Embodying Water: A UofT x Water Docs Film Festival
When and Where
Description
Our event is a student-organized film festival which takes place on March 8th from 2:00pm-5:30pm at Innis Town Hall (2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5)! It showcases short film selections on the topic of "water" presented by our UofT Cinema Studies seminar class, "Sensory Ecologies: Theory and Praxis in Environmental Media Studies," taught by Professor Nadine Chan. In collaboration with Melanie Howe, the Lead Programmer and Project Manager of the Water Docs Film Festival, our class curated this year's festival under the theme of "Embodying Water," a concept which connects to issues of climate justice and decolonizing how we relate to our surrounding watery environments.
The screening will feature the following five short films: Wetlands (Persia Beheshti, 2019), The Lost Seahorse (Benjamin Fieschi-Rose and Kirsten Brass, 2021), Biolumin (Moe Clark, Victoria Hunt, and James Brown, 2020), Water Silhouettes (Siluetas De Agua) (Violeta Paus, 2020), and One Day We Will Dance With You (Alkis Papastathopoulos and Kate Adams, 2020).
The screening will be followed by a Q&A discussion with filmmaker Benjamin Fieschi-Rose and student representatives from Climate Justice UofT. We are very excited to be hosting this festival and look forward to seeing you there! Please, if you can, include a donation to Water Docs with your ticket and/or bring a non-perishable food item for our food drive. Please remember to bring your own water bottle (there is a water station at the venue).