NFB Doc Premiere: Yukoners Knit Through Isolation
Festivalgoers at the Available Light Film Festival in Whitehorse will discover a novel way to beat the winter blues as the world premiere of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentary My Knitting Circle by local filmmaker Alexandra Knowles shows Yukoners creating a caring community-one stitch at a time.
The festival will also present the Yukon premiere of Stellat’en First Nation filmmaker Lyana Patrick’s award-winning feature documentary Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again (Lantern Films/Experimental Forest Films/NFB).
And after premiering at ALFF last year, the short doc Saturday by Whitehorse director Jessica Hall is back for an encore presentation in the festival’s kids program.
The Available Light Film Festival runs from February 6 to 15 in the territorial capital.
NFB selection at ALFF
My Knitting Circle by Alexandra Knowles (12 min 40 s) | WORLD PREMIERE
ALFF Shorts: Yukon Light, Sunday, February 8, at noon | Yukon Arts Centre
Nechako: It Will be a Big River Again by Lyana Patrick | Yukon premiere
(Lantern Films/Experimental Forest Films/NFB; 91 min)
Wednesday, February 11, at 3:00 p.m. | Yukon Theatre
Saturday by Jessica Hall (13 min 9 s) | Encore presentation
ALFF Shorts: Short Films for Young People, Saturday, February 14, at 10:30 a.m. | Yukon Theatre
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