Solidarity Film Camp (SFC) is a film camp that aims to educate, empower, and inspire marginalized youth in the Edmonton community to share their stories and change the world through storytelling and film. (In this context, “marginalized youth” refers to femme, trans*, non-binary, BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+ identifying, and disabled youth, ages 14-24.) This film captures the pilot year of SFC, and focuses on why representation is so important in the film industry.
2021
Mademoiselle Pigeon
1917. Private Pepin vowed to write the beautiful Mademoiselle Pigeon a letter daily. He will soon have to use his imagination to keep his promise. “Mademoiselle Pigeon” is a tragicomic animated short film reminding us that what the heart wants is not always what it needs.
On Edge
Luka and his grandmother are reluctantly forced to spend an afternoon together. Coming from different generations and being strangers to each other, they get into numerous fights. However, despite the quarrels and differences, an amazing act of nature brings them together as a family.
Death Offers Life last moments of Vincent Van Gogh
The story is the fictional account of the last five minutes of the acclaimed painter Vincent Van Gogh who was a failure in his lifetime. Death who has come to take him makes an offer which Van Gogh rejects and accepts the hands of death gracefully.
Soul of the Sea (Liremu Barana)
Arisa dances every day and night to songs that tell of the struggles of her people and her ancestors. Music and memory form a lyrical meditation on young womanhood, identity, and belonging in a Garifuna community in Guatemala.
Pacaroni
A teenage boy must cope with the loss of his mother as he eats her final plate of home cooked pasta.