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Nanaimo Global Film Festival Group

Nanaimo Global Film Festival Group is a central Vancouver Island coalition of peace and social justice groups interested in screening films about the world situation and the Canadian context. Members of the NGFFG believe that a better world is possible and that ordinary people need better information about the world and its systems.

In February 2005, the group hosted the first Nanaimo Global Film Festival as part of the Traveling World Community Film Festival. It is intended that this festival will become an annual, self-sustaining event in Nanaimo with an expanding program of awards for local filmmakers working on social justice themes.

The coalition includes: Global Village Nanaimo (GVN); Nanaimo Duncan & District Labour Council (NDDLC); VIU Faculty Association Human Rights & Internation Solidarity Committee; Rights & Democracy, Nanaimo Delegation. This year's media sponsors are: Synergy Magazine, CHLY Radio, and The Mind’s Eye. This year's Film Award sponsors are Mid Island Co-op and Soules Consulting.

Contact (250) 390-3363

World Community Development Education Society

The World Community Development Education Society (WCDES) is a group of ordinary people guided by visions of a better world. WCDES was formed to foster awareness in our community of development issues and the links between local and global concerns.

The society has been registered as a non-profit organization since 1990 and is located in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Since 1992 it has hosted the World Community Film Festival in Courtenay. www.worldcommunity.ca

WCDES runs several different projects in our local community and is engaged in projects which help make people-to-people links with communities in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Assam, India.

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