DOXA 2022 closes out with local film Doug and the Slugs and Me
Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page.
Article content
DOXA Documentary Film Festival
Advertisement 2
Article content
When: May 5-15, 2022
Where: SFU Goldcorp Centre, VIFF Centre, The Cinematheque, The Playhouse and online Tickets and info: $13 & $15 or online Festival Passes: $75 at doxafestival.ca
DOXA Documentary Film FestivalWestern Canada’s largest documentary film festival, announced on April 13 its full schedule of films as it gets ready to return to Vancouver theaters May 5-15 after two years of existing solely online.
Now in its 21st year, the festival will showcase a total of 55 features and mid-lengths, 24 short films, both pre-recorded and live Q-and-A’s, as well as Industry events and chances for filmmakers, audiences, and industry professionals to connect, both virtually and in person.
Films will be available to stream Canada-wide, through DOXA’s online platform. In-person screenings will take place at The Vancouver Playhouse, The Cinematheque, VIFF Center and SFU Goldcorp Center for the Arts.
advertisement 3
Article content
“From our Opening film to our Closing film this edition of DOXA is made up of works that combine a rare aesthetic concern and a willingness to confront major contemporary issues in unique ways,” said Sarah Ouazzani the programming manager for the DOXA Documentary Film Festival in an email.
The festival’s official opening film set for the Vancouver Playhouse on May 7 is the stunning and fascinating Fire of Love from American director Sara Dosa.
The film follows volcanologist couple Katia and Maurice Krafft as they travel the world unraveling the mysteries of the earth’s core while getting up close and dangerously personal with lakes of acid and areas of unstable volcanic activity.
Other special presentation films on the list include the 2022 Justice Forum program’s showing of Love in the Time of Fentanyl, directed by Colin Askey.
advertisement 4
Article content
The film is an intimate look at the Overdose Prevention Society (OPS), the critical front line response team that first set up its tent on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in 2016.
The Rated Y for Youth program’s special presentation film is director Henri Pardo’s Dear Jackie.
The film offers a look at the Black community in Montreal’s Little Burgundy by way of a cinematic letter to the legendary baseball player Jackie Robinson who made history when he became the first Black man to play in the Major League system when he stepped out onto the field as a member of the Montreal Royals, the Brooklyn Dodgers’ International League farm club, in 1946.
Closing this year’s festival is local filmmaker Teresa Alfeld’s Doug and the Slugs and Me. The delivers an intimate biography of musician and East Van dad Doug Bennett.
The festival includes other spotlight streams and guest curated programs.
Several Canadian films will have their world premiere at DOXA. In addition to Sara Wylie’s A More Radiant Sphere and Ali Kazimi’s Beyond Extinction, Canadian films premiering for the at the festival include Alfeld’s Doug and the Slugs and Me, Askey’s Love in the Time of Fentanyl; Simon Plouffe’s Short Forests; My Friend Jim, a short from Aaron Zeghers; And Ingrid by Hannah Dubois; Alixandra Buck’s Beckwoman’s Hippie Emporium and Cypher, directed by Miriam Ingrid Barry and Eva Anandi Brownstein.
