The Sudbury Outdoor Adventure Reels Film Festival is an annual film festival, launched in Greater Sudbury, Ontario in 2021. [1] A partnership of the Sudbury Indie Cinema Co-op and Laurentian University's program in outdoor adventure leadership, the festival presents a selection of local and international films on outdoor and wilderness adventure and travel. [2]
The festival was launched after the Banff Mountain Film Festival, whose annual national touring circuit of films about outdoor sport and adventure had included a stop at Laurentian University for many years, cancelled its 2020 tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. [3] In response, ADVL coordinator Jim Little contacted the Sudbury Indie Cinema Coop to collaborate on launching their own new festival; Sudbury Indie Cinema director Beth Mairs had also previously been the owner of Wild Women Expeditions, an operator of outdoor adventure tourism programs for women. [4]
The inaugural festival had originally been planned for early 2021, [4] although its launch was ultimately delayed until October. [1] Films screened at the inaugural edition included The Wall of Shadows, Home: The Outward Journey Inward, Cholitas, On Falling, North of Nightfall, Bear-Like and The Rescue , as well as a program of short films. [1]
Northern Ontario is a primary geographic and quasi-administrative region of the Canadian province of Ontario, the other primary region being Southern Ontario. Most of the core geographic region is located on part of the Superior Geological Province of the Canadian Shield, a vast rocky plateau located mainly north of Lake Huron, the French River, Lake Nipissing, and the Mattawa River. The statistical region extends south of the Mattawa River to include all of the District of Nipissing. The southern section of this district lies on part of the Grenville Geological Province of the Shield which occupies the transitional area between Northern and Southern Ontario. The extended federal and provincial quasi-administrative regions of Northern Ontario have their own boundaries even further south in the transitional area that vary according to their respective government policies and requirements. Ontario government departments and agencies such as the Growth Plan for Northern Ontario and the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation define Northern Ontario as all areas north of, and including, the districts of Parry Sound and Nipissing for political purposes, and the federal but not the provincial government also includes the district of Muskoka.
Sudbury, officially the City of Greater Sudbury, is the largest city in Northern Ontario by population, with a population of 166,004 at the 2021 Canadian Census. By land area, it is the largest in Ontario and the fifth largest in Canada. It is administratively a single-tier municipality and thus is not part of any district, county, or regional municipality. The City of Greater Sudbury is separate from, but entirely surrounded by the Sudbury District. The city is also referred to as "Grand Sudbury" among Francophones.
Laurentian University, officially Laurentian University of Sudbury, is a mid-sized bilingual public university in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, incorporated on March 28, 1960. Laurentian offers a variety of undergraduate, graduate-level, and doctorate degrees. Laurentian is the largest bilingual provider of distance education in Canada.
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