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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

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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

We’ll present a full day of cinema at least one Sunday a month from September through May. At the afternoon matinee you’ll find film classics and family-friendly films. In the evening, you can catch a new feature documentary at the early screening. The second screening will bounce between new release ‘arthouse’ features from around the world, cinema classics for an adult audience, or even a second feature documentary.

Available Light flickers brightly at the Yukon Arts Centre every month this fall and winter for your movie enjoyment. Thanks for supporting this new series!

4pm Animated Afternoon for FamiliesThe Cat came back, Waseteg, Mary of Mile 18, The Lorax, and more...

8pm Music From the Big House Trailer
(Bruce Macdonald, Ontario, 2011, 87min)

9:45pm Hard Core Logo Trailer
(Bruce Macdonald, Ontario, 1996, 96min)

Saturday July 9

10am Sum of its pArts Trailer
(Kirby Hammond, Manitoba, 2011, 22min)

10:30am Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune (K. Bowser, USA, 2010, 97min) Trailer

12:30pm CBQM Trailer
(Dennis Allen, NWT/Yukon, 2009, 66min)

7pm 49Degrees Trailer
(Susanne Tabata, British Columbia, 2008, 49min) Director in attendance.

8pm Bloodied but Unbowed Trailer
(S. Tabata, British Columbia, 2010, 75min) Director in attendance.

Sunday July 10

10:30am Atlin in the 1940s
( James Smith, Yukon, 50 min)

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.

Thursday, June 9, 2011
at 212 Lambert St, 2nd Floor (corner of 3rd & Lambert, enter off 3rd Ave)

5-6PM : BBQ and refreshments on the rooftop patio

6PM AGM : Activity report, Financial report, election of Board of Directors

BOARD OF DIRECTORS: YFS is seeking for new board members, please give us a call to know more about it!

MEMBERSHIPS: For those who haven't renewed their membership yet (Exhibition or Production members) or who want to become members of the Society, you can come by the office to get your new card, buy it during our events or purchase it at the AGM.

Tuesday May 3 at Old Fire Hall, 8pm
$10 at the door
This is a licensed event. Doors at 7:30pm

This 60-minute multi-media and interactive performance features an eclectic mix of new films made by St John's media artists in collaboration with multi- instrumentalist (flute, guitar, piano) Rozalind Macphail. This performance premiered in St John's at the Ship on April 7 and the second performance opened this year's Dawson City International Short Film Festival. Come out for an evening of fun and beautiful media art and music.

OPENING SHORTS
This performance of Painted Houses will include a screening of 3 short films from the Dawson City Intl Short FF, including Perfect Detonator, a brand new animation by Jay White (Boar Attack), and this year's MITY award winner - Finding Milton an homage to Milton Acorn by Daniel Janke (How People Got Fire).

EXTENDED EVENING - 1 minute films starts at 9:30pm Free admission after 9:15.
After Painted Houses, YFS will present KIAC's 3rd Annual 1 Minute Film Challenge. Most of these films were created during the film festival and composer Rozalind MacPhail worked with the filmmakers to create soundtracks for them. Approx 40 minutes.

co-presented by Yukon Film Society
rozalindmacphail.com