VANCOUVER — To celebrate Pride Month, Telus announced today it is donating the full cost of movie rentals, up to $15,000, from the Celebrate Pride collection in its video-on-demand library to support Rainbow Railroad Canada, a community-led not-for-profit organization helping LGBTQ+ people around the world to find safety from persecution.
From now until June 30, Telus will donate the full cost of rentals from the curated Celebrate Pride collection of 39 films, which include award-winning and iconic features such as Ammonite, Boy Erased, Milk, Moonlight and Rocketman. The collection is available to all Telus Optik and Pik TV customers and rentals cost between $5 and $7.
The full list of featured titles in the Celebrate Pride collection can be found on the home screen of Optik and Pik TV.
Optik and Pik TV customers can also access a curated selection of free titles from Telus Originals, Storyhive and YouTube playlists available on the Community Connections channel (channel 345). Customers can watch Canadian films celebrating BIPOC and LGBTQ+ voices such as Jesse Jams produced by Alyson Richards and Trevor Anderson, Just Another Beautiful Family produced by Katherine and Nick North, and The Day Don Died produced by Ana Carrizales. Telus also offers Optik customers OUTtv, the world’s first and Canada’s only LGBTQ+ television network on channel 414.
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