| Summer Qamp | |
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| Directed by | Jen Markowitz |
| Produced by | Tanya Blake Michelle Mama |
| Cinematography | Lulu Wei |
| Edited by | Derek Esposito Cecilio Escobar |
| Music by | Ames Bessada |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Super Channel TVA |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
Summer Qamp is a 2023 Canadian documentary film, directed by Jen Markowitz. [1] The film profiles Camp fYrefly, a summer camp program in Alberta that provides a safe space for LGBTQ youth. [2]
The film profiles Camp fYrefly, a summer camp program in Alberta that provides a safe space for LGBTQ youth. [2] According to Markowitz, "it’s important to show the public at large that this is a community of regular kids with regular kid problems. They are all regular kids at heart, they just happened to be really weighed down by a lot of this other stuff that is put on to them by the world." [3]
The project was first announced as a documentary television series in 2021, [4] and was later revised into a feature documentary film. [2]
The film premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, [1] and will be distributed principally as a television broadcast on Super Channel in English and TVA in French. [2]
At TIFF, the film was named first runner-up for the People's Choice Award for Documentaries. [5]
At the 2023 Calgary International Film Festival, the film received a special jury citation from the Best Canadian Feature Documentary award jury, [6] and was the winner of the Audience Choice award for best Canadian documentary. [7]
Derek Esposito and Cecilio Escobar received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Editing in a Documentary at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards in 2024. [8]