PLEASE NOTE: We will be selling advance tickets for $15 (online purchase only) starting Monday March 19th, 2012. There will also be a limited number of tickets available at the door. Buy advance tickets here: www.opencinema.eventbrite.ca
As always at our annual fundraiser, we’ll have a silent auction (sale item donations welcome!), a grand prize draw and this year, our event partner Sierra Club BC will be able to offer tax receipts for donations over $10. Sorry, advance tickets and silent auction purchases are not eligible for tax receipts.
We look forward to celebrating the end of our first decade with you! See you at the movies!
On Wednesday February 22nd, we are thrilled to present Vancouver Island filmmaker Richard Boyce’s award-winning new documentary RainForest: The Limit of Splendour(2011), which offers a moving and unique perspective on the importance of protecting our ancient rainforests. Boyce will be in attendance for the post-screening discussion, along with speakers TJWatt (Ancient Rainforest Alliance), and KenJames (Youbou Timberless Society). As usual, OPEN CINEMA’s food concession includes The Joint pizza, Bubby Rose brownies, free Fernwood coffee, door prizes and cash bar.
Rainforest recently won Best Mountain Culture Film Award at 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.”
Inspired by the Kwakwaka’wakw chief Kwaxsistalla, this powerful and moving documentary provides us with an intimate glimpse into the First Nation’s traditional relationship with the forest, juxtaposed with Boyce’s very personal perspective on the decades-long fight to save Vancouver Island’s thousand year-old trees from clear-cutting practices. Boyce takes his camera high up into the forest canopy, providing us with a unique cinematic experience of the rich forest ecosystem.
“I started production of this film in Victoria as a member of MediaNet, where I was introduced to Open Cinema,” comments Boyce. “It gives me great pleasure to bring my completed film back to the organizations that supported me so much as an independent filmmaker.”
