2018Festival

2018 Regent Park Film Festival

16th Annual Festival

Ghost-Landing

Nov 17 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Reserve Seats

How do severed architectures become sites of memory? How do Indigenous peoples and diasporic settlers come to occupy constructed landscapes as specters? This program explores human intimacies with transitory landscapes—built urban neighbourhoods and homes that have been razed, turned to relics or converted to newer structures—undergoing erosion and censure under forces of colonialism, racism, and financialization.

Four Faces of the Moon

  • Year: 2016
  • Genre: Animation
  • Country: Canada
  • Language: Michif, Nakoda, Cree and Anishinaabe
  • Audio: English Subtitles
  • Length: 12 min

In Four Faces of the Moon, we witness the impact and legacy of the railways, the slaughter of the buffalo and colonial land policies. This multi-layered approach to storytelling may leave you with more questions than answers: it is an invitation to look into your own understanding of history, legacy and the importance in knowing who you are and where you’re from.

Directed by

Amanda Strong

Amanda Strong is an Indigenous (Michif) interdisciplinary artist with a focus on stop motion animations. Strong is the owner/director/producer of Spotted Fawn Productions, based on unceded Coast Salish territories, a studio that utilizes a multi-layered approach and unconventional methods centered in collaboration on all aspects of their work.

Africville

  • Year: 2018
  • Genre: Animation
  • Country: Canada
  • Language: English
  • Audio: English Subtitles
  • Length: 6 min

An animated documentary on the history of the residents of Africville, a Black community that got displaced in Halifax, Canada during the 60s.

Directed by

Raoul Olou

Raoul Olou is a multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto, whose work focuses on home, belonging and archiving the mundane.

Welcome to Africville

  • Year: 1999
  • Genre: Docufiction
  • Country: Canada
  • Language: English
  • Length: 15 min

This “docufiction” explores Africville, an African-Canadian neighbourhood in Halifax that was razed for “urban renewal” in the late sixties. Against a backdrop of archival footage of this neighbourhood under demolition, unfolds a slice-in-time narrative set on the eve of destruction. Highlighted are three generations of women in an Africville family. Lushly photographed against brightly coloured settings, the film raises the question, not only of a lost community history, but also of lost sexual histories and identities.

Directed by

Dana Inkster

Dana Inkster is an Alberta-based Canadian media artist and filmmaker. She has worked as an independent producer and cultural marketer. Her portfolio includes short videos and broadcast documentaries including the award-winning National Film Board of Canada production 24 Days in Brooks. She is also the President and CEO of EM Workshop Inc., a communications firm and documentary production company that shares knowledge and information with community.

Street 66

  • Year: 2018
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Country: UK
  • Language: English
  • Length: 13 min

This documentary chronicles the life of Ghanaian housing activist Dora Boatemah and her influence on the regeneration of Angell Town Estate in Brixton, South London.

Directed by

Ayo Akingbade

Ayo Akingbade is a British Nigerian artist and filmmaker who lives and works in London.

Sira

  • Year: 2018
  • Genre: Experimental
  • Country: Canada
  • Language: Arabic
  • Audio: English subtitles
  • Length: 6 min

This experimental essay traces the exodus of a Sudanese family from Kuwait as a result of the Iraqi War, using 16mm, Super 8 and video footage, excavated from various sources.

Directed by

Rolla Tahir

Rolla Tahir is a Toronto-based filmmaker who has lensed short, narrative and experimental films, which screened across Canada and internationally. Obsessed with the durability, longevity and spontaneity of the analog film medium, Rolla has worked with Super 8, 16mm and 35mm to explore the analog process and its possibilities.

Over Time

  • Year: 2017
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Country: Canada
  • Language: English, Hindi and Bengali
  • Audio: English Subtitles
  • Length: 15 min

Shafiq Hoque works at a store in Toronto’s neighbourhood of Regent Park by day and drives an Uber at night. Trying to make ends meet while juggling two precarious jobs, he finds solace and strength in community.

Directed by

Mariam Zaidi

Mariam Zaidi is a South Asian filmmaker and arts manager based in Toronto. Her films focus on cinematic, character-driven stories that often explore the experiences of people from her community. She currently holds the position of Associate Programmer at Hot Docs, Executive Director at the Breakthroughs Film Festival, and Managing Director at the Toronto Animated Image Society.

Inuk Hunter

  • Year: 2017
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Country: Canada
  • Language: No dialogue
  • Length: 4 min

A poetic and contemplative film about an Inuk man hunting for northern lights with his camera.

Directed by

George Annanack

George Annanack was born in Kangiqsualujjuaq and moved in Kuujjuaq in 2006. He is passionate about photography and loves taking pictures of the natural beauties that surround him.

Talkback

Speakers

Talkback moderated by RPFF Co-Programmer Aaditya Aggarwal with filmmakers Rolla Tahir, Raoul Olou and Regent Park community member Sureya Ibrahim.

Sureya Ibrahim is the Community Relations Specialist for the Regent Park Social Enterprise Incubators at the Centre for Community Learning & Development. Born in  Harar, Ethiopia, Sureya came to Canada at the age of 17, and has been a resident of Regent Park ever since. In 2014, she was honoured with the Women Who Inspire Award from the Canadian Council of Muslim Women, the Distinguished Service Award from Muslim Association of Canada, the Phenomenal Woman Award, followed by the 2015 Jane Jacobs Prize. Sureya was also a Torchbearer for the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games and 2018 Attorney General’s Victim Services Awards of Distinction. She continues to be involved in many community development projects, including the Regent Park Catering Collective.She loves the work she does and continues to be inspired and motivated by the residents of Regent Park.


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