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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

25 Canadian and International fiction and documentary feature films.
See trailers and film websites at alff.ca.

Tickets and Passes
www.yukontickets.com.
Yukon Arts Centre Box Office, in person or by phone 667-8574,
Arts Underground and at the door.
Single tickets: $11/ $10 for YFS members (includes $2 box office surcharge)
Five Film Pass $45
NFB Animation for kids: all tickets $3
Weekday afternoon screenings: all tickets $5

Industry Forum, Feb 11 - 13 workshops and panels information coming soon.
Looking for SCHEDULE OF FILMS AT A GLANCE? read on...

9pm – Prairie Tales 11
Alberta, 2008/2009, 105 min
Short drama, personal essay, documentary, animation and experimental films make up this strong collection of sixteen new Albertan works on film and video extensively reflecting the diverse, expanding culture of film and media art creation in the beguiling prairie province. Highlights include: Prairie Torch Song, an ethereal story of the five minutes before the shooting of a music video featuring torch singer Wendy McNeill and her song Cigarettes and You. Baby Boots is a beautiful and bucolic short drama about how innocuous events can often have profound impacts. The very funny, The Island, answers the question: What would it be like if gay people had their own island? Queer filmmaker Trevor Anderson opens his rumination on that question with the image of himself tromping across a barren, snow-covered prairie. Co-presented with Metro Cinema, Edmonton, AB.

MORE FIREHALL FILMS listings

Firehall Films is the Yukon Film Society’s monthly screening series at the Old Firehall at First Ave and Main Street in Whitehorse.
Tickets for each screening: $7/$5 YFS members. YFS Memberships $5.

YFS gratefully acknowledges the support of Canada Council for the Arts, Yukon Lotteries, and Yukon Tourism and Culture for this on-going cinema series.

Ghosts and Gravel Roads
Mike Rollo, Québec, 2008, 16 min
The lost memories of old photographs and artifacts found in the bleached landscape of Saskatchewan serve as a metaphor for displacement.

A Year at Sherbrooke
Thomas Hale, Saskatchewan, 2009, 54 min
Two artists work with residents in a longterm care facility in Saskatoon to explore how creativity can transform people’s lives, from the abled to the differently-abled.

9pm – Pow Wow Highway
Jonathan Wacks, USA, 1989, 87 min
Two friends from a Montana Cheyenne reserve take a road trip to New Mexico to fight the wrongful imprisonment of a family member. Canadian actor, Gary Farmer, is excellent in this enduring comedy.

9pm Naked Lunch
David Cronenberg, Ontario, 1991, 115 mins
Based on the surrealistic literary classic by William S Burroughs. The time is 1953. A pest exterminator's life whirls out of control when his wife becomes hooked on the poison powder he uses to kill the cockroaches of New York City.
Watch the trailer.

9:15pm – Ugetsu
Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan, 1953, 97 min
This beautiful and haunting tale of love and loss from Japan is
considered as one of the great masterpieces in the history of cinema.

More info on Firehall Films page.

The Available Light Film Festival is an intimate 5 days of Canadian and International documentaries and dramas. Filmmaker guests, 25 carefully selected films, and workshops all in Yukon's premiere arts presentation venue, the Yukon Arts Centre.

If you're considering visiting from Outside the Territory, we'll have travel packages through Air North, Yukon's Airline available soon. Departures from Calgary, Edmonton or Vancouver.

Line-up announcements will be made starting in December.
Previous year's programs can be downloaded here.

Available Light Film Festival 2010
February 10 to 14
alff@yukonfilmsociety.com for more info.

7pm Black Wave: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez
Robert Cornellier, Canada, 2008, 99 min
Twenty years after the massive Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska the citizens of Cordova are still dealing with the environmental and social fallout.
Trailer

9pm Tulpan
Sergey Dvortsevoy, Ger/Kzn/Pld/Rus/Swz, 2008, 100 min
Following his Russian naval service, young dreamer Asa returns to his sister’s nomadic brood on the desolate Hunger Steppe to begin a hardscrabble career as a shepherd. But before he can tend a flock of his own, Asa must win the hand of the only eligible bachelorette for miles—his alluringly mysterious neighbour Tulpan. Winner of 11 international film festival awards, including Cannes.
Trailer

Friday October 23 films info:
Firehall Films Page

9pm - Dead Man
Jim Jarmusch, USA/JPN/GER, 1995, 121 min
Johnny Depp is William Blake, an accountant from Cleveland, who arrives in the bleak 19th century mining town, Machinery, at the edge of America. Mistakenly pegged as a murderer, he flees to the woods – lost and badly wounded – where he is aided by an outcast Aboriginal man named, Nobody (Gary Farmer), who believes Blake is actually
the dead English poet of the same name. With appearances by
Robert Mitchum, Iggy Pop, Billy Bob Thornton, Crispin Glover and Gabriel Byrne.

Old Firehall (First Ave & Main Street)
Tickets at the door. $7/ $5 YFS members

Click on titles for a link to the trailer.

YFS gratefully acknowledges the support of ON YUKON TIME, Yukon Tourism and Culture and the Canada Council for the Arts for this event.

Wednesday August 12
Old Firehall (First Ave & Main Street)
Tickets at the door. $7/ $5 YFS members

8pm - Brokeback Mountain
Dir. Ang Lee, 2005, USA, 134 min
The contemporary classic that shatters mythologies about the Strong, Silent male, and cowboy culture. Based on the short story by E. Annie Proulx.

Thursday August 13
7pm - Picturing the Yukon 09: Life, Death, and Steamboats
Recent and older independent Yukon films plus the CBC Vancouver 1963 classic, Last Voyage of the SS Keno. 73 min program
Full program listing is on our Firehall Films page

8:30pm - Picturing the Yukon 09: New Works
Eleven new short films by Yukon artists.
Featuring the award-winning animation, How People Got Fire. 60 min program
Full program listing is on our Firehall Films page

YFS gratefully acknowledges the support of ON YUKON TIME for our summer programming.

Giant
See the trailer!
Dir. George Stevens, USA, 1956, 201 min
Starring Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean (in his last role). Texan rancher Bick visits a Maryland farm to buy a prize horse and falls in love with the owner's daughter Leslie. They are married immediately and return to his ranch. The story of their family and its rivalry with cowboy Jett Rink unfolds across two generations. An epic film that was #82 (between Modern Times and Platoon) on the 1998 American Film Institute's 100 years... 100 movies, best of American cinema.

A companion film to August's feature, Brokeback Mountain, based on the essay 'Death of the strong, silent type: The acheivement of Brokeback Mountain' (download the PDF here) by Christopher Sharrett, in Filmint Journal. Also part of a series of revisionist westerns being presented as 2009 Firehall Films.

Doors open at 7:30pm
Tickets $7/$5 YFS Members

Thursday July 16
Old Firehall

7pm Circumpolar short films
Films, as seen at the dawson city intl short ff from, Iceland, Norway, Alaska, Yukon, NWT and Russia. Programmed by DCISFF coordinator, Dan Sokolowski.
Frozen Poem, Last Stop for Miles, Dog, Varde, Repeated Crimes, Drum Practice, Tell Us the truth Josephine, and Sikumi (on the ice).

9pm Picturing the Yukon 09: Reconciliation Films
The Man who Always Lives in the Bush (Mary Jane Moses),
Shipyards Lament (Andrew Connors)
Tending Toward Silence (Arlin McFarlane)
My Own Private Lower Post (Duane Ghastant' Aucoin)

Tickets $7/$5 YFS Members

YFS gratefully acknowledges the support of On Yukon Time, Lotteries Yukon and Yukon Tourism of Culture.

Read about the films we presented at The Atlin Arts and Music festival July 10 + 11