Tribute to Patricia Vergeylen Tassinari
Filmmaker Patricia Vergeylen Tassinari, recently deceased, had a unique, largely independent, playful, and multifaceted career. One of her notable films, Goodbye Federico, starring actress, singer, and performer Sylvie Laliberté will be presented in a rare 16 mm print.
Eileen, a scriptwriter, has been writing letters to Federico Fellini who has become her friend, and means of escape. Various rejections lead her to lose her grip on reality and retreat into her own world with one last hope: join Federico in Cinecittà with the two men she loves.
A drama about the psychological and physical ravages of Alzheimer. A woman forced to passively witness her father’s slow disintegration fears that the same fate awaits her. She decides to view and experience the world with a new intensity.
In the summer of 1953, the Canadian government relocated seven Inuit families from Northern Quebec to the High Arctic. They were promised an abundance of game and fish, with the assurance that if things didn't work out, they could return home after two years. Two years later, another 35 people joined them. There they suffered from hunger, extreme cold, sickness, alcoholism and poverty. It would be thirty years before any of them saw their ancestral lands again. Interviews with survivors are combined with archival footage and documents to tell the poignant story of a people whose lives were nearly destroyed by their own government's broken promises.
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Patricia Vergeylen Tassinari
Patricia Vergeylen Tassinari is a Canadian filmmaker and editor. After studying film production at Concordia University, she scripted, directed, produced and edited her own award-winning documentaries and short films showcased in various festivals worldwide. She alternates between fiction and documentary, seeking stories that portray powerful or surreal emotions.
