20–22 August 2027 Port Perry lakefront
Three nights of films on the water: twelve films, two screens, one on the shore and one seen from the lake.
Plan your nightsTwelve films
Eight features and four shorts, every one shown with open captions. Tap a showing to add it to your nights.
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Paper Boat Republic
Two cousins declare a creek an independent country, then have to defend it from a beaver.
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Brass Weather
A small-town marching band loses its conductor four days before the final.
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My Grandmother’s Outboard
One summer rebuilding the boat motor a grandmother has refused to sell for sixty years.
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Hollow Moon Radio
A night-shift radio host keeps taking requests from a town that is not on any map.
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The Quiet Half of the Orchestra
Four second violinists go on strike in the middle of a tour, and nobody notices for a week.
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Swim Until Sunday
Three sisters set out to cross the lake their mother never finished, one kilometre a day.
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Nine Sleeps to Saturday
A six-year-old counts down to her first sleepover like a launch director.
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The Salt Clock
A lighthouse keeper notices the tide has started arriving eleven minutes late.
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Tomato Year
A record harvest, one small village, and nobody left who will take another tomato.
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Night Shift at the Kite Factory
After the last whistle, the test kites take themselves out for a flight.
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Pickerel Moon
One night on a frozen lake, told by the people who caught nothing.
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Seventeen Ways to Fold a Map
A family argues its way across a country, one crease at a time.
Every film here is invented for this concept. Titles, countries, years and running times are sample content.
Plan your nights
The two screens are a ten-minute walk apart. Pick your films and the planner checks the overlaps, the walk and the length of your evening.
Friday 20 August
6 screenings
Shore Screen
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Water Screen
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Saturday 21 August
6 screenings
Shore Screen
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Water Screen
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Sunday 22 August
6 screenings, encore night
Shore Screen
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Water Screen
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Sample timetable. Sunset on these dates is about 8:10 pm, and both screens are bright enough to start at dusk. Sunday is encore night: six films swap screens, so most clashes have a way out.
Tickets
Say who is coming. The picker reads the nights in your plan and works out whether single nights or the pass costs less.
Single night
Choose a night, or add films in the planner, and the cheaper option shows here.
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- 2 adults
- No mooring
- Sample ticket for a made-up festival, not valid for entry
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total in CAD
Tickets are not real: this is a concept.
- Single night
- $28
- Three-night pass
- $49
- Under 12, with an adult
- Free
- Boat mooring, per night
- $15
Sample prices in Canadian dollars, tax included.
Getting there
Port Perry lakefront about an hour from Toronto
Lake Scugog, Ontario the town sits on its west shore
20 to 22 August 2027 Friday to Sunday, sample dates
Gates 7 pm, films 8:15 sunset is about 8:10 pm
905-555-0102 a sample number, not in service
- Entrance and box office, at the foot of the main street
- Shore Screen, at the north end of the lawn
- Water Screen, on a float off the pier
- Accessible viewing areas, by the Shore Screen and on the pier deck
- Quiet zone, under the trees
- Food stalls and picnic tables
- Washrooms, one of them accessible
- Moorings for the Water Screen
- Information and first aid
Drawn for this concept and not to scale. The boardwalk between the two screens is the ten-minute walk the planner allows for.
By car
Port Perry is about an hour north-east of Toronto and twenty-five minutes north of Oshawa. From Highway 12, take Highway 7A east into town and follow the signs for the lakefront. The entrance is at the foot of the main street.
Parking
The lakefront itself is closed to cars on festival nights. Three signed lots sit within a ten-minute walk, and a shuttle cart loops from the farthest one from 6:30 pm until half an hour after the last film. Accessible parking is beside the entrance.
On foot or by bike
The lakefront is a short walk from the old downtown. Bike racks stand just inside the entrance, lit and watched until the site closes. The boardwalk between the screens is flat and wide enough for wheelchairs to pass.
By boat
Boats with a mooring add-on tie up in the field north-west of the Water Screen. Arrive in daylight and be on your mooring by 8 pm; a marshal boat shows you to it. Film sound reaches the moorings on a short-range radio channel given at check-in.
Sample visitor information for a made-up festival. The phone number and the arrangements above are not real.
Before you come
What to bring
A low chair or a blanket, and something warm: it cools quickly by the water once the sun is down. Bug spray earns its place in August. Bring a refillable bottle, as there are two water points on site, and a small light for the walk back, kept off during the films.
Leave at home: tall chairs, umbrellas, glass, speakers and drones.
If it rains
Films go ahead in light rain, so pack a poncho. In thunder or high wind the screens come down and the night is called by 9 pm, with a notice at the entrance and on this page.
Sunday is the rain date: a film lost on Friday or Saturday is shown on Sunday in place of an encore, and a single-night ticket for a lost night is good on any other night.
Accessibility
Every film on both screens is shown with open captions. Each screen has an accessible viewing area on firm, level ground with companion seats, which you can ask for at the entrance. The route between them is step-free.
The quiet zone under the trees has low light, no speakers and the Shore Screen’s sound on headphones. Service animals are welcome everywhere. Questions: access@
On the water
The Water Screen faces the pier steps, where the audience on foot sits, and the mooring field beyond them. A mooring is $15 a night on top of your tickets and holds one boat up to eight metres.
Everyone aboard needs a ticket. Engines and cabin lights go off when the film starts, and nobody leaves a mooring until the credits end.
Food, kids and dogs
The food stalls open with the gates at 7 pm and close when the late films start. You are welcome to bring a picnic. Under-12s come in free with an adult; films marked 14+ start after 10 pm, when the early films for all ages have finished.
Dogs on a leash are fine at the back of the Shore Screen lawn, and not on the pier.
Opening night in
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The lanterns are lit at sunset on Friday 20 August 2027, and the first film starts at 8:15 pm, Toronto time. Sample date for a made-up festival.
Plan your nights