Kootenay Film showcase

Kootenay Film Showcase

Saturday November 22, 2008

Rush Cafe 2-5 pm

The Time Machine – 14 minutes

This documentary film brings you some of Rob Wyatt’s favourite local dive sites. It was shot in Nelson, Slocan, Silverton and Proctor. This film is unique because not many local people know how great our local diving can be or how much history is sitting at the bottom of our lakes.

The Ruins of Glacier and Howser Creeks – 28 minutes

This documentary film explores the potential impacts of the proposed Glacier/Howser Hydroelectric Project on the people and wilderness of the Purcell Mountains. Using a combination of maps, photos and video clips, the film brings the viewer in direct contact with the issues at stake. While educational in content, the film is also a wake up call for people to defend their natural heritage and public assets.

Dispelling The Myths of Mental Illness – 19 minutes

Between May 2007 and January 2008 a group of mental health consumers and workers in Trail undertook the project of producing a video with the goal of examining three myths related to Mental Illness: No one I know has a mental illness, People with mental illness are violent, and People on welfare are not useful members of society. The result was this film.

Dirtbags – 35 minutes

Dirtbags started out as a two-night event in the East Kootenay town of Kimberley. The event was titled the Kootenay Dirtbag Photo and Film Fest, and it was spearheaded and produced by filmmaker Kevin Shepit. The photo fest night included slideshows contributed by world class and Kootenay local photographers: Bruce Kirkby, Henry Georgi, Dave Quinn, Kari Medig, Patrice Halley and Pat Morrow. Short films on these six photographers have been combined into one, for audiences to get to know some of these local talents, whose work we have undoubtedly admired at some point.

Inked – 28 minutes

This is a documentary film of the tattoo parlours in Lethbridge Alberta. It was intended to inform university students how to approach getting a tattoo. The tattoo norm has become more socially acceptable in the past few years, and this film reflects that new reality. Viewer discretion advised.

Carts of Darkness – 59 minutes

In the picture-postcard community of North Vancouver, local bottle pickers have turned the act of binning into a thriving subculture of shopping cart racing. Murray Siple, a former snowboarder and sport film director injured in a serious car accident ten years ago, returns to filmmaking to capture their story. Featuring tracks from Black Mountain, Ladyhawk, Vetiver, Bison, and Alan Boyd of Little Sparta, Carts of Darkness borrows the cinematic language of extreme sport films to capture the risk and intensity of life lived on the very edge. Viewer discretion advised.

Contact: Rossland Mountain Film Festival rmffsubmissions@gmail.com

Website: www.rosslandfilmfest.com

Cost: free!

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