Today, to mark the occasion, Bell Media is using the day to air a rotation of 30 feature films made in Canada.
On the list:
Xavier Dolan’s Mommy and Tom at the Farm
Deepa Mehta’s latest, Beeba Boys
The Kit Harington action film Pompeii
The Grand Seduction
Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy
Hector and the Search for Happiness
Also: Being Canadian, the documentary that asks what it means to be Canadian, and a handful of other movies you might or might not have heard of.
Bell is airing the films on its Space channel, The Movie Network and HBO Canada. Check their schedules here, here and here.
The company backed all of the films airing today in some way, whether it was through story optioning, script development, pre-licensing, equity investment, acquisition, exhibition and/or promotion.
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