Keyboard Fantasies (Free screening!)

This screening took place on Thursday, September 22, 2022 at 6:00 pmYukon Theatre

Presented by the Women and Gender Equity Directorate, Government of Yukon, in recognition of Gender Equality Week 2022.

Half aural-visual history, half DIY European tour-video, this charmed documentary provides a vehicle for Canadian-American musician and newly appointed queer elder, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, to connect with youth across the globe.

As a sci-fi obsessed person living in near isolation, Beverly Glenn-Copeland wrote and self-released Keyboard Fantasies in Huntsville, Ontario back in 1986. Recorded in an Atari-powered home studio, the cassette featured seven tracks of a curious folk-electronica hybrid, a sound realised far before its time. Three decades on the musician – now Glenn Copeland – began to receive emails from people across the world, thanking him for the music they’d recently discovered. Courtesy of a rare-record collector in Japan, a reissue of Keyboard Fantasies and subsequent plays by Four Tet, Caribou and more, the music had finally found its audience two generations down the line. This compelling character documentary sees the protagonist commit his life and music to screen for the first time - an intimate coming of age story spinning pain and the suffering of prejudice into rhythm, hope and joy.
Dir. Posey Dixon, 2020, UK, 62 min
Top twenty audience favourite, Hot Docs 2020

Screens with INTO LIGHT

Dir. Sheona Macdonald, 2021, BC, 19 min

When a child reveals who they truly are on the inside, how does a parent set aside their own expectations to help them become their most authentic self? Sheona McDonald’s documentary captures a season of change as a mother and child navigate the complexities of gender identity together. In English with French subtitles. Sous titres francais.

"Gender Equality Week is an opportunity to raise awareness of the important contributions women and gender diverse communities have made to the growth, development, character and identity of Canada; to celebrate the significant achievements and accomplishments that we have made in advancing gender equality; and to reconfirm our commitment to address persistent gender equality gaps in our country."