DRIFF DAY 2:
Friday, October 20
St. Francis Centre For Community, Arts & Culture | 78 Church Street South | Ajax
Tickets: $10
*Schedule subject to change. Check website closer to the event date.
5:30 PM to 11:30 PM: TICKETED EVENT
5:30 PM: PRE-SCREENING PARTY BEGINS / LOCAL FOOD SHOWCASE
This year DRIFF is offering for festivalgoers to indulge their tastebuds while sampling delicious local food at our pre-screening party. We are thrilled to showcase talented chefs from Frantastic Events (Oshawa), Hungrieyes (Durham Region) and the Picadilly Cakery (Whitby) who are looking forward to serving savoury and sweet reception-style food at their tables. This is a great opportunity for a meet n’ greet with the chefs while enjoying an informal time with rest of the audience before the program begins.
6:10 PM: WELCOME REMARKS
6:15 - 7:15 PM: INDUSTRY WORKSHOP: FINANCE, INSURANCE AND DISTRIBUTION
An independent filmmaker needs to raise the money they need to produce their films without the backing of Hollywood studios—how do they find it? Insurance requirements are different for each type of film. A movie with lots of action sequences with special stunts may cost more to insure than one without them so how does all this work? When a film is complete, a filmmaker’s primary goal it to get their work seen by audiences, so they find ways to distribute their film from film festivals to Free Ad Supported Television (FAST) streaming opportunities. Which is best? Learn from a select group of panelists who will answer these questions and discuss these important components of filmmaking.
7:15 PM: BREAK
7:25 PM: DIRECTOR OF FILM PROGRAMMING INTRODUCTION
7:30 PM: SCREENING - Demon Box (14 mins), The Boy in the Woods (96 mins)
Demon Box (14 mins)
After festival rejections, a director revises his intensely personal short film about trauma, suicide, and the Holocaust, and transforms it into a painful, blunt and funny dissection of the film and his life.
The Boy in the Woods (96 mins)
THE BOY IN THE WOODS follows the true story of Max (Jett Klyne), a Jewish boy escaping Nazi persecution in Eastern Europe. After he is separated from his family, Max finds refuge with a Christian peasant Jasko (Richard Armitage) who hides him in plain site until a tense stand-off with some Nazi police. Afraid for his own family's life, Jasko sends Max to live in the woods where he learns to survive alone.
9:10 PM: AUDIENCE Q&A
9:20 PM: BREAK
9:30 PM: SCREENING - When Hope Breaks Through (90 mins)
When Hope Breaks Through (90 mins)
After a grim medical prognosis and a mental health breakdown, now disabled professional paddleboarder, Mike Shoreman, fights his way back to the surface and sets out to raise awareness and funding for the youth mental health crisis in Canada by paddleboarding across all five Great Lakes.
11:00 PM: AUDIENCE Q&A
11:15 PM: CLOSING REMARKS
11:30 PM: EVENT CLOSE
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DID YOU KNOW?
Originally constructed in 1871 and officially recognized as an Ajax heritage building in 1999, the former St. Francis de Sales Church has been transformed into an exceptional venue for performing arts, providing a distinctive setting for artistic expressions.
