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)

Every year tens of thousands travel around the world for one reason…to watch independent movies. People want to support the spirit of independent film making and their own love of film.
Our film chronicles people’s love and passion of movies and what individuals will go through to obtain their dreams of film making.

Fun? Cheap? Cool? Brain Disease?
Many smokers and a few experts weigh in with answers on the subject of why are still killing ourselves softly with cigarettes. This wry look at a deadly habit has multiple media moments from the 1950s to give us pause to consider how advertising works so well to encourage habits so bad for us.

Courthouse Girls of Farmland is a story about a small Indiana town and seven senior women who got up from their bridge club table to make a bold statement about historic preservation. Upset about plans to destroy their county’s 130 year old courthouse, the women threw caution-and their clothes-to the wind by posing for a fund raising calendar that created a firestorm of controversy as well as enthusiastic fans throughout the country.

Programmers’ Note: Come out and meet some of these feisty ladies who will be making an appearance at ReelHEART and speaking during the Q & A. Who knows, you might get some homemade candy too…