Short Series: Culture & Belonging

Short Series: Culture & Belonging

Co-presented by Guelph Museums  

Venue: Guelph Civic Museum, 52 Norfolk St, Guelph, ON N1H 4H8
Tickets: $12/PWYW
Screening: 2:30pm

CANADA ⋅ 80min ⋅ Partial Subtitles

Short Series Description: A series of short documentaries that explore care and community.

Delta Dawn

Asia Youngman ⋅ CANADA ⋅ 26  min

Dawn Murphy aka “Princess Delta Dawn” rose to fame in the 1980s and early 1990s as an Indigenous wrestling sensation. After competing in the pro wrestling circuit in Canada, Dawn rose to international success and became the first Indigenous woman, and the first Canadian woman, to compete in Japan.

Aunt Harriet

HAUI™ ⋅ GUELPH ⋅ 8 min

Evoking the experience of memory loss, this spoken word exploration, illuminates the life of Aunt Harriet Miller, a singer from Wellington County. Aunt Harriet spent her final years at St. Joseph’s Hospital, where she passed away in 1932, having lost her memory and family. 

Lobster Queen

Alix Buck ⋅ CANADA ⋅ 23 min

*Ontario Premiere*

They say women are bad luck on a boat. Captain Gail Atkinson never gave a damn. She's spent the last 30 years proving everyone wrong—and taking chances on people nobody else would hire. But Gail's convictions are put to the test as she faces the storm of the year and an emotional upheaval that shakes her to her core. As she grapples with identity, loneliness, and legacy, Gail finds unexpected purpose providing others the very opportunities that she was once denied.

King's Court 

Serville Poblete ⋅ CANADA ⋅ 20 min

A fast-paced look at love, family, and the journey to manhood in modern society, through the raw emotions and struggles of two lifelong friends in Toronto’s Bleecker Street neighbourhood—one of Canada’s most diverse and densely populated areas.

Post Screening event: Talkback with the local filmmakers behind these inspiring shorts.