{"id":3329,"date":"2023-04-17T20:40:37","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T20:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/?p=3329"},"modified":"2025-06-02T23:04:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T23:04:29","slug":"rails-jails-and-trolleys-film-festival-acceptance-and-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/2023\/04\/17\/rails-jails-and-trolleys-film-festival-acceptance-and-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"Rails, Jails, and Trolleys &#8211; film festival acceptance and screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to announce that <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/hqX_3pTNwXc\">Rails, Jails, and Trolleys<\/a>, a SASI-produced film, has been selected by the Feedback Female Film Festival (FFFF). The FFFF is dedicated to showcasing the best of female talent in the film industry.<\/p>\n<p>The film Rails, Jails and Trolleys documents history\u2019s largest farmers\u2019 protest and the Canadian diaspora\u2019s response to it. This ground-breaking documentary captures the electric ethos of a protest that received international attention and the resounding response by Canadians to the movement. A full year in the making, the film tells the story of why and how the farmers\u2019 movement ignited a nation, and youth, women, and men from all over the world.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3330 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2023\/04\/20230315_165321-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"TV screen playing the documentary. Underneath are protest signs. \" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2023\/04\/20230315_165321-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2023\/04\/20230315_165321-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2023\/04\/20230315_165321-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2023\/04\/20230315_165321-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2023\/04\/20230315_165321-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>March 15th screening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On March 15th, the SASI hosted another screening of <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/hqX_3pTNwXc\">Rails, Jails, &amp; Trolleys<\/a> at the UFV Chilliwack campus as part of the UFV Office of Sustainability&#8217;s March for Sustainability series.<\/p>\n<p>The screening was followed by a discussion on farmers\u2019 issues in Punjab and India, why this topic is so important to the diaspora, as well as the incredible resilience of the protesters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to announce that Rails, Jails, and Trolleys, a SASI-produced film, has been selected by the Feedback Female Film Festival (FFFF). The FFFF is dedicated to showcasing the best of female talent in the film industry. The film Rails, Jails and Trolleys documents history\u2019s largest farmers\u2019 protest and the Canadian diaspora\u2019s response to &#8230; <a title=\"Rails, Jails, and Trolleys &#8211; film festival acceptance and screening\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/2023\/04\/17\/rails-jails-and-trolleys-film-festival-acceptance-and-screening\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":3352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3329"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4167,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329\/revisions\/4167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}