Week of – Link
UBC Student Film Festival
Tuesday 13th @ 6:00pm
The UBC Film Society will be hosting a student film festival in the Norm Theatre. All students are invited to submit films and attend this FREE event!
Submission deadline for films is 5:00pm on Friday, April 9th. All films should be shorter than ten minutes. Bring your submissions to the FilmSoc office!
Emily Carr Short Film Showcase
Wednesday 14th @ 6:30pm
A collection of short films by students at Emily Carr University. The featured directors are Waleed Rabiaa, Ahmad Konash, Karlo Melgarejo and Aron Zenga
Friday 16th
65_RedRoses @ 7:00pm
65_RedRoses is a Canadian documentary that takes an unflinching look into the life of Eva Markvoort as she battles a fatal genetic disease called Cystic Fibrosis. At 23, Eva needs a double lung transplant to live. The film follows her journey to transplant while seeking support from her two online friends Kina and Meg who also have CF. Please visit the website for information on becoming an organ donor.
Rated PG, 70min
Time Being @ 8:30pm
Time Being is 88 one-minute sequences that illuminate the wonderfully paradoxical nature of something that may not exist yet permeates every aspect of our consciousness; time. An experimental documentary, Time Being contains information and speculation on the human experience of time on this epic journey that takes one gently down the stream of consciousness to reveal the paradoxical nature of time.
Rated G, 88min
Saturday 17th
She’s a Boy I Knew @ 7:00pm
They say that when someone comes out of the closet, they can’t stop talking about it. Vancouver filmmaker Gwen Haworth not only talked…she made a movie. Using archival family footage, interviews, phone messages, and animation, Haworth’s documentary She’s a Boy I Knew begins in 2000 with Steven Haworth’s decision to come out to his family about his life-long female gender identity.
Rated PG, 70min
Crude Sacrifice @ 8:30pm
Crude Sacrifice catalogues the various lies, injustices and contradictions buried in Alberta’s infamous Tar Sands. Incorporating a multitude of perspectives, the film digs into some of the area’s most controversial stories, such as increased cancer rates at a native community downstream of the Tar Sands. Crude Sacrifice is thorough, angry, fair, honest and essential.
Rated G, 78min