Global Film Festival Nanaimo will screen 46 films, and offer several workshops. Descriptions are below. Return to Main Menu
Note:Film classifications are included where known. Viewers should use their own discretion with films that are not classified.
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2007 Film Festival Progamme

time

Building/room

film: follow the link to read the film description

Opening Night - Friday February 16 ~ Refreshments will be available in the theatre lobby.

7:00 pm

310/Theatre

Measuring Equality 15 min Director Susan Burron in attendance

Shadow Company 80 min followed by Q&A with Director Jason Bourque

Saturday February 17 Visit the Bazaar before your first film for coffee, tea, juice, muffins and fruit!

10 am

355/Rm 203

Grandmothers: The unsung heroes of Africa 29 min

320/Choral

The Venus Theory 52 min Rating: General

10:15 am

356/Rm 109

Rong Radio 8 min (followed immediately by The Bicycle) General

10:30 am

356/Rm 109

The Bicycle 14 min General

10:45 am

355/Rm 203

Favela Rising 80 min Parental Guidance: Violence; Coarse Language

10:50 am

356/Rm 111

Drug War Reality Tour 22 min General

11 am

356/Rm 109

Four Seasons Mosaic 54 min General

320/ Choral

Global Dimming 60 min Rating: General: Nudity

11:25 am

356/Rm 111

A Few Questions 32 min followed by Q&A with Director Eva Manly

12 pm - 1 pm Lunch Break, Cafeteria Building 300 Buy some lunch and visit the Bazaar!

1 pm

355/Rm203

State of Fear: Truth / Terrorism 94 min Parental Guidance: Violence

356/Rm 109

Rocked: Sum 41 in Congo 50 min *A Black History Month Feature* Parental Guidance: Coarse Language

356/Rm 111

Digital Dump 23 min (followed by Tobacco Conspiracy) General

320/ Choral

Art of Rainforests 24 min (followed by Dead in the Water)

1:35 pm

356/Rm 111

Tobacco Conspiracy 52 min General

320/ Choral

Dead in the Water 52 min General

2:05 pm

356/Rm 109

Shameless: the Art of Disability 72 min Parental Guidance: Sexual Content; Nudity

2:45 pm

355/Rm 203

Owning the Slave 33 min *A Black History Month Feature*

356/Rm 111

I Know I'm Not Alone 86 min Parental Guidance: Coarse Language

320/ Choral

Frankensteer 48 min General

3:35 pm

356/Rm 109

Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars 80 min Parental Guidance: Images of War

3:45 pm

355/Rm 203

The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil 53 min General

4:00 pm

320/ Choral

Fight for True Farming 90 min Parental Guidance: Coarse Language

4:25 pm

356/Rm 111

Money as Debt 47 min followed by Q&A with Director Paul Grignon

4:45 pm

355/Rm 203

Bombay Calling 72 min General: Coarse Language

Join us for a delicious catered Mexican dinner at 5:30 in International Education Building (255) Advance tickets $13, available by calling 753-3371 or until sold out at the information table at the festival

Saturday Night February 17 ~ Refreshments will be available in the theatre lobby before the first film and during intermission

7:00 pm

Building 310 Theatre

Tocar y Luchar 60 min General

Beyond the Call 90 min

Sunday February 18 Visit the Bazaar before your first film for coffee, tea, juice, muffins and fruit!

10 am

356/Rm 109

Robert Newman's History of Oil 45 min

356/Rm 111

Ecological Footprint 31 min (followed by Crossing Arizona) General

320/ Choral

Slow Food Revolution 52 min General

10:30 am

355/Rm 203

No More Tears Sister 78 min Parental Guidance: Images of War

10:45 am

356/Rm 111

Crossing Arizona 75 min Parental Guidance: No Advisory

11 am

356/Rm 109

Caliban to Taliban 90 min (this film ends at 12:45 and goes into the lunch hour)

11:15 am

320/Choral

Life Running Out of Control 60 min General

12 pm - 1 pm Lunch Break, Cafeteria Building 300 Buy some lunch and visit the Bazaar!

1:00 pm

355/Rm 203

Jesus Camp 85 min

356/Rm 109

Oil, Smoke and Mirrors 50 min

356/Rm 111

Finding Dawn 75 min

320/ Choral

Raised to be Heroes 54 min

2:10 pm

356/Rm 109

Iraq for Sale 75 min Parental Guidance: No Advisory

320/ Choral

Independent Intervention: Breaking Silence 75 min Parental Guidance: Images of War; Coarse Language

2:40 pm

356/Rm 111

The God Who Wasn't There 60 min

2:45 pm

355/Rm 203

Who Shot my Brother? 95 min Parental Guidance: Violence; Coarse Language

3:40 pm

320/ Choral

Occupied Minds 58 min General

356/Rm 111

WORKSHOP: Energy & Climate Change until 5 pm

3:50 pm

356/Rm 109

Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train 78 min Parental Guidance: Violence

355/Rm 211

WORKSHOP: Afghanistan - Canada's Iraq until 5 pm

4:35 pm

355/Rm 203

The Devil's Miner 82 min *Sponsored by Nanaimo, Duncan & District Labour Council*
Parental Guidance: No Advisory