Does This Canoe Make Me Look Fat?

Written, Directed and Produced by Beth Mairs

Genre: Documentary, Adventure Film, Women, Road Trip

Status: Completed, Nov. 2011

Running Time: 42 min.

Film Synopsis

What happens when an eclectic group of women from Toronto- all strangers- head off into the wilds of Temagami for a canoe trip? This film brings together 5 very different, very lovable women for whom this adventure represents personal challenges and opportunities. How this group of mostly novice adventurers accomplish the trip with limited outdoor experience but massive life skills and huge doses of humour provides fascinating social commentary to a genre which has been dominated by male perspectives.

Screenings

Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, Toronto. Nov 2010.

Directors cut screened at Rainbow Cinemas in Sudbury, Feb 2011.

Waterwalker Film Festival toured with the Festival across Canada

Doc North Film Festival, April 2011, North Bay.

Cornerbrook NF, Owen Sound, Sault Ste Marie (Grand Theatre), Guelph (The BookShelf) and Ottawa (The Mayfair Theatre) in May 2011

Sudbury Pride, July 2011.

Reel Out Queer Film Festival, Kingston Jan. 2012.

Espanola Library for International Women's Day fundraiser. March 2012.

Rainbow Cinemas. March 2012 as a Environmental fundraiser.

Awards

Does This Canoe Make Me Look Fat? Best Amateur Film, Waterwalker Film Festival 2011.

Reel Out Film Festival 2011 the Audience Award for Best Documentary short.