12 November 2019 Animated 6 mins
Filmmaker and bestselling author Vivek Shraya’s ode to a popular Edmonton gay bar that closed in 2007. With pulsating neon-light animation, Reviving the Roost is a story about community complexity and longing, and an elegy to a lost space.
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Vivek Shraya as Self
Andrew Martin Smith Production Coordinator
Canada 13 November 2019
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