The Death of My Two Fathers

This Special Screening is timed to coincide with Black History Month, shining a spotlight on Black voices and stories.

After putting it off for twenty years, filmmaker Sol Guy finally confronts the six tapes his father recorded before dying. Using those tapes as a framework, Guy recounts his family’s story-and his own-for his two teenage kids. In Guy’s own words, “It took me 20 years to watch the tapes my father recorded shortly before his death in 1998. They detail how a Black man from Kansas City moved to a small Canadian town, determined to do something different with his life. The tapes sent me on a path of rediscovering my roots, reexamining what it means to be Black in America, and reconnecting with the people my father left behind. As a better understanding of my father’s choices emerged, so did the parallels in my own.”

Sponsored by The Royal Hotel, The Death of My Two Fathers is showing Monday, February 13th at 7 PM, with a post-show Q&A with Sol Guy.

The Regent Theatre’s Special Screening Series has been given a big boost thanks to receiving a $50,000 grant from Telefilm Canada’s Theatrical Exhibition Program.