Doors 6:30pm, Screening 7pm. $10
The first Canadian queer film ever, Winter Kept Us Warm (1965, 81 min, 16mm b&w) by David Secter will be screening at the TAP Centre for Creativity Theatre co-presented by Pride London and FRAMES. It is a heartwarming and heart-wrenching film about young gay forbidden desire, miraculously filmed on the down-low at a time when homosexuality was still criminal and Canada had no film industry. Against the odds, the film was a huge success. Lauded by critics at home and abroad, it was selected to open the Commonwealth Film Festival, played art house cinemas across the United States and Europe, and became the first Anglo-Canadian fiction feature to screen at Cannes. The original 16mm print from CFMDC will be projected with a social intermission between the two reels with cash bar. There will be a short introduction by Chris Dupuis who recently published the book Winter Kept Us Warm (McGill Queen’s University Press 2024) about the classic queer film, and a book signing.
