March 27, 2015.
At 5:00 PM – 8:30 PM ath the University of Alberta
The EU Centre of Excellence and the Kule Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), host a screening of the film,
with featured musical performance by:
Micheal Butch
lead signer of the Toronto band
The Gypsy Rebels
The event is free and open for the public, everyone is welcome. Refreshments will be provided.
Produced by: David Murray, Chantal Hilaire, Micheal Butch
Directed by: David Murray
Researcher: Chantal Hilaire Ph.D
When the Toronto Romani community undergoes a baffling rise in drug use and divorce Romani leader Micheal Butch is on the case. When his own family begins to break apart Micheal must search for answers in the past.
“THE SHAPE OF A HEART – A Gypsy Love Story” is a long form vérité documentary chronicling Micheal Butch’s struggle with the changes taking place within himself and his community. Filmed over three years the documentary is an intensely intimate portrait of a family caught up in the shifting tides of desires and fears within the Romani community of Toronto.
The documentary is the result of many years of ethnographic fieldwork among the Rom Kalderas of Paris, Toronto and New York.