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January 22nd, 2023
5 - 7 PM
@ Skeena Diversity Society
By donation (suggested 10$) / open to all
* Limited space (30)
movie screening • storytelling • multicultural • family fun • cosy
About this event
Finish off your weekend with a movie night!
Join us at Skeena Diversity Society for a hot cup of tea or coco, popcorn and comfy couches.
This double feature will open with a world premier of Chloé Gayraud's short documentary film On another Frequency. It will be followed by the heartwarming film Peace by Chocolate by Jonathan Keijser.
/ About Peace by Chocolate
After the bombing of his father's chocolate factory, a charming young Syrian refugee struggles to settle into his new small-town life, caught between following his dream and preserving his family's legacy.
Watch trailer here.
/ On Another Frequency
'On Another Frequency' proposes an atmospheric and meditative experience, in the perception of a man in communion with the wild world. In this essay, the director explores the capacity of documentary to take off from reality, so that emerge the spirituality and the magical realism of the daily life of this man, who lives to the rhythm of the seasons, in the enchanting setting of the Haute-Gaspésie.
The short film invites us to experience another dimension of life, thanks to a subjective treatment of reality. An organic creation, which delivers a dreamlike portrait.
Watch trailer here.
About the artists
About the artists
/ about Jonathan Keijser
Originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Jonathan Keijser is a filmmaker and musician, with a Bachelor of Music in classical performance and a Masters of Fine Arts from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. His feature film narrative debut, PEACE BY CHOCOLATE, world premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival. He is the President of Magnetic North Pictures, a media company focused on creating socially-conscious storytelling.
/ about Chloé Gayraud
After working as an international dance show producer and artist agent, I got the bug for non-fiction film thanks to a happy accident, ‘Chloé Virgule’ (2018) co-directed with Andréanne Martin. This essay on the existential crisis along the Trans-Canada Highway premiered at RIDM before being screened in a dozen of international festivals. This last year, I explored the capacity of documentary to take off from reality, to touch the spiritual, the magical realism and participate in the deconstruction of anthropocentrism: ‘On Another Frequency’. In 2023, I'm finishing a punk video-poem, Rage. A micro-film about anger against a mega real estate project. At the same time, I'm developing my new documentary project, with an international star performer, the mime artist Dulcinea Langfelder.
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