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 […]
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 […]
This month’s Awareness Video Night will feature Isaac Isitan’s film “Money”. Who creates it? Who controls it? Who profits? This movie begins in Turkey and Argentina where thousands of people took to the streets, attacking banks when their life savings evaporated overnight. Middle class people who once lined up at the bank were now lining […]
In a world teetering on the edge of self-destruction, filmmaker Velcrow Ripper takes the audience on a visually stunning pilgrimage to Earth’s Ground Zeros searching for hope and meaning in the turmoil of the darkest moments of recent human history. Ripper’s search takes him to the minefields of Cambodia, war torn Afghanistan, the toxic wasteland […]
