DOXA closes out with local film Doug and the Slugs and Me
Now in its 21st year, the festival’s full program is expected to be announced on April 13.Article contentNarrated by Miranda July, the film follows volcanologist couple Katia and Maurice Krafft as they travel the world unravelling the mysteries of the earth’s core while getting up close and dangerously personal with lakes of acid and areas of unstable volcanic activity.
Now in its 12th year, the 2022 Justice Forum program’s special presentation is Love in the Time of Fentanyl, directed by Colin Askey. The film is an intimate look at the Overdose Prevention Society , the critical front line response team that first set up its tent on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in 2016.Advertisement 4The film offers a look at the Black community in Montreal’s Little Burgundy neighbourhood by way of a cinematic letter to the legendary baseball player Jackie Robinson.
Finally closing out the special presentations and the festival itself is the local film Doug and the Slugs and Me. From his formative years to the bittersweet end, Vancouver’s Teresa Alfeld delivers an intimate biography of musician and dad Doug Bennett. Special presentation films will include either a pre-recorded or a livestreamed Q and A, or in-theatre conversation with filmmakers.
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