Winter Kept Us Warm

by Chris Dupuis

Widely considered to be English Canada's first queer film, Winter Kept Us Warm explores a romance between two young men at the University of Toronto in the early 1960s, a moment when homosexuality was still a crime in Canada. A true student film, Winter was written and directed by David Secter, a twenty-two-year-old English major, shot with amateur actors and a volunteer crew, and completed on a budget of only $8,000. Against the odds, the film was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0228020328
• ISBN13: 9780228020325
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 144 Pages