Tickets for all shows can be purchased in person or by phone at
the Guild Box Office at 620-3333 or the Souris Box Office at 743-7469.
Weekend Passes are also available.
Film Blocks are $10; Weekend Passes $40

OPENING NIGHT

Thursday, September 8, 2011

@ THE GUILD

7:00-9:00PM

PRINCE EDWARD'S SHORTS

 

*THESE ARE COMPLETE FILMS; THEY ARE 'SHORTS'

(i.e. they are complete films/stories in short form that are not as long as a regular full movie.)

 
CHARLOTTETOWN SHOOTOUT
 
5 FILMS  - 5 MINUTES - 5 FILMMAKERS - 5 DAYS
 
Filmmakers competing in the Shootout will premiere their shorts opening night and the audience will vote for the winner.

 

A NIGHT OUT
 
DRAMA | SHORT | 2011 | 10 min | NOVA SCOTIA
 
Living together in a house as claustrophobic as their relationship, three generations of women struggle with their conflicting needs for independence and each other. 

 

THE DANCE
 
COMEDY | SHORT | 2011 | 8 min | NOVA SCOTIA
 
Alex wants to be what he thinks Jenny wants him to be, but it's only when he's himself that they finally connect.

 

HANGNAIL
 
DRAMA | SHORT | 2010 | 9 min | PEI
 
Photographed entirely in one shot, Roz and Kenny's argument reveals a secret that will pull back the skin of their parched love.

 

 

I'M 14 AND I HATE THE WORLD
 
DRAMEDY | SHORT | 2011 | 9 min | NEWFOUNDLAND
 
Plucked from grandeur and plunked down into creepy squalor, a 14- year-old girl learns that how she sees the world is not the only option.

 

 

POOKA
 
COMEDY | SHORT | 2011 |23min| CANADA
 
Pooka is the tender, tragicomic coming of age story of Abigail Cooke, or Pooka, as her dad calls her. To make her once popular parents believe she fits in, a desperate Abigail creates a fictional world for her parents' benefit. When her parents go away for the weekend, the house gets trashed during the biggest house party of the year. Total attendance: one lonely teenage girl.   (starring Katie Boland & Megan Follows)

THURSDAY COMEDY NIGHT LIGHTS SCREENINGS
9:15-11:00 PM

 

SUDDEN DEATH (THE MUSICAL)
 
FAMILY | SHORT | 2010 | 20 min | USA
 
Los Angeles has been overtaken by a virus known as Sudden Death Syndrome, a disease that causes its victim to die suddenly and has only one symptom...spontaneously breaking into well-choreographed song and dance.

 

WHITE KNIGHT
 
COMEDY | FEATURE | 2010 | 90 min | USA
 
Leroy Lowe is a racist who is unexpectedly immersed in Mexican culture. He is forced to decide whether to return to his old life back in the U.S. or start a new life under the sun-drenched skies of Mexico.

 

WINNER: BEST SHORT FILM
 
COMEDY | SHORT | 2010 | 4 min | USA
 
A filmmaker, trying to impress a Hollywood producer, claims to be the winner of the Sundance Short Film Competition with his half-second masterpiece. (WINNER: BEST SHORT FILM is the title of this FILM)

 

 

 

 

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