Thursday, May 3 at the Old Firehall
recent works by YFS Production Members

Take in a night of films by Yukon Film Society members, including:
Moira Sauer’s The Provider
Daniel Janke’s river
Five short documentaries from the recent Yukon Voices project,
plus works by these artists:
Celia McBride
Dan Sokolowski
Jean-Sebastien Côte
Max Fraser
Naomi Mark
Andrew Connors
Tyler Kuhn
Chris Clarke

Doors open at 6:30pm. Screenings from 7 to 10pm with two intermissions.
Ticket: $12/$10 YFS members.
Tickets available at YFS (212 Lambert St) or at the door.

This is a licensed event, but all ages are welcome to attend.

Annual support to Yukon Film Society is generously provided by Canada Council for the Arts, Yukon Arts Operating Funding and Yukon Lotteries.

Sunday May 6 at Yukon Arts Centre

6pm – Best of the 2012 Dawson City
International Short Film Festival
Docs, animation, experimental, and narrative shorts from the Yukon, Nunavut, Manitoba, Québec, Australia and the UK.

8pm – The Last Waltz
Scorsese's legendary concert film from '78 about the The Band. With performances by guest artists from Ronnie Hawkins to Bob Dylan to Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Van Morrison and Muddy Waters

Here's the overview at ALFF.CA
Click on the film title to read more and see the film trailer.

Tickets
$10 YFS members and YAC Art Lover’s passholders
$11 Non-members, $5 Youth (under 16)

Get them here: yukontickets.com
Yukon Arts Centre Box Office
Arts Underground

FILMMAKERS! - Call for Submissions

Production members of the Yukon Film Society (and anyone willing to become production member) are invited to submit recent short films, excerpts of films longer than 15 minutes, or works in progress, for consideration of being presented at an evening of Yukon artist-created films and media art on Thursday, May 3, 2012 at the Old Firehall.

Deadline for submissions is 5pm, Monday April 16.
Attn: Jayden Soroka, Technical Director.
P: 393-3456
E: tech@yukonfilmsociety.com
A: 212 Lambert St, Whitehorse (above Uniglobe Travel on 3rd Ave)

The intent of this event is to provide an opportunity for YFS production members to screen their recent works in Whitehorse, discuss the works with audiences and celebrate the works of Yukon media artists.

Yukon Film Society is co-presenting Thom Fitzgerald's (Halifax-based director of the Hanging Garden) new feature Cloudburst starring Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker as an aging couple who escape from a nursing home in Maine and drive to Nova Scotia on a quest to be legally married. Here's the film's website.

Schedule:
Saturday March 24
6 pm Cloudburst
Thom Fitzgerald, Nova Scotia, 2011, 100min
8 pm OUT–look (shorts)
9 pm Gun Hill Road
Rashaad Emesto Green, USA 2011, 88min

Sunday March 25
6 pm Tomboy
Céline Sciamma, France 2011, 84min
7:45 pm OUT–look (more shorts)
8:40 pm Private Romeo
Alan Brown, USA, 2011, 98min

More info.

Or view it here as an online magazine

All screenings are at the Yukon Arts Centre.
Lunchtime Firehall Film Talks, workshops and the ALFF Industry Forum are at the Old Firehall.

Individual tickets and Available Light 5 Film Passes are now on sale!
ALFF 5 Film Pass is $47
Individual tickets are $12/ $10 YFS members
Tickets for The Grub-Stake Revisited are $20/ $18 YFS members

Buy them in Person + by Phone: YAC Box Office.
Web: yukontickets.com
In Person: Arts Underground
Everything you need to know about ALFF ticketing is here.

For details, click on the thumbnail image to the right.

Firehall Films
Friday January 20 at 8PM, Old Firehall
Featuring two Canadian iconoclasts of cinema: Shipman and Maddin.

Guy Maddin's 1992 dream-like masterpiece Careful turns 20!

Get a small taste of Nell Shipman's films and what's to come in the Available Light Film Festival gala show The Grub-Stake Revisited:
Comedy, romance and adventure in the Klondike! Nell Shipman's 1923 magnum opus with live new music score and Shakespearian verse (Feb 9).

The Short
The Light on Lookout
Dir. Nell Shipman, USA, 1924, 18min
With a conservationist subplot involving an old-growth forest and timber thieves who capture the honest lone woodsman, Nell's character finds romance in which a wolf plays match-maker and, at the climax, Brownie the bear intervenes. The Grub-Stake and Shipman bio.

The Feature
Careful
Dir. Guy Maddin, 1992, 100min
Imagine Twin Peaks, as directed by Erich von Stroheim, Careful is a tale of star crossed lovers, duels, and obsession in a 19th-century alpine village where the residents must speak softly and tread lightly lest they cause an avalanche. Shot in bright, vivid color reminiscent of early two-strip Technicolor, Careful is a visually dazzling, dream-like, quasi-Freudian masterpiece that parodies the German mountain films of the 1920s and authentically recreates the surrealistic style of such famous German Expressionist films as Nosferatu and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Trailer

$10/ $8 YFS members. Available at the door. Coffee, tea and snacks will be available.
Annual support to Yukon Film Society is generously provided by Canada Council for the Arts, Yukon Arts Operating Funding and Yukon Lotteries.

G-rated kids film, funny and touching doc, and Werner Herzog double bill!

Sunday Jan 15 line-up
2pm Kirikou and the Sorceress
4pm Beauty Day
6pm Cave of Forgotten Dreams
8pm Fitzcarraldo

all screenings at Yukon Arts Centre
Tickets:
$10 YFS members and YAC Art Lover’s passholders
$11 Non-members, $5 Youth (under 16)

Get them here:
www.yukontickets.com
Yukon Arts Centre Box Office
Arts Underground

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2012 is coming, and so is the 10th annual Available Light Film Festival!
Come have a drink with us, see trailers of the selected films,
and hear about special event programming.
Finger food provided by YFS.

Available Light Film Festival 2012 Preview Happy Hour
Friday, December 16th 5 - 7pm @ Baked Cafe

Thank you for your support over the first ten years of Available Light.

Available Light Film Festival
Feb 6 to 12, 2012
Whitehorse, Canada
Festival Venue: Yukon Arts Centre
Festival Website for updates and news.

Canada's largest film festival North of 60 is a careful selection of Canadian and International feature fiction and documentary films. The 10th annual ALFF will include 30 screenings, anniversary events, guest filmmakers, workshops, panels, and the ALFF Industry Forum (Feb 6 to 8).

Amnesty International Film Festival, Whitehorse
Dec 2 & 3 (FRI & SAT) at The Old Firehall (1st and Main St)
7 documentaries about social justice from 7 countries.

Featuring the award-winning Irish film, The Pipe, which dramatically captures the story of the incredible force implemented by the inhabitants of a small and remote bay in Northern Ireland to prevent the construction of a connecting tube for the collection of natural gas by the multinational company Shell.

The full line-up can be found here.

Admission is by donation.
Suggested donation of:
$10/evening film
$ 7/matinee/senior/children
$30/festival pass
No one will be denied admission for lack of financial ability.

On Sunday Dec 4 is a screening of the eye-popping doc Inside Job, which is a cinematic account of the 2008 financial crisis.

Presented by Occupy Whitehorse
Sunday Dec 4 at Old Firehall, 7:30pm start
Admission by donation.

See the trailer.

Nov 10 & 11 Old Firehall, 7:30pm
Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry
A manual animation performance by Daniel Barrow

Montreal-based artist and Sobey Award-winner Daniel Barrow’s newest manual animation magically combines overhead projection with video and music. The live narration tells the absurd story of a garbage man with a vision to create an independent phone book chronicling the lives of each person in his city. In the late hours of the night, he sifts through garbage, collecting personal information and then traces pictures of each citizen through the windows of their homes as they sleep. What he doesn’t yet realize is that a deranged killer is trailing him, murdering each citizen he includes in his book, thus rendering his cataloging efforts obsolete.

Co-presented with the Yukon Arts Centre.

Adults: $22 / 60+ and under 12: $17 / ArtrUSh Teen: $5 At YAC Box Office, www.yukontickets.com, Arts Underground

YFS acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for these performances.

Location: Whitehorse, YT
Hours: 15 hours/week, 48 weeks/year additional hours possible on projects
Salary: $20.00 per hour
Duration: Permanent, starting in December

Job description
The Technical Director will be responsible for the equipment and workshops offered by the Yukon Film Society.

The duties of the TD include:

· Workshop series planning and coordination

· Leading workshops and hiring workshop leaders

· Managing and maintaining YFS equipment

· Managing membership sales and member list

· Renting equipment to users, vetting user ability to operate equipment

· Technical and creative mentoring of YFS production members

· Technical assistance at YFS events and screenings

A more detailed job description is available upon request.

2 pm // Ghostbusters
Dir. Ivan Reitman, USA, 1984, 105min

4 pm // Get Animated! 2011 – Family Program
Various, Canada, 2011, 50min (Admission by donation)

6 pm // Queen of the Sun
Dir. Taggart Siegel, USA, 2010, 82min

8 pm // Meek’s Cutoff
Dir: Kelly Reichardt, USA, 2010, 104min

Venue: Yukon Arts Centre

Tickets:
$10 YFS members and YAC Art Lover’s passholders
$11 Non-members, $5 Youth (under 16)

Get them here:
www.yukontickets.com
Yukon Arts Centre Box Office
Arts Underground

Like us, we like you:
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Yukon Film Society and the Yukon Arts Centre Public Art Gallery present:
Art and Subversion:
Firehall Films and Art Talk
Thurs. Oct 27, 7:30pm at Old Firehall

Sum of its pArts trailer
Dir. Kirby Hammond, Manitoba, 2011, 22min
Nova Scotia-based artist Nancy Edell ʻcorruptedʼ the traditional craft of rug hooking with her own unique brand of kinky and subversive humour. Her untimely death and what she left behind is where this story begins. A legacy of artistic creation sits in limbo, gathering dust and raising questions about what should become of all our stuff when we are gone.

Director and former Yukoner, Kirby Hammond, will also present 3 short animations made by Nancy Edell in the 1970s and participate in a post-screening discussion about art and subversion as it relates to the work of these two artists.

The Woodmans trailer
Dir C. Scott Willis, USA, 2010, 82min A fascinating, unflinching portrait of the late photographer Francesca Woodman, told through the young artist's work (including experimental videos and journal entries) and remarkably candid interviews with her artist parents Betty and George (a ceramic sculptor and painter/photographer), who have continued their own artistic practices while watching Francesca's professional reputation eclipse their own.
$10/$8 YFS members. Available at the door.

Sponsors:
Kirby Hammond's travel is supported by Canada Council for the Arts and NFVIA.

Yukon Arts Centre, Kobayashi + Zedda Architects Ltd., Integrated Solutions Group, and the Chocolate Claim.

Annual support to Yukon Film Society is generously provided by Canada Council for the Arts, Yukon Arts Operating Funding and Yukon Lotteries.

Available Light Cinema Series
Wed Sept 14 at Yukon Arts Centre
7:30pm — The Tree of Life
Dir. Terrence Malick, USA, 2011, 138min
Hailed by critics the world over as the cinema event of the year. Cinema icon Terrence Malick’s existential epic has polarized critics and audiences with its fragmented, non-linear narrative style. Speculated to be autobiographical, Tree of Life is a family drama, starring Sean Penn and Brad Pitt, that chronicles the origins and meaning of life by way of a middle-aged man’s childhood memories of his family living in 1950s Texas, interspersed with imagery of the origins of the universe and the inception of life on Earth. From the director of the iconic films: Days of Heaven, Badlands, and Thin Red Line. Winner of 2011 Palme D’or at Cannes. Link to trailer