UBC Film Society

The Vancouver International Film Festival is offering $2 off a ticket for the online screening of "The World is Bright" to 10 members of the UBC Film Society residing in British Columbia! The film premiered at VIFF 2019 and won the 2019 Sea to Sky Award and Emerging Canadian Filmmaker Award at HotDocs 2020. It will be available to stream on VIFF Connect (connect.viff.org) until February 11 (11:59pm PST). Please fill out this Google Form: https://forms.gle/T1ds96pwZaXHGLET6 i...f you would like the UBC Film Society to send you the discount code for the online screening of the movie "The World is Bright". The discount codes will be emailed to the first 10 eligible respondents on a first-come-first-serve basis. Please note that VIFF Connect online films can be viewed in British Columbia only. Official Trailer: https://vimeo.com/460836446 Read more about the film here: https://goviff.org/world-is-bright Eligibility criteria: To be eligible to receive the discount code, you must be signed up as a member of the UBC Film Society on AMS Campus Base (signing up on AMS CampusBase gives you FilmSoc's basic (free) membership)

FilmSoc’s online watch party is happening tonight at 7pm PST! We’re watching The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants! Sign onto the UBC Film Society Discord and join our # watch party channel to find the group chat for this event! Watch the countdown in the chat to find out when to start the screening on CriterionOnDemand! Say hello and share your thoughts on the film in the group chat during the screening, then check back into our watch party voice channel for a live discuss...ion of the film! Links and instructions below WHEN: Saturday February 6th, 7:00pm PST STREAM THE FILM: CriterionOnDemand (log in with CWL) at https://media3.criterionpic.com/htbin/wwform/006?T=W200515 DISCORD: Invite link on our AMS CampusBase page. CampusBase log in here: https://amscampusbase.ubc.ca/home_login DISCORD INSTRUCTIONS: 1) Join UBC Film Society on AMS CampusBase 2) Click the Discord invite link posted on the UBC Film Society’s group page on AMS CampusBase 3) At the start of the event, join the # watch party channel in our Discord. When the countdown ends, start streaming the film on CriterionOnDemand! 4) Tune in to the watch party voice channel on Discord after the film and enjoy discussing The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants with your fellow FilmSoc members!

The UBC Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies is having an online Q&A with the star and director of Call Me Human today at 2pm PST! You can RSVP here: bit.ly/CallMeHuman

UBC Film Society invites you to watch The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants tomorrow night at 7pm! Sign onto the UBC Film Society Discord and join our # watch party channel to find the group chat for this event! Watch the countdown in the chat to find out when to start the screening on CriterionOnDemand! Say hello and share your thoughts on the film in the group chat during the screening, then check back into our watch party voice channel for a live discussion of the film...! Links and instructions below WHEN: Saturday February 6th, 7:00pm PST STREAM THE FILM: CriterionOnDemand (log in with CWL) DISCORD: Invite link on our AMS CampusBase page DISCORD INSTRUCTIONS: 1) Join UBC Film Society on AMS CampusBase 2) Click the Discord invite link posted on the UBC Film Society’s group page on AMS CampusBase 3) At the start of the event, join the # watch party channel in our Discord. When the countdown ends, start streaming the film on CriterionOnDemand! 4) Tune in to the watch party voice channel on Discord after the film and enjoy discussing The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants with your fellow FilmSoc members! #ubc #watchparty #film #discord

HAPPENING TODAY AT 6PM PST! RSVP here to get the link to the Zoom call: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSckXYlNy4r9wLjTvi/viewform Note: You must be a premium member to be able to attend the Zoom call. However, the live-stream of the interview is free. Premium membership can be bought here: https://www.showpass.com/ubcfilmsoc-membership/... Pavan (pronounced Pav-in) Moondi is a writer/director originally from Toronto and currently based in Los Angeles. He has written and directed three critically-acclaimed feature films: EVERYDAY IS LIKE SUNDAY (2013), DIAMOND TONGUES (2015), and SUNDOWNERS (2017). The latter of which co-stars comedian Tim Heidecker, was financed by Telefilm Canada and shot primarily in Santa Marta, Colombia. The film was named one of The Globe and Mail's Top Ten Canadian Films of 2017. Pavan’s previous film, DIAMOND TONGUES, premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival to critical acclaim while garnering a Canadian Screen Award nomination for its first-time actress star, Leah Fay Goldstein of the band JULY TALK. Both films are streaming on Amazon Prime in the US and CBC Gem in Canada. Pavan has also worked in television: in 2016 he directed all 8 episodes of a CBC TV single camera sitcom, FOUR IN THE MORNING, and worked in the writers’ room for the Emmy Award-nominated 5th season of the hit CBC/PopTV series, SCHITT’S CREEK, starring Catherine O’Hara and Eugene Levy. He is currently developing a series with comedian Pete Holmes (CRASHING). Want to stay tuned for more updates? Find us on our socials: Instagram: @ubcfilmsociety Facebook: www.facebook.com/UBCFilmSociety Website: www.ubcfilmsociety.ca

Interested in supporting the UBC Film Society from behind the scenes and becoming part of a tight-knit club exec team? Or in gaining some computer operations or marketing-related volunteer experience? Film Soc is looking for two new junior executives to join our executive team and would love to welcome you to either of these positions! The UBC Film Society is seeking a Junior Computer Operations Manager and a Junior Promotions Manager. Only candidates moving forward in ...the hiring process will be contacted. Hired individuals would start immediately. Please note this is a volunteer position. Role descriptions are in the application form linked below. APPLICATION FORM: https://forms.gle/TacFQuPXq59uK8YG9 ***The deadline to submit this application form is: December 3, 2020, @ 11:59 pm PERKS?? You get instant access to a wonderful and passionate community of film buffs! Free popcorn and pop! You'll have direct input and insight in the running of Film Soc events, most of which take place in the wonderfully retro Normand Bouchard Theatre, a 385 seater movie theatre on campus. Any person on the Film Soc team can also get free training to become a projectionist, so you can be the person projecting films on the big screen! Please do not hesitate to message us on our socials if you have any questions! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UBCFilmSociety Instagram: @ubcfilmsociety Website: https://www.ubcfilmsociety.ca/ . . https://fb.me/e/USANRk9j #ubcfilmsociety #ubc #film

The UBC Film Society is back with our final #NormSelects interview for this semester with director/writer/et al Elvira Lind! This Zoom interview will take place on November 28th at 6pm PST / 9pm EST. Register here to get the Zoom link for the live interview with Director Elvira Lind: https://forms.gle/44C8bmovzb2q5N218 You can also submit your questions in that form!... This event will be also live-streamed on Saturday November 28th, 2020 at 6PM PST/9PM EST. Born in 1981 in Copenhagen, Elvira Lind graduated from School of Media and Creative Arts in Cape Town in 2006 majoring in documentary film. She has worked within that field since directing and shooting documentaries of various lengths for TV, cinema and web on 4 different continents. In 2020 she premiered her first fiction project, a 32 min short film she wrote and directed. The film was sold to Topic and was invited to various festivals including Telluride, Hollyshorts and Tribeca FF. Elvira's feature doc BOBBI JENE premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in 2017 where it won all awards in its category including Best Feature documentary, best editing and best Cinematography. The film had theatrical release in US, Spain and Scandinavia. Elvira's first documentary feature Songs for Alexis premiered in Toronto at HOT DOCS in 2014 and screened and competed at a long list of international festivals. Her 8 part documentary TV series "Twiz and Tuck" was bought by VICELAND and launched in 2017. Elvira now lives and works out of New York. Want to stay tuned for more updates? Find us on our socials: Instagram: @ubcfilmsociety Website: www.ubcfilmsociety.ca #normselects #ubcfilmsociety #UBC #film #zoom #interview

The UBC Film Society is hiring! Find the application with more details here: https://forms.gle/6jrHT6NkXc8q8hy68 Apply by December 3rd 11:59pm PST! #ubcfilmsociety #UBC #hiring #students

The UBC Film Society is on Discord! This year, Discord will be a place for all FilmSoc members to be able to connect with each other online! We are planning on hosting some online games such as Among Us in the coming weeks so stay tuned for more updates. The link to join FilmSoc's Discord is on our AMS CampusBase group page. You must join the UBC Film Society as a member on https://amscampusbase.ubc.ca/home_login to be able to access the group page and Discord invite link. #UBC #ubcfilmsociety

TODAY’S THE DAY! We are also excited to announce that we will be live-streaming our #NormSelects interview with filmmaker Anna Biller tonight on YouTube at 6PM PST / 9PM EST! Watch here: https://youtu.be/JdxvWzgtrtI #UBC #film

A big thank you to everyone who came to this week’s productions workshop on Zoom! Our productions manager will be sending the google drive recording link to your emails for reference in the coming weeks. Note: There will be no upcoming productions workshop till December 10th. We will also be posting a poll by the end of this month to decide on what time the next workshop should be hosted! Please do not hesitate to contact us on our socials or email our productions manager at... [email protected] if you have any questions! #ubcfilmsociety