Showtimes are all 7:00 P.M. at the West Parry Sound District Museumtickets $10 Adult, $7 Students and Seniors

January 10 - CitizenFour A real life thriller, giving audiences unprecedented access to filmmaker Laura Poitras & journalist Glenn Greenwald’s encounters with Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents providing evidence of mass indiscriminate & illegal invasions of privacy by the National Security Agency (NSA). Watch Poitras, Greenwald, & Snowden as they attempt to manage the media storm raging outside, forced to make quick decisions that will impact their lives & all of those around them. Be shown the dangers of governmental surveillance—you will never think the same way about your phone, email, credit card, web browser, or profile, ever again.

MarCh 14 - hadwins JudgeMent The film chronicles the tormented transformation of Grant Hadwin from expert logger to environmental terrorist, a man who dared to challenge the destruction of the world’s last great temperate rainforest. Unable to reconcile his love for the forest with the fact that he was contributing to its destruction, Hadwin decided to commit a radical crime in protest, one that earned him hatred from the aboriginal Haida Nation and a court date. He didn’t show up to court, and a few months later his kayak was found on the shore of an uninhabited island. He has never been seen again. Hadwin’s one-man crusade culminated in a perverse and outrageous act of protest that was, in itself, a crime against nature.

april 11 - the true Cost This a story about clothing. It’s about the clothes we wear, the people who make them, and the impact the industry is having on our world. The price of clothing has been decreasing for decades, while the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically. The True Cost is a groundbreaking documentary film that pulls back the curtain on the untold story and asks us to consider, who really pays the price for our clothing? Filmed in countries all over the world, from the brightest runways to the darkest slums, and featuring interviews with the world’s leading influencers including Stella McCartney, Livia Firth and Vandana Shiva, The True Cost is an unprecedented project that invites us on an eye opening journey around the world and into the lives of the many people and places behind our clothes.

deCeMber 12 - the sugar FilM THAT SUGAR FILM is one man’s journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as ‘healthy’. Through this entertaining and informative journey, Damon highlights some of the issues that plague the sugar industry, and where sugar lurks on supermarket shelves. THAT SUGAR FILM will forever change the way you think about ‘healthy’ food.

February 2 - lo and beholdat Charles w. stoCkey Centre

The Oscar-nominated Herzog chronicles the virtual world from its origins to its outermost reaches, exploring the digital landscape with the same curiosity and imagination he previously trained on earthly destinations as disparate as the Amazon, the Sahara, the South Pole and the Australian outback. Herzog leads viewers on a journey through a series of provocative conversations that reveal the ways in which the online world has transformed how virtually everything in the real world works - from business to education, space travel to healthcare, and the very heart of how we conduct our personal relationships.

May 9 - unloCking the Cage Follow animal rights lawyer Steven Wise in his unprecedented challenge to break down the legal wall that separates animals from humans. After thirty years of struggling with ineffective animal welfare laws, Steve & his legal team, the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), are making history by filing the first lawsuits that seek to transform an animal from a thing with no rights to a person with legal protections. This captures a monumental shift in our culture, as the public & judicial system show increasing receptiveness to Steve’s impassioned arguments. It is an intimate look at a lawsuit that could forever transform our legal system, and one man’s lifelong quest to protect “nonhuman” animals.

June 13 - MiniMalisM How might your life be better with less? Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things examines the many flavors of minimalism by taking the audience inside the lives of minimalists from all walks of life—families, entrepreneurs, architects, artists, journalists, scientists, and even a former Wall Street broker—all of whom are striving to live a meaningful life with less.

oCtober 10 - raCing extinCtion From the Academy Award®- winning filmmaking team that revealed oceanic atrocities in “The Cove” comes a bigger and bolder mission. Utilizing state-of-the-art equipment, director Louie Psihoyos assembles a team of activists intent on showing the world never-before-seen images that will change the way we understand issues of endangered species and mass extinction. Whether infiltrating notorious black markets with gureilla style tactics or working with artists to create beautiful imagery, with unexpected animal subjects, “Racing Extinction will literally change the way you see the world.

sept 12 - how to let go oF the world In How to Let Go of the World and Love All The Things Climate Can’t Change, Oscar Nominated director Josh Fox (GASLAND) continues in his deeply personal style, investigating climate change – the greatest threat our world has ever known. Traveling to 12 countries on 6 continents, the film acknowledges that it may be too late to stop some of the worst consequences and asks, what is it that climate change can’t destroy? What is so deep within us that no calamity can take it away?

noveMber 14 - beFore the Flood A look at how climate change affects our environment and what society can do prevent the demise of endangered species, ecosystems and native communities across the planet.

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