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FEBRUARY 4 to 26, 20174 weekends • 12 feature-length films

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Wakefield’s 8th annual documentary film festival

A selection of the very best current Canadian and international documentary films, with events,

panel discussions and filmmaker visits

Thank you to our festival supporters

TICKETS – CORE PROGRAM: Single $15. BOUFFE-4-BUFFS WEEKEND PASS: $34 (see details above). SATURDAY MATINEE SERIES: Single $15, children under 12 years $7.50. Available at Centre Wakefield La Pêche, online at WakefieldDocFest.ca or at the door. All prices include taxes.DATES: Saturday and Sunday from February 4 to 26.SCREENING TIMES: Core Series: Two showings of each film, once on Saturday and once on Sunday (see schedule above). Saturday Matinee Series: ONE SHOWING ONLY, Saturday at 1 pm. More information: WakefieldDocFest.caLOCATION: Centre Wakefield La Pêche, 38 chemin de la Vallée-de-Wakefield, Quebec.

Weekend Gourmet – Bouffe-4-Buffs Pass*

Each weekend pass includes:• Entry to any 2 screenings of the Core Series per weekend. (Does not include

Saturday Matinee Series).• Coupon for popcorn at the Centre Wakefield La Pêche.• $10 off at local participating restaurants: Bistro Rutherford (819-459-2100);

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* Passes must be presented at the box office prior to entry, to receive your tickets for the screening. Please arrive at least 15 minutes prior to showtime.

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Feb 4 Feb 5 Feb 11 Feb 12 Feb 18 Feb 19 Feb 25 Feb 26

SATURDAY MATINEE SERIES1 pm

The Eagle Huntress

1 pm So That You Can Stand


KONELINE: our land beautiful

1 pm A Plastic

Ocean

SATURDAY MATINEE SERIES

1 pm Prison Dogs

1 pm Fire at Sea


Unlocking the Cage

1 pm Québec

My Country

Mon Pays

4 pm Putuparri and the

Rainmakers

4 pm Putuparri and the

Rainmakers

4 pm The

Islands and the Whales

4 pm The

Islands and the Whales

4 pm Spaceship

Earth

4 pm Spaceship

Earth

4 pm Dark

Horse

4 pm Dark

Horse

7:30 pm So That You Can Stand 7:30 pm

A Plastic Ocean

7:30 pm Fire at Sea

7:30 pm Québec

My Country

Mon Pays

Closing Gala

& Best of FestOpening

Gala

Welcome to Wakefield Doc Fest 2017In this, our 8th season, we’re doing a bit of fancy footwork. First, we’ve renamed ourselves. We’re now the Wakefield Doc Fest (formerly WIFF), a name which reflects more closely who we are and what we’re doing – and perhaps is a little catchier. Then, along with our Core Program of eight current, notable and award-winning documentary feature films, we’re trying a new themed program of feature documentary films, the Saturday Matinee Series. This year, the theme is Human/Nature and the films in the series are all concerned in some manner with our relationship with other creatures and with the land.

For the Core Program, we are excited to bring you a remarkable assortment of eight films from many corners of the world: Australia, the South Pacific, the Faroe Islands, a tiny Italian island just north of the shore of Tunisia in the Mediterranean, Wales, as well as back here at home in Quebec and Canada. We, the crew of Spaceship Earth (February 18 and 19) have a lot of work to do. Many of these films highlight our strengths and possibilities, while some weave extraordinary stories. Be inspired. Be provoked. Be challenged. Enjoy the festival!

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Core Program: February 4 & 5

Putuparri and the Rainmakers Director: Nicole Ma • 2016 • Australia • 97 minutes • Languages: English, Wangkajunga (with English subtitles)

Saturday, February 4 at 4 pm and Sunday, February 5 at 4 pm

Tom “Putuparri” Lawford navigates the deep chasm between the deeply spiritual universe of his people’s traditional culture and his life in modern society where he struggles with alcoholism and domestic violence. During a trip back to his grandparents’ country in the desert, Putuparri is shocked to learn that the dreamtime myths are not just stories, but that there really is a country called Kurtal and a snake spirit that is the subject of an elaborate rainmaking ritual. Set against the backdrop of the long fight to reclaim their traditional lands, Putuparri and the Rainmakers is an emotional, visually breathtaking story of love, hope and the survival of Aboriginal law and culture against all odds.

So That You Can Stand Director: Ole Gjerstad • 2015 • CAN • 83 minutes • Languages: English, French, Inuktitut (with English subtitles)

Saturday, February 4 at 7:30 pm* and Sunday, February 5 at 1 pm

In early 1970s, young Inuit and Cree stood up against the Quebec government while an army of workers and equipment was tearing apart their land for the enormous James Bay Project development. With no constitutional recognition of aboriginal rights and no land claim yet negotiated with Canada, young Innu leaders fought to create a modern Nunavik. Their extraordinary accomplishment: the very first treaty of its kind and a new era of recognition for their people.

We’re pleased to welcome for this, our Opening Night Gala, one of the chief Inuit negotiators of the agreement, Senator Charlie Watt, and the film’s director, Ole Gjerstad, for a Q&A after the show on Sat, Feb. 4.


The Islands and the Whales Director: Mike Day • 2016 • UK/Denmark • 82 minutes • Languages: Faorese, Danish (with English subtitles)


In the remote Faroe Islands, inhabitants have hunted seabirds and pilot whales for millennia. Soaring aerial cinematography shows an isolated community, historically dependent upon and devoted to nature, losing connection with the natural world. Native sea birds are disappearing and a local doctor discovers something horrifying: the whales, being at the top of the ocean’s food chain, are packed with toxins. The Islands and the Whales takes a stimulating sideways approach to a complex debate involving health, identity, community, and human and animal welfare issues.

Emerging International Filmmaker Award, Hot Docs 2016

A Plastic OceanDirector: Craig Leeson • 2016 • UK/Hong Kong/USA/CAN • 102 minutes • Language: English

Saturday, February 11 at 7:30 pm* and Sunday, February 12 at 1 pm

Sponsored by Life Without Plastic Sunday matinee: LWP School Art Contest and awards presentation

Journalist Craig Leeson, searching for the elusive blue whale, discovers enormous tracts of plastic waste in what should be pristine ocean. Thus begins a four year adventure which sees Leeson and producer Jo Ruxton teaming up with free diver Tanya Streeter and working alongside an international team of scientists and researchers, to explore the fragile state of our oceans. In so doing, they uncover alarming truths about plastic pollution and reveal working solutions that need to be put into immediate effect.

PANEL

AFTER FILM*

Q&A AFTER

FILM*


Spaceship EarthDirector: Kevin McMahon • 2016 • CAN • 122 minutes • Languages: English, Japanese, German (with English subtitles)


Prizes donated by Bean Fair Coffee

Marshall McLuhan famously said, “There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.” Award-winning Canadian filmmaker Kevin McMahon takes this as a point of departure in this poetic film, which explores what 50 years of research into understanding humanity’s daily influence on our planet’s life forces have revealed, and where our responsibility lies in steering the only ship in the universe known to carry life. Narrated by Sarah Polley.

Grand Prix, International Science Film Festival, St Petersburg

Fire at SeaDirector: Gianfranco Rosi • 2015 • Italy/France • 108 minutes • Language: Italian (with English subtitles)

Saturday, February 18 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, February 19 at 1 pm

Lampedusa is a small Italian island closer to Africa than it is to the rest of Italy. Fire at Sea follows the residents of Lampedusa through their day-to-day activity. A boy makes a slingshot and fires it at a bird. Women cook and slowly make beds. Men fish. The rounds of life go on. What makes this island remarkable? The thousands and thousands of people who strike out from Africa, paying far too much to desperately sail for Lampedusa and a new life. And Lampedusians engage uncomplaining in the endless task of bringing them ashore, alive or dead. A quiet, slowly paced, absolutely devastating film which does not offer comment, Fire at Sea is a masterly work of documentary filmmaking.

“HHHHH Gianfranco Rosi’s beautiful, mysterious and moving film is a documentary that looks like a neorealist classic.” –Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian


Dark HorseDirector: Louise Osmond • 2015 • UK • 85 minutes • Language: English


Sponsored by Wakefield General Store

Set in a former mining village in Wales, Dark Horse is the inspirational true story of a group of friends from a working men’s club who decide to take on the elite ‘sport of kings’ and breed themselves a racehorse. Raised on a slagheap allotment, their foal grows into an unlikely champion, beating the finest thoroughbreds in the land, before suffering a near fatal accident. Nursed back to health by the love of his owners – for whom he’s become a source of inspiration and hope – he makes a remarkable recovery, returning to the track for a heart-stopping comeback.

Québec: My Country Mon PaysDirector: John Walker • 2016 • CAN • 90 minutes • Languages: English, French (with English subtitles)

Saturday, February 25 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, February 26 at 1 pm

Part history, part personal story, part lament, award-winning director John Walker’s film is a heartfelt narrative from an Anglo who left, but has never stopped loving, Quebec. Walker himself narrates and is very present on camera, making the story like a visual personal notebook as he speaks with a who’s who of Québécois artists – filmmakers, journalists and actresses – as well as his own friends and family, about what has happened and the distance between the French and the English in Quebec. There is a delicate poignancy here, though, not anger, as the filmmaker balances his desire to return against his understanding that he’ll never fit the new reality.

“HHHH…deeply moving…” –Greg Klymkiw, The Film Corner

OPENING GALA Saturday, February 4

For this year’s Gala, we have the honour of having Senator Charlie Watt and Ole Gjerstad (the director

of So That You Can Stand) in attendance. There will be music and refreshments served.

WATCH FOR IT! Wakefield Doc Fest Weekend returns!After the great success of our weekend fest in 2016, Wakefield Doc Fest will be back in September 2017 to present its second themed weekend of current, notable feature-length documentary films.

Wakefield Doc Fest TeamManaging Director: Brenda RooneyProgramming/Publicity Director: Melanie WillisTranslator: Joel LadouceurWeb Designer: Dan ImbrognoGraphic Designer: Zoé LindsayFront-of-House/Box Office: Alison ScottTechnical Director: Rink de LangeVideographers: Calem Anderson-Barwin, Caleb Gales, Jake Hayduk,

Taz Scott-Talib, Jyoti Singh-PlamondonProjectionists: Zach Lauzon, Taz Scott-Talib

Closing Gala + Best of Fest AwardSunday, February 26 at 6 pmI

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The Eagle HuntressDirector: Otto Bell • 2016 • UK/Mongolia/USA • 87 minutes • Language: Kazakh (with English subtitles)

Saturday, February 4 at 1 pm Rating: G (suitable for all ages)

Thirteen-year-old Aisholpan trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter, and rises to the pinnacle of a tradition that has been handed down from father to son for centuries. Set against the breathtaking expanse of the Mongolian steppe and featuring awe-inspiring cinematography, this intimate tale of a young girl’s quest has the dramatic force of an epic narrative film. Narrated by Daisy Riley.

“In form and content, this is a movie that expands your sense of what is possible. A girl can hunt with an eagle. A camera can fly.” –A.O.Scott, The New York Times

KONELINE: Our Land BeautifulDirector: Nettie Wild • 2016 • CAN • 96 minutes • Language: English

Saturday, February 11 at 1 pm Rating: PG (parental guidance is advised)

This latest film from one of Canada’s leading documentarians, Nettie Wild, is a sensual,

cinematic celebration of northwestern British Columbia, and all the dreamers who move across that stunning landscape. Some hunt on the land. Some mine it. They all love it. Set deep in the traditional territory of the Tahltan First Nation, KONELINE captures beauty and complexity as one of Canada’s vast wildernesses undergoes irrevocable change. An exploration of different ways of seeing – and being – this extraordinarily beautiful film (shot in 4K) simply presents, it doesn’t offer opinion.

“HHHH" –Susan G Cole, Now MagazineWinner, Best Canadian Feature, HotDocs 2016; Winner, Best Canadian Documentary, Available Light Film Festival; CSC Robert Brooks Award for Best Cinematography

Saturday Matinee SeriesTickets: $15 adults / $7.50 under 12 years

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Prison DogsDirectors: Perri Peltz and Geeta Gandbhir • 2016 • USA • 72 minutes • Language: English

Saturday, February 18 at 1 pm Rating: Not rated

A beacon of light in the dark nightmare that is the American prison system, Puppies Behind Bars, featuring feisty dog trainer Gloria Gilbert Stoga, is a remarkable program that sees New York inmates incarcerated for violent crime raise and train service dogs. Living with the puppies 24/7 over two or more years, the inmates teach the dogs 90+ commands, after which the canines go on to help other people needing a second chance: war veterans with PTSD. Not all men, nor all dogs, are successful – and this humane film doesn’t gloss that over. Prison Dogs is a story of love, loss, redemption, strength, fear and dedication.

Unlocking the CageDirectors: Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker • 2016 • USA • 92 minutes • Language: English

Saturday, February 25 at 1 pm Rating: Not rated

From the respected award-winning documentary team of Hegedus and Pennebaker (Don’t Look Back; The War Room), Unlocking the Cage follows animal rights lawyer Steven Wise in his unprecedented challenge to break down the legal wall that separates animals from humans. Steve and his legal team, the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), are making history by filing the first lawsuits that seek to transform an animal from a thing with no rights to a person with legal protections. The team maintains that cognitively complex animals such as chimpanzees, whales, dolphins, and elephants have the capacity for limited personhood rights (such as bodily liberty) that would protect them from physical abuse. If a corporation is seen as a person before the law, why not a chimpanzee?

Saturday Matinee SeriesTickets: $15 adults / $7.50 under 12 years

Roslyn Bern of the Leacross Foundation awarding director Elisa Paloschi (at right) with Selvi – the subject

of the 2016 Best of Fest film Driving with Selvi.

2017 BEST OF FESTPick up a ballot, and vote. You decide the BEST film

of the Festival. The Leacross Foundation is sponsoring a cash prize of $500 to the director of

the winning film, determined by YOUR vote.

Q&A

AFTER FILM

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