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Flashback

Canada, 2024: 90 minutes: Canadian Premiere

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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.

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