DOXA screens Salute on February 25

In the lead-up to the Vancouver Olympic Games, DOXA Documentary Film Festival has been presnting a brand new Film Series entitled Motion Pictures in Vancouver. Now that the Olympics are in full swing, the fourth and final film in the series, Salute, is set to screen on Thursday, February 25 at 7 pm at Vancouver's Fifth Avenue Cinemas.

 Salute is directed by Matt Norman and is about an Australian sprinter Peter Norman and the powerful social statement he and two African America sprinters made at the medal ceremony at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City.

Salute screens at 7:00 pm on Thursday, February 25 at the Fifth Avenue Cinemas, 2110 Burrard Street, Vancouver.

Watch a trailer and purchase tickets  online at www.doxafestival.ca. Tickets are also available at Bibliophile Bookshop, Videomatica and Biz Books.

For further information, call DOXA at 604.646.3200.

A limited number of complimentary tickets will be available for students who bring proper student ID to the Will Call table at the theatre the night of the screening.

Photo: Salute, courtesy DOXA.