2024Festival

2024 Regent Park Film Festival

Village Keeper + Burnt Milk

Nov 29 9:30 pm to 12:00 am
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Location: Ada Slaight Hall in Daniels Spectrum | 585 Dundas Street East

Village Keeper

  • Year: 2024
  • Genre: Drama
  • Country: Canada
  • Language: In English with subtitles
  • Length: 83 m
  • Advisory: Images of blood; thematics and offscreen depictions of intimate partner violence; gun violence
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After life’s precarious scale tips her fortune back into poverty, Jean relocates herself and her children back home to live with her mother in the community housing project where she grew up. Living in constant fear of everything that could go wrong in her and her family’s life, a violent occurrence in their neighbourhood leads Jean down a path that allows her to speak on her family’s generational chains of silence and finally put herself first.

Directed by

Karen Chapman is an award-winning filmmaker, director, and producer whose work strives to centre both storytelling and impact. Chapman holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University and is an alumnus of the Canadian Film Centre’s Norman Jewison Film Program Directors’ Lab, the Banff Centre for the Arts, Hot Docs Accelerator, and The TIFF Talent Lab, and more.

Director will be in attendance

Burnt Milk

  • Year: 2023
  • Genre: Experimental Drama
  • Country: Jamaica
  • Language: In Patois and English with English subtitles
  • Length: 9 m
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Una, an isolated Jamaican woman living in 1985 suburban London, works as a nurse on a maternity ward. As she takes a moment of solace to prepare herself traditional condensed milk pudding – also known as burnt milk – she is flooded with visions that take her home.

CANADIAN PREMIERE

Directed by

Joseph Douglas Elmhirst is a British-Jamaican filmmaker based in New York whose work often centres on character’s coming into their own power. His directorial debut MADA (2020) received critical acclaim.

Talkback

Speakers

Join us after the screening for a talkback with Village Keeper director Karen Chapman.

Speakers and panelists

Director

Karen Chapman is an award-winning filmmaker, director, and producer whose work strives to centre both storytelling and impact. Chapman holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University and is an alumnus of the Canadian Film Centre’s Norman Jewison Film Program Directors’ Lab, the Banff Centre for the Arts, Hot Docs Accelerator, and The TIFF Talent Lab, and more.

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