Close to 20,000 Canadians provided their thoughts about our film HORIZON 360° – A Visual Symphony of Canada. Perhaps some of the most stirring responses were the ones that elicited some patriotic sentiment, some purpose-driven pride about Canada. In a country, where a key unifying quality is rooted in appreciating everybody’s differences, it is heart-stirring the level of patriotic spirit and gratitude felt across all of our audiences for Canada after our screenings.

It may be little surprise that Canada usually ranks so high in most important world ranking lists given the feelings of pride generated amongst our audience by our film. Here is a sampling below:

I) NATIONAL PRIDE

“Absolutely stunning! I feel proud to be Canadian!”  Ayla

“PRIDE IN OUR BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY!!” Karen

“It was beautiful! I’m proud to be Canadian. Great work!” Joyce

“WOW!!!! Proud to be Canadian” Jan.

“Emotional, cool! We love this country!” Renee

“It was absolutely phenomenal, it reminded me how proud we should be of Canada.” Miranda

“It made me fall in love with Canada.” Avalon

“Awesome!!!! All of it!!!! I’m one proud Canadian!” Garden

“Loved IT! It makes me love this country even more :).” Tricia

“Loved that it was 100% Canadian- made me feel patriotic.” Laura

II) CANADA SPECIALNESS

“Amazing – feel very fortunate to live in this wonderful country!” Bev

“Pride. Hope. It reminded me of what special country we have and what we have to protect!” Chris

“Well done! An amazing feat to capture Canada in all its spendour!” Tara

“Fabulous. Feel you are connecting Canada’s peoples and nature in a special way.” Sally

“That was Canadian amazing! Incredible! We Rock!” Deborah

“So beautiful. This country has so much.” Juliana

III) GRATITUDE & THANKS

“Loved it! Makes you appreciate the vastness and uniqueness of Canada.” Jordan

“I really did win the ‘birth lottery’ when I was born in this amazing country. fantastic. Amazing.” Sylvie

“Loved it – an excellent way to remind people of all the beauty in our country.” Melanie

“It made me thankful to be allowed to live and grow in such a vast land.” Greg

“It was marvellous! Thank you :).” Andrea

“Pride and Thankfulness.” Jim

“Incredible. Canada is Amazing! Thank you for coming to Kingston.” Kim

“Please come back to Kingston – the best ever.” Ron

“It made me feel humbled to call Canada home.” Elijah