Community Shorts Screening
“Me, You, Us”
December 20, 2019 at 8:00 PM
Ottawa Art Gallery Alma Duncan Salon
Who we are is reflected in this community screening, gazing at ourselves, those around us, and the world beyond.
Heron Gate
Stéphane Mukunzi
Two women work to organize as neighbors fight for the rights of 400 families who were forcibly evicted from Heron Gate, a neighborhood in the south of the nation's capital, Ottawa.
GO NIHON
Izabel Barsive
7 vidéos expérimentales de 1 min. filmées à Tokyo, pose un regard tendre sur une ville où frénésie et lenteur se côtoient dans un univers en mouvement perpétuel, semblables à des rêves et de souvenirs nostalgiques. / 7 experimental videos 1 min. Filmed in Tokyo, is a tender look at a city where excitement and slowness coexist in a universe in perpetual motion, like dreams and nostalgic memories.
How Dare You
Samphe Ballamingie
From September 20 to 27, 2019, a record 7.6 million people joined the Global Climate Strike to demand urgent action to mitigate climate change.This 1-minute film, a finalist at the Mobile Film Festival, is inspired by Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg, and Canadian environmental activist, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, set side by side their messages, uttered a generation apart, to echo Greta's challenge: How Dare You!
Lees
Randy Kelly
'Lees' is a spoken word poem about chance encounters, developing empathy and how taking a little time to listen to someone has the potential to change their lives.
Written and performed by King Kimbit.
The Curated Self
Nicole Bedford
In a society where our public lives are regularly photoshopped and filtered to advantage, The Curated Self follows one woman’s experience grappling with her perceived and desired self as she navigates her very first glamour photography shoot.
Mango Juice
Siman Houssein, Bryan Quinones, Oliver Private, Beatrice Villadelgado,
The sudden appearance of a bottle of mango juice creates mystery and fantasy for an office worker.
This film was produced in 2019 for SAW Video's Back Story Program for IBPOC youth that identify as 2SLGBTQ+.
House of Paint
Jacinto Marques
Celebrating 16 years of talented artists/performers/breakers/creators and soul shakers August 23-25, 2019.
Gil
Katrina Westin
A tiny clay man has a big day.
Corners
Asma Horea Amin
Corners is an exploration on identity, girlhood, dreams, and happiness framed by first generation East African women as they are thrown into the chaos of their early 20s. A film by Ottawa natives Asma Horea Amin, produced by Sagal Abdi-Daoud and Imane Ahmed.
My Community is Here
Kinsi Moon, Ayan Tani, Samya Lugoma, Fartousa Siyad, Tyler Boyce Karanja,
Mikayla Gordon
A meditation on the importance of communities of care, what is at stake when they are uprooted, and the work necessary to keep them together. People impacted by mass evictions in Herongate - one of the most diverse and affordable neighbourhoods in Ottawa - are interviewed in this documentary short on an important local issue.
This film was produced in 2018 for SAW Video’s Back Story Program for IBPOC youth that identify as 2SLGBTQ+.