The Williams Lake Film Club’s next screening Tuesday will be a double feature.
We start with a short film to celebrate National Canadian Film Day.
That day is actually on April 20, but I said, oh please, please, we want to be part of it. And now we are, starting with a truly, absolutely Canadian film.
And that is … drum roll please … Clouds of Autumn … by Trevor Mack.
Clouds of Autumn is a 15 minute short film filmed on Anaham Reserve with Elias Louie, Trinity Stump, and Quelemia Sparrow.
The carefree childhood existence of a brother and sister is torn apart when she is forced to attend a residential school far from home.
Singular visual interpretations infuse director Trevor Mack’s family history with a slowly shifting tone that evokes loss and love.
Trevor Mack just returned from New Zealand where he was showing Clouds of Autumn, and now he is working on big new projects.
We are planning to be a full partner in next year’s National Canadian Film Day on April 20, 2017.
Our main future this Tuesday is the film Unbranded, winner of the audience award out of about 270 films shown at last year’s Hot Doc Film Festival, the largest documentary film festival in the world.
Unbranded involves four men with one dream to ride 16 mustangs from the Mexican border to the Canadian border up the spine of the American West.
The documentary tracks four fresh-out-of college buddies and cowboys as they take on wild mustangs to be their trusted mounts and set out on the adventure of a lifetime.
“Ain’t nothing we can’t do and damn little we won’t try,” was their motto during the ride, an unprecedented journey reminiscent of the American frontier.
The wildness of spirits, in both man and horse, is quickly dwarfed by the wilderness they must navigate, a 3,000-mile gauntlet that is equally indescribable and unforgiving.
The film also touches on some important points on the levels of intervention needed in managing America’s wild horse population, a question widely and often wildly discussed these days.
The film is in English, was released in October of 2015, is rated PG 13, and runs for 105 min.
After our screening we again will offer refreshments, various teas, hot chocolate, even Ovaltine. And we might even offer you some Mac and Cheese bites as a nibbly. You have never had them before? Well, me neither.
The films will be screened Tuesday, April 19 at the Gibraltar Room at 7 p.m. Back doors open at 6:30 p.m.
If you come in through the front doors of the Cariboo Memorial Complex please walk right through to the back lobby where you will find the ticket table. Admission is $10 regular, $8 for film club members, and $6 for seniors (65+) and students, high school and TRU. All proceeds go to the LDA, the Association for Students with Learning Disabilities, to help with personal one-on-one tutoring. Our support makes these necessary services affordable for parents.