Spring 2011 lineup – tell us what you want to see!
Item posted Dec 1, 2010 in Uncategorized
The Clean Bin Project with filmmakers in attendance on Weds, November 17th, 2010
OPEN CINEMA and the Capital Regional District
present
THE CLEAN BIN PROJECT
A documentary about a regular couple’s quest to answer the question: “is it possible to live completely waste free?”
Partners Jen and Grant go head-to-head to see who can swear off consumerism and produce the least garbage in an entire year. Their light-hearted competition is set against a darker examination of the sobering problem of waste in North American society. Featuring interviews with photographer Chris Jordan and marine pollution expert Captain Charles Moore, this documentary presents the serious topic of waste reduction with optimism, humour and inspiration for individual action.
For more information and trailer visit
www.CleanBinMovie.com
POST SCREENING DISCUSSION
Filmmakers Jen Rustemeyer and Grant Baldwin in attendance, along with Monique Booth (CRD) and more.
Sponsored by the Capital Regional District
7pm Wednesday November 17th, 2010
Victoria Event Centre
1415 Broad Street (elevator access)
Doors open at 5.30pm
$10 suggested donation
Cash bar, local food concession, popcorn, Bubby Rose brownies, Wannawafels, Level Ground Coffee, door prizes and more!
Help make this a waste-free event!
Please bring a mug for coffee, a bowl for popcorn and a plate and/or napkin for your pizza, brownie & waffle.
OPEN CINEMA is a program of MediaNet
Thanks to OPEN CINEMA sponsors Vancity and Capital Regional District Arts Development Program
Oct 13 & 14 – Winds of Heaven: Emily Carr, Carvers and the Spirits of the Forest
‘Winds of Heaven: Emily Carr, Carvers and the Spirits of the Forest’ (2010)
6.30pm, October 13th and 14th, 2010
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Admission $13 (includes gallery admission)
Level Ground coffee and light snacks will be served. Seating is limited so please arrive early to avoid disappointment. Why not come early and wander through the art gallery!
Please note earlier start time: 6.30pm
The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and OPEN CINEMA are proud to present the Victoria premiere of Winds of Heaven: Emily Carr, Carvers and the Spirits of the Forest, an evocative and moving portrait of the life and times of Emily Carr.
Renowned Canadian filmmaker Michael Ostroff will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A on both nights.
“This is a must see. Possibly one of the most important films ever made about our province, our forests and our history as newcomers.” ~ Vancouver International Film Festival Director, Alan Franey
Winds of Heaven is an impressionistic exploration of the spirit that informed the solitary life of one of Canada’s most celebrated and irrepressible painters. Emily Carr began painting in an era when women didn’t, travelling to remote locations that few professional adventurers chose to go. Not only did she adopt the painting techniques of modernism, when such ideas were considered dangerous, Carr chronicled the extraordinary art and culture of native peoples, who were at the time invisible to the dominant culture.
The film disp els a number of myths about Carr’s life and her contradictory relationship with and attitude towards the First Nations people of the Northwest Coast of British Columbia. While she resisted the predominate white attitude of portraying natives as ‘savages’, devoid of cultural sensibilities, the film explores the critique of Carr that she did contribute to the “traffic of native images”. It also recalls the racism of the day – the Canadian government’s celebration of the ancient native arts and its determination to preserve the totem poles, while ironically advocating and implementing policies that were determined to assimilate First Nations people and eradicate their way of life and culture.
Please note earlier start time: 6.30pm
View a trailer for the film here
More information about the film here .
OPEN CINEMA Season Eight launches Wednesday September 22, 2010 with upbeat food doc “FRESH”!
We are excited to announce the launch of OPEN CINEMA Season Eight!
On Wednesday September 22, 2010 we will partner with local food co-op FoodRoots for the first in a series of seasonal celebrations of film, food and farming. As usual, doors open at 5.30, film at 7pm at the Victoria Event Centre, 1415 Broad Street. Admission by $10 suggested donation.
FRESH is a documentary featuring Michael Pollan, Will Allen and Joel Salatin which celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. It’s an upbeat, entertaining and inspiring call to action.
More info and trailer here
Michael Reid’s Times Colonist article here
7pm, Wednesday September 22nd 2010
FRESH: new thinking about what we’re eating
a documentary by Ana Sofia Joanes
FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet.
www.freshthemovie.com
OPEN FORUM DISCUSSION
Trevor Walker, Plenty Epicurean Pantry; Sol Kinnis, City Harvest; Heather Stretch Saanich Organics; Philippe Lucas, Victoria Downtown Market Society; moderator Linda Geggie, LifeCycles founder, Capital Region Food & Agriculture Initiatives Roundtable Coordinator (CRFAIR).
‘Fresh Films’ the first in a series of seasonal celebrations of film, food & farming in collaboration with www.FoodRoots.ca
Victoria Event Centre
1415 Broad St (elevator access)
$10 suggested donation
Cash bar, local organic pizza by Pizza Pi, goodies from Bubby Roses Bakery, IMAX popcorn, free Level Ground coffee, door prizes, more!
Doors open at 5.30pm
Follow us on Twitter @opencinema & Facebook
250.381.4428
OPEN CINEMA is a Program of MediaNet
November 17: The Clean Bin Project
7pm Wednesday November 17th, 2010
Victoria Event Centre, 1415 Broad Street
Sponsored by Capital Regional District
With filmmakers in attendance!
www.CleanBinMovie.com
The Clean Bin Project is a feature documentary film about a regular couple and their quest to answer the question “is it possible to live completely waste free?”.
Partners Jen and Grant go head to head in a competition to see who can swear off consumerism and produce the least landfill garbage in an entire year. Their light-hearted competition is set against a darker examination of the sobering problem waste in North American society. Even as Grant and Jen start to garner interest in their project, they struggle to find meaning in their seemingly minuscule influence on the large-scale environmental impacts of our “throw-away society”. Featuring interviews with renowned artist, Chris Jordan and marine pollution expert, Captain Charles Moore, The Clean Bin Project presents the serious topic of waste reduction with optimism, humour, and inspiration for individual action.
More details to follow….
Become an OPEN CINEMA sponsor!
OPEN CINEMA is all about community collaboration!
We offer local businesses and organizations various ways to participate in our events as sponsors.
Please take a look at the attached for details on sponsoring either individual events or our whole season.
Download the entire pdf here: SEASON Eight SPONSORSHIP REQUEST.pdf
Promote Your Business or Organization by sponsoring OPEN CINEMA!
OPEN CINEMA is offering ethical businesses a low cost opportunity to advertise at our popular café screening events and on our website.
OPEN CINEMA screens thought-provoking films in café style venues, followed by open forum discussion with invited guests. Now in our 8th successful season, OPEN CINEMA has become a popular feature in Victoria’s cultural landscape, drawing capacity crowds (120+) of all ages and receiving significant local media attention. During Season Eight, which runs September 2010 to May 2011, we will screen 7 films. See below for more details.
OPEN CINEMA’s informed and motivated audiences gather up to 90 minutes before the film to take advantage of the convivial atmosphere, networking opportunities, full bar and local, organic food concession. During this time, a high quality, rotating PowerPoint presentation on the large screen features sponsors logos and services. We have a limited number of spaces for paid advertising still available!
How Much Does it cost?
$60 PER SCREENING
You get a colour slide with your company name or logo featured in our rotating powerpoint presentation at one screening of your choice.
$300 PER SEASON (best value)
You get a colour slide with your company name or logo featured in a rotating powerpoint presentation at all 2010/11 screenings
PLUS your company name or logo featured on the main page of www.opencinema.ca, on our rotating sponsors banner! We will also promote your company on our Facebook page and Twitter stream.
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OPEN CINEMA Season Eight includes the following Victoria premieres
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
FRESH: new thinking about what we’re eating
FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet. (2009, USA) www.FreshTheMovie.com
In collaboration with www.FoodRoots.ca
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Wednesday, October 13th & 14th, 2010
Winds of Heaven: Emily Carr, Carvers and the Spirits of the Forest
An impressionistic exploration of the spirit that informed the solitary life of one of Canada’s most celebrated and irrepressible painters. This remarkable, documentary offers a fascinating historical portrait of Victoria and local First Nations during the early 20th century. Veteran Ottawa director Michael Ostroff will be in attendance. (2010, Canada) http://carrdoc.wordpress.com/
At the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (www.aggv.bc.ca)
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Wednesday November 17th, 2010
The Clean Bin Project
In collaboration with CRD
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For more information please contact us!
Mandy Leith 250.385.3003 or Catlin Lewis 250.381.4428
info@opencinema.ca
April 21 OPEN CINEMA Season Seven finale and fundraiser! ‘Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian’
Item posted Mar 24, 2010 in Uncategorized
7pm Wednesday April 21, 2010
Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian
Victoria Premiere!
Hollywood has made over 4000 films about Native people, defining how they are seen by the world for more than 100 years. Reel Injun takes an entertaining and informative look at the portrayal of North American First Nations through the history of cinema. Travelling through the heartland of North America, Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond looks at the myth of the ‘Injun’, providing a context to further explore media representation and cultural identity.
With candid interviews with directors, writers, actors and activists, including Clint Eastwood, Jim Jarmusch and Robbie Robertson, clips from hundreds of films, such as Stagecoach, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner, Reel Injun traces the evolution of the cinematic depiction of Native people from the silent era to today.
For more information and trailer visit www.reelinjunthemovie.com
OPEN FORUM DISCUSSION
Filmmaker Neil Diamond (via skype)
Lina de Guevara, Founder & Director Puente Theatre
Janet Marie Rogers, Mohawk writer, artist, CFUV radio host
Ana de Lara, actor, comedian & filmmaker
David Black, Professor, Royal Roads School of Communication and Culture
SPONSORED BY ROYAL ROADS UNIVERSITY
Cash bar, organic pizza (www.PizzaPi.ca), Bubby Rose brownies, popcorn, free Level Ground coffee, door prizes, more!
Silent auction and other fundraising treats!
see below for list of silent auction donors
$10-20 SUGGESTED DONATION
Victoria Event Centre, 1415 Broad Street (elevator access)
DOORS OPEN 5.30pm
GRAND PRIZE DRAW
A luxury night for two at Sooke Harbour House
www.sookeharbourhouse.com
SILENT AUCTION
Hemp and Company – gift certificate and gift basket
Instinct Art & Gifts – Buddha candle holder
Victoria Symphony – tickets
Smoking Lily – gift
Spirit Development – massage
Mountain Equipment Coop – GC
Full Circle Gallery - framed print
Melanie Lichtinger - 2 hr astrology consultation
Kay’s Korner – framed artwork
Pic a Flic Video – 10 movie rentals
Global Village Store – gift
Silk Road Tea – GC and Tea Tasting GC
Habit Coffee – GC
Swan’s Hotel - GC
Good Planet – GC
Willowstream Spa – GC
Cafe Bliss - GC
Fairfield Chiropractic – Consultation
Cadboro Bay Pharmacy - “SAD” lamp
Munro’s Books – book
Rocky Mountain Soap Company – gift basket
Share Organics – GC
Moksha Yoga – one month unlimited
Posh Sukiyaki Restaurant - GC
Speedy Autobody – car tune up
Rick Raxlen – artwork
Monk Office - eco friendly note book and Parker pen
Discovery Sailing Adventures – 3hrs sailing experience
Janis Lacouvee – handmade chocolate truffles
and more…
Please support our vibrant community event!
OPEN CINEMA Turns the Screws on Bottled Water: Tapped Victoria Premiere March 10, 2010
7pm, Wednesday March 10th, 2010
Victoria Premiere
TAPPED
From the producers of Who Killed the Electric Car, this timely documentary reveals the unregulated world of an industry that aims to privatize and sell back the one resource that ought never become a commodity, water. From the plastic production to the ocean where too many bottles end up, this inspiring documentary is a powerful portrait of the lives affected by the bottled water industry, caught at the intersection of big business and the publics right to water. (Atlas Pictures, USA 2009).
For more info and trailer visit www.tappedthemovie.com
OPEN FORUM DISCUSSION
Janet Gray (Greater Victoria Water Watch Coalition), Bill Weaver (Media Strategist, Filmmaker www.midwayjourney.com), Deborah Walker (CRD Water Conservation), Susanne Porter-Bopp (Community Water Coordinator, POLIS Project).
Sponsored by the Greater Victoria Water Watch Coalition
http://www.greatervictoriawaterwatchcoalition.ca
Victoria Event Centre
1415 Broad St (elevator access)
$10 suggested donation
Food concession: Pizza by www.PizzaPi.ca, Bubby Rose brownies,
Cash bar, free Level Ground coffee, door prizes and more!
Doors open at 5.30pm
H2Oil Victoria Premiere on Wednesday February 24, 2010
H2Oil
Victoria Premiere
H2Oil follows a voyage of discovery, heartbreak and politicization in the stories of those attempting to defend water in Alberta against the expansion of the largest industrial project in human history: the tar sands. With hope and courage, this moving documentary tells the story of one of the most significant, and destructive projects of our time.
To watch a trailer and more information visit
www.h2oildoc.com
OPEN FORUM DISCUSSION
Will Horter, Executive Director, Dogwood Initiative
Drew Mildon, Aboriginal Rights Lawyer, Woodward & Co
Mel Bazil, Wet’suwet’en First Nation (via skyp)
and moderator
Chris Tollefson, Professor of Law and Executive Director Environmental Law Centre, Faculty of Law, UVic.
Sponsored by Dogwood Initiative and Raven Trust
$10 suggested donation
Cash bar, food concession, free Level Ground coffee, door prizes and more!
Doors open at 5.30pm
Please arrive early to avoid disappointment
