It will take only five days for 10 Atlantic Canadian filmmakers to shot and edit music videos for 10 of the region’s top bands . All 10 videos will premiere at the Marquee Club, to an audience of local fans, and music and film industry professionals from around the world. With your ticket you can also stay for the Inspired Music Gala Showcase with some of the best regional musicians performing.

A group of friends decide to celebrate the end of an era in their apartment at 6015 Willow Street, once home to both the world’s smallest B&B and art gallery. They end up capturing the Halifax bands of the moment, in an energetic look at 20 local groups. Beautifully shot over three days, the film features a stellar musical lineup that includes The Stolen Minks, The Holy Shroud, The Got to Get Got, Dog Day, North of America, The Just Barelys, The Superfantastics and Windom Earle.

Internationally acclaimed Canadian writer/director Atom Egoyan's latest film returns him to the territory that fueled his earliest feature films such as Family Viewing , The Adjuster and Next Of Kin . Adoration blends the ripped-from-the-headlines themes of teenage alienation, the Internet and the looming threat of terrorism into a potent narrative blend that illuminates the current human condition. With stars like Scott Speedman, Kenneth Welsh and Arsinée Khanjian heading up the cast, Egoyan is again on familiar ground using modern-day Ontario urban backdrops and contemporary stories that provide the ideal canvas for his abundant cinematic imagination.

Adventures of Power tells the comedic tale of a New Mexico mine worker named Power, who sets out to change the world through his love of drums. But he has never learned how to play. Instead, he air-drums at his aunt’s bar on talent night. After participating in an underground "drum off" in Mexico, he is spotted by a trainer from New York and asked to train with the team. As his fellow mineworkers fight for their rights back home, Power finds himself in the air-drum fight of his life against a formidable and despicable rival. Summoning strength from inner desire, Power learns what’s been driving him his whole life. Having screened three shorts at the Sundance Film Festival, including ViewFinders’ Helicopter (2002), Ari Gold returns with a feature debut that shows off his multifaceted talents of writing, directing, acting, and air drumming. Enlisting a terrific group of comedic actors— Entourage ’s Adrian Grenier and Best in Show ’s Jane Lynch—he has crafted a funny and charming tale of a man, his dream and the passion it takes to chase it.

Two young filmmakers debate how to deal with some racist graffiti that was sprayed on their car while it was parked in front of their apartment. Then they act out their suggestions, with enough dry wit and deadpan style to evoke the ghosts of Buster Keaton and Samuel Beckett.

Local Halifax band The Just Barelys are all the way animated in this charming live-actionimation hybrid music video for their song All We Mean .

Raquela is a poor ladyboy prostitute who dreams of escaping to Paris to find her knight on the Champs Elysées to marry and have a family. Being a Filipino she has little chance of getting a VISA, needing someone from the west to be responsible for her application. When Raquela is discovered by a photographer, she gets a job working as a webcam host on a popular ladyboy website. Within six weeks she becomes the first Filipino pornstar, earning 10 times the average salary in the Philippines. Wanting to escape, she tries feverishly over the internet to find that special guy and winds up getting stood up month after month at the airport. Things change when she meets Valery online, the only ladyboy in Iceland looking for friendship who promises to help Raquela with her VISA so she can take a walk in Paris. Part fact and part fairytale, Olaf de Fleur’s dazzling docudrama blends gritty vérité and fictional flights of fancy to chronicle this truly transtastic character’s life. Actors trade lines with sex-industry professionals, key moments are recreated with a certain dreamy liberty and you’re never quite sure whether you’re watching reality or fantasy. What’s never in doubt is the sense of empowerment that Raquela—playing herself—brings to every encounter and interaction in which she engages. Winner of this year’s prestigious Teddy Award at the Berlin Film Festival, Queen Raquela is one fierce tranny who’s not a hot mess.

Short films screening in this program include: The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela, Tommy