Nanaimo International Film Screening Society opens second season

A film society in Nanaimo will highlight the lives of two very different female protagonists and what it means to chase something.  According to a release, the Nanaimo International Film Screening Society's second season opens on Monday, Sept. 7, at the Vancouver Island Conference Centre's Shaw Auditorium. The first film, Blue Sky Jo, will be screened at 1 p.m., and is a coming-of-age story from Quebec about a 10-year-old girl. The girl, Jo, wants to be like her favourite cartoon hero and dreams of doing great things like saving her unhappy father.  The second film, There's Still Tomorrow, will be screened at 7 p.m., and tells the story of a resilient working-class woman as she breaks traditional family patterns and aspires for a brighter future, set in post-war Rome. The Nanaimo International Film Screening Society currently has four more films on their website planned until December. Ticket information, including season and single tickets, can be found online at www.nifss.ca [http://www.nifss.ca].