This message is being sent on behalf of Connect2Canada and the Canadian Consulate General in Atlanta to Connect2Canada members in the Atlanta area who indicated an interest in Canadian Arts in the U.S. and/or connecting and socializing. We thought you might be interested in these upcoming film screenings.

Regards,
The Connect2Canada Team


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A Celebration of Canadian Film
The Consulate General of Canada in Atlanta is pleased to announce that a series of four Canadian films will be shown throughout the month of February at the Rich Theatre of High Museum of Art in Atlanta. For additional information and to purchase tickets, please click here.

This program is co-sponsored by the Consulate General of Canada in Atlanta with support from the Toronto International Film Festival Group.

We look forward to seeing you there.

A Simple Curve
Saturday, February 3, 8 p.m., Rich Theatre
Canada, 2005, 92 minutes.


The Kootenays is a gorgeous area in British Colombia where big lakes and bigger mountains fill the landscape. Writer/director Aubrey Nealon grew up in the region, and he sets his poignant, semi-autobiographical film there. His debut feature centers on the relationship between twenty-seven-year old Caleb, who has never left home, and his father, Jim, an American hippie who fled the U.S. during the Viet Nam War. Jim is an uncompromising artisan who makes fine furniture and has taught Caleb his craft. Though his work is beautiful, his perfectionism is taking a toll on the business, and Caleb is forced to borrow money from friends to make ends meet. The tensions between the recently widowed father and his son mount over a major commission and the presence of a pair of granola-head kids who take up residence on Jim’s land at his invitation. In his Eye Weekly review, Jason Anderson praised thedirector’s "snappy script, rich abundance of local detail, and defiantly regional sensibility," which nonetheless yield "observations that are satisfyingly universal." A Simple Curve was named one of the Ten Best Canadian Films of 2005. In English.

Eve and the Fire Horse
Saturday, February 10, 8 p.m., Rich Theatre
Canada, 2005, 92 minutes.


Writer/director Julia Kwan based her delicate, finely wrought period piece on her own experiences growing up Chinese in Vancouver during the 1970s. Her debut feature captures the inner world of Eve, who was born in 1966, the Year of the Fire Horse (notorious for producing troublesome children). She and her older sister, Karena, are the only Asian kids in their neighborhood. In a bid to fend off playground racists and to safeguard their parents, who were born on the mainland, they enroll in Catholic Sunday school. Thus, nine-year-old Eve finds herself caught between two worlds—her comfortable family home, where Buddha figures grace the mantel and the sounds of old Cantonese 45s fill the air, and the uncertain terrain of Vancouver, where disco and Jesus rule. Praised in the Toronto Globe and Mail as "funny, touching, and thoroughly enchanting," Eve and the Fire Horse won the Audience Award at the 2005 Vancouver International Film Festival. In Cantonese and English with subtitles.

White Skin
Saturday, February 17, 8 p.m., Rich Theatre
Canada, 2004, 90 minutes.


Montreal college student Thierry can’t stand redheads. It’s not their hair color but the transparency of their skin that repels him. Yet when he spots copper-maned Claire playing flute in a Montreal subway station, he’s smitten, and the fact that she’s passionate one moment and ready to break things off the next only adds to her intrigue. Still,there’s something decidedly strange about the girl, who has blood ties to another redhead, a prostitute who turned on Thierry’s roommate and slashed his neck with a knife. In the words of Eye Weekly’s Jason Anderson, Quebecois director Daniel Roby’s icy, romantic thriller "crosses genres and modes with considerable sophistication, cleverly integrating everything from Gothic horror to racial allegory." White Skin won the Best Canadian First Feature award at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival. In French with subtitles.

Marion Bridge
Saturday, February 24, 8 p.m., Rich Theatre
Canada, 2002, 90 minutes.


In his New York Times review, Stephen Holden wrote that "When Marion Bridge, a small, exquisitely acted Canadian film, is observing the psychological tensions of three grown-up sisters attending their dying mother in a small Nova Scotia town, it uncovers a complexity and depth of feeling rarely glimpsed in a family drama." The story of tough, hard-drinking Rose and her daughters, whose relationships with her and each other are thorny at best, "takes the raw ingredients of soap opera—the spilling of family secrets and the opening of old wounds as a parent slips away—and spins them into something truthful and quietly compelling." The film, based on a play by Daniel MacIvor and directed by Wiebke von Carolsfeld, won the Best Canadian First Feature award at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival. In English.

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Ha ha!! For that "fix" you'll have to watch the East Coast Music Awards.. This is YEar #2 for them hosting.. (not something I'm proud of as a Maritimer). http://www.ecma.ca/splash.asp