Food Chains Saturday 10:00am LNS 86 min. 2015 www.foodchainsfilm.com Director: Sanjay Rawal Farm labour has always been one of the most difficult and poorly paid jobs and has relied on some of the most vulnerable people. Exploitation still exists, ranging from...
The Pass System Saturday 1:10pm UNS 50 min. 2015 Director: Alex Williams www.facebook.com/thepasssystem www.twitter.com/ThePassSystem www.tamarackproductions.com The Pass System illuminates Canada’s hidden history of racial segregation. For over 60 years, the...
The True Cost Saturday 1:10pm FFR 92 min. 2015 McNabb/Connolly truecostmovie.com Director: Andrew Morgan This is a story about clothing. It is about the clothes we wear, the people who make them and the impact it's having on our world. The price of “fast...
Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley Saturday 1:15pm LNS 91 min. 2014 Naretiv Productions resistenciathefilm.com Filmmaker: Jesse Freeston In 2009, the first coup d’état in a generation overthrows the elected president of Honduras, plunging the whole...
A Sorry State Saturday 2:05pm UNS 47 min. 2012 McNabb/Connolly mitchmiyagawa.com Filmmaker: Mitch Miyagawa Is saying "sorry" enough? In 1988, Mitch Miyagawa’s Japanese-Canadian family received an apology from Prime Minister Brian Mulroney for the internment of...
1pm Tribal Canoe Journey - 5 min. - UNS Carswell Productions Filmmaker: Ed Carswell This film captures a rare event that happened in 2014 on a warm July evening in the K'omoks Estuary, BC. As part of the annual Tribal Canoe Journey,...
1pm Soft Vengeance; Albie Sachs and the New South Africa - 84 min. - LNS Director: Abby Ginzberg Soft Vengeance is an inspiring film about Albie Sachs, a lawyer, writer, art lover and freedom fighter. For his...
1:10pm How a People Live - 59 min. - UNS Moving Images Distribution Director: Lisa Jackson The Gwa'sala and the 'Nakwaxda'xw First Nations people lived as two distinct groups along BC's northwest coast. In 1964, for...
2:45pm All the Time in the World: Disconnecting to Reconnect - 88 min. - SID www.allthetimeintheworld.ca Director: Suzanne Crocker Story Editor: Nettie Wild In search of a new perspective, a family of five leaves...
2:45pm Above All Else - 95 min. - UNS Fiege Films Director: John Fiege Above All Else is an intimate portrait of a group of landowners and activists in East Texas who take peaceful direct action to stop construction...
2:55pm A Dangerous Game - 90 min. - LNS www.adangerousgame.org Director: Anthony Baxter A Dangerous Game is about the environmental, cultural, historical, and human costs of golf, a game that has been hijacked by...
4:35pm Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story - 74 min. - UNS Peg Leg Films Filmmakers: Grant Baldwin and Jenny Rustmeyer We all love food, so how could we possibly be throwing away nearly half of it? Filmmakers Jen and...
Closing Night 8:00pm DamNation - 88 min. - SID IndieCan Directors: Travis Rummel & Ben Knight This powerful film odyssey across the US explores the sea change in attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that our own future...
Below is a short video from Free2BeYou featuring some comments from festival-goers at the World Community Film Festival, Jan 31st and Feb 1st 2014. This video was produced in collaboration with the Comox Valley Global Awareness Network.
Below is a short video from Free2BeYou featuring some comments from festival-goers at the 2014 World Community Film Festival. [av_video src='https://youtu.be/zS4xi3WG_KY' format='16-9' width='16' height='9'] This video was produced in collaboration with the Comox...
2014 Film Descriptions World Community Film Festival Opening Night – SID Project Heart ; Honouring Residential School Survivors 12 min. 2013 Carswell Productions Director: Ed Carswell - Watch Film on VIMEO Project Heart is the story of an extraordinary school...
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