SATURDAY, APRIL 19

 

10:30am

KIDS KIDS KIDS

A free screEning for with free popcorn!

Avataq
Nicholas Blachford, Nunavut, Animation, 1m

A surreal animation with seal soaring soundtrack.

How Dinosaurs Learned to Fly
Munro Ferguson. 1995. Animation, 5 m

The dinosaurs were headed for trouble. They ate nothing but junk food. They never brushed their teeth.
They stayed up all night. And though they loved jumping off cliffs, they didn’t like the landings much.
The early mammals tried to warn them.

Lilly Visits the Hospital
The Bum Family, Alberta, Animation, 7m

Lilly, a 12’ tall orange Monster takes her friend Fluffle to visit patients in a hospital. What could go wrong?

Super KittY
Lily Menzies Quinn, Yukon, 2m

One amazing cat.

Elbow Room
Diane Obomsawin. 2002, Animation, 8 min

This animated short tackles the subjects of personal space, conflict, and conflict resolution in the workplace.
At the office, tempers flare as two coworkers who are sitting dangerously close find themselves bumping elbows and spilling ink.

Dinner for Two
Janet Perlman, 1996, Animation, 7 m

When it comes to conflict, even chameleons won’t change! Peace in the rain forest is disrupted when
two chameleons literally get stuck in a conflict, with catastrophic results. R
elationships are severed, opportunities are lost, innocent bystanders are harmed and violence seems imminent.

Yukon Weather Report
Nunu Sageaktook and Fiona Slip, Yukon, 2m

The weather can be strange up here.

 

My Friend the Green Horse
Alanis Obomsawin, 2024, Documentary, 11 m

In her vivid dream life, the young Alanis Obomsawin found her best childhood friend: the Green Horse, who embodied the spirit of kindness and celebration of life.

 

FRUITS VS VEGITABLES
Jack MacNally, Yukon, 2m

Which is better?

 

Aqiggirjuaq!
Nicholas Blachford, Nunavut, Animation, 1m

It’s the most fearsome beast of the tundra.

 

 

3pm
FIRST EYES

at DÄnojÀ Zho Culutral Cebntre
FRont and York Streets

Program curated by Cassidy Everitt

 

Avataq
Nicholas Blachford, Nunavut, Animation, 1m

A surreal animation with seal soaring soundtrack.

 

I See
NoÉmie Echaquan, Julie Ottawa, Atikamekw(Quebec), Documentary, 3m

Ni Wapiten is a plea to better respect Mother Earth. In this poetic film, we follow a child’s journey through the woods to his community’s local dump.
Playfully, he reuses the waste to build a bear, symbolizing nature.

When we say evaluation, it isn’t the same thing
Gladys Rowe, Brandon Mitchel, Swampy Cree (USA), Animation, 6m

A powerful and evocative short animated film that delves into the world of Indigenous evaluation,
challenging conventional metrics and perspectives. Originating from a spoken word poem,
the film follows a woman on a spiritual journey along a river, where the natural world
becomes a canvas for her reflections on evaluation.

Poos
Celestine Twigg, Blackfoot (Alberta), Animation, 5m

Poos is an animated adventure of Thumper the cat exploring her home and elements of Blackfoot culture.
Directed by Blackfoot Language teacher Celestine Twigg, co-written by Celestine Twigg, Troy Emery Twig and Xstine Cook,
with support from Harrison Red Crow and Adrian Stimson. Music by Lance Tailfeathers. Animated by Tank Standing Buffalo.

Kanenon:we - Original Seeds
Katsitsionni D Fox, Mohawk (USA), Documentary, 26m

Kanenon:we - Original Seeds carries viewers into the grassroots Indigenous seed sovereignty movement led by Haudenosaunee women.
Genocidal practices including, boarding schools, land theft, forced relocation, imposed religion and even food warfare
contributed to a disconnection from our traditional foods and seeds. Indigenous seed keepers are vigilantly protecting the biodiversity of seeds
under threat of Agro-Chemical Giants that currently control over sixty percent of seeds worldwide.
As these Haudenosaunee women step back into their sacred responsibility as seed keepers they offer a powerful view
of what is possible in Indigenous communities working towards food sovereignty.
Content: deals with trauma due to colonialsm

February Sixteenth Nineteen Forty-Seven
Jessica ᒦᖒᐊᖅᑏ Miinguuaqtii , BC, Animation, 4

Inuk Elder Levinia Brown shares the oral history of how she was born on February 16, 1947 while her family was travelling by dog team across the open tundra.
Her story is illustrated by cutout stop motion animation of hand sewn Inuit wallhanging designs in the style of her own artwork.

 

6pm
CONFLUENCE

screening sponsor

Unboxed
Boreal Bedouin (John Steins), Yukon, Animation, 1m

Fast paced animation showing abstract figures twisting and writhing in an attempt to break free of their confines, set to a rhythmic soundtrack.

My Name is Arnold
Arnold Lim, BC, Narrative, 16m

A Korean-Canadian boy struggles adapting to his new life after moving with his single mother to a small, rural B.C. Community in the early 1990’s.

i think i saw you in a dream
Bronwyn Butterfield, Yukon, Animation, 2m

‘i think i saw you in a dream’ captures the motion and life of beadwork in a vulnerable, dream-like state,
intentionally not including the visual of hands, allowing the viewer to initimately engage with the beadwork process of day-dreaming, imagination and technique.

Just Kim
Javier Prieto de Paula, Diego Herrero, Spain, Narrative, 20m

Rose Kim is a trans teenager. Although they long for it, they’ve never expressed their gender identity and navigate life in their assigned female body.
Maybe because they’re alone in a country migrated to illegally. But mainly because
they fear losing the only emotional connection that ties them to the world: Camila, a baby girl they care for daily.

GeomÉtrika
Nicole Blundell, Ontario, Animation, 4m

GeomÉtrika is a mathematical odyssey that invites viewers on an experimental journey through the geometric wonders of the universe,
reminiscent of watching floaters under your eyelids. Shot on 16mm, hand painted and developed.

SOSUKE THE DUCK
bekky O’Neil, Ontario, Animation,5m

A girl learns about caring for a duck with special needs during her first year on the farm
. An animated documentary rendered in plant based inks about a little runner duck who couldn’t.

 

Our Land: Tuktoyaktuk Communtiy Resilliency Project
Karli Zschogner, NWT, Documentary 14m

Local Monitors of Tuktoyaktuk Community Climate Resillency Project tell the story of the project
and the need to address the community’s Arctic Ocean coastline erosion and melting permafrost through empowering opportunities for youth and elders.

Entropic Memory
Nicolas Brault, Quebec, Animation, 7m

This photographic exploration of family photo albums ravaged by water evokes hazy and indistinct memories, poignant witnesses of a fragile past.

Red Sails
Claire Ness, Yukon, Animation, 4m

A stop-motion love story represented by a nautical adventure, set to the poetic imagery of a jazzy blues song.

 

8:30
DOWN RIVER

Screening Sponsor

 

Meet Your Mother
Lexie Braden, Marjorie LogUe, Yukon, Documnetary, 4m

There's magic in that kombucha.

 

Fantas
Halima Elkhatabi Ontario, Narrative, 13m

For the duration of a summer afternoon, Abby seeks to bring together two parts of herself.
Two worlds that had never yet met and are going to collide in a surreal urban western.

[sun]film
Derek Taylor USA, Animation, 3m

A meditation on light, power, and perception, the film explores humanity’s changing connection to the sun.
Using hundreds of found images from the 16th century onward, the film shows how the sun has been depicted in art, science, and culture.
It moves from ancient celestial maps and Renaissance images of divine light to telescopic photos and modern simulations.
Through this movement, the film reflects on how the sun has inspired shifting meanings and myths, acting as both a constant in nature
and a mirror of human inquiry, and offering a radiant homage to the mystery and majesty of this giant star.

Sikoqqinngisaannassooq
Adam SÉbire, Norway, Documentary, 15m

An Inuit community in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) grapples with climate change’s transformation of their winter sea ice.
Words describing their close relationship to the elements are inscribed in the ice by the island’s youth,
reflecting the local impact of global forces. Are we witnessing the beginning of sikoqqinngisaannassooq: a future without sea ice?

Landor
ChloÉ Selarque, Yukon, Animation, 1m

A dog dreams

 

Cut Cultivate Celebrate
Gabe McLellan, Yukon, Non-narrative, 3m

My film brings viewers on a journey of removing something that’s no longer serving you.
Followed by the slimy, weird and exciting process of new growth. And finally parade what was, and how far you’ve come.

Cut Knife Creek
Beric Dean Manywounds, Alanna Bluebird-Onespot, Ben Pipestem, Ryan Von Hagen, Alberta, Animation, 8m

Seven Tsuut’ina men refuse to turn back despite 3 dark omens urging them to, they come upon a Cree camp which leads to battle and death in a supernatural way.

My Independence Day
Constanza Majluf, Chile, Narrative, 19m

Seven-year-old Manuela dreams of winning the “best folkloric dress” contest in the commemoration of Independence Day at her school.
Meanwhile, her brother Gabo (16) takes the risk of protesting in the streets for the plebiscite that will put an end to the dictatorship of Chile in 1988.

Car of the north
Mike Erwood, Yukon, Documentary, 4m

What is the best car to drive in the north. Mike has the answer.

 

11PM
BEYOND THE AURORA

 

Don’t Sleep On The Subway
Ceejay Garrido, Ontario, Animation, 2m

A sleep deprived artist struggles to stay awake on their mundane subway commute.
It’s only a matter of time before they find themselves trapped in a surreal dream where their imagination starts to bleed into reality.

HurikÁn
Jan Saska, Czech Republic, Animation, 13m

HurikÁn rushes to save his favourite beer stand from closure by fetching a new keg to impress the bartender he crushes on.
In a wild Prague district, he faces robbers, cops, and his own thirst.

Where trees weep
Ed, Antoja, Spain, Narrative, 10m

A rural community wakes up to a crime scene in the middle of the forest. Little by little, a series of previous situations show us the conflicts that happened in the same place.

Blitzmusik
Martin Amiot, Quebec, Narrative, 9m

Gus and Lars belong to two enemy factions. In the midst of war, they find themselves trapped in a school, separated by a common wall.
Both short of ammunition, they will fight with the first thing they can get their hands on: musical instruments.

Handsome Devil
Daniel Barrow, Manitoba, Animation, 5m

Barrow uses Amiga software from the late 1980s (DeluxePaint 4) to create this romantic pink and green story of a “sissy devil”
who probes the depths of internet intelligence, composing an “advanced search” on an antiquated search engine.
Simultaneously, a naked, green, feminine artist traces the contours of her devilish destiny on her sketch pad,
and then within an imaginary dating app. The “advanced search” becomes a kind of contemporary, queer, love poem.

Filther
Simen Nyland Norway, Narrative, 20m

Filther is a love story centered around a man with a head shaped like a gas mask.
On the brink of a global nuclear war, he represents a new phase in evolution.
In his solitude, he searches for someone to share his life with before the world ends.
Can a woman from the newly arrived circus be his, and the world’s, salvation?

 

SUNDAY, APRIL 20

11AM

RESOLVE IT!
workshop at SOVA. 3rd and queen

Learn DaVInci Resolve with Arcane Perry

DaVinci Resolve is an open source (free) video editing application that combines color correction, visual effects, audio post-production, and more into one software tool. It's available for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

DaVinci Resolve is known for its modern interface, which is easy to learn and powerful for professionals. It also allows users to work with original camera quality images throughout the entire process.

Blackmagic Design offers both a free version of DaVinci Resolve, with reduced functionality, and a commercial version called DaVinci Resolve Studio.

Learn how to do the following:
Setting up a project
Getting to know the workspace
keyboard short cuts
Importing your files
Setting up a timeline
Picture cutting
Lunch break
Visual effects
Sound editing tools

We recommend you download the program to your laptop before the workshop
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/ca/products/davinciresolve

Arcane Perry

Arcane is a Dawson City Media Artist who has been working in Davinci resolve for several years.
In addition to their own projects (Honorable mention at the 2024 Dawson City Film Festival), they have worked on numerous other projects as
cinematographer, editor and post-production coordinator.
They have worked at the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture as the program's manager, organizing workshops and community outreach
and as a technical assistant at the Dawson City Film Lab, the DCISFF’s yearly analogue film workshop

1:30pm

FUND IT!

Neil Macdonald, the Film Commissioner and Manager of Yukon Media Development will outlinE the funding programs avaiLable to Yukon filmmakers and other programs and education intiatives.

Born and raised in the Yukon, Neil began making movies as a young boy.
He is an alumnus of the UBC Film Program and the National Screen Institute. With a varied career in the film and television industry
Neil has worked as a Producer, Director, Cinematographer, and Gaffer.
His credits include A.R.C.H.I.E. 2, GOLD RUSH, SKYMASTER DOWN, NANCY DREW, TRON LEGACY, and the TWILIGHT SAGA to name a few.
In 2022 Neil stepped away from production to take on the role of Film Commissioner and Manager of Media Development for the Yukon Government.

 

3pm

ARTIST IN THE HOUSE

A show and tell with our current filmmaker in Residnece

Jessica ᒦᖒᐊᖅᑏ Miinguuaqtii is of Inuit, Irish, Welsh, MÉtis and English ancestry and grew up within the stolen lands of the
Halkomelem speaking peoples, commonly known as New Westminster, BC. She currently lives within the unceded, ancestral and traditional territory
of the Hupacasath and Tseshaht First Nations a.k.a. Port Alberni, BC and has family ties to Rankin Inlet, Nunavut where she has visited twice and
filmed footage for her next short film, Back Home. Jessica is passionate about trauma informed decolonial wellness practices, creative emotional expression and self awareness.
These subjects are prominent in her visual art, storytelling and films, and her work as an educator, community builder and arts administrator.
Inspired by all forms of creative expression and self discovery, Jessica is eager to be of service to others on their unique personal journeys.

She is the Founder of 333 Alchemy, guiding non-clinical expressive arts workshops, courses and retreats, is the Regional Director of the Media Arts Alliance of the Pacific,
and is a Board Member of the Independent Media Arts Alliance. Jessica has lived, created, exhibited and taught in Europe, Egypt and
Canada and is grateful to share practices from her own lineage and from Elders, mentors and teachers she has been blessed to learn from across Mother Earth.

While in Dawosn Jessica will be working on Back Home (working title), a 30 minute experimental short film of her personal story of healing from
generation trauma through art, cultural reclamation and connection to the land while navigating complex family dynamics.
The film will explore topics of romanticizing one’s own culture, white passing privilege, addictions and
emotional processing, the suicide epidemic amongst Inuit, and connecting to Creator, ancestors and spirit guides.

 

4:30
OUT OF THE COLD

Screening Sponsor

 

#YACHT
Pablo Anasse, Loane Baumer, Marine Bouvier, Marie Malaval, Maxence Mouttou, Florence Susanna
France, Animation, 5m

A superficial couple spends an afternoon on a yacht until their routine is thrown off.

Solace
Max Matteus Zimmermann, Yukon, Narrative, 24m

Solace follows Blake, a young Yukon man on the run, trying to escape the wrath of reality. While pursuing answers,
he stumbles upon a cabin owned by ex-trapper Calvin, who offers him shelter in exchange for manual labour around his property.
What begins as a tense encounter evolves into a strong friendship where they help each other find Solace in their past.

A special day
Florian Bosc, Yukon, Narrative, 4m

Robert, a retired astronaut, is waiting to be honored by the space agency but time seems long.

Weree
Tal Amiran UK, Documentary, 15m

Having fled the Liberian civil war, renowned self-taught artist Johnson Weree is seeking asylum in the Netherlands
where he lives undocumented and without a fixed address. Haunted by the horrors of his past, he draws bright-coloured otherworldly portraits, whilst longing for a brighter future.

Resistance Meditation
Sara Wylie, BC, Non-narrative, 5m

A meditation on crip time as resistance by a chronically ill filmmaker. Shot on Super 8 and non-toxically eco-processed with plant materials by hand.

Crow
Morgan Ermter, Alberta, Narrative, 14m

A student named Crow, with an innate fascination for crows, has to choose between her love of the birds and potential ridicule from peers.

 

6PM
STREET FEAST

Princess Street ouTside of KIAC

 

Plates of Perogies and LIVE MUSIC!

Get some fresh air!

BuY your food tickets in advance at the ticket counter before we sell out.
(vegan/gf option available)

 

 

8PM
BREAK UP

Screening sponsor

scratch it out

A cameraless animaton film made this week in our workshop with Steven Woloshen

Aqiggirjuaq!
Nicholas Blachford, Nunavut, Animation, 1m

It’s the most fearsome beast of the tundra.

Lease Me Alone
Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers, Quebec, Narrative, 13m

As they are signing their new lease, two longtime roommates realize that their new landlord is going to evict them illegally.
Determined not to lose their apartment, the two friends decide to (literally) fight to keep it. A bloody race through the snowy streets of Montreal begins.
This a short film about renoviction that combines humor, violence, western, kung fu… in the middle of the holly season! Content: Strong language

Treasure
Carmen Álvarez MuÑoz, Spain, Animation, 6m

Trapped in her routine, Mari Pili spends her days bored in the park feeding the birds.
One day, a group of crows starts returning the favour by bringing her little presents.
Surprised, Mari Pili decides to give them better food, making the crows improve their gifts too.

Birch Land
June Kukina, Yukon, Documentary, 14m

Step into Sylvia’s woodland realm, where the air is crisp with the scent of birch and the only sounds are the gentle rustle of leaves and
the occasional call of a distant bird. Here, nestled deep in the forest near Dawson City, under the eternal glow o
f the midnight sun, Sylvia and her family have carved out a life centered around the ancient craft of birch syrup production.

Please Remain Indoors
Cud Eastbound, Yukon, Narrative, 4m

In a dystopian future where citizens are confined to their properties and entirely dependent on government-provided sustenance,
life is predictable, until it isn’t. When the handouts and technology suddenly stop, how will we survive?

Old Lesbians
Meghan McDonough, USA, Documentary, 29m

For the last quarter century, retired schoolteacher Arden Eversmeyer journeyed from Houston across the country
to record hundreds of oral “herstories” with a mostly invisible population that is rapidly disappearing.
Old Lesbians honors Arden’s legacy by animating the resilient, joyful voices she preserved in the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project,
from first crush to first love, from the closet to coming out, and finally from loss to connection.

River Revelations
Darcy Tara McDiarmid (TH), Chantal Rousseau, Yukon, Animation, 5m

Along a sacred river’s edge, enchanted animals navigate mysterious landscapes along a trail from deep time.

See you next year!