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DOXA Documentary Film and Video Festival 2008
Sunday, June 1 at 2:30pm
Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour St)

Tickets: www.doxafestival.ca

The Musqueam people have lived for thousands of years in and around what is now the city of Vancouver. (The word Musqueam is an anglicized term describing “where the Muxqui [river grass] grows.”) Director Kevin Lee Burton’s new film meticulously combines film language with Hunkamenum words to recreate Musqueam elder Larry Grant’s experience of rediscovering his language and cultural traditions.

A production of the National Film Board of Canada.

For more information about the film visit: www.nfb.ca/writingtheland

So, for NAICA, Tribeca is over.

See we have full-time jobs besides running this here non-profit (which soon we shall be) and traveling around film festivals and the like, so paychecks are needed and returning to our respective grinds was an absolute must. However, Logan managed to see one film on Sunday. Of course, it was a documentary.

Secrecy by directors Robb Moss and Peter Galison.

The film is about the U.S. government’s policies in determining which documents are to be classied as “secret” and does a run down of one case that was classified and withheld for years from the family members of men who died in a crash which was detailed in this very case. Logan said it was really quite well done.

I attempted to see a film (documentary) that came to fruition through the All-Access program, Marina of the Zabaleen by director Engi Wassef. They pushed the screening from 2:00pm to 3:00pm. I was early so needed to kill time. I went and got that tattoo shown above. I missed the screening. That was our end to Tribeca.

Until next year!