A Moment In Time

Oct 16, 04:45 PM by administrator

Program 5: A Moment In Time

Sat. Nov. 8th, 11:00 AM

Films can stretch the imagination as well as space and time. They transport us into new worlds not only geographically but also by leaping us back and forward to the past and future. YELLOW STICKY NOTES chronicles an animator’s life. FOOD FOR THE GODS and LIGHT YEARS take us to an apocalyptic future. WIANBU – COMFORT WOMAN, THE LETTER GOODBYE, and SERVANTS OF WAR remind us of the brutality of humanity’s past. While GRANGE AVENUE explores the recurrent theme of racism in a different time.

Yellow Sticky Notes



Director/Producer/Writer: Jeff Chiba Stearns
Animation | Beta SP | Colour | 2007 | 6 minutes | Canada

After realizing that yellow sticky note “to do” lists were consuming his life, animation fllmmaker Jeff Chiba Stearns decided to visually self-reflect on his filmmaking journey by animating on the same sticky notes that caused him to ignore major world events for the last nine years.

Previous Screenings: 2008 Best Animated Short Subject: Canadian Awards for the Electronic & Animated Arts, 2007 Animasian Award for Best Animated Film: 11th Toronto ReelAsian Int’l Film Festival

Director In Attendance

Food For The Gods



Director: H. Scott Hughes | Writers: H. Scott Hughes & Phillip Matte, based on the short story by Patricia C. Hughes | Producer: Zhou “Joe” Fang
Narrative | Beta SP | Colour | 2007 | 10 minutes | Canada

Light-years from Earth, Sheenyana is a beautiful mystic warrior from a lost Asian civilization. When an American astronaut lands on her world, cultures clash as passions ignite in a forbidden affair, forcing Sheenyana to choose between love and her people.

Director In Attendance

Wianbu – Comfort Woman



Director/Writer: James Bang | Producer: James Bang, Jessica Rotondi
Narrative | DigiBeta | Colour | 2008 | 20 minutes | USA

Sohee, a naive teenager girl is kidnapped and brought to a Japanese military station during WWII. She as the other 20,000 women in Asia during this period is violated and given the name of “Comfort Woman”. Sohee’s dramatic journey reflects the agony and pain most of these women had to carry and survive.

Previous Screenings: 2008 Student Academy Awards

Canadian Premiere

The Letter Goodbye



Director/Producer/Writer: Andrew Ming
Narrative | Beta SP | Colour | 2008 | 21 minutes | Canada

A heartfelt letter expresses true longing despite horrific circumstances.

Previous Screenings: CineVision, AAFilmlab 72 Hour Shootout (winner)

World Premiere | Director In Attendance

Servants Of War



Director: Gillian MacLeod | Producer: James Brown | Writer: Janice Chow
Narrative | Beta SP | Colour | 2007 | 9 minutes | Canada

1938. Guangzhou District, China. Japanese forces have swept the southwestern part of China and the small village of Pan Yu is quickly and effortlessly taken, with no one in the town able or willing to put up a fight. Jie and Mui, two orphaned sisters, do not manage to escape in time.

World Premiere | Director In Attendance

Grange Avenue



Directo/Writer: Allan Tong | Producers: Louis Mercier, Allan Tong, Randy Shek, Paul De Silva
Narrative | Beta SP | Colour | 2008 | 14 minutes | Canada

Grange Avenue tells of a forbidden love affair between a male Chinese immigrant and a white woman set in 1954 Toronto. Julia falls for student Raymond after a racial attack outside his Grange Avenue rooming house and the lovers embark on a torrid affair until Julia’s pregnancy threatens to expose their interracial affair to a hostile society. Can their love survive?

Previous Screenings: Delray Beach, Okanagan

Vancouver Premiere

Light Years



Director: Richard N. Martin | Producer: Melissa Lee | Writer: Richard N. Martin, Josh Calvert
Narrative | Beta SP | Colour | 2008 | 15 minutes | USA

Four relationships spanning the four corners of the globe are put to the ultimate test when they learn the world may end in eight minutes – the duration of time it takes light to travel from the Sun to the Earth.

Previous Screenings: San Francisco Black Film Festival, New York Asian American Int’l Film Festival, deadCENTER Film Festival, Boston Int’l Film Festival, Newport Int’l Film Festival, Seattle True Independent Film Festival, Cannes Short Film Corner, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, Indianapolis Int’l Film Festival, Rincon Int’l Film Festival (Best Student Film), USA Film Festival (Finalist), Fresno Film Festival, Da Vinci Film Festival, Lake Arrowhead Film Festival, Palm Beach International Film Festival, Beverly Hills Shorts Film Festival

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