Victoria Lean’s documentary After the Last River will open the 2015 edition of the Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival in its Toronto premiere, with Hui Wang’s doc Last Harvest slated to close the festival, it was announced Thursday.
The festival, which is set to run in Toronto from Oct. 21 to Oct. 25, will feature a number of Canadian films in its lineup, including the Canadian premieres of Clark Ferguson’s Shadow of a Giant, Karen Andres’ The Camp Home Project and Tamara Herman’s We Call Them Intruders: Financing Canadian Mining in Africa in the festival forum program.
The premiere program will include the Canadian doc One River Many Relations from directors Stephane McLachlan and the USA/Canada coproduction Doeville, which will have its Canadian bow at the festival. The Pristine Coast, from director Scott Renyard, will also screen in the program in its Toronto premiere.
In the mid-length program, Canadian selections include Ian Towes’ Grasslands, Scott Dobson’s Puffin Patrol, Lalita Krishna’s Return to Ryan’s Well, Marcia Connolly and Catherine Knight’s Strange and Familiar, Darcy Tureene’s The Little Things and Tyler and Alex Mifflin’s The Water Brothers. Films having Canadian bows in this program are Puffin Patrol, Return to Ryan’s Well and Strange and Familiar.
Finally, the shorts program will showcase more than 10 Canadian or Canadian copro pieces, including Golbahar Khazaei’s Blue Voice, Norm Fassbender’s The Flight of the Polar Bear, Crystal Dawn Jerome’s I Remember, Alex Hawley’s Norma’s Story, Claudie Ottawa’s Onactasowin, Ernest Webb’s The Wolverine: The Fight of the James Bay Cree and the USA/Canada copro All is Found.