The Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival is aiming for the stars with its opening night presentation: Stardust.

An official Canada-U.K. copro directed by Gabriel Range, the David Bowie biopic will screen under the stars, naturally, as a special in-person event on Oct. 1 at the Ontario Place Drive-In Presented by RBC.

Financed by London-headquartered production, finance and sales company Film Constellation with London and L.A.-based Salon Pictures and Toronto’s Wilding Pictures, Stardust takes place in 1971, following the 24-year-old musician (played by Emma‘s Johnny Flynn) as he embarks on his first road trip to the U.S. with publicist Ron Oberman (GLOW‘s Marc Maron).

Penned by Range and Christopher Bell, the project – which was primarily shot in and around Toronto in 2019 and was originally set to make its world premiere at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival – received support from Telefilm Canada and an equity investment from London’s Piccadilly Pictures. Earlier this week, it was announced that Stardust would serve as London-based Raindance Film Festival’s opening film, making its U.K. premiere at the festival.

Producers on the film include Paul Van Carter (McQueen) and Nick Taussig (McQueen) from Salon Pictures, Matt Code (Random Acts Of Violence) from Wildling Pictures and executive producers Film Constellation’s Fabien Westerhoff, Piccadilly Pictures’ Christopher Figg, Robert Whitehouse and Saskia Thomas.

Notably, Stardust will serve as one of Inside Out’s few drive-in events alongside writer-director Philip J. Connell’s Jump, Darling (special preview presentation, Canada) and co-directors Jen Rainin and Rivkah Beth Medow’s Ahead of the Curve (U.S.). In addition to the copro, the festival also announced two additional titles for its International Showcase: director Hong Khau’s Monsoon (U.K.) and Lauren Fash’s Through the Glass Darkly (U.S.).

“Stardust takes us back to a little discussed time just before David Bowie became the icon mainstream culture and the queer outliers came to know, to mimic, to sing to, to become, to idolize and to be inspired by,” said Inside Out director of programming Andrew Murphy in a statement to Playback Daily.

“Through his alter egos like Ziggy Stardust, this film is ultimately a rock star’s coming out story of an artist who created space for gender-bending fashion, left of centre art, and tolerance offering hope and a definable place in rock history for outsiders to call home and to be seen.”

Inside Out runs from Oct. 1 to 11, 2020.