Reel Rave 2008 Reel Rave 2009
People’s choice winners for Reel Rave 2009 were:
Feature Film: Empties (Czechoslovakian)
Saskatchewan Short Video: Stolen Sapphire by David Bagwell
Honorable Mentions:
On the Rise by Cathy Geislerro
Painted on the Spot by Steven Hunt
Thank you to the supporters of Reel Rave 2009 for helping to make this such a success!
This year's festival took place September 12 and 13 in beautiful Waskesiu!
Title
By/company:
Genre
Length
From:
NIGHTFALL
Jason Britski – Framed Films Inc.
Experimental – Canadian winter landscape
10 min
Regina
WITCHCRAFT
Jason Britski – Framed Films Inc.
Experimental
4 1/2 min
Regina
STOLEN SAPHIRE
David Bagwell
Stop Motion Lego Animation
5 min
Air Ronge
SK BURROWING OWL INTERPRETIVE CENTRE
Don Campbell – New Media Solutions
Documentary
5 min
Moose Jaw
ON THE RISE
Cathy Geisler – CatyDid Productions
Documentary – Metis Fur Traders
8 min
Avonlea
PAINTED ON THE SPOT
Fiji Robinson – Rudecat Pictures Inc.
Documentary - Saskatchewan artist Ernie Luthi
14 min
Saskatoon
GENEROSITY OF MECHANICS (NOT WEL DOCUMENTED)
Troy Gronsdahl
Experimental - silent
1 min
Saskatoon
DREAM WITHIN DREAM
Chris Fischer
Animation based on Edgar Alan Poe poem
1 min
Saskatoon
A TALL TALE
Kelly-Anne Riess & Kirk Loveland
Drama
5 min
Regina
SHUFFLEBOARD KING
Stephen Hunt & Janelle Barnes
Mockumentary - comedy
10 min
Saskatoon
6 INDUSTRIOUS VIEWS PLUS A LONE BUFFALO
Kent Tate (Pulsing Earth)
Video + Music
10 1/2 min
Shaunavon
BURNNG FARM HOUSE
Kent Tate( Pulsing Earth)
Video + Music
4 min
Shaunavon
GOLDEN-EYE NEW NETWORK
PRESENTS:
WAR OF THE WORLDSTim Urton
Mockumentary - comedy
9 1/2 min
Prince Albert
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BONUS - Feature movie ONE WEEK, Friday, September 11, 8:00 PM at the Evergreen Cafe. (Silver collection) REEL RAVE Festival Festivity -Saturday, Sept. 12 9:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m.in the lobby of the Hawood. Everyone welcome for movie musings, prizes, and cocktails (available for purchase).
Tickets are on sale at the Art Gallery, at Twin Pines Cinema Waskesiu, or right here: ONLINE through PICATIC.COM.
- 'Save' with advance passes: $25/3 films. (Advance ticket holders eligible for special prizes.)
- Passes are valid on either festival day and for any films. They are also transferable.
- Tickets will be available at the door $10/film.
Note: Passes do not include the Prince Albert National Park gate fees. Consider car pooling!
- Cinema doors will open (and tickets will be sold) 30 minutes prior to show time.
Friday, Sept. 11, 2009
Evergreen Café
8:00 PM – One Week (DVD)*
Saturday, Sept. 12th, 2009
Cinema I
Cinema II
NOON
The Class ( 2 hrs 8min)
Empties (1 hr 43)
Break
3:00 PM
Hurt Locker ( 2 hrs 10)
Departures ( 2 hrs 10)
Supper Break
7:30 PM
Away We Go (1 hr 33)
Goodbye Solo ( 1 hr 31 min)
9:00 PM -11:00PM SOCIAL at the Hawood lobby.
Sunday, Sept. 13th
Cinema I
Cinema II
10:30 AM
Away We Go (1 hr 33)
Goodbye Solo ( 1 hr 31 min)
Lunch Break
1:00 PM
Hurt Locker ( 2 hrs 10)
Departures ( 2 hrs 10)
Break
4:00 PM
The Class ( 2 hrs 8min)
Empties (1 hr 43)
Local Short videos will be shown continuously at the Evergreen Café on Saturday and Sunday at no charge.
2009 Film Info
In his award winning film, directorYojiro Takita uses the setting of a funeral parlour to tell the life affirming story of Daigo and his family. The Departures opens with beautiful shots as the director presents the “parlour” and Daigo, the protagonist, who finds himself out of work as a cellist when his orchestra disbands. Through a comical misunderstanding, he accepts work in a burial home. Motoki Masahiro, ( Winner of Best Actor , 2009 Asian Film Awards for Departures) is superb is his role as Daigo. He invites us into his being. As well,this film gives us amazing insight into Japanese culture. It’s emotional and delightful.
Winner of Best foreign language film of the year at 2009 Academy Awards.
Director: Yôjirô Takita
Cast: Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu
Yamazaki, Ryoko Hirosue, Kazuko
Yoshiyuki
Run Time: 130 minutes
Country: Japan
Year: 2009
Language: Japanese with English
subtitles
Distributor: KinoSmith Inc.
EMPTIES As Joseph becomes frustrated with his teaching position, he quits his job and searches for work. The film focuses on how Joseph overcomes his feelings of uselessness as he enters his “real calling as a supermarket cupid”. His transition, however, does not match with that of Eliska, his wife.
“Empties began its incredible festival run at the Toronto Film Festival last year where it played to critical and audience acclaim as a festival front-runner. It went on to play at numerous festivals around the world where it garnered several audience choice awards for best feature and raves from critics at every turn. Earlier this year “Empties” won the Audience and Best Screenplay Awards at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, and has been the biggest box office hit in Czech history.” Sedona.biz
Director: Jan Sverák
Cast: Zdenek Sverák, Daniela
Koláeová, Tatiana Vilhelmová,
Alena Vránová
Run Time: 103 minutes
Country: Czech Republic
Year: 2007
Language: Czech with English
subtitles
Distributor: Maple Pictures
THE HURT LOCKER
“The Hurt Locker is a masterwork of suspense.” Set in 2004, in Iraq, it puts us up close with the bomb disposal unit as they perform their dangerous and psychologically straining work within the chaos of war. Beginning with the first scene, director, Kathryn Bigelow, infuses the work with tension and she doesn’t stop.
“"The Hurt Locker" is a great film, an intelligent film, a film shot clearly so that we know exactly who everybody is and where they are and what they're doing and why. The camera work is at the service of the story. Bigelow knows that you can't build suspense with shots lasting one or two seconds. And you can't tell a story that way, either -- not one that deals with the mystery of why a man like James seems to depend on risking his life. A leading contender for Academy Awards.” Roger Ebert ( July, 2009)
Winner of 2009 Independent Spirit Award
Winner of SIGNIS grand prize at Venice Film Festival, 2008
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Cast: Jeremy Renner, Anthony
Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy
Pearce, Ralph Fiennes
Run Time: 130 minutes
Country: USA
Year: 2009
Language: English
Distributor: Maple Pictures
AWAY WE GO
Away We Go takes us on the road… After hearing that Burt’s parents ( Jeff Daniels and Catherine O’Hara) are pulling up roots and going to live in Belgium, Burt ( John Krasinski – The Office, Shrek the Third) and Veronica ( Saturday Night Live’s Maya Rudolph) head off in search of a new home for their soon to arrive baby. Each stop along the way introduces them to new faces bringing us comedy and revelation . The film entertains with its hilarious script, but it is the amazing performances of Rudolph and Krasinski that make the film so worth the trip.
Directed by Academy Award winner Sam Mendes (American Beauty)
Director: Sam Mendes
Cast: Maya Rudolph, John
Krasinski, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeff
Daniels, Catherine O’Hara, Allison
Janney
Run Time: 93 minutes
Country: USA
Year: 2009
Language: English
Distributor: Alliance Films
THE CLASS
Entre les Murs ( The Class) is adapted from the book by Francois Begaudeau who also stars in the film as the teacher. The film’s actors are the students ( 14 years of age) who study together in real life. Over a year the director, Laurent Cantet, observes the teacher, student and peer relationships and through the dynamics of the teenagers, explores the socio- political world.
“The film exhilarates with its lively, authentic classroom banter while its emotional undercurrents build steadily but almost imperceptibly over a swift 129 minutes… One of the most substantive and purely entertaining movies in competition at Cannes this year.”
Justin Chang
“This is one of the screen’s most rewarding explorations of the teacher/student relationship in any language.” Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Winner of the Palmes D’Or, Cannes, 2008.
Director: Laurent Cantet
Cast: François Bégaudeau, Franck
Keïta, Esméralda Ouertani, Rachel
Régulier, Wei Huang, Carl Nanor
Run Time: 128 minutes
Country: France
Year: 2008
Language: French with English
subtitles
Distributor: Mongrel Media
Winner of the Venice Film Festival's prestigious FIPRESCI Critics' Prize, 'Goodbye Solo' traces the brief, but life-changing friendship between a reserved, Southern good ol' boy and a warm-hearted, extroverted taxi driver. Directed by Ramin Bahrani (Man Push Cart, Chop Shop), Solo has been called "A force of nature!" by Roger Ebert and The New York Times says the film has "an uncanny ability to enlarge your perception of the world."Country: USA
Running time: 1 hr 31 min.
Genre: Drama
Rating: 14A
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If you would like to sponsor the film festival, please contact the gallery.
Malcolm Jenkins of Canadian Tire - Prince Albert is a major sponsor!
EVERGREEN Cafe - Waskesiu
Canadian Tire Bendig & Klassen Law Office Evergreen Café Hawood Inn Zatlyn Law Office Waskesiu Trading Company Ted Matheson Men’s Wear CTV Asian Station Family Restaurant Cherkewich Law Office BMO Nisbitt Burns Twin Pines Cinema in Waskesiu Great Western Coffee Company Lakeland Ford BMO Financial Group
The gallery's film committee has worked hard to make this selection of current/recent Canadian and international films in a mix of genres that are suited to the "big screen". We hope that you enjoy the shows!
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