CANADA | 77 min | Partial Subtitles
Tickets: $12/PWYW
Co-presented by Guelph Museums
A series of short documentaries that explore care and community.
Post-film: Talkback with the local filmmakers behind these inspiring shorts.
Delta Dawn
Asia Youngman | CANADA | 26 min
Dawn Murphy aka “Princess Delta Dawn” rose to fame in the 1980s and early 1990s as an Indigenous wrestling sensation. After competing in the pro wrestling circuit in Canada, Dawn rose to international success and became the first Indigenous woman, and the first Canadian woman, to compete in Japan.
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Asia Youngman
Asia Youngman is an award-winning Indigenous (Cree-Métis) director and screenwriter working across scripted and documentary. She has directed projects for Netflix, ESPN, Lifetime, PBS, History Channel, CBC, Bell Media, TVO, APTN, and Telus. Most recently, she served as second unit director on the Black Mirror Season 7 episode “Common People” (2025) for Netflix. She also co-directed and executive produced ESPN’s 30 for 30 documentary “I’m Just Here for the Riot” (2023), now streaming on ESPN+.
Aunt Harriet
HAUI™ | GUELPH | 8 min
*International Premiere*
Aunt Harriet Miller, a singer from Wellington County, spent her final years at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Guelph, where she passed away in 1932, having lost her memory and family. Evoking the experience of memory loss, this spoken word exploration, illuminates the life of Aunt Harriet Miller. Through research by scholars Dr. Jade Ferguson, Deirdre McCorkindale, and contributions from St. Joseph’s Health Centre and Guelph Museums, this work explores the power of Black healing, connecting past and present.
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HAUI™
HAUI™ is an award-winning mixed-media artist known for directing, devising, and designing cross-disciplinary work for stage and screen. Over the past decade, HAUI™ has developed a diverse body of work that synthesizes theatre, dance, opera, film, and visual arts, exploring themes of race, gender, and sexual orientation, while bridging the gap between art and activism and shedding light on overlooked histories and forgotten narratives. HAUI™ served as the artist-in-residence for the City of Guelph (2024).
Lobster Queen
Alix Buck | CANADA | 23 min
*Ontario Premiere*
They say women are bad luck on a boat. Captain Gail Atkinson never gave a damn. She's spent the last 30 years proving everyone wrong—and taking chances on people nobody else would hire. But Gail's convictions are put to the test as she faces the storm of the year and an emotional upheaval that shakes her to her core. As she grapples with identity, loneliness, and legacy, Gail finds unexpected purpose providing others the very opportunities that she was once denied.
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Alix Buck
Alix Buck is a documentary filmmaker and editor. After nearly a decade storytelling for humanitarian organizations in the Middle East and Asia, Alix now creates and collaborates on documentaries in her home country of Canada. Alix shines when working across cultures and languages (She speaks English, French, Spanish, and is learning Arabic). She loves adventure stories about people defying the odds, badass women, and filmmaking that pushes her to her limits.
King's Court
Serville Poblete | CANADA | 20 min
A fast-paced look at love, family, and the journey to manhood in modern society, through the raw emotions and struggles of two lifelong friends in Toronto’s Bleecker Street neighbourhood—one of Canada’s most diverse and densely populated areas.
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Serville Poblete
Serville Poblete is a Filipino-Canadian filmmaker who lives in Toronto’s Bleecker Street neighbourhood, where he grew up with the two main participants of King’s Court and filmed in the same neighbourhood. His 2019 debut feature, Altar Boy—produced with Mark Bacolcol through New Radio Pictures—is currently streaming on Netflix. His second feature, Lovely, is releasing in 2025.
