On VanRamblings yesterday, we wrote about Selina Crammond, all around good person, community activist, person of principle, and someone who keeps VanRamblings on the straight and narrow (as must appear obvious to anyone, VanRamblings needs all the help we can get — particularly when it comes from persons of conscience like Selina).
In addition to Selina Crammond’s community activism and commitment to change for the better, her ace drumming in the feminist four-piece moody-pop buddy-rock band supergroup Supermoon (see the video above), growing up in the chilly, rural climes of The Pas (630 km northwest of Winnipeg, and considered to be the Gateway to the North), Selina’s sterling work over the years with the good folks at the Vancouver International Film Festival, her longtime membership in Vancouver’s progressive, working class, roots-based political party, the Coalition of Progressive Electors, and by very dint of her presence in our lives just generally bringing a sense of joy, optimism and activism into people’s lives, the aforementioned 34-year-old Selina Crammond is also the Director of Programming (this is her second year in that capacity, although she’d worked with Dorothy Woodend and the fine staff and volunteers at DOXA, for years and years and years) with Vancouver’s prestigious, groundbreaking spring film festival, the acclaimed DOXA Documentary Film Festival, which kicked off last night, and gets fully underway tomorrow, although there’ll be screenings this evening at 6pm of Chilean director Nicolás Molina’s Flow, followed by an 8pm screening of Emmanuelle Antille’s A Bright Light: Karen and the Process, both films screening at The Cinematheque, located at 1131 Howe Street.
DOXA Documentary Film Festival Director of Programming Selina Crammond (left), and DOXA’s Operations & Volunteer Manager, Gina Garenkooper. Photo credit: Milena Salazar.
After a full year of preparing for DOXA 2019, VanRamblings believes that Selina Crammond is deserving of recognition for her critically important work in the arts, and across our community to makes ours a better world, and a more understanding love-based world. Therefore, VanRamblings officially declares today, Friday, May 3rd 2019 Selina Crammond Day (we’re sure our Vancouver City Council will be on board for next year!).
Here are a couple of the DOXA 2019 Programmer’s Picks …
Selina Crammond’s pick …
Midnight Traveler
After receiving threats from the Taliban, filmmaker Hassan Fazili, his wife and their two young daughters are forced to flee their home in Afghanistan and seek refuge in Eastern Europe. Intimate, and often shaky, footage shot by the family on their iPhones captures a wide range of moments, from startling racism in eastern Europe – to meditative reflections on Fazili’s love of cinema. The result is a portrait of a resilient family that offers a very human face to the ongoing refugee crisis.
Hassan Fazili, Emelie Mahdavian | US/Qatar/Canada/UK | 2019 | 87 min.
Saturday, May 11, 2019 - 6:30pm
Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour Street)
Sunday, May 12, 2019 - 6pm
Cinematheque (1131 Howe Street)
Joseph Clark’s pick …
Instructions on Parting
Prepare to be devastated. Instructions on Parting is an emotionally challenging film, that is at once hand-crafted and cinematically stunning. Rarely has such an intimate film demanded to be seen on the big screen.
Amy Jenkins | US | 2018 | 95 minutes
Wednesday, May 8, 2019 - 8pm
Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour Street)
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Click on the graphic above to be taken to the #DOXA2019 Twitter account.
#DOXA2019 will present 82 films from across Canada and around the world, representing the very best in contemporary documentary cinema. Get your tickets at www.doxafestival.ca. Better hurry. Quite a few #DOXA2019 screenings are already sold out, or have limited tickets remaining for the scheduled screenings.
Here’s the full schedule. See ya at #DOXA2019. Bring your dancin’ shoes!
