Today is one month from the 10th anniversary of Japan’s 3.11 triple disaster. A magnitude 9.0 megathrust earthquake hit the eastern region of Japan on the afternoon of March 11, 2011 with a resulting tsunami and nuclear following in the aftermath. Opening today, February 11, The Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at UBC host the powerful group…
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DOXA Online Film Festival 2020 Line-Up, Ready To Stream
DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Western Canada’s largest documentary film festival, is returning screens, very near you, next week June 18 to June 26, 2020. Originally scheduled to hit theatres May 7-17, DOXA, like many cultural events of the COVID-19 era, the festival has been relaunched as an online edition. The online DOXA festival will feature over…
DOXA The Documentary Film Festival moves online
The COVID-19 era has seen a whirlwind of change to our daily lives. Services and events are rapidly adapting and innovating to meet the new normal. In the wake of this change, the DOXA Documentary Film Festival has decided to evolve and is moving online with new festival dates, June 18-26th, 2020. DOXA will offer…
Free Film Screening of Miscellaneous Productions “Monsters”
Vancouver’s MISCELLANEOUS Productions is a non-profit, charitable society using art as a path for social change and personal transformation in culturally and socially at-risk youth – empowering them to be fully participating citizens. Last year, the company debuted, Monsters – an anti-racism, anti-bullying play with hip hop and World music and dance. Funding from Heritage…
2018 DOXA Festival Closes With Awards Presentation
As the 2018 DOXA Documentary Film Festival came to a close last Sunday night, the annual DOXA Awards were announced in advance of the Festival’s closing night screening. Four juried awards were presented to the following; The Feature Documentary Award : Mercedes Dominioni’s The Creator of Universes. Of the winning film, jury members Tom Charity, Steffanie Ling…
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…
DOXA Documentary Film Festival Returns
DOXA Documentary Film Festival returns to screens around Vancouver this May 4th to 14th, bringing over a hundred film screenings, panels, workshops and artists talks to cinemas across the city. The 2017 Festival opens with Marie Clements’ documentary musical The Road Forward, a celebration of First Nations history and a portrait of a people who…