The Six Stops
A recap from each festival, written from inside the room.
Festival Journal · Fall 2025 Tour
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 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.
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Coda
On the work the film has started, and the work the youth are now carrying.
On the choices the film makes, the work the film is not, and what the youth who carry the program forward are now doing with the language it gave them.
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