Toronto Outdoor Picture Show heads to Etobicoke on Thursday evenings in August for the fourth and final chapter of its summer-long “Dynamic Duos” programme at parks across the city!

This evening’s programme of animated stories about food and family centres on RATATOUILLE, the charming tale of a talking rat and an inept young chef who team up to make a name for themselves in Paris by mastering the art of French cuisine. The film is fun for all ages, offering both slapstick hijinks and a sophisticated consideration of artistic creativity, collaboration, and criticism.

RATATOUILLE’s meticulous depictions of food preparation and eating helped inspire the more recent Pixar short, BAO, Chinese-Canadian animator Domee Shi’s recent Oscar-winning fable of a lonely, aging mother in Toronto’s Chinatown who manifests herself a son out of a pork bun. Fellow Torontonian animator Melody Wang’s THE CASEBOOK OF NIPS & PORKINGTON rounds out the evening, following a dynamic duo of cat and pig detectives as they attempt to retrieve a stolen egg in a world artfully rendered in old-timey newsprint.

Films @ Sundown (8:45pm)
Arts & Crafts at 6pm & snacks sold at the festival canteen.

Free (donations gratefully accepted), not a ticketed event
BYOBlanket & Chairs
Accessible venue
Films are screened with captioning
More info at TOpicutureshow.com/bell-manor-park

RATATOUILLE (Brad Bird, 2007)
With short films BAO (Domee Shi, 2018)
and THE CASEBOOK OF NIPS & PORKINGTON (Melody Wang, 2015)

This series is produced with funding support from the City of Toronto through Toronto Arts Council and Toronto Arts Foundationon, in partnership with Arts Etobicoke and the Stonegate Community Health Centre.
TOPS thanks Major Sponsors Toronto Pearson International Airport and Waterfront Toronto.