Screening at The Rio Theatre
Aug 21st 6:30pm
Vancouver, BC
Unlike those movies and short films I’ve recently reviewed about the “behind the scenes” of the wrestling world (namely Little Lucha and the Big Deal & Dark Match), they present the events as fiction. To understand what goes on, I recommend checking out The Death Tour. Despite its ominous name, this documentary directed by Stephan Peterson and Sonya Ballantyne takes a deep and insightful look at what motivated these talents to keep on going. It’s less about their own issues since not all of them got to fulfil their dreams, but in helping those whose lost all hope to not fall into despair.
Every winter, a small team of these hopefuls are recruited to embark on a unique pilgramage to not only learn more about themselves, but also show to others, namely local indgeninous commnuties strewn in Northern Manitoba, how to survive this rat race known as Life. This program started in the early 70s and has been going strong for 50 years!