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…
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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…
DOXA Awards 2019
The DOXA Documentary Film Festival wrapped up for another year last weekend with a closing night screening of Hepi Mita’s Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen. After screening 82 films from around the world the adjudicators determined the recipients of the 2019 DOXA Awards. The three awards were presented prior to the closing screening and went…
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…
Picks of the Week – May 3, 2017
It’s time to see if those April showers really did bring us May flowers while we’re out and about checking the picks of the week. Social: Canada’s largest social media conference Social Media Camp brings novices, experts, and enthusiasts together in Victoria, BC this week. Punk: The Commodore Ballroom welcomes punk supergroup Me First and The…
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…