the
straight and narrow path? What happens
when an unstoppable force meets an
immovable object? Why did the chicken
cross the road? Conundrums and riddles
abound in this charming traditionally drawn
and digitally painted short.
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The Spectrum of Debate
Bathroom Stalled
Dan Cross, director
USA
Comedy, Drama
8 mins
Gisele Milani, director
Canada,
Comedy
8 mins
Two candidates debating war are rudely
interrupted by the corpse of a war victim.
Inspired by the performance art piece 'The
Interrogation Table' by Palestinian/British
artist Mona Hatoum, this dark comedy
explores the tragic folly of recent campaign rhetoric about war from both
American political parties. Writer/director
Dan Cross uses satire to expose the masculine posturing and fearmongering used by
both republicans and democrats in recent
campaigns in order to win votes from a
scared and revenge-hungry population.
Actors Dennis Elkins and Howard Pittsley
brilliantly capture the cadence, gestures,
and ad hominem discourse which
American political rhetoric has devolved
into.
Scandal plagued actress Hillary Hansen gets
stalled while trying to revitalize her public
image at a charity event.
Why is it that public bathrooms are notoriously unclean, lack toilet paper, working
locks and running water? 'B.S.' is a rippedfrom-real-life compilation of true bathroom
events, all splashed on to one falling star.
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The Bay Street Film Festival
wishes to thank all of our
sponsors, volunteers and
everyone who made this possible.
www.baystreetfilmfestival.ca
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Firefighter
Growing Democracy
Vanessa Ruane, director
USA,
Drama
20 mins
Keya Lea Horiuchi, director
USA,
Documentary
80 mins
Firefighter Ruane is haunted by his idealistic actions in 1971, as he struggles with
the guilt of having traded tours with a
young firefighter lost to the rubble of the
WTC. Unable to face his family and unwilling to heed the advice of his Lieutenant
and go home and rest he pushes him self
to continue on. When his company is
called to fight their first fire since 10 days
of digging, he finds redemption when he
rescues a woman trapped in the building
and in the act of saving a life he remembers who he is and what he stands for and
is finally able to go home to his family.
While the US is the most flaunted democracy in the world, what does the rest of the
world think of US domestic and foreign policy? Many Americans don’t question the
belief that the U.S. has the highest living
standard in the world, yet statistics of the
top GDP nations in the world show the US
in a different light. Views from outside of
the US are compared to the wide polarization of American views in healthcare, the
media, and foreign policy. It also looks at
the realities in far away places like Nepal
and Iraq which contradict stated American
foreign policy goals. Yet while the rest of
the world sees these realities, why doesn’t
the American public know of this?
The Fatal Flower Project
If you liked the book and Dorothea
Mitchell’s films, watch
for the documentary.
Dorothea Mitchell: A Reel Pioneer
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A Tug on Life
Arctic Sun
Directed by Kyle Giardino and Scott Baker
Canada, Thunder Bay
5 mins
Andrew Walton, director
USA,
Documentary
77 mins
Lake Superior is known as the ‘Inland Sea’.
It has its ports and international shipping.
It also has tugboats and tugboat captains.
This documentary is about that life. ‘Tug of
Life’ examines the unique, daring and dangerous life of a tugboat captain, his boat
and his work.
In the tiny Arctic village of Old Crow a
father and son are reunited after 20 years
apart. Stanley Sr. is a hunter, a rugged
man of the land steeped in Native
Gwich'in traditions. Seattle-raised Stanley
Jr., immerses himself in hip hop and partying. As their worlds collide, this moving
father-son journey becomes a larger exploration of the complex relationship between
tradition and modernity; nature and pop
culture; addiction and independence; and
the bigger quest we all embark at some
point--the need to know who we are and
where we belong.
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Binta Y La Gran Idea
Canol
Javier Fesser, director
Spain,
Family, Comedy, Drama
30 mins
Allan Code, Director
CANADA,
Documentary
44 mins
Binta is a 7 year old girl who lives in a
small charming village on the Casamance
river in southern Senegal. She goes to
school. Her cousin Soda does not have the
same good fortune. She is not allowed to
learn about the things of the world. Binta
admires her father, a humble fisherman
who, concerned about the developement
of mankind, is determined to carry out an
idea that has ocurred to him.
CANOL: Strange Invasion is better understood by the "Margin" than the "Centre"; to
borrow from our lonely,
truly Canadian historian Innis.
With wit and wisdom, Kaska Elder Arthur
John Sr. guides us once again along the
road he lead the way for in WWII; when the
U.S. took over Canada's Yukon and NWT.
"Oil for Alaska"... and maybe the war (for
both sides)... was essentially the excuse;
the excuse to make obscene profit.
The civilian contractors made 20% over cost
on every stick that was purchased or moved
in the construction...
And more than 140 million 1940's dollars
were moved!
An elemental vision of Corporate Greed...
clearly visible in the mountain air; exposed
by the erosion of history and our
barely -enlightened distance from the propaganda of a simpler time.
We welcome the Bay Street Film
Festival to Bay Street and welcome
festival goers. Enjoy the delights of
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REVOLUTION: A DOCUMENTARY
MUSICA
Love is Deaf
Andrew Kenneth Gay, director
USA,
Drama
7 mins
Jouko Aaltonen
Finland
Documentary
84 mins
Man climbs out of the sea and falls in love.
Revolution (Kenen joukoissa seisot, 2006), a
"documentary musical" directed by Jouko
Aaltonen, has become a box office hit in
Finland. The film was released on March 17,
2006 with only two prints, but has already
reached an audience of 10 800, being thus
the biggest box office hit ever in the category of Finnish documentaries in Finland.
Revolution is a revolutionary film both in
terms of content as well as of form. It handles in a unique way the political song
movement of the 1970s. The film is an
Illume Ltd. / Pertti Veijalainen production.
YLE (The Finnish Broadcasting Company)
has selected Revolution to be its candidate
in the Prix Europa documentary series,
arranged this year in Berlin. The Prix Europa
awards for Europe´s best TV, radio and
internet productions are given out this year
for the 20th time.
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Head Shot
In the Land of Milk And Money
Dennis Heaton, director
Canada
Comedy, Horror
7 mins
In the Land of Milk and Money
Susan Emshwiller, director
USA, Comedy
90 mins
What an actor thought was an audition is
actually a snuff film. And he's just found out
they aren't giving him the part. In a time
when people will seemingly do anything for
a modicum of celebrity, what is a fate worse
than death?
When Mothers are the 'Monsters' how can
we react? 'Are you now, or have you ever
been... a Mother?' This outrageously daring comedy turns the '50s style sci-fi on its
head. A scathing social satire that is scarily
relevant to today's world. Bold, experimental, and subversively funny. Scientist Peter
releases genetically altered cows before
they are tested. Dairy Products now cause
mothers to murder. When the news breaks,
the Government deals with the crisis using
familiar methods: repression, propaganda,
-- the roundup and internment of mothers.
'Are you now or have you ever been a
mother?' A cure is found yet society finds it
has done quite well without the mothers.
Does anyone really want them back?...
BAY STREET FILM FESTIVAL 2006
99 Years of Film Production
at the Lakehead
Elvis Presley once said that, “the only thing
worse that watching a bad film is being in one.”
Most Canadians when speaking about domestic
productions generally echo Elvis’ thoughts.
When a “Canadian” film reaches a wide audience, it is often mistaken for another country’s
production or whimsically applauded as an aberration. With the Hollywood monstrosity so close
and playing such a dominant role, this is not a
surprise. In fact, despite over 100 years of sustained production, the history of Canadian film
has been described as a series of unfortunate
events.
Yet, while Canadians bemoan the state of
Canadian cinema, individual communities have
continued to celebrate and embrace all forms of
local production. In many respects,
Northwestern Ontario is typical of the Canadian
experience. The history of film production in the
region is one cobbled from a variety of government, professional, amateur, and branch-plant
enterprises. Residents, though, have continued
to support and be proud of our cinematic past.
While residents of both Port Arthur and Fort
William began “going to the movies” at the turn
of the twentieth-century, it was not until 1907
that a British company made the region’s first
known production, Making a Load of Bread. This
was followed five years later in 1913 by Port
Arthur and Fort William: Keys to the Great Lakes,
another industrial film produced by local industrialist James Whalen’s Commercial Motion
Picture Company. Between 1918 and 1926, the
Ontario Government’s Motion Picture Bureau
made over a dozen short films featuring some
aspect of the region. The most notable of these
being a film released in 1924 entitled A Visit
from Pharaoh, which chronicled the spirit of an
Egyptian pharaoh who, disturbed by archaeologists, searches for the pinnacle of civilization and
finds it in Port Arthur!
While various levels of government were trying
to spice up their industrial films in the 1920s
with unbelievable and fictitious plots, former
Port Arthur resident, and the world’s first documentary filmmaker, Robert Flaherty was using
the photography skills he had honed in
Northwestern Ontario to make his groundbreaking 1922 film Nanook of the North. The late
1920s also saw the establishment of the region’s
first professional feature-film production company, Thunder Bay Films Limited. Although shortlived, it shot the romantic drama The Spirit of
the Wilderness in 1927 and in 1929 released a
second full-length drama The Devil Bear. The
establishment of the Port Arthur Amateur
Cinema Society in 1929 and their attempted
production of three feature-length fiction films
received international attention. A Race for Ties
(1929), the Society’s first film, is now recognized
as the first amateur feature-length film made in
Canada.
The Great Depression put a halt of film production throughout much of Canada. While people
continued to go to the region’s many theatres,
little money was available for productions.
Scenes from Northwestern Ontario continued to
appear in government films, but only the
Commercial Motion Picture Company’s second
production Where East Meets West is known to
have focused solely on the region. With the
onset of the Second World War, government film
crews traveled throughout the country documenting the war effort. Audiences around the
world saw films showing the manufacturing of
Hurricane Helldivers from Can-Car and Corvettes
at the shipyards.
Shortly after the end of the war, local officials
hired world-renowned Canadian production
company Crawley Films Limited to highlight and
promote Fort William and Port Arthur’s industry.
The 1951 production Gateway to Tomorrow
remains the region’s first known sound and
colour production. While no local productions of
note occurred in the early 1960s, some residents
were still involved in the film industry. In 1963,
Thunder Bay native Shelia Burnford’s book, The
Incredible Journey, was adapted into the first of
a series of three Disney films. In 1967, one of the
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first IMAX films ever made, North of Superior,
was shot in Northwestern Ontario. Released in
1971, this award-winning film was shown at
Ontario Place in Toronto for decades and
remains one of the most widely seen Canadian
films of all time.
As IMAX film crews were traipsing around in the
area, a new generation of filmmakers began to
find muse within the region. In 1970,
Confederation College established a film production program that, since its creation, has resulted
in the local production of over 400 short fiction
and documentary films. These films have played
at festivals throughout the world and many of
these graduates have gone on to distinguish
themselves within the Canadian and American
film and television industries.
The 1980s was a troubled period for the
Canadian film industry. Various tax-credit
schemes initiated by the federal government
tended to favour American feature-length productions seeking cheap locations and cheap talent. These productions, though, tended to be
limited to larger centres of production. As a
result, hosts of locations were used, but the
region received little credit. An exception was
Toronto’s White Otter Films’ 1983 documentary
The Castle of White Otter Lake.
The 1990s saw resurgence in professional film
and television production in the region. Best
known for its industrial and tourism films highlighting the region, MorVision Video Productions
was established in 1991 by Paul Morralee.
Between 1990 and 1994, Sleeping Giant
Productions produced a series of profiles about
mostly Northwestern Ontario residents called
Distant Voices for TV Ontario. Thunder Bay
Television and Jim Hyder productions co-produced the one-hour documentary Our Nordic
Legacy (1995) in honour of the 1995 Nordic
World Ski Championship held in Thunder Bay. In
1996, Kelly Saxberg established Shebandowan
Films and proceeded to produce, Rosies of the
North (1995), which has now been seen by over
1 million Canadians. Other films shot in the
region during this period include Expanding
Horizons (1995), a short film made for the
Outdoor Life Network and The Ojibwa (1996), a
PBS production exploring the history of the
Ojibwa/Chippewa in the Lake Superior region.
The critically acclaimed Canadian motion picture
ClearCut (1991), starring Tom Jackson and
Graham Greene, was also filmed in the region
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surrounding Thunder Bay.
Since the turn of the century, over a dozen short
and feature-length, fiction and documentary
films have been either shot or entirely produced
in the area. In 2001, Confederation College
graduate Eric Weller produced and directed a
George Romero styled horror, Zombie Massacre.
Another college graduate, Christian Schauz, produced and directed the full-length feature dramatic comedy Funeral Blues in 2004.
Shebandown films produced the award-winning
documentary, Banana Split (2001) and the
Gemini nominated National Film Board of
Canada production Letters from Karelia (2004).
Independent, grass-roots production has also
increased since the late 1990s. Established in
2001, Flash Frame continues to operate as a support group for local filmmakers. It produced the
first silent film made in Canada in over 70 years
when it finished the Port Arthur Cinema
Society’s last film The Fatal Flower (1930; 2002).
With the establishment of an Independent
Media Centre in 2000, a number of productions
exploring social justice, environmental, community activism, or human rights themes have also
been produced over the last five years. These
include Dave Clement’s exploration of the Grassy
Narrow’s blockade, As Long as the Rivers Flow:
Story of the Grassy Narrows Blockade (2002)
and his and Kate Kroll’s Power and Pet-Coke:
The SynFuel Controversy (2005).
The year 2006 promises to be a banner year for
filmmakers in the region. A number of local filmmakers have received both provincial and federal
grants and this year’s Bay Street Film Festival will
feature the premiere of no less than three new
films made in the region by local filmmakers.
Look for them and more in the programme!
Michel S. Beaulieu teaches film history at Lakehead
University and is writing a book on the history of
motion pictures in the region.
Confederation College
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the Bay Street Film Festival
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Supporting Innovative Filmmaking
Everywhere in Ontario!
The Ontario Arts Council (OAC) is pleased to support Ontario-based, professional film and media artists
and artist-run centres for the creation and distribution of independent work. Festivals that receive OAC
support provide important forums to reach local and international audiences.
Grants to Media Artists
Emerging Artists
Mid-Career and Established Artists
Deadlines:
November 15, 2006
October 2, 2006 and April 18, 2007
Northern Arts
December 1, 2006
(supports northern artists and organizations to create, produce and present their work to northern
audiences)
Visual and Media Arts Projects
December 15, 2006
Aboriginal Arts Projects
February 1, 2007
(supports the work of Aboriginal artists in all art forms)
All OAC programs are open to Aboriginal artists or arts organizations, and artists or arts organizations from
diverse cultural communities. For more information about OAC programs visit
www.arts.on.ca or call 416-961-1660 or 1-800-387-0058.
The Ontario Arts Council is an agency of the Government of Ontario.
Appuyer la réalisation de
films novateurs partout
en Ontario
Le Conseil des arts de l’Ontario (CAO) appuie avec plaisir les
artistes professionnels du film et des médias établis dans la
province. Le CAO finance également les centres autogérés qui
favorisent la création et la diffusion d’œuvres réalisées par des artistes
indépendants. Les festivals qui bénéficient d’une subvention du CAO
constituent une tribune importante permettant d’atteindre un public d’ici et
d’ailleurs.
www.arts.on.ca
Subventions aux artistes en arts médiatiques :
Dates limites
Artistes débutants
15 novembre 2006
Artistes en milieu de carrière et artistes chevronnés 2 octobre 2006 et 18 avril 2007
Arts du Nord
Date limite : 1er décembre 2006
Programme appuyant les artistes et les organismes du Nord qui créent, produisent et diffusent des œuvres
à l’intention d’auditoires du Nord.
Projets d’arts visuels et médiatiques
Date limite : 15 décembre 2006
Projets d’arts autochtones
Date limite : 1er février 2007
Programme qui appuie les œuvres des artistes autochtones dans toutes les formes artistiques.
Avance médias
Date limite : 15 novembre 2006
Programme qui appuie le développement ou la réalisation d’œuvres cinématographiques ou
néomédiatiques. Programme offert en français seulement.
Tous les programmes du CAO sont ouverts aux artistes et organismes artistiques autochtones, ainsi
qu’aux artistes et organismes artistiques des diverses communautés culturelles. Pour de plus amples
détails sur les programmes du CAO, visitez le site www.arts.on.ca ou composez le 416-961-1660 (sans
frais 1-800-387-0058).
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BAY STREET FILM FESTIVAL 2006
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8:1 5 P M B I G F I N N H A L L
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Dear Sweet Emma
OPTINEN ÄÄNI (OPTICAL SOUND)
John Cernak
Mika Taanila
“ You
are doing important work in helping
develop the star system that English Canada
needs. Keep it going.”
Actor, writer & director Benz Antoine on Northern Stars
Northern Stars is a site dedicated to Canadians in the movies. It’s for film buffs, teachers, students and
film historians as well as producers, directors, actors and agents. Some like the daily trivia and knowing
who's having a birthday. Some visit for the filmographies, biographies and rare photographs. Others check
what's playing now and what’s coming soon. Fun, informative and useful, Northern Stars is now 3000+ pages
and growing daily. Learn more about your favourite Canadians in the movies at:
www.northernstars.ca
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