WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.305 Phoenix is out on location this morning 00:00:02.305 --> 00:00:03.999 with Denise Young right now, 00:00:03.999 --> 00:00:06.703 who is the Picture This Film Festival Director. 00:00:06.703 --> 00:00:08.407 Hi Phoenix. 00:00:10.447 --> 00:00:11.725 Hey Kate, hi everybody. 00:00:11.725 --> 00:00:14.233 Filming film is the topic of discussion today 00:00:14.243 --> 00:00:16.281 so we brought Denise in because 00:00:16.281 --> 00:00:18.560 there is another event, the PTFF 00:00:18.560 --> 00:00:21.020 explain that. 00:00:21.020 --> 00:00:23.411 PTFF is short for Picture This Film Festival 00:00:23.414 --> 00:00:25.387 which is...we're kicking off our our 00:00:25.387 --> 00:00:28.020 fourthteenth year of celebrating films 00:00:28.020 --> 00:00:30.324 either made by people with disabilities 00:00:30.324 --> 00:00:34.556 on any topic or about disability 00:00:34.556 --> 00:00:36.377 and those may or may not be 00:00:36.377 --> 00:00:38.078 filmmakers with disabilities. 00:00:38.078 --> 00:00:40.160 Why is this film festival so important 00:00:40.160 --> 00:00:42.796 to Calgarians and also to these film makers? 00:00:42.796 --> 00:00:45.711 I think it's really important for...to get that voice out 00:00:45.711 --> 00:00:47.713 because it isn't a voice that you get to see 00:00:47.713 --> 00:00:50.062 on the mainstream media as much. 00:00:50.062 --> 00:00:52.666 It gives an opportunity for people to tell their stories 00:00:52.666 --> 00:00:54.586 and we even say we have an educational function 00:00:54.586 --> 00:00:56.683 to educate the broader community about people 00:00:56.683 --> 00:00:58.940 with disabilities and the reality of their lives 00:00:58.940 --> 00:01:00.531 not…not the fictions 00:01:00.531 --> 00:01:02.232 that are, kind of, in mainstream media. 00:01:02.232 --> 00:01:03.674 Yeah. There's a couple of examples we're going to 00:01:03.674 --> 00:01:05.480 show here in just a quick second. 00:01:05.480 --> 00:01:07.405 These are amazing and it comes from all 00:01:07.405 --> 00:01:09.095 different parts of the country as well too 00:01:09.095 --> 00:01:10.340 not necessarily just Canada 00:01:10.340 --> 00:01:12.584 but how many countries are being represented? 00:01:12.584 --> 00:01:14.368 This year we had a 125 entries 00:01:14.368 --> 00:01:15.993 from 26 different countries 00:01:15.993 --> 00:01:18.285 and of the award winners there were 00:01:18.285 --> 00:01:20.288 10 different countries represented. 00:01:20.288 --> 00:01:22.833 It's a little daunting putting on something like this 00:01:22.833 --> 00:01:25.346 even though you've been doing it for 14 years, 00:01:25.346 --> 00:01:26.977 How are you managing? 00:01:26.977 --> 00:01:29.307 Well, um, okay. Our real festival director 00:01:29.307 --> 00:01:31.934 is on a long term disability leave so we have 00:01:31.934 --> 00:01:34.914 a bunch of people standing in to replace the one. 00:01:34.914 --> 00:01:36.942 I think you're going to talk to one of my colleagues 00:01:36.942 --> 00:01:38.488 who is working with me, from London, 00:01:38.488 --> 00:01:39.328 in a few minutes 00:01:39.328 --> 00:01:40.055 Beautiful 00:01:40.055 --> 00:01:41.619 …the co-curator for the festival, so… 00:01:41.619 --> 00:01:43.231 and there's lots of people, just lots of people 00:01:43.231 --> 00:01:44.791 working and lots of volunteers. 00:01:44.791 --> 00:01:46.615 We usually have between fifteen hundred 00:01:46.615 --> 00:01:47.948 and a thou…or two thousand hours 00:01:47.948 --> 00:01:50.108 of volunteer time put in by, you know, 00:01:50.108 --> 00:01:51.881 ninety to a hundred volunteers. 00:01:51.881 --> 00:01:53.420 Come on! That's amazing! 00:01:53.420 --> 00:01:55.013 Yeah, there's a lot of commitment to the festival. 00:01:55.013 --> 00:01:56.563 You know, we're asking our poll question about 00:01:56.563 --> 00:01:57.995 whether or not the film industry 00:01:57.995 --> 00:02:00.775 IS important to Alberta, IS important to Calgary. 00:02:00.775 --> 00:02:02.350 How would you respond to that? 00:02:02.350 --> 00:02:04.920 I think it's very important. We were talking a bit 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:07.557 earlier about that new facility they want to build. 00:02:07.557 --> 00:02:11.021 Being able to actually create works locally… 00:02:11.021 --> 00:02:13.512 for the international audience but also for the local 00:02:13.512 --> 00:02:15.766 audience for some of the independent film makers, 00:02:15.766 --> 00:02:17.346 the smaller budget people, 00:02:17.346 --> 00:02:19.966 absolutely important and probably a big employer 00:02:19.966 --> 00:02:21.443 in the Province, I would imagine, as well. 00:02:21.443 --> 00:02:23.645 The uniqueness of the Picture This Film Festival 00:02:23.645 --> 00:02:26.391 is that you certain criteria for these films as well. 00:02:26.391 --> 00:02:28.611 Yeah, the criteria really just are about who's 00:02:28.611 --> 00:02:31.479 making the films or the topic, right? So, it's either 00:02:31.479 --> 00:02:34.188 a film maker with a disability and as I said, those 00:02:34.188 --> 00:02:36.720 can be on anything. We have three entries 00:02:36.720 --> 00:02:39.018 this year from a filmmaker from Kathmandu 00:02:39.018 --> 00:02:39.543 who has disabilities. 00:02:39.543 --> 00:02:40.583 Wow 00:02:40.583 --> 00:02:42.874 And one of his entries is on child labour. 00:02:42.874 --> 00:02:45.562 So, it's got nothing to do with disability per se, 00:02:45.562 --> 00:02:47.688 so…or as I said, 00:02:47.688 --> 00:02:49.276 if it's on the topic of disability 00:02:49.276 --> 00:02:50.594 anybody can enter a film. 00:02:50.594 --> 00:02:51.952 If you're looking for something unique, 00:02:51.952 --> 00:02:53.286 something kind of different, well, it's 00:02:53.286 --> 00:02:55.362 the Picture This Film Festival the… 00:02:55.362 --> 00:02:57.421 your website so that you can see these films? 00:02:57.421 --> 00:02:58.853 Yes, it's PTFF.org 00:02:58.853 --> 00:03:01.375 which is short for Picture This Film Festival. 00:03:01.375 --> 00:03:02.157 Wonderful stuff. 00:03:02.157 --> 00:03:03.329 So, all the information is on there. 00:03:03.329 --> 00:03:05.697 Denise Young, she is the festival director, 00:03:05.697 --> 00:03:07.193 the acting festival director. 00:03:07.193 --> 00:03:08.690 Thank you for coming in 00:03:08.690 --> 00:03:10.480 and let's see more of these films. 00:03:10.480 --> 00:03:11.350 Great Stuff.