Documentary subjects Ava Pope, Sean Todd and Zeynep Tonak.
I’m Chelle Turingan, the co-director (alongside Riley Sparks), producer (alongside Rachel Giese) and editor of
Small Town Pride,the first feature film made by Canada’s leading LGBTQ2S+ media organization, Xtra. This documentary has been two years in the making and I’m so excited to share more about this ambitious project, premiering this week at Inside Out, Canada’s largest LGBTQ2S+ film festival.
Small Town Pride offers an intimate look at the joys and challenges of being queer in a small Canadian town. Filmed in Alberta, Nova Scotia and the Northwest Territories over the summer of 2019, the documentary follows LGBTQ2S+ people and allies as they prepare for their local Pride celebrations. The various collectives organize in church basements, classrooms and around kitchen tables: A group in Taber, Alta., takes on a conservative town council that won’t fly a rainbow flag; while in Norman Wells, NWT, the challenge