RACE

Prayers for peace. This video was filmed to go with a song about racist contamination of the political process in Canada. that affected my life. I added 6 pounds of fat on me buying sweets, instead of purchasing a space heater since the heat in my apartment would not work until the landlord fixed it, which would last for very cold months each year until recently, in the winter in the North of America. The film is an animation based on a film clip of me feinting a punch at a small swig bag, that was a practice that eventually assisted me to be able to recall that I had nice and good family early in my life in the movie industry who had made many martial arts entertainment films. I was taken from them and sent to Kamloops as part of a negative and unfair and illegal scheme. Prayers for peace. Prayers to thank God for all Health and all just Power, power of God the Creator. This film is also about dance, both mental and physical to express anguish as well as hope and also thankfulness. Prayers for peace. Since beginning to work on this film I also realize it is about recovery from the trauma of being essentially kidnapped and held at the Kamloops residential school by men dressed as priests who had confused the concept of faith with thier own concept of authority that really should not have been present in any school whatsoever. I have been recovering form memory loss about many aspects of my life not only trauma. For many years I painted on canvas instead of making films as my primary art. Moving from canvas to camera changed my frame since when I painted with usually oil paints, I held the canvas as I painted and used vertical shaped canvas with painted fabric stretched over vertical frames and prepared with white paint as the canvas. I made hundreds of paintings very carefully over about ten years. then, I began to acquire computer and camera to work with and began to remember my past and I had been involved in filmmaking since early childhood, even before the Kamloops school experience. I forgot who I was. filmmaking helped me to develop ideas of sequencing and to connect, working endless hours with footage I had filmed and film editors and I worked alone so my memory refreshed. I made a Google Youtube Channel in 2015 and made a film series and that helped me to recover. I began to study courses again with Edx and eventually began to gain diplomas with high grades in both science and arts topics.

  • Liz Kennedy
    Director
    The KING Film Series, Journey, King, Bird/Oiseau, Air, King With Bears Environmental Jazz, Box, Spider
  • Elizabeth Kennedy
    Writer
    Poems and prose, some published
  • Elizabeth A Kennedy
    Producer
    The KING Film Series
  • Elizabeth A Kennedy
    Key Cast
    martial arts film work
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Documentary, Experimental, Music Video, Short, Web / New Media
  • Runtime:
    1 minute
  • Completion Date:
    January 24, 2017
  • Production Budget:
    1 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Edx
  • Lift-off Sessions
    London
    United Kingdom
    March 27, 2023
    Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Vertifilms - Vertical films festival
    Prague
    Czech Republic
    August 23, 2023
    Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Casablanca Film Factory Horror Film Festival
    Kavumannam, Kerala
    December 7, 2023
    Premiere
    Official Selection, All Categories and Winner of Best Experimental Film
Distribution Information
  • Elizabeth A Kennedy
    Country: Canada
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Liz Kennedy

Black Belt, Aikido, JEET KUNE DO;
MA, Wilfrid Laurier University;
Writer, Multi Media Visual Artist,
Past emergency rescue aviator including oil well firefighting in Mexico, Kuwait 1991 etc.,
past media arts teacher, Conestoga College;
Presently studying International Human Rights Law, Louvain Catholic University in Belgium through Edx online since I like to add these ideas to my films;
Finalist 2016 Industry Boost Competition, New York;
Official Selection 2016, Chhatrapati Shivaji International Film Festival;
Official Selection 2016, Bucharest ShortCuts CineFest;
Finalist, Miami Epic, 2017,
Finalist, Industry Boost Competition, 2017
Semi-finalist, Les Films De La Toile, Saint Denis, France, 2017
Official Selection, African Smart Phone Film Festival 2017
Selection, Cefalù Film Festival, 2018 (Oiseau/Bird)
Semi Finalist, STIFF, Italy, 2018
Official Selection Oregon Cinema Arts Festival, 2018
Official Selection BAM! Film Festival, Clute, Texas 2019
Official Selection, Music Shorts Film Festival,
Official Selection, First Nations Film and Video Festival, fall 2019
Official Selection, Great Lakes International Film Festival, 2019

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Prayers for peace!