Winter Kept Us Warm film screening
Thu, Jul 17
|TAP Centre for Creativity
FRAMES Film Series and Pride London Festival co-present a 16mm film screening of David Secter's Winter Kept Us Warm.
Time & Location
Jul 17, 2025, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
TAP Centre for Creativity, 203 Dundas St, London, ON N6A 1G4, Canada
About The Event
Join us for the screening of the first-ever Canadian queer film: Winter Kept Us Warm (1965, 81 min, 16mm b&w), directed by trailblazing filmmaker David Secter. Co-presented by Pride London Festival & FRAMES Film Series.
A heartwarming and heart-wrenching story of young gay forbidden desire, miraculously filmed on the down-low when homosexuality was still criminal and Canada had no film industry. Against the odds, this groundbreaking work became a cultural milestone.
Lauded by critics at home and abroad, Winter Kept Us Warm opened the 1965 Commonwealth Film Festival, won the Special Jury Prize at the 4th Festival of Canadian Films, and made history as the first Anglo-Canadian fiction feature screened at the Cannes Film Festival (Critics' Week, 1966). It went on to play cinemas across the U.S. and Europe, inspiring a generation of Canadian filmmakers.
Author Chris Dupuis, who recently published a book on the film, will give a brief introduction. Chris will have copies of his book for sale at the event.
Doors open at 6:30pm.
Intro and screening from 7pm-9pm.
$10 admission at the door.