NOVEMBER 2 - 8, 2015 - Hamilton Film Festival

HAMILTON FILM FESTIVAL
NOVEMBER 2 - 8, 2015
CALENDAR
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
6pm
8pm
8pm
7pm
7pm
7pm
9:30pm
9:30pm
After Party
7pm
7pm
6:30pm
9:30pm
9:30pm
After Party
9am –5pm
7pm
7pm
7pm
9:30pm
After Party
10am
7pm
7pm
7pm
9:30pm
9:30pm
9:30pm
Midnight
9am - 10:30am
10am-6pm
1pm
1pm
3pm
3pm
7pm
7pm
7pm
9:30pm
9:30pm
After Party
9pm
1pm
2pm
3pm
7pm
9pm
Gala
The Rainbow Kid
Autumn Blood
Student Films 1
There Should Be Rules
After The Last River
Canadian Music Movies
Student Films 2
Mesa : Movie Trivia
Cycling Documentaries
Documentary Shorts 1
Wrecker
Drama Shorts 1
Dark Horse Candidate
Mesa
The Masters of Special Effects
LGBTQ Shorts
7 Days in Syria
Short Film Mix
Experimental Shorts SC
Digital Canaries
Meet-up Relay Coffee
Comedy Shorts
Project-M
FALL
Horror Shorts
Drama Shorts Mid Length
Circus Without Borders
Black Christmas
Creative Exchange /Lights Camera Hamilton
Hamilton Film Expo
On The Horizon
International Short Films
Drama Shorts 2
The Guy With The Knife
Films of Michelle Latimer
The Real Miyagi
The Bad Mother
Drama Shorts 3
Animated Shorts
Casbah 80s Night - No Cover
Breakfast at the Admiral Inn
The Incredible Adventures of Jojo
The Push
Film Club Films
Awards + JUXT
If It’s Not Something, it’s Something Else
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MONDAY
TUESDAY
NOVEMBER 2 NOVEMBER 3
GALA & OPENING FILMS
SC & EMT - 6pm, 8pm,
$15, $10
GALA 6 - 8PM
Dress code is formal.
Interviews. Music. Moment
of silence. Filmmaker pass
pick-up. We will be holding
a moment of silence for
Eves Raja, Dave Shaw and
Kent Nolan.
STUDENT FILMS 1 (90m)
SC 7pm - Special student
film pricing $8
THE RAINBOW KID
SC : 8pm
(92m/Canada/Drama/dir.
Kire Paputts)
The Rainbow Kid is a gritty
coming of age story that
follows Eugene, a teenager
with Down syndrome, on
the journey of his life.
AUTUMN BLOOD
EMT : 8pm
(100m/ Austria/Thriller/dir.
Markus Blunder/shot on
35mm)
High in the Mountains on a
secluded farm a widowed
mother dies leaving her
two children alone and
orphaned. Fearing being
taken away and split up
they keep their mother’s
death a secret and survive
off the land with no one to
rely on but each other.
CF
DC
EMT
HPL
LM6
PC
SC
SF
Z
AFTER THE LAST RIVER
(10m/Canada)
SPYK (9m/UK)
Canada)
Presented in partnership
with HAMILTON
DIALOGUES.
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STEALTH (22m/US)
BELOW THE SURFACE
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BACKWARD FALL
(4m/US)
THE BEAUTY THAT
REMAINS (18m/
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THE BRIGHT SIDE (2m/
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MAN OF THE HOUSE
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DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
(88m/Toronto/dir. Victoria
Lean)
PC - 7pm - $6
Downstream from a De
Beers diamond mine, the
remote community of
Attawapiskat lurches from
crisis to crisis, while facing
mounting environmental
issues and an inability to
directly benefit from
resource revenues.
STUDENT SHORTS 1
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adult life and starts an
affair with an older man.
Canada)
(16m/UK)
SHUT UP (5m/Canada)
THE VAULT (4m/
Australia)
FEATURE FILM
EMT - 7pm - $10
Ticketing for this event will
go through :
thehamiltondialogues.ca
CANADIAN MUSIC
MOVIES (92m)
EMT - 930pm - $10
BLUE THUNDER (21m /
Saguenay, Quebec/
Musical)
THERE SHOULD BE RULES Bruno, in his thirties and in
(90m/Sweden/Coming of
Age/Canadian Premiere)
Mia and Mirjam are 14
years old and live in a dead
boring town—not even an
airport. They are not grown
up, but are working on it.
Mirjam jumps the gun on
desperate need of a
purpose, ends up homeless
after a breakup. Without
despairing and under the
watchful eye of his
motherly big sister, this
sawmill worker will find the
drive to put his beloved
The Cotton Factory
270 Sherman Ave N
Digital Canaries
270 Sherman Ave N
Elaine May Theatre
Central Library
Landmark Cinema 6 at Jackson Square
The Perkins Centre
Staircase Theatre
Spice Factory
The Zoetic
25 Dundurn St N
55 York Boulevard
2 King St. W
1429 Main St. E
27 Dundurn St N
121 hughson st N
526 Concession St
blue suit back on and to
rekindle an old flame.
student film pricing $8
AMADEUS (4m/Waterloo,
Viewer discretion is advised
Ontario/Music Video)
A one shot music video for
the song "Amadeus" by
JoJo Worthington.
JUPITER APPLAUSE (7m/
Saguenay, Quebec /Music
Video)
One Thursday, one man,
two women. At the skirt of
the woods, a cottage, a
victim.
YORKVILLE (60m/Toronto,
Ontario/Documentary)
If you want to know one
thing about Toronto, let it
be what went on in
Yorkville during the 1960s.
In Canada's version of
Greenwich Village and
Haight-Ashbury, draft
dodgers mixed in with
musicians, political
activists, and curious
Canadian youths until a
presence was born that
shocked and alarmed the
Silent Generation as the
1960s counterculture grew.
STUDENT FILMS 2 (96m)
SC - 930pm - Special
STUDENT SHORTS 2
 PINKY (22m /Drama/
US)
 LASHES (20m/Drama/
sister, 15 years ago. After
several operations and
many years of recovery and
facing permanent disability
in such a dramatic way he
now wants to pursue his
dream of becoming a
professional cyclist.
Coming-Of-Age/ UK)
MOUNT LAWRENCE (98m/
 STUDIES ON HYSTERIA NY/dir. Chandler Wild)
(8m/Comedy/Germany)
Mount Lawrence is a
Drama/Trans/Canada)
on Chandler Wild, a young
man living in New York City
ever since his adventureseeking and outdoor loving
father committed suicide in
2007. Attempting to
reconnect, Chandler
bicycles 6,500 miles to the
end of the western road in
Alaska. Once there, his plan
is to scale an unnamed
mountain and name it after
his father Lawrence.
 HAPPY ENDINGS (16m/ documentary film focusing
 THE GETAWAY (13m/
France/Drama)
 ONE WITH THE DEVIL
(17m/Western/Drama/
Canada)
WEDNESDAY
NOVEMBER 4
CYCLING
DOCUMENTARIES (95m)
EMT - 7pm - $10
THE CYCLE OF LIFE (9m/
UK/dir. Pishdaad Modaressi
Chahardehi)
The Cycle of Life tells the
incredible Story of Sam
Khazaei who shattered his
right leg in a car accident
when trying to save his
DOCUMENTARY SHORTS 1
(91m)
SC - 7pm - $10
 GORAN (11m/Serbia /
dir. Roberto Santaguida)
 TOY BOY (8m/Hamilton/
dir. March Mercanti)
 POWER OF POO (11m/
BC/dir. Jessica Young)
 DAVID LAMBERT:
MASTER KNOT TYER
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(4m/Waterdown, On/
Margaret Lindsay
Holton)
ET TU, DUDE? (25m/
London Ontario/dir.
Travis Welowszky)
 POOP ON POVERTY
(6m/South Africa/dir
Vijay S. jodha)
 LITTLE BAY ISLANDS
(16m/PEI/dir. Jason
Arsenault)
 LESTER COLOMA: FOR
ERNESTO (10m/
Hamilton/dir. Jeff
Boulton)
DRAMA SHORTS 1 (109m)
SC - 9:30pm - $10
 JUDAS' DEMISE (15m/
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Hamilton/dir. Steve
Parton)
UNDERWATER (34/
Israel/dir. Yasmin Harel)
SELFISH HEART (5m/
Canada/dir. Johnny
Chocolate)
WANDERER (16m/
Toronto/dir. Mark
O'Brien)
LAST CALL (4m/
Hamilton/dir. Craig F.
Watkins)
RAZOR (9m/Serbia/
dir.Rajko Ristanović)
THE OFFER (10m/
Toronto/dir. Winnifred
Jong))
MANNISH BOY (15m/
Toronto/dir. Ryan
Tonelli)
TBA
EMT - 930pm - $10
DARK HORSE CANDIDATE
(89m/Documentary/dir.
Liss Platt/Hamilton)
The complexity of fatherdaughter relationships is
explored in this quirky
documentary about a queer
filmmaker and her
constitutionalist father.
FEATURE FILM
In partnership with
Canadian Indie Film Series
LM6 - 7pm
WRECKER
(83m / Thriller / Canada)
Director: Michael Bafaro
Cast: Anna Hutchison,
Andrea Whitburn
Best friends Emily and
Lesley go on a road trip to
the desert. When Emily
decides to get off the
highway and take a "short
cut," they become the
target of a relentless and
psychotic trucker who
forces them to play a
deadly game of cat and
mouse.
Agency 71 will be there to
present the film and lead a
Q&A. After that, we all head
to the Staircase Theatre for
the 9:30pm screening of
THE OFFER (Hugh Dillon) in
the Drama Shorts 1
program where the director
Winifred Jong will be in
attendance. To purchase
tickets for this, go directly
to http://bit.ly/1Gx2ApZ
THURSDAY
NOVEMBER 5
 TOM IN AMERICA
(17m/Brazil/US/dir.
Flavio Alves)
 END OF SEASON SALE
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(35/Israel/dir. Eli
Glazer)
SINAPTICA (7m/Spain/
dir. Carlos Durrif)
STAY WITH ME (29m/
Taiwan/Jian-He Lin)
DANIEL (14m/UK/dir.
Dean Loxton)
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
EMT - 7pm - $10
7 DAYS IN SYRIA (75m/
USA/dir. Robert
Rippberger)
“7 Days in Syria gives a
window into the lives of
families struggling to
survive on the frontlines of
the Syrian conflict. Their
courage and resilience
shines through in
impossible circumstances. I
hope their stories will
inspire greater efforts by all
sides to end the
bloodshed."- Angelina Jolie
Pitt.
THE MASTERS OF SPECIAL EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS
(88m)
EFFECTS
SC - 930pm - $10
(9am-5pm | 7pm-9pm) $95
CF & DC - Coffee, SFX
Make-Up,VFX Panel, Studio
Tour, Pyro & Gunfire, Film
Screening
A full day of Special Effects
is coming to the 10th
Annual Hamilton Film
Festival. Our incredible line
up of guests will...more
 Carlos Henriques Special Effects Make-Up
 Colin Doncaster SciTech award from
Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and
Sciences.
 Kirsten Bodenstedt Co-founder, COO and
Nerd Wrangler of
Peregrine Labs
 The Subway - standing
set at Digital Canaries
LGBTQ SHORTS (102m)
SC - 7pm - $10
 MATRIX (5m/Hamilton/
dir. Robert Ezergailis)
 DISCO TEMPLE (7m/
Toronto/dir. Patrick T.
Lo)
 FERDINAND KNAPP
(15m/France/dir. Andrea
Baldini)
 OUT OF THE HEAVENS
 B (16m/Philippines/dir.
Maria Aurora Cardenas)
 THE EVE (Transfer
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(16m/Halifax/dir.
Christopher SpencerLowe)
MER DEPRÉ (6m/USA/
dir. Margaret Orr)
EYE DRUM (4m/
Hamilton/Gary Barwin)
 NEGATIVE NATURE
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(6m/Nova Scotia/dir.
Dawn George)
NO END (6m/Hamilton/
dir. Josephine
Massarella)
 THE CART (6m/Poland/
SWITCHBACK (5m/
dir. Patrik Eriksson)
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
(70m)
EMT - 9:30pm - $10
CIRCUS WITHOUT
BORDERS (70m/Boston/
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dir. Susan Gray & Linda
Matchan)
What do you do when you
are born into a world
where your forefathers
were on the losing side of
the colonial struggle and
despair is your inheritance?
Circus Without Borders
follows the stories of two
unique circuses from
struggling communities at
opposite ends of the globe
- an Inuit circus in the
Canadian Arctic and a West
African circus in Guinea,
Conakry.

SHORT FILM MIX (120m)

DC - 7pm - $10 (free with
FX Day pass)
See films in the new Film
District! Movies are made
here, time to show some!
 THE OJIBWAY

thriller/Hamilton/dir.
Luke Meneok)
viSitor (9m/Mystery/
Stoney Creek/Deborah
Jayne Reilly Smith)
ONE DAY RENTAL (9m/
Comedy/Toronto/dir.
William Lomoro)
UNSHAKEABLE (6m/
Comedy/Hamilton/
Adriano Valentini)
CLARA (9m/Drama/
Toronto/dir. Greg
Breen)
COMEDY SHORTS! (97m)
SC - 7pm - $10
 HOW TO FIND FRIENDS
(10m/Hamilton/dir.
Cadillac Bill)
 WHO IS HANNAH?
(14m/Toronto/dir. Mark
O'Brien)
 PYRAMID SCREAM
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 JUST ONE MORE BITE
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(12m/Drama/Toronto/
dir. Nicole Lawr)
LITTLE MEN (12m/
Comedy/Hamilton/
Adriano Valentini)
 BANANA SEAT
BLOODBATH (6m/
Horro/Hamilton/dir.
Luke Meneok)
TWICE (50m/DramaMystery/Hamilton/dir.
Simon Winterson)
FRIDAY
NOVEMBER 6
(7m/Toronto/dir. Katie
Uhlmann/Daniel Oran)
TRADEMARKED (5m/
UK/dir. Sam Peter
Jackson)
"FIXED" (7pm/
Australia /dir. Burleigh
Smith)
ON TOP OF ME (20m/
Toronto/dir.Alex
Palmer)
 ALL YOU DO IS SHAG
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(5m/Spain/dir.Manu
Bueno)
PIT (7m/Kitchener/dir.
Jonathan Steckley)
 A WIZARD STOLE MY
BABY (10m/
Mississauga/dir. Adam
Schafer)
 PORTAL TO HELL!!!
(12m/ Toronto/dir.
Vivieno Caldinelli)
SCIENCE FICTION
FEATURE FILM
moral custodian of the
faithful; a dispenser of
God's grace, transcend his
own FALL?
Times. He lives with his
wife, Debi Goodwin, in
Ontario.
PROJECT M (98m/
POST SCREENING PANEL
DISCUSSION: A
A Professor in the
Department of Psychiatry
and Behavioural
Neurosciences at McMaster
University in Hamilton. He
is the Head of Service,
Forensic Psychiatry at St.
Joseph's Healthcare. In
addition to subspecialty
psychiatry certification, he
has an MBA from the
University of Toronto. His
continuing medical
education activities include
organizing the McMaster
Muskoka Seminars, now in
its 15th year. He organizes
the Canadian Psychiatric
Association International
Professional Development
conference and the forensic
Risk and Recovery
conference. He is a member
of the Ontario Review Board
and Vice Chair of the
Consent and Capacity
Board. Dr. Chaimowitz is
President of the Canadian
Academy of Psychiatry and
the Law as well as Chair of
the Forensic Psychiatry
(98m) EMT - 7pm - $10
Montreal/dir. Eric Piccoli)
Four astronauts have to
stay 1000 days in a space
station around Earth in
order to prove that a trip to
Europa, one of Jupiter's
moons, is possible. The
experience goes well until
something happens on
earth. French w/ English
subtitles.
Psychoanalysis of Father
Sam Ryan
Introduction by Writer
Director - Terrance Odette
PANEL MEMBERS
MODERATOR: PETER
KAVANAGH
veteran of Canadian
FEATURE DRAMA + PANEL A
media, having worked for
DISCUSSION
25 years at the CBC in
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television and radio with
programs such as The
Journal, Morningside, The
FALL (82m/Hamilton/dir.
Sunday Edition and Ideas,
Terrance Odette)
as well as publishing in The
Father Sam, an aging
Roman Catholic Priest living Globe and Mail, Toronto
contently at a Niagara Falls Star, the National Post and
numerous publications in
parish, receives a letter
the United States and
forcing his complacent life
Europe. He is the co-author
into descent. Now haunted
of Suffer the Children Onto
by the memory of a
me: an Open Inquiry into
teenage boy, Father Sam
the sex Abuse Scandal and
must reconcile the truth:
did a sexual encounter take his most recent The Man
Who Learned to Walk Three
place 40 years ago? Can a
DR. GARY CHAOMOWITZ
Specialty Committee of the
Montreal/Devinder Paul
Royal College of Physician
Singh)
and Surgeons of Canada.
 SIR JOHN A. AND THE
He is the Chair of the
CURSE OF THE ANTICanadian Psychiatric
QUENCHED (12m/
Association Professional
Kingston On/dir. Adam
Standards and Practice
Kirkey)
Council, and a member of
the Executive of the
 1500 NIÑOS (6m/
Psychiatry Section of the
Quebec/ dir.Olivier A
Ontario Medical Association.
Dubois)
He is Treasurer of the
Ontario Coalition of
DRAMA SHORTS - MID
Psychiatrists and a member LENGTH (104m)
of the Council of the
EMT - 9:30pm - $10
Ontario Psychiatric
Association.
 NIGHT IS MEANT FOR
SLEEPING (28m/
DEIRDRE PIKE
Her fascination for sharing
stories drives who she is
and what she does as both
a Senior Social Planner for
the Social Planning and
Research Council of
Hamilton (SPRC) and
columnist for The Hamilton
Spectator. Deirdre cofounded The Well,
Hamilton’s LGBTQ
Community Wellness
Centre of Hamilton, and
chairs the Hamilton Positive
Space Collaborative. A
Practicing Catholic, Deirdre
lives with her wife in
Hamilton.
HORROR SHORTS (95m)
SC - 9:30pm - $10
 DEAD AIR (10m/
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France /dir. Adrien
Costello)
SONIA'S STORY (22m/
Italy/Lorenzo Guarnieri)
LAURA (22m/Spain/dir.
Julio Mas Alcaraz)
 ARTIFICIO CONCEAL

(17m/Miami/dir. Ayoub
Qanir)
WINTER HYMNS (15m/
Toronto/Dusty
Mancinelli)
BLACK CHRISTMAS
CHARITY SCREENING
SC - MIDNIGHT - Free with
donation
Presented by Anchor Bay
Canada - Donations to the
Eva Rothwell Centre
BLACK CHRISTMAS (98m/
Toronto/1974/dir. Bob
Waterloo/dir. Lyndon
Clark)
Horsfall)
This Canadian classic horror
THE CHOSEN (14m/
film is on many top-10
Germany/dir. Guillermo horror enthusiast's lists,
Ruotolo)
ours included! To get you
MALLEUS
pumped up on the night
before you can meet cast
MALEFICARUM (17m/
members Art Hindle, Lynne
Kitchener/dir. Torin
Griffin and Doug McGrath
Langen)
(at the Hamilton Film Expo
FEELING LIKE ERIC
Sat Nov 7th) , we want to
(6m/Germany/dir. Aviv
bring you the horror classic
Kosloff)
that inspired many in the
CONTACT (9m/USA /dir. genre, that came after it. If
you haven't seen it, you
Alexander Jeffery)
GNAW (1m/Halifax/dir. must. If you have, let's see
it in the theatre!
Struan Sutherland)
 GUESS WHO'S NOT
COMING TO
BREAKFAST, LUNCH
OR DINNER? (14m/
Toronto/dir. Adam King)
 THE SEARCH (7m/
accept donations of food
items, board and video
games, movies and hygiene
products.
SATURDAY
NOVEMBER 7
LIGHTS CAMERA
HAMILTON/CREATIVE
EXCHANGE
SF (invite & VIP only 9am 10:30am)
HAMILTON FILM EXPO
10am - 6pm
$15 adults • $10 Youth 14• $10 Cosplay
 ART HINDLE - Black
Christmas
 VICTORIA
BALDESARRA from TV's
The Next Step
 DERREK PEELS - Stunts
for The Hulk, Four
Brothers, Former Ticat
player.
 TREVOR TORDJMAN
from TV's The Next Step
 COSPLAY CONTEST!
featuring Starship
Princess
 GABRIEL CARRER -
Black Fawn Distribution
The Hamilton Film Expo is a
fun celebration of the movie
industry. Staying true to
the "movie stuff" tagline,
there will be film & tv
celebrities, authentic movie
props on display, a whole
floor of vendors, Cosplay
contest, SciFi short films,
panel discussions and
more!
Highlights include Trevor
Tordjman and Victoria
Baldesarra from TV's The
Next Step, 3 cast
members , Art Hindle,
Lynne Griffin and Doug
McGrath from the original
Black Christmas
(autographs and a panel
Film will be preceded by :
moderated by Aaron Allen
from Fright Night Theatre
BANANA SEAT
Film Festival), A Pacer (like
BLOODBATH (7m/
the Mirthmobile) with photo
Hamilton/dir. Luke Meneok) op from Sean Sullivan who
played "Phil" in Wayne's
The Eva Rothwell centre will World. See props, that were
recently on display at TIFF,
(28m/Germany/Marco
from Legends of the Fall,
J. Riedl)
Wolverine, Mississippi
 THE ROOSTER (20m/
Burning and more! There
Russian Federation/dir.
will be background casting,
Alexey Nuzhny)
small movie shoot, Vintage

BETWEEN BLACK AND
posters, indie DVDS, Black
WHITE (15m/Greece/
Fawn Distribution, one-of-a
dir. Socrates Alafouzos)
-kinds(Christmas), sfx,
props, demonstrations,
candy table, coffee, the
DRAMA SHORTS 2
Dirty South food
(93m - 5 short films)
truck...and more! Family
SC - 3pm
pricing option.
Tickets now at
hamiltonfilmexpo.com
AFTERNOON FILMS
(2 FOR 1)
SC & EMT - $10
One ticket gets you into a
1pm and 3pm of your
choice. Theatres are next
door to each other.
ON THE HORIZON
(98m/Montreal/dir. Pascal
Payant)
SC - 1pm
Casey is trying create a
stable life; until his old
flame Elissa, igniting hope
once again. While their
relationship has always
burned toxic because she's
unable to face her inner
demons calls. They soon
escape on a whirlwind
adventure. Together they
are a 100ft wave of passion
and destruction but as
furiously and unexpectedly
as she came, Ellisa leaves.
Casey attempts to heal
himself with work, partying
and promiscuity to clear
her haunting presence.
Seeking security in an
empty lifestyle of la dolce
vita and debauchery, Elissa
retreats to a castle in
Europe, reuniting with an
ex boyfriend. Will Casey
and Elissa accept their fate
or leave behind love and
pain in pursuit of
contentment?
INTERNATIONAL SHORTS
(81m)
EMT - 1pm
 PARKLIFE (39m/

Toronto/dir. Erin
Hicock)
LONGHAND (6m/
Toronto dir. John
Marcucci)
 I'VE JUST HAD A
DREAM (7m/Spain/dir.
Javi Navarro)
 CANIS BELLI (10m/UK/
dir. Gez Medinger &
Robin Schmidt)
 THE GUY WITH THE
KNIFE 3pm (89m/
Toronto/dir. Alison
Armstrong)
LOCAL FEATURE WORLD PREMIERE
Z - 7:30pm - $10
THE BAD MOTHER
(Feature/Hamilton/dir.
David-James Fernandez &
Sarah Kapoor)
Tara is struggling with her
role as a stay at home
mom after leaving a
rewarding career to raise
kids. When her 5-year-old
son accidentally shares a
scathing diatribe she writes
about her husband’s evil
workplace, Tara becomes
an instant cause célèbre to
other women in the same
boat. But as she’s thrust
from obscurity into the
spotlight, the scrutiny is a
lot more intense than she
bargained for, and Tara is
forced to face her
daemons, or wither away.
badmothermovie.com
THE FILMS OF MICHELLE
LATIMER (92m) with
 THE MAN WHO FED HIS introduction by Art Hindle/
SHADOW (18m/Greece/ Q&A with Michelle to
dir. Mario Garefo)
 KEEPER OF THE PAST
follow.
SC - 7pm
Film selection:

TOMORROW - 5 min
(drama) - 2007
JACKPOT - 55 min (doc
I produced) - 2008
 CHOKE - 5 min
(animation) - 2010
 TURTLE Island - 3 min
(experimental) - 2011
 THIS IS MY TIME
(Everyday) - 4 min
(animated music video)
- 2012
 I CAN'T REMEMBER - 3
min (music video) 2014
 THE UNDERGROUND
14m (Drama) 2014
 NIMMIKAAGE - 3 min
(experimental
documentary) - 2015

MICHELLE LATIMER
Michelle Latimer is an
award-winning filmmaker,
actor and curator.
Michelle's goal is to use
film and new media as a
tool for social change. Her
films have been described
as “visual poems exploring
humanity”, and are often
experiments of creative
form expressed from a
personal point of view. Her
work has shown both
nationally and
internationally.
In Fall 2014, Michelle was
honoured with the first
retrospective of her career:
Everyday Miracles: The
Films of Michelle Latimer,
hosted by Danis Goulet at
Toronto’s Videofag Gallery.
In addition to this honour,
Michelle was named among
Playback Magazine’s “Ten
to Watch” at the Canadian
Film and TV Hall of Fame
Awards. Her recent short
film The Underground was
selected for TIFF, won Best
Short Film at the
ImagineNATIVE Film &
Media Arts Festival and was
selected for Telefilm’s Not
Short on Talent showcase
at Cannes. Her feature
documentary ALIAS
premiered at the 2013 Hot
Docs Film Festival and was
nominated for a Canadian
Screen Award. Prior to
that, her short film Choke
premiered at the Sundance
Film Festival, received a
Special Jury Honorable
Mention in International
Short Filmmaking, was
named among TIFF
Canada’s Top Ten and
nominated for a Genie
Award.
THE REAL MIYAGI (82m/
USA/Kevin Derek)
A TRUE STORY OF A MAN
BEHIND THE BIGGEST
HOLLYWOOD ACTION
HEROES!
This long-awaited
documentary, three years
in the making captures the
life of master Fumio
Demura the man that's
Michelle is currently
influenced a bevy of
starring in the television
Hollywood’s elite over the
series Blackstone and
last 50 years. Those talents
appears as an industry
include Chuck Norris, Bruce
judge on CBC’s Short Film
Lee, Steven Seagal and
Face Off. Michelle holds a
many more. It was the
BFA from Concordia
stunt double role that he
University and is alumnus
landed in The Karate Kid
of both Toronto Film
and the friendship he
Festival’s 2010 Talent Lab
formed with actor, Pat
and its inaugural 2014
Morita that would forever
Studio Producer’s Program. change his life. Mr. Morita
fashioned his unforgettable
HFF Note: Michelle won our character, Mr. Miyagi, off of
Best Documentary for
Master Demura which
ALIAS and has screened her earned him an Oscar
short film Undergound with Nomination in 1985. This is
us.
the story of a man they call
The Real Miyagi.
DOCUMENTARY
EMT - 7pm - $10
DRAMA SHORTS 3 (91m)
SC - 9:30pm -$10
 MATURE YOUNG
ADULTS (10m/
Burlington/Kent Nolan)
 PLAYDATE (13m/
Vancouver/dir. Ian
MacDonald)
 FROZEN MARBLES


(15m/Toronto/David
Lester)
THE PRESENT (14m/
Toronto/Hank Devos)
LETTERBOX (23m/UK/
Annabel Allison)
ANIMATED SHORTS (86m)
EMT - 9:30pm - $10
 THAT BITCH BECKY
(6m/Toronto/dir.
Rebecca Rochon)
 ANNA'S PET PROJECT


(13m/Canada/dir. Seth
Tomlinson)
THE BRIGHT SIDE (2m/
Ottawa/dir. Kelsey
Ryan)
SUN CITY (3m/Taiwan /
Qi Dong Peng)
 THE WHISPER (3m/



Taiwan/Kai-Huei Li)
CODEY (5m/Taiwan/Lai,
Wei Chun)
GUTLESS (4m/USA/
Nicole St. Onge)
JUNK GIRL (15m/Iran/
Mohammad Zare)
 LAKE OUENTIRONK
(2m /Canada/David
Donar)
 SOVERIGN
PAPERWORK (3m/
Uruguay/Lala Severi)
 SONAMBULO (4m/



Montreal/Theador
Ushev)
HAIKU 7 (4m/Calgary/
Lyle Pisio)
PARKING GODS (5m/
Iowa/Peter
Chanthanakone)
SAND MOTHER (13m/
Spain/dir. Didi Rodan)
SUNDAY
NOVEMBER 8
JUST FOR KIDS (77m)
SC - 1pm - $5
THE INCREDIBLE
ADVENTURES OF JOJO
(AND HIS ANNOYING
LITTLE SISTER AVILA)
A six year old boy named
Jojo wakes up from a car
crash in the middle of the
woods. Reluctantly, he
takes his baby sister Avila
from the crash and plops
her into his backpack. The
two of them try to make it
back home, encountering
hobos, wolves, and raging
rivers along the way. Think
"Home Alone" but in the
woods...and with a baby.
Parents a few words
(bathroom humour, not
swearing) and some mildly
scary scenes - email us for
details if you are
concerned.
info@hamiltonfilmfestival.c
om
LOCAL DOCUMENTARY WORLD PREMIERE
Z - 2pm - $10
THE PUSH (Hamilton/Cody
Lanktree/Zena Hagerty/
David Hinkley)
Joey Coleman was pushed
by Councillor Lloyd
Ferguson. Joey Coleman
was pushed by the
inaccuracies of the Basse
Report. Joey Coleman was
pushed by the powers of
City Hall. Joey Coleman
still stands tall. We've
made a film that delves
into the circumstances
surrounding this incident
and how might makes
wrong. Filmmakers and
Joey Coleman in
attendance. Others TBA
be treated to each
instalment of the JUXT
series. JUXT is an HFF
original series where each
year a filmmaker is
selected to create an openended short film to be
continued by a new
filmmaker the following
year. Just makers have
been Ken Turner & Paul J.
Boresky, Jason Hofing,
Craig F. Watkins, Jeremy
Major, Brian Berneker, Kyle
Hytonen and this years
JUXT maker is Lee Skinner!
AWARDS
Jury Choice, Best Feature,
Best Short, Best
Documentary, Best Writing,
FILM CLUB FILMS
Best Cinematography, Best
SC - 3pm - $5
Editing, Best Music, Best
Films made by local film
Actress, Best Actor, Best
clubs, and local kids. This
program include the Avalon Student, Sparquie The
Music Movie-Making Camp, Squirrel. Custom trophies
are created and assembled
Terryberry Library Film
Festival, Reel Streetz & the by Paul Hart at ThinkHaus.
The Film strip logo was
Westdale Film Festival.
designed by Dave Kuruc.
Terryberry Library winning
CLOSING FILM
films :
SC - 9pm - $10
 SKOOL DAZE (3m /
Christopher Turner age IF IT'S NOT SOMETHING
IT'S SOMETHING ELSE:
11)
THE STORY OF THE
 THE SUSPECTS (10m/
REASON (90m/Hamilton/
Burlington/Mike
Documentary/Chris Paco)
Martins)
 BUYER BEWARE (3m/ For 10 years the band The
Hamilton/Hana Clayton) Reason has navigated
varying levels of success in
 LOST BETWEEN
the independent landscape
WORLDS (25m/
of Canadian music.
Touring, recording, and
Hamilton/Avalon Music
believing in a shared future
Movie-Making Camp/
have been a constant
Steve Parton)
motivator to never give up
 THE STRUGGLE TO
on themselves or a dream
SURVIVE (3m/Reel
that at its closest has been
Streetz)
within arm’s reach. Time
 LOVE (4m/Reel Streetz) ages and priorities shift as
life’s sobering realities
 STORIES (12m/Reel
come into play. IF IT’S NOT
Streetz)
SOMETHING IT’S
 WESTDALE FILM
SOMETHING ELSE reveals
FESTIVAL (winning
the myth and reality of
films)
being in a “breaking”
Canadian band. A story
that rings true with any
AWARDS CEREMONY +
struggling artist, as labels,
JUXT1-7
management and media
SC - 7pm -$10
paint a portrait of success,
the veil is lifted and the
NOMINEES
reality of debt, pressure
During the ceremony,
and relationships strained
between award
are put to the test.
announcements, you will
TRULY INDEPENDENT 2015
KATIE AND JOANNE UHLMANN: The 10th Annual Hamilton Film Festival is
honoured to present the Truly Independent 2015 Award to Katie & Joanne Uhlmann.
Covering the festival since 2010 through the interview shows TTN-HD
and Katie Chats, their interview coverage and tireless social media
promotion has boosted the profile of the festival and they have
celebrated our filmmakers like no other news reporters in Canada. We
are also very pleased to showcase Katie’s short work PYRAMID
SCREAM, Friday Nov 6th at 7pm. A well deserved award for an
amazing Mother-Daughter team! We are very proud of all your
accomplishments and look forward to what the future holds for you
both!
2015 SPONSORS :
EXECUTIVE
PRODUCER
CO-PRODUCER
SUPPORTING
TROPHY SPONSORS
COMMUNITY PARTNERS
LEAD ROLE
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The 10th Annual Hamilton Film
Festival is a locally focused,
internationally recognized event
that started as a grass-roots
screening at The Staircase Theatre
and is becoming one of Hamilton’s
most anticipated events. Attracting films from over 50 countries, the festival remains
commited to the local filmmaking community through outreach, mentoring,
sponsorship and learning opportunities. Aiming to earn the “Hamilton” in the title, the
festival will showcase over 40 Hamilton-based films this year, and several more from
the surrounding area.
~Nathan Fleet, Festival Director 2015
JUXT
During the ceremony, between award announcements, you will be treated to each
instalment of the JUXT series. JUXT is an HFF original series where each year a
filmmaker is selected to create an open-ended short film to be continued by a new
filmmaker the following year. The stories of Ken Turner & Paul J. Boresky, Jason
Hofing, Craig F. Watkins, Jeremy Major, Brian Berneker, Kyle Hytonen will be
continued by Lee Skinner!
BOX OFFICE
Box office opens 1/2 hour before each screening during the week of the festival Nov 28th. We hold 20 tickets at the box office for walk-up sales. Sorry, no reservations!
The box office is inside the Stair-case Theatre at 27 Dundurn Street North. You can
also purchase tickets at the venues 1/2 hour before each screening. Tickets will be
available online throughout the festival at :
HAMILTONFILMFESTIVAL.COM