Screen/Society--LIFT presents: The Madvo Collection Commissioning Project-- Introduced by Anna Kipervaser

LIFT presents: The Madvo Collection Commissioning Project
50 mins

--Introduced by Anna Kipervaser (AMI)

In 2014, the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) received a donation of a 200-reel collection of the films and outtakes of local documentary filmmaker Jacques Madvo. Madvo travelled the world from the 1960s to the 1980s, shooting 16mm footage that made its way into the People and Places documentaries he produced for TVO. The footage is a treasure trove of documentation of international culture and life from almost a half-century ago. With the assistance of an Initiatives Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, LIFT commissioned eight films and videos that incorporate the Madvo collection footage as a starting point.

Program 1 details below; Program 2 will screen in 2019.

Program 1:

Fanfare
Fraser McCallum
9 min.

Soy un ser cuyas raíces // I am a being whose roots
Zoë Heyn-Jones
12 min.

Chooka
Faraz Anoushahpour, Parastoo Anoushahpour and Ryan Ferko
20 min.

Fountains of Paris
Stephen Broomer
8 min.

Passage
Ajla Odobasic
5 min.

Sponsored by the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI).