Shorts Program
MON, 12/5, 3:00pm, 98 min BAY STREET THEATER
If seats are still available, tickets may be purchased at the festival desk. Cash or Credit cards only
The Flagmakers
35min
Directors: Sharon Liese, Cynthia Wade
Producers: Sharon Liese, Cynthia Wade
Editors: Hillary Bachelder, Dava Whisenant
Cinematographer: Boaz Freund
The Flagmakers, a meditation on the American Dream, follows workers at the country’s largest maker of American flags including the refugees and immigrants who have risked everything to come to the USA.
54 MILES TO HOME
26min
Director: Claire Haughey
In 1965 three black farming families risked their lives by providing refuge to the thousands of voting rights marchers on the historic five day, 54-mile march from Selma to Montgomery. Nearly 60 years later, The Halls, Steeles and Gardners share for the first time what their parents and grandparents sacrificed and how their families’ legacies and this historic land can be preserved for generations to come.
FOOTSTEPS
12min
Director: Jeremy Benning
Producer: Jeremy Benning
Editor: Kurt Ritchie
Cinematographer: Jeremy Benning
Footsteps provides a peek into the magic and ingenuity of a team of exceptional and idiosyncratic Foley artists and the work that goes into the creation of soundtracks for feature films, TV series and video games. Founded by renowned Canadian Foley artist Andy Malcom in 2005, this unique facility in Uxbridge, Ontario has over 600 screen credits—many which you certainly know—to its name.
PONY BOYS
25min
Director: Eric Stange
Producer: Eric Stange
Editor: Kurt Ritchie
Cinematographer: Rachel Clark
Q/A with Director Eric Strange and Andrew Botsford
Summer, 1967. Two young Massachusetts brothers—ages 9 and 11—set off on an improbable journey with their family pet, a Shetland pony named King. Tony and Jeff Whittemore are desperate to visit Expo ’67 in Montreal—the largest World’s Fair ever—but their parents can’t take them. Then Mom comes up with the solution: hitch King to a pony cart and drive 350 miles to Expo '67—on their own—at 5 m.p.h.!