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From October 2011 to March 2012, DOXA will offer screenings of some of the world's most outstanding documentaries in various communities around the Lower Mainland as part of our Motion Pictures Film Series.
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Léa Pool
Council Chambers, Richmond City Hall
6911 No. 3 Road, Richmond
In examining the idea of breast cancer as a marketing tool, the most essential question is Cui bono? Who benefits? It is not hard to see that the multi-billion dollar business of breast cancer has reaped untold financial rewards for corporations ranging from the NFL to Yoplait Yogurt.
“Indignant and subversive, Pink Ribbons, Inc. resoundingly pops the shiny pink balloon of the breast cancer movement/industry, debunking the "comfortable lies" and corporate double-talk that permeate the massive and thus-far-ineffectual campaign against a disease that claims nearly 60,000 lives each year in North America alone.” – Variety
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Nick August-Perna, Chris Dapkins and Carlo Mirabella-Davis
Kay Meek Centre
1700 Mathers Avenue, West Vancouver
Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová catapulted to international fame in 2008, when the duo picked up two Academy Awards for the film Once. A fictional version of their real-life relationship, the film helped to launch an album, and a worldwide tour for the couple. But the reality behind their fairytale romance proved infinitely more complex as the pressures of fame exacted a toll on their musical and personal relationship.
"…extraordinary documentary, so intimate and so natural, you feel as if you've stumbled into the room by mistake."-- LA Times
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P. David Ebersole
Rio Theatre
1660 East Broadway, Vancouver
On the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s seminal album Nevermind, DOXA is proud to present the Vancouver premiere of Hit So Hard: The Life & Near Death Story of Patty Schemel. This stunning film charts the life and death story of Hole's drummer, Patty Schemel whose personal highs and lows paralleled that of grunge music itself.
A Skype Q&A with director P. David Ebersole will follow the screening.
"Even if you're not a Nirvana or Hole fan, you must see it. It's easily one of the most touching, honest, funny, refreshing and simply badass films of its kind." -- LA Weekly
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Jon Foy
Studio Theatre, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts
6450 Deer Lake Ave, Burnaby
When mysterious tiles first began to appear on the streets and sidewalks of American cities, few people took notice. But the tiles’ cryptic references to David’s Mamet’s one act play 4AM, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the work of British Historian Arnold J. Toynbee snagged the attention of one man. Winner of the Directing Award: Documentary at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, Jon Foy’s Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles is elegant meditation on human strangeness, and the desperate to be heard and understood.
“It’s a remarkable movie, both for the questions it poses and the answers it never quite articulates.”
– PopMatters
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Sally Rowe
Studio Theatre, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts
6450 Deer Lake Ave, Burnaby
At the tender age of 24, Paul Liebrandt was awarded three stars by the New York Times for culinary curiosities such as "eel, violets and chocolate," "espuma of calf brains and foie gras," and "beer and truffle soup." A Matter of Taste is part suspense tale and part insider’s look into kitchen culture, with its hours of hard work and attention paid to the minutest of details.
The screening will be followed by a Skype interview with director Sally Rowe.
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