Open Cinema: The Ghosts in Our Machine - Connecting the Docs

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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014
7:00 PM

THE GHOSTS IN OUR MACHINE: Connecting the Docs in Toronto & Victoria, April 23, 2014

We are thrilled to announce the third episode of our Connecting the Docs hybrid cinema series, generously supported by the Canada Media Fund.


1 documentary
2 cities
discussion everywhere!

On Wednesday April 23rd, we will coordinate screenings and discussion of Liz Marshall�s beautiful, gentle award-winning film THE GHOSTS IN OUR MACHINE in Toronto, Victoria and online. The live post-screening discussions in each city will be live streamed on our LIVE page (via Ustream), accompanied by a #ForTheGhosts Tweetchat and Facebook group discussion, providing opportunities for online engagement on animal rights, no matter where you are in the world. The film can also be streamed online, starting April 22, 2014. Our goal is to connect the docs across time and space! All the details can be found below, or on Facebook.

THE GHOSTS IN OUR MACHINE
A film by Liz Marshall Featuring Jo-Anne McArthur
Produced by Nina Beveridge & Liz Marshall.

THE GHOSTS IN OUR MACHINE is a multi-award winning documentary by Liz Marshall that illuminates the lives of individual animals living within and rescued from the machine of our modern world. With the exception of our companion animals and a few wild or stray species within our environments, we experience animals daily as food, clothing, animal tested goods and entertainment, a moral dilemma that is often hidden from view. Through the heart and photographic lens of acclaimed photographer Jo-Anne McArthur, we become intimately familiar with a cast of non-human animals. The film follows Jo-Anne over the course of a year as she photographs several animal stories in parts of Canada, the U.S. and in Europe. Each story is a window into global animal industries: Food, Fashion, Entertainment and Research.

THE GHOSTS IN OUR MACHINE charts McArthur�s efforts to bring wider attention to a topic that most of humankind strives hard to avoid. Are non-human animals property to be owned and used, or are they sentient beings deserving of rights?

JOIN US LIVE or ONLINE!

6.30pm ET (3.30pm PT) Toronto event starts
9pm ET (6pm PT) Toronto post-screening discussion livestream
7pm PT (10pm ET) Victoria screening starts
9pm PT (midnight ET) Victoria post-screening discussion livestream

Partnered with Friends of Animals
Cash bar, pizza, brownies, and door prizes.
$10-20 suggested donation at the door.

For details visit: http://www.opencinema.ca/fortheghosts/