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Noon - 3:00 pm | Sunday, March 11th, 2012 Film Screenings with Panel Discussion
Panel Discussion Moderated by Katherine Monk
Katherine Monk can be seen weekly on B.C.'s broadcast news leader, BCTV-Global, reviewing the latest theatrical releases. In 2003, Monk joined CanWest News Service, now called Postmedia News, as a national movie writer. She is also a regular contributor to CBC Radio One's Definitely Not the Opera, where she has sounded off on movies since 1997. Her first book, the non-fiction national best seller, Weird Sex and Snowshoes: And Other Canadian Film Phenomena, has been adopted by several institutions as the primary textbook for Canadian film studies, including universities in Britain, Germany and the United States. Vancouver-based Omni Film and The Movie Channel adapted the book for the screen in 2004 under the direction of Jill Sharpe.

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BONE WIND FIRE | 30:00 mins 2011, Canada, directed by Jill Sharpe (National Film Board of Canada) Bone Wind Fire is an intimate and evocative journey into the hearts, minds and eyes of Georgia O'Keeffe, Emily Carr and Frida Kahlo—three of the 20th century's most remarkable artists. The women's own words, taken from their letters and diaries, reveal three individual creative processes in all their subtle and fascinating variety. |
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THE LOST GARDEN | 52:50 mins 1995, Canada, directed by Marquise Lepage (National Film Board of Canada) Alice Guy-Blaché was a filmmaker before the word even existed. She made her first film at the end of the last century, when cinema was still a newborn. After directing, producing and/or writing more than 700 films, she slipped into oblivion. The Lost Garden rescues the story of one of cinema's most fearless pioneers. By 1910, married and with her first baby, she founded her own production company in America. Solax became the biggest pre-Hollywood studio on the continent. But at 49, she lost her husband, her company and her illusions. The Lost Garden looks at the life and times of a woman who, with two words, changed the art of screen acting forever. "Be natural," she used to tell her actors. Television interviews from the sixties reveal Guy-Blaché to be witty, articulate and elegant. Her films are cleverly edited to illustrate the events occurring in her personal life. Granddaughter Adrienne and daughter-in-law Roberta offer photographs and press clippings from her private albums, while film historians point out the artistry and innovativeness of her work. |
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Established in 1989, Women In Film + Television Vancouver Society (WIFTV) is an internationally-affiliated non-profit society committed to advancing and celebrating women in screen-based media. We are the Vancouver chapter of Women in Film + Television International (WIFTI), which counts more than 10,000 members world-wide.
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