Year-round ProgramCOMMUNITY SOLUTION-BUILDING.
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Be the change you want to see.
In addition to its annual Film Festival, KDocsFF operates a Year-round Program, where select films are screened as special community events. Typically free-of-charge, these gatherings are bite-sized festivals with all the elements you’ve come to expect of KDocsFF: world-class documentary film, keynote speakers, panel discussions/Q&As, exhibitors, and more.
PAST EVENTS Learn more about past Year-round Program events.
A special KDocs screening of Gary Charbonneau’s Vancouver Aquarium Uncovered.
A special KDocs event: a screening of the documentary KOMBIT: The Collective.
A screening of InvestigativeMedia/John Dougherty’s Flin Flon Flim Flam, with panelists Paul Richard (Chair, KPU’s Environmental Protection Technology Program), Kate Murray (Member, Mining Justice Alliance), and Bjorn Stime (Stop the Institute).
A screening of Brian Knappenberger’s Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press, with Keynote Speaker Kirk LaPointe and panelists Mark Hamilton (KPU Journalism), Alyssa Laube (Editor, The Runner), and Nadia Stewart (GlobalBC TV). Special thanks to KDocs Board Member and Community Outreach Program Coordinator Greg Chan for organizing and hosting!
A screening of Girl Unbound, with Keynote Speaker Shireen Ahmed and panelists Ayesha Chaudhry, Yusra Said, and Duncan Bernardo. Special thanks to KDocs Board Member and Community Outreach Facilitator Naveen Zafar for curating tonight’s speakers and fundraising!
KDocs proudly presented Because We Are Girls at the KPU Surrey campus. Over 200 people were in attendance to hear Keynote Speaker Karen Snowshoe and Panelists Jeeti Pooni, Kira Pooni, Salaskshana Pooni, Baljit Sangra, and Balbir Gurm, with moderation from Asma Sayed. It was an incredible evening of sharing and healing. Thank you to everyone who attended. Support the #PooniSisters and sign their petition at change.org/poonisisters!
KDocsFF proudly presented (for the second time!) Because We Are Girls at the KPU Surrey campus. Over 200 people were in attendance to hear Keynote Speaker Sharon Cahill Kearney and Panelists @JeetiPooni, @KiraPooni, Salaskshana Pooni, Baljit Sangra, and Balbir Gurm, with moderation from Ayesha Khan. It was another incredible evening of sharing and healing. Thank you to everyone who attended. Support the #PooniSisters and sign their petition at change.org/poonisisters! Special thanks to all the KDocsFF volunteers who outdid themselves!
As part of its Year-long Program, KDocsFF held a free 48-hour screening of and live Q&A/panel discussion for The Six.
On November 19, 2021, for the live Q&A/panel discussion, Keynote Speaker Lily Cho was joined by the film’s director, Arthur Jones; the film’s Chief Researcher, Steven Schwankert; MOSAIC’s Sherman Chan; Moderator, KPU’s Michael Ma; and approximately 70 guests, who raised important questions and considered the film’s many themes.
“. . . a tale beyond the Titanic, a story shaped by racial discrimination and anti-immigration policy that has taken on particular resonance today following recent anti-Asian abuse . . . ” (BBC)
SURVIVING TITANIC WASN’T THE GREATEST OBSTACLE THEY HAD TO OVERCOME IN THEIR LIVES
“When RMS Titanic sank on a cold night in 1912, barely 700 people escaped with their lives. Among them were six Chinese men. Arriving in New York with the other survivors, the six were met not with compassion, but suspicion and slander. Less than 24 hours later, they were expelled from the country, soon forgotten, and lost beneath the waves of time.
What became of them? The answer is the story of so many like them, who travel thousands of miles from their homes in search of better lives, only to be met by hostility, hysteria, and walls at the border. The Six is an extraordinary story of survival and dignity in the face of racism and anti-immigrant policy that still reverberates today.
In an epic journey that crosses continents, The Six follows an international team of investigators as they set out to uncover the truth about the six Chinese, and to right a century-old injustice. For the first time, we discover who these men really were, tracing their origins and tracking down descendants denied access to their history. We shine light on the dark legacy of immigration policy, and on the sacrifices of migrants.”
Follow The Six online:
Trailer: vimeo.com/530248569
thesixdocumentary.com
facebook.com/thesixdocumentary
twitter.com/thesixfilm | @thesixfilm
instagram.com/thesixdocumentary | @thesixdocumentary
weibo.com/thesixdocumentary
WORD ON THE STREET
My last two feature-length documentaries, All Governments Lie (2016) and The Corporate Coup D’État (2019) have taken me to film festivals all over the world, and one of the very best was the KDocs Film Festival.
[KDocs] did an amazing job of organizing the screening of The Corporate Coup D’État and arranging a keynote address and panel discussion with John Ralston Saul, one of Canada’s leading public intellectuals and a major character in my film. The spirited interchange with Saul continued long afterward in the lobby, with a rich diversity of community leaders and filmmakers taking part. It was a warm, fertile environment for an exchange of ideas on ethics, philosophy, history and politics – and why Saul wrote in 1995, “It could be argued that we are now in the midst of a coup d’état in slow motion.” It was an honour to be included at a film festival in my hometown at which social justice is paramount. An informed critical analysis of social injustice is what I most appreciate in documentary films, and what I strive for in my own. KDocs delivers multiple films and discussions every year that help to make our our city, our province, and our world better places to live.”
Fred PeabodyDirector, The Corporate Coup d’État and Special Guest and Panelist, KDocsFF 2020
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