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DOXA Documentary Film Festival Pivots to... Drive-In Theatre! Films on the gig economy, Fanny, and a mysterious bitcoin death are all on offer at the PNE Amphitheatre. Dorothy Woodend is culture editor of The Tyee. She was previously the DOXA festival’s director of programming. Reach her here. SHARES Fanny: The Right to Rock, which chronicles the story of rock queens from the 1970s, will screen at the DOXA festival's first ever drive-in theatre. If you wanted to do drive-in movies the old-fashioned way, you’d cram as many people as possible into a car (including a few in the trunk) and p...

Poly Styrene Doc Pays Tribute to the Person Behind the Persona The punk rocker’s story feels eerily familiar in a modern era of celebrity culture backlash. Showing at DOXA. Frederick Blichert is a freelance journalist and film critic. His writing appears in Vice, Paste Magazine, Xtra, Motherboard and elsewhere. Reach him here. SHARES Watch the trailer for ‘Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché’ above.  This article is part of a Tyee Presents initiative. Tyee Presents is the special sponsored content section within The Tyee where we highlight contests, events and other initiatives that are eit...

A 54-year-old man who killed a police officer when he was a teenager will get a chance at parole after a Flint-area judge reduced his life sentence.

Shane Richey was 16 when he shot Burton Officer Terry Thompson in 1983. He was automatically sentenced to life in prison. However, a Flint-area judge has reduced that sentence.

on films screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival, held April 9-18. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc in every important sphere of life. The San Francisco International Film Festival could not be held at all in 2020. It reappeared this year, largely online (with additional live screenings and performances at a drive-in theater), inevitably diminished in size. In 2019, the San Francisco festival screened 163 films, including 46 narrative and 40 documentary features and 70 shorts. This year the festival, still under way, is presenting 103 films—42 feature (narrat...