Hayley Gray & Elad Tzadok | CANADA | 124 min | Captions
Co-presented by Guelph Museums
Tickets: $12/PWYW
Feature Film Screening: In community archives across British Columbia, local knowledge keepers are hand-fashioning a more inclusive history. The people and places left out of traditional archives and museums are often determined by the dominant power, but as UBC’s Dr. Henry Yu states, “the process of silencing makes a lot of noise.” Local knowledge keepers are undoing these omissions and hand-fashioning a more inclusive history through family photos, newspaper articles and scratchy old VHS tapes.
These different archives tell stories of people building connection through work, play, protest, family and tradition. In so doing, they challenge larger institutions to re-examine and address older narratives that no longer reflect the totality of our shared experience. At the Trans Archive at the University of Victoria, a hidden past is documented and preserved. At the Royal BC Museum, staff work tirelessly to right historical wrongs and find a new path towards restorative justice for Indigenous people.
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.
DIRECTOR BIOS
Hayley Gray
Hayley is a Vancouver-based director (DGC), writer and producer. A graduate of Dalhousie University and Vancouver Film School, she has written and directed documentary, narrative and commercial work. Hayley’s award-winning films have travelled to festivals around the world and aired on Telus Optik, the Knowledge Network, CBC and Air Canada.
Elad Tzadok
Elad is an award-winning director (DGC), producer and editor with a background in development and marketing. Born and raised in Israel, Elad moved to Vancouver, where he graduated from the Film Production Program at UBC and co-founded Scopitone Films. He has produced, directed and edited music videos, commercials, narrative films and documentaries.
