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.

SundayApril 227:00pm

CLOSING NIGHT EVENT: Life in a Day

95 mins/ 2011/ USA

Film: 7:00pm
Speakers: 8:00pm
Afterparty: 9:30pm – midnight

About the Film
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.

  • Nominated Best Documentary 2011 British Independent Film Awards
  • Nominated Best Documentary 2012 Evening Standard British Film Awards
Closing Night Afterparty
Join us at C Restaurant after the film to celebrate the final night of the 5th Anniversary of Projecting Change. Enjoy Barefoot Wine, and delicious food pairings from C Restaurant. Featuring a local, sustainable, Ocean Wise seafood menu, C Restaurant is the perfect place to celebrate Projecting Change!

 

Screening at Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Simon Fraser University, 149 West Hastings St. in Vancouver. Map

 

Afterparty at C Restaurant, located at #2-1600 Howe Street, Vancouver, BC. Map

 

Speaker Panel

Pre-film: Jeff Topham
Vancouver based writer, photographer and documentary filmmaker Jeff Topham has fought bugs in the Amazon, ridden camels in Timbuktu, talked African politics with George Clooney, fished with David Suzuki, and tailed William Shatner around a Star Trek convention. He recently directed his first feature length documentary for theKnowledge Network - the award-winning Liberia '77. Other TV credits he’s proud of include Eat St. for the Food Channel; the CTV Olympics documentary series The Difference Makers; Carbon Hunters - a documentary for CBC/BBC on carbon offsetting, and the award-winning CBC teen activism series Make Some Noise. A frequent contributor to Westworld magazine, he once spent six months producing TV news in Accra, Ghana with Journalists for Human Rights. Jeff also enjoys surfing, guitars, cheeseburgers, wine gums, and the work of actresses Léa Seydoux and Jessica Chastain.

Post-film: UrtheCast
UrtheCast (pronounced “EarthCast”) is a company created around a unique vision: to provide the world’s first live HD video feed of Earth from space. Working with international partners — and in partnership with renown Russian Aerospace giant RSC Energia — UrtheCast is building, launching, installing, and operating two cameras on the Russian module of the International Space Station. Video data of Earth collected by the cameras will be down-linked to ground stations across the planet and displayed in near-realtime on the UrtheCast web platform, or distributed to exclusive partners and customers.

UrtheCast is excited to be involved with the Projecting Change Film Festival. Life in a Day tells the stories of people around the globe. Much like the documentary, UrtheCast aims to tell the story of the world as a whole. Through the platform you will be able to tell your story.