DOXA Documentary Film Festival

"In Flux: The Monstrous and Angelic Bodies of Hellraiser and The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye" is an essay written by our beloved staff Sarah Bakke and recently published on ReIssue . Read it here: https://reissue.pub/ The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye is a documentary account of the fascinating Pandrogeny Project, where performing artist Genesis P-Orridge and Lady Jaye attempt to unite as a "pandrogyne", or single entity, through the use of surgical body modification to physically resemble one another. The film is available on Criterion and SundanceNow.

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Finding Sally is a Canadian produced film that premiered at DOXA Festival last year! Join the worldwide live-stream event ETHIOPIA THEN AND NOW to watch the film again between Feb. 19 - 24 ETHIOPIA THEN AND NOW is a conversation with a panel of incredible Ethiopian women including Tamara Dawit, the director of Finding Sally, to unpack history in art and literature through a female lens and inform about present-day Ethiopia. This video conference will take place on Feb. 22 a...t 4pm PST (7pm EST). Register on Eventbrite to receive a private link to view the film on Friday, February 19 and a link to the video conference on the day of the event: https://buff.ly/3bbz9eZ Featured panellists: Director Tamara Dawit (Finding Sally) Prof. Elleni Centime Zeleke (Columbia University author of Ethiopia in Theory) Author Rebecca Fisseha (Daughters of Silence) Journalist Hannah Giorgis (The Atlantic) The event will be followed by a special musical guest performance by Zaki Ibrahim, JUNO-nominated South African-Canadian singer-songwriter, and the composer of original music for Finding Sally's beautiful score.

Calling out for volunteers to join our team for #DOXA2021 If you’ve got skills (or want to build them!), we need you in this wonderful community of documentary lovers. Application is now live on our volunteer page: https://buff.ly/3qoGT3v! Open roles: Office Assistants Writers & Copy Editors... Delivery Drivers Technical Assistants Customer Service See more

Less than 32 hrs left to stream Anti-Ethnography films! Curated by New Red Order and presented with SFU Galleries, this 18-short lineup is free to watch by registering at https://buff.ly/3rgiwFd. We have never been simply ignored, or simply romanticized, or been merely the targets of assimilation or genocide. It is rather all these things and many more, often at the same time in different places. The prison is a dreamcatcher, a vapor. It is both vicious and flattering, flexible and never monolithic. It can’t be refuted or denied, it just is. Most devastating of all, the ideological prison is capable of becoming an elixir that we Indian people ourselves find irresistible. - Paul Chaat Smith, Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong Image credit: New Red Order, Land Acknowledgement, 2021. Still from video. Courtesy of the artists.

The Anti-Ethnography Film Screening is now live until Feb. 14! Presented in partnership with @SFUGalleries and curated by New Red Order, this screening program examines the violence inherent in the ethnographic impulse, unveiling the absurd fetishism underpinning the discipline. To screen the 18-short lineup for free, visit https://buff.ly/3rgiwFd. The aligned exhibition New Red Order: Give it Back is also running from now until Mar. 6. Check it out at the Audain Gallery... at SFU Woodward's! New Red Order (NRO) is a public secret society of rotating membership that works to re-channel settler desires for Indigeneity into supports for Indigenous futures. Formed in contradistinction to the Improved Order of the Red Men and The Degree of Pocahontas North American organizations founded in the late nineteenth century exclusively for white men and women to play Indian NRO imagines that the appropriative impulses at the heart of these societies might be redirected. Using strategies as diverse as calling out and calling in, recruitment, and cumulative interrogation, the work of NRO aims to shift potential obstructions to Indigenous growth.

Announcing CITIZEN MINUTES, a new documentary initiative to inspire interest and engagement in Canadian democracy and public affairs. Hot Docs is looking to com...mission 10 original short and micro docs. Selected projects will receive financial, production and post-production support, in addition to potential mentorship opportunities, and will premiere at #HotDocs21 Submissions welcome from all Canadian filmmakersspread the word! Deadline: October 28 Apply now: http://ow.ly/xcyG30rdPYQ

Less than one week until our @RealVanPodFest trivia fundraiser-at home edition Join us for a night of pop culture and Halloween trivia next Wednesday Oct 28! Hosted by Andrea Warner, Lisa Christiansen, Hannah McGregor and quiz master Carlos! ... More info: https://www.vanpodfest.ca/vanpodfest-trivia-night-home-edit

We urge you to take meaningful action to support the communities on the frontlines for Indigenous rights, environmental protection and racial justice. Please le...arn more about and donate to these protectors. Being an ally means showing up when it matters most. via Fridays for Future Toronto/GTA See more

Following an incredible second year, the Vancouver Podcast Festival, presented by DOXA, returns for its 2020 ‘At Home’ edition. The virtual festival takes place... November 18-22 online. Given the pandemic, VanPodFest has refined its programming, but still offers a robust mix of live events, workshops, panels, and VanPodFest’s first-ever pitch session over the course of five days. See our full schedule: https://buff.ly/33W4FeH Purchase tickets and passes: https://buff.ly/3im0Lj8

Register for @imagineNATIVE's Micro Meetings sessions. We'll be there and will be happy to answer any of your questions about DOXA Documentary Film Festival! Be sure to register by tonight, 11pm EST!

Only a couple more days to stream the Vancouver International Film Festival. Here are some of our international documentary picks: Time (US), Sarita (Italy), I Am Not a Hero (Belgium) and The Metamorphosis of Birds (Portugal). Email [email protected] to score a complimentary ticket! See the full program here: https://viff.org/Online/default.asp

Huge congratulations to Banshee Hanuse, director of Nuxalk Radio! If you missed it earlier this year as part of DOXA Online, it's screening at #VIFF2020 until October 7!! Don't miss your opportunity to see this charming-as-heck short film!

Happy opening day to our colleagues over at Vancouver International Film Festival! We're excited for so many films including Michelle Latimer's Inconvenient Indian (folks might remember Latimer's moving short film Nuuca from #DOXA2018) and Garrett Bradley's critically acclaimed documentary Time. Bradley was awarded best director for U.S. documentary in competition at Sundance this year, becoming the first Black woman to win the prize. More info: https://viff.org/Online/default.asp

Attention media artists, filmmakers and curious audiences: IMAA AAMI's digital conference is happening now! Free for all to attend. Round table discussions, film screenings and more!

Tricksters & Writers is back! WIFTV is excited to announce that applications are now being accepted for the Northern BC edition of our screenwriting program for... Indigenous women. If you’re based in areas including Haida Gwaii, Bella Coola, Terrace, Prince George, Dawson Creek, or their surrounding regions, it’s time to share your story! The deadline for applications is September 29.

Check this out! VanPodFest returns!

Local director Nisha Platzer's short film Vaivén (which screened earlier as part of DOXA Online this year) screens IRL this Wednesday as part of VLAFF! Get your tickets here: