On Screen Manitoba

Bands Vs. Filmmakers

Join us for an exciting night featuring Winnipeg’s finest musicians playing to the film and video art of creative and unique visionary artists. Hosted by Sylvia Kuzyk, the night is in support of the Winnipeg Film Group's Cinematheque!

Thu May 31 at 8:00 PM

MUSIC:
Sit Down Tracy
This Hisses
Cannon Bros.
The Magnificent 7's
Nova

FILMMAKERS:
Rhyane Vermette
Scott Fitzpatrick
Curtis Wiebe
Stephane Oystryk
Danishka Esterhazy

Admission: $20 ($25 at door) Available at Ticketmaster, The Winnipeg Folk Festival Store, Winnipeg Film Group, Cinematheque, Music Trader and the West End Cultural Centre.

Upcoming Films

PINK RIBBONS, INC.

Thu May 31, 2012 at 9:00 PM

DIR. LÉA POOL | 2011 | CANADA | 97 MIN.

In conjunction with the Mayworks Festival of Labour and the Arts, Cinematheque presents this superbly researched look at the issue of how the cause of breast cancer is manipulated as a corporate cause. Breast cancer has become the poster child of cause-related marketing campaigns.Countless people walk, run and shop for the cure. Each year, millions of dollars are raised in the name of breast cancer, but where does this money go and what does it actually achieve? Pink Ribbons, Inc. is a documentary that shows how the devastating reality of breast cancer, which marketing experts have labeled a dream cause, has become obfuscated by a shiny, pink story of success.

THE SALESMAN

Fri Jun 1, 2012 at 7:00 PM
Sat Jun 2, 2012 at 7:00 PM
Sun Jun 3, 2012 at 7:00 PM
Wed Jun 6, 2012 at 7:00 PM
Thu Jun 7, 2012 at 7:00 PM

DIR. SEBASTIAN PILOTE | 2011 | CANADA | 107 MIN. (French w/English subtitles)

Cited as One of Canada’s Ten Best Films of The Year by a jury at the Toronto International Film Festival this remarkably poignant new Quebec film is story of a car salesman named Marcel whose obsession in life has been selling cars.
Well liked by his colleagues and devoted to his daughter he is always working and has become very good at his job - winning “Salesman of the Month” for the last 16 years. But as the economy takes a downturn and the town paper mill shuts down he faces a hard look at his situation in life.Veteran Quebec actor Gilbert Sicotte (the narrator of the classic Quebec film Leolo) gives a career topping performance as a man desperately trying to keep up his spirits in a tough economy.

TABLOID

Fri Jun 1, 2012 at 9:00 PM
Sat Jun 2, 2012 at 9:00 PM
Thu Jun 7, 2012 at 9:00 PM

DIR. ERROL MORRIS | 2011 | USA | 87 MIN

Veteran U.S. documentary filmmaker Errol Morris (The Fog of War,The Thin Blue Line) has created a riveting documentary about a story so bizarre it is often hard to know where the truth begins and ends.The story centres on Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming from Blue Ridge Mountains, who is charged with abducting and imprisoning her fiancé Kirk Anderson. He claims she forced him to have sex over three days after having fled back to the church in England to escape her clutches. In 1997 the tabloids had a field day with the story because of its elements of scandal- a beauty queen, kidnapping, forced sex and organized religion. Morris now retells the story in a contemporary manner featuring a hilarious interview with the obsessive McKinney, incredible archival footage, and interviews with Fleet Street tabloid reporters.