Big Cedar Films

24/03/2025

Our latest feature doc, the TVO Original "Your Tomorrow" is now available to stream on the TVO Docs YouTube channel and smart TV app (Canada only)

Directed by Ali Weinstein, the film is an observational portrait of Ontario Place, Toronto’s iconic modernist waterfront park, in the last year before its controversial redevelopment from a public space into a private spa.

World Premiere: TIFF 2024

An observational portrait of Ontario Place, Toronto's iconic modernist waterfront playground, in the last year before its redevelopment. Populated by a compe...

18/03/2025

Excited for our broadcast premiere Sunday March 23rd @ 9pm - with 4K streaming starting March 21st on the TVO Docs YouTube channel! 🍿

26/01/2025

A nice time out! ✨🍻 A bunch of doc makers at the inaugural Big Cedar Films DocSpiel!! 🥌🥌🥌

04/12/2024

We’re coming to Toronto’s Fox Theatre Dec 11 & 12!
🍿 Two screenings only 🍿
Dec 11, 6:45pm w/ Q&A hosted by legendary CBC broadcaster Carol Off
Dec 12, 4:00pm
Tickets on sale now: https://www.foxtheatre.ca/schedule/

04/12/2024

Your Tomorrow, directed by Ali Weinstein, is an observational documentary about the role of Ontario Place--and public spaces--in everyday life.

29/11/2024

Flashback to the YOUR TOMORROW world premiere at TIFF!
Somehow never got around to posting these, the classic Getty stamped snaps :) 📸 by Darren Eagles.

1- Sold out crowd!
2- Q&A stage party!
3- Our keys, w/ director Ali Weinstein, AE Michael Heuston, composers Joseph Shabason & Sachin Mohindra
4- Ali & Producer, Geoff Morrison
5- Editor, Caitlin Durlak, Ali, DoP Andrew Moir
6- Ontario Place staff / participants & Ali

28/11/2024

YOUR TOMORROW—a poignant observational documentary on Ontario Place, once a futuristic and family-friend destination, by Toronto’s documentary filmmaker Ali Weinstein—documents a transitional moment in the landscape of the city, shedding light on the shifting values of our generation.

The Friday, December 6 screening welcomes director Ali Weinstein, producer Geoff Morrison, birder Francesca Bouaoun, activist and politician Norm Di Pasquale and professor and swimmer Steve Mann at an insightful Q&A!

Learn more about the film now at https://ow.ly/Ff2n50UfpI5

14/11/2024

🚨 Your Tomorrow is coming to theatres! 🚨

Following its sold out premier at TIFF, we’re excited to announce the theatrical release of our doc YOUR TOMORROW, starting on the re-opening weekend of the Hot Docs Cinema in Toronto, Dec 6, 7, 8.

Tickets on sale now (link in bio)! Please come out and support the film and the Hot Docs Cinema 🙏

Fri Dec 6 - 7pm (Q&A w/ dir Ali Weinstein, cast and crew)
Sat Dec 7 - 5pm
Sun Dec 8 - 12pm

More Toronto dates to be announced soon!
Save this post - we’ll update it when the dates are confirmed!

🏆 TIFF 2024 People’s Choice Documentary Award, Runner-Up 🏆

With Toronto’s iconic modernist waterfront park, Ontario Place, set to close for redevelopment, an eccentric yet lovable group of park regulars and staff members live out its last year open to the public while confronting its controversial transformation into a private spa and waterpark. 

Your Tomorrow is a TVO Original Documentary produced by Naiad Productions and Big Cedar Films in association with the Canada Media Fund, Canada Council for the Arts, and Telefilm Canada, with support from Ontario Creates and the Government of Canada tax credit programs 🎬

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11/11/2024

Certificate arrived today for Farm Crime S3 Canadian Screen Award nomination 🏆
We lost back in May :) but I want to thank and acknowledge my co-nominee / co-producer Lucy Cameron for her stellar work on the show.

08/10/2024

“Your Tomorrow” screening Sunday November 3 (link to tickets in bio)

Posted • OFFICIAL SELECTION!

GUELPHITES! Check out the amazing lineup for the 2024 Guelph Film Festival. Tickets go on sale Monday October 7th! The full program of events & details for every film will be available online at that time.

For now take a look at these titles! And mark your calendar! The Guelph Film Festival is coming November 1-9, 2024!

9 FEATURES
Where Olive Trees Weep
Wilfred Buck
My Sextorion Diary
Your Tomorrow
Singing Back the Buffalo
Freak Bikes
Analogue Revolution: How Feminist Media Changed the World
Standing Above the Clouds
Teaches of Peaches

12 SHORTS + Tiny Docs by Tiny People
The Mini Forest
The Everlasting Pea
Twig

Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying
Unnamed
Big Moves
I’ll Tell You When I’m Ready
What Ales Us?

Nipi utaiamun (The Voice of Water)
Sh*tty Little

Little Fan
Mush-Mush and the Mushables

See you at the festival! And if you can, please donate and help us keep lighting up Guelph with amazing documentaries! Link in our bio.