Harkemma comes out of the darkroom

VANCOUVER director Reg Harkema knew he was
onto a good thing as secon as he started filming A
Girl Is A Girl,

Harkema was having a conversation with Christine Haebler,
his executive producer, about the Toronto Film Festival, which
already had hundreds of sub-
missions. Harkema had barely
started shooting. “I turned to
her and held my hand in the
air, very steady, like | was a sur-
geon or something and said
‘Sce how nervous i: am?’” A
Girl isa Girl made the cut.

The editor of such films as
Hard Core Lago and Last Night
gained his confidence, and

invaluable experience, from
directors such as Guy Maddin,
Bruce McDonald and Don McKellar. But Jean-Luc Godard is his
reatest influence, right down to the movie’s title (borrowed
fom 31961 Godard film), and the name of Harkema’s produc-

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FOLK FESTIVAL

World
music
on stage

Michael Becker

Newsroor Editor
mbecker@nsnews.com

HANG on folks, we’re
on a festival roll.

Summer shows its vibrant
musical hucs with this week-
end’s 23rd Annual Vancouver
Folk Music Festival, July 14
to 16at Jericho Beach Park.

This year's weekend by
the beach promises abour 40
groups and performances on
seven stages peppered
throughout pastoral greens.
Festival artistic director Dugg
Simpson, staff and yolun-
teers have assembled a world-
class weekend of world-music
possibilities.

Among the numerous
potential highlights of this
year’s fest:

#9 Alpha Ya Ya Diallo —
North Vancouver-based, with
deep African roots;

# Beolach — three young.
step-dancing women fiddlers
from Cape Breton;

@ Christ the King ‘Church
Choir — 32 singers trom
Uganda who blend gospel
with African traditions;

@ Dar Williams — a fine

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