DOXA Days
I DON’T REMEMBER WHEN I FIRST HEARD ABOUT DOXA.
It was probably around 2005. I’d just started working at the Vancouver International Festival (VIFF) and had fallen passionately in love with festival life.
After VIFF ended, I called the DOXA office and asked if they might need volunteers for the screening committee. “Sure!” was the answer. Those were the days when festival submissions still arrived on VHS tape, so watching films required lugging giant bags of tapes and DVDs back and forth between the DOXA office and home. Whenever I’d drop off screeners, Kris Anderson, the festival’s founder and then-director of programming, would ask me about the films that I had watched and we’d yak for a while about documentary.
It was Kris who suggested I join the programming
