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Reviving The Roost

2019 6 min
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Filmmaker and bestselling author Vivek Shraya’s ode to a popular Edmonton gay bar that closed in 2007. With pulsating neon-light animation, Reviving the Roost is a story about community complexity and longing, and an elegy to a lost space.

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Reviving The Roost
  • FIVE@50
    FIVE@50
    2019 5 films
    In 1969, Canada passed Bill C-150 into law, which partially decriminalized homosexuality in Canada. Fifty years later, the NFB presents Five@50, a unique collection of five-minute shorts reflecting on contemporary LGBTQ2+ lives and identities. These intimate documentaries range from personal reflection to cultural history, and include experimental forms, animation and dramatization. When it comes to progress and queer culture, what have we gained? And what have we lost along the way?

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Filmmaker and bestselling author Vivek Shraya’s ode to a popular Edmonton gay bar that closed in 2007. With pulsating neon-light animation, Reviving the Roost is a story about community complexity and longing, and an elegy to a lost space.

Industry and Commerce Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism Social Issues Sexuality and Reproduction All subjects
Auteur Films for Pride All channels
  • writing
    Vivek Shraya
  • director
    Vivek Shraya
  • producer
    Justine Pimlott
  • executive producer
    Anita Lee
  • animator
    Tim Singleton
  • illustrator
    Tim Singleton
  • music
    Johnny Spence
  • sound design
    Johnny Spence
  • additional cinematography
    Zachary Ayotte
  • production supervisor
    Marcus Matyas
  • production coordinator
    Andrew Martin-Smith
  • studio operations manager
    Mark Wilson
  • studio administrator
    Patricia Bourgeois
  • technical coordinator
    Kevin Riley
  • studio coordinator
    Carly Kastner
  • technical assistant
    Q'Mal Labad-Workman
  • marketing manager
    Melissa Wheeler
  • publicist
    Jennifer Mair
  • legal counsel
    Christian Pitchen
  • post production services
    SIM Post Toronto
  • colourist
    Andrew Ross
  • online editor
    Ty Delgaty
  • assistant on-line editor
    Steve Thorpe
  • sound editor
    Elma Bello
  • assistant re-recording mixer
    Jesse Fellows
  • re-recording mixer
    Martin Lee

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