Offscreen Notes
New NFB Documentaries
NFB Documentary Films Premiering at the 30th World Film Festival are: Waban-Aki by Alanis Obomsawin, which sees the reknowned First Nations (Abenaki) filmmaker return to the village where she was raised; Shameless: The Art of Disability from the director of Not a Love Story, Bonnie Sherr Klein, which attempts to dispell the myths of and prejudices against people with disabilities (Klein being one of her own subjects); Unspeakable by John Paskievich, which takes a humorous look at his own speech impediment: stuttering; Breaking Ranks by Michelle Mason, a film about US soldiers seeking refuge in Canada as part of their resistance to the war in Iraq; Mike Birch, le cow-boy des mers, by James Gray, which chronicles the life of 72-year-old Canadian Mike Birch, one of the world’s greatest sailboat racing skippers: and Wal-Town by Sergeo Kirby, which “follows a group of six students as they travel across Canada to raise public awareness about Wal-Mart’s business practices and the effects of the company’s policies on cities and towns in Canada.”
Schedule of the above films at the WFF:
Breaking Ranks August 30, 9:30 pm, Quartier Latin, theatre 13; September 1, 10:00 am, Quartier Latin, theatre 13
Mike Birch, le cow-boy des mers (original French version with subtitles – 50 min) August 26, 7:10 pm, NFB Cinema; August 29, 12:30 pm, NFB Cinema
Shameless: The Art of Disability (original English version – 72 min) September 1, 7:20 pm, Cinémathèque québécoise; September 2, 12:40 pm, Cinémathèque québécoise September 3, 3:20 pm, Cinémathèque québécoise; September 3, 9:40 pm, Cinémathèque québécoise
Unspeakable (original English version – 89 min) August 30, 7:20 pm, NFB Cinema; August 31, 1:00 pm, NFB Cinema
Waban-Aki: peuple du soleil levant (French version – 104 min)
August 31, 7:20 pm, Quartier Latin, theatre 12
Waban-Aki: People From Where the Sun Rises (English version – 104 min) August 31, 7:20 pm, Quartier Latin, theatre 11
Wal Town (original English version – 66 min 30) September 1, 3:20 pm, NFB Cinema; September 2, 7:30 pm, NFBCinema
