Brittany Farhat | CANADA | 83 min | Partial Subtitles
Co-presented by Hillside Festival & Exclaim Media
Tickets: $25
EVENT: In Concert & Conversation
Feature Film Screening: What is essential in a time of upheaval? 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. As July Talk plans for its only live shows of 2020, the band confronts deep uncertainties: a public health emergency, financial risk, and the sudden onset of a chronic illness in one of its members.
Emerging director Brittany Farhat documents the months of panic and epiphany as the drive-in shows take shape. Combining the real-time concert with unreleased archival footage of the highs and lows over a decade, finds the band at a thoughtful crossroads of identity and circumstance. Out of crisis comes magic.
Post-film: An intimate performance by Peter + Leah of July Talk, followed by a conversation about their experiences making July Talk: Love Lives Here.
DIRECTOR BIO
Brittany Farhat
Brittany Farhat (she/they) is a Lebanese-Canadian filmmaker from Grand Bend, Ontario. Farhat has worked in-house at Royal Mountain Records and Universal Canada, and has also independently made groundbreaking music and live videos for artists like PUP, Hollerado, Scott Helman, Tara Kannangara, Our Lady Peace, Dizzy and Valley. Brittany lives and works with their partner Matthew Fong at their multi-disciplinary studio and production company, Good Job Hi Five.
