Diversity Film Festival

The WSU Vancouver Diversity Council sponsors a yearly film festival, held during the fall semester. Films are chosen based on specific themes that reflect on multiple aspects of cultural diversity present in the world around us.  

The festival's goal is to encourage and promote awareness and dialog about diversity issues present within the WSU Vancouver campus, the Vancouver community, and the world beyond.

Planning is now underway for the 2012 film festival. Stay tuned for an announcement of a theme and a screening schedule.

Previous Themes

2011 Diversity and Disabilities: Celebrating the Abilities in Us All

This series highlighted different disabilities, including those considered physical, cognitive, familiar or extraordinary. 

Films: Wretches and Jabberers, Blindsight, Music Within, and For Once in My Life

2010 Diversity and Women: Discovering Place, Space, and Self

The selected films focused on women and girls challenging and establishing their place and identity within their own societies, cultures and localities. While the setting and situation for each person featured in the films varied, taken together, these stories provided a powerful testament of the collective struggle and experience shared by women and girls across all cultures.

Films: Babies, Temple Grandin, Persepolis, Trouble the Waters, Volver, Frozen River

2009 Living Out Loud: A Celebration of Diversity through Music in Film 

The selected films captured the passion, pride and power of people asserting their values, identity and resistance through music.

Films: Ava DuVernauy’s This is the Life: How the West was Won, Wim Wender’s Buena Vista Social Club, John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Lee Hirsch’s Amandla!, Susan Dynner’s Punk's Not Dead, and Stephen Walker’s Young@Heart.

2008 Visions from the Inside

This series featured works by filmmaker's set in their own community. 

Films: Andy Blubaugh's short films, Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep, Chris Eyre's Smoke Signals, Vicky Funari's and Sergio de la Torre's Maquilapolis, Mira Nair's The Namesake, Lise Yasui's and Ann Tegnell's A Family Gathering, Gus Van Sant's Mala Noche, Live Schreiber's Everything is Illuminated, Spike Lee's Crooklyn, and Siddiq Barmak's Osama