OUT North Turns 11
The 11th OUT North Queer Film and Arts Festival is happening April 15 to 19 and promises to be the most expansive iteration…
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Twice as fun the second time around
Northern Tails, the puppet-focused web series produced and filmed in Whitehorse, is coming back for its second season this spring…
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Yukon Unwritten
Yukon Unwritten—created by NahHO! Productions, based in Northern Canada, written by Allan Code, Bayne Orion Bradshaw and Mary Code…
knitting a community together
My Knitting Circle is a contemplative film, a quiet celebration of knitters and community. It’s also an ode to the Yukon…
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the self-created being
Jessica Hall first made a film about the late James Kirby in 2017, during summer solstice. The short documentary was called Left Hand Path…
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Nash the slash rises again!
This year’s Available Light Film Festival (ALFF) is absolutely packed, with over 50 films screening in Whitehorse…
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tracy and martina are comin’ north!
Lately, while walking my dog, I’ve been listening to the podcast Shootin’ the Shit, with Tracy and Martina…
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Visions From The North Premiers In Whitehorse
Visions From The North is Etienne Geoffroy-Gagnon’s first skiing documentary since stepping away from Team Canada’s ski team
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This Year’s Tombstone Artist In Residence
Melissa Naef, a Dawson City–based artist, will create new pieces and lead workshops from Aug. 2 to 15 during her Tombstone Artist Residency
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Matthew Lien’s Kluane Compositions Project has taken Flight
The Yukon Government was looking for projects to celebrate the 125th anniversary, and when I heard about that, I called Diyet immediately.
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A Film Called Saturday
The idea for the film came to Jessica one Saturday when her mum and sister invited her to join them on their weekly excursion.
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Captured On Film
The Dawson City International Short Film Festival returns this year from April 17-20 “We start in October, viewing the approximately 400 submissions for the festival”
5 Must-See NFB Films at ALFF
Dedicated to telling stories from the North, the NFB is proud to present these five powerful and illuminating documentaries.
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This Year At The ALFF
This year marks the 22nd annual edition of The Yukon Film Society’s (YFS) Available Light Film Festival (ALFF), taking place February 8 to 18
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Whitehorse Photo Club Showcase December 2023
After the last cruise ships departed from Skagway, I enjoyed a quiet drive down the South Klondike Highway, stopping to take…
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The Kings Are Back In Town
The feature film Kings of the North is slated to run at the Yukon Arts Centre (YAC) on Nov. 10, 2023, and one of the film’s co-creators…
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Untold Storytelling
When Brianne Bremner got the email from the Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition (YAPC), asking for her company GBP Creative, to shoot…
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What’s On APTN This Fall?
When it launched in 1999, the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) was the first national Indigenous broadcaster in the world.
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Signs of Spring
Spring may be a season known for false starts, but in the Yukon, there’s one way to know it has begun, with the Rivers to Ridges’ annual…
Kings Of The North
The Yukon is synonymous with many things—vast wilderness, majestic mountains, traditional peoples, ravens, caribou, salmon …
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The Alchemy of ALFF
ALFF has evolved into a two-week, 100-plus film event. There are 45 feature- and mid-length films, over 50 short films, live concerts…
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Whitehorse Photo Club Q4 Showcase
The Whitehorse Photo Club has submitted its final showcase submissions for 2022! Check back in 2023 for even more amazing images!
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A Movie Fit For A Woman King
The Woman King centers around the victories and losses of the Agojie in 1823 when slave trading had reached its peak in West Africa.
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Whitehorse Photo Club’s Amazing Q3 Submissions
What’s Up Yukon and The Whitehorse Photo Club is pleased to showcase local photographers’ incredible work with these Q3 submissions.
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Thor: Love and Thunder Gives Us Much To Love
“Thor: God of Thunder” is a very-impressive title, indeed. In Norse mythology this hammer-wielding god was also associated with storms, lightning, strength, fertility and sacred groves.
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Voices Across The Water
Voices Across the Water follows two master boat builders as they practice their art and find a way back to balance and healing.
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Whitehorse Photography Club Showcase
Welcome to the Q2 submissions from the Whitehorse Photography Club featuring three outstanding images by Gerry Steer, Walter Gutowski and Geoff Muldoon. The photo composition
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A Review of Death on the Nile: When Glamour and Murder Collide
British director/actor Kenneth Branagh brings the grisly Agatha Christie novel Death on the Nile to life. Released in North America Feb 11
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Whitehorse Photography Club: Wildlife photos
Whitehorse Photography Club’s entries for “Celebration of Nature” photo contest. Whitehorse finished 5th of 20 clubs with147 points.
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New Yukon Media Funds
Media funding for filmmakers has four new funding programs: Predevelopment, Development Fund, Media Production Fund and Training Fund.
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ALFF 2022 goes online
A few of the the diverse offerings at the 2022 Available Light Film Festival (ALFF) happening online, and maybe a bit in-person.
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The Yukon Theatre opens its doors after a two-year shutdown
Folks are excited that the Yukon Film Society has re-opened the Yukon Theatre on Wood Street after its former owners shut it down.
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Theatre in the Bush 2021
Ramshackle Theatre in the Bush “I’m already out in the yard,” Fidler says. “I’ve got my chainsaw out and I’m clearing the paths.”
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The pandemic creates the space to share stories in a new way
As the Ice Melts is a project that takes the form of two videos which present stories and poetry on the theme of our changing environment. The work has been put together by Bielawski, Lilley and Champagne and Aishihik First Nations storyteller, Ron Chambers.
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Enjoy Dawson City films from the cozy comfort of your couch
This years Available Light Film Festival has four films from Dawson City being featured for online streaming across Canada.
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Silver Linings
Artists and Parks Canada heritage interpreters, Justin Apperley (left) and Miriam Behman, with their field camera Photography played a key role in the history and
The appeal of terrible Christmas movies
December brings three things; colder weather, drier skin and the inevitable onslaught of terrible Christmas movies.
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Lesson learned?
Allan Code directed Pandemic at the End of the World in order to bring a historical perspective to the current global reality.
An interview with Naomi Mark
Meet Yukon filmmaker Naomi Marks: I write budgets, develop content and scripts, direct documentary, fiction and commercial content, and edit.
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A delayed Short Film Festival will happen in October
After a few months of working at home, Dan Sokolowski is finally back in his southeast corner space at the KIAC (or Dënäkär Zho) Building.
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Conservation Photography
I have a confession. I work for CPAWS Yukon and I’ve never been into the Peel Watershed. (The small exception is the time I canoed
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Yukon Grown, Nationwide
Sovereign Soil gets national online release
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Outbreak
As we wade deeper and deeper into the Pandemic, it’s time to search a little deeper into a movie that might hit a shade closer to home.
Capturing a significant moment in history
It all started when Yellowknife-based photographer Pat Kane posted a tongue-in-cheek Instagram post in response to the new reality of social distancing associated with COVID-19: “So much for my photography business, I guess I’ll have to start taking photos of people through their windows.”
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Onward: A Review
Good news my quarantined friends, I know some of us were getting a little worried that we might find the end screen of our screening
Togo
On a cold day, cuddled up under blankets, this is the perfect escapism to enjoy with some loved ones.
ALFF – Spoiled for choice
Discover the ALFF Available Light Film Festival, an annual event featuring a rich blend of films embraced by the Yukon community.
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Bizarre ice
A rare combination of crystal clear ice, a shallow, and variably coloured lake bottom, and a bright sunlight reflection set the stage for this unique environment of surreal dimensional ice phenomena.
Netflix and Christmas
Well folks, with the holidays fast descending upon us and many lamenting the lack of a decent theatre in the Yukon, I know what you’re
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Silver screenings
Director Tasha Hubbard’s nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up, weaves a narrative exploring the history of colonialism in the Prairies, around Gerald Stanley’s trial around the
Outpost is in this year
Neil Macdonald (left), Dave Hamelin and Jayden Soroka formed Outpost 31 to create a full-service production company in the Yukon. Their success resulted in an
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In pursuit of the perfect shot
The Porcupine Caribou Herd is thought to have the longest mammal migration on the planet. The image I wanted to capture is hard to describe, but while doing research on the caribou, I saw videos of them in winter, migrating in long lines of thousands. It reminded me of images of the Klondike Gold Rush a hundred years ago, where there was a line of 400 men following a trail straight up the mountain.
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Movies with a femi-twist
“Intersectional feminism”—what is it and what does it mean? The Yukon Status of Women Council (YSWC) is helping Yukoners learn more with an interactive (feminist)
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Focus on photos
The Air North First Light Image Festival will compete with a Steven Page concert this year, but organizer Mark Kelly said ticket sales are already
Hip hip hooray! for local filmmaker Lulu Keating …
Discover how filmmaker Lulu Keating transforms her hip replacement journey into a powerful video exploring emotions.
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Indian Horse
Indian Horse will be screened at the Atlin BC Globe Theatre on Thursday, July 5, 2018 at 7 PM as part of the Atlin Arts & Music Festival.
A rowdy night of feminism and tornadoes
The Yukon Status of Women Council (YSWC), in partnership with Whitehorse Blue Bin Recycling, will celebrate “badass women” by screening the over-the-top, action-packed film Twister.
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Get a feature shot at first light
Jay Gough of Nikon Canada, along with Trisha Gillings of Panasonic Canada (not pictured), will be on site all day with trade show style booths
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Dawson City International Short Film Festival is downloaded for its 18th Year
Screenings for the Dawson City International Short Film Festival began in October, with five or six people meeting twice a week to view what would eventually add up to between 400 and 500 submissions for the Easter weekend festival.
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Sharing a love for film
There are meetings.There is paperwork.There are grants to apply for and cheques to sign.But, for Jessica Hall, being the president of the Yukon Film Society
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Let there be light
The 2018 Available Light Film Festival (ALFF) features a strong Indigenous presence in this year’s films – and in the audience, with more than 40 guests attending from Outside.
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It’s so bad, it’s good
In honour of James Franco’s upcoming film release of The Disaster Artist, I figured I had to take a look back at where this film
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Off the page and onto the screen: 48-Hour Filmmaking Challenge
The 2017 Yukon 48-Hour Filmmaking Challenge, a unique opportunity for Yukon Filmmakers to showcase their skills.
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Lots of condos, no place to live
From chic, clean condos, to drafty old Chevy vans, the 2017 documentary film Vancouver: No Fixed Address brings you the residential experiences of, in the words of F. Scott Fitzgerald “the inexhaustible variety of life” in Canada’s most expensive housing market.
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Late Fall Season in the Kluane National Park
The colourful fall season is over very early in the Yukon – much earlier than in my home country, Switzerland. But I found that the
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Quietly Connecting
Discover how Patrick Shen’s IN PURSUIT OF SILENCE delves into the effects of noise on the mind and body in a noisy world.
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The Hitman’s Bodyguard
The Hitman’s Bodyguard is a buddy cop action movie written by Tom O’Connor and directed by Patrick Hughes (the same inspired genius who brought us
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Stay for the Conversation
“Prepare to be moved, disturbed, engaged. Come for the film. Stay for the conversation,” says Canadian author and media critic Geoff Pevere. Pevere is director
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Cars, Guns and a Heart-pumping Soundtrack
Baby Driver is a popcorn action movie written and directed by Edgar Wright. The 113 minute flick hosts a star studded cast including Kevin Spacey,
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Trainwreck
A flawed character struggles to unravel the threads of a pivotal event, though hobbled by some impediment – amnesia, maybe, or being stranded in a
Celebrating Film During the Atlin Arts and Music Festival
New projector at the Globe Theatre 2017 when the Available Light Film Festival (ALFF) takes its films to the Atlin Arts and Music Festival.
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Amazon Princess in the Midst of WWI
DC’s latest and greatest blockbuster Wonder Woman: Rise of the Warrior is directed by Patty Jenkins and written by Allan Heinberg, Zack Snyder and Jason
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A Rag-Tag Team of Do-Gooders
The Marvel Cinematic Universe strikes again with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, released April 19. Written and Directed by James Gunn with an additional
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Life Lessons Through the Lens
You can learn a lot by studying animals, just ask local photographer Minnie Clarke. Her passion for capturing northern creatures was borne on a remote
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Free Fire
Free Fire is a new run at old-school shoot out movies, it is an R rated flick written by Amy Jump and directed by Ben
The Problem with ‘Right’ and ‘Wrong’
The film Hell or High Water is a modern western written by Taylor Sheridan and directed by David Mackenzie. This hour and forty two minute
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A Southern Story with a Northern Connection
The OUT North Queer Film Festival brings film lovers an American documentary with a local twist on April 9. Southwest of Salem tells the true
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Power Couple
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that when it comes to Pride and Prejudice, once is not enough. For acolytes, Jane Austen’s best-selling novel of the
It’s All About the Visuals
Yukon designers, models and photographers work in tandem to showcase the “haute-est” trends from the coolest people in the North and, according to photographer Christian
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King of Chicago
The mayor of Chicago is mad as a hatter, but the trains run on time. Having been mayor for a couple of decades, Tom Kane
Life After Tragedy
When asked about the message she hopes to convey in the film, Ohama responded, “It’s a moving and inspiring story of how people find real
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Live by these words and don’t see the movie
Warcraft: The Beginning is an epic fantasy film that released on digital download September 13, 2016. It’s based on a popular series of video games
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Yukon Stories
The Available Light Film Festival features 4 documentaries on Feb. 6 that look at life in the Yukon Now in its 15th year, the Available
So Close, But Still a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Rogue One is the first of Disney’s anthology stories set within the Star Wars universe. This flick comes in at two hours and 14 minutes
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Self Love
From Jan. 26 to Feb. 25, the ODD Gallery in Dawson City will be featuring an exhibition called The Golden Age of Selfies. The exhibition
Epiphanies
“It’s like everybody knows the story,” muses a reporter to her colleague. “Except us.” The journalists of “Spotlight,” a legendary investigative unit at the Boston
Laughter, Tears, Curtain
It was the short, sharp shock heard round the world – eventually. But in the world of Topsy-Turvy, Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado is being
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Yukon 48 hour Film Challenge Back Again this Year
If you’ve always wanted the challenge of making a film in a short amount of time, here’s your chance. The Yukon 48 Hour Film Challenge,
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What to do on Sunday Night
In the 2016 film Captain Fantastic, Ben Cash (Viggo Mortensen – The Lord of the Rings, A History of Violence), is a father with meticulous
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Finessing Filmmaking Skills
There are many excellent training opportunities available to aspiring Yukon filmmakers of all levels, through several different organizations. The Screen Production Yukon Association (SPYA) is
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A Study in Sound
Take a moment to think about your favourite film. What is the soundtrack like? Besides music, what other sorts of sounds are used to create
Welcome to the Party, Pal
“The story is ridiculous – ludicrous.” That’s director John McTiernan blithely dismissing the plot of one of the most successful thrillers of the past 30
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And now for something completely cifferent …
Straddling comedy, horror and drama genres, Anders Thomas Jensen’s 2015 film Men & Chicken is on the brink of insanity. It is certain to be
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About arrivals and departures
The epic saga of immigration is brought to human scale in Brooklyn, a critically acclaimed film based on the novel by Irish writer Colm Tóibín,
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Finding the Right Flick
Suicide Squad is DC Comics’ latest attempt to capture comic book magic on the silver screen. This flick comes in just over two hours and
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Future Past
Young Alex DeLarge and his gang of droogs aren’t choosy about whose lives they wreak mindless havoc on. From the down-at-the-heels to the well-heeled, the
Pop-Up Drive-In
Movie lovers have a chance this weekend to experience a rare venue for viewing in the north – a pop-up drive-in movie night is set
Better Together
Community in the Yukon is small. For filmmakers, it’s even smaller. That sometimes causes competition between people in the territory who try to make it
Amazonian Mythology and Western Hallucinations
Somewhere between Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and the writings of Colombian philosopher Santiago Castro-Gómez lies Ciro Guerra’s film Embrace of the Serpent. Shot in
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