WIFF 2010   REEL WOMEN. REAL LIFE.   at the Vancity Theatre, Vancouver BC

Screening #4 - Real Women; Real Life

Sunday, April 18 | 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Fascinating subjects offer up a slice of real life as seen through the lens.

Please note there is no Talk Back session after this program.

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When I Grow Up (9 mins)
BC, Canada - Director: Toshimi Ono
This is a story of a captivating man who maintains “the heart of the child” with grace and humour. He not only connects us to Asian cultures and languages, he also inspires us to honour where we come from and who we are - whatever cultural backgrounds we have.
 
Let’s Play Boccia! (14:03 mins)
BC, Canada - Director: Angelina Cantada
Let’s Play Boccia! is a look into the lives of three Canadian Paralympic athletes. For Paul, Ailson and Caroline, boccia is more than just a sport. It’s an escape from the real world, a way to nurture the competitive spirit and a chance to show the world what people with disabilities can do. This film is about finding inner strength and living with dignity through many of life’s challenges and adversity.
 
A Harlem Mother (13 mins)
USA - Director: Ivana Todorovic
In 1998, 18-year-old Latron Parker made a documentary about difficulties growing up in Harlem. Eights years later he was shot dead on the street. Today his mother Jean fights youth gun violence and helps other parents to survive the pain through her organization, Harlem Mothers. Weaving footage from Latron’s own film with scenes from Jean’s new life today, the short documentary A Harlem Mother tells this tragic and inspirational story from the dual perspectives of mother and son.
 
LoliGirls: The Story Behind the Frills and Bows (14:47 mins)
USA - Director: Kate Slomkowski
A documentary that lifts the veil of the underground Lolita fashion movement and sub-culture. By chronicling the lives of three American Lolita girls, this film hopes to inform and enlighten the audience.

Remember Our Sisters Everywhere (4 mins)
BC, Canada - Director: Moira Simpson
Scarves blow in the wind like meditation prayer flags with messages of remembrance and calls to end violence against women. At a remembrance ceremony on December 6th, 2009 in Vancouver, women and men literally wear their hearts on their sleeves.
 
Pigeon Park Savings (10:30 mins)
BC, Canada - Director: Laurie Kindiak
Access to basic financial services, like a bank account or cheque cashing, is something most of us take for granted. But many individuals don’t have easy and affordable access to these essential services. Pigeon Park Savings is a bank for the people, providing basic financial services to many low-income people living in the area and combating the financial exclusion in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. This film explores what this means to the average person living in that neighbourhood?
 
Echo Bay (5 mins)
BC, Canada - Director: Mary M. Frymire
Conservation was not an obvious concern when marine biologist Alexandra Morton’s research commenced in 1984 in a remote archipelago between Kingcome and Knight Inlets called the Broughton Archipelago. Whales were abundant, salmon plentiful and the local community of floating homes known as Echo Bay, thriving. In 1987 the first corporate salmon farm arrived in the archipelago, and in a few short years the archipelago began to flash warning lights of ecological collapse - toxic algae blooms, explosive disease and parasitic events in salmon, hundreds of seals and some sea lions shot, the orca vanished and the human community began a downward spiral towards ghost town. As the wild salmon went, so went the humans.