Movie: Reviving The Roost

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Vivek Shraya
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    Reviving The Roost

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    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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    2019-11-12

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