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For more information about this festival, contact David Thomson.

Learn more about the Traveling World Community Film Festival.

Welcome!

Kelowna’s UBC Okanagan Community Development Club presents The World Traveling Community Film Festival March 21, 22 and 23, 2008. Held at the Kelowna campus of UBC Okanagan, films are presented in Student Services Centre's Lecture Theatre. The films are different that shows on the following links. Please go to http://www3.telus.net/ubcofilmfest/ for the correct 2008 ones! SSC 026 and the Arts Building Room ART 103.

These films are an outstanding selection of 32 documentary films covering issues from over 25 countries and will educate, entertain, and inspire. The World Community Film Festival is known for the incredible breadth of topics covered as well as the first class quality of the productions screened.

Film topics include environmental, social justice and human rights issues. This UBC Okanagan Community Development Club event is non-profit and is a fund-raiser in support of the Kelowna Food Bank.

We welcome Okanagan residents of all ages to enjoy this year's films.

Admission to films is by donation of cash or non-perishable food items for the Kelowna Food Bank.

We are very grateful to the following for helping make this year's film festival possible:

UBC O Community Development Club

Council of Canadians

Summerhill Pyramid Winery

eVent! Magazine

UBC Okanagan Students' Union

UBC Okanagan

Turning Crises to Opportunities

In his new and ground breaking book, ‘The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community,” David Korten writes, “The human species is entering a period of dramatic and potentially devastating changes of our own creation that are now largely beyond our control. It is within our means, however, to shape a positive outcome if we choose to embrace the resulting crisis as an opportunity to lift ourselves to a new level of species maturity and potential.”

The Great Turning of which Korten writes is predicated upon a basic cultural turning which he says “… begins with a cultural and spiritual awakening. Economic and political turning can only follow a turning in cultural values from money and material excess to life and spiritual fulfillment, from relationships of domination to relationships of partnership, from a belief in our limitations to a belief in our possibilities, and from fearing our differences to rejoicing in our diversity.”

It is with pleasure that we offer the World Traveling Community Film Festival as a small nudge in the direction of this great turning. The films we present are the stories of people from all over the world who are challenging the limits of the difficult realities they face. The people who inspire us are the dreamers who find ways to not only survive but to do so with joy and passion for life.

The gathering storm of climate change, peak oil, food insecurity, war and any number of other critical issues may seem overwhelming at times. How do we find the inspiration to imagine solutions, to dream of new realities and to finally take action? Recognizing that our dreams cannot become reality if we do not take time to feed our spirits, we have included several films which highlight the importance of music in our efforts to build a better world.

Music can connect us to history and culture and inspire in us the very essence of humanity. It can move us in deep and profound ways. Music can move us to tears or transport us into joy. Joy is a passion for the well-being of all and an inspiration to shape the world as we dream it to be. It is this passion that keeps our hopes and dreams alive.

All over the world, hope shines through the action taken by ordinary people who dare to confront global forces with the strength of belief in their own possibilities and the strength of their own visions. Together they conspire to create alternative futures. This festival is in their honour.