Main Program A – 7:15 PM

MAIN PROGRAM A
Innis Town Hall, Innis College
2 Sussex Street, Toronto, M5S 1J5

7:15 PM – WEDNESDAY June 22

SF: As Ever, Stan
Director Alexander Schwarm
United States of America
0:13:00

On a quiet morning, Edith takes her newborn daughter to the train station to meet her husband, Stan, a recently liberated POW of WWII. When the train reaches the depot, the unexpected occurs and Edith soon realizes that life after the war will never be the same. A true story.

TH: James Warwick
Director Arthur Fishel
United States of America
0:13:00

Told from the perspective of a newspaper columnist writing a story, the life of James Warwick is told beginning with his return home from WWII, his relegation to a life as a garbage man and his evening baseball games. As the story progresses, the writer finds there is much more to this ordinary man, qualities which he comes to greatly admire.

SD: WINGS OF SILVER: The Vi Cowden Story
Directors, Mark Bonn, Christine Bonn
United States of America
0:33:00

It is a story of triumph and inspiration over adversity – Vi Cowden, and her 1,073 fellow Women Airforce Service Pilots (W.A.S.P.) were the first women in United States history to fly military planes. No one can argue that they were crucial to the war effort during World War II. When the country needed every man, She answered the call.

NB Vi Cowden, the subject of this documentary recently passed away from congestive heart failure at the age of 94 on April 10, 2011.
Please show your ReelHeART and earn your Wings by supporting Independent documentary making that give us glimpses into real life innovators and pioneers like Vi Cowden. May your spirit soar the skies for ever…

SD: Ein weites Feld (Expansive Grounds)
Director Gerburg Rohde-Dahl
Germany
1:06:00

From September 2003 until autumn 2007 the filmmaker followed the building of the Memorial of the Murdered Jews of Europe to the centre of Berlin with their camera, from the installment of the first slabs until two years after the opening of the memorial to the public. Eventually visiting the impact of the Holocaust in their own life as well as to the memorial.