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New! Free Hugs Montreal April 21, 2007

Free Hugs Montreal website

Earth Day Canada’s Jed Goldberg

April 22, 2007 is Earth Day around the world. Millions of people will gather to increase awareness of their environmental concerns.

Earth Day Canada (http://earthday.ca) President Jed Goldberg joined Joe Broadhurst of CKUT Radio in Montreal to discuss their programs, the issues and the importance of making your voice heard.

mp3 of interview is HERE

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March for Kyoto to mark Earth Day

International Earth Day will be celebrated Sunday in Montreal by a march condemning what environmental groups see as the federal government’s inaction over the Kyoto Protocol.

The march is to start at 1:30 p.m. at Lafontaine Park and make its way to Mount Royal Park.

The Coalition Quebec Vert Kyoto, a collection of environmental advocates, and other groups announced the rally yesterday. The group says its goal is to make the Conservative government honour Canada’s obligations under the treaty, designed to combat climate change.

“We want people to go into the streets to send a message to the government of Canada: You must act now,” said Jocelyn Higginson of Greenpeace Quebec.

In February, Environment Minister John Baird said adhering to Kyoto would result in “economic collapse.” [link]

Free Hugs Montreal – April 21, 2007

Sylva Essiembre joined the Friday Morning After on April 20, 2007 to discuss the upcoming Free Hugs Montreal event happening on April 21, 2007.

mp3 of the interview is HERE

Music by The Sick Puppies

Visit the Free Hugs Montreal Website

Visit the Official Free Hugs Campaign Website

Montreal Human Rights Film Festival

The 2nd Montreal Human Rights Film Festival (Festival de films 

sur les droits de la personne de Montreal (FFDPM) runs from 

March 23 to 29, 2007, at the Cinema du Parc. 

This year’s official spokesperson is activist filmmaker Hugo Latulippe.

 The second annual FFDPM uses cinema to promote awareness and 

respect For human rights and fundamental freedoms. 

Short and feature-length fiction and documentary films will be 

shown on the big screen. 

The festival will open with Bamako, directed by Mauritanian 

filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako and distributed in Quebec by 

Remstar (Jury Prize at the 2006 Carthage Film Festival; 

Coup de Coeur du public at the 2006 Festival Lumieres d'Afrique  

in Besaneon; Grand prix du public at the 2006 Festival Paris Cinema;

Out-of-Competition Official Selection, 2006 Cannes Film Festival).

Founded by Images Interculturelles, the festival continues in the

same vein as the film program presented for six years during 

Action Week Against Racism (AWAR). 

For more info visite: http://www.ffdpm.com 

SARA’S FILM RECOMMENDATION

East is East (England, 1999) 

Directed by: Damien O’Donnell

Writing credits: Ayub Khan-Din (play), Ayub Khan-Din (screen play)                    

Staring: Om Puri, Linda Basset, Jordan Routledge   Genre:Comedy /Drama                                                                                                                      Plot Outline: In 1971Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father’s rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.         

Documentary Film: What is INDIE?

After finishing off 2006 with the announcement that the film had been licensed to the National Film Board of Canada, Montreal-produced documentary film What is INDIE? will have its first local screening of 2007 on Thursday, April 5th at the famed Empress Cultural Centre (5560 Sherbrooke Street W.) in NDG. The evening will also feature live music performances by local NDG artists Scott MacLeod, Tristan Tondino and Josane Brunelle of MacLeod 9 and Rob Lutes. 

Entrance to the event will be free, and will be hosted by artist Scott MacLeod, who has been working as a professional artist since 1987 as a musician, photographer, painter and now filmmaker. Scott will join Dave Cool for a Q & A session and discussion following the screening to talk about the changing music industry and the opportunities for independentartists:  The free screening at the Empress will give local artists a chance to see a film that will hopefully inspire and empower them, as well as discuss how the music industry is changing and what affect it is havingon their own careers. – Dave Cool, Director,What is INDIE? The event will start at 8PM and is sponsored by the McAuslan Brewery, a local brewery with the same diy and indie philosophy that the evening hopes to encourage. What:Screening of documentary film What is INDIE? Performances By Scott MacLeod and Rob Lutes 

Where: Empress Cultural Centre (5560 Sherbrooke Street W.)  

www.empressndg.org  

514. 885. 2846 – 514. 481. 6277  

When:Thursday, April 5th, 8PM 

Cost:FREE!

25th INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF FILMS ON ART

The 25th International Festival of Films on Art runs until March 18th. 

The International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) celebrates its 25th year honouring the world’s greatest artistic achievements, past and present. With works of photographer David Lachapelle; the tragic story of the Giant Buddhas of Afghanistan; the dark thrillers of James Ellroy; the Malian music of Habib Koité and narrative of puppet-master Yaya Coulibaly urging harmony between cultures; nude models, who finally have the chance to express themselves; the deeply moving poetry of Léo Ferré; the secrets of Marc Lévy, P.D. James, Mary Higgins Clark, Douglas Kennedy and Ken Follett, who write novels that people want to read; and the fabulous adaptation of Carmen by Czech choreographer Jiri Kyliàn for a group of dancers all past the age of 40. 

Take the opportunity to Watch some of the best art movies by both Canadian and foreign filmmakers, Choose from over 275 films from 25 countries,  and Participate in Exchanges and networking forums. 

> Full schedule

Theatre/ Dance/ Art-Rium

L’Affaire Porc-Épic / Theatre

 L’Affaire Porc-Épic with François Brochu, Jeanne Dompierre, Leïla Louchem and Edith Fanny Morin. Text by Geneviève Baril, produced by Stéphane Jaques, stage design by Sonia Léontieff. March 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, and 21 at 8:30 pm. $12. O Patro Výš. 356 Mont-Royal E.

 

 

Uu homme et une femme / Dance

 

A two-person show featuring Dominique Porte and Alain Francoeur, choreographed to the vibrant musical landscape of Bluebeard’s Castle by Béla Bartók. From March 20 to March 24 at the Agora de la danse. Agora de la danse. 840 Cherrier.  

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Pepin’s “ART-RIUM”

 

Hotel Nelligan presents an exposition of works by
Montreal artist Lysanne Pepin as part of its “ART-RIUM” series. This exclusive vernissage, Criollos, is based on the movement of horses and pays tribute to its namesake, a breed of noble Patagonian horses. Hotel Nelligan. 106 St-Paul W.

Sandra Stephenson: Poets Against War Canada

Sandra Stephenson, from Poets Against War Canada, joined Jeffrey Mackie on the March 16, 2007 show to discuss their movement as well as upcoming events in Montreal.

mp3 of interview is HERE (13:06)

Poets Against War website

“Unrepentant” Screening this Friday at 7:00pm – Montreal

*Unrepentant* – Kevin Annett Screens Film on Canada’s Genocide
7:00 p. m. – Friday, March 16th
1455 de Maisonneuve West, room H-535
Montreal, Quebec

This film screening is with the co-writer and producer.

“UNREPENTANT: Kevin Annett and Canada’s Genocide” (December 2006)
Winner of Best Director Award, New York Independent Film and Video Festival

According to Kevin Annett, the time has come for Canadians to learn the
truth about what really happened to the aboriginal people from the start
of colonialism until today. It’s not a pretty story. “Unrepentant:
Kevin Annett and Canada’s Genocide” documents the “deliberate and
systematic extermination” of non-Christian indigenous people within the
Indian residential school system by the Catholic, United, Presbyterian
and Anglican churches, in collusion with the federal government.

Kevin Annett is co-presented by CKUT Radio McGill in collaboration with
Concordia’s University Center for Native Education.

This event is free and open to the general public. Everyone is welcome.

Fred A. Reed on “American Fugitive: The Truth About Hassan”

Interviewed in French by FMA’s Sara Sajedi

International journalist and award-winning literary translator Fred A. Reed is also a respected specialist on politics in the Middle East.  After several years as a librarian and trade union activist at the Montreal Gazette, Reed began reporting from Islamic Iran in 1984, visiting the Islamic Republic twenty-eight times since then. He has also reported extensively on Middle Eastern affairs for La Presse, CBC Radio-Canada and Le Devoir.Reed worked with documentarist Jean-Daniel Lafond on the films Salam Iran, a Persian Letter and American Fugitive.
American Fugitive: The Truth About Hassan tells the story of this wanted man, an American—known in Iran as Hassan Abdulrahman—who says: “There is life after America.” Through this story of an unrepentant assassin who openly accuses “the real culprits,” another tale emerges: that of covert networks, international political manipulation, and state-sponsored violence.
For more info go to:   http://www.informactionfilms.com/en/productions/hassan/

mp3 of Interview with Sara Sajedi (in french) HERE

Les Refusées:Affiches du cinéma québécois

Foyer Luce-Guilbeault
Entrée libre

Jusqu’ au 29 avril

30 affiches que vous n’avez failli ne jamais voir, réalisées par Yvan Adam, Annie Lachapelle/Atelier Chinotto, LINO (Alain Lebrun), Mario Mercier/Orangetango, Alexandre Renzo, Martin Villeneuve et Tomasz Walenta.

Une exposition coproduite par le Centre de design de l’UQÀM, la Cinémathèque québécoise et les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois.

WORLD WATER DAY calendar event

watercountry screenings & panel discussions“Of all the social and natural crises we humans face, the water crisisis the one that lies at the heart of our survival and that of our planet Earth.”-UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura, 2006 

To celebrate WORLD WATER DAY,the National Film Board of Canada’s CitizenShift , the Council of Canadians, Canadian Public Interest Research Groups & several regionally based organizations, are presenting a series of 11 short films on the subject of WATER.Films will be in English or in French (w/English sub-titles)A panel discussion will follow with Special Guests.MONDAY, MARCH 19TH - 7:30 PM

Concordia
University

Hall
Building

1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

Room H-110Admission is FREEhttp://www.citizen.nfb.ca/waterpressgallery

The Super Reel Dames film festival

After a very successful first year, the SRDF
invited filmmakers of the female persuasion to make short films that were inspired by music. Local, classic, your own band… the point was to pick a song and go wild with it.

New or pre-screened films will be shown by amateur or professional filmmakers.
A woman had to be at the forefront in their creation (as director, camera person, producer, or sound tech).

featuring the work of / en vedette:
Brigitte Henry, Vanya Rose, Amber Goodwyn, Sarah Spring, Mary
Williamson and more / et plus!

www.myspace.com/reeldames
**Tickets are 5$**

Date: Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Time: 8:00pm – 11:00pm
Location: Sala Rossa
Street: 4848 St-Laurent

FIFA

Citizen Lambert / FIFA

Opening the 25th International Festival of Films on Art is Citizen Lambert: Joan of ARChitecture, a film by Teri Wehn-Damish, coproduced by Philia Films, the National Film Board of Canada and Les Films de la Perrine. The Festival runs from March 8th to March 18th. March 8 at 8 pm at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. > Full schedule

Montreal All-Nighter at the Musée

March 1, 2007

New exhibitions and live performances No doubt about it: The Musée d’art contemporain will be one of the hottest spots at the Montreal All-Nighter, part of the MONTREAL HIGH LIGHTS Festival. For this fourth edition, the museum will be open free of charge all evening, from 6 p.m. on Saturday, March 3, and on through the night till 5 a.m. 3 new exhibitions Take advantage of this nocturnal outing to see some of today’s happening art, created by living artists using contemporary media. Jean-Pierre Gauthier: Visual and acoustic installations that bring together the notions of order and chaos, permanence and fragility, featuring objects that have been salvaged and then transformed. Jérôme Fortin: A brand-new series of remarkable assemblages made out of found, recycled paper. Fascinating, ephemeral works. Guy Ben-Ner: This work, consisting of a modular, tree-like wood sculpture and a video, offers an ironic take on education and ecology. The artist appears in it as a Robinson Crusoe figure. Live performances Artist Milutin Gubash, whose video work since 2004 is the subject of a presentation now on view in Beverley Webster Rolph Hall, will give an innovative performance at the Musée, together with Women With Kitchen Appliances, at 9 p.m. WWKA describe themselves as a collective of three, four or five or six, with a variable geometry, who are: “Identical. Interchangeable. Disposable. And dead serious.” And who, as their name indicates, play on a “drum” set of kitchen appliances. Hilarious and most entertaining! Midnight is the time set for the next Imprudanses competition, to be held in the museum’s main foyer. Modelled after theatre improv matches, Imprudanses is a dance competition in which two teams of professional dancers improvise according to themes and instructions provided by a referee. The dancers must perform solos, duets and group numbers in original series of movements that are then judged by audience vote. To the immense pleasure of the spectators, they alone decide which team earns the coveted points.  Another must-see: a screening of a report presented on the Radio-Canada television program Prochaine Sortie on the making of the Jérôme Fortin exhibition at the museum (directed by: François Méthée; production: Bubbles Projets inc., 2007).

PALMARÈS : RVCQ

Le prix Pierre et Yolande Perrault DU MEILLEUR ESPOIR DOCUMENTAIRE

·         Décerné à Migration amoureuse, d’Annie Saint-Pierre

·         Une mention spéciale est attribuée à Irène au cœur de lion, de Josephine Mackay

LE PRIX À LA CRÉATION ARTISTIQUE DU CONSEIL DES ARTS ET des LETTRES DU QUÉBEC POUR LA MEILLEURE œuvre D’ART ET D’EXPÉRIMENTATION:

·         Décerné à Actions (9), de Manon Labrecque et Martin Tétraul

LE PRIX OFQJ / Rendez-vous POUR LA MEILLEURE œuvre ÉTUDIANTE

·         Décerné à A Troublesome Desire, d’Anna Sikorski

LE PRIX ANNUEL DE LA FONDATION ALEX ET RUTH DWORKIN POUR

LA PROMOTION DE LA TOLÉRANCE À TRAVERS LE CINÉMA :

·         Décerné à Notre Père, de Marie-Julie Dallaire

LE Prix du public coup de cœur Super Écran :

·         Le Coup de cœur Super Écran (Prix du public) est décerné ex aequo à  Congorama, de Philippe Falardeau, et Le cèdre penché, de Rafaël Ouellet

PRIX DE L’ASSOCIATION QUÉBÉCOISE DES CRITIQUES DE CINÉMA:

Prix AQCC/ Meilleur court et moyen métrag 

·         Terreur au 3918, de Mathieu Fontaine

·         Mention spéciale décernée à Screen Test : Karen Elkin, de Mathieu Grond

Prix AQCC/ Meilleur court et moyen métrage documentaire

·         Portrait de dame par un groupe, de Bashir Bensaddek

·         Mention spéciale décernée à Caporal Mark, de Danic ChampouxLe jury était composé de Francine Laurendeau (Radio Centre-Ville, Séquences), Pierre Pageau (Radio Centre-Ville), Pierre Barrette (24 Images) 

Prix AQCC/ Meilleur long métrage québécois 2006

·         Congorama, de Philippe Falardeau

Birth Life Death: A film festival in 3 parts

Screening on Friday, March 16 

In Concordia’s H-110 Auditorium

As part of Art Matters 2007, Concordia University

Television presents Birth Life Death, a film festival in three parts.
 


Films that explore these topics, both literally and
metaphorically. They are thinking beginnings, 
middles and ends, transitions and commencements, 
things that start and things that stop. 

Norway celebrates Oscar animated short victory for Montrealer Torill Kove

OSLO, Norway (AP) – Norway celebrated Torill Kove’s Oscar victory for her animated short film “The Danish Poet,” the story of a young poet who travels to Norway to find inspiration by meeting Norwegian writer and Nobel Prize winner Sigrid Undset. Although Kove, 48, lives in Montreal and her project was backed by the National Film Board of Canada, the story “could not have been more Norwegian,” she said. “I am Norwegian, and there is not a trace of doubt in my soul that this film is 100 per cent Norwegian,” Kove said. Her animated short film “My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts” was nominated for an Oscar in 1999. “The Danish Poet” is narrated by Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann, who received Oscar nominations for her roles in “The Emigrants” and “Face to Face.”  Jan Erik Holst of the Norwegian Film Institute said the Academy Award victory “puts Norway on the map,” especially for its small, scattered teams of animators. Thor Heyerdahl’s “Kon-Tiki,” which tells the story of the Norwegian adventurer’s harrowing 101-day voyage from Peru to Polynesia in a balsa-log raft, won a documentary Oscar in 1952.