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The Documentary Media Society is pleased to present
our 2003 DOXA programs, showcasing documentary films and videos
from Canada and the world. This year we are proud to be collaborating
with other festivals, programmers and organizations to offer up
an array of powerful and delightful documentaries in four different
venues around Vancouver.
Real!
Live! Women! The Feminist Vérité of Kim Longinotto
DOXA is pleased to present two films by award-winning
British documentarian Kim Longinotto, co-director of Divorce
Iranian Style.
A Co-presentation with The Blinding Light!!
Cinema
FRIDAY MAY 9 - 8:00pm
Venue: The Blinding Light!! Cinema, 36 Powell Street
Tickets: $6 per screening (at the door only)
Gaea Girls
Directors: Kim Longinotto + Jano Williams (England/Japan, 106 minutes,
2000)
This fascinating film follows the physically grueling
and mentally exhausting training regimen of several young wanna-be
'Gaea Girls', a group of Japanese women wrestlers. The idea of them
may seem like a total oxymoron in a country where women are usually
regarded as docile and subservient. However, in training and in
the arena, the female wrestlers depicted in this film are just as
violent as any member of the World Wrestling Federation, and the
blood that’s drawn is very real indeed. One recruit, Takeuchi,
endures ritual humiliation not seen on screen since the boot camp
sequences of Full Metal Jacket.
– Chicago Film Festival
Silver Hugo Award Winner, Chicago
International Film Festival
SATURDAY MAY 10 - 8:00pm
Venue: The Blinding Light!! Cinema, 36 Powell Street
Tickets: $6 per screening (at the door only)
The Day I Will Never Forget
Director: Kim Longinotto (England, 92 minutes, 2002)
This gripping film examines the practice of female
circumcision in Kenya and the pioneering African women who are bravely
trying to reverse the tradition. Presenting diverse perspectives
– from a nurse who does village-to-village education about
the emotional and physical scars of genital mutilation to a group
of elderly matriarchs who stubbornly continue and encourage the
practice themselves to a group of runaway girls engaged in a legal
battle against their parents – Longinotto’s film demystifies
the tradition of female circumcision and presents a complex portrait
of the debate through the very women who live it everyday.
Amnesty International DOEN Award Winner, IDFA International
Documentary Film Festival (Amsterdam)
Grease,
Gristle + Globalization
Whether we are at home savouring Canadian back
bacon or ordering a cheeseburger at a fast food joint, it seems
that someone, somewhere is getting the shaft because of what we
are eating. More often than not the big guys are trampling the little
ones as corporate agri- businesses, government bureaucrats and multinationals
collide with family ranchers and exploited workers.
 As global
objectives diverge from past principles, displaced farmers, communities
and employees are speaking out. Thanks to the many vegetarians here
on the West Coast, Vancouverites are aware of the issues and controversies
surrounding meat consumption. Now, it is time to toss the tofu aside
and look toward the east to see what the meat industry is all about
– grease, gristle and globalization.
Bacon, the Film | press stills 1
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A Co-presentation with The BC Federation of
Labour
FRIDAY MAY 23 - 7:00pm
Venue: Pacific Cinémathèque, 1131 Howe Street
Tickets: $8 each or $12 for 2 shows
Bacon, the Film
Director: Hugo Latulippe (Canada, 82 minutes, 2001)
French with English subtitles
Several years ago, large-scale hog producers and
their political allies in Quebec decided to branch out into international
markets. But bacon, like everything else, has its price. Bacon,
the Film asks whether we have properly measured the social and environmental
impacts of huge hog operations. The soil is already showing signs
of sterility. Rivers are contaminated. Water, the very symbol of
life, has itself become a hazard in some communities. Abandoned
by the state, citizens groups are making their voices heard and
taking back democracy.
Latulippe
spent a year carefully documenting the porkbarrel collusion between
government and industry and the mobilization of embattled citizens
to direct action. A hard-hitting and impassioned account of resisting
corporate development’s effects on democracy.
FRIDAY MAY 23 - 9:00pm
Venue: Pacific Cinémathèque, 1131 Howe Street
Tickets: $8 each or $12 for 2 shows
Man of Grease
Director: Ezra Soiferman (Canada, 50 minutes, 2000)
Tony Koulakis, 64, chef and owner of Montreal’s
legendary eleven-stool greasy spoon, Cosmos has been serving up
his famous cholesterol-loaded all day breakfasts since the late
1960’s, without ever taking a vacation. Now, one year before
retiring, Tony places his beloved Cosmos in the trust of his three
children, and flies – for the time in nearly three decades
– back to his homeland of Greece. There, Tony revisits his
birthplace village, Drapanias, on the mythic island of Crete.
This touching
and humourous personal documentary captures the journey home of
the man affectionately known as “the God of the Potatoes”.
It also examines the culture of his restaurant through interviews
with the legions of his many devoted, outspoken customers.
Maxime, McDuff & McDo
Director: Magnus Isacsson (Canada, 52 minutes, 2002)
French with English subtitles
Maxime, McDuff & McDo | press stills 1
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Forming a union at a fast food restaurant is a
daunting task-especially when the restaurant is a franchise of one
of the world’s most notoriously anti-union corporations. When
Maxime and Pascal try to unionize a Montreal McDonald’s outlet,
events quickly spin out of control. The two come under pressure
not only from the multi-national itself, but also from their families,
the union and the media. Though the film has political overtones,
it is also a poignant coming of age story.
This is Magnus
Isacsson’s second documentary about unionizing attempts at
McDonald’s. His previous film, Union Trouble: A Cautionary
Tale, ended with the closing of the restaurant. Will Maxime and
Pascal succeed? A specialist in the ‘process documentary,’
Isacsson has devoted five years to these unionization campaigns.
— Director in attendance
Parental
Guidance Unnecessary: Youth-Made in BC
A collection of hard-hitting documentaries created
by BC youth – art and media with a message.
Curated by Jason Barker and Sabrina Wong
Co-presented by The Access to Media Education
Society (AMES), The Gulf Islands Film & Televeision School (GIFTS),
Out On Screen - Vancouver Queer Film & Video Festival, Reel
to Real International Film Festival for Youth and Families, and
Video In Studios.
SATURDAY MAY 24 - 2pm
Venue: Video In Studios, 1965 Main Street
Tickets: Pay What You Can (at the door only)
A Doll’s Life
Directors: Crystal Radke, Ariel Smith & Julie (Canada, 6 minutes,
AMES 2000)
Outlet: Queer Youth Speak Out
(Compilation, 2000, 26 minutes, AMES)
Racism for Reel
(Compilation, 2000, 19 minutes, AMES)
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Public Service Announcements: Action on
Climate Change
(Total 8 minutes, AMES, 1999)
Grandfather
Directors: Darren Tiljoe, Katrina Bird, Erin Griffiths
Wake Up Call
Directors: Erin Griffiths, Katrina Bird & Darren Tiljoe
S.O.V. Rant
Directors: Michelle Ryan & Romina Miranda
Gas Face
Directors: Michelle Ryan & Romina Miranda
Frog
Directors: Jules Molloy, Raven McKenzie, Jordan Willox & Angus
McTavish
Microwave on Earth
Directors: Michael Halverson, Tyler Cranmer, Nena Pierre & Anita
Schoepp
Wisdom of the Future
Directors: Michael Halverson, Tyler Cranmer, Nena Pierre & Anita
Schoepp
Short Films
Elegant in Form
Director: Serena Desmarais (4 minutes, 2001 GIFTS)
Romanticide
Directors: Callianne Bachman, Jaymie McAmmond & Bronwen Marsden
(4 minutes, GIFTS 2001)
i.d.entities
Directors: Cameron Barker, Zachary Campbell & Darren Reece (3:40
minutes, AMES 2001)
Aboriginal is Me
Directors: Leonard Ambrose, Nigel Ryan & Dylan Orton (4 minutes,
AMES 2001)
Shaven
Director: Robert Beiser (1:23 minutes, GIFTS 2001)
Selling
Out? Speaking Out! - Vancouver Premieres
An evening of films about the power of music and
the difference between commerce and community. Draws, prizes, and
special guest appearances. A fundraiser for the Vancouver
Folk Music Festival and DOXA Documentary Film and Video Festival.
SATURDAY MAY 31 - 7:30pm
Venue: The Ridge Theatre, 3131 Arbutus
Tickets: $15 in advance, $20 at the door (for the evening) Double
bill or single show – same price!
Advance tickets available at The Ridge Theatre or by calling 604.602.9798
My Generation
Director: Barbara Kopple (USA, 104 minutes, 2000)
Drawn by a hunger for community, a million and
a half people have come to experience the extraordinary music, anarchic
celebration and grueling rite-of-passage ritual of Woodstock. My
Generation plunges us into the music and mayhem of three legendary
music festivals, in 1969, 1994, and 1999. Academy Award winner Barbara
Kopple captures the intimate backstage scenes, incredible performances
and outrageous acts of self-expression, sexual liberation and rebellion
that have defined the Woodstock Experience. A picture emerges of
two generations searching for definition, but acting in remarkably
different ways, ways that reflect the profound changes in American
society over the last thirty years.
SATURDAY MAY 31 - 9:30pm
Venue: The Ridge Theatre, 3131 Arbutus
Tickets: $15 in advance, $20 at the door (for the evening) Double
bill or single show – same price!
Advance tickets available at The Ridge Theatre or by calling 604.602.9798
Freedom Highway, Songs That Shaped a Century
Directors: Philip King + Nuala O’Connor (Ireland, 90 minutes,
2001)
More than any previous era, the twentieth century
has been characterized by uprising of people everywhere: from the
civil rights campaigns of African-Americans to the Suffragists of
the early century to the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa.
This passionate documentary includes extraordinary performances
and interviews with artists as diverse as Tom Waits, Bernice Johnson
Reagan, Hugh Masakela, Elvis Costello, U2, Ruben Blades, Ani DiFranco,
Willie Nelson, Paul Robeson Jr, exiled Tibetan singer Yungchen Lhamo,
The Soweto String Quartet, Billy Bragg and veteran activist Pete
Seeger. All affirm song as a powerful motivating force in the political
history of the 20th century's fight against social
injustice.
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