#FIRSTLOOK: CANADIAN FILM CENTRE OUTDOOR FILM FESTIVAL 2025

Lights, Camera, Lawn Chairs! The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) today announced its free outdoor film festival lineup taking place July 18 and 19, 2025 at the CFC campus on Windfields Estate in North York. Celebrating Canadian film one story at a time, the CFC Outdoor Film Festival invites cinephiles to enjoy a selection of inspiring homegrown movies this summer from CFC alumni.

With support from Presenting Partner MUBI, CFC will screen Bobby Singh Brown’s debut feature Stealing Vows on Friday, July 18 at 9:00 PM, with Brown and the cast in attendance for a post-screening Q&A, and Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux and Kirk Thomas’ award-winning documentary Handle With Care: The Legend of the Notic Streetball Crew will screen on Saturday, July 19 at 9:00 PM. Each feature will be preceded by short films created by residents of the CFC’s Norman Jewison Film Program. For more information on the CFC and its work in the Canadian film landscape visit cfccreates.com.

“We are excited to open our campus to the public to showcase these Canadian stories during our warm summer nights,” said Carly Beath, Director of Development, CFC. “We’re grateful to MUBI’s support in presenting these films and we hope audiences will gain a deeper connection to the remarkable talent emerging from the CFC and our national film community.”

The event is free to the public.

Stealing Vows (2024)
Date: Friday, July 18, 2025
Doors open: 8:00 p.m.
Screening begins: 9:00 p.m.
Address: CFC Campus (Centre Lawn at Windfields Estate), 2489 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON M2L 1A8
Director/Writer/Producer: Bobby Singh Brown
Cast: Gia Sandhu, Fuad Ahmed, Anand Rajaram, Ali Hassan
Length: 120 min.
Synopsis: Four disgruntled wedding vendors (an emcee, a photographer, a caterer and a decorator) embark on a summer heist spree, robbing their wealthy clients’ homes during wedding receptions in the hopes of buying their own happily-ever-afters.

*Director Bobby Singh Brown and select cast in attendance for a post-screening Q&A.

Handle With Care: The Legend of the Notic Streetball Crew (2021)
Date: Saturday, July 19, 2025
Doors open: 8:00 p.m.
Screening begins: 9.00 p.m.
Address: CFC Campus (Centre Lawn at Windfields Estate), 2489 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON M2L 1A8
Directors: Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux and Kirk Thomas
Length: 86 min.
Synopsis: The Notic underground basketball group of players surprised the world bursting into global fame 20 years ago. First making a name for themselves at the NBA Hoop It Up tournament near Science World in 2003, the group unleashed a whole new arsenal of unique tricks and moves on the coattails of the famous And1 Mix Tape streetball movement. The VHS highlights comprising their first mix tape were revolutionary. This documentary has revived the original group of basketball players and is shot by the original makers, Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux and Kirk Thomas, who now chronicle the group’s rise, fall, and rebirth in true documentary fashion.

For more information, visit cfccreates.com.