Victoria Events Center 1415 Broad Street 7pm (5:30 Dinner) Wednesday http://www.opencinema.ca/
OPEN FORUM DISCUSSION With filmmaker Richard Boyce, TJ Watt (Ancient Forest Alliance), Ken James (Youbou Timberless Society).
$10-20 suggested donation Cash bar, local organic eats, goodies by Bubby Rose's Bakery, free coffee, door prizes, more!
Doors open at 5.30pm
Inspired by Kwaxsistalla, a Kwakwaka'wakw clan chief, Vancouver Island filmmaker Richard Boyce embarks upon a cinematic journey contrasting the tree-farms that dominate the landscape surrounding his home, with an ancient rainforest on the Pacific Coast of Canada.
Guided by passion and determination to honor reality, Boyce travels to the most remote corner of Vancouver Island, through some of the most intensive logging on the planet, into a wilderness that is on the brink of extinction. Massive trees thrive along the banks of an ancient river floodplain, which provides for diverse life forms in the temperate rainforest. This film is an evocative journey, contrasting forestry as practiced for 10,000 years by First Nation's people, with modern logging. www.RainforestMovie.ca
BEST MOUNTAIN CULTURE FILM AWARD Whistler Film Festival 2011 The Jury praised the film for "re-exposing our most critical environmental issue while at the same time pushing the cinematic experience and limits of storytelling, cinematography and editing." Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I07158vNV8Q&feature=player_embedded
