ReelHeART International Film Festival

Innis Town Hall, Innis College,
2 Sussex Street, U of T Campus, Toronto, M5S 1J5
(1 block south of St. George Subway)

Kees Hoogeveen uses his horn majestically to improvise over a tongue-in-cheek suburban view of Amsterdam…

An excerpt from Plato’s Republic, the ‘Allegory of the Cave’ is a classic commentary on the human condition. It is a story showing how true reality is not always what it seems to be on the surface. It is a story of open-mindedness and the power of possibility. This story was brought it to life by shooting thousands of high-resolution photographs of John Grigsby’s wonderful stop motion animation. The look was achieved by use of candlelight in a real fire that burned at the back of the set.

A father tries desperately to shield his daughter from the growing violence in their small Mexican town. He will stop at nothing to provide a better life for his family.

In 2006, Robin Tomlin (Chair of the Let’s Find A Way Society), approached songwriters Phil Koochin and Kevan Ehman to write a song that would inspire hope all over the world and serve as an AIDS international anthem. He could not turn a blind eye to the fact that children worldwide are being orphaned, left homeless, hungry or dying due to this ravaging virus and that they desperately need our help and support.. Once the song was complete, Tomlin’s dream really began to take shape when multi-talented Toronto artist Waleed Abdulhamid came on board as Musical Director of the project. He produced and recomposed the song and successfully recruited top-notch international musicians and performers to sing in their native languages. Highly acclaimed artists such as Blood Sweat and Tears frontman David Clayton Thomas, and Zaki Ibrahim as well as the dulcet tones of the Orpheus Choir of Toronto all added their enormous talent and good will to the project.

A determined Australian with a passion for justice crosses the globe in search of the asylum seekers his government detained, rejected, then deported.