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Movie screening tonight celebrates National Film Day

Downtown Sudbury’s historic Grand Theatre on Elgin Street will play host to Bruce McDonald’s first feature, “Roadkill,” filmed in Sudbury in the late 80s. The screening takes place April 29 at 7 p.m.
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Downtown Sudbury’s historic Grand Theatre on Elgin Street will play host to Bruce McDonald’s first feature, “Roadkill,” filmed in Sudbury in the late 80s. The screening takes place April 29 at 7 p.m., as one of dozens of screenings across the country on National Canadian Film Day celebrating Canadian films. Supplied photo.
Downtown Sudbury’s historic Grand Theatre on Elgin Street will play host to Bruce McDonald’s first feature, “Roadkill,” filmed in Sudbury in the late 80s.

The screening takes place April 29 at 7 p.m., as one of dozens of screenings across the country on National Canadian Film Day celebrating Canadian films.

After the screening, there will be an 80s dance party. In keeping with the theme, guests are encouraged to wear their best 80s attire.

This cinematic gem is one of the very first feature films shot in Sudbury, a press release said. It remains one of very few films that features Sudbury as Sudbury.

A rock and roll road-trip comedy set in Northern Ontario, Roadkill follows Ramona, a timid assistant to a venal rock promoter, as she travels to Sudbury looking for a band that hasn’t shown up for four gigs in a row. On the way, she meets a pot-smoking cab driver, a delusional music-video crew and an aspiring serial killer who cautions Ramona about the “weirdos out there.” On these lonely, lunar roads Ramona seems to meet practically everyone except the guys she’s gone to look for. A voyage of loud music and self-discovery, Roadkill is one of the key films in what has come to be known as the Toronto New Wave.

The film was nominated for two Genie Awards, (Best Supporting Actor and Original Screenplay) and won Best Canadian Film at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The Sudbury Downtown Independent Cinema Cooperative Corporation plans to open this fall. The Indie will provide a venue for exhibiting films of artistic merit in a variety of genres and for other community events, and hopes to become a cultural hub for the Sudbury Arts Community in the downtown.

This screening is a fundraising event for the Sudbury Downtown Independent Cinema Co-op, scheduled to open at 162 Mackenzie St. this September.

Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Advance tickets can be purchased at Gloria’s Restaurant in the South End, the Guitar Clinic on Barrydowne Road in New Sudbury and Eat Local on Larch Street in Downtown Sudbury.

Tickets can also be purchased online at www.SudburyIndieCinema.com.

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