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 will be opening its 15th season on Weds. October 1 with the 2007 John Pilger film “The War on Democracy”. This documentary is British journalist John Pilger’s first major film for the cinema – in a career that has produced more than 55 television documentaries. Beautifully filmed in Latin America and the […]
Hi moviegoers……..we are closing the season with a screening of “Zeitgeist, The Movie”. This film was created as a non-profit expression to inspire people to start looking at the world from a more critical perspective and to understand that very often things are not what the population at large think they are. Part I “The Greatest […]
On May 14 Awareness Film Night will present a screening of the recent Vancouver talk by Israeli historian and professor Ilan Pappe titled after his current book “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine”. It has been 60 years this month since the creation from the Land of Palestine of the State of Israel as a safe haven […]
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. […]
In 2006, Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” woke the world up to the dangers of global warming. But, argues Joel Kovel, while we should be grateful to Gore for sounding the alarm, we also need to go far beyond his reading of the causes of this crisis and of what needs to be done about […]
Wednesday Feb. 13 “Woman Among Warlords – Malalai Joya”. Afghanistan’s youngest (29) Member of Parliament is, despite assasination attempts and death threats, refreshingly outspoken about the actual situation in Afghanistan today. She talks about the warlords and drug kings who are her fellow elected officials, about the women of Afghanistan, who are “suffering more than ever” […]
Awareness Film Night January 9th – “Dahr Jamail – Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches From An Unembedded Journalist”. Film of a talk given by Dahr in Vancouver one month ago in which he discusses what’s happening on the ground in Iraq today and what it felt like to be in Iraq as an unembedded journalist. […]
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 […]
