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
USA, 1972, 106 min, Dir. Elaine May
An exercise in white ridiculousness. Courtesy of Anchor Bay EntertainmentKelly Corcoran certainly feels like the sun in Elaine May s
The Heartbreak Kid. She s hot, piercing, emits a strong gravitational pull, and her attention seems life-giving. When we first glimpse Kelly (Cybill Shepherd), it s during a blazing morning on Miami Beach after the hapless and newly wed Lenny (Charles Grodin) catches her eye. She stands over him as he lays in the sand, her blonde head eclipsing the sun as she teases, You re lying in my spot.
It s this breathtaking entrance that makes me understand why the sporting goods salesman feels an overwhelming urge to ditch his bride, Lila (played by May s daughter Jeannie Berlin), for this new Midwestern queen. The newly betrothed couple drove down from New York City to get to Miami Beach, which has been less than marital bliss. Having a short courtship, it s only on their honeymoon that Lenny realizes his messy, egg sa