DOC FEST 2 LINE UP ON SOME GREAT MUSIC HERE festhall.ca SEPT 25TH 7.30PM -OPENING NIGHT The General Racing The General Racing is a fast-paced, inspirational, and exciting racing documentary that tells the story of 71-year-old, retired Canadian Forces Major General Lewis MacKenzie and his team through the highs and lows of a Québec F1600 Racing Season. Special guest speakers General Lewis Mackenzie and Brendon Culliton (Director) 78 minutes PARTIAL PROCEEDS GOING TO THE SOLDIER ON CHARITY FRIDAY SEPT 26TH 7:30PM That Dance in Buttonville After 50 years of marriage Stan and Margaret love life, they love each other, and they still love to dance. When Margaret becomes an Alzheimers victim Stan takes care of her and then suffers two forms of dementia himself. Through their institutionalization and decline their love never falters. They save their last dance for each other. Produced, written and directed by Ben Hoffman, 2013. Nominated for Best Editing and Best Sound Track, Red Dirt International Film Festival. Guest speaker Ben Hoffman and special guests. 37 Minutes. SATURDAY SEPT 27TH- 2PM Burts Buzz BURTS BUZZ takes an intimate look at the world of Burt Shavitz, the face and co-founder of Burts Bees, exploring his fascinating and unique life. Wise and wry, ornery and opinionated, the reclusive Shavitz is committed to living off the land and keeping true to his humble beginnings despite his celebrity status. The film chronicles Burts life as a photographer, beekeeper, and brand spokesman, following his complicated relationship with the company, his fans, and the world around him. Exposing the collision between business and personal values, Burts Buzz is a compelling and fascinating portrait of this highly idiosyncratic pioneer, and a revealing study of what it means to be a living icon. 1 hour and 28 minutes SATURDAY -SEPT 27TH 7:30PM Pacing the Cage - the Bruce Cockburn Story An intimate look at Canadian Music icon and activist Bruce Cockburn; his life, his music, and his spirituality. Bruce Cockburn Pacing the Cage is a documentary that features Canadian icon/singer/songwriter/activist, Bruce Cockburn reflecting on his life and his career. The documentary follows Bruce as he performs in sold out shows, records his live Slice O’ Life CD, and participates in a series of benefit concerts. Documentary cameras also follow Bruce to his home for a candid conversation about his views on everything from religion to parenthood. The documentary will shed new light on Bruce’s spirituality, and his thoughts on activism, politics, writing, and his amazing 40 plus years in the music industry. Also featured are never before seen live performances of songs from his 40 year plus catalogue of music. Special guest speakers Joel Goldberg (Director/CoProducer) Bernie Finkelstien (Producer /Manager ) 65 Minutes SUNDAY SEPT 28 2:00pm Flip, Flop, Fly - 40 years of the Downchild Blues Band The story of Donnie Walsh (Mr Downchild) 40 year journey of Canadas finest blues band . Downchilds leader and the importance and impact in the creation of the Blues Brothers and the blues scene in Canada. Features the award winning band in concert with special guests Colin James, James Cotton, and Wayne Jackson. Rare footage of the late Jeff Healy. Narrated by the only and only Dan Aykroyd . Interviews with Dan Aykroyd and Paul Shaffer. Flip, Flop and Fly is a poignant tribute to one of the greatest bands ever produced in Canada. Special guest speaker: Joel Goldberg (Director) 90 Mins SUNDAY SEPT 28TH 4:30PM King for a Day A doc/rock comedymentary What happens when you get thousands of Elvis Fans, hundreds of Elvis impersonators and curious onlookers together in a small town for one weekend? You get the parades, the parachute jumps by the flying Elvis a competition and an awful lot of Elvis worship Why do so many people devote their lives to Elvis Presley?KING FOR DAY, focuses on one mans attempt to win the Orillia Elvis Impersonators contest. (Actually insiders refer to themselves as Tribute Artists) It also looks at the whole experience as if the man has been sucked into a cult! Special speaker Tim Progosh, Actor Comedian and star of the Film 60Mins MONDAY SEPT 29TH - 7.00PM Finding Vivian Maier Finding Vivian Maier is the critically acclaimed documentary about a mysterious nanny, who secretly took over 100,000 photographs that were hidden in storage lockers and, discovered decades later, is now among the 20th century’s greatest photographers. Directed by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel, Maier’s strange and riveting life and art are revealed through never before seen photographs, films, and interviews with dozens who thought they knew her. Maier’s massive body of work would come to light when in 2007 her work was discovered at a local thrift auction house on Chicago’s Northwest Side. From there, it would eventually impact the world over and change the life of the man who championed her work and brought it to the public eye, John Maloof.Currently, Vivian Maier’s body of work is being archived and cataloged for the enjoyment of others and for future generations. John Maloof is at the core of this project after reconstructing most of the archive, having been previously dispersed to the various buyers attending that auction. Now, with roughly 90% of her archive reconstructed, Vivian’s work is part of a renaissance in interest in the art of Street Photography. 84 Minutes TUES OCT 1ST- 7.00pm Out of Mind, Out of Sight Sponsored by the Renfrew County Law Association What happens to people who suffer from mental illnesses and commit violent crimes? Where do they go? How are they treated? Little is known about the facilities—once called asylums for the criminally insane—to which some of these patients are sent. Now known as forensic psychiatric hospitals, these are institutions inside which patients disappear, away from public view for years. Four-time Emmy winner John Kastner has been granted unprecedented access to one such hospital: the Brockville Mental Health Centre. He filmed inside this facility for 18 months, allowing 46 patients and 75 staff to share their experiences with stunning frankness. The result is two remarkable documentaries. The first, NCR: Not Criminally Responsible, premiered at Hot Docs in the spring of 2013 and follows the story of a violent patient released into the community, much to the alarm of his victim and her family. Kastner’s film, Out of Mind, Out of Sight, returns to the Brockville Mental Health Centre to follow treatment processes normally hidden from the public, profiling four patients—two men and two women—as they struggle to gain control over their lives, so they can return to a society that often fears and demonizes them. Director John Kastner WEDNESDAY OCT 1 2:00pm Just Eat It Director: Grant Baldwin Many documentaries strive to entertain as they educate, yet not all achieve this difficult feat. Furthermore, it is only the rare piece of film that actually has a tangible effect, successfully prompting a change in the thinking or actions of its audience. Nonfiction filmmaker Grant Baldwin’s Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story (2014) is a fantastic new documentary that has the potential to dramatically alter the way in which people approach food and its waste. This piece offers an eye-opening look at a very serious matter, addressing a problem many may be unaware even exists, and then provides some wholly possible solutions and simple suggestions for improvement. 75 minutes WEDNESDAY OCT 1 7:00pm Muscle Shoals Documentary about a place filled with magic and music, legend and folklore, where the river is inhabited by a Native American spirit who has lured some of the greatest Rock and Roll and Soul legends of all time, and drawn from them some of the most uplifting, defiant, and important music ever created. In Muscle Shoals, Alabama, music runs through the hills, the river, and the spirit of the people. It is a place where, even before the Civil Rights Movement really took shape. The color of your skin didnt matter inside the studio. Songs youve heard a million times before and think you know by heart—Lynyrd Skynyrds Freebird, Aretha Franklins I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You), the Rolling Stones Wild Horses—might just fall on your ears in an entirely fresh and new way, thanks to the documentary Muscle Shoals. First-time filmmaker Greg Freddy Camalier explores how a tiny Alabama town on the southern edge of the Tennessee River served as the source of some of the greatest American music of the 1960s and 70s. A documentary that celebrates Rick Hall, the founder of FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and the signature sound he developed in songs such as Ill Take You There, Brown Sugar, and When a Man Loves a Woman.At two competing recording studios, artists as varied as Percy Sledge and Wilson Pickett, the Rolling Stones and Traffic, Paul Simon and Jimmy Cliff discovered and honed their sounds. And in the process, the classic tunes they produced helped fortify the mythology of the Muscle Shoals Sound. 1hr 51 minutes - See more at: festhall.ca/movies/#sthash
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