Ariella Pahlke’s Conviction has its World Premiere at Hot Docs on April 28, 2019.

Ariella Pahlke, together with co-writers and directors Nance Ackerman, Teresa Macinnes screen the world premier of their feature documentary Conviction at Hot Docs, the largest documentary festival in North America.

Photo from www.convictiondocumentary.com

April 28, 6:30pm

TIFF Lightbox
350 King Street

April 29, 1:15pm
Tiff Lightbox
350 King Street

May 2, 12:30pm
Hart House Threatre
7 Hart House Circle

According to the filmmakers, the film envisions alternatives to prison through the eyes of women behind bars and those fighting on the front lines of the decarceration movement.

The three filmmakers collaborated with incarcerated women to question the issues facing the rising rates of women’s incarceration. Together they envision a more ideal world, authoring their own narratives through art. They join advocates and politicians in a worldwide movement questioning the ideas of punishment and prison.

Ariella Pahlke is a documentary and video artist, curator, and educator. With a background in philosophy, Ariella has spent the past seventeen years creating documentaries and independent shorts, collaborating on multi-media performance pieces, curating, facilitating video projects with community groups, and teaching. Her film and video work has been shown on television, at festivals and in galleries throughout Canada and the U.S., and in Norway, India, and New Zealand.

Biographical info from www.burningrubber.ca

Ariella Pahlke's documentary about Suzanne Gauthier screens on September 20, 2017 at FIN: Atlantic International Film Festival

Ariella Pahlke's film Suzanne Gauthier: one thing leads to another screens as part of Program 7 at FIN: Atlantic International Film Festival on

Photo: FIN website

Wednesday, Sept. 20, 9:15PM 
Park Lane, Theatre 3 

Encore: Thursday, Sept. 21, 8:30PM
Park Lane, Theatre 2

From the FIN website:
Filmmaker Ariella Pahlke weaves the life and work of Suzanne Gauthier into a poetic narrative that encapsulates the curiosity, joy and perseverance underlying the creative impulse of an artist.

For more information and tickets go to
http://www.finfestival.ca/event

Ariella Pahlke's docomentary at the Atlantic Film Festival

Ariella Pahlke, filmmaker
Ariella will show her documentary Mi'kwite'tmn (Do You Remember) about artist Ursula Johnson at the Atlantic Film Festival on September 22 at 9.15 p.m. at the Reel East Coast Shorts Program. More at Atlantic Film Festival
 
Photo credit: Still from film (Ursula Johnson) Atlantic Film Festival website.

Ariella Pahlke's short films at the Atlantic Film Festival

Ariella Pahlke (photo: www.burningrubber.ca)

Ariella Pahlke's films What you did before you were born and Strategies of Hope will be shown at the Atlantic Film Festival as a part of the Atlantic Shorts 4 on Sunday, September 14 at 3 p.m. and Tuesday, September 16 at 4:30 p.m. at Park Lane Cinemas in Halifax.

From the Atlantic Film Festival's website:
Strategies of Hope is a 26-minute documentary featuring patients, staff, and family at the Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre's Acquired Brain Injury Program. Participants collaborated with a filmmaker and worked with a variety of art forms to explore the impact of a stroke or brain injury and to share strategies for recovery.

What you did before you were born: A video letter to her son about his prenatal existence, What you did before you were born? links family history--in Serbia and Acadia--to Ariella’s Pahlke’s seaside house near Halifax to complete the journey to birth of her son. Leavened by humour, humility and a sense of community, this is a motion picture diary that translates life into pure delight.

 You can find more about Ariella at http://www.burningrubber.ca/htm/CREDITS.htm