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 and the Sooke Community Health Initiative – Food Security present: “GARDENS OF DESTINY” A VANCOUVER ISLAND PREMIERE Admission by Donation ABOUT THE FILM ITSELF GARDENS OF DESTINY In this documentary, filmmaker Jocelyn Demers meets Dan Jason on Salt Spring Island, on Canada‚s west coast. Jocelyn Demers explores Dan‚s garden and seed world and […]
Wednesday October 3 – “The Ground Truth” – tells the story of soldiers – how they are recruited, how they are trained to overcome their natural aversion to killing, what they experience on the ground and their struggle to reintegrate into their families and communities when they come home. Producer/director Patricia Foulkrod writes “I wanted […]
Hello moviegoers…..the May Awareness Video Night film will be “The Iron Wall”. This 2006 documentary examines the situation in Israel and Palestine that exists after 39 years of occupation by Israel. The film shows the 670 km. long wall that Israel is building and how it impacts on every aspect of life for Palestinians. Jean-Jacques […]
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 […]
It was among the fastest, most efficient production cars ever built. It ran on electricity and produced no emissions. The lucky few who drove one never wanted to give it up. So why did G.M. crush its fleet of EV1 electric vehicles in the Arizona desert in 2004? Produced in 2006 by a former EV1 owner and […]
Awareness Film Night and the Sooke Community Health Initiative – Food Security present: “GARDENS OF DESTINY” A VANCOUVER ISLAND PREMIERE Admission by Donation ABOUT THE FILM ITSELF GARDENS OF DESTINY In this documentary, filmmaker Jocelyn Demers meets Dan Jason on Salt Spring Island, on Canada‚s west coast. Jocelyn Demers explores Dan‚s garden and seed world and […]
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 […]
December 13th is the next Awareness Video Night presentation: “The Power of Community – How Cuba Survived Peak Oil”. This newly-released documentary explores what happened in Cuba in 1990 when their supply of gas and oil was cut in half. A rare view into this island culture, this film documents how Cuba became a living example of […]
The last screening for the Awareness Video Night season will be held on June 28th at 7 p.m. at Edward Milne Community School Theatre. This month’s film is “Being Caribou”, a National Film Board documentary featuring environmentalist Leanne Allison and wildlife biologist Karsten Heuer as they follow a herd of 120,000 caribou on foot across 1500 kilometres of […]
Awareness Video Night Weds. April 12: ” The Yes Men – Cutting the Corporate Crap”. This film follows a couple of anti-corporate activist-pranksters as they impersonate World Trade Organization spokesmen on TV and at business conferences around the world. The story follows Andy and Mike from their beginnings with GWBush.com and on to their tasteless parody […]
