Saturday May 9th@ 1:00 - 4:00pm
Jennifer Fox Workshop @ Fava (Film and Video Arts Society)
( 9722 – 102 Street ): Exhibition Suite, 2nd Floor
$15.00 admission or $25.00 for the Saturday pass
( which would include the workshop plus 7:00 pm & 9:00 pm screenings )
Stories & fundraising are intimately connected in ways that filmmakers often don't realize. One of the keys of funding is to pick subjects that have universal appeal and can be funded from a variety of sources and markets globally. Doing so requires that the filmmaker understand what makes his or her story universal. There is certainly many reasons to pick subjects that appeal to local markets and satisfy local concerns, however, the filmmaker should understand how this limits their funding options. However, ofter the problems aren't with the subjects themselves, but that the filmmakers fail to excavate their universal story potential.
Jennifer Fox is an internationally acclaimed filmmaker who has consistently used multi-tiered and diverse international funding to make her unique documentary projects. She has aquired enormous skill in creative, strategic fundraising and marketing. Her films have consistently been funded and distributed world-wide.
Come hear Jennifer speak in this unique workshop about how to see what makes a fundable documentary story.
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Saturday May 9th@ 7:00pm
Metro Cinema (9828-101a Ave)
Zeidler Hall, Main Floor, Citadel Theatre
$10.00 admission or $5.00 for seniors & students w/ID 
Cursing Hanley (2007) 16:38 mins.
Hell hath no fury like an engaged woman scorned. Hanley discovers that, the hard way. A hilarious riff on what it’s like to go from bad to worse, without passing go, CURSING HANLEY flirts with the fickle finger of fate.
Producer Kerry Young
Contact: awong@cfccreates.com 
Meet_Market.ca (2008) 11:48 mins.
This film is an amusing narrative exercise in cyber dating. Film director Marie-Helen and fashion maven Zoe routinely do a Friday night girl thing, partying as hard as they can as spirited singles. One Friday they decide to sign up on Meet-market.ca to see what they can find. The women are in for some big surprises, as are their dates .
Written and Directed by Genevieve Poulette
Contact: gpoulette@videotron.ca
Loving Loretta ( 2008) 22:36 mins.
The title echoes a country and western tune, and, to be sure the narrative arc of this lovely little film could be set to a ballad. We’re in small-town diner territory, where everyone knows everyone’s business, and so getting a crush on a butch farmer is a bit tricky. Furtive glances take practice, but that’s how the west was won.
Written and directed by Andrea Gutsche
Contact: gutsche90@gmail.com 
Sexy Inc. : Our Children Under Influence ( 2007) 35 mins.
Are children being pushed into adulthood too soon? Sophie Bissonnette’s documentary analyzes the hypersexualization of our environment and its noxious effects on young people. Experts criticize an unhealthy culture created by advertising and the media, and the many examples shown illustrate how children are reduced to consumers bombarded with images of girls treated as purely sexual objects. While the specialists emphasize how these stereotypes, as well as early exposure to internet pornography, damage young people’s development, the film does suggest ways we can counteract this worrying phenomenon. It is a rallying cry.
Written and directed by Sophie Bissonnette
An NFB production Contact: j.gutteridge@nfb.ca
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Saturday, May 9 @ 9:00 PM
Metro Cinema (9828-101a Ave)
Zeidler Hall, Main Floor, Citadel Theather
$10.00 admission or $5.00 for seniors & students w/ID
Homecoming (2008) 7mins.
Another fable of war and its effects, this intelligent short follows the troubled return of a young man from the Afghanistan conflict. Nothing is the same once you’ve been to Kabul.
Written and directed by Connie Diletti
Contact: connie@conniediletti.com
Diamonds in a Bucket (2007) 21:07 mins.
Like a character is a country and western song, Vivian (Lisa Repo-Martel) is hunting for a man Harold (Glenn Downey), who sings such songs, wants adoration and clean floors. Not exactly made in Heaven, the relationship bobs along with a healthy measure of awkward comfort. When Harold’s older daughter (Susan Kent) shows up, things go from awkward to plain messy. Diamonds in a Bucket is a terrific, beautifully shot film about dreams and delusions, a well groomed short cut of wit and wisdom.
Written and Directed by Sherry White
Produced By Rhonda Buckley
Contact: sherryw@nfld.com
Generation XXL ( 2007) 1 hrs.
Intimate, funny and character driven, this film follows four teens as they confront their pounds and themselves. The kids struggle against fast food, computers, video games, soda pop, parents and peer pressure, and we learn weight loss is more complex than simply getting off the couch. Exposed in their hope, dreams, and clothing, these kids allow us to see the complexity of obesity and raise serious questions about societies response to the extra large.
Contact: lapatten@ziji.ca