We Lend a Hand: The Forgotten Story of Ontario Farmerettes
Colin Field | Canada | 2025 | 50m
The extraordinary story of a contingent of 40,000 teenage girls who volunteered on Canadian farms and helped to win the Second World War.
Much of the history related to the Farmerettes occurred in the Niagara region between 1941-1952. Most of the footage in this film was shot at historic farms in the beautiful Niagara Peninsula. If ever there were a film relevant to Niagara, this is it!
Colin Field is an independent filmmaker based in London, Ontario. After successful careers as a teacher and as a pioneer in learning technologies for major corporations, he now focuses his passion for storytelling through filmmaking. He recently completed the Advanced Filmmaking program at Fanshawe College where he helped to create several award-winning films and was also the recipient of the Outstanding Student Achievement Award. In 2022 Colin founded Albireo Films, a small production company that currently has several short films in development and production.
TOTAL PIXEL SPACE
Jacob Adler | USA | 2025 | 9m
Total Pixel Space contains every possible digital image, including films of your entire life, every life you never lived, and the lives of every creature or object that ever and never existed on or off the earth, from every possible angle.
Jacob Adler is a composer, performer, and teacher.
He has released 6 albums of music, and he performs on the piano, organ, laptop, accordion, tanpura, and tsimbl in several ensembles specializing in early music, contemporary classical, Hindustani, free jazz, and klezmer. He has performed his compositions at Gaudeamus Muziekweek in Amsterdam, Musica Moderna festival in Łódź, Göteborg International Organ Festival in Sweden, the Issue Project Room in New York, and other festivals in Europe and the U.S.