Film Series
Fanny, The Right to Rock online from the morning of March 24th to March 27th at midnight.
Film synopsis: Fighting barriers of race, gender and sexuality in the music industry, the incredible women of the 1960s rock band, Fanny, reunite to play music and cut a new record. The film has received rave reviews and many awards including Best Canadian Feature at Hot Docs and Inside Out Festivals. As David Bowie said “Revivify Fanny and my work is done”. (Masks are optional but vaccine cards will be required for the in-person event at NIC). This film contains coarse & sexual language and is rated PG.
Click here to pre-order tickets for the online screening.
This Mountain Life to screen April 30th
The awe that mountainous landscapes evoke is universal. World Community is pleased to present the multi award-winning film, This Mountain Life (77 min.) at 7 pm on Tuesday April 30 at the Stan Hagen Theatre, North Island College, Courtenay. For some people, the draw...
Guest Speaker: Andrew Nikiforuk
Tuesday, April 9 at 7pm - Stan Hagen Theatre, North Island College, Courtenay. Many politicians and environmentalists champion technology as the solution to all of our problems. What if technologies are accelerating our problems? What would the solutions be? These...
Film Screening: Inconvenient Sequel – Thursday Oct 26th – 7pm at NIC
When Al Gore released Inconvenient Truth over a decade ago, climate change was thought of as a hypothetical issue by most people. You had to understand complex graphs and computer models to grasp it. Today, most people have experienced enough extreme and...
Film Screening – Tues. Oct 10, 7pm at NIC Theatre, Courtenay
FREIGHTENED – The Real Price of Shipping.... Cheap clothes, electronics, food — all of it travels the globe by ship. And the true cost of shipping is higher than you may think. Learn more about this and what you can do to make a difference at World Community's film...
Watch a 30 sec. video about our Film Series – films will be starting again in Sept 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsEkYQ1vHIA
Film Screening: Birth of a Family -Wed, June 28 – 7 pm
Aboriginal History Month Film: Birth of a Family Location: K’omoks Band Hall, 3320 Comox Rd., Courtenay Three Indigenous sisters and a brother, adopted as infants into separate families, meet together for the first time in this moving documentary. Removed from their...
Film Screening: Silent Land: The Fight for Fair Food
Monday, June 5th - 7pm - Stan Hagen Theatre NIC. Filmmaker Jan den Berg in attendance. In Cambodia, more and more fertile land is being taken over by large-scale farming industries while small-scale farmers are fighting to keep ownership of their land in order to...
Film Screening: The Music of Strangers
Music Film Back by Popular Demand! The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble (96 min.), from the creators of the Oscar-winning documentary 20 Feet from Stardom, is being re-screened by World Community at 7 pm on Tuesday, May 16 at the Stan Hagen...