Canadian Sport Film Festival

Just to let you guys know that the Sports Film Festival is about to start this Friday. This is the second year of the festival and I hear it’s bigger and better, just like South Park, The Movie. I posted the media release I received from them with more information… check it out! for more info check out their web site www.sportfilmfestival.ca

The Canadian Sport Film Festival is proud to announce the inclusion in its 2009 programme of a number of films that highlight the individual challenge of athletic accomplishment.

Paddling for a Cure

A day before one of the most popular athletic breast cancer fundraisers, the Canadian Sport Film Festival is featuring a remarkable group of women, striving to be active while battling a terrible disease. Pink Paddlers profiles a group of women in Singapore who form their own dragon-boat racing team – on the basis of medical advice from a Canadian doctor – to build both physical strength and communal bonds. The women of Pink Paddlers end up competing in the first-ever Breast Cancer Survivor Dragon Boat World Championship. Screens with Long Distance.

>> It is expected that a Canadian competitor will be in attendance and available to the media.

>> Saturday, October 3, 4pm, Innis Town Hall: Pink Paddlers, Long Distance

Can-con: Two Canadian features presented in partnership with the National Film Board of Canada Mediatheque

From sea to shining sea, journeys across the breadth of Canada are the stuff of national mythology. For Mike Beauchamp it was one long bike ride, and far from romantic. The trials and tribulations of his journey are the subject of The Cross Canada Project, an intimate cinematic diary.

>> Director Mike Beauchamp is in New Zealand and unavailable, but another cyclist, Ben Verboom (www.cycletohelp.org), will be in attendance, talking about his experiences riding across the country for charity. He will available for media on Saturday.

Next, for a long time the only women in boxing rings were strutting around in bikinis announcing the next round. That isn’t true for Savoy Howe and the boxers at Toronto’s Newsgirls club. Punch Like A Girl profiles the variety of women who gravitate to the ring, from an amateur hoping for Olympic glory as a way to avoid deportation to the jazz pianist who claims to be Canada’s oldest amateur boxer.

>> The directors of Punch Like a Girl are tentatively scheduled to attend the screening.

>> Saturday, October 3, 1:30pm, Innis Town Hall: The Cross Canada Project, Punch Like A Girl