Here’s a way for you to take Action for Water and make waves in your community. Co-host your own film screening. We will work with you to create an engaging experience for your audience.
You care about the environment and are passionate about the dangers facing water and a liveable climate, locally and globally. You know people who also care and would like to share the opportunity to learn more and discuss what might be done to help through the medium of documentary films.
Plan Your Event
Host a film screening at your local library, a community centre, or with a local organization.
Water Docs Where You Live screenings are held across southern Ontario and as far north as Sudbury, North Bay and Mattawa. Locations have included public libraries, other film festivals, Universities, churches, cultural centres, museums, public schools, retail stores, and the R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant (outdoor screening).
How It Works
1. Select your films: Review the film descriptions and trailers in our film library. Do you have a topic that you would like to address? See the THEMES page to get some ideas for your screening. Be sure to consider both features and shorts.
2. Contact the Manager of the Water Docs Where You Live program: Find out whether the filmmaker or someone else associated with its production is available to participate in a Q&A session. There may also be local knowledgeable professionals who can speak on the theme chosen. If further away, you could connect by a video conferencing system, such as Skype. There may occasions where a fee will be charged by the filmmaker.
3. Determine your venue and availability of screening equipment: Allow plenty of lead time to ensure availability.
4. Plan how you'll promote the event: Branded to include Water Docs Where-You-Live, email blasts to local organizations, social media, and posters have all been successful methods. We will also include your event in our own Social Media promotions.
5. Ask Water Docs to be part of your screening: A rep from our team would be happy to participate, schedule permitting.
Let’s get started! Contact Melanie Howe
Outdoor screening of “To the Orcas, With Love” at the Collingwood Brewery. Co-hosted with the Blue Mountain Watershed Trust Foundation.
Outdoor screening of “Beyond Crisis” at the R.C. Harris Water Filtration Plant by Lake Ontario in Toronto.
Screening of “Albatross” at the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto with their Social Justice Network Team.
Screening of the Water Brothers Series episode called “Bottlegate” at the Owen Sound Public Library.