Sudbury, Sept. 22 — After two successful seasons on television and now heading into a third, March Entertainment's first feature-length film based on the popular cartoon Chilly Beach will premiere this weekend, in the same city that helped create and inspire it.

"Chilly Beach: The World is Hot Enough" makes its worldwide debut at Sudbury, Ontario's Cinéfest (http://www.cinefest.com/), the celebrated international film festival. On Saturday, September 24 at 3:00 p.m., fans can catch the first glimpse of this hysterical animated epic.

"The World is Hot Enough" features characters from CBC's Gemini-nominated youth series Chilly Beach, produced entirely at March's studios in Sudbury and Toronto.

The show's premise — tracking the wacky misadventures of two hockey-obsessed hosers in an ice-locked resort town — was inspired by the uncommon and occasionally surreal experience of living in Canada's far north.

"I'm extremely excited that we've been able to produce an animated feature here in the city of Sudbury," says director Edin Ibric, who also directs the televised series. "To have it premiere at an event as renowned as Cinéfest makes even more special to me."

The film begins when Dale and Frank, two stereotypical Canucks with no contact with the outside world, decide to attract more tourists into Chilly Beach. Their plan: build a climate-altering device to make the local environment more hospitable to outsiders.

The results are pleasant at first. But when the U.S. Secret Service discovers their scheme, it leads to a snowballing heap of trouble — not least of which, the planet's imminent destruction. It's a wild adventure into a world of international intrigue, corruption, mysterious cults, time travel and lots of explosions.

Fans will not only get to see Frank and Dale on the big screen for the first time, but the film's innovative mix of 2-D and 3-D animation will add a stunning new dimension to the experience.

Produced by March Entertainment, "Chilly Beach: The World is Hot Enough" represents the first time a Canadian property has evolved from online "webisodes" into a network television show and from there, a feature film.