Flashback
Canada, 2024: 90 minutes: Canadian Premieredescription
It was a glittering oasis in Edmonton, the most conservative place in Canada, a club that owner John Reid vowed would be a safe place for ‘gay people and their friends.’
FLASHBACK is the story of a defiant disco dance culture of sweat and sex and drugs and fashion. Located in a northern Alberta city often hostile to queer people, Flashback became a sensation on the international club circuit despite police raids, threats of violence and the scourge of AIDS. Flashback is a ghost. But it comes alive again in the memories of the people who were there and the legends they left behind.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Berlin Indie Film Festival 2024
Seattle Film Festival 2024
LGBTQ Unbordered International Film Festival 2024
image+Nation Montreal LGBT-Q Festival 2024
DIRECTOR'S BIO
Peter Hays is an award-winning writer/director/producer of unscripted television series and feature films made for Canadian and American broadcasters and distributors. The former journalist lives in Calgary, Alberta where his company Tangerine Productions Ltd. is focused on telling essential human stories with universal appeal.
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press for Flashback
"Powerful and poignant. Every gay person will relate to what it means not only to find community but a home. The FLASHBACK documentary will open your heart, move your soul, and rock your body. A must see for everyone."- Dr. Kristopher Wells, Canada Research Chair for the Public Understanding of Sexual and Gender Minority Youth, MacEwan University
details
LGBTQ+ / Documentary / Musical / History
English90 minutes
special guest
Director Peter Hays in attendance
credits
Director
Peter Hays
Producer
Peter Hays
Screenwriters
Matthew Hays
Peter Hays
Cinematographer
Bradley Warren
Official website:
http://flashbackdocumentary.ca
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091178323657
community
awards
Best First Time Director, Berlin Independent Film Festival 2024