Schedule of films + speakers
Join us for six days full of festival goodness April 17-22, 2012. All screenings will take place at Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Simon Fraser University, located at 149 West Hastings Street in Vancouver.
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TuesdayApril 177:00pmOPENING NIGHT EVENT: World Peace & Other 4th Grade Achievements
Public school teacher John Hunter and his students participate in an educational exercise that he created entitled the World Peace Game.
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WednesdayApril 187:00pmIn Organic We Trust
We can no longer stomach our food system. It’s killing more and more Americans and costing billions in healthcare. 73% of Americans eat organic food, because they think it’s healthier. But is organic really better for us or just a marketing scam?
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WednesdayApril 189:00pmDive!
Follow filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and his circle of friends as they dumpster dive in the back alleys and gated garbage receptacles of L.A.’s supermarkets. In the process they uncover thousands of dollars worth of good food and an ugly truth about waste in America: grocery stores know they are wasting and most refuse to do anything about it.
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ThursdayApril 1910:00amYouth day screening: Louder than a Bomb
By turns hopeful and heartbreaking, Louder Than a Bomb follows the fortunes of four Chicago-area high school poetry teams as they prepare for and compete in the world’s largest youth slam.Teams and soloists from 60 high schools compete, and the finalists face off in a city-wide slam that fills a theater usually used for rock concerts.
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ThursdayApril 191:00pmYouth Day Screening: Miss Representation
“Miss Representation” is a documentary highlighting the sexualization and objectification of females in the media, in particular women in positions of leadership.
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ThursdayApril 197:00pmUrbanized
A documentary by Gary Hustwit who’s previous films include Helvetica (2007) and Objectified (2009), Urbanized is a feature-length documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world’s foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers.
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ThursdayApril 199:00pmSWITCH
What will it really take, to transition from oil and coal, to the energies of tomorrow? SWITCH goes where no film has gone before, deep into the world’s most restricted energy sites, to depoliticize competing power sources, make the technical accessible, and discover the truth of our energy future.
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FridayApril 2010:00amYouth day screening: Truck farm
48 minutes/2011/USA Truck Farm tells the story of a new generation of quirky urban farmers. Viewers are trucked across New York to see the city’s funkiest urban farms, and to find out if America’s largest city can learn to feed itself. Blending serious exposition with serious silliness, Truck Farm entreats viewers to ponder the future of urban farming, and to consider whether sustainability needs a dose of whimsy to be truly sustainable. Featuring chef Dan Barber, nutritionist Marion Nestle, explorer [...]
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FridayApril 207:00pmThe City Dark
A feature documentary about the loss of night.
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FridayApril 209:00pmIf a Tree Falls
A rare behind-the-curtain look at the Earth Liberation Front, the radical environmental group that the FBI calls America’s ‘number one domestic terrorist threat.’
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SaturdayApril 2110:00am - 3:00pmDocumentary Workshop
Join us Saturday April 21 for a day of learning and interaction with industry experts. Session One: 10am – noon Crowd-funding: Social media provides new opportunities for filmmakers to engage with their audience and corporate partners. How do you take advantage of this? Online fundraising like traditional crowdfunding sites IndieGoGo and Kickstarter are one way of generating revenue. New funding and distribution platform SoKap, takes this idea to the next level by providing financial rewards to project backers. We’ll discuss [...]
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SaturdayApril 214:00pmMiss Representation
90 mins/ 2011/ USA Premiered on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) in October 2011, “Miss Representation” is a documentary highlighting the sexualization and objectification of females in the media, in particular women in positions of leadership. The film is an excellent beginning to raise awareness of a pervasive problem in the media that manipulates the minds of both males and females to reinforce unhealthy attitudes and perceptions about women. The treatment in the media of Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Sarah [...]
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SaturdayApril 217:00pmOne Beach
Barefoot Wine presents One Beach. A film about creativity, optimism and having fun cleaning our beaches around the world. Directed by Jason Baffa.
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SaturdayApril 219:00pmPipe Dreams
Across the heartland of America, farmers and landowners are fighting to protect their land, their water, and their livelihood in what has become the most controversial environmental battle in the U.S. today: The Keystone XL Pipeline.
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SundayApril 227:00pmCLOSING NIGHT EVENT: Life in a Day
What do you get when you ask the people of the world to chronicle a single day in their lives? You get 80,000 submissions, 4500 hours of footage, from 192 countries. Kevin Macdonald has taken this raw material, all shot on July 24, 2010, and created a 90-minute paean to what it means to be human in the world today.