Bill C-10: MPs Watch Young People Fucking and So Can You

Young People Fucking will officially be released on June 13 but there was a special screening recently so that MPs and Senators who are debating Bill C-10 could see the film and judge it for themselves.

While, according to jam! : "Aside from partial nudity and sexually suggestive dialogue, the film wasn't as raunchy as its title suggests." Few of the invited politicials chose to attend and perhaps gain a better understanding of what they were voting on. From Boinkology:

"Unfortunately, merely a handful of showed up. One who did is Liberal MP Mark Holland who believes “Given all the attention and controversy, I think we’d be well advised to go see it… Oftentimes in our society, things are condemned that nobody ever sees.” It is typical of the Conservative government to prohibit funding for a film they didn’t even see, based on a title alone."

As Holland suggests no Conservatives chose to attend with the exception of one staffer who was fired for it.

"Victoria van Eyk, former assistant to Tory MP Gary Goodyear of Cambridge, Ont., who was fired this week after she ordered a ticket to the screening in his name.

Van Eyk, 22, said she wanted the ticket for herself, and the MP let her go because, he told her, she should not have accepted an invitation to an event to which he had said no.

``I think I could have exercised better judgment,'' van Eyk said in an interview, adding, however, that if it had been a movie with a different title, she probably would not have lost her job. ``The Conservative government doesn't support films like this.''"

Now, as I said in the beginning your chance to see Young People Fucking is coming, starting with it's release on June 13.

On June 14 First Weekend Club will be hosting two special screenings with a discussion after called Pillow Talk in Toronto and Vancouver.

"See the film. Speak your mind. What do you think about the impending "Bill of Censorship"? Join First Weekend Club and our special guests in Vancouver or Toronto for our post screening Pillow Talk on Saturday June 14th following a matinee screening of Young People F**king.This is your opportunity to engage in a public discussion about the movie, the impending Bill C-10 and the social implications it imposes should it be passed. Should the taxpayers' money go into making films like Young People F**king? What happens if we allow our art, any art, to be censored by the government? Hear what our panel has to say about the film and their take on the Bill. Ask them questions, argue your point of view, cheer, boo, clap. Get engaged. Anything goes with Pillow Talk. "

Vancouver Event: 


Date: Saturday June 14th

Location: Fifth Avenue Cinema 

Time: following the 4:00 ish screening (exact time TBA) 

Panelists: Sonya Bennett (YPF star); Mackenzie Gray (local actor), Charlie Smith (Editor of the Georgia Straight), moderated by Simon Fraser University Philosopher’s Café (additional panelists TBC) 



Toronto Event:


Date: Saturday June 14th 

Location: TBA 

Time: following the 4:00 ish screening (exact time TBA) 

Panelists: Martin Gero (YPF director); Aaron Abrams (YPF co-writer/producer/star); Brad Pelman (YPF distributor); Richard Crouse (Moderator) 



On-line forum discussion will go live June 9th