Vegetarian Film Festival
May 4-5, 2007
Regina City Hall Forum
2476 Victoria Avenue
FREE ADMISSION!
May 4
7:00 PM
Remembering Bob (U.S.A, 2004)
‘Remembering Bob’ won the inaugural Genesis Outstanding Student Award (USA) for first time film director Maria Brenner. This sensitive film that is apropos for all ages, depicts the true story of a farm boy’s affection for a young pig and how the boy is forced, as he grows into a hardened teenager, to accept his destined role as a hog slaughterer. The viewer senses that Clifford is a real person struggling with an ethical dilemma that people around him are ignoring. He makes no pronouncements about animal rights, but his actions clearly convey the theme of the film.
Duration: 13 min.
“I wanted to make this film to empower people to really examine the world around them and to think for themselves,” “There are many behaviors in society that many of us accept blindly.” says Brenner.
Via the Remembering Bob website.
*****
May 4
7:20 PM
Total Health Solution Five Dietary Myths (U.S.A, 2001)
Scientific truth is buried in the medical journals. Unfortunately, because it is unprofitable to industry, this lifesaving information is rarely told. Instead, misinformation prevails and prevents people from taking action that will allow them to regain their health and appearance. This video corrects common dietary myths.
Duration: 55 min.
*****
May 4
8:25 PM
A Cow at my Table (Canada, 1998)
A Cow at My Table explores Western attitudes towards farm animals and meat, and the intense battle between animal advocates and the meat industry to influence the consumer’s mind. Five years in production took Director Jennifer Abbott across Canada, the US, Australia and New Zealand to meet with the leaders of the animal rights movement, animal welfare advocates as well as spokespeople from livestock industries. A Cow at My Table intercuts these diverse perspectives with archival films, images from modern-day agribusiness and footage of farm animals shot from uncharacteristic vantage points. The result, say critics and programmers, is a documentary that is “brilliant,” “visually smart,” “extremely accomplished” and “extraordinarily compelling and powerful.” In the words of Toronto’s NOW Magazine film critic Cameron Bailey, “Like all the best documentaries, this film offers more questions than answers.”
Duration: 90 min.
*****
May 5
7:00 PM
The Emotional World of Farm Animals
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of When Elephants Weep and Dogs Never Lie About Love, leads viewers through the personal journey he underwent while writing his book, The Pig Who Sang to the Moon. This journey takes Masson to animal sanctuaries around the country, including Animal Place, Farm Sanctuary, and United Poultry Concerns, where caregivers share harrowing stories of rescue and escape and describe their daily lives with their charges. You’ll also meet the animals themselves, like the two pigs who love their ice cube rubdowns in the summer and the cow who escaped slaughter and ran through the streets of New York City. Masson delves into the ancestry of these animals, before domestication, to give us a better understanding of what a pig really likes to do and how chickens would behave if given the chance. This section includes interviews with top experts in animal behavior, who offer their perspectives on these amazing creatures.This film contains no graphic footage of cruelty to animals.
Duration: 52 min.
Synopsis from PETA Catalog.
*****
May 5
8:00 PM
Eating
This stunning video uncovers the many facts that the meat and dairy industries do not want you to know: that their products are the biggest cause of disease, disability, and death in the U.S. today. Michael Anderson not only answers basic questions about how easily protein and calcium needs can be met on a vegan diet and the link between diet and America’s biggest diseases, he also goes a step further, explaining how the typical American diet is destroying our environment and exposing factor farms as “concentration camps” for animals.
Duration: 60 min
Synopsis from PETA Catalog.
*****
May 5
9:10 PM
Jill’s Film (U.K. 2005)
An inspiring and beautiful film about the life and tragic death of animal liberation activist, Jill Phipps. The film tells the life story of this incredibly dedicated activist, while weaving in the history and achievements of the animal rights movement in the UK, and the wider social and political issues and movements of the time. A personal window to the often hidden history of resistance movements.
Duration: 39 min.
Synopsis from the Vegetarian Film Festival 2006 in Auckland
A huge bouquet to the Vegetarian Film Festival organizers: The Regina Vegetarian Society Inc. and Regina Ecoliving Inc.