The Pinco Triangle
| The Pinco Triangle | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Patrick Crowe Tristan R. Whiston |
| Written by | Patrick Crowe Tristan R. Whiston |
| Produced by | Keith Clarkson |
| Starring | Michael Fitzgerald Lorraine Segato |
| Cinematography | Yves Simard |
| Edited by | Cathy Gulkin |
| Music by | Alan Moon |
Production company | Upper Canada Moving Picture Company |
Release date | 1999 |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
The Pinco Triangle is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Patrick Crowe and Tristan R. Whiston and released in 1999.
The interviewees included Michael Boyuk, a performer now associated with
The directors started making the film in 1992, while Crowe was working for the National Film Board of Canada; it began when Crowe made a "pinco triangle" to carry with him at that year's Toronto Pride Parade, and conducted "person on the street" interviews with former Sudburians he met while displaying the symbol.[5] Due to limited financing, the film was not fully completed until 1998.[2]
Distribution
The film premiered at
It also screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival and the Victoria Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Short Documentary.[7]
The film received an anniversary screening at Sudbury's Queer North Film Festival in 2018, its first time ever screened in the city.[2] In press interviews to promote the screening, Crowe drew a contrast between 1999, when nobody ever asked him why the film was not screening in Sudbury because the answer was self-evident, and 2018, when the environment for LGBT people both in Sudbury and across Canada has changed so much that people now regularly ask him why it did not.[2] It won the festival's awards for Best in Show, Best Canadian Film and Best Northern Ontario Film.[8]
Critical response
The film has faced some criticism for its failure to expand on the stories of "Mother Brown" and "Popeye", two pioneers of Sudbury's gay community who had been mentioned in I Know a Place, a contemporaneous documentary film about gay history in Sault Ste. Marie.[1][4]
References
- ^ Daily Xtra, May 19, 1999.
- ^ a b c d e "Queer North film provides a satirical look at life as a gay person in Sudbury back in the 80's and 90's". Morning North, June 14, 2018.
- ^ "The Pinco Triangle (1998)". BFI Film & TV Database.
- ^ ISBN 978-0773530690. p. 122.
- Sudbury Star, June 14, 2018.
- ^ "And the nominees are. . .". Playback, May 3, 1999.
- Victoria Times-Colonist, February 11, 2000.
- Northern Life, June 25, 2018.
External links
- The Pinco Triangle at IMDb
