Bravo!FACT Shorts by Discipline : Dance
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33rd Floor
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- A playful look at office class structures, power dynamics, and sexual tensions. Through the common vehicle of an elevator, an executive and a bike courier are temporarily trapped and come undone in a confined space.
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4 x 4
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- A series of dancefilms produced by Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film & Video A series of dancefilms produced by Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film & Video
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Acalanto
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- Bruno, a 27 year-old Brazilian singer, explores the frightening path of death and his own sexual awakening.
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Aerobia!
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- "Aerobia!" explores the absurd phenomenon of wanting to obtain physical and psychological perfection by emulating and parodying the notion of obtaining excellence through mass consumption. With a confluence of music, dance, choreography, and graphic elements, this short film satirises a cultural desire through the late-night infomercial aesthetic.
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Ah! Mes Synchronettes!
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- Ten dancers in 1920s bathing costumes and caps perform a varied array of movements, from synchronized swimming, to yoga, to classical ballet.
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All I Wanna Do Is Just Have Some Fun
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- Artists: Linda Garneau, Luther Brown, Shawn Byfield; Director: Clarence Ford; Producer: Sandra Cassaro
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Animal Nightmares
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- Artist: Paul Watson; Director: Peter Lynch; Producer: Robert Wilson
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Auto Erotica
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- Artists: Farley Johansson, The Hermit; Director: Kenneth Sherman; Producer: Kenneth Sherman
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Baba
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- Different people, cultures, and styles of dance come together in one expression of love and life.
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Baby Don't Stop
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- Strange things happen in the dead of night... a dingy diner turns into the set of a Hollywood musical...
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Baiana
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- A transformational dance film that tells the story of a young woman who becomes possessed by spirits and, through this experience, finds her history, her 'self', and her power.
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Becoming
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- A man and a woman come together in an ancient ritual act amid a cornfield.
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Belly Boat Hustle
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- Artists: Bryan Wright, Kirk Miles, Paul Chambers, Sean Ling, Vern Reynolds-Braun Director: Sandra Sawatzky Producer: Sandra Sawatzky
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Big Chief Ballet
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- A humourous contemporary dance piece spontaneously starts at a cottage party.
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Black Ice
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- Toronto step dance group Black Ice take over the courtyard of an inner city housing development, and transform the space into a vibrant scene.
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Bus No. 9
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- Artists: Chinny Hoan, Marc Roumy; Director: Michael Downing; Producers: Joel Awerbuck, Jonathan Orson
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Chip Scrape and Throw
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- Artist: Alana Elmer, Joanna Ivey, Robert Glumbek, Roberto Campanella; Director: Tina Hahn; Producers: Tina Hahn, James Minns, Osprey Entertainment
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Coldspot
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- A non-narrative dance film presenting the sublime versus the mundane as one woman rebels against the tedium of daily routine.
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Commedia
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- Artists: Natasha Danchenko, Rebecca Devi Leonard, Francesca Granzini; Director: Sergio Navarretta; Producer: Alessandra Piccione
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Coppia 2
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- A reflection on the continuity of the human species. An ode to life where each generation takes over from the last.
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Dances for a Small Screen
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- Producers: Laura Taler, Mark Hammond
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Dances With Bulls
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- Artists: Estelle Nicolaidis, Ryan Hogan; Director: Cosimo Zitani; Producers: Martin Julian, Cosimo Zitani
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A Day at the Office
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- A series of inter-connected short films, each focussing on a different character's secret dreams and daily office life.
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Dancing Waters
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- Artist: Alexandra Collins, Brenda Crichlow, Shallom Ly; Director: Claudia Molina; Producer: Rodney Ruel, Lindsay LeCorre
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A Delicate Battle
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- An exploration of human relationships and the power struggles they entail.
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Departure
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- Artists: Allen Kaeja, Karen Kaeja; Directors: Allen Kaeja, Mark Adam; Producers: Allen Kaeja, Neil Bregman
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Elimination Dance
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- Artists: Don McKellar, Tracy Wright, Michael Turner Directors: Don McKellar,Michael Ondaatje Production Co: Shadow Shows Inc.
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Elise
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- Two corpses at a morgue come to life. The man and woman, once lovers, dance together for the last time, then lay back down to face eternity together.
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Eve
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- Combining silent film and a bizarre form of dance movement, a reinterpretation of the Adam and Eve story.
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Fictional Dance Party
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- A highly choreographed cinematic piece that raises questions about the way we celebrate the effects of appliances, computers, and the Internet on our bodies.
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Flight
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- Artist: Patrick Lamothe; Director: Guillaume Paquin-Boutin; Producer: Carlos Soldevila
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A Flock of Flyers
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- A comedy about a group of aspiring pilots who go through training drills communicating primarily through body language, incomprehensible sounds and military songs.
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The Four Seasons
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- Created for The National Ballet of Canada, James Kudelka's The Four Seasons is an abstract ballet exploring the journey of life. Winter is rich with emotional conflict and connection.
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Free Delivery
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- A flower delivery man is seduced by a beautiful customer.
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From Time to Time
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- The remarkable music of Joni Mitchell forms the narrative backbone for a series of films that charts the emotional arc of a woman's life through the idealism of the sixties, the sexual experimentation of the seventies, the social fears of the eighties, the global turbulence of the nineties, and the promise of the new millennium. Directed by Moze Mossanen, Choreography by Ginette Laurin
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Gun
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- A tragicomedy about an age-old male fascination.
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Hasta La Proxima
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- Artists: Diana Diaz, Jayko Eloï; Director: Mark Adam; Producer: Natalie Galazka
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Horses Never Lie
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- Artist: Caroline Richardson; Director: Kathi Prosser; Producer: Erica Parks
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The Hunt
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- The internal emotional ride of a man, the hunter, determined to master his environment.
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In The Groove
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- A combination of hockey, dance, figure skating, and rock/funk set in an outdoor ice rink and featuring championship figure skater Kurt Browning.
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In the Na
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- Pairing the gestures of contemporary and interpretive dance to this ecstatically high-energy pop song, this film depicts a scientific experiment in hypnotism and human behaviour gone awry.
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Innocence on Ice
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- A tribute to the movement and talent of figure skater Petra Burka, this short uses 1960s footage and original music inspired by the performance to create a moving design, etched on ice.
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Lepidulterous
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- Artists: Tiffany Knight, William Yong; Director: James Cooper; Producer: Bruno Louza
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'Man'Dalas
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- The mundane transforms into the sublime when a man gets trapped in a glass revolving door. The word mandala, loosly translated from Sanskrit, means 'circle' and represents wholeness.
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Methuselah
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- Methuselah is a doll-inspired, machine-like character whose body undergoes a metamorphosis upon being inhabited by a soul from another time.
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Moto Perpetuo
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- In a studio, with no theatrical adornments, a dancer and musician move from a soft gentle beauty to a taut macho sexuality with the most simple of means: a body and a cello.
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Nomad
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- A solo modern dance performance choreographed and performed by Philip Drube to the music of Geoffrey Oryema.
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Northern Spy
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- A ballet drama about a chance romantic encounter at a grocery store.
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Nothing Twice
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- A choreographed interpretation of Wislawa Szymborska’s poem, seen through the eyes of a older poet at her typewriter.
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Oh! Best Beloved
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- A black man and white woman, both nude, engage in a power struggle of opposites: males versus female, hunter versus hunted, black versus white, light versus dark.
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A Pairing of Swans
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- Artist: Evelyn Hart; Director: Veronica Tennant; Producers: Veronica Tennant, Peter Mak
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Paradise
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- A journey of personal transformation based on a 55-minute live performance work "Paradis" by Vancouver choreographer/dancer Alvin Erasga Tolentino.
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Peep Show
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- Artists: David Danzon, Sylvie Bouchard; Director: Robert DeLeskie; Producer: Kate Kung
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Le Petit Mort
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- Two lovers fall from the heavens into the depths of hell, only to rise from the ashes once again.
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Pink Navigator
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- An exploration of themes of birth, death, renewal, and the freedom found through reconnecting with one's body.
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Pretty Big Dig
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- Artists: Chris Greeley, Ed Breen, Rick Hunt; Director: Anne Troake; Producer: Anne Troake
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Rapture
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- Dancers perched on the curves of the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College in upstage New York merge with the unique architecture and make this man-made landscape sing.
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Revolver Tango
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- Artist: Bobby Thompson, Chantal Dauphinais; Director: Pascale Marcotte; Producer: Eric Deghelder
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The Riders
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- The Riders weaves the poetry of Canadian poet Gwendolyn MacEwen and images of Marino Marini's The Horses and Riders sculpture series in a contemporary dance duet. A tension between two individuals in counterbalance is revealed in a sensuous exploration of strength and vulnerability. Shot simultaneously for two same sex couples, The Riders touches on explorations of gender roles and assumptions.
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The Rings of Saturn
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- Director: Moze Mossanen; Producer: Helen du Toit, Moze Mossanen
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Roastbeef
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- A butcher longs to be with the woman of his dreams, but in the end they both choose to be alone.
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Rupture
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- The last moments of an affair between a man and a woman. Tony Chong's choreography, as well as Martha Wainwright's musical composition, suggest the characters' deep melancholic relationship.
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A Shadow Inside
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- A solitary figure ritualistically adorns herself in paper clothes, fragile, dancing within the four glowing walls of a room.
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Shadow Pleasures
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- Four dance shorts by Veronica Tennant, inspired by the works of Michael Ondaatje
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Sigh
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- A physically comedic dance piece about falling in love at the supermarket.
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Sporting Life
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- Artists: Julia Aplin, Learie McNicolls, Michael English, Michael Sean Marye, Philip Drube; Director: Michael Downing; Producer: Mihkel Harilaid, Trisha Emerson
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Swing Baby
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- Artists: Big Rude Jake and the Hog Town Hep Cats Director: Michael Downing Producers: Clare Cashman, Michael Downing
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Tari Rickshaw
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- Artist: Peter Chin Director: Nick de Pencier Producers: Nick de Pencier, David Brady
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That Thing Between Us
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- At a table set for a luxurious dinner, a physical and emotional exchange unfolds. Someone may be leaving. Someone is trying to stay. Whatever twists and turns their relationship takes, something keeps them coming back to the table.
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Tofu Meets Greens
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- An ode to a healthy vegetarian lifestyle through a courtship dance between the masculine Tofu and the feminine Greens, who swing to the music of Denzal Sinclaire.
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Tongue Bully
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- Artist: Learie McNicolls; Director: Annie Bradley; Producer: Annie Bradley, Jordana Aarons
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Traces
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- A series of films from O Vertigo that explore the themes of temporal and physical passage.
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Trilogy
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- Kaeja d'Dance explores the tragedy of the Holocaust in a series of three dance films.
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Wearing The Unknown
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- Artist: Barbara Glazar; Director: Tara Hungerford; Producer: Paul Armstrong
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The Weight of Memory I
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- Artist: Peggy Baker; Director: Liz Marshall; Producer: Trisha Emerson
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The Year of the Lion
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- Artists: Brianna Lombardo, Guylaine St-Onge, Richard Smith, Roberto Campanella, Ted Banfalvi, Tiffany Knight; Director: Moze Mossanen; Producer: Moze Mossanen, Anna Newallo
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