Films

Films for 2020 will be announced soon, stay tuned!

Scroll down to see what was happening at our 2019 Festival.

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Available Light: FILMS AND PERFORMANCES AT THE GLOBE THEATRE
Presented by the YUKON FILM SOCIETY
Supported by On Yukon Time, Department of Yukon Tourism and Culture

Jeremy Parkin Live music with film
Following up his ALFF 2019 cabaret performance that saw Whitehorse-based Indigenous musician, Parkin perform a composed electronic and guitar score to accompaniment to two archival films. Jeremy utilizes everyday found sounds and samples to create a blend of ambient, lo-fi, instrumental hip hop and downtempo music. He performed these commissioned scores to mashup to the black and white archival footage from the Alaska Highway and a 10-minute excerpt of an archival film shot in Old Crow in the 1940s by Jim Wake. The Jim wake footage even included shots of Jeremy’s Vuntut Gwich’in great grandmother helping process caribou meat! YFS Artistic Director, Andrew Connors will assist Jeremy in finding other archival films to incorporate into this show.

Short films for kids. Includes classic and new NFB animated and kid-friendly short films by Yukon filmmakers such as: Jon Gelinas, Sam Skinner, Aubyn O’Grady & Evan Rensch (Dawson)
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Echos in the Canyon (Feature Documentary) Echo In The Canyon celebrates the explosion of popular music that came out of LA’s Laurel Canyon in the mid-60s as folk went electric and The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield and The Mamas and the Papas gave birth to the California Sound.  It was a moment (1965 to 1967) when bands came to LA to emulate The Beatles and Laurel Canyon emerged as a hotbed of creativity and collaboration for a new generation of musicians who would soon put an indelible stamp on the history of American popular music.

The Song and the Sorrow (42 minutes) Musician Catherine MacLellan, the daughter of late Canadian singer Gene MacLellan, confronts the hurtful mystery of her absent parent to be able to embrace his musical legacy.

This Mountain Life (Feature Documentary) A 60-year-old mother and her daughter embark on a six-month trek through the treacherous Coast Mountains from Squamish to Skagway. Winner of ALFF 2019 People Choice Award for best film.

Gurrumul (Feature Documentary) A rare and ethereal musician, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu’s life is movingly captured in this beautiful music documentary. This is a powerhouse theatrical documentary. Blind from birth, Indigenous singer/songwriter Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu is regarded as one of the most important artists ever to come out of Australia. Living a traditional Yolngu life, creating music inspired by his community on Elcho Island in the far northeast of Arnhem Land, Gurrumul shied away from the rewards and obligations that came with fame and notoriety.

Homecoming Song (Short Documentary) A poetic documentary that combines archival material, animation by Andrew Sharp and interviews to tell the parallel stories of two Indigenous men who came home. Many years ago Kaax’achgook of the Kiks.adi clan of southeast Alaska disappeared at sea, and was thought lost by his family and people. Three years later he returned with a song telling of his experiences. When Pete Sidney came back after being away for six years fighting in the Second World War, his mother Angela Sidney sang this ancient song for him. Directed by Daniel Janke.

More to come.