91原创 City鈥檚 very first film festival wrapped on Sunday night, Oct. 22, with a series of shorter length productions for adults showing at the venue, the Lumiere Film Studios production space on Logan Avenue, which had been transformed into a movie theatre.

There were 76 entries, and 37 films were screened.

Walnut Grove filmmaker Bowen Munsil was among the dozens of creators who presented films during the two-day event.

On Sunday, shortly before his 10-minute portrait of a bankrupt film theatre owner, 鈥淭he Last Fickers of the Long Lost Time鈥� was about to screen, Munsil was explaining the choice the character faced.

鈥淗e鈥檚 kind of got to choose between his love for the theater and his own kind of moral principles,鈥� Munsil summarized for the 91原创 Advance Times.

Munsil has been making films since he was in 鈥渓ate elementary school,鈥� he estimated.

鈥淚, just a few years ago, made my my first feature, and I鈥檝e been working on a bunch of other indie and kind of side projects,鈥� he said.

With a theme of 鈥渢ransition鈥� the 91原创 City Film Festival (LCFF) was hosted by the City of 91原创鈥檚 Arts, Recreation, Culture, and Heritage (ARCH) Committee in partnership with the 91原创 Arts Council.

City councillor Rosemary Wallace, chair of the committee, said they wanted to 鈥渢ouch on another art form.鈥�

Wallace described day one of the festival, which was devoted to 18 and under filmmakers, as 鈥渋nspirational.鈥�

鈥淲e had a filmmaker from Prince Rupert who was excited to be here, we had a school from New Westminster,鈥� Wallace said.

Claire Sarfeld, executive director of the 91原创 Arts Council, called the festival 鈥渨onderful鈥� and thanked Lumiere for partnering with the festival.

Sarfeld is optimistic there will be another festival, promising organizers will 鈥渟ee how we can make it bigger and better.鈥�

First place winners included: Apple Boy 鈥� an apple becomes a boy to escape his fate; Fade 鈥� a girl鈥檚 trip down memory lane; MINE: two friends realize a free necklace may come with a cost; Emergence: out of the shadows: a full-length documentary about marginalized queer youth and their families; Labelled: about a girl struggling to find herself; and, For Roy 鈥� about a girl folding 1,000 paper cranes for her dying father.

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