Becoming Tom Thomson

Becoming Tom Thomson is about an actor researching a character for an upcoming feature film that is inspired by Canadian wilderness painter Tom Thomson who died mysteriously in Algonquin Park in 1917. From learning to paint, canoe and fish to camping and fending off bears the host takes the audience on a journey back in time, scouting some of the locations that inspired the Canadian icon while also gaining first hand experience about what might have taken the young artist's life. The film won the Outstanding Northern Ontario Short Film Award at Sudbury Cinefest. Becoming Tom Thomson is about an actor researching a character for an upcoming feature film that is inspired by Canadian wilderness painter Tom Thomson who died mysteriously in Algonquin Park in 1917. From learning to paint, canoe and fish to camping and fending off bears the host takes the audience on a journey back in time, scouting some of the locations that inspired the Canadian icon while also gaining first hand experience about what might have taken the young artist's life. The film won the Outstanding Northern Ontario Short Film Award at Sudbury Cinefest. Becoming Tom Thomson is about an actor researching a character for an upcoming feature film that is inspired by Canadian wilderness painter Tom Thomson who died mysteriously in Algonquin Park in 1917. From learning to paint, canoe and fish to camping and fending off bears the host takes the audience on a journey back in time, scouting some of the locations that inspired the Canadian icon while also gaining first hand experience about what might have taken the young artist's life. The film won the Outstanding Northern Ontario Short Film Award at Sudbury Cinefest. Becoming Tom Thomson is about an actor researching a character for an upcoming feature film that is inspired by Canadian wilderness painter Tom Thomson who died mysteriously in Algonquin Park in 1917. From learning to paint, canoe and fish to camping and fending off bears the host takes the audience on a journey back in time, scouting some of the locations that inspired the Canadian icon while also gaining first hand experience about what might have taken the young artist's life. The film won the Outstanding Northern Ontario Short Film Award at Sudbury Cinefest.