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Upcoming Screening: Temple of Peace, Maui, Hawaii Sunday, January 29 6:00 pm
Tickets are $15. The screening is a fundraiser to support the nuns of Tsogyal Latso. Light refreshments will be provided. Dechen Lama Yeshe Wangmo will be present for a discussion following the film.
Invitation: Culture Unplugged Spirit Enlightened Online Film Festival!
In the Minds of All Beings was solicited by Culture Unplugged Studios, based in India, USA, Indonesia and New Zealand, for participation in their online film festival. Spirit Enlightened launched on December 15, 2011 and will run until June 2012. Since its first online film festival in 2008, Culture Unplugged festivals have been visited by more than 18 million people from 231+ countries/territories and 36,000+ cities. The films are freely available to the audience.
Fundraising Success!
Jnanasukha reached its goal of $10,000 earlier than expected through the generous support of over 250 people who donated to The Tsogyal Latso Fund. Awareness raised through the film has been a significant part of this fundraising.
This money was brought to Tsogyal Latso in September. $7,000 was given as a living allowance for the next year ($500 for each nun), and $2,500 was spent on medical care for the nuns as well as hygiene and infrastructure improvements to the nunnery. A love offering was made with $1,000 to accumulate one hundred thousand Green Tara Praises for the benefit of all Tsogyal Latso benefactors.
Saskatchewan Premiere Screening & Public Discussion: Thursday, November 24
Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Regina
The evening celebrated the completion of This Time Last Winter and provided an opportunity for community discussion on violence in young relationships. Anyone can experience relationship violence, but youth are particularly vulnerable. They can have misconceptions about acceptable behaviour in relationships, find it difficult to identify signs of dysfunction and codependency, and fail to recognize emotional abuse. The result can be a perpetual cycle of psychological struggle and unhealthy living.
Fundraising
Admission was by donation. $425.00 was raised for the Provincial Association of Transition Houses and Services of Saskatchewan (PATHS), and $325.00 was raised for Youth Educating About Health (YEAH), a program of Planned Parenthood Regina - for a grand total of $750.00.
Panelists
The fantastic line-up of panelists for the discussion was Dr. Mary Hampton, Professor in the Department of Psychology at Luther College, University of Regina; Dustin Stuefloten, member of Youth Educating About Health (Y.E.A.H.) a program developed through Planned Parenthood Regina; Dr. Carrie Bourassa, Associate Professor in the Department of Science at First Nations University of Canada; Danna Henderson, actor and award-winning star of This Time Last Winter; and Dory Oochoo, a participant in the “I Am A Kind Man” anti-violence program run through Qu'Appelle Haven Safe Shelter Inc.. Lois Isnana, Child Care Counselor at the Qu’Appelle Haven Safe Shelter in Fort Qu’Appelle, will moderate the panel.
About This Time Last Winter
Award
Best Actress, 2010 Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival
Film Specs
25 minutes, Canada, 2010
Red One Camera / High Definition, colour, Dolby E & stereo
Synopsis
Iona returns to her boyfriend’s funky warehouse apartment – full of love, magic and the location of her last memory – to look for answers. Through interracial relationships and the healing potential of a talking circle, the film explores violence in young relationships and the moment of choice we face when the urge to be violent surfaces.
Cast
Danna Henderson, Ian Brodland, Cheryl Jack, Erroll Kinistino, Karin von Staden, Kent Nolan
Production Story
This Time Last Winter results from the creative efforts of Sarah Abbott, producer, co-writer and Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Production and Studies (MPS) at the University of Regina; Halifax-based Ann Verrall, director, co-writer and 2009 MPS filmmaker-in-residence; cinematographer Mark Dobrescu, CSC; editor Jackie Dzuba; composer Ramses Calderon; and Sarah's film production students who worked alongside Saskatchewan film industry professionals. Production took place over six days in Regina, using the Red One Camera, generously provided by Mind's Eye Entertainment. The script was inspired by the short story Location of the Imagination written by Alice Kuipers.
Press
Carle Steel, Prairie Dog Magazine, Regina, November 18 - 30, 2011
Leisha Grebinski, The Morning Edition, CBC Radio, Saskatchewan, November 24, 2011
Nelson Bird, Indigenous Circle, CTV, December 1, 2011
Screenings
Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival, Winnipeg, Manitoba, November 2010
American Indian Film Festival, San Francisco, US Premiere, November 2010
Atlantic Film Festival, Halifax, World Premiere, September 2010
Distribution
Moving Images Distribution, Vancouver
Sarah Abbott
Digging into Wounds: Public Discussions on Aboriginal/Police Relations
In Post-Production
Digging into Wounds: Public Discussions on Aboriginal/Police Relations is an insightful record of Regina and Saskatoon community members, along with the police chiefs of both cities, hashing out historical and contemporary relationships between Aboriginal and Métis people and the Canadian justice system. The discussions took place following the Regina and Saskatoon premiere screenings of Out In The Cold.
Thanks to the Saskatchewan Filmpool for a Post-Production Grant to assist in completing the film!
Award for Innovation in the Arts
Sarah received the 2009 Regina Mayor’s Arts and Business Award for Innovation in the Arts for her production of Out In The Cold in recognition of the film’s connection to a wide range of community sectors through its educational process, community outreach and social awareness. Read the University of Regina press release.