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Top 5 things to do in Vancouver tonight: Feb. 7, 2015

Get behind local filmmakers: The Rio Theatre is screening two homegrown indie films as part of a fundraiser to help send both to various festivals.
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Get behind local filmmakers: The Rio Theatre is screening two homegrown indie films as part of a fundraiser to help send both to various festivals. Ashton McCarthy’s feature length comedy After Film School, which made its premiere at the last Whistler Film Festival, is on at 7 p.m.  Joel Ashton McCarthy and Bryant Boesen’s improbable documentary Taking My Parents to Burning Man starts at 9:15 p.m. Entrance by $10 minimum donation.  

Get cheering: The Canucks look to rebound from a 5-1 loss to the San Jose sharks Thursday night when they play the Pittsburg Penguins tonight, which won’t be easy without the services of injured blueliners Kevin Bieksa and Chris Tanev. Eddie Lack got a shutout the last time the two teams met in early December after his mom offered him some helpful maternal wisdom on Twitter, so hopefully he will be between the pipes when Sidney Crosby and company make a rare Vancouver appearance.

 

 

Get drawn in: French director Stéphanie Valloatto's timely documentary Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy (Caricaturistes, fantassins de la démocratie) draws attention to the work of the world’s leading political cartoonists. The film, which has taken on greater significance since the Charlie Hebdo tragedy, has its North American premiere tonight at Vancity Theatre.

 

 

Get pushed as an audience member: Avant-garde Argentinian playwright Mariano Pensotti pushes the envelope with Cineastas, which closes tonight at the Fei & Milton Wong Experimental Theatre at SFU’s downtown campus. Staged in a two-storey metal structure, the farce tells the tale of four filmmakers in Buenos Aires and the four movies they create, with each floor representing separate realities: one the filmmakers’ actual lives and the other those of their fictional characters.

Hurry hard with Evil Doers: The Marpole Curling Club is offering a rare chance to combine chess on ice with rock n’ roll as local rocker Rich Hope and his merry band of Evil Doers stop by for a special gig.

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