#doxa film festival

[13thgenfilm]

We’re excited to announce the * North American Premiere * of Sandra Itäinen’s COMING AROUND, screening as part of the “Rated Y For Youth” program on Tuesday, May 9th at 12:15pm at DOXA Documentary Film Festival in Vancouver, Canada. ❤️🏳️‍🌈🎬

Produced by Chelsi Bullard, and executive produced by Marc Smolowitz, Fawz Mirza, and Andria Wilson, the film follows 28-year-old Eman as she weighs the decision to come out to her devout Muslim mother.

Watch the trailer: 👉 https://vimeo.com/804515658

Screening details: 👉 https://bit.ly/ComingAroundAtDoxa

[rickchung]

2024 DOXA Documentary Festival x The Post at 750.

Documentary screenings scheduled from May 2–12.

[creativemorningsvancouver]

Fun Local Events in May ✨

DesignThinkers 2024 (May 28-29)

Who's in the Audience? (CMVan Social Media Series)

Brands for Better (volunteer with us)

Doxa: Documentary Film Festival (May 2-12)

The Cold Reading Series (May 13)

For Humanity: More Than Drawing Art Classes (May 16 - June 16)

Likemind Vancouver: Coffee and Conversation (May 17)

Salazar Student Awards (May 30)

CMVan June Event: Jay Senetchko (June 7)

First Saturday: Visit Artists Where They Work (June 8th)

[irisfilmcollective]

It’s DOXA time! From May 2nd to 12th, 2024, it’s time to fill your eyes and brain with an epic roster of great new documentaries.

Iris Film Collective is very pleased to be a Community Partner once again this year, and super-thrilled to be presenting Deborah Stratman’s latest: LAST THINGS, Thursday May 2nd, 6:00 PM @ The Cinematheque.

“To human eyes, Earth was dead. Yet another life was evolving for whom this was the time of genesis.” In Deborah Stratman’s Last Things, geological history is told by the primeval beings that know it most intimately—rocks, crystals, microbes and solar materials. In this retelling of Earth’s origin story, the mineral kingdom reigns. What would a stone remember, if asked about the shape of the world millions of years ago? Weaving together poetry, scientific research and photography both beautiful and bizarre, Stratman examines the complex micro worlds that combine to create our larger, more precarious one. -SB

“By turns speculative fiction, documentary, and cosmic horror… Last Things approaches a geological sublime, forcing us to confront the unsettling foreignness of our planet’s deep history.”  -Peter Goldberg for SCREENSLATE

Check out the whole festival at www.doxafestival.ca and see you there!

@doxafestival

#lastthings

#deborahstratman 

#doxa2024

#irisfilmcollective

#experimentaldocumentary

#communitypartner

#cinematheque

[jminter]

DOXA 2023 Festival Line-Up Debuts

This week, DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Western Canada’s largest documentary film festival, announced its 2023 Festival line-up.  The 22nd edition Festival returns to screens May 4 through May 14, 2023 with a roster of crucial and thought-provoking documentaries in theatrical venues across the city, bringing filmmakers and audiences together for a communal cinema experience. For those folks who prefer to view from the comfort of their own homes, a selection of festival films will be available to stream online after festival dates, between May 15 and 24, 2023. The 22nd annual DOXA Documentary Film Festival will showcase a total of 39 features and mid-lengths, 25 short films, as well as Industry events and multiple opportunities for filmmakers, audiences and industry professionals to connect.  Online films will be available to stream Canada-wide, through DOXA’s Eventive online platform. Theatrical screenings will take place at The Cinematheque, VIFF Centre and SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, while in-person industry events will be held at SFU’s World Arts Centre. DOXA presents Karen Cho’s Big Fight in Little Chinatown as this year’s Opening Presentation, screening on May 4th at SFU’s Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema. All across the globe, Chinatowns are under threat of disappearing—and along with them, the rich history of communities who fought from the margins for a place to belong. Big Fight in Little Chinatown follows the communities that are fighting to end perpetual gentrification and displacement across North America. Other Special Presentations include: Kokomo City, directed by D. Smith, which documents the stories of four Black transgender sex workers in New York and Georgia as they share reflections on tangled desires, far-reaching taboos and gender’s many meanings (Justice Forum); King Coal, directed by Elaine McMillion Sheldon, witnessing the daily rituals of life in Appalachia as the cultural roots of the coal industry continue to permeate, even as its economic power wanes (Rated Y for Youth);

and Kaveh Nabatian’s Kite Zo A (Leave the Bones), which weaves together ancestral veneration, choreographed dance and interviews to tell a story of fighting back against colonial oppression in Haiti (Closing Gala). DOXA also features three guest-curated programs. Vancouver-based curator, writer and current Director of Artspeak Gallery, Nya Lewis has selected the film Beba (Rebeca Huntt, 2021) for their program, A Radical Pluriverse: Reflections on Black Womanhood on Both Sides of the Lens. In Lewis’s words, “I consider it a privilege to access a spiritual legacy of mothers, sisters and daughters—a lineage or geneology of Black women(hood) that is defined by collective self-awareness, shared political consciousness, love, magic, quests for liberation and futurism.” Farah Clémentine Dramani-Issifou, whose research and curatorial work focuses on Afro-diasporic cinema and visual arts, has curated a program of short films called I AM A (WO)MAN: Transatlantic Perspectives on Political Struggles in the 1960s–1970s in Guinea-Bissau, Morocco, the USA and France. These short works highlight the cross-cultural and -continental “struggles for the emancipation of colonized peoples,” and display the collaborative work of filmmakers and labour activists in the fight. Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis program titled NORITA: The Mother of All Struggles features Jayson McNamara’s work-in-progress doc, Norita, which examines the life and revolutionary work of Nora Cortiñas, the most famous of the Madres of the Plaza de Mayo—Argentina’s movement of women fighting for justice amidst the country’s rampant political oppression. Beyond the festival’s cornerstone Justice Forum and Rated Y for Youth programs, DOXA 2023 will include two Spotlight programming streams: DANCE, DANCE OTHERWISE WE ARE LOST and THIN PLACES. As German dancer Pina Bausch once advised: “Dance, dance otherwise we are lost.” In an effort to make sense of the world, the films in this spotlight program meld the disciplines of dance and filmmaking, strengthening relationships between ancestors, culture and community in the process. Thin Places presents a collection of films exploring liminal and precarious zones. “There are places,” says Irish writer Kerri ní Dochartaigh, “both hollowed and hallowed, all in one.” Thin places, as they are known in the Celtic tradition, are locales where a sense of Heaven and Earth meet. But in this dense collection of films, Hell is present too.

NOT QUITE THAT tells the story of a nice Jewish butch lesbian with a genetic mutation that might just allow her to be fully seen at last Several Canadian filmmakers will bring their world premiere to DOXA 2023. Amy Miller’s latest film, Manufacturing the Threat, is a festival highlight: After the arrest and imprisonment of a young Surrey couple, their plot to commit acts of terrorism was revealed to be the work of government agent provocateurs aiming to entrap and create their own “threats.” Miller will also be giving a masterclass, co-presented by DOC BC | YT | NWT, as part of DOXA’s Industry program. Ali Grant’s Not Quite That champions an affecting local story; after finding out she is predisposed to breast cancer, Sarah White—a Jewish woman, mother, and butch lesbian—must decide whether to wait and see what happens, or act fast and have a preventative double mastectomy. These Canadian films and more are exciting titles in DOXA’s 2023 festival program. DOXA Documentary Film Festival runs May 4-14, 2023, with select films available to stream online after the festival, between May 15 thru 24, unless otherwise specified. Online films are geo-blocked to Canada and virtual tickets will be limited. Select screenings will include live and pre-recorded filmmaker Q+As and extended discussions. Festival tickets and passes are on sale now at doxafestival.ca    Read the full article

[artwalktv]

Yosef and Zilli plan to take their lives together. The memories of their love and their planned death are brought to life through the videotapes of their youngest son, Doron. Documentary, Canada/Israel. Hebrew. 19min. Producer and Director: Dean Gold Co-Producer: Doron Abrahami Exec. Producer, Editor: Brendan Mills Director of Photography: Gadi Yampel Original Music: Casey Manierka Sound Design: Will Stephens Produced with the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts. Dedicated to the memory of Yosef and Zilli Abrahami, RIP. OFFICIAL SELECTION 2021-22: Jerusalem Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, Rhode Island International Film Festival, Odense International Film Festival, Short Shorts International Film Festival & Asia, Dublin International Film Festival, DC Shorts Film Festival, DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Israeli Documentary Film Awards.

[claudehenrion]

Madame Anastasie est de retour...

Tout s'effondre, sous les coups d'un pouvoir liberticide comme jamais aucun autre, en temps de paix (NB : l'exagération des méfaits du covid a renforcé le pouvoir de tous les leaders du moment. C’est un fait, hélas), et l'Elysée s'offre une popularité à bon compte en autorisant l'accès à la plage (et aux tire-fesses --en été ! C'est-y pas beau ?), à revoir leurs vieux parents et à boire un café au soleil (mais pas à respirer sans masque, s'il y a un flic à l'horizon !)...  La presse (pour moitié vendue, pour moitié achetée) applaudit la générosité de nos maîtres qui lèvent enfin le pied et nous laissent espérer prendre le nôtre... Mais le prix à payer est élevé : une privation de la liberté de nous exprimer, de critiquer...  et de penser.

Dans le silence complice des médias, notre espace de liberté, soi-disant restitué (aux mesures infantilisantes près), a été réduit dans des proportions elles aussi rarement vues en temps de paix, sous la double pression de lobbies (qui sont pour ce qui doit être interdit et vice-versa), et du pouvoir lui-même, qui croit  cacher ses échecs sous une chape de silence, de désinformations officielles et de fake news. En outre, le silence et le strict contrôle médiatique ont ceci d'efficace qu'il faut ''un certain temps'' aux citoyens pour se rendre compte qu'ils sont floués sans pudeur...

Depuis le XIXè siècle, la censure a le visage (?) de Madame Anastasie, créature revêche armée de ciseaux géants. Elle a donc plus de 150 ans, mais elle a retrouvé une seconde jeunesse avec le web 2.0... et le covid : la France occupait, en 2002, la 11e place du classement des pays pour la liberté de parole et d'opinion, et se retrouve en 2020 au 34 ème rang, avec la Slovaquie et la Slovénie (ex-coco / ex-titistes), le Burkina Faso et le Botswana. Demandez-vous donc pourquoi !

La célébration escamotée du Centenaire de la mort de Napoléon 1er a été l'occasion d'un festival de faux-cu-isme (pardon pour le néologisme : il a le mérite de la clarté !), de reniements honteux mais même pas honteux, de ''et en même temps'' bordéligènes (mêmes excuses, même justification), de capitulations sans livrer bataille... et d'un étalage de haine pathologique sans précédent. Quoique... entre les arguments des ''pro'' et ceux des ''con'' --comme le disent joliment les américains-- ceux des ''con'' sont forts : c'est vrai que Napoléon n'a rien fait en faveur des énergies renouvelables, pas plus d'ailleurs que pour le tri sélectif des déchets, et il a totalement échoué sur l'égalité des salaires hommes-femmes dans la fonction publique. Et sur l'avortement ''légal'' (?) jusqu'au 9 ème mois inclus, il a été complètement nul, comme sur l'euthanasie --qui rime si bien avec ''Etat-nazi'' !

Ne riez pas, c’est trop triste : les arguments qui ont été employés pour ramener ces commémorations à une petite fraction de ce qu'il fallait faire sont comparables à ces inepties. Lui reprocher d'avoir dû, contraint par la guerre contre l'Angleterre, rétablir l'esclavage temporairement (ce qui le singularise, face aux monarchies et mollarchies moyen-orientales qui ne l'ont toujours pas aboli de facto en 2021 mais distribuent des leçons de morale), ça, c’est criminel : la vérité historique ne saurait se lire en dehors de son contexte et l'anachronisme devrait être sévèrement puni...

L'existence d'une censure est devenu incontestable ce 6 mai 2021 : quelques poignées de voyous, de ''trots-scribes'', de pharisiens et de cuistres haineux ont eu raison de la mémoire du plus grand homme de l'Histoire de France : ils ont imposé au discours officiel le vocabulaire des ''con'', y compris leur rengaine insupportable : ''Napoléon, qui est contesté''... horrible expression qui permet tous les sous-entendus les plus ''fake'' ! Mais non, Messieurs les censeurs : il n'est ''contesté'' que par quelques haineux-par-système qui visent, à travers lui, notre belle histoire de France que (dit le chef comme pour accroître la confusion, ''il faut déconstruire'', ce qui n'a qu'un seul sens : détruire). Nous vivons une époque épatante : on détruit l'humanité sexuée, on détruit la famille, l'école, la Police, l'autorité parentale, l'ordre dit républicain, le vrai et le beau, ou on fait la promotion en grand de la pornographie à l'école (cf. le scandale Benetton, entre autres)... et à l'arrivée, on a gagné drogue, meurtres, batailles rangées, viols, assassinat de policiers, et suicides chez les jeunes... ce qui était prévu, annoncé, in-con-tour-nable !

On sait, depuis Gramsci, que qui contrôle le langage et le vocabulaire contrôle la pensée, et c'est ce qui nous arrive : quand 90 % des journalistes disent ‘’se positionner à gauche’’ dans un pays qui ''pense'' à droite à plus de 70 %, sondage après sondage, la catastrophe est inévitable ! Les historiens du futur (si futur il y a, au sens qu'a encore ce mot) s'étonneront de ce décalage énorme entre les populations et ceux qui auraient dû les représenter, démocratiquement ou culturellement, et sur la docilité des foules à se soumettre aux ''diktats'' (le plus souvent insanes) de petits groupes qui ont ''trusté'' tous les postes ''à influence'' et imposent leur censure à une démocratie qui meurt d’avoir perdu tout son sens. 

L'idéologie ''correcte'' vient des Etats-Unis et a infecté tout l'Occident. La main-mise d'Anastasie sur la vérité est partout  : outre le covid, (domaine où seule la doxa officielle --qui dit non le lundi mais oui le mardi-- a droit de cité), on peut citer l'histoire de Maya Forstater, professeur au Center for Global Development, think tank américain à Londres, licenciée pour avoir ''tweeté'' que “les hommes ne [pouvaient] pas être des femmes”! (NDLR : pour Orwell, en ''1984'', la liberté était de pouvoir dire que 2 et 2 font 4. En 2021, dire qu'il y a des hommes et des femmes est interdit par le lobby LGBT qui, en réalité, se fiche de défendre la dignité des ‘’homos’’ mais veut faire taire ceux qui défendent l'humanité naturelle... et la vérité).

Au maitre exemple honteux, en France celui-là : un film sur Jeanne d'Arc était programmé sur FR3, le 8 mai... Mais un cuistre endoctriné de ce Sévice public a vu, dans le générique, qu'une des voix ''off'' était celle de la journaliste Charlotte d'Ornellas, cette atroce créature, vicieuse au point de penser à droite et d'apporter sa signature à ''Valeurs actuelles''... Devant une telle incongruité, on a, en vitesse, déprogrammé ce film : dans le fond, il ne commémorait que le bûcher où une ''Sainte Patronne de la France'' (des conneries, tout ça, bonnes pour une aristocrate d'origine portugaise !) a été brûlée par les cochons d'anglais et un gros Cauchon, français, lui. La censure idéologique est la pire : elle se croit ''juste''. Un comble !

Et comment éviter de parler des misères qui sont faites à Eric Zemmour, qui a le tort de transformer en ''audimat'' la soif du peuple français pour de l'air non-vicié, de la liberté, de la vérité, de la culture et des arguments incontestables. (Quel bonheur de voir tous les ministres actuels, et Valls, et Attali, s'effondrer en constatant que tous leurs faux arguments --qui ont paru fonctionner, en d'autres temps !-- ne sont que des écrans fumeux). Mais nous y reviendrons bientôt : un billet ne suffirait pas !

Mais ne terminons pas ce billet sur les méfaits de la censure et de la pensée ''clonée'' sans rappeler que si l'incendie d'une église est passé sous silence, un tag sur une mosquée déplace Darmanin et fait l'ouverture de tous les JT de ce Sévice public qui, payé par nos sous, se devrait de respecter les choix et les opinions des français et pas celle des 2000 bobos qui mènent le pays à la catastrophe... et à sa disparition possible (NDLR : Attali, égal à lui-même et toujours se cherchant entre l'infime et le néant, l'a confirmé : la disparition d'une espèce de papillons exotiques doit être un souci prioritaire, mais la disparition de la France n'en est pas un...).

Que faudrait-il faire pour que nos dirigeants voient que leurs ''administrés'' n'en peuvent plus ? Faudra-t-il une issue que tout le monde redoute (mais qu'ils font tout pour ne pas écarter) pour que nous retrouvions ces Liberté-Egalité-Fraternité que leurs tonitruants ''Vive la république'', suivi d'un rapide et honteux ''et vive la France'' ont ratatiné en ''slogan pour fin de discours'' ? On dirait qu' ils font tout ce qu'il faut (c'est-à-dire : ''tout ce qu'il ne faut pas'' !) pour que le pire devienne la seule solution... ''Pleurez, doux alcyons, oiseaux sacrés chers à Thétis, pleurez : elle est revenue, Anastasie, la vieille tarentule'' aurait (peut-être) écrit André Chénier !

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[allthecanadianpolitics]

The award-winning film nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up tells the story of the death of Colten Boushie, a 22-year-old Cree man from Red Pheasant First Nation, and the trial of his alleged shooter. The documentary, which won Best Canadian Feature at the Hot Docs Festival and the Colin Low Award at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival, begins its countrywide tour in Saskatchewan theatres this week.

The documentary takes viewers through a story of murder, racism and Indigenous history in Canada. It all begins the day Boushie and his friends entered Gerald Stanley’s rural property. Boushie was shot in the back of the head in August 2016, allegedly by the property owner.

The jury’s acquittal of Stanley, who was accused of second-degree murder, captured the attention of the country. Filmmaker Tasha Hubbard’s involved storytelling weaves a “profound narrative encompassing the filmmaker’s own adoption, the stark history of colonialism on the Prairies and a vision of a future where Indigenous children can live safely on their homelands,” according to the documentary’s synopsis.

Eleanore Sunchild is the Boushie family’s lawyer. She thinks all Canadians should watch the film.

“Canadians should see this film. It speaks about issues that concern Canadian justice. The inclusion of Indigenous people within that system and all systems should be of a great concern to everybody,” she said.

Continue Reading.

[pinholegnat]

Submitted Photo of Repair Café

Submitted Photo of Repair Café

Submitted Photo of Repair Café

  Recycle, Reuse, Reduce—the mantra embedded into Canadian culture is now being taken beyond the crumpling cans and glistening glass bottles. Fixed!, a short film, premiering at DOXA Documentary Festival challenges our normalized and wasteful throwaway culture by introducing us to Toronto’s Repair Café and its mission to repair and reuse our once beloved electronics, toys, books, even hairbrushes.

We’re taken on a journey inside Repair Café as a meeting place for a growing community who not only want to salvage malfunctioning home goods, but also a community seeking to reduce our growing landfills. Inside Repair Café, we see a diverse group of people fixing and getting things fixed for free: skilled volunteers happily lending their expertise, company, and bright smiles, and patrons looking to restore their products, which hold a bountiful amount of history and sentimental value.

While only one out of the five repairs is pronounced unsalvageable, we’re given the satisfaction knowing it can be recycled and reused in different ways. The thrill in Repair Café sounds throughout the film with echoing excitable chatter in the room, endearing exchange of stories and concern about the repair at hand, and quite literally rings with each successful repair. Each time a repair is completed, the fixer or the person seeking the repair takes a bell (which, I’ll add, we don’t seem to see much of anymore) and waves their hand, holding the bell, with glee.

Ringing with success, this short film and Repair Café introduces the reinvented mantra “Recycle, Reuse, Reduce.” At the same time, the short film encourages and empowers global society to really embrace sustainability with aims in protecting and preserving the environment. Like one patron says in the film, this movement documented here is a “labour of love.”

Ringing with success, this #film introduces the reinvented mantra “#Recycle, #Reuse, #Reduce.” Recycle, Reuse, Reduce—the mantra embedded into Canadian culture is now being taken beyond the crumpling cans and glistening glass bottles.

[diaryofanangryasianguy]

05/01/19

Film focuses on breaking cycle of abuse in South Asian community

“In the South Asian community, we have a hard time talking about taboo subjects, and sex shouldn’t be a taboo subject,” says Baljit Sangra. “If we can’t talk about sex, how are we going to talk about sexual violence?”

Thus, Sangra’s feature-length documentary film — which had its world premiere last week at the Hot Docs Festival in Toronto, and will open the 2019 DOXA Documentary Film Festival this week — is something of a conversation starter for the South Asian community.

[arthur-erickson-officialblog]

Photo top: Phyllis Lambert, Chairman of the Arthur Erickson Foundation, and Canadian Centre for Architecture founder, Globe & Mail; Photo above: Arthur Erickson with landscape architect Cornelia Oberlander at the Museum of Anthropology, courtesy of City Dreamers.

City Dreamers offers a glimpse into the careers of four trailblazing urban architects of the 20th century: Phyllis Lambert, Blanche Lemco van Ginkel, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, and Denise Scott Brown.

This wonderful film was premiered at the Doxa Documentary Film Festival, and is coming to theatres soon.

See trailer: https://youtu.be/qwWxKhVo8j0

https://www.doxafestival.ca/film/city-dreamers

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/reviews/article-city-dreamers-portraits-of-four-women-who-shaped-the-world-we-live-in/

[popthiscollective]

The Eyes of Tammy Faye and the PTL scandal | Episode 326

Summary:

   "Unnecessary." We watched The Eyes of Tammy Faye because it won Oscars and we're not happy about it. Also discussed: DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Severence and Dead Still.  

  Show notes:

  You're Wrong About: Tammy Faye Bakker and Jessica Hahn (podcast)

  The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2000 documentary)

  Recommendations: 

Andrea G.:  DOXA Documentary Film Festival 

  Andrea W.:  Grown Ups by Marian Keyes

  Lisa:  Dead Still (Acorn) 

  Music credits:

"Electrodoodle" by Kevin MacLeod

From: incompetech.com Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

  Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod

From: incompetech.com

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

  "Vivacity" by Kevin MacLeod

From: incompetech.com

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Pop This! is a podcast featuring three women talking about pop culture.

Lisa Christiansen is a broadcaster, journalist and longtime metal head. Andrea Warner is a music critic, author and former horoscopes columnist. Andrea Gin is a producer and an avid figure skating fan.

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Pop This! podcast is produced by Andrea Gin.

  Check out our latest episode!

[rickchung]

2023 DOXA Documentary Film Festival x The Cinematheque. (via Isaac Li)

Western Canada’s largest documentary film festival returns with films screening in theatres [...]. DOXA 2023 features a roster of crucial and thought-provoking documentaries in theatrical venues across the city, bringing filmmakers and audiences together for a communal cinema experience.

Screenings from May 4–14 (online from May 15–24).

[epfcmoberlyfieldhouse]

breathing room residency Welcomes November 2021 Artist In Residence Hân Pham! Hân Phạm (b.1999) is an emerging Vietnamese documentary/ experimental filmmaker and artist from Saigon, Vietnam. Working with experimental haptic video and film, photography, and soundscape compositions, her works often thinks through the ephemerality of memory, language, and history in relation to the constantly changing and dislocated landscapes, rooting in the inbetweeness of distance as space for reflection. Hân has exhibited at Vancouver International Film Festival, DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Vancouver Queer Film Festival, and Vines Arts Festival, presented her work in a public installation with Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen in 2020-2021, and participated in the VIFF Catalyst Mentorship Program. breathing room reimagines the artist residency as a fluid space for collaboration, experimentation, relaxation and community connection. Facilitated by Iris Film Collective and EPFC North, breathing room artists are provided with some filmmaking materials and equipment, technical and creative support, and access to work/exhibition space at Moberly and/or Burrard View Fieldhouse. The residency also includes optional opportunities for artists to engage with the local community via workshops, talks, screenings and other public activities. breathing room artists are invited to share their creative discoveries at a free public in-person and/or online event at the end of their residency.

[irisfilmcollective]

Iris Film Collective are thrilled to be a community partner with DOXA this year, presenting THE VISIBLE SPECTRUM (LE SPECTRE VISIBLE) by @SarahSeene and @MaximeCorbeilPerron. "Overnight, I was connected to the planet." Five people recount their experiences of being struck by lightning, and their ensuing relationship to the elements. Akin to the impressions of light on 16mm film are the impressions of electricity on body, psyche and memory. 

The Visible Spectrum is screening in the program Notes on the Body on Friday May 12 at 6:15pm at the Cinematheque with co-director Sarah Seené in person. More info on the program here: doxa2023.eventive.org/schedule/6425f31296c0270047349258

This year's @DOXAFestival runs May 4-14 in Vancouver. Cultivating curiosity and critical thought, #DOXA2023 is serving up the best contemporary docs, don’t miss out! Festival tickets: doxafestival.ca

[jminter]

Picks of the Week - May 5, 2021

My Picks of the Week - May 5, 2021 - featuring @doxafestival @thecultch @imaginevangogh @vangarden @porttheatre @VancouverOpera @PushFestival @theartsclub & more

We didn’t have many April showers, but let’s hope May flowers are blooming with some entertainment to get us through the week. Docs: DOXA Documentary Film Festival begins its 20th anniversary festival tomorrow with 49 features, dozens of shorts, plus live Q&As and Industry events, online from May 6 through 16, 2021 DOXA Documentary Film Festival: Rated Y for Youth Special Presentation: Someone…