Life Off Grid

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Extra Vancouver screening

November 13, 2015 By Phillip Vannini

Extra screening added at The Rio Theatre! Monday Nov. 23rd 9:30pm.

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New articles in the Globe & Mail

November 6, 2015 By Phillip Vannini

Today the Globe & Mail has published two new stories inspired by our project: an excerpt from our book and an interview focused on The Walking Dead‘s off-grid experiment.

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Life off grid to play in Victoria

October 29, 2015 By Phillip Vannini

Life off grid will be playing in Victoria (Sooke) on Nov. 25 at 7:00pm. More details here.

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Life off Grid to play in Vancouver, at last!

October 15, 2015 By Phillip Vannini

Life off grid will play in Vancouver, BC, on Sunday November 22 at 1:30 at the Rio Theatre on 1660 East Broadway. More info:  https://www.facebook.com/events/766373643507816/

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Life off Grid to play in New Zealand

October 15, 2015 By Phillip Vannini

Life off Grid will play at the Reel Earth film festival in Palmerston, New Zealand on November 15, 2015. More info: http://reelearth.org.nz/programme-2/

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Watch Life off Grid on TV this week

October 6, 2015 By Phillip Vannini

Life off grid will play on Shaw TV in Manitoba this week on thursday at 8:00pm and then on October 11 at 9:00pm. SHAW cable subscribers nation wide can also watch it through SHAW on Demand any time starting next week.

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Life off grid to play in St. John’s, NL

June 18, 2015 By Phillip Vannini

Life off grid will play in St. John’s, Newfoundland on June 27 at 2:00pm as an official selection of the Nickel Independent Film Festival. More details available here: http://nickelfestival.com/event/side-screening-2/

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Screening in Tofino this weekend

May 25, 2015 By Phillip Vannini

Life off grid will be screening in Tofino this weekend. It will play on saturday, May 30 at 7:00pm at Clayoquot Sound Theatre, on 380 Campbell St. Admission by donation. More details at: https://allevents.in/tofino/life-off-grid-film-and-agm/487311371423968

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Off the grid and back to the earth: Vancouver Sun

January 31, 2015 By admin

The Vancouver Sun has a new article out on our research on off-grid living. Peter Endisch has been planning his “graceful exit from the Lower Mainland” for nearly two years. It is not Vancouver’s high housing prices or cost of living driving him out. He owned a suburban home and earned enough to pay the […]

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New blog post for Mother Earth News

January 15, 2015 By Phillip Vannini

Condensing 65,000 miles of travel across the country, almost three years of research, and nearly 200 interviews into 1 hour and 25 minutes wasn’t an easy feat. But the process of selection says a lot about the things that mattered to us as film-makers. Matt Clarke (editor), Jon (director), and I (producer) decided to build […]

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