Friday, April 10, 7pm
Yukon and Beyond

Mayfly Days
John Overell & Natalie Edelson, Yukon, 2008, 5m
An animated tale... Directors in Attendance

A Time of Solace, a Time of Change***
Troy Suzuki, Yukon, 2009, experimental, 14m
A solitary leaf carried by the autumn wind travels down a remote river, illuminating a landscape of slowly evolving change and renewal.
DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE.

*** or A Bunch of Old Guys Playnig Hockey

The Engagement
Andy Crowther, Yukon, 2008, 10m
It’s Katie’s engagement party and she’s not going to miss this opportunity to get exactly what she wants... a new life.
DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE

Lost on the River of Riches
Gerard Parsons/Bob Nixon, Yukon, 2008, documentary, 12m
Two travelers search for fortunes along a dangerous Yukon river
only to discover that they are no match for elements and must scale back their ambition to discover true happiness.
Another cautionary tale against idiocy.
DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE

Sikumi (On the Ice)
Andrew Okpeaha MacLean, Alaska, 2008, drama, 10m
An Inuit hunter drives his dog team out on the frozen Arctic Ocean in search of seals, but instead becomes a witness to murder. In the microscopic communities of Arctic Alaska there is no anonymity —the hunter knows both the victim and the murderer.

Frozen Poem
Mary Cox, NWT, 2008, experimental, 2m
A visual expression of a poem. Raw, feminine,
tragically beautiful.... and northern.

My Own Private Lower Post
Duane Gastant’ Aucoin, Yukon, 2008, documentary, 32m
The story of Duane Gastant’ Aucoin, a two-spirited Tlingit, as he seeks to understand how his mother Vicky Bob’s trials at the Lower Post Indian Residential School have influenced his life. As she shares her story, he comes to understand how he too is a survivor. Haa Koosteeyi (Our Tlingit Way) is where mother and son find the strength to overcome and truly survive.
DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE

Brain Clever
Lulu Keating, Yukon, 2009, experimental, 5m
East meets West. A flashlight, made in China. Instructions translated from Chinese into English. Can this flashlight really make your brain clever? Industrial Man (David H. Fraser) slogs through the winter to meet Environment Woman (Beth Egnatoff) in the glory of summer. The two opposites collide in a perfect union, brought together
by the innocuous Hand-Pressing Flashlight.
DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE