This documentary explores Tom Thomson's extraordinary contribution to Canada's artistic development, and was directed by Michele Hozer and Peter Raymont.
The Lifetime Achievement Bull's Eye Award 2011 recipient, Michael Snow, requested screening his 1967 film Wavelength in its original format.
2012, the third season of Film North included 43 films,[5] of which 31 were Canadian and 15 were world premiers: Dolime Dilemma: Water Proof, Morning Zombies, Sisters In Arms, I Was a Boy, 2 Knocks, One Night Stand, The Ballerina and the Rocking Horse, Angelfish, The Etiquette of Sexting, From Nomad to Nobody, Waiting For Summer,[6] Ostichcized, Zen and the Arts of Distraction, 'Missing' Artist:Unknown, and 6 Canadian Premiers: Fish, Powerful: Energy for Everyone, Duck, Spaghetti fur Zwei, La Cosa in Cima Alle Scale, and Algonquin.
The film brought audiences into the heart of Canada's iconic wilderness, Algonquin Park, by following the headwaters that originate and flow out of its highlands.
[8] The 2012 Director's Retrospective selection was Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971), starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, about the frontier myth of the West.
The Friday shorts program screened 20 films, and the night's feature was the Canadian premiere of All Is Lost, directed by J.C. Chandor and starring Robert Redford.
Festival founder Lucy Wing praised Brault as "a champion of Canadian cinema and among Canada’s short list of trailblazing filmmakers of the 20th century.