From the National Candian Film day website:
April 29 is National Canadian Film Day, a day to throw off the shackles of fear and insecurity, stand together with Canadians from coast to coast and pat ourselves on the back for something other than various ice-related sports and sports-related doughnut shops. (Not that we don’t love ice-related sports and doughnuts.) It’s a light-hearted intervention for our national consciousness, a wake-up call to anyone who has not yet been exposed to the great cinematic stories we tell one another in this cold, vast country.
It is a way to get over ourselves and have some FUN!
Here’s a complete list of all events across BC, but because we love documentaries we want you (especially) to go see these:
Through interviews with the world’s foremost researchers, writers, psychologists
and pioneers in psychedelic psychotherapy, this fascinating doc explores the history of five powerful psychedelic substances and their now-established medicinal potential.
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| Vancity Theatre 1181 Seymour St Vancouver, BC V6B 2E8 |
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| Vancouver International Film Festival |
Reaching Blue – Directed by: Ian Hinkle
With imagery from fifteen cinematographers, Reaching Blue explores the Salish Sea to expose the changes our coastal waters face, and connect to our world’s oceans. Do we have the knowledge and technology required to understand ocean change before time runs out?
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| Cinematheque Theatre 1131 Howe Street Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7 |
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| Ocean Networks Canada |
We Are Here – Directed by: Francine Zuckerman
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| Vancity Theatre 1181 Seymour St Vancouver, BC V6B 2E8 |
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| Vancouver International Film Festival |
Watermark – Directed by: Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky 
This beautifully shot documentary is the second collaboration after Manufactured Landscapes from this award-winning team. The film brings together diverse stories from around the globe about our relationship with water: how we are drawn to it, what we learn from it, how we use it and the consequences of that use.
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| Whistler Public Library 329 Main Street Whistler, BC V0N 1B4 |
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| Whistler Film Festival | |
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