6pm Festival opens!
All screenings at Sid Williams Theatre, 442 Cliffe Avenue, Courtenay

6:00pm - Reception for Filmmakers & Screenwitrers
Sid Williams Theatre lobby

7:30 pm - Opening Night Feature Film - The Last ShowGirl
The Last Showgirl, a poignant film of resilience, rhinestones and feathers, stars Pamela Anderson as Shelly, a glamorous showgirl who must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run
*Script Competition winners announced prior to screening.

10:00pm - Party at Gladstone Brewing Co.
244 4th Street - right across the street from the Sid Williams Theatre

9-10:50am - Coffee Talk Free Event Gladstone Brewing Co. 244 4th Street, Courtenay Wake up and network! This is a free event for everyone. Coffee and snacks available.

All screenings at Sid Williams Theatre, 442 Cliffe Avenue, Courtenay

11:00am -Out Of The Box Short Film Program (1)
What’s a film festival without inventive experimental short films!  These forward thinking, tongue in cheek, avant-garde films promise new and different perspectives. This programs will get you thinking well… out-of-the-box
Filmmakers in attendance! Stay after for a Q & A.

2:00pm - Relationships Short Film Program (2)
This short film program is about the relationships we keep, lose, miss and want. Whether we are saying goodbye or cultivating new connections, relationships are at the heart of our stories.
Filmmakers in Attendance! Stay after for a Q & A

5:00pm - Feature Film The Way We Speak An up-and-coming writer refuses to leave the spotlight when his best friend and debate opponent suffers cardiac arrest, leading to an obsession over his new opponent and a growing rift with his ailing wife.
Filmmakers in Attendance! Stay after for a Q & A

8:00pm - Feature Film -Universal Language
Somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg. Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen in the winter ice and try to get it out. Massoud leads a group of increasingly-confused tourists through the monuments and historic sites of Winnipeg. Matthew quits his job at the Québec government and embarks upon a mysterious journey to visit his mother. Time, geography and personal identities crossfade, interweave and collide into a surreal comedy of disorientation.

9-10am - Coffee Talk Free Event Gladstone Brewing Co. 244 4th Street, Courtenay Wake up and network! This is a free event for everyone. Coffee and snacks available.

10-11am - Live Script Readings Gladstone Brewing Co. 244 4th Street, Courtenay
Hear the winning short film scripts read live by local actors. This is a free event.

11:30am - Connection Short Film Program (3) This short film program packs a punch!.  Exploring themes on connection and our need to connect or reconnect as part of the human experience. Filmmakers in attendance! Stay after for a Q & A.

2:30pm - Strength Short Film Program (4) The films in this program stand up and deliver. Life is full of challenges, it's how we deal with them that makes us who we are.

6:30pm - Film Panelincluded with admission to Saturday Feature Film
A panel of industry creatives talk about free creativity. (Panel tba)

8:00pm Feature Film Sweet Summer Pow Wow A young Indigenous couple get a break from their troubled lives when they find each other through a summer of love on the Pow-Wow circuit.

10:00pm - Party at Atlas Restaurant, 250 6th Street, Courtenay

9-10am - Coffee Talk Free EventNIC Campus, Tyee Hall 2300 Ryan Rd, Courtenay BC
Wake up and network! This is a free event for everyone. Coffee and snacks available.

Workshops
All workshops held at NIC Campus Tyee Hall- 90 minutes each

10:00am - Story Sparks: Visual and Aural Subtext in Screenwriting with Michael Bruce Adams

12 noon - Workshop #2 TBA

1:30pm - Catered Lunch

2:00pm -Workshop #3 TBA

4:00pm -Workshop #4 TBA