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🎥✨ Bulletproof: A Lesbian’s Guide to Surviving the Plot is screening this Saturday in Montreal at @imagenationmtl with team members in attendance!

📍 When: Saturday, November 30
⏰ Time: 1:00 PM
📍 Where: UQAM | Salle de projection Jean-Claude Lauzon

Catch this heartfelt and humorous documentary exploring LGBTQ+ representation in media. 🌈🎬

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion at 3:30 PM—don’t miss it!

#BulletproofDoc #ImageNation #LGBTQFilms #QueerStories #queerdoc #queerrepresentationmatters #imagenationmtl
🎉 BIG NEWS! 🎉

We’re beyond thrilled to announce that Bulletproof: A Lesbian’s Guide to Surviving the Plot has won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at image+nation: festival film LGBT2SQUEER Montréal! 🎬🏆

This recognition is such an honor, and we’re incredibly grateful to the jury members and the festival team for this incredible moment.

Bulletproof reflects the resilience, humour, and heart of the LGBTQ+ community, and it means so much to have it recognized in this way.

Thank you @imagenationmtl for believing in this story and giving it a platform. 🌈

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📢 NYC, it’s happening this Sunday!

Come see Bulletproof: A Lesbian’s Guide to Surviving the Plot on the big screen at Regal Union Square. 🎥✨

📅 When: Sunday, December 8, 4:15 PM
📍 Where: Regal Union Square, NYC
🎟️ Tickets: Link in bio

Our hilarious and heartfelt doc dives into the highs and lows of queer representation on TV and explores how media shapes the way we see ourselves—and each other. Featuring original animation, powerful interviews, and so much more. 🌈

Our Director and Animator will be there for a post-screening Q&A and would love to chat with you about the stories that inspire us and why representation matters more than ever. 💬

Let’s fill that theater and celebrate queer voices together. Can’t wait to see you there!

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Featured Conversations

Bulletproof features insights and conversations with actors, writers, producers and commentators from across the industry

Kat Barrell in conversation for Bulletproof
Javier Grillo-Marxuach
Megan Townsend GLAAD
Michael MacLennan
Michelle Mama
Kat Barrell

“I remember people started tweeting at me: Make sure you’re wearing a bulletproof vest.”

– Kat Barrell (Wynonna Earp)
Javier Grillo-Marxuach

“Well, I’m not killing anymore lesbians.”

– Javier Grillo-Marxuach (The 100, Lost, The Witcher)
Megan Townsend

“There is value in our stories, queer people are a huge audience…and we wanna watch it and then we wanna talk to you about it.”

– Megan Townsend (Director of Entertainment Research & Analysis, GLAAD)
Michael MacLennan

Why are we denying her a love story when we would never think of doing that for any of the [straight] characters?

– Michael MacLennan
(Queer As Folk, Bomb Girls, The Fosters)
Michelle Mama

If every time a queer character experiences joy or triumph and then you destroy them or murder them or kill the them off…what kind of message are you sending people?

Michelle Mama (Canada’s Drag Race, Summer Qamp)
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Javier Grillo-Marxuach
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KATHERINE BARRELL
Wynonna Earp, Workin’ Moms

NOELLE CARBONE
Rookie Blue, Saving Hope

JAVIER GRILLO-MARXUACH
The 100, The Witcher

JP LAROCQUE
Sort of, Jann

MICHELLE MAMA
Canada’s Drag Race

AARON MARTIN
Degrassi: TNG, Slasher

ALI LIEBERT
Bomb Girls

MICHAEL MACLENNAN
Queer As Folk, The Fosters

ANNE CREIGHTON
President, Toronto Pflag

JILL GOLICK
President, Writer’s Guild of Canada

DR. AIDEN HIRSHFIELD
Media Psychologist

MEGAN TOWNSEND
Director of Research, GLAAD

Festival Screenings

Reelout Queer Film Festival
February 8, 2025 at 4pm
Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Perth Queer Film Festival
March 8, 2025 at 6:30pm
Perth, Australia

Sundar Prize Film Festival
April 10-13, 2025
Screening Time TBA
Surrey, BC, Canada

More Dates Coming in 2025!

Past Screenings

Desperado LGBTQ+ Film Festival
January 25, 2025 at 3pm
Phoenix, Arizona

Dances With Films Film Festival
December 8, 2024 at 4:15pm
New York, NY

Image+Nation Montreal Film Festival
Nov 30, 2024 – Montreal, Canada
*GRAND JURY PRIZE for BEST DOCUMENTARY

QDoc Film Festival
Nov 17, 2024 – Portland, OR

Indianapolis LGBT Film Festival
Nov 10, 2024 – Indianapolis, IN

Way OUT West Film Fest
Oct 13, 2024 – Albuquerque, NM

Seattle Queer Film Festival
Oct 11, 2024 – Seattle, WA

Out On Film: ATL’S LGBTQ Film Festival
Oct 4, 2024 – Atlanta, GA

Fargo-Moorhead LGBT Film Festival
Sept 29, 2024 – Fargo, ND

Reeling: Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival
Sept 22, 2024 – Chicago, IL

Cinema Diverse: The Palm Springs LGBTQ Film Festival
Sept 20, 2024 – Palm Springs, CA
*FESTIVAL FAVORITE
*DIRECTOR’S CHOICE

Vancouver Queer Film Festival
Sept 14, 2024 – Vancouver, Canada

Filmout San Diego
Sept 14, 2024 – San Diego, CA
*WINNER BEST DOCUMENTARY

aGLIFF: PRISM 37 LGBTQ+ Film Festival
Aug 25, 2024 – Austin,TX

OUTSOUTH Queer Film Festival
Aug 10, 2024 – Durham, NC

World Premiere

Inside Out Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival
May 25, 2024
TIFF Lightbox – Toronto, Canada

Contact

For Press / PR / Sales or General Enquiries, please email
regan [at] bulletproofdoc.ca

Made with the generous support of

Logos of Canada Council for the Arts, Toronto Arts Council, the City of Toronto

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