Canadian wildlife artist, Robert Bateman, is just one of the special guests who will attend Doc(k) day in Haliburton April 11.
Those Other Movies (TOM) and Doc(k) Day, which organize the one-day documentary film festival, announced March 16 that Bateman, Bristol Foster, and director Alison Reid, of The Art of Adventure, will be coming to introduce their movie and answer questions after the screening.
Myra Stephen, on behalf of the committee, said “as young men in their 20s, Bateman and spirited biologist Foster embark on a globe-trotting adventure in the 1950s in a Land Rover they name the Grizzly Torque. It is a powerful story of environmental activism, youthful naivety, human connections and respect for all living things.”
Reid uses footage taken by Foster and artwork by Bateman.
The other special guests are Ron Mann and Mairéad Filgate, who’ll discuss their film project, Clairtone. Mann directs this tale about the rise and fall of Clairtone Sound Corporation, an audacious Canadian electronics company founded by Peter Munk and David Gilmour during the vibrant 1960s. It features dancer and choreographer, Filgate.
Haliburton audiences have delighted in Filgate’s performances locally in Dusk Dances, Sculpture Forest Re-imagined, Note the Weather and more.
Stephen said they’ll bring four documentaries: three full-length and one shorter film to the Northern Lights Performing Art Pavilion for this year’s event.
“It is an opportunity to come together as a community to learn, reflect, and be inspired. We are excited this year to present an allCanadian line up with films that touch upon the immigrant experience, the natural world, artistic pursuits, community contributions, dementia care, entrepreneurship and adventure.”
Other films include I am the Art: Nobuo Kubota, which explores the life and artistic journey of 92-year-old Nobuo Kubota, a Japanese-Canadian artist whose work spans painting, sculpture, sound, music, installation, and film.
The other is We Lend a Hand: The Forgotten Story of the Ontario Farmerettes, which reveals the true story of the Ontario Farm Service Force. It put 40,000 volunteer teenage girls to work between 1941 and 1952, arriving from different parts of Ontario and Quebec to many locations in Southwestern Ontario. Their job was to ensure critical food production during a perilous period of modern history. Most had no prior farming experience. They worked under relentless weather conditions and schedules and produced hundreds of thousands of tons of food that was shipped to the frontlines to feed starving European populations and even prisoners of war. Many of the women are now in their late 90s.
VIP passes for the full day are available at thoseothermovies.com – $30 for Those Other Movies seasons pass holders and $35 for general public. A limited number of single tickets for all films will be for sale on April 11, starting when doors open at 9 a.m.
The schedule:
● 10 a.m. I am the Art: Nobuo Kubota (85 min.)
● Picnic lunch. Bring your own lunch; eat and chat together in the cafeteria.
● 1:30 p.m. Clairtone (73 min.)
● 3:30 p.m. We Lend a Hand – The Forgotten Story of Ontario Farmerettes (49 min.)
● 7:30 p.m. The Art of Adventure (90 min.) + Q&A with director Alison Reid
