Fri, Aug 11 / 7 pm
Directed by Joshua Rofé
2016, Canada, 74 min
When he was on his game as a professional hockey player, Sheldon Kennedy was in complete control: assured, aggressive, strategic and always in motion. Off the ice, however, Kennedy was living a secret nightmare. A victim of serial sexual abuse perpetrated by a coach, Kennedy struggled with trauma, guilt and anger over secret he perilously kept from those around him. Inevitably it all boiled over. It would be a journey that would initially plunge Kennedy from stardom to shame, but eventually resurrected the tortured athlete’s career as an internationally renowned spokesperson for people who had shared – and were trying to survive — the same ordeal. Swift Current is a propulsive documentary account of Sheldon Kennedy’s extraordinary escape from darkness. Geoff Pevere, Program Director of Rendenz vous du Madness will introduce the film and answer questions.
Plays With:
Psychedelic Soldiers / Dirs. Michael Spadafora & Anastasia Starova / 2015, Canada, 15 min / The story of 2 veterans’ journey through the hell of post-traumatic
stress disorder and a controversial alternative treatment they turned to when nothing else helped.
Co-presented by Rendezvous with Madness and Art Beat Studio.
