‘Ridge’ – A New Musical Film on The Battle of Vimy Ridge

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During Remembrance Day week, we as Canadians should always look to educate and humanize our knowledge on the rich history of Canadian Armed Forces as well as the historic events that have paved the way for our freedom.

The Battle of Vimy Ridge, fought in 1917 during the first World War, is known as a battle fought and won to symbolize Canadian pride.

Brendan McLeod is bringing a musical film to Vancouver about the Battle of Vimy Ridge to help provide insight to the sacrifices made and to who the brave soldiers were that fought for their country.

The film runs 80 minutes long, and uses a mix of storytelling, theatre and live music performed by local folk troubadours ‘The Fugitives’ to provide new interpretations of original first World War soldier songs.

Although the film was originally made to be a live concert, participants felt the content was so emotionally and powerfully vivid that it did not resonate. The alternative was 3 days shooting the film, various locations within the Chan Theatre to portray the content as best as possible. Full scale audio, light and film crew was used in attempt to bring the film to life. McLeod completely reworked the theatre script to accuratley fit the motion picture template

Ridge is premiering at the Cinematheque, 1131 Howe St. in two physically-distanced special screenings.

.‘Ridge‘ can be viewed in an online screening of the musical film on Remembrance Day, November 11th at 7pm.

“Performances such as Ridge serve to give the Battle of Vimy Ridge and the sacrifices of those who served and died a human dimension beyond the mythology. These were real human beings, lest we forget.” – The Vancouver Sun

Director: Mike Southworth
Director of Photography: Byron Kopman
Producers: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, Mike Southworth
Starring: Brendan McLeod, Adrian Glynn, Carly Frey, Chris Suen

 

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