Lagueria Davis | CANADA | 100 min | Captions
Co-presented by The Kween Company
In partnership with Guelph Black Heritage 
Time: Glam Pre-Event for ACB Community: 5:30pm (FREE)
Public Event: 7:00pm (FREE)
Screening: 7:30pm
Venue: Guelph Youth Music Centre (GYMC) ♿
Tickets: $15/PWYW

EVENT: Coils, Cocoa Butter & Auntie Vibes

Feature Film Screening: When Black Barbie arrived on the scene in the 1980s, it was a transformative moment. Love her or hate her, almost everyone has a Barbie story. Through intimate auntie access to charismatic Mattel insider, Beulah Mae Mitchell,  filmmaker Lagueria Davis explores the path that led to the creation of the first Black Barbie and the influence that she has had. 

Event: Glittery Black Barbie party hosted by The Kween Company to celebrate Sistas, Aunties, Grannies, and Mamas, and post-film conversation with director Lagueria Davis. Note: Pre-event is for all African, Caribbean, and Black representing folx. The event is then open to the public from 7pm on, including a market of local Black vendors, the screening, and director talkback.

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CANADA | 78 min | Partial Subtitles
Co-presented by Guelph Arts Council
Time: 2:30pm
Venue: artBar by GAC  ♿
Tickets: $12/PWYW

A collection of short docs made by Indigenous filmmakers.

Tiny
Ritchie Hemphill & Ryan Haché | CANADA | 16 min

Our Maternal Home
Janine Windolph | CANADA | 27  min

Ancestral Threads 
Sean Stiller | CANADA | 12 min

6 minutes/km 
Catherine Boivin | CANADA | 3 min

Heartbeat of a Nation
Eric Janvier | CANADA | 20 min

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Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea Greene & Rob Grobman | BRAZIL/USA| 85 min | Full Subtitles
Co-presented by ArtsEverywhere Festival   
Time: 11:30am
Venue: artBar by GAC ♿
Tickets: $12/PWYW

Screening: An intimate journey, weaving together the many experiences of people living in the Amazon basin, one of the world’s most disrupted and threatened regions in the world. As the Indigenous forest guardians of the Tenetehara fend off the incessant encroachment of illegal loggers and invaders, a global story erupts entwining science, politics, and ultimately the fate of the Amazon rainforest.

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San San F Young | UK | 86 min | Partial Subtitles
Co-presented by Brewers Supply Group   
In partnership with Art Not Shame
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Royal City Brewing Co. (RCBC) ♿
Tickets: $15/PWYW

EVENT: Art & Activism

Feature Film Screening: Political engagement spawned the wildest of wonderlands for Hong Kong’s creativity – but as new laws annihilate freedom of expression overnight, underground artists and creatives find themselves targets and their works being disappeared. Those who will not be silenced lead a movement, but are personally at risk. What is the relationship between art, activism, and freedom?

Post-Film: Creative exploration of art and impact with Art Not Shame

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Zach Russell | CANADA | 77 min | Captions
Co-presented by Habitat for Humanity Guelph Wellington ReStore 
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: Habitat for Humanity Guelph Wellington ReStore (HHG) ♿
Tickets: $15/PWYW

EVENT: Housing & Community

Feature Film Screening: Tired of civic inaction and set against the backdrop of North America's housing crisis, carpenter Khaleel Seivwright quits his job to build small, life-saving shelters for unhoused people living outside in Toronto during the winter of the pandemic. His actions attract international attention, but also staunch opposition from city officials. 

Post-Film: Panel discussion on housing and community in Guelph.

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Lina Lyte Plioplyte | USA | 95 min | Captions
In partnership with CFRU 93.3FM
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: Victory Public School (VPS) ♿
Tickets: $15/PWYW

EVENT: Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Bleeding

Feature Film Screening: How well do we know the uterus and all the pours forth from it? Delve into all things period, from first flow to last, with hilarity, frustration, pain, and discovery in a candid exploration of this colourful mess. Now is the time to bring forth the blood, and uncover the truths, challenge taboos, and celebrate the untapped potential.

Post-Film: Playful community talkback about uteruses, menstruation, and all things period. 

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Juha Suonpää  | FINLAND | 80 min | Full Subtitles
In partnership with The Arboretum, University of Guelph
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: OAC Centennial Arboretum Centre (OAC) ♿
Tickets: $15/PWYW

EVENT: Creative Conservation

Feature Film Screening: Hannu’s connection to nature surpasses most, with the elusive lynx having bitten into his heart – so much so that he claims to be able to speak their language. Hauntingly beautiful footage captured by hidden cameras throughout the forest, paints an unforgettable twilight picture of the natural world, and our role to play in its care and protection. 

Post-film: Night tour of the Arboretum.

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Jean-Philippe Marquis | CANADA | 80 min 
In-partnership with OPIRG
Time: 2:30pm
Venue: 10C Shared Space, 4th Floor ♿
Tickets: $12/PWYW

Feature Film Screening: A poetic and intimate glimpse into the people, processes, and paradoxes of modern forestry practices, offering a sensorially immense contemplation on the entanglement of humans, machines, and nature, set amongst the sprawling forests of the Canadian Pacific Northwest.

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CANADA | 40 min | Ages 4-12
Co-presented by Downtown Guelph Business Association
Time: 11:30am
Venue:10C Shared Space, 4th Floor ♿
Tickets: $5 Adults/ Kids Free

EVENT: Meet our local kid filmmakers. 

Screening: Thoughtful and fun short animated films paired with a series of micro-docs made by local kid filmmakers.

TINY DOCS BY TINY PEOPLE

1. Gita's Luxury Cat Hotel by Gita Anand-Bauch

2. Sawyer's Family Fractions by Sawyer Melody Davidson

3. Sailing for Fruit  by Magnus D

4. Our Animals by Cadence Lopez-D’Alimonte

5. Zfvhjgs by William Stajkowski

6. Smoothie Movie by Felix and Otis Messer

7. Greta's Birds by Greta D

8. Magic Garden by Fraser and Marleigh Herd and Garrett McKeown

9. The Murder Mystery by Frankie Awad and Audrey Ribeiro

10. Spontaneous Teleportation-itis by Jonas Awad

MORNING CARTOONS
Frida in the Sky
Dani Sadun | CANADA | 6 min

Spirit Bear: Fishing for Knowledge, Catching Dreams
Amanda Strong | CANADA | 22 min

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Banchi Hanuse | CANADA | 88 min | Captions
Co-presented by the Art Gallery of Guelph 
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Art Gallery of Guelph (AGG) ♿
Tickets: $15/PWYW

EVENT: Horses, Connection & Indian Relay

Feature Film Screening: An intimate and thrilling portrait of  Logan Red Crow, a young Siksika woman, with deep bonds to her horses, father, and family in the golden plains of Blackfoot Territory, as she prepares for one of the most dangerous horse races in the world—vaulting from horse to horse in the Indian Relay.

Post-Film: Talkback with Banchi Hanuse (director) and Logan Red Crow (subject). 

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CANADA | 68 min | Partial Subtitles
Time: 2:30pm
Venue: Guelph Civic Museum (GCM) ♿
Tickets: $12/PWYW

A series of short documentaries about ecological relationships.

Uncharted Waters
Molly Dennis | CANADA | 24 min

Modern Goose
Karsten Wall | CANADA | 22 min

W8linaktegw ta niona (The River and Us)
Myriam Landry | CANADA | 7 min

Losing Blue
Leanne Allison | CANADA | 15 min

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Hayley Gray & Elad Tzadok | CANADA | 124 min | Captions
Co-presented by Guelph Museums
Time: 11:30am
Venue: Guelph Civic Museum (GCM) ) ♿
Tickets: $12/PWYW

Feature Film Screening: In community archives across British Columbia, local knowledge keepers are hand-fashioning a more inclusive history. Through a collage of personal interviews, archival footage and deeply rooted memories, the past, present and future come together, fighting for a space where everyone is seen and everyone belongs. History is what we all make of it.

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Brittany Farhat | CANADA | 83 min | Partial Subtitles
Co-presented by Hillside Festival & Exclaim Media
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Royal City Mission (RCM) ♿
Tickets: $25

EVENT: In Concert & Conversation

Feature Film Screening: Grappling with a global pandemic and a live music shutdown, hard touring band July Talk books the Stardust Drive-In Theatre north of Toronto for two nights in August, 2020. Combining real-time concert with unreleased archival footage finds the band at a thoughtful crossroads of identity and circumstance. Out of crisis comes magic.

Post-film: An intimate performance and conversation by Leah + Peter of July Talk

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