One of the most memorable Awareness Film Nights occurred in February 2014 when we devoted the evening to telling the story of residential schools in B.C.. It went long past closing time and featured a film and powerful talks by residential school survivors telling what they had undergone both during and after their residential school […]
This 2016 film from Germany outlines a wealth of green-friendly innovations and the figures behind them. Energy alternatives such as celitement, biogas, kite-powered ships and passive houses are all explored along with the more well-known solar, wind and electric cars. The film shows the conflict over Germany’s energy revolution which began as a grassroots […]
A Story of Hope. B.C. currently has no law to protect endangered species. But everywhere in the province local communities are taking action to stand up for species at risk – western toads, barn owls, mountain caribou, Oregon spotted frogs and more. For the last 4 years co-directors Mike […]
B.C. filmmaker Charles Wilkinson’s (“Peace Out”; “Oil Sands Karaoke”) award-winning 2015 documentary is set on pristine Haida Gwaii. It shows how the distinct world view of the 14,000 year old indigenous society is co-mingling with an influx of progressive, modern urbanites to create a sustainable world that well may survive the formidable challenges of the […]
Omar Khadr is the Canadian youth who was captured by American Forces in Afghanistan and spent over a decade in Guantanamo Prison. He was released on bail in Edmonton in May of 2015 at age 28. Based on the book by award-winning journalist Michelle Shephard who co-directed the film with Patrick Reed, “Guantanamo’s Child” chronicles […]
Co-presented with Transition Sooke Filmed over 211 shoot days in nine countries and 5 continents over 4 years, “This Changes Everything” is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. Directed by Avi Lewis and inspired by Naomi Klein’s international bestseller of the same name, this film presents 7 powerful portraits of […]
This docudrama is the true story of Helen Getachew Abebe who was born in a brushwood hut in southern Ethiopia. As a young girl she lost 2 sisters, her mother and father and a leg to gangrene. She grew up in an orphanage that owed as much to Dickens as to Mother Theresa. After the […]
