2016 Dawson City International Short Film Festival | Page 6

THURSDAY MARCH 24
DOUBLE FEATURE!

7PM

NOTE: This is a separate ticketed event, not included in a festival pass.
General admission $10. Includes both films.
There will be an intermission and Q&A with the directors.

Memory Trap:
The Herd that Wouldn’t Disappear

Dir. Allan Code, Yukon, 2015, 50 min
Fresh from its premiere at the Banff Mountain Film Festival, Whitehorse-filmmaker
Allan Code’s MEMORY TRAP: The Herd that Wouldn’t Disappear follows
the Forty Mile Caribou Herd for a year through remote wilderness of North Yukon
and Alaska, telling their story of survival and how traditional knowledge and science
saved the herd from near extinction.

The Grubstake Remix

Director Daniel Janke, Yukon, 2016, 73 min.
A genre-busting film that is delightful and beyond all strangeness, straddling
the worlds of theatre and silent fiction film in a modern interpretation of
The Grub-Stake, a 1923 northwoods melodrama by Canadian screen icon Nell
Shipman. A young woman named Faith (played on-screen by Shipman and voiced by
Sarah Moore) goes north to the Klondike to seek her fortune, only to be deceived and
manipulated in a world of men. She escapes into the bush with her ailing father and
a half-wit prospector to lead battle against her wrongful suitor and his henchmen.
Director Janke leads us on a laugh-filled romp whereby actors and musicians perform
in concert with the film, using Shakespearean dialogue.

In English and French, with English subtitles.

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