The Queer North Film Festival is an annual film festival in Sudbury , Ontario , which presents an annual program of LGBT film . Presented by the Sudbury Indie Cinema Co-op , the festival was staged for the first time in 2016. The same organization also stages the city's Junction North International Documentary Film Festival .
4-675: On two past occasions, the festival has presented retrospective screenings of 1990s documentary films about the LGBT community in Sudbury, Mum's the Word (Maman et Ève) in 2017 and The Pinco Triangle in 2018. The festival's executive director is Beth Mairs. The event is a qualifying festival for the Canadian Screen Awards . This article about a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ)-related festival or event
8-576: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a Canadian film festival is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Mum%27s the Word (film) Mum's the Word ( French : Maman et Ève ) is a Canadian documentary short film, directed by Paul Carrière and released on September 10, 1996. The film centres on Rachel, Suzanne, Jeannine and Paulette, four Franco-Ontarian women in their mid-40s in Sudbury , Ontario , who, after marrying and raising children, are in
12-705: The development director of the city's Place des Arts project and the only one of the four women whose full name is known on the record, participated in media interviews to promote the screening; she also appeared in a smaller capacity in the 1999 documentary film The Pinco Triangle . Gagnon died in October 2017, several months after the film screening, and the film was screened again at the Junction North International Documentary Film Festival in November 2017 as
16-822: The process of coming out as lesbian . The film won the Genie Award for Best Short Documentary Film at the 17th Genie Awards . The film premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival in August 1996, and was screened at the 1996 Toronto International Film Festival and the Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival in September. The film received a 20th anniversary screening at Sudbury's Queer North Film Festival in 2017. Paulette Gagnon,
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