299 Queen Street West (film)

299 Queen Street West
Film poster
Directed bySean Menard
Produced bySean Menard
Molly Ye
Edited bySean Menard
Music byTom Caffey
Production
company
Sean Menard Productions
Release date
Running time
118 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

299 Queen Street West is a 2023 Canadian documentary film, directed, produced, and edited by Sean Menard.

The film chronicles the early history of MuchMusic, a music television channel headquartered at 299 Queen Street West in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The voices of VJs like Rick Campanelli, Sook-Yin Lee, Nam Kiwanuka, and George Stroumboulopoulos are featured in the film. Menard said, "I wanted to recreate the experience both for viewers who grew up with it and for those who have no clue what MuchMusic was. I wanted them to be immersed in that channel and the best way to do that is to live in the space and the world of the archives and not cut back and forth to on-camera interviews."[1]

  1. ^ "MuchMusic Documentary '299 Queen Street West' Traces How a Renegade Canadian Channel Took on MTV and Won (For a While)". Variety. March 13, 2023. Retrieved October 10, 2023.