Outdoor screening at Good Spirit Park

The Yorkton Film Festival is proud to partner with Good Spirit Provincial Park to present an evening of family films shown on an outdoor screen.

Starting at 8:30 pm on Tuesday, August 10, the film festival will showcase some of the best Canadian short film produced in the last year.  The event is free to everyone, with regular park fees applying.  The 90 minutes of film will include:

• Runaway: Happy passengers are having a great time on a crowded train, oblivious to the unknown fate that awaits them around the bend;
• How People Got Fire: Centering on Grandma Kay (based on Elder Kitty Smith) and the connection she forges with the village children through the oral tradition of their culture;
• The Devil Wears a Paper Hat: An imaginative young girl is pursued by a paper-clad gunslinger through a wintery world inhabited by living paper-birds and a moving, mysterious tree man;
• The Man Who Slept: A young woman shares her life with a sleeping ghost.  She lives in denial of a loss that has left her all alone.  This vibrantly textured animated film is a work about resilience, a journey to night’s end that culminates in an awakening;
• Wapos Bay -- Self Improvement: T-Bear enlists he help of Mike Holmes to rally support for the dismal conditions of native homes in disrepair.  Talon struggles with his homework and begins to skip school with encouragement from Devon.

All films shown will be featured in the 2010 Golden Sheaf Award DVD Tour available for groups, libraries, schools, and museums beginning this September.

For more information contact Randy Goulden, Executive Director
director@goldensheafawards.com
(306) 782-7077

Tourism Award of Excellence
The Yorkton Film Festival received the 2010 Tourism Saskatchewan Award of Excellence for promotional / marketing campaigns by an event or festival with a budget under $20,000. It recognizes creative and innovative marketing campaigns which exhibit all of the principles of marketing. The award was presented at Tourism Saskatchewan's annual awards gala in Saskatoon March 15. Receiving the award were, from the left, YFF Executive Director Randy Goulden, and board members Ryan Lockwood, Co-Chair Richard Gustin and Joanne McDonald.

Yorkton Film Festival's 15 minutes of fame
SCN (Saskatchewan Communications Network) featured the Yorkton Film Festival on the made-in-Saskatchewan series, 15 Minutes of Fame. The documentary takes a look at the 62nd edition of the longest running short film festival in North America. "We are thrilled to have worked with Yorkton filmmaker Mitch Doll on the documentary showcasing the Festival and to have received support and funding from SCN," said Randy Goulden, Festival Executive Director. The program premiered in January on SCN. 

See it here: