Cap Film Series

Presented in Partnership with DOXA Documentary Film Festival

Tickets: $10/$6

In addition to the main feature, all screenings will feature a short film by students in Capilano University's Documentary Film Program.
When possible, the director will be in attendance for post-screening Q&As.

Past Screenings

Bloodied but Unbowed

Director: Susanne Tabata, Canada, 2010 (75 minutes)
October 4, 2011 @ 7:30 pm

Vancouver's late 70s punk scene has long been lauded as one of the boldest periods in music this city has seen—think DOA, Subhumans,Young Canadians, Pointed Sticks, Modernettes, UJ3RK5 and the Dishrags. Vancouverite Susanne Tabata's Bloodied but Unbowed is an in-depth study of the city's punk/new wave movement that had far reaching influence capturing the rise and fall of an era that shaped the next wave of musicians including Kurt Cobain, former Guns N' Roses' bassist Duff McKagan, Jello Biafra, Bob Rock and Henry Rollins.

Official Site | Watch: Trailer

Preceded by: Yuppies In; Hardcore Out, directed by Myles McComish (10 minutes)

!WAR

!Women Art Revolution

Director: Lynn Hershman Leeson, USA, 2010 (83 minutes)
January 24, 2012 @ 7:30 pm

!Women Art Revolution traces the progress of feminist art for the past four decades through lively interviews with artists, historians, curators and critics, alongside rare archival film presenting an exhaustive survey of the movement. With roots in the civil rights protests of the 60s, feminist artists went on to target art for gender reform, jarring the stuffy art institutions to give the movement its dues. Artists profiled in WAR! include Hannah Wilke, Judy Chicago, Yoko Ono, Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger and the irrepressible Guerilla Girls. Described as "passionate, contentious, funny, sincere, politically attuned."—New York Times

Official Site + Watch: Trailer

Preceded by: Riva, directed by Shurman Esseline (10 minutes)

Cap U's Liberal Studies program is hosting a pre-screening dialogue on women, art, and revolution. The panel features Amber Dawn - Vancouver-based writer, filmmaker, and performance artist; Toni Latour (Studio Art); and Sandra Seekins (AHIS). The panel will start at 6:30 pm in the lower cafeteria in the Birch Building by the NSCU Centre. Everyone welcome. Light refreshments served.

Sound it Out

Sound It Out

Director: Jeanie Finlay, UK, 2011 (78 minutes)
February 28, 2012 @ 7:30 pm

Over the last five years an independent record shop has closed in the UK every three days. Sound it Out is a documentary portrait of the very last surviving vinyl record shop in Teesside, North-East England. A cultural haven in one of the most deprived areas in the UK, Sound it Out documents a place that is thriving against the odds and the local community that keeps it alive, directed by Jeanie Finlay who grew up three miles from the shop. A distinctive, funny and intimate film about men, the north and the irreplaceable role music plays in our lives. Think High Fidelity with a northern accent.

Official Site | Watch: Trailer

Preceded by: Torn Out the Lights, directed by Daniel Best (10 minutes)

Familia

Directors: Alberto Herskovits and Mikael Wiström, Sweden, 2010 (82 minutes)
March 13, 2012 @ 7:30 pm

Poignant and thoroughly captivating, Familia tracks a poverty-stricken Peruvian family trying to survive and keep the family together. In an all too familiar situation in contemporary South America—Naty, the matriarch loses her steady job and must leave her husband and three children to a menial service job in Spain. Two years later she returns to reunite with her family to find that both her and her family are much altered from their time apart.

Winner of the 2011 DOXA Feature Documentary Award.

Official Site | Watch: Trailer