TORONTO, ON – Workman Arts is pleased to announce the dates and full line-up for their 32nd edition of the Rendezvous With Madness Festival, the largest and longest-running arts festival in the world dedicated to the intersection of mental health and artistic expression.
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“Making this film and having them open up to me, it had to be a reciprocal experience,” explains My Dad’s Tapes director Kurtis Watson. The Peterborough native makes his feature directorial debut with My Dad’s Tapes, a family affair that’s deeply personal, but one that should prove cathartic for many people in similar situations looking to unburden the pain they’ve been holding in.
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Birds and humans form in lines in autumn. The birds to get the flock out of here before snowfall while humans join queues at specialized film festivals. There are four niche film festivals opening in Toronto over the next month, two of them this week. Here are a few highlights and information about their programs.
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The Rendezvous with Madness Festival returns for its 32nd edition, running from October 25 to November 3, with a lineup that beautifully explores the intersections of mental health and artistic expression. As the world’s longest-running festival of its kind, Rendezvous With Madness continues to break ground with feature films, short programs, live performances, and a visual art exhibition—all designed to spark essential conversations.
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Two of That Shelf’’s very own staff, Managing Editor Emma Badame and Senior Critic Victor Stiff, are film programmers for this year’s festival.
RWM kicks off on October 25th at the CAMH Auditorium in Toronto, as Cree writer and filmmaker Dr. Jules Arita Koostachin discusses her profoundly personal documentary WaaKaPe. A member of the Attawapiskat First Nation, Koostachin’s film asks the difficult question, ‘Who are we without our pain?’ as she explores her own family history with the residential school system.
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This year’s festival theme, ‘Shine; Together’ brings stories into the light as a clarion call to build a more equitable society where compassion and empathy can shine through the darkness.” This is certainly true of the one film, Drive Back Home, I was able to screen in advance. One character questions, “If you did something so bad that it caused your family to turn their back on you, what does that say about you?” They are promptly told, “”You’re asking that question the wrong way around.” And that is the lesson at the heart of Drive Back Home. And Rendezvous with Madness.
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