Please join students and faculty in supporting GRSJ PhD candidate Joshua M. Ferguson by attending the Vancouver film festival
premiere of their short film Whispers of Life at the Reel 2 Real Film Festival.
This is the most recent in a series of film festival showings of the film, and a terrific series of awards including the Best
Short Film Audience Award at the 15th Reelout Queer Film + Video Festival in Kingston, Ontario, both Audience and Jury Choice
Awards at the 26th Reel Pride Winnipeg Film Festival, and Festival Favorite at the Cinema Diverse Palm Springs Gay & Lesbian
Film Festival.
The Reel 2 Real Film Festival - Not Just For Kids <http://www.r2rfestival.org screens "Whispers of Life" twice at the Vancity
Theatre, Vancouver International Film Centre (location<http://www.viff.org/theatre/location>):
Sunday, April 6th at 3:00pm in the "Made in BC" program ** Florian and Joshua will be in attendance on this date to participate
in a Q&A after the screening!
Thursday, April 10th at 9:30am in the "High School Shorts" program
About the film:
In this magical story about the interdependence of imagination and surviva= l, Tom, a gay teenager, is threatened by a bully=92s homophobic words. As T= om sits with angst on his park bench, a stranger named Charles suddenly app= ears next to him. Charles strikes up a conversation with Tom that forever a= lters the course of his future and life.
About the filmmakers:
Born and raised in Switzerland, Florian Halbedl received his BA in Film Stu= dies at Western University and began his professional career in Vancouver, = Canada, as part of the assistant director teams on Supernatural, Percy Jack= son, Once Upon a Time and Gareth Edward=92s Godzilla. Florian is the Writer= & Director of the award-winning short film Whispers of Life. He is current= ly developing a science-fiction film called Mosaics; a short film about ani= mal-human hybrids and their marginalized state in a near-future society. Wh= ile working on other scripts, Florian will produce and direct Mosaics in th= e summer of 2014.
Joshua M. Ferguson grew up in the small town of Napanee, Ontario. Joshua re= ceived a B.A. Hons in Film Studies at Western University in 2009 and an M.A= . in Film Studies from the University of British Columbia in 2010. Joshua i= s a current Ph.D student in the Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality and So= cial Justice at the University of British Columbia and a recipient of two C= anada Graduate Scholarships from SSHRC for their Doctoral and MA research. = Joshua's transgender subjectivity is informing their critical cinematic int= ervention by producing a documentary for their doctoral dissertation that f= ocuses on non-binary transgender subjects. Joshua is also currently develop= ing a science-fiction film, Mosaics, about animal-human hybrids and their m= arginalized state in a near-future society while their award-winning produc= ed short film Whispers of Life is exhibited at festivals internationally. J= oshua will produce and direct Mosaics in the summer of 2014.
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