2018 Dawson City International Short Film Festival Program DCISFF_2018_PROGRAM_web | Page 22

SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 7 PM
Every two years, The Weight of Mountains (TWOM) gathers likeminds in filmmaking
to form a collective amidst challenging and exceptionally overwhelming locations.
Nine filmmakers from around the world have been in Dawson City since January
and will be screening some of the work they have made while they have been here.
Watching Wildlife is the Pit’s
Matthew Anthony Batty, USA
Safely glimpse, from a distance, these unique and
majestic renditions of fauna. Nature is all around
us even when we are not looking for it. After living
in the Westminster Hotel for three months, the
wildlife starts staring back.
Excerpts
Jake Bellew, USA
Here are excerpts from an anthology of musical
performances I am putting together. My hope is
that within each person’s performance there is
an intimacy that you may call your own and by
sharing their songs, their voice is memorialized.
Perhaps, song to song, one big story is revealed.
Untitled
Zoe Kinross, United Kingdom
Glimpses into the conversations Zoe has had with
some of the mushing, filmmaking, singing, artistic
and all round strong women of Dawson. Excerpts
from a longer work in progress.
Turn On the Radio
Ahmed Safyel-din, Egypt
Dawson City’s radio station CFYT 106.9
FM has been broadcasted on and off since
1948. Throughout its seventy year history the
community has been the driving force behind
the station’s programming. This documentary
delves into the dynamics of operating a volunteer
managed radio station.
Artifracture
Melannie Monoceros, Canada
Fragmented memories cast in iron, glazed in
enamel.
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