SHORTS PACKAGE: DOCUMENTARY SHORTS

Shorts screened:

DELTA DAWN

26 minutes Canada (Documentary / Sport / Women Director)

A look at the early life and career of Indigenous wrestling sensation Dawn Murphy aka “Princess Delta Dawn”.

FIRST SNOW

5 minutes Canada (Documentary / Animation / Women Director)

A boy's journey from desert sands to the land of ice and snow.

ALL THINGS METAL

18 minutes United States (Documentary / Art / Music)

Three brothers run an iron forge together where they smith and also make heavy metal music. Their creative impulses come from a unique childhood marked by a shared disability.

VULTURE CULTURE: CREATING AFTERLIVES

17 minutes Canada (Documentary / Women Director / Student)

A look at vulture culture practitioners, a diverse community of amateur taxidermists, bone scavengers, collectors of dead things, and quirky lovers of the macabre, and the strange afterlife that they create for these animals.

GRIZZLY BEAR COUNTRY

6 minutes Canada (Documentary / Women Director / Experimental)

Three best friends travel on a backcountry trip in the Alberta Rockies. Rugged footage contrasted with intimate audio interviews creates a portrait revealing the nuances of masculinity and male friendships.

GEORGIE

14 minutes United States (Documentary / Women Director)

An ex-mobster reflects on love and loss after spending 32 years in prison.

WRECKED A BUNCH OF CARS, HAD A GOOD TIME

11 minutes United States (Documentary)

In America, the things we create we also find a way to destroy. We follow four people who have never met, but will smash each other to smithereens in a Demolition Derby.