Sunday, November 1 — Noon
Eric Harvie Theatre — $9

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Pick-up Sticks

Canada, 2009, 9 minutes
Directed by Julia Szucs
Produced by Steve Smith
World Premiere
Appearing in person: Julia Szucs, Steve Smith

Take an aerial plunge off an Arctic coastal headland into the abyss of a seabird colony to find out how marine environmental change is affecting the delicate balance of life for a hardy creature of the northern seas.

Finalist in: Best Film on Mountain Environment
Best Short Mountain Film

Finding Farley

Canada, 2009, 63 minutes
Directed by Leanne Allison
Produced by Tracey Friesen
Appearing in person: Leanne Allison

When filmmakers Karsten Heuer and Leanne Allison, along with their two-year-old son Zev and indomitable dog Willow, set out to retrace the literary footsteps of Farley Mowat, they meant it literally. Their 5000-kilometre trip — trekking, sailing, portaging, and paddling from the Prairies to the Maritimes — is captured in this film. The family’s arrival at their final destination (Mowat’s Nova Scotian summer home) is, as Heuer says, “an affirmation of what the land and animals had already told us.”

Finalist in: Best Film on Mountain Culture

Shining Spirit

Canada, 2009, 34 minutes
Directed and produced by Karen McDiarmid
North American Premiere
Appearing in person: Karen McDiarmid

Filmed in Canada, India, and Tibet, Shining Spirit documents a recording project that brings together the family of Jamyang Yeshi through music and multi-track recording technology. With the help of Western friends, Yeshi, in exile in Canada, and his brother Tsundue, in exile in the U.S., join voices with the family they left behind in Tibet. For the first time in over a decade, they sing together once again. The film is a testament to the power of music, the resilience of the Tibetan culture, and the enduring bond of a family separated by politics and geography.

Finalist in: Best Film on Mountain Culture

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