ะึรรยายื University
Film Festival
The ะึรรยายื University Film Festival, presented by TD Insurance and in partnership with the ะึรรยายื Alumni Association, is back for a third year to celebrate story-telling and filmmakers. Running from April 30 – May 2, 2024, the program includes three nights of screenings, showcasing documentary films by our alumni, an alumni panel, and a celebration films made by current ะึรรยายื students.ฬ
2024 Program
SHORTS
Three Thousand
asinnajaq weetaluktuk (BFA 2015)โฏโฏ,ฬ14 minutes.โฏฬ
Mary & Myself
Sam Decoste (MFA 2015)โฏ,ฬ6 minutes.โฏฬ
Flawed
Andrea Dorfman (BFA 1995)โฏ, 12 minutes. โฏฬ
Avenuers
Roberto Santaguida (MFA 2011)โฏ, 27 minutes.โฏฬ
feature
Spring and Arnaud
Katherine Knight (BFA 1980) & Marcia Conolly (BFA 1995), 1ณ๓05ณพพฑฒิโฏฬ
Art, love and mortality intertwine in this portrait of Canadian Artists Spring Hurlbut and Arnaud Maggs.
Arnaud Maggs, turning 85, embarks on a series of self- portraits that wryly depict his lifeโs work. Spring Hurlbut, at 60 is creating haunting works that evoke mortality while harboring the certainty that Arnaudโs time is limited. Together and alone, each grapples with the nature of an artistโs creativity where the drive for invention and discovery resists lifeโs finite reality.
Co-Director and Producer: Katherine Knight Co-Director, Cinematographer, Producer: Marcia Connolly Producer: David Craig Cinematographer, Visual Designer and Editor: Jared Raab Composers: Justin Small and Ohad Benchetrit
Funded by the Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts and the Toronto Arts Council
TOP TEN AUDIENCE FAVORITE, HOT DOCS 2013
GOLDEN HARE AWARD, FILMS ON ART PORTUGAL 2016
Screening follows with Q&A with Katherine Knight (BFA 1980) & Marcia Conolly (BFA 1995).ฬ
TOTAL RUNTIME: 2h4minโฏฬ
SHORT
Annie Pootoogook
23:50 minutes, Colourฬ
Producer:โฏKatherine Knightฬ(BFA 1980)
Director:โฏMarcia Connollyฬ(BFA 1995)
Producer:โฏDavid Craig (BFA 1977)
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Annie ฑสดวดวณูดวดวฒตดวดวฐ์โs artwork and individual creative process of making and doing are the core of this intimate film. Images of her drawings anchor the film in her art. The transitions, challenges and risks of her life are reflected in her drawings. The shamans, myths and land-based adventures prevalent in the last generationโs prints and drawings are less evident. Annie drawings depict today. Local and global collide in her images: a seal hunt on TV; a video play station dominates a sparsely furnished room, walrus meat is eaten on the floor with a modern kitchen visible in the background.ฬ
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“Marcia Connolly has created an extraordinary documentary on Annie Pootoogook’s work and life. Her camera has found a beautiful way of implicating itself into Pootoogook’s community in Cape Dorset, creating an intimacy and sense of spiritual kinship which is profoundly touching and rare. This is one of the finest portraits of an artist I have ever seen.” – Atom Egoyanฬ
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feature
The War Room
1h36min, Colour
Director: Chris Hegedus (BFA 1973)
The 1992 presidential election was a triumph not only for Bill Clinton but also for the new breed of strategists who guided him to the White Houseโand changed the face of politics in the process. For this thrilling, behind-closed-doors account of that campaign, renowned cinema veritรฉ filmmakers Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker captured the brainstorming and bull sessions of Clintonโs crack team of consultantsโespecially James Carville and George Stephanopoulos, who became media stars in their own right as they injected a savvy, youthful spirit and spontaneity into the process of campaigning. Fleet-footed and entertaining,ฬThe War Roomฬis a vivid document of a political moment whose truths (โItโs the economy, stupid!โ) still ring in our ears.
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TOTAL RUNTIME:ฬ1h59ฬ
Related events
Alumni Panels, May 1
1 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. – Talk with a special guest and Chris Hegedus (BFA 1973) moderated by Stephen Reynolds (BFA 1984).ฬฬ
3 p.m. – Alumni film panel moderated by Darrell Varga, with Katherine Knight (BFA 1980) Heather Young (BFA 2009), Marcia Connolly (BFA 1995).ฬฬ
Alumni panels
Bell Auditorium, Fountain Campus
ะึรรยายื, 5163 Duke St., Halifax NS
1 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. – Talk with a special guest and Chris Hegedus (BFA 1973) moderated by Stephen Reynolds (BFA 1984).ฬฬ
Chris Hegedus (BFA 1973)
Chris Hegedus has been making films as a director, cinematographer, and editor for nearly 40 years. She and her husband, filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker, founded the company Pennebaker Hegedus Films. In 2001, she was awarded the prestigious Directors Guild of America Award for , an intimate buddy story filmed during the first Internet boom/bust. She was nominated for an Academy Award for , a behind-the-scenes look at Bill Clintonโs 1992 presidential campaign. She taught filmmaking at Yale for eight years and received their Film Studies Award. In 2016 she directed the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival was nominated for an Emmy Award. At ะึรรยายื Chris studied photography and experimental filmmaking.
3 p.m. – Alumni film panel moderated by Darrell Varga, with Katherine Knight (BFA 1980) Heather Young (BFA 2009), Marcia Connolly (BFA 1995).ฬฬ
Somewhere real
Kate Solar
Anwar
Anna Abi Daoud
Thirsty?ฬ
Myles Robichaud
Lost Thread
Jack Sanders
SYLAฬ
Arin Rains
Pan & Syrinx
a. laurel lawrence
Cycles
Mitchell Webber
Mika
Esly Tan
Not My Children
Grace Whiffen
Eye piece
Kate Solar
Annie, Are You OK?ฬ
Deirdre Sokolowskaฬ
Curators
Liz Cowie (BFA 2000)
Liz Cowie was part of the inaugural VBT.tv team, which preceded vice.com,โฏworking closely with Vice founders Suroosh Alvi and Shane Smith, along with Director Spike Jonze and DP Lance Bangs producing various television and digital documentary series, music videos, advertising campaigns, commercials, and larger, feature length projects. Cowie becameโฏSenior Manager of Development & Alternative Programming at VICE TV. Sheโฏdeveloped and oversaw a variety of original series for the network such asโฏThe Devil You Know,โฏBetraying the Badge,โฏDevoured, and the Emmy-nominated series,โฏFringe Nation.โฏ She now works with NFB as a Producer, for the Quebec & Atlantic Studio.
Ray Charabaty (BFA 2016)
Raghed (Ray) Charabaty is a filmmaker based in Toronto. Rayโs films have won at TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival): Canadaโs Top Ten, Festival du Nouveau Cinema and the Starfish Awards. Ray is an alumnus of the CFC Director's Lab 2023 (Canadian Film Centre). Ray holds an MFA in Film from York University (2019) and a BFA with a minor in Art History from ะึรรยายื U. Charabaty is a two-time fellow of the Netflix-Banff Pitch Program, as well as the BIPOC TV & Film x Warner Bros: Episodic Drama Writers Lab 2022.
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