BEAUTY DAY
W/ CAP’N VIDEO!
Jay Cheel | Canada | 2011 | 92m
Before the internet and reality television, Ralph Zavadil was entertaining Southern Ontario audiences with The Cap’n Video Show, a cable access series built around outrageous and occasionally dangerous stunts. Running from 1990 to 1995, the show developed a small but devoted following. All it took to finally get noticed was a broken neck.
Beauty Day follows Zavadil and the strange, hilarious world of Cap’n Video, revisiting the television show, its stunts and the man behind them. The film takes us back to a particularly eccentric chapter of Niagara television history.
Join us for a post-screening talk with filmmaker Jay Cheel and Cap’n Video himself!
Jay Cheel is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, editor and podcaster. A graduate of Niagara College, he made Beauty Day as his debut feature, drawing on the St. Catharines cable-access world that inspired the film. The documentary premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York as part of its Canadian Front series and screened at Hot Docs. Cheel later directed How to Build a Time Machine and the Shudder documentary series Cursed Films, and has co-hosted the Film Junk Podcast since 2005.
Read an interview with Cap’n Video in the National Post here!
https://nationalpost.com/arts/the-original-jackass-capn-video
