Carlton Magic Lantern, 20 Carlton St, Toronto, College Subway Station [Map]
Friday 4 PM Carlton Magic Lantern, 20 Carlton St, Toronto – Tickets $ 12 each :
Theme: “Family” – Films About Caring About All The Family and Friends You Cherish…
‘This Too Shall Pass‘ (3:55 min, Italy)
by Kristen Palana
Synopsis: Is it possible to be simultaneously ecstatic and miserable? Will this moment ever end? How I wish it would last forever. This Too Shall Pass is an animated short that takes an honest look at the extreme highs and lows of parenting young children in the 21st century.
Using 2D digital painting techniques as well as rotoscoped home movies, animator Kristen Palana tries to come to terms with her conflicting feelings about the joys and hardships of parenting two spirited boys in a foreign country. The animation is a reflection on motherhood, initially based on a poem that Palana scrawled in her journal while dealing with postpartum depression when her sons were two months and two years old. She tries to capture the extreme mood swings, longings, epiphanies, and anxieties that often color the lives of new parents who have been catapulted out of their comfort zones into a strange but also wonderful new existence.
Website: kpalana.com/2014/07/shall-pass-2014/
‘You & I’ (12:13 min, Toronto, Canada)
dir. Emma Zaiachkowski – *Filmmaker In Attendance
Synopsis: Marriage is often a conventional step forward in the lives of adults, but Travis and Stephanie’s union is particularly exceptional. Both born with Down syndrome, they are now navigating a unique set of obstacles in their married life and continue to prove that love transcends all barriers. Meeting in their teens, this couple has formed a strong partnership that operates in its own distinctive way. Having Down syndrome plays a factor in determining this couple’s living arrangements, their possibility of having children and their future. Through their story, this documentary examines how love is really at the core of all relationships, no matter how they may appear.
Website: emmaz124.wix.com/youandidocumentary
Trailer: emmaz124.wix.com/youandidocumentary#!videos/ck0q
‘Policy of Truth’ (12:14 min, USA)
dir. Nick Demos – *Filmmaker In Attendance
Synopsis: All Dwight wants to do is take his father, Walter, out to breakfast. But as Walter’s illness becomes clearer during one eventful morning, Dwight realizes their relationship can never be the same again.
Facebook: Policy of Truth Facebook
Twitter: @policytruthfilm
Trailer: vimeo.com/109159275
‘The Mourning Hour’ (16:25 min, USA)
dir. Susan Cohen
Synopsis: When Virginia Bakely, a 1950’s suburban housewife afflicted with a heart condition, learns of her husband’s tragic death, she must journey through The Mourning Hour – a space of time defying logic and order, where she alone must answer the question, “What sustains the human heart?” Inspired by Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”.
Website: www.themourninghour.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheMourningHour
Trailer: www.themourninghour.com/video-photos.html
‘Emily’s Dance’ (29:58 min, United Kingdom)
dir. Phil Peel – *Filmmaker In Attendance
Synopsis: Two women – One old, one young, both called Emily. A bittersweet story of their developing relationship as Old Emily, a scatty and irritating character decides to latch onto the young woman. However the old lady gets arrested for shoplifting and we discover that they’ve met before under very different circumstances.
Website: www.philpeel.com/
Twitter: @philpeel
FaceBook: www.facebook.com/ppeel
All In Her Stride (55 min, Australia)
dir. Fiona Cochrane
Synposis: Leverne McDonnell was an Australian actor who died in 2013 from pancreatic cancer. The film documents her life and how she faced her terminal diagnosis with both humour and courage, in addition to some discussion of voluntary euthanasia. While voluntary euthanasia has been legalized in some countries, it is not legal in Australia despite support for it by the majority of the population in opinion polls.
Trailer: http://youtu.be/eRQu71DXyro
Website: www.f-reel.com
Facebook: /fiona.cochrane.10