The Georgia Straight proudly sponsors the 2014 DOXA Documentary Film Festival

The 2014 DOXA Documentary Film Festival takes place May 2 to 11 at various Vancouver venues. This year, film screenings will take place at the Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour Street), Cinematheque (1131 Howe Street), Rio Theatre (1660 East Broadway Street), and Vancouver Playhouse (600 Dunsmuir Street).

This year’s DOXA festival will feature over 90 films and 78 screenings, taking audiences into the unknown—from encounters with mountain gorillas to cartoon ponies and the men who love them, wild boars, roller derby girls, young agrarians, and stick insects.

The festival will open with Orlando von Einsiedel’s Virunga, a film that travels into Eastern Congo’s Virunga National Park, where dedicated park rangers are the only people standing in between the park’s natural resources and death and destruction.

Another festival highlight is To be Takei, which chronicles the life of actor George Takei, best known for his role as Mr. Sulu in Star Trek. The film also looks at Takei’s decision to come out as a gay man and his role in the public as a supporter of same-sex marriage. DOXA’s closing night film is A Brony Tale, which features male fans of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

Tickets and festival passes to the DOXA Documentary Film Festival can be purchased online in advance. Festival details and a full schedule of screenings can also be found at the DOXA website.