Take a Walk on the Wildside

2017 Canadian film

2017 (2017) (Hot Docs)

Running time

15 minutesCountryCanadaLanguageEnglish

Take a Walk on the Wildside is a 2017 Canadian documentary film directed and written by Lisa Rideout.^[1] The film profiles Take a Walk on the Wildside, a clothing store in Toronto, Ontario which caters to the unique needs of cross-dressing men.^[2]

The film premiered at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in 2017.^[3]

The film won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Short Documentary Film at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards.^[4]

References

^ "The POV Interview: Lisa Rideout Talks ‘Take a Walk on the Wild Side’". Point of View, April 30, 2017.
^ "Meet the Woman Helping Men Walk on the Wildside". Torontoist, April 28, 2017.
^ "HOT DOCS 2017 REVIEW: TAKE A WALK ON THE WILDSIDE". Toronto Film Scene, April 25, 2017.
^ "Maudie, Kim's Convenience, Ava, Alias Grace, and Rumble among major winners at Canadian Screen Awards". The Georgia Straight, March 11, 2018.

External links

Take a Walk on the Wildside at IMDb
Take a Walk on the Wildside at Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television for Best Feature Length Documentary and Best Short Documentary

Canadian Film Awards
1968–1978

Never a Backward Step (1968)
Good Times, Bad Times (1969)
Wild Africa (1970)
Les Philharmonistes (1971)
Coming Home (1973)
Janis (1975)
Ahô: The Forest People (1976)
The Inquiry Film: A Report on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline (1977)
The Champions (1978)

Genie Awards
1980–2011

Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed (1980)
Plusieurs tombent en amour (1981)
P4W: Prison for Women (1982)
The Devil at Your Heels (1983)
Pourquoi l'étrange Monsieur Zolock s'intéressait-il tant à la bande dessinée? (1984)
Raoul Wallenberg: Buried Alive (1985)
Final Offer (1986)
Dads and Kids (1987)
God Rides a Harley (1988)
Comic Book Confidential (1989)
Strand: Under the Dark Cloth (1990)
The Famine Within (1991)
Deadly Currents (1992)
Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (1993)
In the Gutter and Other Good Places (1994)
The Champagne Safari (1995)
Bones of the Forest (1996)
Tu as crié: Let Me Go (1997)
A Place Called Chiapas (1998)
Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the '70s Generation (1999)
Grass (2000)
Westray (2001)
Gambling, Gods and LSD (2002)
FIX: The Story of an Addicted City (2003)
The Corporation (2004)
Scared Sacred (2005)
Manufactured Landscapes (2006)
Radiant City (2007)
Up the Yangtze (2008)
A Hard Name (2009)
Last Train Home (2010)
At Night, They Dance (2011)

Canadian Screen Awards
2012–present

Stories We Tell (2012)
Watermark (2013)
Super Duper Alice Cooper (2014)
Hurt (2015)
I Am the Blues (2016)
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (2017)
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (2018)
Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up (2019)
Wandering: A Rohingya Story (2020)
Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy (2021)
To Kill a Tiger (2022)
Twice Colonized (2023)

Short Documentary

Avec tambours et trompettes (1968)
Juggernaut (1969)
KW+ (1970)
The Sea (1971)
Selling Out (1972)
Grierson and Faire hurler les murs (1973)
At 99: A Portrait of Louise Tandy Murch and Cree Hunters of Mistassini (1975)
Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry (1976)
Greenpeace: Voyages to Save the Whales (1977)
The Hottest Show on Earth (1978)
Priory: The Only Home I've Got (1980)
No More Hiroshima (1986)
The World Is Watching (1989)
Stunt People (1990)
The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein (1991)
A Song for Tibet (1992)
Le singe bleu (1993)
Fiction and Other Truths: A Film About Jane Rule (1995)
Maman et Ève (1996)
Unveiled: The Mother/Daughter Relationship (1997)
Shadow Maker: Gwendolyn MacEwen, Poet (1998)
Hemingway: A Portrait (1999)
The Delian Mode (2009)
Sirmilik (2011)
The Boxing Girls of Kabul (2012)
Chi (2013)
Jutra (2014)
Bacon and God's Wrath (2015)
This River (2016)
Take a Walk on the Wildside (2017)
My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes (2018)
Take Me to Prom (2019)
Sing Me a Lullaby (2020)
Nalujuk Night (2021)
Patty vs. Patty (2022)
Madeleine (2023)