The Yorkton Film Festival is expanding its offerings with a new film series for 2015.
Spotlight on the news will highlight news and events of particular interest focusing on current events that are happening across the world.
“We wanted to create a place where people could come together and talk about some of the issues that are happening, even if they aren’t directly affecting our community,” said Randy Goulden, executive director of the Yorkton Film Festival.
“And working with Kathy Morrell, our outreach coordinator, we hit on the idea of showing films that went behind the headlines and could help provide a better idea and context of some of the events that are making news headlines across the world.”
The first film in this series is Ebola Wars: Nurses of Gulu. This documentary chronicles the experiences of several nurses who volunteered to work in the isolation Ebola wards during Uganda’s first-ever Ebola outbreak in October 2000.
The film will screen on Thursday, January 8 at 2 p.m. at the Godfrey Dean Cultural Centre.
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