YFS job posting - Executive Director
June 21, 2010
Employment Opportunity
Executive Director
Yukon Film Society - Whitehorse, Yukon
Working under the direction of the Board of Directors, the Executive Director’s duties are to plan and manage the day-to-day operations and finances of the Yukon Film Society so as to maintain regular services to the Society’s members and the public. In collaboration with the programmer and technical director, the executive director manages tasks and works with volunteers to ensure the smooth delivery of YFS services, events, screenings, productions, workshops and equipment rentals.
Duties include:
•preparing grant applications;
•managing project finances;
•submitting reports and other information as required by funding agencies.
Salary and Benefits:
This position is a permanent, part time position at $25/hour, 25 hrs/week.
How to Apply:
Please submit a cover letter addressing your qualifications with a resume by Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at 5:00 pm PST to 212 Lambert St, Second Floor, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 1Z4
For further information, please call YFS Programmer Andrew Connors
at 867-393-3456.
Download the full job posting PDF here.
Firehall Films this Thursday
June 2, 2010
Firehall Films: Thursday, June 3
6:45pm: Two docs by Peter Mettler
Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands (trailer here)
Peter Mettler, Ontario, 2009, 45m
Renowned cinematographer, Peter Mettler (Manufactured Landscapes) shows us an extraordinary view from above the Tar Sands, filming primarily from a helicopter to capture this breathtaking view of the world’s largest industrial, capital and energy project.
Screens with:
Picture of Light (watch an excerpt)
Peter Mettler, Ontario, 1995, 84m
Mettler and his film crew overcome -40˚C and logistical challenges in Churchill, Manitoba to capture the aurora borealis on film. “Provocative and mesmerizing...” ~The Toronto Star
9:30pm The Harder They Come (trailer)
Perry Henzell, USA/ Jamaica, 1973, 103m
The ground-breaking, class-divide classic features a legendary soundtrack (Desmond Dekker, The Maytals, Jimmy Cliff) and Jimmy Cliff as a poor rural Jamaican musician who turns to crime and violence to achieve fame in the city. Shot documentary style in Kingston during the coming of age of Reggae music, and the 60s/70s political gang violence, The Harder They Come was recently restored from original widescreen film prints resulting in a stunning DVD version. English and Jamaican Patois with English sub-titles.
YFS gratefully acknowledges the support of Canada Council for the Arts, Yukon Lotteries, and Yukon Arts Operating Fund for this on-going cinema series.
Annual General Meeting - Wed June 2
May 28, 2010
Annual General Meeting and Social!
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
5 to 6pm BBQ and refreshments on the rooftop patio.
6pm AGM - Activity report, Financial report, election of board of directors.
The Yukon Film Society is a dynamic, artist-driven organization dedicated to fostering the development of Yukon media artists, and the presentation of independent films and media art works. Come and join a great group of people for a short, but informative meeting.
Location:
212 Lambert St, 2nd Floor (corner of 3rd & Lambert, enter off 3rd Ave)
Contact: (867) 393-3456 or yfs@yukonfilmsociety.com
The mandate of the Yukon FIlm Society is present independent and alternative media art works to Yukon audiences and to support the production and distribution of works by Yukon media artists.
YFS gratefully acknowledges the annual support of Canada Council for the Arts, Yukon Lotteries, and Yukon Arts Operating Fund.
Return of Firehall Films this Friday - May 7
May 5, 2010
Firehall Films: Friday, May 7
7pm: KINO Returns!
New films and media art by Yukon artists.
Mike Ellis, Ross Burnet, Edward Westerhuis, Celia McBride, Andrey Malkov, Dobbin Lindsay, Max Fraser, Chris Rodgers, and many more...
Admission by donation.
9pm: Selections from the Dawson City Int’l Short Film Festival
Eight award-winners, favourites, and curiosities from the 2010 edition.
Tickets for 9pm: $7/$5 YFS Members
Ghost Noise: Shuvinai Ashoona
Marcia Connolly, Ontario, 2010, Documentary, 20
Third generation Inuit Artist, Shuvinai Ashoona lives in Cape Dorset, Nunavut. An intimate portrait film. “Everything’s a ghost noise... It’s good to listen to them but it’s not good to learn it.”
LoopLoop
Patrick Bergeron, Quebec, 2009, Experimental, 5
Using animation, sounds warping and time shifts this video runs forwards and backwards looking for forgotten details, mimicking the way memories are replayed in the mind. LoopLoop is made from a sequence captured in a train going to Hanoi in Vietnam. The 1000 images of this sequence have been stitched into one long panoramic image.
Time Lines
Suzanne Crocker, Yukon, 2009, Animation, 3:30
Wrinkles re-examined.
Bee Man
Robert Lendrum, Morris Lum, Drew Ferguson
Ontario, 2008, Documentary, 11
Robert Ireland’s relationships are multi-faceted and complex. His family has kept bees for three generations, he practices apitherapy, he was attacked by killer bees and he eats them to balance his immune system. Not only are bees his livelihood, they keep him alive.
Eye of the Storm
Mike Yuhasz, Ontario, 2009, Experimental, 3
Reflective and idiosyncratic, the short split screen video disrupts the linear description of time and space while exploring an internal vision of “Place and Mind”.
A Tax on Pochsy
Karen Hines, Alberta, 2009, Comedy, 18
Set in a creepy waiting room at an audit from hell, our guilty little heroine awaits the Tax Man’s wrath in this award-winning black comedy.
No Way Through
Alexandra Monro & Sheila Menon, UK, 2009, Drama, 7
Imagine if London was controlled by the military and you had to go through specific checkpoints to go to school, go to work, visit your friends or go to the hospital.
Tungijuq
Félix Lajeunesse & Paul Raphaël, Nunavut, 2009, Drama, 7
A thought-provoking meditation on the seal-hunt and what it means to the traditional way of life for Inuit. Starring internationally renowned throat singer Tanya Tagaq, and Cannes-winning filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk (Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner), Tungijuq is an expression of the organic and indisputable reality of hunting in Inuit culture.
More info please? Ok.
KINO Whitehorse
YFS Feis buk
YFS gratefully acknowledges the support of Canada Council for the Arts, Yukon Lotteries, and Yukon Tourism and Culture for this on-going cinema series.
Available Light Film Festival lowdown
March 11, 2010
The Available Light Film Festival wishes to thank all the volunteers, sponsors, staff, guests and patrons who made this year a fabulous success.
We're pleased to announce that ALFF 2010 shattered attendance records with an incredible 3300 admissions over 26 screening events. This is nearly double the total attendance at our 2008 or 2009 festivals.
The most popular films were:
The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights
Prom Night in Mississippi
Neil Young Trunk Show
This Way of Life
J'ai tué ma mére
Cooking with Stella
Please feel free to send us comments and feedback about anything the festival team is doing right or perhaps what might improve your experience at the the festival.
While we contemplate an encore presentation of a few selections of this year's festival, please join us for the opening reception and artist talk of a special exhibit YFS is presenting at the Old Fire Hall on Friday March 19, 5pm to 8pm:
Prince George Métis Elders Documentary Project
An interactive multi-channel video installation
by Kelowna-based artist, Stephen Foster
Old Fire Hall, March 20 to 26, Noon – 5:30pm
Opening Reception + Artist Talk
Friday, March 19, 5pm – 8pm / Artist Talk at 6pm
The Available Light Film Festival 2010 was presented by the Yukon Film Society and Yukon Energy Corporation. Thank you to our Festival Sponsors: Yukon Film & Sound Commission, Yukon Tourism and Culture, Telefilm Canada, Astral Media The Harold Greenberg Fund, Gold Rush Inn, National Film Board of Canada, Air North, Matrix Video Systems, Northern Film and Video Industry Association, Community Cable 9, Harper Street Publishing, Tle’ Nax T’awei Group, and the Directors Guild of Canada, BC.
The Yukon Film Society gratefully acknowledges that funding for this website is made possible through the Yukon Film and Sound Commission.
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