New West DocFest   2012

Friday October 19th

7:00 pm         Opening night reception

8:00 pm       SPOKEN WORD - UNEASE - 2011 Act NOW! Junior winner – performed by Katie Calder and Ryan Scramstad  

Guest speaker Prof. Mark Jaccard

Immediately followed by the feature film  Chasing Ice (76 min)

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Saturday October 20th

3:00 pm     The Pipedreams Project (27min) & White Water Black Gold (57min)

4:25 pm     Q&A with film maker David Lavallee

5:00 pm:  KAYAK – Vancouver playwright Jordan Hall reads an excerpt from her award-winning environmental play, Kayak. (10 min) 

Synopsis: Alone on a vast stretch of water, Annie Iversen recounts the strange events that left her stranded in her son’s old kayak. A doting suburban mother, Annie is blindsided when her son, Peter, falls in love with Julie, a passionate environmental activist. Climate change, S’mores, SUVs, and Noah’s Ark are all onstage as Annie sets out to save her son, and unwittingly throws herself into the path of events larger than she ever could have imagined. Touching and provocative, Kayak invites us all to confront our choices in the landscape of the growing environmental crisis. www.jordanhall.ca

 

5:15 pm      Indie Game – The Movie (94 min)

7:00 pm   “TWENTY-FIVE:  A SONG CYCLE” - written and composed by Joel Crichton – performed by Alyssa Kostello and  Damon Jang..  

“Twenty-Five: A Song Cycle” was created by Edmonton’s Joel Crichton in 2011 and toured to Winnipeg, Saskatoon and Edmonton Fringe Festivals. This piece explores the perspectives of 25 year olds and their experiences and thoughts on saving the world. You will be hearing two songs from this piece. Time and Snow.  To find out more about his work visit www.jacrichton.com 

7:15 pm      Big Boys Gone Banana’s (90 min)

8:45 pm      Q&A with MLA Raj Chouhan