Noon - Festival opens
All screenings at Sid Williams Theatre, 442 Cliffe Avenue, Courtenay

1:00 pm - Experimental Short Film Program
What’s a film festival without experimental short films! These forward thinking, tongue in cheek, avant-garde films promise new and different perspectives. This program gets you thinking outside the box.
Filmmakers in attendance! Stay after for a Q & A.

4:00pm - Overcome Short Film Program
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.
Filmmakers in attendance! Stay after for a Q & A.

6:30pm - Reception for Filmmakers & Screenwitrers
Sid Williams Theatre lobby

7:30 pm - Opening Night Feature Film - Seagrass
Set in the mid 1990’s, a Japanese Canadian woman grappling with the recent death of her mother brings her family to a self-development retreat. When her distressed relationship with her husband begins to affect the children’s emotional security, the family is forever changed.
*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

9-10:15am - Coffee Talk Free Event Sid Williams Theatre, 442 Cliffe Avenue, Courtenay - Courtyard entrance lower level Wake up and network! This is a free event for everyone. Coffee and snacks available.
10:15 - 11:00am - Script Readings Sid Williams Theatre, 442 Cliffe Avenue, Courtenay - Courtyard entrance lower level
Hear the winning short film scripts read live by local actors. This is a free event.

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

12:30pm - Connection Short Film Program
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.

3:30pm - Community Short Film Program
A short film program about our sense of place. Who is around us and where we belong - Community.
Filmmakers in Attendance! Stay after for a Q & A

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

8:00pm - Feature Film - The Great Salish Heist
A down-on-his-luck First Nations Archeologist seeking redemption teams up with a group of misfits from the Rez to break into a museum and reclaim sacred artifacts that rightfully belong to their people.

Filmmakers in Attendance! Stay after for a Q & A
*Film Panel prior to screening.

10:00pm - Party at Pizzeria Guerrilla, 444 5th Street, Courtenay

9-10am - Coffee Talk @ Stika Stag & Screen
(2683 Moray Ave, Unit 5, Courtenay BC)
Wake up and network! This is a free event for everyone. Coffee and snacks available.

Workshops
All workshops held at Sitka Stage & Screen - 90 minutes each

10:00am - 7 Steps to Profound Dialogue with Michael Bruce Adams

11:45am - Working with Actors with Allyson Leet

1:15pm - Lunch

2:00pm - Three Point Lighting Made Easy with Michael Bruce Adams

3:45pm - Confessions From The Edit Suite with Fredrik Thorsen

5:30pm - Screenwriting Demystified with Fredrik Thorsen