DOXA and The Cinematheque 
present

DO NOT RESIST


Friday, February 10, 2017 |  7:00pm 
1131 Howe St. Vancouver, B.C.
Tickets: $11 ($9 for students and seniors)

The most shocking sequence in Craig Atkinson's incendiary new film doesn't take place on the streets of Ferguson, or in the middle of a SWAT raid - it happens in a hotel conference room during a presentation to police officers. "What do you fight violence with? Superior violence. Righteous violence. Violence is your tool ... You are men and women of violence."

Superior violence increasingly means 48,000-pound armoured vehicles, assault rifles, and rocket launchers, employed in poor or marginalized communities where civilians are termed "the enemy" in the rhetoric of war. Expertly-chosen court and news footage show the cause-and-effect relationship between bureaucratic decisions and street-level reality. But the most deeply troubling ideas examined are the shifts in attitude, as police become something akin to an occupying army. As the U.S. slides further into a fascist mentality,  Do Not Resist is a necessary and critical film. 

"A quietly seething look at present-day policing in America ... An experience best had in the cinema." - The Hollywood Reporter

Winner of Best Documentary Award, Tribeca Film Festival 2016

In honour of Black History Month, DOXA Documentary Film Festival and The Cinematheque are very proud to offer this encore screening for Vancouver audiences of  Do Not Resist.



Presented with: 

FREE FILM SERIES AT PUSH FESTIVAL 

DOXA's own director of programming, Dorothy Woodend, has curated a  series  of documentaries to complement the themes and ideas present at this year's  PuSh Festival Presented with PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and SFU Woodward's Cultural Programs.  

All screenings are FREE and will take place at the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema, SFU's Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W Hastings St., Vancouver, B.C.).



Tonight! January 18, 2017 | 5:30pm 

Whether it's tear gas in your eyes or genuine tears, sometimes you just gotta dance it out! This collection of short films celebrates the cathartic power of the most fundamental of human art forms, from a girl learning a traditional Norwegian folk dance to students remembering the founder of Cuba's modern dance school. The language of movement can transcend time, unite people across cultures, and sometimes even spark a revolution in the streets.

Films include: 
  • Dancing For You (25 mins), directed by Erlend E. Mo (Norway) 
  • Time Dead Time Alive (36 mins), directed by Guston Sondin-Kung (Denmark) 
  • One Million Steps (20 mins), directed by Eva Stotz (Germany)

January 25th, 2017 | 5:30pm
Directed by Christian Sønderby Jespen (Denmark) 

When comedian Jacob Nossell sets out to write a play on disability, he spares no one, least of all himself, from the most difficult questions. Jacob has cerebral palsy, and has struggled his entire life with how people perceive him. As Jacob brings his play to completion, he must contend not only with his need for acceptance, but his desire for wild applause and rapturous acclaim.



February 1st, 2017 | 5:30pm 
Directed by Lisa Nicol (Australia)  

In small towns dotted across New South Wales, classical music doesn't have much of a place. Michelle Leonard is determined to change that. Every year, she drives across the outback to audition singers for the Moorambilla Voices Choir. This deeply affectionate, and often funny, film follows a group of choir finalists including Aboriginal kids Taylah and Khynan. 


MOTION PICTURES FILM SERIES

MAYA ANGELOU AND STILL I RISE

Thursday, January 26, 2017 | 7:00pm 
Richmond Cultural Centre Performance Hall
7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond,   B.C.
Tickets: $12 ($10 for students and seniors)

In honour of Black History Month, DOXA Documentary Film Festival's Motion Pictures Film Series, with support from the City of Richmond, is very happy to present Bob Hercules and Rita Coburn Whack's  Maya Angelou And Still I Rise.

The life and times, and most importantly the art, of Maya Angelou is given expansive coverage in Bob Hercules and Rita Coburn Whack's film biography.  Ms. Angelou's work in the civil rights movement and ties to Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and fellow writer James Baldwin, made her work and politics inseparable. But throughout her remarkable life, whether she was on Sesame Street or delivering a poem during a presidential inauguration, she remained defiantly herself, a strong, proud artist with a voice that would not be silenced.

DOXA will also offer an encore screening of the film at the Kay Meek Centre on February 27th, 2017.

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