A surprise narrator tells us everything we don’t want to know about a family’s attempt to drive Grandma to the old age home, in this pithy comedic short brought to you by the gleeful folks at BravoFact.

Step on to the red carpet and onto the beautiful greens of Glen Arbour – one of Canada’s premiere golf destinations – for the 6th Annual Gerd Kurz Memorial Golf Tournament. This 18-hole, 6,800 yard course offers both breathtaking scenery and a challenging layout. The Gerd Kurz Memorial provides a unique opportunity to network with film and television professionals and celebrities while supporting the grassroots development of visual arts throughout Atlantic Canada. Tee up your foursome, or let us stack your team for you! Your registration for this year’s Gerd Kurz includes: Lunch, 18-hole round, power golf cart, awards cocktail reception and plenty of prizes and bragging rights; not to mention: ·Free Golf Clinic with professional long ball hitter, Carson Way (10AM, Glen Arbour, space permitting) ·Your chance at The RBC $10,000 Hole In One Challenge ·The Carson Exports’ Hole In One Car Giveaway For more information Gerd Kurz and the charity events supported by the Tournament, point your browser to atlanticfillm.com/aff/gerdkurz.php/ Don’t miss out – contact us to check on remaining spaces Keith Maddison, Sponsorship & Sales Coordinator Phone: 902-420-4786 E-mail: sales@atlanticfilm.com Sponsored by: Carson Sports, Fujinon, Precision Camera, PS Atlantic & Sony

Eight internationally acclaimed filmmakers—commissioned by the United Nations—contribute sequences to this fascinating UNESCO omnibus film, about eight global aims to improve the world. From Gus Van Sant and Mira Nair in the USA to Wim Wenders in Germany, and Abderrahmane Sissako in West Africa to Jane Campion’s parched Australian outback, each delivers a unique piece that poetically illustrates the elimination of poverty, universal education, environmental sustainability and the rights of women, among other ideals. A rare chance to enjoy great directors working in the short format, the film also spans the world from Iceland to South America and features cameos from Bono and Bob Geldof.

With two feature films in this year’s Festival, Love and Savagery and The Trotsky, nominated for the CFTPA Producer of the Year Award, producer and co-writer of Bon Cop Bad Cop, the highest grossing Canadian movie in domestic box office history and Genie winner for Best Film of 2006, and producer of television productions that have been nominated for a total of 11 Emmys and 12 Geminis, Kevin is the perfect guest to celebrate at this year’s event. Host Wayne Grigsby asks the questions that will tap into this high energy, thoroughly entertaining Canadian producer of award winning film and television. Sponsored by Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, RBC Financial, and Shaftesbury films Please Note: The Academy Luncheon will be held in Room 200a at the World Trade Centre (on the main floor, just past the security guard, at the Argyle Street Entrance.)

Canadian documentarian Jennifer Baichwal has followed up the international success of her acclaimed feature, Manufactured Landscapes , with this dense and mysterious non-fiction film on people who have literally been struck by lightning. Act Of God begins and ends with the legendary New York writer Paul Auster, who bookends an investigation into the nature of chance and the chances of nature. Also on board is the British guitarist and composer Fred Frith, and a gaggle of lightning survivors who reconstruct their own—often fatal—encounters with natural electricity. And, like Manufactured Landscapes, Act Of God is plush with extraordinary images, pictures that reveal the fierce and fleeting beauty of lightning, caught by both professionals and amateurs.

Africville began where the pavement ended. Located on the northern shore of the Bedford Basin, it was a home and a haven for the many African-Canadian families who lived there for generations. When, after years of neglect, the city of Halifax expropriated Africville in the 1960s, residents were forced to leave their homes and businesses behind. Instead of finding the better life that the city had promised them, many found themselves living in public housing projects and their community torn apart. Today, former residents of Africville are fighting for reparations and an official apology. Documentary filmmaker Juanita Peters presents a moving portrait of a community that has survived despite having lost its home.

A transfixing documentary on survivors of Hurricane Audrey’s 1957 assault on Cameron Parish, Louisiana, through first-person testimony, archival footage and evocative recreations.

Filmed at the legendary British music festival curated each year by pop culture icons Patti Smith, Portishead, Mogwai, Sonic Youth and more, who each put in appearances at the proceedings. ATP —the film—is a cinematic record of the passion, fury and sheer madness of the international musical celebration, curiously named after a relatively restrained Velvet Underground song. The list of participants can barely be contained in a catalogue description: The Mars Volta, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Roscoe Mitchell, Grinderman, Two Gallants, Daniel Johnson, Iggy and the Stooges, and the founders of the festival, Belle and Sebastian, among others. With footage shot by both professionals and fans, All Tomorrow’s Parties is a must-see for all fans of contemporary music. www.ourtrueintent.com