A pleasant surprise for our 3pm screening of Cathleen Smith's 'Here Are the News' about the incredible life of Miss Edith Josie. I would say the theatre was at least half full, and the audience participated in an enjoyable Q&A following the show. Definately a treat for Cathleen after 10 years of working on the project.
http://doxafestival.ca/festival/films/here_are_the_news.html
http://doxafestival.ca/festival/films/here_are_the_news.html
I was one of 5 editors on this project as it was...challenging. I also ended up with a Co-Producer credit as I helped acquire the completion funding from CBC North with the help of Gary Marcuse while he was still at CBC BC. It also had funding from Canada Council, NFB FAP, and Yukon Film. Apparently all the previous money went into filming (too much footage) and as usual, none saved for proper post-production. Here we are and much still needs to be done. Fingers crossed that Bruce Cowley at the Documentary Channel takes the program.
DOXA is a sweet festival of the documentary skew. After Amsterdam http://www.idfa.nl/ and http://www.hotdocs.ca/ the Vancouver festival of documentary had little new to offer on it's program. Likely this is due to programmers now accessing the IDFA online database of submissions rather than sifting through the thousands of submissions that come off the street.
DOXA is a sweet festival of the documentary skew. After Amsterdam http://www.idfa.nl/ and http://www.hotdocs.ca/ the Vancouver festival of documentary had little new to offer on it's program. Likely this is due to programmers now accessing the IDFA online database of submissions rather than sifting through the thousands of submissions that come off the street.
It is a brilliant process of elimination and I learned much from the slews of people in Amsterdam trying to keep all of the non-fiction straight. (often such complex stories compared to the scripted feature) Being nominated in our category for http://www.petalsthejourney.com/ as well as being in the festival alone got us even further toward the top of the list, and it was an amazing thing to grasp as a filmmaker.
Most screenings at this year's DOXA were well attended, and Vancouver continues to embrace festival of film for the opportunities they provide as far as access to the unusual. Toronto was as supportive of HotDocs and ticket sales inspire me to no end considering how far the genre has come in public opinion.
Next year I hope to take in some more Doxa forum talks and films.
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