by Keith and Heather Nicol
On Friday evening,
February 6
th we headed down to the Sid Williams Theatre in Courtenay,
B.C.
to check out the first night of the
24
th World Community Film Festival. There was a huge turnout for the
films “Becoming Bulletproof” and “Reaching Blue” that opened the festival.
Like many of the films in this festival these
two films focused on social and environmental issues.
On Saturday, February 7
th the
festival organizers showed 19 other films in four venues that dealt with a wide
variety of social, environmental and economic consequences of human activity at
both local and international levels. They also showed nine films as part of a
family programme.
Overall we saw several
films and enjoyed them all. We thought “The man who stopped the desert”, “American
Revolutionary-The evolution of Grace Lee Boggs”, ”Bulletproof” and “Damnation”
were particularly good. We hope to see the many films we missed through the
World Community lending library.
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There were several venues for the festival including the Native Sons Hall shown here |
World Community
which is headquartered in the Comox Valley is to be commended for organizing
this event. And a great aspect of this event is that it travels to a variety of
B.C. and other Canadian locations over the coming months. We have already told
some of our friends in Kamloops, Duncan and Vancouver the dates that it will be
in their communities. In addition to the films,
World Community also organized a Saturday
Bazaar and evening banquet for the event. Overall we were very impressed with
the festival and the organizers must feel encouraged by the large turnouts for
the films. For more information on World Community and the travelling film
festival see:
http://www.worldcommunity.ca/
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Heather (right) chats to Lucas Schuller with the Cumberland Museum at the bazaar |
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