Save the Drama is a feature length documentary that follows the lives of a tight-knit group of teenagers as they attempt to navigate through a year of high school. The film chronicles the students of the Sir Winston Churchill High School Drama Club, offering a candid and often heartbreaking examination of the high school experience. The film, shot entirely in [...]
Friday Sept 23 – 6:45 pm – 10:30 pm Saturday Sept 24 – 1:00 pm – 11:00 pm Sunday Sept 25 1:00 pm – 11:00 pm Session info on the main page in the notes section! … ****ADVANCE TICKETS ARE NOW AVAILABLE AT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS*** Calico’s 316 Bay Street Paramount Theatre/Wiggles N Giggles 24 S Court St Ahnisnabae Art [...]
The Environmental Film Network invites everyone to the second annual Thunder Bay Environmental Film Festival. The festival is being held at the Confederation College Lecture Theatre and starts Friday night at 7PM and continues all day and evening on Saturday April 2nd. We have a diverse program of excellent films including the winners of our Northern Ontario based documentary film [...]
“100 Days of City Hall” looks at how Thunder Bay is administered and investigates further the role of elected councillors. The camera follows the Mayor as he gets his feet wet for the first time in the political arena and shows other elected officials participating in the mission and the vision of the 42 term. Paramount Theatre Thursday March 31st [...]
Northern Grown from Kelly Saxberg on Vimeo. The Food Security Research Network recently premiered a local food documentary which has been in development for six months. “Northern Grown” is meant to give consumers the opportunity to meet a collection of local producers and hear their thoughts on the state of the region’s food system. “Knowledge transference is a large part [...]
Cancer strikes your entire family and you blame genetics, however there is a problem; you’re adopted! Are you growing suspicious that our polluted environment is contributing to the prevalence of this disease? This documentary film is based on Sandra’s book of the same name, and, like the book, documents the growing body of scientific evidence that links human health with [...]
The inaugural film festival will explore issues related to sexual orientation and gender expression, gender transition, aging and the queer community, as well as two-spirit traditions. This festival is sponsored by Pride Central and the Gender Issues Centre (GIC) in collaboration with the Sexuality and Gender Equity (SAGE) working group . By bringing people together, the organizers strive to educate [...]
WOEIMB? TRAILER from Bicycles for Humanity- TBAY on Vimeo. Due to overwhelming demand there will be an encore screening of Where On Earth Is My Bike? on December 11th 7pm at The Paramount. (See review November issue.)
A Bay Street Film Festival Review Third World Canada Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) is one of 30 remote Aboriginal communities in Northern Ontario above the 50th parallel and accessible only by air (or winter roads). Governed by the Indian Act, the First Nation is considered one of the more prosperous remote Aboriginal communities, but in director Andrée Cazabon’s film Third World [...]
This year’s Bay Street Film Festival proved that film going and filmmaking (there were many local films that screened) is alive and well in the city of Thunder Bay. With over 45 diverse local, national and international films to choose from, the festival theme “films for the people” was fitting indeed. Films included documentaries like Ron Harpelle’s In Security about [...]
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