Film Friday isn’t until tomorrow, but a girl has to plan!
If you find yourself in Toronto this weekend, head down to the Planet in Focus International Environmental Film and Video festival. The films are a fantastic mix of genre and style that explore a wide range of issues. Festival Director Candida Paltiel suggests that “The festival transcends class, gender and other boundaries because of its broad definition of environment.”
It’s so good.
Documentary filmmaker, writer and environmentalist Mark Haslam founded PIF as a one day film screening in 1999. Since then, it has grown into five-day event with year round programming including a growing archive of environmental films. Between movies, check out the eco-fair, Activist Cinema Roundtable, Green Pitch competition, panel sessions, programs for children and opportunities to chat with the filmmakers.
A festival pass is great value and supports a good cause, but freebies and PWYC screenings ensure there is a little PIF for everyone:
Friday 3:00 pm
Innis College Town Hall
FREE Screening + Panel Session
Black
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The Survivors Project: Voices from the Inside-out!
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Panel: The Survivors Project
Friday 11:30 pm
Innis College Town Hall
Pay-What-You-Can Screening
Reading the Water: Lectures on Home Video Ecology from the Gulf of Me
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Invisible
Saturday 11:30 pm
Innis College Town Hall
Pay-What-You-Can Screening
Cocalero (Quechua)
Community Eco Exchange
Saturday & Sunday
11:00am – 5:00pm
Innis College
Free Admission
Hope to see you there!
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