Mika Goodfriend, Fulbright Canada alumnus, released a documentary film observing a trailer park community in Pompano Beach, Florida, titled, “Snowbirds.” We are pleased to share that his film will be shown at the Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal in their short and medium-length competition.
Screenings presented on:
November 11, 2018 at 5:30pm
Cinéma du Parc – Salle 2
English subtitles
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November 14, 2018 at 8:30pm
Cinémathèque Québécoise – Salle Fernand-Seguin
English subtitles
*The Director will be present for both screenings.
In 2015-2016, Mika Goodfriend, a student at Concordia University, received a Fulbright Student award and was hosted by the University of Florida where he began his exceptional work exploring the snowbird phenomenon and a subsection of Quebecois culture that raises notions of “collective identity, cultural patrimony, the leisure class, aesthetics, and the ‘Other’.”
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“Each winter, over 1800 retirees from Quebec migrate to a trailer park in Pompano Beach, Florida. Inside, every lawn is neatly mowed, and trailers shine without a sign of rust.Transplanted from their homeland, they live out their version of paradise within the gated community of Breezy Hill RV Resort. Whether playing pétanque, line dancing, or tanning by the ocean, these snowbirds revel in their own ‘Québécois American Dream’. Though they have taken different paths through life, they have all ended up together, beneath the palm trees and eternal sunshine of Breezy Hill—where time has lost its bite. - Mika Goodfriend