Free movies for you on National Canadian Film Day

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Do you know that Room, Enemy, A Historical past of Violence, The Fly and Goon are all Canadian films?

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The special occasion to rejoice Canadian cinema is Wednesday — Nationwide Canadian Movie Day.

It’s your patriotic responsibility to look at a Canadian film that day. Movie and TV manufacturing on this nation add billions to the economic system and maintain a 250,000 individuals employed.

On National Canadian Film Day, you may see free films everywhere in the nation.

There are greater than 1,000 scheduled occasions on Wednesday: free films, premieres, filmmaker panels, actor interviews and extra.

The ninth annual Nationwide Canadian Movie Day is a coast-to-coast celebration, getting again to reside occasions this yr, however with on-line and broadcast occasions, too, for many who desire to remain house.

A fast look round Toronto exhibits theatres, faculties, neighborhood centres and libraries exhibiting such films as Run Girl Run, Sharkwater, A Bear Named Winnie, Assembly The Beatles in India, Oscar Peterson: Black & White, The Breadwinner and Wildhood.

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This yr places Indigenous filmmakers within the highlight. “Celebrating Indigenous Voices” shall be introduced in affiliation with imagineNATIVE Movie and Media Arts Pageant, the world’s largest presenter of Indigenous display content material.

There’s the annual live-stream occasion for hundreds of Canadian highschool college students, this yr that includes the brand new dystopian thriller Night time Raiders by up-and-coming director Danis Goulet. It’s on the TIFF Canada’s prime 10 checklist.

This yr additionally consists of memorial tributes to Ghostbusters icon Ivan Reitman and to Quebec’s Jean-Marc Vallee, (Dallas Patrons Membership, Huge Little Lies.)

Within the west-end at The Revue, you may see Beans, Tracey Deer’s award-winning coming of age movie set in opposition to the Oka disaster of 1990.

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Within the east-end at The Fox, you may see C.R.A.Z.Y. — the wildly profitable coming of age movie that put Jean-Marc Vallee on the worldwide map.

Sofa potatoes will rejoice to see what Netflix, Crave, Gem, NFB and all the opposite streaming companions are exhibiting on Wednesday.

(Crave alone has Away From Her, Blood Quantum, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch, Black Gown and The Candy Hereafter — only for starters. You will have to name in sick.)

Go to canfilmday.ca — you’ll be astounded by what you may see at no cost on Nationwide Canadian Movie Day.

Governor Basic Mary Simon is the honorary patron of this yr’s Nationwide Canadian Movie Day.