Announcing Opening Night Film – Friday May 7,  7:30pm – Granville 7

Doxa Documentary Film Festival

visit Doxafestival.ca to buy tickets and for more information

$3.00/ticket for the film and the reception being donated to Slow Food Vancouver for our Terra Madre Fund.  Slow Food is partnered with FarmFolk/CityFolk raising funds to send our local farmers to Terra Madre 2010

TERRA MADRE directed by Ermanno Olmi, Italy

The Terra Madre (Mother Earth) conference is held in Turin, Italy attracting some 6000 delegates – activists and farmers from 153 nations to meet and exchange ideas, experience and plans for the future of food production and sustainability. Italian filmmaker Ermanno Olmi attended the conference to document the event. Now in his late-70s, Olmi is free to reinvent the documentary form, which is exactly what happens in his new film, Terra Madre.  Beginning with the conference itself, the film branches off into multiple narratives, including a sojourn north to visit the International Seed Bank in Norway, and to farms in China and India. Interspersed with conference delegates offering insight and advice, the film then gently settles on a remote Italian farm where something remarkable happens. All the discussion pales before the simplicity of old fashioned farming. As the film moves from theory to reality—cycling through the seasons of planting, harvesting, cooking and eating—traditional documentary falls away, and a singular type of poetry emerges. A poem to beauty, food and the slow passage of time, Terra Madre is a ravishingly beautiful ode to the earth in all its fecundity and abundance.

DOXA OPENING NIGHT PARTY

Join us for a Terra Madre Celebrazione following the Opening Night Film for an evening celebrating Italy and the Slow Food movement! Enjoy fine food and listen to live entertainment while gathering all the hot buzz for the festival!
Harrison Galleries (901 Homer Street)
Purchase Film and Party tickets ($35) OR Film Only ($15) tickets now.  www.doxafestival.ca