Global Film Festival Nanaimo 2008

Wednesday April 16
Bldg 355 Rm 203 7 -10 pm
Admission by donation

Dawn Paleys' Investing in Conflict tour about Canadian Mining companies in the Americas (with a special focus on Vancouver's Goldcorp and Skye Resources in Guatemala)

See how Canadian pension funds are becoming more and more dependent on profits gleaned from the destruction of indigenous or local communities in Central America
Co-sponsored by Rights and Democracy- Nanaimo

Next event Wed. April 16

Bldg 355 Rm 203

7:00 -10:00 pm

Thank you to everyone who attended
the 4th Annual Global Film Festival
February 22 - 24, 2008

A production of Nanaimo Global Film Festival Group in conjunction with the World Community Development
Education Society
Part of the Traveling World
Community Film Festival

Map of Malaspina film venues

Film Award Program

Nanaimo Global Film Festival Group
will screen a number of films this coming
year, prior to our next festival in 2009.
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The 2008 schedule and film descriptions
will remain on this site so that viewers
can locate descriptions and information
about films and workshops at the festival
Links to some films have information for ordering their DVDs

Thanks to our festival sponsors:
Malaspina Faculty Association
Malaspina Media Studies/SSHRC
Mid Island Co-op
The City of Nanaimo
Rights and Democracy (Nanaimo)
Global Village
Nanaimo News Bulletin
Synergy Magazine
Soules Consulting Ltd.
CHLY Radio
The Mind's Eye
Nanaimo, Duncan & District
Labour Council
Nanaimo District Teachers Association
Bend Over Backwards Yoga
Malaspina University College

Nanaimo Global Film Festival offers two film/video production awards each year
for emerging local flmmakers .

The Rights and Democracy Student Film Award is targeted specifically to Malaspina students. This year's award recipient is Chad Schroter-Gillespie,
whose theme will be the importance of Independent media with a local focus.
Award Sponsors are: Malaspina Media Studies, Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, Rights & Democracy (Nanaimo)

The Community Film Award is open to all film-makers, amateur and professional who live in the mid-island region. This year's award recipient is Michelle Cornwall, who will focus on water - tap vs bottled, public vs private, local and global issues.
Award Sponsors are: Mid Island Co-op and Global Village Nanaimo

For more information:
call (250) 390-3363

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