East Van Film Festival
🎬💥 WELCOME TO THE FIRST EVER EAST VAN FILM FESTIVAL 💥🎬
Where every film is gloriously broke 💀, beautifully bizarre 🌀, and filmed somewhere near a dumpster 🗑️ (emotionally or literally — we don’t judge 💅).
🚫🎩 This is not your average film festival.
This is 👊 Commercial Drive energy in cinematic form.
It’s 🖤 East Van grit in a trophy.
It’s $5 tickets, cheap beer 🍺, drag queens 💃, chaos 🤡, and absolutely NO BORING FILMS ALLOWED ❌🎞️
🍿 WHAT YOU’RE GETTING INTO:
🎥 A night of hand-picked indie films made on the edge of reason 🧠⚡ and maxed-out credit cards
🔥 — all killer, no filler, no Hollywood nonsense 🚫🌴
🍻 $5.50 drinks all night at the most iconic, sticky-floored, history-drenched spot on Commercial Drive: THE LEGION 🎖️🕺
💄 Hosted by the Eastside Sisters:
✨ Banana Delvey & Miss October – local drag legends, CBC-featured chaos gremlins 🧚♀️🔥, and creators of the sold-out cult drag musicals:
🎭 Slytherin: The Adult Drag Musical 🐍💚
🚀 Star Wh***: The Darkside* 🌌🌑
🐟 Finding Nemo Adults Only Drag Musical
🐴 My Little Brony Adults Only Drag Musical
🍫 Charli XCX and The Chocolate Factory
💛 Minions Adults Only Drag Musical
🌐 Plus the INFAMOUS Seth Rogen & Ryan Reynolds Look-Alike Contests 😂👯♂️ (yes, the ones that broke the internet 💻🔥)
🎧 DJ SEBULA spinning trashy bops 💅, gay bangers 🌈, and cinematic chaos 🎞️🌀 between screenings.
Think: “Fiona Apple on a bender meets a VHS tape that won’t die.” 🍷📼👻
🏆 THE AWARDS (YES, THERE ARE REAL TROPHIES):
🥇 Best Director – for giving us vision with no supervision 👁️🗨️
🎭 Best Actor – for that one moment that had us clapping like confused seals 👏🦭
👗 Best Costume Design – Value Village or tinfoil, just slay 🔥💃
🗳️ AUDIENCE FAVOURITE – VOTED LIVE by YOU 🫵🗳️
🎬 WANT TO SUBMIT YOUR FILM?
We want your messy masterpiece 🎥🧼💔
📧 Visit eastvanfilmfestival.com to apply💸 NO application fee. (Ew. We’re not TIFF 🙄🚫)
There is no other festival in the damn world this cheap, this chaotic, and this full of ICONIC EAST VAN ENERGY 🧷🖤💃
🚨 TL;DR:
🍺 Cheap drinks
🎞️ Indie chaos
🎭 Drag hosts
🧢 Sandler impersonators
💰 Prizes
🐀 Weird films
🧼 No polished Hollywood crap
🎟️ $5 to witness history
Friday, October 3 · 7 • 9pm • Doors 6:30pm
Royal Canadian Legion Branch 179
2205 Commercial Drive Vancouver, BC V5N 4B6
