See the full SUMMER SCHEDULE.
Check out our screenings at the Atlin Arts and Music Festival.

7:30pm Picturing the Yukon
Cereal Thriller David McDonald, 2006, 46m

In 1955, the Quaker Oats Company distributed free deeds to land in the Klondike to millions of North American Kids. As adults, these baby boomers reflect on their past dreams and schemes for their one square inch of land in the Yukon.

screens with Dawson Town Melted Down Lulu Keating, 2007, 6 min
Cold in the winters. Worse in the summers. A few hours from the Arctic Circle is the fascinating heart of Lulu’s personal essay.

9pm Repertory Cinema
The World According to Monsanto Marie-Monique Robin, 2008, 109 min

Monsanto is the world leader in genetically modified organisms (GMOs), as well as one of the most controversial corporations in industrial history. Based on a painstaking investigation, this film puts together the pieces of the company’s history, calling on hitherto unpublished documents and numerous first-hand accounts.

This project is sponsored by Canada Council for the Arts, Yukon Film & Sound Commission, On Yukon Time, NFB and the Old Fire Hall.

Canada Day Screening

7:30pm Picturing the Yukon
River of Life Werner Walcher/NFB, 2007, 53 min

The diverse stories of the 2006 Paddlers Abreast team unfold in intimate conversation as they reveal their indomitable will to live and the reasons for pushing themselves to new limits by paddling competitively in the Yukon River Quest. Director in attendance.

Screens with:
La Photo Fabienne Tessier, 2007, 3 min. Director in attendance.

9pm Repertory Cinema
CFMDC ReGeneration Tour, 1968-2008, 100 minutes

An evening of new and classic Canadian avant-garde cinema celebrating the 40th birthday of Canada's venerable artist-run distributor, Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. Stan Brakhage, Michael Snow, Joyce Weiland, Midi Onodera, Mike Hoolboom, and more. CFMDC Executive Director, Lauren Howes will be in attendance.

This project is sponsored by Canada Council for the Arts, Yukon Film & Sound Commission, On Yukon Time, NFB and the Old Fire Hall.

June 24, Whitehorse Visitor Information Centre (Lambert St.)
FREE ADMISSION

6:30pm
Anash and the Legacy of the Sun-Rock (Episodes 1 & 6)
Dir. Carol Geddes, 2 x 23m, 2007
Courtesy Panacea Entertainment and The Thing With Feathers Productions
Teslin filmmaker Carol Geddes presents episodes from her animated live-action series, set in the early 1800s on the Northwest coast, about Anash, a young man who tries to re-unite all parts of the Sun-Rock in order to fulfil a prophecy to attain peace and protect a fragile land. In Tlingit and English. Family-friendly. Director in attendance.

8pm
Helen Good
Dir. Shirley Mclean, 15 minutes, 2008
Courtesy Northern Native Broadcasting Yukon
This intimate film portrays the personal struggles a Carcross woman faces as she strive to make peace with her past before she receives her residential school survivor payment from Canada. Director in attendance.

+The Hunt: Food from the Land

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Refreshments will be served

If you had only one hour, what would you ask?

Friday April 11 & Saturday April 12
8pm
Alpine Bakery
Admission by Donation

Three Screenings:

Victoria, BC - Tuesday, April 15, 8pm
Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria
presented by MediaNet

Vancouver, BC - Thursday, April 17, 7pm + 9:15pm
Vancity Theatre at the Vancouver International Film Centre
co-presented with Geist Magazine

Calgary, AB - Sunday, April 20, 7pm + 9:30pm
The Plaza Theatre
(as part of the Calgary Underground Film Festival)
co-presented with Geist Magazine

With more than 1600 admissions and enthusiastic audiences, ALFF 2008 was another landmark year for the festival. YFS is especially happy about the great leap forward in the remarkable participation of emerging filmmakers, established filmmakers and curious film-going folks in the workshops and panel discussions.

Thanks very much to our sponsors, volunteers, filmmakers, venues and audiences for making 2008 a memorable event. Merci, Gunalcheesh and Massi Cho.

Go to the 2008 program and film trailers HERE

Friday February 8, 8pm
Alpine Bakery
Admission by Donation
KILLER OF SHEEP (1977, USA)
A drama, Written & Directed by Charles Burnett
Run Time: 87min

Killer of Sheep examines the black Los Angeles ghetto of Watts in the mid-1970s through the eyes of Stan, a sensitive dreamer who is growing detached and numb from the psychic toll of working at a slaughterhouse.

Frustrated by money problems, he finds respite in moments of simple beauty: the warmth of a coffee cup against his cheek, slow dancing with his wife in the living room, holding his daughter. The film offers no solutions; it merely presents life — sometimes hauntingly bleak, sometimes filled with transcendent joy and gentle humor.

Killer of Sheep was shot on location in Watts in a series of weekends on a budget of less than $10,000, most of which was grant money. Finished in 1977 and shown sporadically, its reputation grew and grew until it won a prize at the 1981 Berlin International Film Festival.

"Killer of Sheep caught the lives of the children with a fidelity to how kids really do fight, play, and cry — and how they can sometimes be cruel simply because they're so scared."
— ROGER EBERT

"What the Italian neorealists accomplished in the years after World War II... Burnett— a one-man African-American New Wave—achieved with [Killer of Sheep]: he gave a culture, a people, a nation new images of themselves."
— NELSON KIM, SENSES OF CINEMA

AND-

Saturday, February 9, 8pm
Alpine Bakery
Admission by Donation

IN THE KEY OF OSCAR (1992)
Documentary
Directed by: William R. Cunningham & Sylvia Sweeney
Run Time: 94min

This intimate portrait of pianist Oscar Peterson charts his meteoric rise from Montréal's "boogie woogie" teenage sensation to international celebrity as one of jazz's virtuosos. Though recognized for their talent, Oscar Peterson and other great black jazz artists endured prejudice during their rise to fame. Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones and many more, share their memories of the harrowing experiences that they lived through in order to achieve success.

EDITING DRAMA
Friday January 11th to Sunday January 13th
Wood St. School
6pm - 9pm (fri) / 10am - 5pm (sat + sun)
Fee: $175/$150 Production Members
This course requires basic understanding and use of Final Cut Pro or
equivalent software.
To register: RSVP with td@yukonfilmsociety.com by Jan 8.

The dark arts of dramatic film editing will be revealed by
instructor Michael Vernon, as participants labour to craft raw footage
into two complete scenes. Original fiction film footage supplied by YFS.

Bio: Michael Vernon is a professional picture editor with over 12 years
experience. His credits include the feature film, Love That Boy, and
numerous short dramas, as well as documentaries for OLN, History
Television, Vision, CBC and APTN.

The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy. -Francis Ford Coppola

SALESMAN (1968), USA
Directed by Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin
B/W, 91 mins. Suitable for all ages.

From Amazon.com:
Arguably the best American documentary of the 1960s, Salesman was the pivotal film of the "direct cinema" movement championed by such influential filmmakers as Richard Leacock, D.A. Pennebaker, and (in this case) the Maysles brothers and their longtime collaborator Charlotte Zwerin. It catapulted Albert and David Maysles to international fame (later intensified with Gimme Shelter), and it remains the most powerful document of working-class America in the post-Kennedy era.

Official Selection for Library of Congress National Film Registry (1993)

"Funny, touching, compassionate, an extraordinary portrait of a
human being."
- John O'Connor, WALL STREET JOURNAL, April 18,1969

"I was spellbound. I've seen Salesman three times and each
time I've been more impressed. Fascinating, very funny,
unforgettable."
- Vincent Camby, NEW YORK TIMES, April 18, 1969

Salesman follows four door-to-door Bible salesmen as
they walk the line between hype and despair.
First making calls in and around Boston, where the
company is based, then in Chicago at a sales conference,
and finally in the promising new "territory" of Miami and
vicinity. Their mission is simple: to convince people to buy
what one of them calls "still the best seller in the world."

But although their customers are mostly middle, working class Catholics recommended by the local church, the Bible is a hard sell. Talking, pushing, cajoling, telling jokes and stories, throwing out compliments, the salesmen make their "pitches" to a wide range of customers: lonely widows, married couples, Cuban immigrants, bored housewives- from those who clearly cannot afford the $50 book to those who, in the end, are
convinced by the salesman's somewhat too cheerful patter.

A DVD feature interview with the Maysles brothers will follow the screening.

La Grande Seduction (2003)
Director: Jean-Francois Pouliot

WINNER of the Audience Award - Sundance Film Festival

The residents of a down-on-its-luck Quebec fishing village do everything they can think of to convince a young doctor to set up practice in their community in order to meet the insurance requirements of a multinational corporation thinking of setting up a factory there, with some hilarious consequences.

In French with English subtitles.
More information:
http://www.telefilm.gc.ca/data/production/prod_2727.asp?lang=en&cat=lm&y=2003

And held over from last month, on
Saturday December 15th:
Alpine Bakery 8pm
Admission by donation

Popcorn with Maple Syrup: Film in Canada from Eh to Zed
Director: Peter Rowe, (2004) 110 min

A rambunctious history of the Canadian movie industry, including the key triumphs and disappointments, unfolds at breakneck speed in this lively and irreverent feature documentary from filmmaker Peter Rowe.

The first movie star in the world, the first three actresses to win Academy Awards, the first performer in a nude scene, the first actress to kiss on-screen, the first nickelodeon - all were Canadian. The film manages to encompass over 100 years of Canadian cinema and the unusual characters that have driven it, touching upon plenty of scandal, tragedy, censorship, and political intrigue along the way. There is even a Yukon connection.

This month.....
Popcorn with Maple Syrup: Film in Canada from Eh to Zed
Director: Peter Rowe (2004) 110 min

A rambunctious history of the Canadian movie industry, including the
key triumphs and disappointments, unfolds at breakneck speed in this
lively and irreverent feature documentary from filmmaker Peter Rowe.

The first movie star in the world, the first three actresses to win
Academy Awards, the first performer in a nude scene, the first actress
to kiss on-screen, the first nickelodeon - all were Canadian. From
Nanook of the North to Porky's, Mary Pickford to Sarah Polley, John
Grierson to Zacharias Kanuk, the film manages to encompass over 100
years of Canadian cinema and the unusual characters that have driven
it, touching upon plenty of scandal, tragedy, censorship, and
political intrigue along the way.

"A jaunty, packed chronicle... Brimming with curious bits of
information and biting sarcasm - it's an eye-opener!"
- John Doyle, Globe & Mail.
"The most exhaustive and entertaining overview of this country's film
biz ever undertaken." - Bill Brownstein, Montreal Gazette

Click here to see the film's website.

Final Cut Pro for beginners
Friday Nov 30 to Sunday Dec 2
Learn Apple's accessible video editing software.
* Instructor: Andrew Connors
* Fee: $175 / $150 Production Members

Take both for $325/ $260 Production Members

To register for YFS workshops, contact:
Andrew Connors, Technical Director
by phone, 393-3456
or by e-mail, td@yukonfilmsociety.com

March 4 - 9, 2008

Deadline for entries: December 31, 2007 (postmarked)

The Available Light Film Festival is accepting feature drama and documentary film and media art works produced after Jan 1, 2006 and over 45 minutes in length.

There is no submission fee.

Preview tapes and DVD's will not be returned unless a SASE is included. Projection formats: 35mm, 16mm, Beta SP, HDCAM, DVCAM or mini-dv. All video formats NTSC. Accepted films are paid an artist fee or the fee set by the distributor.

ALFF submissions: 4137 C 4th Avenue Whitehorse, YT Y1A 1H8

More information: Visit the Available Light Film Festival pages or e-mail alff@yukonfilmsociety.com