HAMILTON FILM FESTIVAL

NOVEMBER 2 - 8, 2015

CALENDAR

2 6pm Gala SC

8pm The Rainbow Kid SC

8pm Autumn Blood EMT

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7pm Student Films 1 SC

7pm There Should Be Rules EMT

7pm After The Last River PC

9:30pm Canadian Music Movies EMT

9:30pm Student Films 2 SC

After Party Mesa : Movie Trivia MESA

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7pm Cycling Documentaries EMT

7pm Documentary Shorts 1 SC

6:30pm Wrecker LM6

9:30pm Drama Shorts 1 SC

9:30pm Dark Horse Candidate EMT

After Party Mesa

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9am –5pm The Masters of Special Effects CF/DC

7pm LGBTQ Shorts SC

7pm 7 Days in Syria EMT

7pm Short Film Mix DC

9:30pm Experimental Shorts SC SC

After Party Digital Canaries DC

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10am Meet-up Relay Coffee

7pm Comedy Shorts SC

7pm Project-M EMT

7pm FALL Z

9:30pm Horror Shorts SC

9:30pm Drama Shorts Mid Length EMT

9:30pm Circus Without Borders EMT

Midnight Black Christmas SC

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9am - 10:30am Creative Exchange /Lights Camera Hamilton CE

10am-6pm Hamilton Film Expo SF

1pm On The Horizon SC

1pm International Short Films EMT

3pm Drama Shorts 2 SC

3pm The Guy With The Knife EMT

7pm Films of Michelle Latimer SC

7pm The Real Miyagi EMT

7pm The Bad Mother Z

9:30pm Drama Shorts 3 SC

9:30pm Animated Shorts EMT

After Party Casbah 80s Night - No Cover

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9pm Breakfast at the Admiral Inn

1pm The Incredible Adventures of Jojo SC

2pm The Push Z

3pm Film Club Films SC

7pm Awards + JUXT SC

9pm If It’s Not Something, it’s Something Else SC

MONDAY NOVEMBER 2

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.

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.

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 3

STUDENT FILMS 1 (90m) SC 7pm - Special student film pricing $8

STUDENT SHORTS 1

STEALTH (22m/US)

BELOW THE SURFACE (4m/US)

BACKWARD FALL (10m/Canada)

SPYK (9m/UK)

THE BEAUTY THAT REMAINS (18m/Canada)

THE BRIGHT SIDE (2m/Canada)

MAN OF THE HOUSE (16m/UK)

SHUT UP (5m/Canada)

THE VAULT (4m/Australia)

FEATURE FILM EMT - 7pm - $10

THERE SHOULD BE RULES (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

adult life and starts an affair with an older man.

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

AFTER THE LAST RIVER (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. Presented in partnership with HAMILTON DIALOGUES. Ticketing for this event will go through : thehamiltondialogues.ca

CANADIAN MUSIC MOVIES (92m) EMT - 930pm - $10

BLUE THUNDER (21m /Saguenay, Quebec/Musical) Bruno, in his thirties and in 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

CF The Cotton Factory 270 Sherman Ave N

DC Digital Canaries 270 Sherman Ave N

EMT Elaine May Theatre 25 Dundurn St N

HPL Central Library 55 York Boulevard

LM6 Landmark Cinema 6 at Jackson Square 2 King St. W

PC The Perkins Centre 1429 Main St. E

SC Staircase Theatre 27 Dundurn St N

SF Spice Factory 121 hughson st N

Z The Zoetic 526 Concession St

blue suit back on and to rekindle an old flame.

AMADEUS (4m/Waterloo, 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 film pricing $8

STUDENT SHORTS 2 Viewer discretion is advised

PINKY (22m /Drama/US)

LASHES (20m/Drama/Coming-Of-Age/ UK)

STUDIES ON HYSTERIA (8m/Comedy/Germany)

HAPPY ENDINGS (16m/Drama/Trans/Canada)

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

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.

MOUNT LAWRENCE (98m/NY/dir. Chandler Wild) Mount Lawrence is a documentary film focusing on Chandler Wild, a young man living in New York City ever since his adventure-seeking 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.

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 (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/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 father-daughter 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 THE MASTERS OF SPECIAL EFFECTS (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

TOM IN AMERICA (17m/Brazil/US/dir. Flavio Alves)

END OF SEASON SALE (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.

EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS (88m) SC - 930pm - $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 (16m/Halifax/dir. Christopher Spencer-Lowe)

MER DEPRÉ (6m/USA/dir. Margaret Orr)

EYE DRUM (4m/Hamilton/Gary Barwin)

NEGATIVE NATURE (6m/Nova Scotia/dir. Dawn George)

NO END (6m/Hamilton/dir. Josephine Massarella)

THE CART (6m/Poland/dir. Patrik Eriksson)

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE (70m) EMT - 9:30pm - $10

CIRCUS WITHOUT BORDERS (70m/Boston/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

SWITCHBACK (5m/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)

JUST ONE MORE BITE (12m/Drama/Toronto/dir. Nicole Lawr)

LITTLE MEN (12m/Comedy/Hamilton/Adriano Valentini)

BANANA SEAT BLOODBATH (6m/Horro/Hamilton/dir. Luke Meneok)

TWICE (50m/Drama-Mystery/Hamilton/dir. Simon Winterson)

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 6

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 (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 (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 (98m) EMT - 7pm - $10

PROJECT M (98m/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.

FEATURE DRAMA + PANEL DISCUSSION Z - 7pm - $10

FALL (82m/Hamilton/dir. Terrance Odette) Father Sam, an aging Roman Catholic Priest living contently at a Niagara Falls parish, receives a letter forcing his complacent life into descent. Now haunted by the memory of a teenage boy, Father Sam must reconcile the truth: did a sexual encounter take place 40 years ago? Can a

moral custodian of the faithful; a dispenser of God's grace, transcend his own FALL?

POST SCREENING PANEL DISCUSSION: A Psychoanalysis of Father Sam Ryan Introduction by Writer Director - Terrance Odette

PANEL MEMBERS

MODERATOR: PETER KAVANAGH A veteran of Canadian media, having worked for 25 years at the CBC in television and radio with programs such as The Journal, Morningside, The Sunday Edition and Ideas, as well as publishing in The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, the National Post and numerous publications in the United States and Europe. He is the co-author of Suffer the Children Onto me: an Open Inquiry into the sex Abuse Scandal and his most recent The Man Who Learned to Walk Three

Times. He lives with his wife, Debi Goodwin, in Ontario.

DR. GARY CHAOMOWITZ 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

Specialty Committee of the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada. He is the Chair of the Canadian Psychiatric Association Professional Standards and Practice Council, and a member of the Executive of the Psychiatry Section of the Ontario Medical Association. He is Treasurer of the Ontario Coalition of Psychiatrists and a member of the Council of the Ontario Psychiatric Association.

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 co-founded 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/Waterloo/dir. Lyndon Horsfall)

THE CHOSEN (14m/Germany/dir. Guillermo Ruotolo)

MALLEUS MALEFICARUM (17m/Kitchener/dir. Torin Langen)

FEELING LIKE ERIC (6m/Germany/dir. Aviv Kosloff)

CONTACT (9m/USA /dir. Alexander Jeffery)

GNAW (1m/Halifax/dir. Struan Sutherland)

GUESS WHO'S NOT COMING TO BREAKFAST, LUNCH OR DINNER? (14m/Toronto/dir. Adam King)

THE SEARCH (7m/

Montreal/Devinder Paul Singh)

SIR JOHN A. AND THE CURSE OF THE ANTI-QUENCHED (12m/Kingston On/dir. Adam Kirkey)

1500 NIÑOS (6m/Quebec/ dir.Olivier A Dubois)

DRAMA SHORTS - MID LENGTH (104m) EMT - 9:30pm - $10

NIGHT IS MEANT FOR SLEEPING (28m/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 Clark) This Canadian classic horror film is on many top-10 horror enthusiast's lists, ours included! To get you pumped up on the night before you can meet cast members Art Hindle, Lynne Griffin and Doug McGrath (at the Hamilton Film Expo Sat Nov 7th) , we want to bring you the horror classic that inspired many in the genre, that came after it. If you haven't seen it, you must. If you have, let's see it in the theatre! Film will be preceded by : BANANA SEAT BLOODBATH (7m/Hamilton/dir. Luke Meneok) The Eva Rothwell centre will

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 moderated by Aaron Allen from Fright Night Theatre Film Festival), A Pacer (like the Mirthmobile) with photo op from Sean Sullivan who played "Phil" in Wayne's World. See props, that were

recently on display at TIFF, from Legends of the Fall, Wolverine, Mississippi Burning and more! There will be background casting, small movie shoot, Vintage posters, indie DVDS, Black Fawn Distribution, one-of-a-kinds(Christmas), sfx, props, demonstrations, candy table, coffee, the Dirty South food truck...and more! Family 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

THE MAN WHO FED HIS

SHADOW (18m/Greece/dir. Mario Garefo)

KEEPER OF THE PAST

(28m/Germany/Marco J. Riedl)

THE ROOSTER (20m/Russian Federation/dir. Alexey Nuzhny)

BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE (15m/Greece/dir. Socrates Alafouzos)

DRAMA SHORTS 2 (93m - 5 short films) SC - 3pm

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 introduction by Art Hindle/Q&A with Michelle to 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. Michelle is currently starring in the television series Blackstone and appears as an industry judge on CBC’s Short Film Face Off. Michelle holds a BFA from Concordia University and is alumnus of both Toronto Film Festival’s 2010 Talent Lab and its inaugural 2014 Studio Producer’s Program. HFF Note: Michelle won our Best Documentary for ALIAS and has screened her short film Undergound with us.

DOCUMENTARY EMT - 7pm - $10

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 influenced a bevy of Hollywood’s elite over the last 50 years. Those talents include Chuck Norris, Bruce Lee, Steven Seagal and many more. It was the stunt double role that he landed in The Karate Kid and the friendship he formed with actor, Pat Morita that would forever change his life. Mr. Morita fashioned his unforgettable character, Mr. Miyagi, off of Master Demura which earned him an Oscar Nomination in 1985. This is the story of a man they call The Real Miyagi.

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.com 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

FILM CLUB FILMS SC - 3pm - $5 Films made by local film clubs, and local kids. This program include the Avalon Music Movie-Making Camp, Terryberry Library Film Festival, Reel Streetz & the Westdale Film Festival. Terryberry Library winning films :

SKOOL DAZE (3m /Christopher Turner age 11)

THE SUSPECTS (10m/Burlington/Mike Martins)

BUYER BEWARE (3m/Hamilton/Hana Clayton)

LOST BETWEEN WORLDS (25m/Hamilton/Avalon Music Movie-Making Camp/Steve Parton)

THE STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE (3m/Reel Streetz)

LOVE (4m/Reel Streetz)

STORIES (12m/Reel Streetz)

WESTDALE FILM FESTIVAL (winning films)

AWARDS CEREMONY + JUXT1-7 SC - 7pm -$10 NOMINEES 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. 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, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Music, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Student, Sparquie The Squirrel. Custom trophies are created and assembled by Paul Hart at ThinkHaus. The Film strip logo was designed by Dave Kuruc.

CLOSING FILM SC - 9pm - $10 IF IT'S NOT SOMETHING IT'S SOMETHING ELSE: THE STORY OF THE REASON (90m/Hamilton/Documentary/Chris Paco) For 10 years the band The Reason has navigated varying levels of success in the independent landscape of Canadian music. Touring, recording, and believing in a shared future have been a constant motivator to never give up on themselves or a dream that at its closest has been within arm’s reach. Time ages and priorities shift as life’s sobering realities come into play. IF IT’S NOT SOMETHING IT’S SOMETHING ELSE reveals the myth and reality of being in a “breaking” Canadian band. A story that rings true with any struggling artist, as labels, management and media paint a portrait of success, the veil is lifted and the reality of debt, pressure and relationships strained are put to the test.

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!

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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 2-8th. 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