Love and Bananas: An Elephant Story Saturday 10:00 am LNS 75 min. Cargo Film and Releasing, 2018 Director: Ashley BellCinematography: Van Royko Elephant rescues in Thailand are rare, unpredictable and often life-threatening. There is no need to abuse an elephant to...
Kus-Kus-Sum: Unpave ParadiseSaturday 11:35 FFR 7 min. www.projectwatershed.ca, 2018 Filmmaker: Jessica SpeckThe community of the Comox Valley is banding together to tackle a large and ambitious restoration project - unpaving paradise at Kus-Kus-Sum. The project aims...
Cooperativa: La Lucha Sigue (The Struggle Continues) Saturday 11:40 am UNS 40 min. carswellfilm.ca, 2018 Filmmaker: Ed Carswell Produced by World Community, Cafe Etico & Carswellfilm.ca Journey to organic coffee farms in the jungle highlands of Nicaragua...
Interspecies Relationships – Shorts Program - FFRPacific Herring: Small Fish, Big Problem 11:45 am - 10 min. Lotus Eater Filmsconservancyhornbyisland.org Pacific Herring need our help if we are to save the salmon, killer whales and other marine species in the Salish...
Haiti BetrayedSaturday 12:55 pm FFR 90 min. 2018 Director: Elaine BriereHaiti Betrayed is a point-of-view documentary revealing how Canada, in contravention of international law, allied with the US and France to overturn the democratically elected government in Haiti...
Call of the Forest: The Forgotten Wisdom of Trees Saturday 3:40 pm UNS 52 min. Treespeak Films, 2018 Director: Jeff McKay We follow visionary scientist, conservationist and author, Diana Beresford-Kroeger, on her journey to the most beautiful forests of the northern...
Being the Change: A New Kind of Climate Documentary Saturday 3:40 pm LNS 58 min. www.treehugger.com, 2018 Filmmakers: Mary Grandelis and Dave Davis Is it possible to move away from fossil fuels and live a more joyful life? That is the question NASA atmospheric...
The Radicals Saturday 3:40 pm FFR 55 min. www.theradicalsfilm.com, 2018 Filmmakers: Brian Hockenstein & Tamo Campos With breathtaking cinematography, The Radicals follows four snowboarders and surfers driven to become social and environmental stewards through...
Satan & Adam Saturday 4:40 pm UNS 80 min. Cargo Film and Releasing, 2018 Filmmaker: Scott Balcerek Sterling Magee experienced firsthand the music industry’s exploitation of black musicians. So he walked away to play music on the Harlem streets. Re-inventing...
Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives Saturday 4:45 pm FFR 63 min. www.filmfreeway.com, 2018 Director: Jim Brown Singer, songwriter and social activist Holly Near has been performing for over 50 years and in the process created what Gloria Steinem called, “the first...
