By: Natasha Tar Maybe you’re too broke or busy to travel. Thankfully, DOXA is here again to show you the globe. DOXA, Vancouver’s documentary film festival, returns this year with unexpected and incredible films from across the world. The festival is turning 17 years old, and will run films from May 3 to May 13 in venues across Vancouver. Good news for students: you get a $2 discount off of any regular ticket. Bad news: you don’t know what to go see! Below are previews of some of the festival’s highlights. Ethiopiques: Revolt of the Soul Where? SFU…
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Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X. Medgar Evers. These are the names of influential civil rights activists who fought to overcome racial segregation in the United States in the 1960s. These names are familiar, showing up in history books as…
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The 13th year of this diverse festival of performing arts from near and far is once again presenting a variety of innovative dance, theatre, and music to entertain and inspire all types of audiences. PuSh runs from January 16 to…
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Life, Animated, based on the book of the same name, is about Owen, a young boy with regressive autism, who learns to communicate through Disney movies. With the precision of a calculator, Owen can recite every line from every animated…
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It is 9 a.m., and I am passing out in the corner of a Starbucks located around Burrard and Broadway. The result of a sleepless night of dumb adolescence: I made a pact to see a documentary film called Dark…
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IF the Poet follows Canadian slam poet IF (Ian French) on his journey to the 2014 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Championship and through to the World Cup of Slam Poetry in Paris. This documentary is a unique portrait of an…
Continue readingThe SFU Archives are one of the rare treasures of SFU that the majority of SFU students are unaware of. So here's a little video to showcase some of the neat stuff they posses, how an archive works, and the…
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