Opening Night 7:30pm Reaching Blue - 22 min - SID Global Reef Films Filmmakers: Ian Hinkle and Andy Robertson An oyster farmer, a writer and an ocean scientist share their thoughts about a coastal way of life under threat, where stories from...
2015
10:00am LNS – 83 min. American Revolutionary
10am American Revolutionary - 83 min. - LNS Good Docs Director: Grace Lee Grace Lee Boggs is a 99-year-old Chinese American writer, activist, and philosopher. Rooted for more than 70 years in the African American movement, she has devoted her...
10:00am FFR – 72 min. Shameless Propaganda
10am Shameless Propaganda - 72 min. - FFR NFB Director: Robert Lower This feature film examines its own genre, the documentary, which has often been called Canada's national art form. Released in the year of the NFB's 75th birthday,...
11:30am FFR – 70 min. Connected by Coffee
11:30am Connected by Coffee - 70 min. - FFR Stone Hut Studios Filmmakers: Aaron Dennis & Chelsea Bay Dennis The film follows two North American coffee roasters on a journey across Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua to...
11:40am LNS – 64 min. The Man Who Stopped the Desert
11:40am The Man Who Stopped the Desert - 64 min. - LNS 1080 Films Director: Mark Dodd As early as the 1970s, desertification began to creep southwards in the land between the Sahara Desert and forests of tropical Africa. By the...
2:45pm UNS – 95 min. Above All Else
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 LNS – 90 min. A Dangerous Game
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...
2:55pm FFR – 84 min. The Malagasy Way
2:55pm FFR - 84 min. The Malagasy Way Director: Lova Nantenaina “The Chinese make everything and the Malagasy fix everything.” The people of Madagascar pride themselves on producing things out of nothing;...
4:35pm UNS – 74 min. Just Eat It
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...
4:35pm SID – 78min. Alive Inside
4:35pm SID - 78min. Alive Inside www.filmsalescorp.com Director Michael Rossato-Bennett Alive Inside is a joyous cinematic exploration of music’s capacity to reawaken our souls and uncover the deepest parts of our humanity....
8:00pm SID – 88 min. DamNation
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...