Cinemuskoka Program 2018

WELCOME
PROGRAMMINGDIRECTOR/ CO-FOUNDER
JEREMYMUNCE
CineMuskoka 2018 ~
A note from the Programmer :
Dear CineMuskokans,
It was an absolute joy to program
CineMuskoka?s follow up year after our
fledgling flight into the unknown in 2017. To
make a solid program for our launch, we had
to scramble for content? putting the word
out to friends, and friends of friends,
colleagues, connections within the industry;
we invited anyone we could to submit to our
not yet newborn festival.
With our inaugural festival under our belts,
we quietly accepted submissions from around
the globe throughout the year. The resulting
program is a collection of films that I hope will
make you laugh and cry, films that can open
our eyes to other cultures and ways of life.
There are films that will introduce you to new
heroes who inspire as we experience their
plights and glories along with them. And there
are films in the program that do everything a
film should do: to open our minds and
connect.
More than 20 years ago, as a high school student
here in Huntsville, I fell in love with film, with the
art of the Cinema: the telling of stories with
moving pictures and immersive sound. What
attracted me to film enough to be able to call it
my calling, was the idea that the medium holds
the potential to carry a vision? some simple
truth held in a story? to all corners of the globe.
Every film? if it?s good enough, real enough,
deep enough, or if it?s dazzling enough to the
eyes and mind? has the potential to be seen and
experienced all over the world. Any little film can
travel to festivals like this one, to communicate
an idea across cultures and languages, to engage
an empathic heart.
I hope you will be part of this legacy, by choosing
to be a member of the audience. I hope the
visions we?ve chosen will satisfy seasoned
cinephiles as well as curious new-comers.
Whether you?re coming to see any of the films in
competition at the Algonquin Theatre, or to treat
yourself and your kids to a favourite cinematic
throwback under the stars in RiverMill Park, I
hope you enjoy being captivated by the power of
Cinema!
JL Munce