by Keith
and Heather Nicol
On Friday evening, February 5th
we headed down to the Sid Williams Theatre in Courtenay, B.C. to check out the first night of the 25th
World Community Film Festival. There was a huge turnout for the films “How to
Change the World” and “There you go” that opened the festival. Like many of the films in this festival these
two films focused on social and environmental issues. On Saturday, February 6th the
festival organizers showed 25 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 seven films as part of a
family programme. Overall we saw several
films and enjoyed them all. We saw a variety of films on Saturday including
:”Bikes vs Cars”, “Nefertiti’s Daughters” “Following the Ninth” and “Jumbo
Wild” which were all well attended. The finale on Saturday evening- “Ania” and “Haida
Gwaii” played to a sold out crowd at the Sid Williams Theatre! Many of these
films had won awards at other film festivals and our only complaint is that we
couldn’t see more of the films being presented. But we hope to see the many
films we missed through the World Community lending library.
Films were shown in several venues including the Native Sons Hall |
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
Nanaimo, 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/
The bazaar was also well attended with numerous booths and food |
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