Film North runs September 23 to 25

Film North - Muskoka's first international film festival - runs September 23 to 25 at the Algonquin Theatre in Huntsville, Ontario. In the festival's inaugural year of 2010, organizers have chosen to showcase fiction and documentary short and feature length films with an environmental theme.

In recognition of the G8 Summit in Huntsville 2010, the festival is creating a category that is an interactive, non-genre, reciprocal relationship between the participating countries for the purpose of promoting and encouraging a borderless film community which circulates emerging filmmaker's work through submissions and attendance at Film North, Huntsville International Film Festival.

Line-Up Highlights:

Play Again
(Tonje Schei, USA, Documentary) At a time when children spend more time in the virtual world than the natural world, PLAY AGAIN unplugs a group of media savvy teens and takes them on their first wilderness adventure, documenting the wonder that comes from time spent in nature and inspiring action for a sustainable future.

It's Kind of a Funny Story
(Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck, USA, Comedy/Drama)
A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

Son of the Sunshine
(Ryan Ward, Canada, Drama Romance)
Immersed in the dingy world of low-income housing and diagnosed at age 11with Coprolalia Tourette's Syndrome, Sonny Johnns cries out to a world
that has left him by the wayside. Using money saved from years of government disability he takes part in an experimental surgery promising to rid him of his violent outbursts. With his symptoms eradicated Sonny feels he is finally experiencing life for the first time. But as his disorder begins to vanish so too does a divine ability of which only he and his sister Meryl are aware; an ability that saved his sister's life and upon which Sonny may need to call again.

In The Wake of the Flood
(Ron Man, Canada, Documentary)
Taking us behind the curtain of Margaret Atwood's travelling medicine show, 'In the wake of the Flood' offers a candid, revealing portrait ofthe author as activist oracle - Atwood is the ultimate camp counsellor, mounting a pageant to save the planet with a birdsong in her heart and a silent spring in her step.

What If Cannabis Cured Cancer?
(Len Richmond, USA, Documentary)
Could the chemicals found in marijuana prevent and even heal several deadly cancers? Discover the truth about this ancient medicine as world renowned scientists in the field of cannabinoid research explain and illustrate their truly mind-blowing discoveries.

Virtual JFK
(Koji Masutani, USA, Documentary)
Of all "what if" scenarios in the history of U.S. foreign policy, one is perhaps most debated: What would President John F. Kennedy have done in Vietnam if he had not been assassinated in 1963, and had he been re-elected in 1964?

Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
(Michele Hozer & Peter Raymont, Canada, Documentary)
An enigmatic musical poet, world-renowed pianist Glenn Gould continues to captivate twenty-seven years after his untimely death. Intimately revealing the man behind the myth, Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould casts a fresh light on the mysterious pianist whose ideas were as controversial, and his private life as passionate, as his music.

For a complete listing and ticket information visit www.filmnorth.net.