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Pendance Film Festival 2020

THROUGH HER EYES | SHORTS(120 min)

5:30-7:30 PMThrough Her Eyes.

Jackman Hall AGO

COOK F**K KILL (120 min)

10-12 AMPaired with short: Heatstroke

Jackman Hall AGO

18+MIDNIGHT BLOCK | SHORTS 18+

(90 min)

8-9:30 PMMidnight Block.

Jackman Hall AGO

(96 min) Heroes

ALEKSI

5:25-7 PMPaired with short:

TIFF Bell Lightbox

KOKO DI KOKO DA(87 min)

10:30-12 AMFeature Film.

TIFF Bell Lightbox

18+STRAIGHT UP(105 min)

DamageControl

8-9:45 PMPaired with short:

TIFF Bell Lightbox

PARTY AT ARCANE

10:00-4 AMPassholders free drink & cover,ticket holders get in free.

Arcane 461 King St. West

19+

SAINT FRANCES(106 min)

9:30-11:15 PMPaired with short:

TIFF Bell Lightbox

(97 min)A Glimpse

Networking event for passholders.

Arcane 461 King St. West

PASSHOLDER NETWORKING EVENT

6:30-9:30 PM

Velvet Underground

PENDANCE MUSIC

7-12 AMCJ Flemmings, Michaela May, Lastli, (Surprise Artist)

CLOSING PARTY

10-12 AMEnd of Pendance 2020.

DROM Taberna

19+

THE WALL OF MEXICOFeature Film.

(110 min)

9-10:50 PMJackman Hall AGO

CINEMA-EUROPA | SHORTS

6:30-8:30 PMCinema-Europa.

Jackman Hall AGO

(90 min)

19+

19+

CONFERENCE 1

4-6 PMUnveiling Pendance.

Palmerston Branch

WORKSHOP 1

3:30-5:00 PMWorking with Actra.

Actra Toronto

Monster GodPaired with short:

THE LAST TREE(108 min)

1-3 PMTIFF Bell Lightbox

(97 min)THE SHORT HISTORY OF THE LONG ROAD

4-6 PMPaired with short:

TIFF Bell Lightbox

FLIES

Lillian H Smith

WORKSHOP 2

12-2 PMWriting Strong Women.

Sanderson Branch

PANEL 1

4-6 PMThe Type of Short That Can GetYou Discovered

Toronto Reference Library

WORKSHOP 3

1:30-3:30 PMLighting in Color.

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11:30-12:45 PM

PANEL 2So You Want Distribution?

Jackman Hall AGO

She RunsPaired with short:

(130 min)

1:20-3:30 PM

PAHOKEE

Jackman Hall AGO

(109 min)FAMILY ROMANCE LLC

AlbertoPaired with short:

4-6 PMJackman Hall AGO

LEGEND

Pendance Film

Doctrina

Midnight

Music

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Lillian H. Smith | TPL 6

Toronto Reference Library

Jackman Hall AGO 2

TIFF Bell Lightbox 1

5Palmerston Branch | TPL

8 Velvet Underground

Sanderson Branch | TPL 7

ACTRA Toronto 4

10 Arcane Toronto

9DROM Taberna

TIFF Bell Lightbox1

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350 King St. WToronto, ON M5V 3X5

Jackman Hall AGO317 Dundas St. WToronto, ON M5T 1G4

SCREENING VENUES

8Velvet Underground508 Queen St. WToronto, ON M5V 2B3

9DROM Taberna458 Queen St. WToronto, ON M5V 2A8

10Arcane Toronto461 King St. WToronto, ON M5V 1K4

MUSIC/PARTY VENUES

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Toronto Reference Library789 Yonge StToronto, ON M4W 2G8

Palmerston Branch; Library560 Palmerston AveToronto, ON M6G 2P7

4ACTRA Toronto625 Church St #200Toronto, ON M4Y 2G1

Sanderson Branch; Library327 Bathurst StToronto, ON M5T 1J1

Lillian H. Smith; Library239 College StToronto, ON M5T 1R5

WORKSHOP/PANEL VENUES

Srdan Golubović’s first feature films have screened at top festivals from Berlin & Toronto among others. His feature film ‘Klopka’ was nominated for an Academy Award in 2007, and ‘Circles’ (2013) was Serbia’s entry for the 86th Academy Awards.

Serbian Filmmaker

Serbian Actress

Nataša Ninković is an actress and producer, known for The Trap (2007) Savior (1998), Ajvar (2019) and Bez Stepenika (2015. She’s one of the most internationally acclaimed actors to emerge from the former Yugoslavia in the last 20 years.

Canadian Author & Journalist

Johanna Schneller is one of North America’s leading freelance journalists specializing in entertainment features. Her work has appeared in major magazines, including Vanity Fair, In Style, Premiere, More and Ladies Home Journal.

Canadian Filmmaker

Andrew Cividino is an award-winning director from Toronto. His film ‘Sleeping Giant’ screened at over 60 festivals and won Best First Feature at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2015. He’s currently directing CBC/POP’s Schitt’s Creek.

Feature Film Jury

Locations / Venue

Spanish Filmmaker European Filmmaker

Carlota Pereda is an award-winning Spanish director and screenwriter best known for winning the Goya in Spain for her short ‘Piggy’. Piggy won the Jury Award for Best Short Film at Pendance 2019.

TIFF Short Cuts Programmer

Robyn Citizen is a film and media scholar on ethno-racial and national identity, and the horror and sci-fi genres. In 2018, she joined the programming teams for the Toronto International Film Festival and the Human Rights Film Festival.

Mexican-Swiss Filmmaker

Mauro Mueller is an independent Swiss-Mexican narrative filmmaker and a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. He is best known for directing the short films A World for Raúl which won the Student Academy Award for 2013.

European Filmmaker Austin Film Festival Programmer

Myrsini Aristidou is an award-winning filmmaker based between Paris and Cyprus. Her short film Semele premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2015 and won the Berlinale Short Film Special Prize of the Generation Kplus International Jury.

Alexandra MitchellAfter serving as a Conference intern, Registration Director, and recently the Project Manager, she became a shorts programmer at the Austin Film Festival.

Marija Apcevska is a Macedonian filmmaker and a shorts programmer for the Manaki Brothers ICFF. Her short film Bardo premiered at Berlinale. Her short film Ambi was included in Cineuropa Shorts selection of Top Five European Shorts of 2017.

Short Film Jury

American Filmmaker South American Filmmaker

Cam Be studied at the New York Film Academy and Columbia College in Chicago. Cam has interviewed and documented iconic artists such as Maya Angelou, Lauryn Hill, Common, among others. He received an Emmy award as a producer for About Last Night in 2012.

Clara Lezama is a 25 year-old filmmaker from Montevideo, Uruguay. Her short film Emma won best short film at FIEC, the Festival Piriápolis de Película, and Pendance 2017.


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Short Film Blocks

THROUGH HER EYES // SHORTS 1

- IT’S NOTHING - Anna Maguire - 16 min- SUNSET CHANNEL - Matthew Kinahan - 17 min- OSLO - Shady Srour - 15 min- NEW WOMAN - Benjamin Noah - 19 min- DREAMCATCHER - Michael Alexander Uccello - 7 min- NIMIC - Yorgos Lanthimos - 13 min

- SOMEWHERE - Lynn Laor - Isreal - 15 min- UNDER DARKNESS - Caroline Friend - USA - 20 min- PRETTY - Camille Lortie - Canada - 5 min- LAVANDE - Alexandra Naoum - France - 19 min- WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE WATER AND THE MOON - Jian Luo - China - 15 min- AS UP TO NOW - Katalin Moldovai - Hungary - 23 min

- RELAI - Suzanne Clement - France - 15 min- MANO A MANO - Louise Courvoisier - France - 22 min- THE VAN - Erenik Beqiri - Albania - 15 min- LOST SCOT - Julien Cornwall - UK - 14 min- SOLAR PLEXUS - David McShane - UK - 9 min- LA MAMAN DES POISSONS - Zita Hanrot - France - 13 min- BONOBO - Zoel Aeschbacher - Switzerland - 19 min

- HEROES - Pablo Cascon, Santiage Cardelus - Spain - 9 min- FLIES - David Moreno - Spain - 7 min- A GLIMPSE - Tom Turner - UK - 15 min- ALBERTO - Raul Prado - Cuba - 22 min- DAMAGE CONTROL - AJ Vaage - Canada - 10 min- SHE RUNS - Qiu Yang - France/China - 19 min- MONSTER GOD - Agustine San Martin - 10 min

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Shown with Feature Films. Please check Features Program on next page.

BEFORE MIDNIGHT // SHORTS 2

CINEMA EUROPA // SHORTS 3

PAIRED SCREENINGS

Feature Films

Aleksi is a photographer dodging the responsibilities of adulthood and giving into all of her impulses with the various men in her life. An indie-style dramedy that tackles the topic of “the second coming of age” and figuring out life goals on the brink of one’s thirties in a realistic fashion.

Paired with short film: HeroesOfficial Selections: SXSW, Pula Film Festival

Barbara Vekaric Canadian Premiere

Aleksi

FEBRUARY 20 8:00 PM

PAIRED WITH FEATURES

FEBRUARY 23 6:00 PM

FEBRUARY 20 5:30 PM

FEBRUARY 20 10:00 PM

FEBRUARY 21 5:25 PM

Described as an “absurd drama”, the film is directed by a Czech filmmaker named Mira Forney and deals with domestic abuse – about a man who loves to cook, fuck, and, well, kill. “Seen through the prism of a metaphor, the film is an intimate story about family or ‘the most aggressive group within a society, with the exception of the army and the police’, as Fornaystates.” Meaning the family, how people inside their home are abusive even if they’re nice outside.

Paired with short film: HeatstrokeOfficial Selections: Rotterdam, Tallinn

Mira Fornay North American Premiere

Cook F**K Kill Pendance Midnight 18+

18+

Todd is a hyper-articulate, obsessive-compulsive gay twenty-something whose fear of dying alone leads him to a baffling conclusion: he might not be gay after all. When he meets Rory, a whip-smart struggling actress with her own set of insecurities, the two forge a relationship that’s all talk and no sex.

Paired with short film: Damage Control

James Sweeney Canadian Premiere

Straight Up

FEBRUARY 21 8:00 PM


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After ending her pregnancy at the start of the summer, Bridget reluctantly accepts a much-needed job nannying a six-year old in affluent Evanston, Illinois. With no time to recover, she clashes with the obstinate Frances and struggles to navigate a growing tension between Frances’ moms.

Awards: Audience Award SXSW

Alex Thompson Ontario Premiere

Saint Frances

After a happy childhood in the countryside, a teenager moves to London, where he must navigate an unfamiliar environment on his road to adulthood. Featuring a ground-breaking performance from Samuel Adewunmi.

Paired with short film: Monster GodOfficial Selection: Sundance, BFI

Shola Amoo

The Last Tree

Four high-school students, Na’Kerria, Jocabed, Junior, and BJ, embark on their senior year in Pahokee, a small Florida town on the shores of Lake Okeechobee.

Paired with short film: She RunsOfficial Selection: Sundance

Ivete Lucas & Patrick Bresnan

Pendance Doctrina

Canadian Premiere

Pahokee

FEBRUARY 21 10:30 PM

FEBRUARY 22 9:30 PM

FEBRUARY 22 1:00 PM

As a couple goes on a trip to find their way back to each other, a sideshow artist and his shady entourage emerge from the woods, terrorizing them, luring them deeper into a maelstrom of psychological terror and humiliating slapstick

Official Selections: Sundance, Fantasia

Johannes Nyholm Ontario Premiere

Pendance MidnightKoko-Di Koko-Da 18+

Feature Films

Directed by Werner Herzog. With Mahiro Tanimoto, Ishii Yuichi. A man is hired to impersonate the missing father of a young girl. He faces the existential crisis that anyone running such a business might.

Paired with short film: AlbertoSpecial Screening Cannes, Official Selection Telluride Film Festival

Werner Herzog Ontario Premiere

Family Romance LLC

Don, a young handyman, is hired by the Aristas, a wealthy Mexican-American family with two outrageously decadent daughters. Don is aware of rumors that the source of the family’s wealth is the ‘special’ well water they sell to the town. Tensions flare as Don becomes infatuated with the youngest daughter Tania, and water from the Artistas’ well begins to disappear during the night.

Official Selection: SXSW

Zachary Cotler & Magdalena Zyzak Canadian Premiere

The Wall of Mexico

FEBRUARY 23 9:00 PM

FEBRUARY 23 4:00 PM

FEBRUARY 23 1:20 PM

Feature Films

Teenage Nola grew up living out of a van with her charismatic father, Clint; two nomads against the world. When tragedy strikes, Nola must confront the reality of life on the road alone. She’ll need to take the wheel for the first time learning to own her grief, her past and her new destination.

Paired with short film: FLIESJury Mention for Best Screenplay at Tribeca Film Festival

Ani Simon-Kennedy Ontario Premiere

The Short History of The Long Road

FEBRUARY 22 4:00 PM


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Lauren Howes (Canadian Centre for Distribution), Katarina Gligorijevic (Canada Film Day) & Daniel Bekerman (Founder, Scythia Films) talk distribution in Canada and beyond.

Art Gallery of Ontario Jackman Hall317 Dundas Street W, Toronto ON

So You Want Distribution?Producers Panel

FEBRUARY 23 11:30 AM-12:45 PM

Are you a producer, director or performer who wants to learn more about ACTRA? We invite you to attend “ACTRA Toronto Close Up: How to Work with Profession Performers.” hosted by Taisa Dekker, ACTRA Toronto Industry Relations. Ms. Dekker’s role is to promote engaging union performers to producers of various types of content. With years of experience in the industry and within ACTRA, Ms. Dekker is well versed in the needs of performers and producers working in film, web series, video games and advertising. Join Taisa as she helps demystify the process of becoming a union member and of engaging professional performers on various types of content.

Actra Head Office625 Church Street, Toronto ON

Working With Actra Workshop

FEBRUARY 21 3:30-5 PM

Filmmaker Barbara Vekaric whose film Aleksi premiered at SxSw 2019 and who has countless shorts and Television directing work on her resume talks about writing strong women. As a 32 year old director, there are few filmmakers in the world who boast a resume as expansive and impressive as Barbara. In this workshop, she’ll discuss production, pre-production, directing actors, and how to write strong female roles.

Lillian H Smith Library239 College Street, Toronto ON

Writing Strong Women Workshop

FEBRUARY 22 12-2 PM

Cinematographer Miljan Milovanovic teaches cinematography & colour grading. Miljan will highlight advanced lighting techniques filmmakers can use and give a detailed overview of some hacks to achieve that cinematic look.

Toronto Reference Library789 Yonge Street, Toronto ON

Lighting in Colour Workshop

FEBRUARY 23 12-2 PM

FEBRUARY 20 4-6 PM

Directors Barbara Vekaric, and Lauren Grant tackle the question: how do you make a short that actually gets you discovered?How do you get your feature financed, which festivals facilitate this process, what are big studios looking for in your work, and what to do with your film after it’s done it’s festival circuit.

Sanderson Toronto Public Library327 Bathurst Street, Toronto ON

Shorts that Get You DiscoveredFilmmaker Panel

PENDANCE DOCTRINAConferences Panels Workshops

FEBRUARY 19 4-6 PM

Unveiling PendanceProgrammers Conference

“The Story Behind #StoryOverEverything” Conference. Filmmakers Robert Misovic, Barry Germansky, Tijana Milenkovic and Kayla Craig talk about the origins and philosophy behind the Pendance Film Festival, what festivals are looking for in films, and what’s coming to Pendance in 2020 and beyond.

Palmerston Toronto Public Library560 Palmerston Avenue, Toronto, ON

CONFERENCES WORKSHOPS

PANELS


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PENDANCE MUSICMeet the Performers

Named Apple Music Canada’s Artist of the Week in December, This Montreal-based rapper has a smooth style that may remind you of another Canadian rapper who took the world by storm. With singles like Acquainted, and Judgement, CJ is rapping about a story. His story.

Not enough words for this talented singer who was most recently featured on Kim’s Convenience. Hit singles like 1954 and Lights Out have played world-over. It’s time to see her live.

The pride of St. Catherines Ontario, Lastli is a dicovery for us. They blew our music director Walt away when they opened for Navigate the Sky alongside the band he was actually scouting (Courage my Love), and he’s been in love with their music and general vibe ever since.

We can’t tell you who our fourth act is due to a radius clause and we’re happy to leave them a mystery. But you’ll just have to trust us when we tell you that IF you’re into Canadian Alternative Rock, you’re going to be so so pissed if you miss them.

CJ Flemings

Michaela May

Lastli

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE BY ONE OF CANADA’S TOP INDIE ROCK BANDS

SURPRISE PERFORMER

RISE Canada Directors

Rise Canada: Directors Lab Presented by Via Rail Canada, Canada Film Equipment, and Soundstripe Music is proud to welcome 12 emerging talents into our first director lab program.

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Alina KuleshToronto

Cassaundra SloanToronto

Ansh VohraToronto

Ethan GodelToronto

Frank Varga JR.Toronto

Justin BlackToronto

Gemma EvaWindsor

Linell RoyToronto

Mike JohnstonVancouver

Nigel EdwardsVancouver

Molly ShearsToronto

Raey AngToronto

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PendanceRobert Misovic

Festival Director & FounderTijana Milenkovic

Artistic Director

Kristina Zabelin Doctrina Co-Director

Kayla CraigProgrammer

Anastasia ZaritovskayaFilmmaker Relations

Masha LitvinavaSponsorship Coordinator

Walter NoseworthyMusic Director

Barry GermanskyProgrammer

Maria FominaDoctrina Co-Director

MadwharfGene Duterte

Web/UI Designer

Aidan Oliver Digital Marketing

Hye Yoon Ahn Visual Designer

James Kwon Visual Designer

Drew Danyluk Digital Marketing

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