Reviving the Roost
2019, 6 minutes
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Genre
animation   short (less than 45 min)  
Keywords/theme
Gay Bar   Gay Night-Life   Edmonton   Safer Spaces  
Media type
film/video  
Alternate titles

Five@50

Country of origin

Canada

Production company

National Film Board of Canada

Filming locations

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Technical specs

Colour

Animation

Languages

English/English

Subtitle languages

English/English

Closed caption languages

English/English

Content Warnings
Drinking, alcohol, drugs
Description

Filmmaker and bestselling author Vivek Shraya's ode to a popular Edmonton gay bar that closed in 2007. With pulsating neon-light animation, Reviving the Roost is a story about community complexity and longing, and an elegy to a lost space.

National Film Board of Canada. “Reviving The Roost.” Accessed August 4, 2023. https://www.nfb.ca/film/reviving-the-roost/.

Cast & Crew
Crew
Distribution
Trailer
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Distributors
National Film Board of Canada (NFB)

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Funded By
National Film Board of Canada (NFB)