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Cultivating Creativity: Bellevilleâs virtual DocFest still celebrating the best in film Back to video
On March 8, 2020, organizers of Belleville Downtown DocFest were buzzing after the close of a wildly successful film festival that brought close to 5,000 people to the city to celebrate the best in documentary film. Just over a week later, the world as we know it changed with the first COVID-19 lockdown.
Since then, artists have demonstrated again and again their tenacity and resiliency, and the organizers behind this yearâs DocFest (their 10th anniversary) are no different. The intention behind the community-rooted film festival â to connect like-minded individuals around film, art and culture â will once again be made possible, albeit in a virtual format. While the streets of downtown Belleville wonât be filled with filmgoers, the calibre of this yearâs program is on par with any in-person festival so far. Whatâs more, film buffs wonât have the frustrating decision of picking between two docs playing at the same time in different venues: the virtual programming offers outstanding flexibility around scheduling and ease of viewing from home.