SHORTS PACKAGE: DOCUMENTARY SHORTS

Shorts screened:

Delta Dawn

2024, 26 minutes, Canada, Director: Asia Youngman
A look at the early life and career of Indigenous wrestling sensation Dawn Murphy aka “Princess Delta Dawn”.

First Snow

2024, 5 minutes, Canada, Director: Kirsten Kosloski
A boy's journey from desert sands to the land of ice and snow.

All Things Metal

2024, 18 minutes, United States, Director: Motoki Otsuka
Three brothers run an iron forge together where they smith and also make heavy metal music. Their creative impulses come from a unique childhood marked by a shared disability.

Vulture Culture: Creating Afterlives

2024, 17 minutes, Canada, Director: Teya Nicolaou
A look at vulture culture practitioners, a diverse community of amateur taxidermists, bone scavengers, collectors of dead things, and quirky lovers of the macabre, and the strange afterlife that they create for these animals.

Grizzly Bear Country

2024, 6 minutes, Canada, Director: Mave Ky
Three best friends travel on a backcountry trip in the Alberta Rockies. Rugged footage contrasted with intimate audio interviews creates a portrait revealing the nuances of masculinity and male friendships.

Georgie

2024, 14 minutes, United States, Director: Jennie Butler
An ex-mobster reflects on love and loss after spending 32 years in prison.

Wrecked A Bunch Of Cars, Had A Good Time

2024, 11 minutes, United States, Directors: James P. Gannon & Matt Ferrin
In America, the things we create we also find a way to destroy. We follow four people who have never met, but will smash each other to smithereens in a Demolition Derby.