Film North, the Huntsville International Film Festival, has announced its program lineup, which includes 35 films, including shorts, docs and features.
The festival will open on Sept. 19 with Patrick Reed’s documentary Fight Like Soldiers, Die Like Children, which follows retired general Romeo Dallaire on his mission to end recruitment and use of child soldiers around the world. The film is exec produced by White Pine Pictures’ Peter Raymont and Janice Dawe. That screening will be preceded by those of two shorts: Bhutanese short film The Container, from Jamyang Dorji, and The Snow Spirit, a two-minute animated short from Lore Salas Reyes.
Other documentaries screening at the festival include Canuck director Julian Pinder’s Trouble in the Peace, Ric Esther Bienstock’s Tales from the Organ Trade, which bowed at this year’s Documentary Edge Festival, and closing night film Who the F**k is Arthur Fogel, directed by Ron Chapman. The film is a look into the world of tour producer Fogel, the head of global touring for Live Nation.
Features screening at the festival include action-drama All is Lost, from U.S. director JC Chandor and starring Robert Redford; Jeremy LaLonde’s ensemble comedy Sex After Kids; and Jason Butler and Brett Butler’s dramedy Mourning Has Broken.
The feature-length film screenings are all preceded by short films, including Canuck shorts from Virginia Hastings, Kristin Shepherd and Kevin Hoffman.
The festival will also feature a shorts screening comprised of 10 Canadian shorts and one from New Zealand.
Film North takes place in Huntsville on Sept. 19 to 21, 2013.