Projects
UPCOMING EVENTS
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The Stratford Film Festival is proud to be a partner of the TIFF Film Circuit, a national film outreach programme, engaging domestic grassroots networks and strong community partnerships to bring the best of Canadian and world cinema to communities across the country.
SATURDAY, MAY 17
The Cowboy & The Queen
USA | Documentary (85 min)
Director Andrea Nevins
Q&A with Special Guests
Mallory Phillips and her miniature therapy horse, Angus
(photos below)
PRESENTING FILM SPONSOR
Pestell Shavings
An iconic British monarch with a lifelong love of horses and a renegade California cowboy forge the most unlikely friendship — and fulfill shared goals of finding a better way to be with animals, and a kinder way to be in the world — in the eloquent, enlightening documentary THE COWBOY AND THE QUEEN, from Academy Award©-nominated filmmaker Andera Nevins.
(English / Parental Guidance (bullying, brief animal cruelty)
Post-Screening Q&A with Mallory Phillips & Angus at approximately 5:45 PM
Pre-Screening Q&A with Mallory Phillips & Angus at approximately 7:00 PM with film to follow
FREE to VIP Founders and Passholders with advance reservations.
Angus, a Miniature Therapy Horse, with his owner and trainer, Mallory Phillips, who raised Angus from three months old.
Angus, a Miniature Therapy Horse
SATURDAY, JUNE 14
We Lend A Hand: The Forgotten Story of the Ontario Farmerettes
CANADA | Documentary (50 min)
Director Colin Field
With an Introduction by Special Guest
Senator Robert Black
Q&A with
Colin Field, Director
Bonnie Sitter, Author of Onion Skins & Peach Fuzz
Kelly McIntosh, General Manager Stratford Perth Museum
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WE LEND A HAND: THE FORGOTTEN STORY OF THE ONTARIO FARMERETTES is a documentary film that tells the extraordinary story of 40,000 teenage girls who volunteered on Canadian farms and helped to win the Second World War.
Through reenactments and unique archival images, WE LEND A HAND recounts the heartwarming story of these resilient young women, now in their late 90s, bringing back their most cherished memories while reminding us — perhaps for the last time — that service comes in many forms.
Post-Screening Director + Author Q&A
Post-Screening Director + Author Q&A
FREE to VIP Founders and Passholders with advance reservations.
The small photograph that spurred author Bonnie Sitter to begin research on the Ontario Farmerettes.
Ontario Farmerettes, 1942
