Wavelength co-presents the Christie Pits Film Festival Opening Night!
Featuring: Harold Lloyd’s classic silent comedy The Freshman with live musical score by The Holy Gasp.
Presented by Christie Pits Film Festival & Toronto Outdoor Picture Show.
We’re helping kick off Christie Pits Film Festival’s seventh summer season, the 2017 Eyes on the Prize programme, with a special treat: The classic 1925 silent comedy The Freshman reinvented with a brand-new live musical score! Toronto musicians The Holy Gasp have composed original music for the film, and will perform it live alongside the film. Fans of CPFF’s previous live-score screening of Nosferatu in 2015 will not want to miss this latest production.
Location: Christie Pits Park (750 Bloor St. W. at Christie)
Films @ Sundown (9:30pm)
Eats & Treats @ 6pm by FeasTO, Little Havana Cafè, Wafel Bar & popcorn at the festival canteen
• Free / PWYC (donations gratefully accepted), not a ticketed event
• BYOBlanket
• Accessible venue
• Films are screened with captioning whenever possible
Film info:
The Freshman, featuring Harold Lloyd, directed by Fred Newmeyer & Sam Taylor (1925)
Screening with short film Squeaky Shoe (directed by Richard Pierre)
This evening will also act as the cornerstone of a neighbourhood-wide Ontario 150 special event called The Bloorcourt Hurly Burly that will celebrate the unique history of cinema and theatre in the Bloorcourt area. This event is supported by the province of Ontario through the Ontario150 Community Celebrations programme.
