Rainbow Visions Film Festival

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The Rainbow Visions Film Festival is an annual film festival in Edmonton, Alberta, which presents an annual program of LGBT film. [1]

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Launched in 2015 by Metro Cinema Edmonton, the organizers of the city's Northwestfest (formerly known as "Global Visions") documentary film festival, [2] the event is staged in the fall each year at the city's Garneau Theatre. [3]

Its creation followed the demise of the city's former LGBT film festival, Queer Sightings.

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