The Reel Art Film Festival presents the feature documentary Portrait of Resistance: The Art and Activism of Carole Conde and Karl Beveridge by director Roz Owen and editor Jim Miller.

Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge live and work in Toronto. They have collaborated with various trade union and community organizations in the production of their staged photographic work over the past 30 years. Their work has been exhibited across Canada and internationally in both the trade union movement and art galleries and museums. Recently their work has been included in exhibitions at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery , Cork, Ireland, a survey exhibition at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario, and the Noorderlicht Photofestival , Groningen, Holland.

Belleville's first international documentary film festival, DownTown DocFest, will launch a day and half of films with a gala evening featuring the potent film “Music From the Big House” followed by a concert with blues singer and star of the film, Rita Chiarelli.

DocFest will feature original international, national and community films by highly acclaimed film makers and directors, More than 25 films will be screened starting on Friday afternoon at The Core Centre for the Arts and continuing at noon on Saturday the 3rd at both The Core Centre and the Belleville Public Library.

Portrait of Resistance, directed by Roz Owen and produced and edited by Jim Miller, is an intimate documentary on Toronto artists Carol Conde and Karl Beveridge which premiered at the Planet in Focus Film Festival in Toronto on Oct. 13.

The film explores the life and work of the two artists whose marriage and artistic collaboration has lasted four decades. They are a quintessential Toronto love story: minimalist sculptors who met in 1960s Yorkville, competed for gallery space and grants, and crafted a career in activist art.

Fresh from two sold-out screenings at the Toronto International Film Festival, <!--break-->SURVIVING PROGRESS is the film inspired by Ronald Wright's bestseller and CBC Massey Lectures, "A Short History of Progress”. 

French filmmaker Vanessa Rousselot took a very nervy path to gain a fresh insight into the life of Palestinians in the occupied territories. The result is the 2010 documentary, (No) Laughing Matter, which is being shown on Oct. 6 and is one of the highlights at this year's Toronto Palestine Film Festival, which starts Friday. 

With a TV camera, she approached people, young and old, male and female, in shops, stores, the classroom and on the street across the West Bank, Haifa in Israel and in Gaza (via Skype) to ask if each of whom could provide a joke.

Celebrate Aboriginal Day with a reception, food and beverages, and great films! Please join us for a special announcement about the Annual Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival coming to Vancouver screens in 2011.

Tashina
Directed by Caroline
Monnet, Algonquin /
French Nation, 5 min

?E?ANX (The Cave)
Directed by Helen
Haig-Brown, Tsilhqot'in
Nation, 12 min

Nikamowin (Song)
Directed by Kevin Lee
Burton, Cree Nation,
11 min

Reel Injun
Directed by Neil
Diamond, Cree Nation,
86 min

Tickets at door by donation $5-10.
No one turned away. All proceeds support VIMAF.

*Lecture*

Palestinian author and academic Samar Habib comes to Toronto for the first time to deliver a compendium of her various talks on Middle Eastern queer cinema. She has lectured on wide-ranging subjects that include Lesbian Representation in Arab Popular Culture and Some Like it Lukewarm: A Brief History of the Representation of Homosexuality in Egyptian Cinema. Inside Out is thrilled to be a part of Samar Habib's Toronto debut.