Mary Ellen Davis will be presenting Territories (2007) along with her short film A Day In Palestine (2008) at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Saturday, October 4th 2008 at 5:30 pm.
Territories, documentary, 65 min. 2007.
A Day in Palestine, documentary, 6 min. 2007.
The filmmaker will be in attendance.

For more info: www.bostonpalestinefilmfest.org

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L’album PRÉSIDENTS D’AFRIQUE de l’artiste hip hop sénégalais Didier Awadi, du groupe Positive Black Soul (PBS) sera disponible au Canada dès le 15 juin. Awadi est un des personnages du long-métrage documentaire LES ÉTATS-UNIS D’AFRIQUE réalisé par Yanick Létourneau. L’album, sur étiquette Peripheria, sera distribué au Canada par Distribution Sélect. Peripheria a récemment signé une entente exclusive avec SÉLECT qui permettra la sortie de CD, DVD et produits numériques (sur internet) pour le marché canadien.

The short drama Three Mothers by Daniel Schachter will have its Quebec premiere at FNC October 15, 2008, at 5:30 pm. His script won the Grand Prize of the 2007 SODEC/FNC “Cours écrire ton court” contest. Three Mothers recently premiered to a full house at the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax. The film was selected as one of Stella Artois “hot picks”.

The film is part of an event organized by SODEC and FNC to celebrate ten years of Cours écrire ton court.

The short film The Good-byes (2005), directed by Lisa Sfriso and produced by Peripheria will also be shown during the same program.

When stores and offices close and most people go home to sleep, an invisible army of nightshift janitors moves in to clean. Midnight Ballads plunges into the reality of five hard-working Latino immigrants living in Montreal. Mauser is new on the job after having recently escaped political persecution by Mexican police. There is Marco, a flamboyant Colombian cook. He is now on welfare, struggling with chronic illness and a twisted case of sexual discrimination at work. Then there is Elizabeth, a sociologist and daughter of Portuguese immigrants, who became a union recruiter to inform her fellow workers of their rights. Remberto is a joyful percussionist and single parent of three teenage girls. He loves the flexible schedule of the job, which allows him to play in his band and take care of his daughters. Like the others, Sergio also works the night shift, but by day his job is more unearthly. He is an evangelical pastor in a church he co-founded with his wife, and describes himself as a “television station” that communicates God’s message to the marginalized Latino community. By peering into their lives and hearing the impassioned stories of each of these workers, we discover a rarely seen Latino subculture and the people responsible for the dirtiest job in town.

Short Film / color / 35mm / HD / 11 min 11 / Canada / © 2005
Two Friends. A sunny afternoon. A very special day for Mathilda who learns to say goodbye for the first time. A journey through friendship and the meaning of life.

In 2003, nine Americans and three Canadians were arrested in Acapulco during a police crackdown on child prostitution and pornography. Filmmaker Diego Briceño-Orduz traveled to Acapulco to meet with some of the street kids who fell victim to the accused “sex tourists” and follows them during the ensuing two-year trial and ultimately discovers that no verdict will ever redeem the harsh reality endured by these kids. Souvenir Kids takes us to the streets of Acapulco where the souvenirs that are bought and sold are not just postcards and trinkets, but the dignity and self-esteem of teenagers living on the margins of society.

Winner “Best First Documentary” at the Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois 2004

Shot in the streets of Montreal, CHRONIQUE URBAINE (“Urban Chronicle”) tells the intimate story of SP (Kamenga M’Bikai), a popular rapper who’s personal and professional life is in a state of flux. His girlfriend will be giving birth to his first kid. He must find a job and get his life back in order to assume this new responsibility. Encouraged by his manager and his team, SP fights for his dreams with the release of a second album. During the process, he realizes mistakes he has made, and tries to find pride in himself. Featuring Sans Pression, Yvon Krevé, DJ Manspino, 01 étranjj & Carl «XL» Leduc

A film by Diego Briceño-Orduz
Short fiction film, Digital Betacam, 26 min.

24 hours in a desolate industrial town, J.D. & Alex search for the right place to conceive a baby. Alex’s biological clock is confronted with J.D.’s drunken state in a collision of emotions that takes them from euphoria to frustration

“The central strength of Things Never Said in Playa Perdida is its successful marriage of realism (from the powerful performances of the two leads) and symbolism (the expressive and connotative use of landscape and location)”

Donato Totaro, www.offscreen.com