Date: Feb 22
7:00 pm
- 8:00 pm
Where: Theatre
Film
The St. John's International Women's Film Festival is excited to present their annual Oscar-Nominated short films screening in collaboration with The Rooms as part of the Scene and Heard Film Industry Conference. Here's your chance to see all of the incredible animated short films from around the world and have an Oscar pool edge! Thank you to Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures. Featuring: Late Afternoon directed by Louise Bagnall Animal Behaviour directed by David Fine and Alison Snowden Bao directed by Domee Shi One Small Step directed by Andrew Chesworth and Bobby Pontillas Weekends directed by Trevor Jimenez Total runtime is 60 minutes. Be sure to leave your contact information and prediction for Best Picture for your chance to win a special prize! For more information on Scene and Heard, please visit https://www.womensfilmfestival.com/sceneandheard/
How do place, identity, and art intersect, and what do their points of intersection tell us about this place we call home?
In this talk, Rhea Rollmann will explore the significance of queer and trans art in Atlantic Canada with particular emphasis on the work of Erica Rutherford as well as iterations of queer and trans art in NL. There will be an opportunity for questions after the talk.
Tickets: $12 plus HST. Free for Rooms members. Get your tickets online or by calling 709-757-8090.
About the Presenter:
Rhea Rollmann (she/her) is an award-winning journalist, writer and audio producer based in St. John's, NL, and is the author of A Queer History of Newfoundland (Engen Books, 2023). She is a founding editor of The Independent NL and her journalism has appeared in Briarpatch Magazine, CBC, Xtra Magazine, Chatelaine, PopMatters, Riddle Fence, Macleans and more. Her academic work has been published in the Journal of Gender Studies, Labor Studies Journal, Canadian Woman Studies, Journal of Work and Society, Canadian Theatre Review, Canadian Review of Sociology, Screen Bodies and elsewhere. She also has an extensive background in labour organizing and queer/trans activism, and she is Station Manager at CHMR-FM, a community radio station in St. John's.