Documentary Film Festival opening night DOXA: Occupy the Movie Type: Community 13+ Documentary Film Festival presents Occupy the Movie, an exploration of the Occupy movement. A deeply human portrait of social change, warts and all. More details Date and time May 3 2013, 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Add to my calendar Location 601 Hamilton Street at Dunsmuir Vancouver Contact Email contact 604.646.3200 DOXA is extremely proud to open the festival this year with director Corey Ogilvie's remarkable new film, Occupy The Movie, which exemplifies and expands the feisty tradition of films such as The Corporation and The Take. Although the Occupy movement grew like lightning all over the globe, it had its origins right here in Vancouver. In a series of sequential chapters, the film lays out the situation that precipitated the birth of Occupy, everything from the greed-maddened frenzy of Wall Street, to the plague of home foreclosures, and the apparent collusion of the American government and big business, that resulted in a 700 billion dollar bailout for American banks. Following the example established by the protestors in New York, encampments sprang up around the globe, a series of brush fires that threatened to engulf the world. Even as mainstream media decried Occupy for its vagueness of purpose, the real forces of money and power moved in: ferocious midnight police raids and other tactics that were aimed at breaking the movement at its source. In keeping with the spirit of the protests it profiles, Occupy The Movie is independent, canny, and fiercely intelligent. The larger economic forces that have led to such global financial disparity are laid out in animated sequences, aided by cheerfully caustic commentary from analyst Reggie Middleton. Interviews with Chris Hedges, Cornel West, and Adbuster's Kalle Lasn, add intellectual heft. But it is ordinary people who describe the personal cost of putting their bodies on the front line that speak the loudest. What emerges is a deeply human portrait of social change, warts and all. In this film, hope, that most stubbornly persistent and powerful of human qualities, takes wing and sets off for an unknown future fuelled by the need to make a better, more equal and more just world..
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