TORONTO IN THE MOVING IMAGE:
A PLANET IN FOCUS SPOTLIGHT PROGRAM
Spacing is a sponsor of the film series called Toronto In the Moving Image during the Planet in Focus film festival. This retrospective of Toronto’s life on film spans more than a hundred years, from the silent era to the present day. You can check the website at www.planetinfocus.org for details on tickets and screening times as well as the latest information on panel discussions, walking tours, and festival parties.
SATURDAY NOV 4
Walking Tour with David Crombie and Friends
Join former Mayor of Toronto David Crombie and some special friends on a walking tour from the Bata Shoe Museum to the Steam Whistle Brewery.
11:00 am to 1:00 pm @ Bata Shoe Museum
A Whale of A Tale (45 min / Canada)
The miraculous discovery of A Whale Bone by a Toronto Transit Commission subway construction crew in Toronto in the 1980’s generated a lot of buzz at the time of its excavation. Peter Lynch unearths its mystery.
• 1:00pm-3:00pm @ ROM
Hogtown: The Politics of Policing (96 min / Canada)
Winner of the 2005 Hotdocs Best Feature Length Canadian Documentary Award, director Min Sook Lee with unprecedented access, takes us into the machinations, political pressures and influences over the Toronto Police Services Board.
• 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm @ Innis College (rm 222)
Flowers or Ashes (13 min / Canada)
In 1956 The City of Toronto established The Metro Civil Defense Organization. In that era, the height of the “Cold Warâ€, emergency preparedness was concerned with the dropping of a nuclear bomb on our city. Flowers or Ashes is a rare PSA period piece, which exposes the viewer to the precautions the typical Toronto family needed to take at their peril!
• 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm @ the Royal Ontario Museum
The Strip (12 min / Canada)
Documentary filmmaker Ron Mann and his friend Cliff Librach’s grade eight Geography class project on Toronto’s Yonge Street Strip is a blast to the past.
• 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm @ Innis College
A School Without Borders (51 min / Canada)
Populated by young immigrants from every colour of the multicultural rainbow, Etienne Brule is a French-language school that provides struggling teens with a concrete means of both getting an education and socially acclimatizing to their new home.
• 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm @ Innis College
Dream Tower (47 min / Canada)
In 1968, an 18-storey structure in the heart of Toronto was to house Canada’s first free college. Director Ron Mann takes us on a journey from its intellectual inception to the mythological place it had in North American psychedelic culture.
• Saturday 9:00pm-11:00pm @ ROM
