2024
Awareness Film Night is in hiatus. From time to time we will recommend interesting documentaries or other films that you might be able to access individually.
Awareness Film Night Weds. Dec. 10 “From the Heart of the World, the Elder Brothers’ Warning” The Kogi are an indigenous people living in the Sierra Nevada mountains of Northern Columbia in South America. They are the only civilization to have survived the Spanish conquests and kept their culture intact and themselves isolated. In 1988 […]
Hi moviegoers……Weds. Nov. 19th is the next Awareness Film Night. We will be showing the 2007 film “Escape From Suburbia – Beyond the American Dream”. A sequel to the 2004 film “The End of Suburbia”, this film examines, through personal stories and interviews, how peak oil and climate change have already begun to affect modern […]
Awareness Film Night, Wednesday April 2nd, presents “Salud!”. This Victoria area premiere is an inspiring look at Cuba, cash-strapped, yet providing over 28,000 health care professionals to the poorest regions of 68 countries and home to the largest medical school in the world where 12,000 low-income students from 27 countries receive a free medical education. […]
Weds. April 11 – Alvin “Skipper” Bailey, a filmmaker, activist and music producer from New York City is currently touring North America with his film “Venezuela Rising”. Co-sponsored by Awareness Video Night and Victoria in Solidarity With Venezuela, this film night is a great opportunity to find out more about Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela. When making […]
January 17th will be the date for “Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion”. Ten years in the making, this award-winning documentary was filmed during nine journeys throughout Tibet, Nepal and India. Brings audiences to the long forbidden “rooftop of the world” with an unprecedented richness of imagery. 7 p.m. Edward Milne Community School theatre. By […]
Awareness Video Night presents “Sombrio” . Filmmaker Paul Manly will be on hand for the screening of his recently released film which documents the end of a diverse community of surfers and squatters that existed on Sombrio Beach for more than thirty years. It captures the residents over a two-year period and reveals their personal stories […]
