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Projecting Change Film Festival – April 2-5, 2009

Raul — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:09:57 +0000

My 2009 has been so overbooked that unless somebody brings stuff to my attention, sometimes I fail to remember some excellent stuff that is happening in town, even when it’s associated with my own work! So, hat tips to Trevor O, who reminded me of the Projecting Change Film Festival, which this year takes place from April 2nd to the 5th, 2009.

Last year, you might remember that I covered Projecting Change (thanks to the organizing folks who kindly gave me media access). This year, I’m going to ask them again if they’ll invite me and also, I’m going to see if I can have some free tickets for my readers to give away in a contest.

Check the schedule of films and speakers (erm, why didn’t they invite me to be a speaker? hehehe). To learn more about the festival, click here. The full festival pass is $ 80 and single screening passes are $ 10. The opening night exclusive event is $ 50.

I know that they’ll be showing Blue Gold (I reviewed the film on my blog as well) and a number of other excellent films. I should make a point of commenting Blue Gold at the festival!

Updated schedule of Projecting Change Film Festival

Raul — Sat, 10 May 2008 21:21:55 +0000

Even though I’ve desperately tried to do everything at the same time, the fact that I’m so busy has led me to be unable to pretty much participate in the Projecting Change Film Festival to the extent that I’ve wanted to do. But I can now offer you an updated link to the schedule, as the current link doesn’t work.

May 9th (yesterday) was focus on food, and today is all about the Sustainable Saturday, with films covering issues that range from climate change, energy to water supply (with the midnight showing of Chinatown). All movies are shown at The Ridge (on Arbutus and 16th). Tickets are selling fast, so head over there now

Media accreditation and the Projecting Change Film Festival

Raul — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:17:01 +0000

This year has been a year of first-ever’s. It was the first time ever I guest-live-blogged (for Miss604.com, the Michael Geist lecture at SJC). The first time ever I podcasted (as a guest blogger for HappyFrog FrogBlog, covering EPIC ’08). The first time ever I received free admission to sustainability events (the Sustainable Living Show). And now, it’s the first time ever I’ve received a media pass for a film festival, and I’m SUPER EXCITED! I just heard from the Projecting Change Film Festival organizers, and they’ve arranged to have a media pass for me. WOWZA!

In addition to having reviewed lots of “less than awesome” movies on my blog, I’ve also taken the time to write detailed movie reviews for films that have been part of locally-run film festivals. For example, I reviewed “Mount Pleasant”, the 2006 Ross Weber film that depicts my neighborhood as the land of ‘women of the trade’, drug-addicts and derelict streets. This movie premiered in the 2006 Vancouver International Film Festival. I have also reviewed “Super-Amigos” and “The Portrait of Dorian Gray“, two movies that showed unexplored aspects of queer life. Both movies premiered in the 2007 Vancouver Queer Film Festival. In the case of Super-Amigos, a superhero-themed Canada-Mexico co-production, the movie examines the day-to-day life of five real-life masked wrestlers/superheroes, one of which is Super-Gay, a gay man who fights for the rights of the queer community in Mexico City. Of course, there is an environmental superhero, Ecologista Universal.

So, as you can read, I’m also a movie fiend. You may ask yourselves… what movies am I excited about and wanting to see in the upcoming days? Well, if you are a close friend of mine, or have read about my day-job and my research, this is the film that I’m waiting with baited breath (I’m also excited about others, but this one is just… SO appropriate for me): Flow: For Love of Water

Flow: For Love of Water is Irena Salina’s cautionary documentary that is determined to stir things up. Water, the quintessence of life, sustains every creature on Earth. The time has come when we can no longer take this precious resource for granted. Unless we effect global change, impoverished nations could be wiped from the planet.[Projecting Change website preview of the movie]

Water, water everywhere… Photo credit: Raul on Flickr (originally taken by JT)

For those of you who don’t know, I am very interested in water issues and I’ve done extensive research in the field. I have a feeling that the movie will be VERY interesting. For the trailer, click here.

Since I’m hyper busy all week, I guess I won’t be able to make the opening night but I’ll be at the 10am showing on Sunday morning. I also will do my best to check other films. If you notice, in the schedule you can find that theme days (e.g. food and agriculture, sustainability, focus on the family, etc.) … strongly recommended.

If you want to check all my coverage of the Projecting Change Film Festival, my posts will be tagged with the category “Projecting Change Film Festival”.