Cap Documentary Film Series in Partnership with DOXA Documentary Film Festival Present: Sound It Out Director: Jeanie Finlay, UK, 2011 (78 minutes) February 28, 2012 @ 7:30 pm North Shore Credit Union Centre for the Performing Arts, Capilano University, 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver, B.C. Over the last five years an independent record shop has closed [...]

During his visit to Capilano University, legendary American filmmaker Albert Maysles led a master class with CapilanoU documentary students and alumni. Emerging filmmakers sat enthralled as they studied Maysles deft camera work, and listened to stories of how he let his lens dance with the penetrating stare of Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, or how [...]

Just weeks before the opening of the Olympic games, 20 at-risk youth on the Eastside took the Olympic spirit to the streets of Vancouver with some cameras in search of “healthy heroes.” The Healthy Heroes after-school program sponsored by the BC Cancer Agency helps at-risk youth identify people in their community who exemplify and inspire [...]

Cokilano Directed and produced by Neil Vokey Story Sypnosis: “Cokilano” is a short subject, investigative documentary, that looks to uncover the effects of Capilano University’s corporate food and beverage contracts, and asks who looks out for student interests on campus. In a place where Aramark Foods and Coca Cola have a monopoly over the menus, [...]

I am… Me Directed and produced by documentary film student, Janelle Huopalainen Story Synopsis: Expression, Perception, Identity I am…Me is a short form documentary about self-expression, perception and identity. The film is a social experiment in which the two characters, Ray Silva, and Rebecca Geddes explore and analyze the identities they have created for themselves. [...]