Saturday, February 27th afternoon session
1:00 pm Hadwin's Judgement 91 min
NFB
Director: Sasha Snow
2015
Grant Hadwin loved the forest, and made his living finding the best routes for roads that cut deep into BC's remote and ancient forests for logging companies. But the utter devastation wrought by clear-cutting these beautiful forests began to obsess him and gradually drove him to commit an act that ran contrary to all he had come to love—killing the most beautiful and sacred tree on Haida Gwaii. Based on John Vaillant's award–winning book, The Golden Spruce, director Sasha Snow interweaves speculative re-enactments, Haida legends, interviews and stunning cinematography to explore the motives and pressures that led to Hadwin’s unprecedented crime. Hadwin’s Judgement charts his crusade against the destruction of the world’s last great temperate rainforest—a crusade that ends tragically with his disappearance and prophetic warning, sealing Hadwin’s fate as both madman and visionary.
12 minute break
2:40 pm Facing Fear 23 min
NFB
Director: Sasha Snow
2015
Grant Hadwin loved the forest, and made his living finding the best routes for roads that cut deep into BC's remote and ancient forests for logging companies. But the utter devastation wrought by clear-cutting these beautiful forests began to obsess him and gradually drove him to commit an act that ran contrary to all he had come to love—killing the most beautiful and sacred tree on Haida Gwaii. Based on John Vaillant's award–winning book, The Golden Spruce, director Sasha Snow interweaves speculative re-enactments, Haida legends, interviews and stunning cinematography to explore the motives and pressures that led to Hadwin’s unprecedented crime. Hadwin’s Judgement charts his crusade against the destruction of the world’s last great temperate rainforest—a crusade that ends tragically with his disappearance and prophetic warning, sealing Hadwin’s fate as both madman and visionary.
12 minute break
2:40 pm Facing Fear 23 min
McNabb Connolly
2014
Filmmaker: Jason Cohen
Worlds collide when a former neo-Nazi skinhead and the gay victim of his hate crime attack meet by chance 25 years after the incident that dramatically shaped both their lives. Together they embark on a journey of forgiveness that challenges both to grapple with their beliefs and fears, eventually leading to an improbable collaboration...and friendship. Nominated for Best Short Documentary, Academy Awards; Audience Award, Best Short Documentary, Outfest LA
3:05 pm Little Moccasins 10 min
3:05 pm Little Moccasins 10 min
Ken Matheson Productions
2014
Little Moccasins is about young students honouring First Nations children who died and were buried in unmarked graves while attending the Dunbow Indian Residential School near Calgary from 1889 to 1924. Elementary students in the Strathcona Tweedsmuir Outreach Program are shocked to learn that the Dunbow Indian Residential School had been located only 15 minutes from their present day classroom. Struggling to come to terms with this dark period in Canadian history, the students embark on a journey to honour, give voice and identity to First Nations children who were buried and forgotten there long ago. Best Documentary, Vancouver Short Film Festival
15 minute Break
3:30 pm The True Cost 92 min.
15 minute Break
3:30 pm The True Cost 92 min.
McNabb/Connolly
Director: Andrew Morgan 2015
This is a story about clothing. It is about the clothes we wear, the people who make them and the impact it's having on our world. The price of “fast fashion” clothing has been decreasing for decades, while the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically. The True Cost is a groundbreaking documentary that pulls back the curtain on an unseen part of our world and asks each of us to consider who pays the price for our clothing.
Director: Andrew Morgan 2015
This is a story about clothing. It is about the clothes we wear, the people who make them and the impact it's having on our world. The price of “fast fashion” clothing has been decreasing for decades, while the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically. The True Cost is a groundbreaking documentary that pulls back the curtain on an unseen part of our world and asks each of us to consider who pays the price for our clothing.