Rae Spoon – photo by Colin Smith

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“Beautifully shot, this documentary-meets-musical-meets-road-movie is a sad, hopeful, gorgeous work of poetry.” – Marsha Lederman, The Globe & Mail

Catch Chelsea McMullan’s Sundance-selected documentary-musical about Rae Spoon called My Prairie Home along with a live performance by the transgender indie singer at the film’s Toronto premiere on Tuesday, February 4, starting at 6:30 p.m. at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema.

In My Prairie Home, Toronto filmmaker Chelsea McMullan follows Calgary-born, Montreal-based transgender performer Rae Spoon on a musical road trip across the Canadian Prairies. All along the way—in a Greyhound bus, the Tyrrell Dinosaur Museum in Drumheller, a bar in Regina, and at a performance in Winnipeg—McMullan’s camera is a constant companion. As the flat, straight prairie highway unfolds, McMullan guides audiences along the long and winding road of Spoon’s life. This playful, meditative and at times melancholic tale of Spoon’s queer and musical coming of age unfolds in interviews and songs, in live performance and fanciful music sequences. Spoon takes us through their childhood (Spoon prefers the use of the gender-neutral, third-person pronoun) growing up in an ultra-religious family, discovering their sexuality, their gender identity, and the crucial and inspiring leaps towards building a life of their own, as a musician and as a trans person.

Chelsea McMullen & Rae Spoon – photo by JJ Levine

Nominated for the Ted Rogers Best Feature Length Documentary Award at the Canadian Screen Awards and named Best Canadian Documentary of 2013 by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle, My Prairie Home is being hailed by critics everywhere.

“There are standard-issue music documentaries, and then there’s My Prairie Home. Toronto writer-director Chelsea McMullan’s inspired National Film Board documentary about totally original Montreal-based, Calgary-raised singer-songwriter Rae Spoon is as distinctive as its star”. – Brendan Kelly, Montreal Gazette

“Guy Maddin-esque creations, blending fact and fiction to create something visually, sonically and intellectually enthralling,” – James Wilt, Fast Forward Weekly

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