{"id":12308,"date":"2016-08-10T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=12308"},"modified":"2016-08-15T09:38:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T16:38:15","slug":"the-victoria-free-b-film-festival-returns-with-drive-in-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2016\/08\/10\/the-victoria-free-b-film-festival-returns-with-drive-in-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Victoria Free B-Film Festival returns with drive-in movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Attention moviegoers and theatre regulars: one of Victoria\u2019s more unique festivals is returning. The Free B-Film Festival shows a variety of films\u2014from blockbusters to less-remembered flicks\u2014in outdoor spaces around the city. This year has some new surprises in store, and festival organizer Donovan Aikman is happy to talk about them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Victoria Free B-Film Festival started in 2001 and has fun family-friendly genres that are in the B genre of movies,\u201d says Aikman. \u201cWe\u2019re not trying to do the big dramas or the Oscar winners, necessarily; we are trying to do action, adventure, and comedy.\u201d<\/p>\n

What started as a three-day festival with 300 guests has grown to an eight-day fest with 8,000 attendees. But before it was known as the Victoria Free B-Film Festival, it was a different, much smaller event.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe actually started as a different event called Hot Reels, and we were going to do an outdoor sing-along to The Wizard of Oz<\/i>,\u201d says Aikman. \u201cHot Reels only lasted for one year.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"People<\/a>
People enjoying last year\u2019s Victoria Free B-Film Festival at the BC Legislature buildings lawn location (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Victoria has been used in multiple movies and television shows in the past few years, and it\u2019s a great city to watch\u2014and screen\u2014movies in, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cVictoria is a great city because [residents] are smart and enjoy arts and culture and are willing to try new and different things,\u201d says Aikman. \u201cWhen we do an event like Free B, we aren\u2019t necessarily showing Ghostbusters<\/i> or Top Gun<\/i> for the millionth time, and they are willing to come down and see a crazy little movie from 1986 that we dug up from the archive.\u201d<\/p>\n

The three locations for the festival this year are the BC Legislature lawn, the Cameron Bandshell at Beacon Hill Park, and Broadmead Village, with hopes to reach more families in the Central Saanich area. The Legislature lawn is a particularly exciting location for the festival, says Aikman.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Legislature lawn is our newest screening location and is a great one because it is such a broad space and is such a great place to kick off,\u201d says Aikman. \u201cThe Legislature staff has been really great and supportive of us being there, and the space feels very open.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with the interesting locations, the film fest is also bringing people a drive-in movie for an extra dose of nostalgia (or, if you\u2019re too young to remember them, a history lesson).<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year we are really excited to be doing a drive-in, where people can drive in with their cars, and we will have a radio transmitter so people can actually tune in to the radios, just like the old drive-ins.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, this festival gives people free outdoor movies and a fun drive-in experience, but there is one catch.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re giving you free movies,\u201d says Aikman, \u201cbut you have to bring your own snacks, blankets, and flashlights; that\u2019s all there is to enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Victoria Free B-Film Festival
\nUntil Saturday, August 27
\nFree, various venues
\nfreebfilmfest.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Attention moviegoers and theatre regulars: one of Victoria\u2019s more unique festivals is returning. The Free B-Film Festival shows a variety of films\u2014from blockbusters to less-remembered flicks\u2014in outdoor spaces around the city. This year has some new surprises in store, and festival organizer Donovan Aikman is happy to talk about them. \u201cThe Victoria Free B-Film Festival […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-august-10-2016"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12311,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12308\/revisions\/12311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}