Bay Street Film Festival News!

Hi everyone, we’re still busy getting everything set up for the Bay Street Film Festival. For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, we have an advertisement in The Walleye with a complete film list for the upcoming festival.

The Festival will be taking place from September 30th until October 3rd 2010, and will feature over 50 films from 9 different countries. Tickets will be $5 a session and $20 for a pass. Seniors, Students, and the unemployed can pay what they can to gain admittance.

We are currently looking for volunteers who would be interested in helping out with the festival over the weekend. Also much like every year we are looking for people who would be willing to give some of the travelling film makers a place to stay while they are here for the festival. If you are interested, or know anyone who might be interested please have him or her send us an email at flashframe@shaw.ca

The program is almost completed and posters should be up around the downtown area over the weekend, we encourage you all to invite your friends to our facebook event page at http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=102240486502853&ref=ts

Also keep an eye out for new information on our website and blog at

www.baystreetfilmfestival.ca
http://baystreetfilmfestival.blogspot.com/

Lastly here is the schedule and synopsis for Thursday September 30th

Thursday September 30th
7p
"You" - Jean-Paul De Roover
Director: Curtis Jenson
6 minutes - Music Video
Thunder Bay, Canada
When a young woman tragically loses her lover, she spends the rest of her life trying to resurrect him from death.

Right to the City
Director: Barbara Ophoff
28 minutes - Documentary
U S A
In a city run by moneyed interests, a united front is forming to win the real and lasting changes needed to make the city a place that provides decent living conditions for majority of New Yorkers, not just the wealthy few. Right to the City explores how social justice organizations working together can have a real impact.

In Security
Director: Ron Harpelle
55 - Documentary
Thunder Bay, Canada
In Security is an engaging and thought provoking documentary about how barbed wire, a simple 19th century invention used to claim land for agricultural purposes, has evolved into a means of control over people and spaces around the world as it introduced concepts of boundaries and private property where none existed before.

9p
Fix
Director: Shannon Lepere
4 minutes - Animation, Experimental, Music Video
Thunder Bay, Canada
The music video for the single 'Fix' was directed by Shannon Lepere, a photographer from Thunder Bay, ON. Instead of using traditional film techniques the entire video was assembled using a stop motion technique called pixilation, which involves the compilation of still images in rapid succession with live actors.

No Fun City
Director: Melissa James, Kate Kroll
85 minutes - Documentary
Canada
Is live music being silenced? Cities from Montreal to Melbourne are experiencing the death of the independent live music venue. No Fun City is a Rock’n’Roll journey to the heart of a creative community that is fighting conflicting business interests and city regulations with the relentless fuel of music and determination.