Reception + Film: My Prairie Home + Q&A

$20 regular, $15 students/seniors

6pm International Women’s Day Reception, 7pm Screening followed by Q&A with Rae Spoon

LSPU Hall

Mix and mingle with us at our pre-film reception (6-7pm) celebrating International Women’s Day then stick around for the screening of My Prairie Home, followed by a Q&A with Rae Spoon.

A true Canadian iconoclast, acclaimed transgender country/electro-pop artist Rae Spoon revisits the stretches of rural Alberta that once constituted “home” and confronts memories of growing up queer in an abusive, evangelical household. Part travelogue, part character study, Chelsea McMullan’s singular film unfolds in coffee shops, bus stations, bars and recreation centres, with her camera finding odd angles from which to examine these communities that have arisen in the middle of nowhere. Stay after the filming for a Q&A with Rae Spoon (main theatre).

Chelsea McMullan is a Canadian filmmaker and artist, whose films have premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, and have been screened on the international festival circuit. Effortlessly moving between documentary and fiction, her work has been described as ‘keenly observed, elegant, and profound,’ solidifying her reputation as ‘talent to watch.’ Chelsea’s award-winning shorts have been featured on NOWNESS, DAZED DIGITIAL, VICE and in VOGUE ITALIA. In 2010, her series of live portraits, Chaine, created in collaboration with Russian photographer Margo Ovcheranko, premiered at the New York Photography Festival. Chelsea has been an artist in residency at the prominent Italian creative think tank, FABRICA, where she made the Genie award nominated film Derailments. My Prairie Home had its World Premiere in competition at SUNDANCE. McMullan is a member of the artist co-operative What Matters Most, a group of culture-makers with representation based out of Los Angeles.

For more information, please visit www.womensfilmfestival.com/scene-heard/