Festival Journal · Fall 2025 Tour · RSS
Six screenings, four provinces and one territory. A short film about a coach, his son, and a locker-room conversation that grew. What follows is a record of what happened when we put it on a plane.
Omnibus · Tour Takeaways
Reflections from the team behind the fall 2025 cross-Canada tour of Buddy Check for Jesse.
A long-form report, supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, on what travelled with the film, what changed on the road, and what the audiences shared in return. Reflections on programming, on partner panels, on the rooms themselves, and on the trust an audience places in a film when its makers stand in front of it.
Read the omnibus →A recap from each festival, written from inside the room.
Coda
A reflection on what the film is, the two creative choices behind it, and the youth who are now carrying the program forward in their own way, in their own sports, with the language the work gave them.
Read the coda →
