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Raves + Reviews
DOXA is now one of the rare festivals where films and filmmakers are not overshadowed by the hype of market-speak. It also has the ability to really connect key audiences with films that matter. It was real honour for me to have been selected to open the festival this year and it could not have been a better way to land the ship in Vancouver!
- Ali Kazimi, filmmaker, 2005 Opening Night film: Continuous Journey
DOXA was fantastic in that it was small, unthreatening, intimate but not cultist. I really enjoyed the dialogues. They were people who LIKE documentary, not just as a way to get into the glamour of the big time feature, but as a way to participate in the human race and the human condition. We went away quite inspired, talking about making films again.
- Master Canadian documentary filmmaker & 2002 DOXA participant, Colin Low
I believe DOXA to be a vital and necessary addition to this city's film exhibition strategy as the documentary form moves more and more into the fore of our concerns and the reflection of our world takes on a renewed and vital role in understanding ourselves.
- Alex MacKenzie, Programmer/Coordinator, Blinding Light Cinema, Vancouver
The festival was a tremendous success. The full houses attested to the hunger that exists for engaged documentary film and video production in Vancouver and to the creative and stimulating programming that kept us coming back night after night. BC is a center for independent documentary filmmaking in North America. Festivals like DOXA support the increasingly active production community by bringing new, international work to the attention of Canadian filmmakers. This will in turn help develop a more mature and cosmopolitan engagement with the world and will lead to more powerful and more accomplished work.
- Colin Browne, Professor, School for Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University
This festival is long overdue on the west coast. Western Canada and British Columbia are rich with documentary filmmakers of note. I think it is definitely time that our local documentary industry has the chance to take part in an international festival, which celebrates our filmmaking community.
- Joyce Thierry, Women In Film & Video Vancouver
Documentary is a medium with a particularly rich tradition in Canada. We are most interested in seeing an event such as DOXA proceed in Vancouver, which itself has a strong documentary tradition, but which until now, did not have a showcase or festival specifically dedicated to the art of documentary.
- Jim Sinclair, Executive Director, Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver
I was pleased to witness the creation of a Vancouver festival dedicated exclusively to celebrating the documentary genre. The first DOXA festival was a great success - the thoughtfully curated programs ran powerful current works alongside great past productions, helping to place the documentary form in its historical context.
- Jill Sharpe, Vancouver documentary film producer/director