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Festival Schedule
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
International Women's Day
THE SPOTLIGHT AWARDS GALA™
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm | RECEPTION | Join us for a drink, mingle, and peruse our Silent Auction
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm | AWARDS CEREMONY + FILM SCREENINGS | Presentation of Legacy Awards, Spotlight Awards, William F White Mentorship
9:00 pm - 11:30 pm | PARTY | Celebrate our outstanding female filmmakers
Due to the enforcement of liquor and licensing regulations the film screenings have been re-scheduled to Saturday morning
Friday, March 9th, 2012
DIGITAL MEDIA DAY - EXPLORING PLATFORM AND CONTENT9:30 am – 4:00 pm | DIGITAL MEDIA MASTERCLASS | with Sue Biely and Annelise Larson
PITCH SESSIONS
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm | One-on-one,10-minute sessions conducted in an open room in a "speed dating" style. You may book sessions and pitch your project directly to a variety of leading film industry professionals.
EMBRACING THE DARKNESS
7:00 pm - 8:45 pm | SHORT FILMS WITH TALKBACK | The Provider (#1), The Red Hood, Ms Thing, Biatch!, Doll Parts, Face It, Anna-May Got Lost, The Crossing of the Living Room (La traversée du salon), The Provider (#2)
THE HOUSE
9:00 pm - 11:30 pm | SHORT + FEATURE FILMS WITH TALKBACK | Monster (BC, 2012), directed by Deborah Burns, The House (BC, 2011), directed by Desiree Lim
Saturday, March 10th, 2012
LEGACY AWARD WINNERS AND WIFTI INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM SHOWCASE9:30 am - 11:00 am | 3 Legacy Award winning short films and the WIFTI International Short Film Showcase
EXHIBITOR SHOWCASE
10:00 am - 4:00 pm | A variety of industry exhibitors and community partners will be showcasing on Saturday and Sunday in the Vancity Atrium, free to the general public. Come and visit these industry and community representatives and learn more about what they can do for you.
THE CHANGING FACE OF DISTRIBUTION
11:00 am - 12:30 pm | NETWORKING LUNCH + PANEL DISCUSSION | Moderated by Carol Whiteman | A moderated panel discussion, it will provide an opportunity for emerging media artists and professionals to share questions and experiences. The panelists will address the recent evolution of distribution models for independent media works.
FROM HER TO THERE
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm | SHORT FILMS WITH TALKBACK | From Her to Eternity, Parkdale, Bloodland, To the Sea, Run Dry, Rendez-Vous, Run, Fireworks (Cohetes), Choke, Isolda
REEL WOMEN
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm | DOCUMENTARIES WITH TALKBACK | Arte, Ardore, Onore: The World of Swordplay, Falling From the Sky, Lady Razorbacks, OH! SUSHI - From the Land of the BC Roll with Love (BC, 2011), directed by Toshimi Ono
WISE + WILD
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm | SHOWCASE OF YUKON SHORT FILMS WITH TALKBACK | Curated by Lulu Keating | Gold River, Soft Spoken, Aydaygooay, Time Lines, Last Stop for Miles, Our Changing Homelands Our Changing Lives, Ice Road to Tuk, Embroidered Guy: a business card flip book animation experiment, Longest Dream, The Wild and the Untamed, The Romance of Helen Trent, Forty-Eight Hour Sonnet
HOTEL SWOONI
9:00 pm - 11:00 pm | SHORT + FEATURE FILMS | Neighbors (USA, 2011), directed by Tracy Wren, Hotel Swooni (2011, Netherlands), directed by Kaat Beels
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
EXHIBITOR SHOWCASE
10:00 am - 4:00 pm | A variety of industry exhibitors and community partners will be showcasing on Saturday and Sunday in the Vancity Atrium, free to the general public. Come and visit these industry and community representatives and learn more about what they can do for you.
10:00 am - 4:00 pm | A variety of industry exhibitors and community partners will be showcasing on Saturday and Sunday in the Vancity Atrium, free to the general public. Come and visit these industry and community representatives and learn more about what they can do for you.
MEET THE FILMMAKERS
10:30 am - noon | NETWORKING BRUNCH | Sponsored by the Yukon Film + Sound Commission
PORTRAITS10:30 am - noon | NETWORKING BRUNCH | Sponsored by the Yukon Film + Sound Commission
noon - 3:00 pm | FILMS AND PANEL DISCUSSION | Bone Wind Fire (Canada, 2011), directed by Jill Sharpe, The Lost Garden (Canada, 1995), directed by Marquise Lepage | [panel]
CONCEIVING FAMILY
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm | FILMS WITH TALKBACK | Luna, I Still Remember, She's a Soul Man, Dancing with the Moon, Conceiving Family (BC, 2011), directed by Amy Bohigian
HOPES, DREAMS + SCHEMES
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | SHORT FILMS WITH TALKBACK | Hip Hop Mom, Move Out Clean, Fitting, Dance of the Little Old Men; The Heist, The Soldier Game (Le jeu des soldats), The Perfect Vacuum, A World Apart, Kiyumi's Poetry and Sayuru's Embroidery (La poésie de Kiyumi, la broderie de Sayuru)
CLOSING NIGHT
8:30 pm - 11:00 pm | FEATURE FILM + AWARDS PRESENTATIONS | Everything and Everyone (BC, 2011), directed by Tracy D. Smith | WIDC Feature Film Award presented by Carol Whiteman | VWIFF Best of Festival Awards presented by Roslyn Muir
Date TBA, 2012
times tba | FILMS WITH TALKBACK | The Invisible Red Thread (Canada, 2011), directed by Maureen Marovitch | Vixens + Virgins...and Other Mythological Creatures (Canada, 2010), directed by Heather Watson-Burgess
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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