Missions Fest Film Festival & Seminars

Van Tech Auditorium - 2600 East Broadway

Welcome to the very first film festival at Missions Fest Vancouver! As a co-founder of Reel Light (a Metro Vancouver area professional fellowship for Christians who work in media and entertainment), I have been pleased to serve as 2010 Film Festival Director. Together with committee members Greg Meeres, Wesley Lowe and Marnie Wooding, a program of 11 mission-themed film screening events and 3 film seminars have been created. In most cases, filmmakers are present to represent their film and talk about their work. We even have the privilege of hosting the Vancouver premiere of two films. We hope you enjoy the sights and sounds of God’s world and people brought to you in film.   Debra Sears.

9pm, Friday, January 8, 2010 and
1 pm, Sunday, January 10, 2010
THE GRANDFATHERS
Documentary Profile (USA, 81 minutes) Premiere
Produced by Ethnographic Media
Directed by Jim Hanon in attendance
http://www.thegrandfathers.org • http://www.egm.tv
Award-winning director Jim Hanon (End of the Spear, Miss HIV) ventures into this remarkable true story from Jesse Saint’s perspective, exploring the fear and the hope that accompanies a teenage boy stepping out of his father’s shadow and into his own light with the Waodani Indians of Ecuador.

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11:00am, Saturday, January 9, 2010
UGANDA RISING
Documentary (Canada, 82 Minutes)
Directed by Jesse James Miller & Pete McCormack
Narrated by Kevin Spacey
Cinematographer / Production Manager / Associate Producer Tim Hardy in attendance
http://www.ugandarising.com
Through inhumane terror, the Lord’s Resistance Army has abducted over twenty-five thousand children,often forcing them to commit atrocities, sometimes even against their own families. For children who have never known peace, the fight for hope never ends.

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12:45pm, Saturday, January 9, 2010
RWANDA: HOPE RISES
Documentary (Canada, 61 Minutes)
Directed by Trevor Meier in attendance
http://hoperisesfilm.com
RWANDA: HOPE RISES explores how Rwanda is healing, in the years following the 1994 genocide. It’s a story of a scarred nation’s restoration.

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2:00pm, Saturday, January 9, 2010
MISSIONS DILEMMA (Episode 5)
Church Curriculum Series (USA, 25 minutes)
Director / Producer Dianne Becker &
Story Editor Marnie Wooding in attendance
Taught by Steve Saint
http://www.itecusa.org
‘The missions dilemma we face is whether we do more of the same, more of what we’ve been doing. Or, are we going to wrestle with some hard realities and figure out how to do it better?’ ~ Steve Saint.

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2:45pm, Saturday, January 9, 2010
THE YALI STORY
Documentary (USA, 15 minutes)
Producer / Director Dianne Becker in attendance
http://www.diannebecker.com
Some would consider the Yali primitive, but there is an intelligence, a simplicity, a dignity to their lives that is amazingly rare and beautiful. The Yali Story reveals the transformation of Stone-Age cannibals into scholars
translating the Bible.
Bronze Remi Award at 2004 Worldfest-Houston

3:15pm, Saturday, January 9, 2010
Mission Agency Promotional Videos
Increasingly, mission agencies are turning to video to help communicate about their work and the people
they serve. Filmmaker and / or agency representatives from: Bulembu, Buntains’ Calcutta Mission,
Santa Clotilde Peru Mission, Joybells Orphanage and Lighthouse Harbour Ministries, will be present to
demonstrate how they are using video.

4:30pm, Saturday, January 9, 2010
MARIE’S STORY
Documentary Profile (Canada, 47 minutes)
Produced by Coming Home Films Inc.
Distributed by Filmwest Associates
Producer / Director / Writer Beverly Reid & ,
Cinematographer Peter Kellington in attendance
http://www.filmwest.com
Set against the natural beauty of Cambodia, “Marie’s Story” profiles the life’s journey of Canada’s Marie Ens
- wife, mother, missionary and tireless advocate of the poor, the sick and the disenfranchised.

Marie will be present for the post-screening talkback.

5:30pm, Saturday, January 9, 2010
THE ORIGINAL PROMISE
Documentary (Canada, 62 Minutes) Premiere
A Water Kooler Production
Associate Producer Greg Meeres in attendance
Hosted by Farrah Aviva & Co-Executive Producer Doug Kooy in attendance
http://theoriginalpromise.com
Follow Vancouverites Doug Kooy and Farrah Aviva as they discover the hopes, dreams and fears of ordinary
Israelis – both Jews and Arabs. The Original Promise asks the tough question: with its rapidly changing demographics, can Israel survive both as a Jewish state and a liberal democracy?

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10:00am, Sunday, January 10, 2010
MONTANA DE LUZ
Documentary (Canada, 40 Minutes)
Produced by NoonDay Films
Directed by Mathew Leahy
Cinematography by Elisa Stone
Producers Matthew Leahy, Elisa Stone, Bruce Marchfelder & Jody Thompson in attendance
Music by Peter LaGrand
http://www.noondayfilms.com
Honduras has the highest rate of AIDS in Central America
with many of its victims being children. Meet the children of the Montaña de Luz orphanage, their lives a living
testament to the beauty and innocence of childhood in the face of adversity beyond their years.

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2:45pm, Sunday, January 10, 2010
AS WE FORGIVE
Documentary (USA, 53 Minutes)
Produced by Image Bearer Pictures, LLC
Directed by Laura Waters Hinson
Executive Producer Stephen McEveety
Narrated by Mia Farrow
Presented by Elizabeth Johnson of Grace Rwanda Society in attendance
http://www.gracerwanda.org • http://asweforgivemovie.com
Mia Farrow narrates this award-winning documentary from Director Laura Waters Hinson. The film follows two Rwandan women who struggle with the face-to-face encounter with the men who slaughtered their families
during the 1994 genocide.

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Warning. "Please note that some films contain scenes showing the effects of violence in war torn countries and other content that may not be suitable for all audiences."

Saturday, January 9, 2010 Filmmaker Seminars
in the Band Room at Van Tech

11am – noon Filmmakers on the Edge Panel with Moderator Wesley Lowe
See Page 49 for seminar description.
•
12:30pm - 1:30pm Does Your Story Have Legs?
with Moderator Marnie Wooding. See Page 50 for seminar description.
•
3:30pm - 4:30pm Fund it, Make it, Show it: A Distributor & Filmmaker
Tell All with Moderator Greg Meeres. See Page 51 for seminar description.

Download Magazine Pages related to Film Festival: Page 44, 45, 46

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