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Good News! 20th Annual Powell River Film Festival Goes Online

Watch Anytime Between Feb 5 and 16 Online, Anywhere in BC

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Powell River’s Film Festival is usually reserved for a local audience at the historic Patricia Theatre. Due to COVID-19, Canada’s longest continually running theatre, and home of the Festival, has been dark since March 17, 2020. By going online, this gem of a Festival is now available to watch from anywhere with internet in BC.

Yes, we can all watch from home with family and friends across town or the other side of the province. Imagine watching together from the comfort of your own homes, and having something new to connect and talk about.

Engaging Cinema, Engaging Minds: PRFF offers a carefully curated selection of films from Canada and around the world – something to stimulate your mind and good conversation. Titles include: The New Corporation, Monkey Beach, The Magnitude of All Things, and Ammonite. You can watch individual films or purchase a festival pass to see them all.

Check out the full line up and watch trailers at : prfilmfestival.ca/films

We’re also adding some local free content about Tla’amin Nation, Powell River, qathet Regional District, and the upper Sunshine Coast here in glorious BC. Who knows, you may want to visit someday! Be sure to watch “A Theatre Near You” a short film about our beloved historic Patrica Theatre.

The Film Society makes education an important part of its mandate, in addition to PRFF we have a Youth Festival and Film Camp running from March 4 to 7. It will also be online and have space for 12 lucky participants aged 15–24. At the camp, they’ll learn filmmaking and the art of collaborating online, while making a short film in the process. Registration is now open, with the early bird deadline extended to January 31, 2021.

For more information, please visit: prfilmfestival.ca/youth

Our Youth Festival also includes a 5 Minute Film Contest with cash prizes – please pass the news onto the creative youth in your life. Entrants must be 15–25 and have made their film after January 1, 2020. The deadline for submissions is February 23, 2021.

The Powell River Film Festival is produced by the Powell River Film Society, a charitable non-profit organization in BC.

We welcome donations to both the Festival and Patricia Theatre Forever restoration campaign.

For further information please contact :

John Hewson
john@prfilmfestial.ca
1-604-318-3745