This summer, Out On Screen presents the 30th annual Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF), Thursday, August 9th to Sunday, August 19th. This year’s Festival, presented by RBC, will take place at various theatres around Vancouver. The 2018 Festival theme is “To the moon and back, 30 years of uplifting queer stories” To kick off the…
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2018 DOXA line-up keeps it real
In an age of “fake news” the 2018 DOXA Documentary Film Festival celebrates those filmmakers who take the time to research and document real life and get to the bottom of the story without a script or teleprompter. The DOXA 2018 program screens radical and transformative ideas through music, art, and the power of people working…
Maple Ridge Festival of BC Film Opening
As The Oscars celebrated global cinema this week, the second Maple Ridge Festival of BC Film is gearing up to celebrate our home grown film community. From Friday, March 23 to Sunday March 25, 2018 the ACT Arts Centre and The Ridge Film Studios, with the support of the City of Maple Ridge, highlight films…
VIFF 2017 kicks off September 28
The Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) returns to screens around the city from September 28 – October 3, 2017. For over 35 years, VIFF has brought us hundreds of films from around the world and this year continues to build on that legacy. Screening international films from over 70 countries, alongside Canadian and BC films…
Picks of the Week – August 23, 2017
August and summer slowly ticks away but not before some entertaining picks of the week Eat: Tonight the roaming food experience, Vancouver Foodster’s Tasting Plates heads to Commercial Drive. Cascadia: At BC Place, Whitecaps FC hosts Seattle Sounders in Cascadia Cup play on Wednesday. Spectacle: The tall ship Amara Zee provides the backdrop & stage…
Picks of the Week – August 16, 2017
After weeks of smoky haze, the skies have cleared making it a pleasure to get out and enjoy the picks of the week Spectacle: The tall ship Amara Zee docks along the shores of False Creek until Sept 3rd and becomes the backdrop & stage for a free, unique, acrobatic aerial musical Climatopian Spectacle –…
Vancouver Queer Film Festival starts August 10, 2017
Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF), the city’s second largest film fest gets under way in one week. Running August 10 to 20, 2017, VQFF brings 11 days of award winning films, talkbacks, performances and parties. The Festival opens at the Vancouver Playhouse with the 2017 Sundance Award-winning film, I Dream in Another Language (Sueño en Otro…