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News + Special Events
March 11, 2007
Special Event: Finding Dawn screening & discussion
DOXA is proud to present a screening of Finding Dawn, acclaimed Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh’s powerful journey into the dark heart of Native women’s experience in Canada. Welsh travels from Vancouver’s downtown eastside to northern BC’s ‘Highway of Tears’ and beyond, putting a human face to this national tragedy. Along the road to honour those who have passed, Welsh uncovers reason for hope in the work of activists and communities who have come together to demand change.
Filmmaker Christine Welsh will be in attendance and will take part in a post film discussion featuring Aboriginal feminist Fay Blaney, writer and professor Dara Culhane (moderator), community activist Marlene George and journalism professor and media analyst Mary Lynn Young.
Join us on March 11th, 3pm, at the Vancouver International Film Centre (1181 Seymour St, at Davie) for this screening and discussion. Tickets $10, available at www.ticketstonight.ca or 604.646.3200.
This screening is sponsored by Status of Women Canada in collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada and UBC Museum of Anthropology. Partial proceeds will go toward a Lasting Memorial for women missing and murdered in Vancouver.
Thank you!
The DOXA staff and board of directors would like to extend warm thanks to all of the volunteers, committee members, festival participants, filmmakers, sponsors and advertisers who helped make DOXA 2006 possible. We couldn't do it without you! Interested in joining the DOXA team to prepare for the next fest? Contact us at volunteer@doxafestival.ca.
PAST NEWS + EVENTS
Peggy Lee to perform at Celsius 17/11
DOXA Documentary Film Festival is thrilled to announce that Vancouver cellist Peggy Lee will be the featured performer at this year‚s Celsius 17/11 fundraiser on Friday, November 17th at Heritage Hall. Lee will accompany the 1939 silent documentary film, Stanley Park, courtesy of the CBC Television Archives.
Hosted by CBC's Priya Ramu, this event is not to be missed. Along with live entertainment, the event features delicious snacks, a cash bar and a silent auction offering up original art, tickets and passes to fabulous performances and festivals, weekend getaways, airfares, fine dining and more! Get your tickets now by calling the DOXA office at 604.646.3200.
1st Prize: Margaret de Grace, winner of two Harmony Airways roundtrip tickets from Vancouver to Toronto.
2nd Prize: Sylvia Lanz, winner of a Sony Cyber-shot digital camera, courtesy of Sony Canada.
Thank you to our raffle prize donors, Harmony Airways and Sony Canada!
DOXA co-presents Reel Peace: Sunday June 25
Royal Bank Cinema & Great Performer's Lounge Chan Centre, UBC
DOXA is proud to co-present.... Reel Peace Sunday, June 25th Royal Bank Cinema & Great Performer's Lounge Chan Centre, UBC
Come celebrate Reel Peace, a series of inspiring documentary films from around the world, followed by interactive discussions facilitated by filmmakers, activists and experts.
Inspired by the World Peace Forum and in celebration of our commitment to peace-building and community discussion through film, DOXA, the Documentary Organisation of Canada, Amnesty International and Open Cinema present Reel Peace, a day of documentary screenings and interactive discussions.
Admission is free, on a first-come, first-served basis, with a suggested donation at the door. Mark this day on your calender!
Reel Peace Films (discussion to follow each film)
12 NOON
Helen’s War: Portrait of a Dissident
Filmmaker: Anna Broinowski, Canada/Australia, 52 min. (2003)
Set against the volatile backdrop of the Afghanistan and Iraq invasions, Helen's War tracks Dr. Helen Caldicott, firebrand anti-nuclear campaigner, celebrated author and Nobel Peace Prizenominee, as she vies with spin-savvy neo-conservatives for airtime, courts celebrity backers for her Washington Thinktank, and battles to stop the bombing of Iraq. We discover the vulnerable, humourous, passionate woman behind the crusade and what it really costs to fight for peace.
1:30 PM
The Camden 28
Filmmaker: Anthony Giacchino, USA, 80 min. (2005)
In August 1971, The Camden 28, a group of antiwar activists including four Catholic priests and one Lutheran minister, broke into their local Selective Service office and destroyed draft records that would have sent young men to fight in Vietnam. Despite proudly proclaiming their guilt, they were all found non-guilty by a jury of their peers. Their story, as historian Howard Zinn noted, “will help educate the ...public about civil disobedience, the importance of protest, and the citizen’s role in a democracy.”
3:30 PM
La Sierra
Filmmakers: Scott Dalton & Margarita Martinez, USA/Colombia, 84 min. (2004)
La Sierra is an intimate, meditative exploration of violence, youth and community. A small neighbourhood in Medellin, Colombia, La Sierra is ruled by a group of young men, mostly teenagers, affiliated with Colombia’s illegal paramilitary armies. Over the course of a year, the documentary follows the lives of three young men and their experiences of war, death and love as they make a remarkable journey through a life marred with violence to a different path.
5:30 PM
The Genocide in Me
Filmmaker: Araz Artinian, Canada, 53 min. (2005)
From the 1915 Armenian Genocide to contemporary North America, via modern Turkey, The Genocide in Me is a moving personal story in which Canadian-Armenian filmmaker Araz Artinian confronts the reality of her life in the Canadian melting pot of cultures and asks herself the universal question “Where do I belong?”.
7:00 PM
Désobéir (To Disobey)
Filmmaker: Patricio Henriquez, Canada, 80 min. (2005)
Désobéir introduces us to three career soldiers who decided to defy orders and instead follow their consciences: Igal Vega, an Israeli, refused to fire upon unarmed Palestinians; Colonel Efrain Jaña objected to the arbitrary arrest and murder of opponents to the 1973 coup against Salvador Allende in Chile; and Camilo Mejía, an American staff sergeant, refused to fight an “oil-driven war” in Iraq. All paid dearly for their convictions, and all demonstrate the true meaning of honour.
Additional screenings added: SHAMELESSS & Bombay Calling
Friday, May 26, 5pm, VIFC: SHAMELESS: The ART of Disability
Director Bonnie Sherr Klein in attendance
Saturday, May 27, 12 noon, VIFC: Bombay Calling
Co-director Samir Mallal in attendance
Award-winning sign language poet in attendance
Saturday, May 27, 2pm, Vancouver International Film Centre
Just announced - Canadian national award-winning American Sign Language poet Mari Klassen will be in attendance at our upcoming screening of Symphony of Silence, a film about her collaborative performance with the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra at the age of fourteen. Director William Eaton will also be in attendance. Symphony of Silence screens as part of the short film program called Interval. The entire program will be interpreted in ASL- Saturday, May 27, 2pm, Vancouver International Film Centre.
Village Life panel discussion has been added
Sunday, May 28, 4pm, Vancouver International Film Centre
DOXA is also pleased to announce that a panel discussion has been added to our screening of Village Life, a film that profiles Botton Village, a Northern England community made up of developmentally disabled and mentally ill villagers and volunteer co-workers. Representatives from the BC Association for Community Living and others will be on hand to discuss the pros and cons of the community living profiled in this provocative and well-reviewed film. Sunday, May 28, 4pm, Vancouver International Film Centre.
Don't be disappointed - get your closing night tickets now
Escape to Canada: Sunday, May 28, 7pm, Empire Granville 7 Theatre
Opening night was a sell-out - don't be dissapointed on Sunday! Albert Nerenberg is in town to present Escape to Canada. Vancouver and its unique activist community play large in Escape, which situates the city as the driving force behind Canada's freedom movements. The film documents the arrest of Vancouver's "Prince of Pot" Marc Emery at the request of US police agencies, and the surprising social experiment that takes place when a full-on marijuana store is opened on Commercial Drive. Nerenberg and his team of videographers are there to capture local activists and cafés as they rise up, and are taken down time and time again. Join Nerenberg and local activists on SUNDAY, MAY 28, 7:00 PM at the EMPIRE GRANVILLE THEATRE (855 GRANVILLE ST.).
Other program updates - Awards & World Premieres
Bombay Calling Wednesday, May 24th, 7pm
Into the Night Thursday, May 25, 9:30pm
Congratulations to Bombay Calling (Wednesday, May 24th, 7pm) for winning the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles! Directors Ben Addelman and Samir Mallal will be in attendance to discuss their award-winning profile of India's telemarketing industry. Also in attendance at the world premiere of her meditation on insomnia, Into the Night - director Annette Mangaard (Thursday, May 25, 9:30pm).