The history of Canadian film is as wild and diverse as our home and native land is itself.
The rich cinematic history over the last 100 years reflects our cultures and our stories back to us and truly unites us as a nation.

Beginning in 2014 and held every April, National Canadian Film Day is an effort to promote Canadian film across Canada through synchronized screenings, events, and panel discussions. The inaugural event, held April 29, 2014, was officially recognized in the House of Commons of Canada.

It is also considered one of the largest film festivals in the world with events and screening happening all across Canada on a single day.

You will be able to take in FREE movies all day long. 

Reel Canada (the group that created NCFD) has teamed with Netflix Canada on a short film series to highlight new and emerging Canadian filmmakers.

Set to premiere on National Canadian Film Day (NCFD) on April 21, the short films are part of the annual domestic cinema celebration’s theme of “Light at the End of the Tunnel.” A total of 11 films have been commissioned – five live-action, four animation and two documentaries – with 15 directors attached, including Alicia K. Harris, Andrew Huculiak and Playback 5 to Watch alum Madison Thomas

But what about here in Okotoks?! 

Festival Director at Okotoks Film Society has been participating since its launch in 2016. Showing Canadian film at a variety of locations around Okotoks!

"Every year we've picked a different Canadian movie and we show it somewhere somehow in Okotoks. Obviously, the way we do that changes every year because things like a pen that make happen for Us online, but last year we showed a marathon of 'Bon Cop Bad Cop', and then this year we're showing 'A Bear Named Winnie' and we're using the same system that we use last year, which is just going to watch.okotoksfilmfestival.ca"

Watch 'A Bear Named Winnie' for free on the 21st with hundreds of other foothills residents and celebrate Canadian film together! Wednesday @ 7pm.

A Bear Named Winnie is a 2004 made-for-television drama film directed by John Kent Harrison. It stars Michael Fassbender and David Suchet. It concerns one of the real-life inspirations behind A.A. Milne's Winnie The Pooh.

 

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