The 1st Annual North Bay Vegan FlimFest will feature new, exciting, and informative documentaries making their Northern California premier at our event! The FilmFest is on location with the VegFest, but tickets are sold separately, $10 per film. You must purchase a Sonoma County VegFest ticket for $5 to purchase FilmFest tickets. All the proceeds from the films go to offset the cost of the VegFest and our new, larger venue.

THE FILMS

11:00 am - 12:30 pm - Food Choices
The revolutionary NEW feature length documentary that the food industry doesn’t want you to see!


Food Choices is a feature length independent documentary that shows the results of a three year journey that film maker Michal Siewierski undertook to explore, investigate, and uncover explosive and controversial information about the true impact that our food choices have on our health, the health of our planet, as well as on the lives of other living species. The film shows how everything is deeply interconnected and features interviews with dozens of experts from several fields including medicine, nutrition, biochemistry, sports, animal rights, environment, and more. It also features amazing stories of people who experience incredible health benefits after adopting a healthy plant-based diet.

WATCH THE TRAILER FOR FOOD CHOICES

12:45 - 2:15 pm - Unlocking the Cage

Unlocking the Cage follows animal rights lawyer Steven Wise in his unprecedented challenge to break down the legal wall that separates animals from humans. After thirty years of struggling with ineffective animal welfare laws, Steve and his legal team, the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), are making history by filing the first lawsuits that seek to transform an animal from a thing with no rights to a person with legal protections.

Unlocking the Cage captures a monumental shift in our culture, as the public and judicial system show increasing receptiveness to Steve’s impassioned arguments. It is an intimate look at a lawsuit that could forever transform our legal system, and one man’s lifelong quest to protect “nonhuman” animals.

WATCH THE TRAILER FOR UNLOCKING THE CAGE

2:30 - 4:15 pm - Vegan: EveryDay Stories

Vegan: Everyday Stories is a feature-length documentary that explores the lives of four remarkably different people who share a common thread – they’re all vegan. The movie traces the personal journeys of an ultramarathon runner who has overcome addiction to compete in one hundred mile races, a cattle rancher’s wife who creates the first cattle ranch turned farmed animal sanctuary in Texas, a food truck owner cooking up delicious plant-based foods, and an 8-year-old girl who convinces her family of six to go vegan. There are a number of great movies focusing on why to go vegan or featuring people new to veganism, but this movie spotlights how everyday people and their families, each pursuing their own careers, hobbies, and passions live their lives while following a vegan lifestyle.

WATCH THE TRAILER FOR VEGAN: EVERYDAY STORIES