In The Art of Documentary, host and Oscar-nominee Jim LeBrecht takes listeners — and potential documentarians — on a journey with six filmmakers, who reveal not just what drew them to the medium but how they’re helping to reshape it.
The executive producer and sound engineer, best known for co-directing the Oscar-nominated disability rights doc Crip Camp with Nicole Newnham, kicks off each of the six episodes of the Film Academy original podcast by asking his guests about the incident that lit their fuse as documentarians. In the conversations that ensue, the filmmakers — Danny Cohen (Anonymous Club), Bing Liu (All These Sons), Chase Joynt and Aisling Chin-Yee (No Ordindary Man), Kirsten Johnson (Cameraperson), Garrett Bradley (Time) and Roger Ross Williams (Life, Animated) —unpack how their unique perspectives and identities shape their creative narratives and careers.
The discussions yield insights into how far documentary has come from its often exploitative cinéma vérité roots.
The executive producer and sound engineer, best known for co-directing the Oscar-nominated disability rights doc Crip Camp with Nicole Newnham, kicks off each of the six episodes of the Film Academy original podcast by asking his guests about the incident that lit their fuse as documentarians. In the conversations that ensue, the filmmakers — Danny Cohen (Anonymous Club), Bing Liu (All These Sons), Chase Joynt and Aisling Chin-Yee (No Ordindary Man), Kirsten Johnson (Cameraperson), Garrett Bradley (Time) and Roger Ross Williams (Life, Animated) —unpack how their unique perspectives and identities shape their creative narratives and careers.
The discussions yield insights into how far documentary has come from its often exploitative cinéma vérité roots.
- 7/6/2023
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Mubi has announced its lineup of streaming offerings for next month, including new restorations of Lars von Trier’s The Kingdom I & II ahead of the third installment beginning to roll out right after Thanksgiving. Additional highlights include Christos Nikou’s Apples, Lorenzo Vigas’ The Box, Paweł Łozińsk’s The Balcony Movie, and Antonio Marziale’s short Starfuckers, along with films by Hou Hsiao-hsien, Park Chan-wook, Lucrecia Martel, and more.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
November 1 – A Married Woman, directed by Jean-Luc Godard | For Ever Godard
November 2 – No Ordinary Man, directed by Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt | Portrait of the Artist
November 3 – Time to Love, directed by Metin Erksan | Rediscovered
November 4 – Apples, directed by Christos Nikou | Mubi Spotlight
November 5 – The Assassin, directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien | Hou Hsiao-hsien: A Double Bill
November 6 – Daughter of the Nile, directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien | Hou Hsiao-hsien: A Double Bill
November...
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
November 1 – A Married Woman, directed by Jean-Luc Godard | For Ever Godard
November 2 – No Ordinary Man, directed by Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt | Portrait of the Artist
November 3 – Time to Love, directed by Metin Erksan | Rediscovered
November 4 – Apples, directed by Christos Nikou | Mubi Spotlight
November 5 – The Assassin, directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien | Hou Hsiao-hsien: A Double Bill
November 6 – Daughter of the Nile, directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien | Hou Hsiao-hsien: A Double Bill
November...
- 10/30/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
François Arnaud (Surface, Midnight Texas), Joshua Close (Monica, Fargo) and Troian Bellisario (Pretty Little Liars) will be joining the CBC original drama series Plan B, set for a winter 2023 debut.
The series stars Patrick J. Adams as Philip and Karine Vanasse as Evelyn.
Adams is best known for playing college dropout turned lawyer Mike Ross in USA Network’s Suits between 2011 and 2019, a role that garnered him a Screen Actors Guild nomination. He recently made his Broadway debut in Richard Greenberg’s Tony-nominated revival of Take Me Out and starred as original Mercury 7 astronaut John Glenn in National Geographic’s first scripted series for Disney+, The Right Stuff.
Vanasse is an award-winning actress who starred as Detective Lise Delorme in CTV’s drama Cardinal between 2017 and 2020, for which she won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2019 and...
The series stars Patrick J. Adams as Philip and Karine Vanasse as Evelyn.
Adams is best known for playing college dropout turned lawyer Mike Ross in USA Network’s Suits between 2011 and 2019, a role that garnered him a Screen Actors Guild nomination. He recently made his Broadway debut in Richard Greenberg’s Tony-nominated revival of Take Me Out and starred as original Mercury 7 astronaut John Glenn in National Geographic’s first scripted series for Disney+, The Right Stuff.
Vanasse is an award-winning actress who starred as Detective Lise Delorme in CTV’s drama Cardinal between 2017 and 2020, for which she won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2019 and...
- 8/4/2022
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Framing Agnes filmmaker Chase Joynt, his producing partner Samantha Curley and their production company, Level Ground Productions, have signed with WME for representation, on the heels of the documentary’s world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.
In Joynt’s solo directorial debut, starring trans culture-makers Angelica Ross, Jen Richards and Zackary Drucker, he widens the lens through which transgender history is viewed as he explores the story of Agnes (Drucker) and her participation in gender health research at UCLA in the 1960s. Following its debut within Sundance’s Next section, the film co-written by Joynt and Morgan M. Page won its Audience Award, as well as its Innovator Award.
A trans filmmaker who is passionate in his in-depth advocacy and analysis of transgender issues and experiences onscreen, Joynt previously co-directed the Tribeca-premiering music doc No Ordinary Man, about trans icon Billy Tipton, with Aisling Chin-Yee.
Curley has thus...
In Joynt’s solo directorial debut, starring trans culture-makers Angelica Ross, Jen Richards and Zackary Drucker, he widens the lens through which transgender history is viewed as he explores the story of Agnes (Drucker) and her participation in gender health research at UCLA in the 1960s. Following its debut within Sundance’s Next section, the film co-written by Joynt and Morgan M. Page won its Audience Award, as well as its Innovator Award.
A trans filmmaker who is passionate in his in-depth advocacy and analysis of transgender issues and experiences onscreen, Joynt previously co-directed the Tribeca-premiering music doc No Ordinary Man, about trans icon Billy Tipton, with Aisling Chin-Yee.
Curley has thus...
- 2/15/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Wilmer Valderrama has a very personal reason for launching “Essential Voices,” his podcast featuring interviews with essential and frontline workers. His dad battled Covid-19 and suffered two minor heart attacks in the past year. “They showed up and helped my dad be with us for many more years,” the “NCIS” star tells me. “I’m so thankful, and I want to make sure their voices are heard. That’s my small contribution back for what they’ve done for my family.” Today, his father’s recovery is progressing. “He’s still working through his respiratory stuff, and he’s still trying to get his stamina back,” Valderrama says. “He’s working out every day. I always joke with him that he reminds me of Stella because he’s trying to get his groove back.”
Produced by Valderrama’s production company Wv Entertainment and Clamor and distributed by iHeart, “Essential Voices...
Produced by Valderrama’s production company Wv Entertainment and Clamor and distributed by iHeart, “Essential Voices...
- 7/28/2021
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
A fascinating deconstruction of history, culture and identity, “No Ordinary Man” raises many crucial questions — and answers them so thoughtfully — that it moves beyond entertainment into the realm of essential text. It belongs, equally, in theaters, streaming queues and classrooms.
Filmmakers Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt begin with the story of mid-century jazz musician Billy Tipton, who seems to be an ideal candidate for a traditionally formatted biographical documentary. But their goal isn’t to tell one man’s story, even if that man was “born a woman,” to reference the exploitative approach of previous tellings of his life. Tipton’s secret was revealed after his death in 1989, when EMTs removed his clothing. No one, including four successive wives and three children, had any idea that he had been assigned female at birth.
As we see in impactful footage from breathless talk shows that refer to him as a “jazzy gender-bender,...
Filmmakers Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt begin with the story of mid-century jazz musician Billy Tipton, who seems to be an ideal candidate for a traditionally formatted biographical documentary. But their goal isn’t to tell one man’s story, even if that man was “born a woman,” to reference the exploitative approach of previous tellings of his life. Tipton’s secret was revealed after his death in 1989, when EMTs removed his clothing. No one, including four successive wives and three children, had any idea that he had been assigned female at birth.
As we see in impactful footage from breathless talk shows that refer to him as a “jazzy gender-bender,...
- 7/16/2021
- by Elizabeth Weitzman
- The Wrap
Transgender people have existed since the beginning of time, but you wouldn’t know it from most of the media available to us. As a recent swell of documentaries attempts to fill in the gaps, filmmakers have the tough task of working with very little archival footage or historical research. As is often the case with LGBTQ history, what little documentation does exist is often filtered through a mainstream media lens that is inaccurate at best and traumatizing at worst. Add into the mix the problem that language around trans and queer identity is constantly evolving. How do you tell the story of a trans person whose life was only recorded in tabloids and who probably never even heard the word “transgender”?
As trans narratives continue to captivate filmmakers’ imaginations, such questions are being addressed in ever more creative ways. HBO’s excellent four-part docuseries “The Lady and the Dale...
As trans narratives continue to captivate filmmakers’ imaginations, such questions are being addressed in ever more creative ways. HBO’s excellent four-part docuseries “The Lady and the Dale...
- 7/15/2021
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
In 1998, Dianne Middlebrook published Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton, and the narrative around Billy Tipton’s life was warped. The truth was that Tipton, a successful jazz musician who lived from 1914 to 1989, was a transgender man who lived most of his life pretending to be a cisgender man. When he died, medical examinations revealed that Tipton had been assigned female at birth, which was news to Tipton’s ex-partner Kitty Kelly and their three adopted children. A media circus ensued that presented Tipton as a woman who posed as a man to get ahead in a sexist music industry. Middlebrook’s biography perpetuated that false narrative.
Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt’s new documentary, No Ordinary Man, is a sorely needed corrective on the life and identity of Billy Tipton. This is not your average music biopic—in fact, it’s not really about jazz at all,...
Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt’s new documentary, No Ordinary Man, is a sorely needed corrective on the life and identity of Billy Tipton. This is not your average music biopic—in fact, it’s not really about jazz at all,...
- 7/14/2021
- by Orla Smith
- The Film Stage
By Glenn Dunks
In No Ordinary Man, a groundbreaking biography emerges out of the tragic throes of history. Populated almost exclusively by the voices and experiences of transgender individuals, this riveting and decidedly trans-positive documentary from co-directors Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt has the power and the depth to deserve a place in the queer canon (if such a thing exists). It dismantles the very politics of disclosure, and tells its story of self-discovery with empathy and tenderness while utilising film craft in a way that offers genuine inclusive insight.
It tells the story of Billy Tipton, an acclaimed jazz musician, husband and father who, upon his death, was discovered to have been assigned female at birth. At first mocked on the daytime talk show and tabloid entertainment circuit as a ‘unimaginable’ fraud who deceived his family and society for personal gain (women had little access to the jazz scene...
In No Ordinary Man, a groundbreaking biography emerges out of the tragic throes of history. Populated almost exclusively by the voices and experiences of transgender individuals, this riveting and decidedly trans-positive documentary from co-directors Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt has the power and the depth to deserve a place in the queer canon (if such a thing exists). It dismantles the very politics of disclosure, and tells its story of self-discovery with empathy and tenderness while utilising film craft in a way that offers genuine inclusive insight.
It tells the story of Billy Tipton, an acclaimed jazz musician, husband and father who, upon his death, was discovered to have been assigned female at birth. At first mocked on the daytime talk show and tabloid entertainment circuit as a ‘unimaginable’ fraud who deceived his family and society for personal gain (women had little access to the jazz scene...
- 7/14/2021
- by Glenn Dunks
- FilmExperience
Following a premiere at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, Chase Joynt and Aisling Chin-yee’s acclaimed documentary No Ordinary Man is now arriving next month. The film unpacks the life of American jazz musician Billy Tipton, who passed away in 1989, when it was revealed that Tipton was assigned female at birth. Seeking to correct the misrepresentation of his life, the film features interviews with Marquise Vilsón, Scott Turner Schofield, Susan Stryker, C. Riley Snorton, Thomas Page McBee, and more. Ahead of a July 16 release, the first trailer has now arrived.
Orla Smith said earlier this year, “With No Ordinary Man, directors Chase Joynt and Aisling Chin-yee reclaim the lost history of trans jazz musician Billy Tipton. Because no moving footage of Tipton exists, in this documentary, Joynt and Chin-yee ask transmasculine actors to “audition” to play Tipton, discussing their interpretations of his life and how they’d play him.
Orla Smith said earlier this year, “With No Ordinary Man, directors Chase Joynt and Aisling Chin-yee reclaim the lost history of trans jazz musician Billy Tipton. Because no moving footage of Tipton exists, in this documentary, Joynt and Chin-yee ask transmasculine actors to “audition” to play Tipton, discussing their interpretations of his life and how they’d play him.
- 6/27/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
"He was an doting, loving, caring, ordinary father." Oscilliscope Labs in the US has revealed an official US trailer for a fascinating music history documentary called No Ordinary Man, from acclaimed filmmakers Aisling Chin-Yee & Chase Joynt. This premiered at TIFF last year and already opened in Canada (watch the first official trailer) with a theatrical release in the US set for this July. More than just a simple story about a musician many don't know... No Ordinary Man is an in-depth look at the life of musician & trans culture icon Billy Tipton. Complicated, beautiful, historically unrivaled, this uniquely groundbreaking film shows what's truly possible when a community collaborates to honor the legacy of an unlikely hero. For decades, the life of American Jazz musician, Billy Tipton, was framed as the story of an ambitious woman passing as a man in pursuit of a music career. But that's not the real...
- 6/21/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Exclusive: Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired U.S. rights to the genre-bending look at the life of musician and trans culture icon Billy Tipton in the documentary No Ordinary Man directed by Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt. The film production and distribution company founded by the late, great Adam Yauch of Beastie Boys also acquired the U.S. rights to Jeanne Leblanc’s suspense-drama Les Nôtres (Our Own).
The news of the acquisition of No Ordinary Man comes at an appropriate time as March 31 was Trans Day of Visibility. The docu spotlights American Jazz musician Billy Tipton, whose life was often framed as the story of an ambitious woman passing as a man in pursuit of a music career. In No Ordinary Man, Tipton’s story is reimagined and performed by trans artists as they collectively paint a portrait of an unlikely hero. The film features breakout stars in the trans community,...
The news of the acquisition of No Ordinary Man comes at an appropriate time as March 31 was Trans Day of Visibility. The docu spotlights American Jazz musician Billy Tipton, whose life was often framed as the story of an ambitious woman passing as a man in pursuit of a music career. In No Ordinary Man, Tipton’s story is reimagined and performed by trans artists as they collectively paint a portrait of an unlikely hero. The film features breakout stars in the trans community,...
- 4/1/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
"It's scary when centuries of your survival have been based on not being seen." LevelFilm from Canada has released an official trailer for an indie music history documentary film called No Ordinary Man, made by acclaimed filmmakers Aisling Chin-Yee & Chase Joynt. This initially premiered at TIFF last year and opens in Canada in April, though still no US release is set yet. No Ordinary Man is an in-depth look at the life of musician & trans culture icon Billy Tipton. Complicated, beautiful and historically unrivaled, this uniquely groundbreaking film shows what's truly possible when a community collaborates to honor the legacy of an unlikely hero. For decades, the life of American Jazz musician, Billy Tipton, was framed as the story of an ambitious woman passing as a man in pursuit of a music career. But that's not the real truth of his story. From this trailer, it seems half the film...
- 3/24/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Funny Boy, Posessor, Inconvenient Indian also make cut.
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has announced its list of top 10 Canadian films for 2020, with Beans, The Nest, and Nadia, Butterfly among the selection.
The list includes Canada’s international feature film submission Funny Boy from Deepa Mehta and is compiled by the TIFF programming team comprising artistic director and TIFF co-head Cameron Bailey, senior director, film, Diana Sanchez, and TIFF programmer Steve Gravestock.
In order to qualify, selections must have screened at a Canadian or international film festival.
The list appears below, followed by TIFF’s top 10 Canadian shorts of the year,...
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has announced its list of top 10 Canadian films for 2020, with Beans, The Nest, and Nadia, Butterfly among the selection.
The list includes Canada’s international feature film submission Funny Boy from Deepa Mehta and is compiled by the TIFF programming team comprising artistic director and TIFF co-head Cameron Bailey, senior director, film, Diana Sanchez, and TIFF programmer Steve Gravestock.
In order to qualify, selections must have screened at a Canadian or international film festival.
The list appears below, followed by TIFF’s top 10 Canadian shorts of the year,...
- 12/9/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The first all-virtual edition of the Doc NYC festival of nonfiction films announced its 2020 lineup on Thursday, with 107 feature documentaries about everyone from John Belushi to Jamal Khashoggi and Pope Francis to Frank Zappa,
The lineup for the festival, which runs from Nov. 11 through Nov. 19 and will take place completely online, includes 23 world premieres, among them Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker’s “The Meaning of Hitler,” Nancy Burski’s “A Crime on the Bayou,” Gong Cheng and Yung Chang’s “Wuhan Wuhan” and Jeff Daniels’ “Television Event.”
Doc NYC, which launched in 2010, is the largest festival of nonfiction films in the United States. This year the festival transitioned to a completely online event separated into 14 themed sections, two of which are competitive sections that will award prizes.
The competitive Viewfinders section consists of 11 films, including films set in Venezuela (“A La Calle”), Puerto Rico (“Landfall”), the Dominican Republic (“Stateless”) and...
The lineup for the festival, which runs from Nov. 11 through Nov. 19 and will take place completely online, includes 23 world premieres, among them Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker’s “The Meaning of Hitler,” Nancy Burski’s “A Crime on the Bayou,” Gong Cheng and Yung Chang’s “Wuhan Wuhan” and Jeff Daniels’ “Television Event.”
Doc NYC, which launched in 2010, is the largest festival of nonfiction films in the United States. This year the festival transitioned to a completely online event separated into 14 themed sections, two of which are competitive sections that will award prizes.
The competitive Viewfinders section consists of 11 films, including films set in Venezuela (“A La Calle”), Puerto Rico (“Landfall”), the Dominican Republic (“Stateless”) and...
- 10/15/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The Inside Out LGBT Film Festival unveiled its juried winners today. The top accolades went to Faraz Shariat’s No Hard Feelings for Best First Feature and Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt’s No Ordinary Man for Best Canadian Feature. The winners were announced by Inside Out’s Executive Director Andria Wilson and the festival’s Director of Programming Andrew Murphy. The fest continues through October 11.
For the first time in the festival’s history, the awards were announced on opening weekend, allowing audiences the opportunity to view the films throughout the digital festival’s dates. Audience winners will be unveiled on October 12.
Read the full list of winners below.
Canadian Juried Awards
The jurors for the 2020 Canadian jury were Toronto-based Cinematographer Ashley Iris Gill, Canadian Screen Award-Winning actress Natasha Negovanlis, and writer, musician and educator Scott Jones.
Emerging Canadian Artist
Body So Fluorescent – Director, David Di Giovanni
Best Canadian Short
Swimmers – Director,...
For the first time in the festival’s history, the awards were announced on opening weekend, allowing audiences the opportunity to view the films throughout the digital festival’s dates. Audience winners will be unveiled on October 12.
Read the full list of winners below.
Canadian Juried Awards
The jurors for the 2020 Canadian jury were Toronto-based Cinematographer Ashley Iris Gill, Canadian Screen Award-Winning actress Natasha Negovanlis, and writer, musician and educator Scott Jones.
Emerging Canadian Artist
Body So Fluorescent – Director, David Di Giovanni
Best Canadian Short
Swimmers – Director,...
- 10/5/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
As a historically marginalized group, LGBTQ people must excavate the past in order to find evidence of their existence. But when flying under the radar is a means of survival in a society determined to erase you, stories of queer life are often difficult to find. Every once in awhile, a long lost family member is hiding in plain sight — but it is up to us to reach out and claim them as our own. In the case of Billy Tipton, a successful American jazz musician active from the mid-1930s to ’50s, a familiar tune echoes across decades.
Directed by Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt, “No Ordinary Man” employs a feast of trans masculine performers to embody and engage with Tipton’s story. Working from a narrative script to a film that may never see the light of day, the filmmakers audition various actors for the role of Billy Tipton.
Directed by Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt, “No Ordinary Man” employs a feast of trans masculine performers to embody and engage with Tipton’s story. Working from a narrative script to a film that may never see the light of day, the filmmakers audition various actors for the role of Billy Tipton.
- 9/18/2020
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Mimi Steinbauer’s Los Angeles-based outfit Radiant Films has boarded U.S. and international sales rights to Toronto Film Festival documentary No Ordinary Man, about jazz musician and trans icon Billy Tipton.
The film, co-directed by Aisling Chin-Yee (The Rest of Us) and Chase Joynt (Framing Agnes), charts the life of American musician Tipton whose story, for decades since his death, was framed as an ambitious woman passing as a man in pursuit of a music career.
In the movie, Tipton’s story is re-imagined and performed by trans artists as they collectively paint a portrait of an unlikely hero. Together, the filmmakers join Tipton’s son Billy Jr. to reckon with a complicated and contested legacy. We debuted first footage of the film earlier this year.
Written by Amos Mac (co-founder of trans magazine Original Plumbing) and Chin-Yee, the film also features leading voices in the trans community including Marquise Vilsón,...
The film, co-directed by Aisling Chin-Yee (The Rest of Us) and Chase Joynt (Framing Agnes), charts the life of American musician Tipton whose story, for decades since his death, was framed as an ambitious woman passing as a man in pursuit of a music career.
In the movie, Tipton’s story is re-imagined and performed by trans artists as they collectively paint a portrait of an unlikely hero. Together, the filmmakers join Tipton’s son Billy Jr. to reckon with a complicated and contested legacy. We debuted first footage of the film earlier this year.
Written by Amos Mac (co-founder of trans magazine Original Plumbing) and Chin-Yee, the film also features leading voices in the trans community including Marquise Vilsón,...
- 9/10/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
In this “is the cinema half-empty or half-full?” world, Canadian producers are focusing on the perks of a leaner, hybrid Toronto fest, rather than empty seats.
“There is so much happening in the world on social and political levels, I am curious how that influences the consciousness of the marketplace,” says Toronto vet Charles Officer, director and co-producer of gang drama “Akilla’s Escape,” starring poet-actor Saul Williams.
“Screening in a smaller pool of titles allows for more visibility,” says Officer. “It’s important the cast of talented Black actors receive exposure at a festival like Toronto, and it’s rare that Black filmmakers in Canada make features — we can’t afford to be passive about opportunities to participate.” XYZ Films is selling the film.
WaZabi Films’ “Beans,” Tracey Deer’s coming-of-ager set during the 1990 standoff between Mohawk communities and government forces in Oka, Quebec, is “relevant to the times we are living in,...
“There is so much happening in the world on social and political levels, I am curious how that influences the consciousness of the marketplace,” says Toronto vet Charles Officer, director and co-producer of gang drama “Akilla’s Escape,” starring poet-actor Saul Williams.
“Screening in a smaller pool of titles allows for more visibility,” says Officer. “It’s important the cast of talented Black actors receive exposure at a festival like Toronto, and it’s rare that Black filmmakers in Canada make features — we can’t afford to be passive about opportunities to participate.” XYZ Films is selling the film.
WaZabi Films’ “Beans,” Tracey Deer’s coming-of-ager set during the 1990 standoff between Mohawk communities and government forces in Oka, Quebec, is “relevant to the times we are living in,...
- 9/9/2020
- by Jennie Punter
- Variety Film + TV
Festival line-up features 43% films directed, co-directed, or created by women.
Beans director Tracey Deer will receive the TIFF Emerging Talent Award during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) next month.
Deer joins the previously announced roster of honourees ahead of the 2020 TIFF Tribute Awards on September 15.
The award, presented by L’Oréal Paris and supported by MGM, champions a woman who is “an emerging talent making groundbreaking strides in the industry” and is presented in the spirit of Toronto native, trailblazer and United Artists co-founder Mary Pickford.
This year’s TIFF Line-up features 43% films directed, co-directed, or created by women, and 49% of films directed,...
Beans director Tracey Deer will receive the TIFF Emerging Talent Award during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) next month.
Deer joins the previously announced roster of honourees ahead of the 2020 TIFF Tribute Awards on September 15.
The award, presented by L’Oréal Paris and supported by MGM, champions a woman who is “an emerging talent making groundbreaking strides in the industry” and is presented in the spirit of Toronto native, trailblazer and United Artists co-founder Mary Pickford.
This year’s TIFF Line-up features 43% films directed, co-directed, or created by women, and 49% of films directed,...
- 8/24/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Festival line-up features 43% films directed, co-directed, or created by women.
Beans director Tracey Deer will receive the TIFF Emerging Talent Award during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) next month.
Deer joins the previously announced roster of honourees ahead of the 2020 TIFF Tribute Awards on September 15.
The award, presented by L’Oréal Paris and supported by MGM, champions a woman who is “an emerging talent making groundbreaking strides in the industry” and is presented in the spirit of Toronto native, trailblazer and United Artists co-founder Mary Pickford.
This year’s TIFF Line-up features 43% films directed, co-directed, or created by women, and 49% of films directed,...
Beans director Tracey Deer will receive the TIFF Emerging Talent Award during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) next month.
Deer joins the previously announced roster of honourees ahead of the 2020 TIFF Tribute Awards on September 15.
The award, presented by L’Oréal Paris and supported by MGM, champions a woman who is “an emerging talent making groundbreaking strides in the industry” and is presented in the spirit of Toronto native, trailblazer and United Artists co-founder Mary Pickford.
This year’s TIFF Line-up features 43% films directed, co-directed, or created by women, and 49% of films directed,...
- 8/24/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
The 45th edition of the Toronto Film Festival is still very much a go, although made up of a reduced programme. After announcing that Spike Lee’s filmed version of the Broadway-acclaimed David Byrne’s ‘American Utopia’ will open the festival the full line-up has now been released.
Taking place between September 10 – 19, the festival will see the first 5 days made up of physical screenings. The program will also be made up of drive-ins, digital screenings, virtual red carpets, press conferences, industry talks.
The highlights of this year’s festival will include ‘God’s Own Country’ helmer Francis Lee’s ‘Ammonite,’Chloe Zhao’s ‘Nomadland,’ Florian Zeller’s ‘The Father’ and Werner Herzog’s doco “Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds as well as films directed by Regina King, Viggo Mortensen and Halle Berry.
Also in news – Netflix release first look images from Ryan Murphy’s ‘Ratched’
See the full line-up below;
“180 Degree...
Taking place between September 10 – 19, the festival will see the first 5 days made up of physical screenings. The program will also be made up of drive-ins, digital screenings, virtual red carpets, press conferences, industry talks.
The highlights of this year’s festival will include ‘God’s Own Country’ helmer Francis Lee’s ‘Ammonite,’Chloe Zhao’s ‘Nomadland,’ Florian Zeller’s ‘The Father’ and Werner Herzog’s doco “Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds as well as films directed by Regina King, Viggo Mortensen and Halle Berry.
Also in news – Netflix release first look images from Ryan Murphy’s ‘Ratched’
See the full line-up below;
“180 Degree...
- 7/31/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Nicolás Pereda's FaunaToronto International Film Festival have unveiled a dramatically reduced selection of films from their upcoming 2020 edition, including new films by Spike Lee, Nicolás Pereda, Naomi Kawase, and Werner Herzog. The festival's tailored lineup of 50 features, plus five programs of to-be-announced shorts, will screen both physically (for the festival's first five days) and virtually (for the festival's full 10 days.) As previously announced, selected films—such as Chloé Zhao's Nomadland—will premiere in a non-competitive alliance with other major fall festivals in Venice, Telluride, and New York.Opening Night FILMDavid Byrne’s American Utopia (Spike Lee)Closing Night Filma Suitable Boy (Mira Nair)Official SELECTION180 Degree Rule (Farnoosh Samadi)76 Days (Hao Wu, Anonymous, Weixi Chen)Ammonite (Francis Lee)Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg)Bandar Band (Manijeh Hekmat)Beans (Tracey Deer)Beginning (Dea Kulumbegashvili)The Best Is Yet To Come (Wang Jing)Bruised (Halle Berry)City Hall (Frederick Wiseman)Concrete Cowboy...
- 7/30/2020
- MUBI
As announced last month, the Toronto International Film Festival will look quite different this year in the era of Covid-19. Featuring a drastically reduced lineup, physical screenings for only the first half of the festivals, and more changes, the festival has now unveiled their complete feature film lineup.
Along with previously announced films like the opener, Spike Lee’s filmed version of David Byrne’s American Utopia, Francis Lee’s Ammonite, and Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, the festival also includes directorial debuts by Halle Berry and Regina King as well as new work by Werner Herzog, Mira Nair, Reinaldo Marcus Green, Frederick Wiseman, and more.
“We began this year planning for a 45th Festival much like our previous editions,” said Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director and Co-Head of TIFF, “but along the way we had to rethink just about everything. This year’s lineup reflects that tumult. The names you already...
Along with previously announced films like the opener, Spike Lee’s filmed version of David Byrne’s American Utopia, Francis Lee’s Ammonite, and Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, the festival also includes directorial debuts by Halle Berry and Regina King as well as new work by Werner Herzog, Mira Nair, Reinaldo Marcus Green, Frederick Wiseman, and more.
“We began this year planning for a 45th Festival much like our previous editions,” said Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director and Co-Head of TIFF, “but along the way we had to rethink just about everything. This year’s lineup reflects that tumult. The names you already...
- 7/30/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The Toronto Film Festival (September 10-19) has revealed the lineup for its hybrid 2020 edition, which has had to be pared back due to the impact of coronavirus.
Joining movies previously announced for the festival are new projects by the likes of Werner Herzog, Regina King, Francois Ozon and Naomi Kawase. Mira Nair’s BBC-Netflix TV series A Suitable Boy has been set as the festival’s closing night event. Scroll down for the list in full.
As revealed earlier this month, the slimmed down festival will open with Spike Lee’s concert movie version of David Byrne show American Utopia. Movies previously announced for Sundance and Venice which are also heading to Toronto include Viggo Mortensen’s Falling, Olivia Colman-Anthony Hopkins starrer The Father, Kornél Mundruczó’s Pieces Of A Woman and Frederick Wiseman’s City Hall. Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland will debut at Toronto and Venice simultaneously.
Joining movies previously announced for the festival are new projects by the likes of Werner Herzog, Regina King, Francois Ozon and Naomi Kawase. Mira Nair’s BBC-Netflix TV series A Suitable Boy has been set as the festival’s closing night event. Scroll down for the list in full.
As revealed earlier this month, the slimmed down festival will open with Spike Lee’s concert movie version of David Byrne show American Utopia. Movies previously announced for Sundance and Venice which are also heading to Toronto include Viggo Mortensen’s Falling, Olivia Colman-Anthony Hopkins starrer The Father, Kornél Mundruczó’s Pieces Of A Woman and Frederick Wiseman’s City Hall. Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland will debut at Toronto and Venice simultaneously.
- 7/30/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Films include ’Ammonite’, ’Notturno’, ’New Order’ and ’Penguin Bloom’.
New work from Francis Lee, Werner Herzog, François Ozon, Gianfranco Rosi, Regina King and Mira Nair are among the line-up for the 45th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
As previously announced, Spike Lee’s David Byrne’s American Utopia will open this year’s edition, which runs from September 10-19.
The festival will close with Nair’s A Suitable Boy (pictured), a six-part TV drama that debuted on the BBC in the UK last Sunday (July 26). Netflix has online global rights, excluding North America and China.
Scroll down for full line-up...
New work from Francis Lee, Werner Herzog, François Ozon, Gianfranco Rosi, Regina King and Mira Nair are among the line-up for the 45th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
As previously announced, Spike Lee’s David Byrne’s American Utopia will open this year’s edition, which runs from September 10-19.
The festival will close with Nair’s A Suitable Boy (pictured), a six-part TV drama that debuted on the BBC in the UK last Sunday (July 26). Netflix has online global rights, excluding North America and China.
Scroll down for full line-up...
- 7/30/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
With Netflix currently going through a rare drought in terms of adding new content, competitors like Hulu and Disney Plus are continuing to put out fresh material to keep us busy. The former, in particular, are adding some great movies and series for July 13th to 19th, including The Weekend, Into the Dark and documentary Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love, on top of recently released critical favorites like Palm Springs.
From today, Hulu users can catch up on My Scientology Movie, the Louis Theroux-produced look at the controversial organization, as well as the Canadian drama The Rest of Us, Aisling Chin-Yee’s well-regarded directorial debut from 2019. On Wednesday the 15th, meanwhile, we’re getting The Weekend, wherein a comedian finds herself caught between her ex, his new girlfriend and another guest, leading to some predictably complicated farce.
Also coming this Wednesday is the first season of Diary of a Prosecutor,...
From today, Hulu users can catch up on My Scientology Movie, the Louis Theroux-produced look at the controversial organization, as well as the Canadian drama The Rest of Us, Aisling Chin-Yee’s well-regarded directorial debut from 2019. On Wednesday the 15th, meanwhile, we’re getting The Weekend, wherein a comedian finds herself caught between her ex, his new girlfriend and another guest, leading to some predictably complicated farce.
Also coming this Wednesday is the first season of Diary of a Prosecutor,...
- 7/13/2020
- by Jessica James
- We Got This Covered
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and an archive of past round-ups here.
By the Grace of God (François Ozon)
French director François Ozon has delivered one of the best films of his eclectic career with By the Grace of God, a drama whose seriousness and sincerity marks a tonal shift for a filmmaker typically famous for sexual and sensual provocation. Instead, this chronicle of a real-life grassroots campaign to out Catholic priests who committed and covered up of historic sexual abuse is unsensational and methodical, immaculately written through a script that radically tells three different stories that slide seamlessly together. – Ed F. (full review)
Where to Stream: Amazon, iTunes, Google
Dark Waters (Todd Haynes)
Legal dramas lionize those...
By the Grace of God (François Ozon)
French director François Ozon has delivered one of the best films of his eclectic career with By the Grace of God, a drama whose seriousness and sincerity marks a tonal shift for a filmmaker typically famous for sexual and sensual provocation. Instead, this chronicle of a real-life grassroots campaign to out Catholic priests who committed and covered up of historic sexual abuse is unsensational and methodical, immaculately written through a script that radically tells three different stories that slide seamlessly together. – Ed F. (full review)
Where to Stream: Amazon, iTunes, Google
Dark Waters (Todd Haynes)
Legal dramas lionize those...
- 2/21/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
An official selection at Tiff, Gravitas Ventures has unveiled the first trailer for The Rest of Us, the debut feature from Aisling Chin-Yee starring Heather Graham (Boogie Nights), Sophie Nélisse (The Book Thief), and Jodi Balfour (True Detective) ahead of its Valentine’s Day release.
The film conveys the struggles between two families forced to connect after the untimely death of the father, as his wife Rachel (Balfour) finds herself struggling financially after finding out her husband was secretly broke. To take care of her daughter she finds herself contending with his ex-wife Cami (Graham) and her emotionally aloof teenage daughter Aster (Nélisse), which provides challenging.
In his glowing review, Jared Mobarak said, “The Rest of Us truly is Graham and Balfour’s show. How they break down their defenses insofar as who they are in relation to Craig so they can reclaim their identities as independent women who own their mistakes is inspiring.
The film conveys the struggles between two families forced to connect after the untimely death of the father, as his wife Rachel (Balfour) finds herself struggling financially after finding out her husband was secretly broke. To take care of her daughter she finds herself contending with his ex-wife Cami (Graham) and her emotionally aloof teenage daughter Aster (Nélisse), which provides challenging.
In his glowing review, Jared Mobarak said, “The Rest of Us truly is Graham and Balfour’s show. How they break down their defenses insofar as who they are in relation to Craig so they can reclaim their identities as independent women who own their mistakes is inspiring.
- 1/30/2020
- by Margaret Rasberry
- The Film Stage
The female-led drama is set for a February theatrical and on-demand launch.
Gravitas Ventures has acquired Us rights to recent Toronto festival premiere The Rest Of Us from sales agent Voltage Pictures.
The drama-comedy about the complicated relationships between two women and their daughters stars Heather Graham, Sophie Nélisse, Jodi Balfour and Abigail Pniowsky. Aisling Chin-Yee directed from a script by Alanna Francis.
Katie Bird Nolan and Lindsay Tapscott of Babe Nation Films, William Woods of Woods Entertainment, and Emma Fleury served as producers. Executive Producers are Damon D’Oliveira and Patrice Theroux.
Gravitas, part of the Europe-based multi-national Red Arrow Studios group,...
Gravitas Ventures has acquired Us rights to recent Toronto festival premiere The Rest Of Us from sales agent Voltage Pictures.
The drama-comedy about the complicated relationships between two women and their daughters stars Heather Graham, Sophie Nélisse, Jodi Balfour and Abigail Pniowsky. Aisling Chin-Yee directed from a script by Alanna Francis.
Katie Bird Nolan and Lindsay Tapscott of Babe Nation Films, William Woods of Woods Entertainment, and Emma Fleury served as producers. Executive Producers are Damon D’Oliveira and Patrice Theroux.
Gravitas, part of the Europe-based multi-national Red Arrow Studios group,...
- 11/22/2019
- ScreenDaily
Jovanka Vuckovic has signed with Dan Rabinow, Jordan Berg, Wilhelmina Ross, Ruby Kaye and Hannah Wright at CAA.
Vuckovic recently directed the teen punk apocalypse feature Riot Girls which was released by Good Deed Entertainment in the U.S. She is the co-creator, writer and director of Xx, an all-women horror anthology feature film which premiered at Sundance in 2017, produced by Xyz Films and Magnolia Pictures. Vuckovic adapted and directed The Box by Jack Ketchum in Xx.
Vuckovic’s first short film, The Captured Bird, executive produced by Guillermo del Toro, played over 60 festivals, winning four Best Short Film awards. She is a Gemini Award-winning visual effects artist and cemented a reputation as a genre film authority during her tenure as editor-in-chief of Rue Morgue Magazine. She is also the author of Zombies! An Illustrated History of the Undead, (St. Martin’s Press) and Vuckovic’s Horror Miscellany’(Ilex Press).
Vuckovic...
Vuckovic recently directed the teen punk apocalypse feature Riot Girls which was released by Good Deed Entertainment in the U.S. She is the co-creator, writer and director of Xx, an all-women horror anthology feature film which premiered at Sundance in 2017, produced by Xyz Films and Magnolia Pictures. Vuckovic adapted and directed The Box by Jack Ketchum in Xx.
Vuckovic’s first short film, The Captured Bird, executive produced by Guillermo del Toro, played over 60 festivals, winning four Best Short Film awards. She is a Gemini Award-winning visual effects artist and cemented a reputation as a genre film authority during her tenure as editor-in-chief of Rue Morgue Magazine. She is also the author of Zombies! An Illustrated History of the Undead, (St. Martin’s Press) and Vuckovic’s Horror Miscellany’(Ilex Press).
Vuckovic...
- 11/9/2019
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Aisling Chin-Yee’s feature directorial debut centres on tragedy that unites two women.
Voltage Pictures has launched worldwide sales excluding Canada on The Rest Of Us starring Heather Graham, which receives its world premiere in Tiff Discovery tomorrow (6).
Graham stars in Aisling Chin-Yee’s feature directorial debut as a children’s author and illustrator who invites her ex-partner’s wife and daughter into her life when tragedy strikes.
The cast includes Sophie Nélisse, Jodi Balfour, and Abigail Pniowsky (Arrival). Alanna Francis makes her feature screenwriting debut.
levelFILM will distribute The Rest Of Us in Canada. Katie Bird Nolan and Lindsay Tapscott...
Voltage Pictures has launched worldwide sales excluding Canada on The Rest Of Us starring Heather Graham, which receives its world premiere in Tiff Discovery tomorrow (6).
Graham stars in Aisling Chin-Yee’s feature directorial debut as a children’s author and illustrator who invites her ex-partner’s wife and daughter into her life when tragedy strikes.
The cast includes Sophie Nélisse, Jodi Balfour, and Abigail Pniowsky (Arrival). Alanna Francis makes her feature screenwriting debut.
levelFILM will distribute The Rest Of Us in Canada. Katie Bird Nolan and Lindsay Tapscott...
- 9/5/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
‘The Farewell’ Director Lulu Wang, Producer Cassian Elwes Join Toronto Film Festival’s Filmmaker Lab
Directors Lulu Wang (“The Farewell”) and Patricia Rozema (“I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing”) and producer Cassian Elwes will serve as mentors at the Toronto International Film Festival’s 2019 Tiff Filmmaker Lab, Tiff organizers announced on Wednesday.
The festival also unveiled its lineup of Canadian films, which will include new work directed by Atom Egoyan, Louise Archambault, Ellen Page and Amy Jo Johnson, and starring Felicity Huffman, Imogen Poots and David Cronenberg, among others. And it announced participants in industry programs and the Canadian honorees in its annual Tiff Rising Stars showcase.
The films were spread across eight different sections of the Toronto Film Festival, some of which have yet to announce their non-Canadian programming.
Also Read: Mister Rogers, the Joker and Judy Garland Are All Headed to Toronto Film Festival
The Canadian galas, all previously announced, are the opening-night documentary “Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band,” Semi...
The festival also unveiled its lineup of Canadian films, which will include new work directed by Atom Egoyan, Louise Archambault, Ellen Page and Amy Jo Johnson, and starring Felicity Huffman, Imogen Poots and David Cronenberg, among others. And it announced participants in industry programs and the Canadian honorees in its annual Tiff Rising Stars showcase.
The films were spread across eight different sections of the Toronto Film Festival, some of which have yet to announce their non-Canadian programming.
Also Read: Mister Rogers, the Joker and Judy Garland Are All Headed to Toronto Film Festival
The Canadian galas, all previously announced, are the opening-night documentary “Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band,” Semi...
- 7/31/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The Toronto International Film Festival has added another 26 new titles to its 2019 festival lineup, comprised entirely of features directed by Canadian filmmakers. Each year, Tiff highlights films that hail from its own shores in a standalone announcement, and this year it includes seven first features, 13 works by returning Tiff alumni, and almost 50% films directed by women.
Tiff debuts include Aisling Chin-Yee’s “The Rest of Us,” Harry Cepka’s “Raf,” Matthew Rankin’s “The Twentieth Century,” Heather Young’s “Murmur,” and Nicole Dorsey’s “Black Conflux.” Plenty of returning filmmakers are also included in this batch of films, including Atom Egoyan, Sophie Deraspe, Joey Klein, Albert Shin, Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis, Louise Archambault, Kire Paputts, and Amy Jo Johnson.
“We are deeply impressed by the high quality of the work done by Canadian directors this year — particularly from filmmakers who were making their first and second features,...
Tiff debuts include Aisling Chin-Yee’s “The Rest of Us,” Harry Cepka’s “Raf,” Matthew Rankin’s “The Twentieth Century,” Heather Young’s “Murmur,” and Nicole Dorsey’s “Black Conflux.” Plenty of returning filmmakers are also included in this batch of films, including Atom Egoyan, Sophie Deraspe, Joey Klein, Albert Shin, Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis, Louise Archambault, Kire Paputts, and Amy Jo Johnson.
“We are deeply impressed by the high quality of the work done by Canadian directors this year — particularly from filmmakers who were making their first and second features,...
- 7/31/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Festival also announces four Canadian Rising Stars and the annual Filmmaker Lab participants.
Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) brass announced on Wednesday (July 31) the launch of a talent incubator for female content creators and unveiled the line-up of Canadian features, nearly half of which are directed by women.
Five features from indigenous filmmakers are among the selection of 26 Canadian features. Tiff also announced four Canadian Rising Stars, the annual Tiff Filmmaker Lab participants, finallists for Telefilm Canada’s Pitch This! competition, and the roster of Canadian short films.
The Canadian feature selections include seven first features and 13 works by returning Tiff alumni,...
Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) brass announced on Wednesday (July 31) the launch of a talent incubator for female content creators and unveiled the line-up of Canadian features, nearly half of which are directed by women.
Five features from indigenous filmmakers are among the selection of 26 Canadian features. Tiff also announced four Canadian Rising Stars, the annual Tiff Filmmaker Lab participants, finallists for Telefilm Canada’s Pitch This! competition, and the roster of Canadian short films.
The Canadian feature selections include seven first features and 13 works by returning Tiff alumni,...
- 7/31/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Kacey Rohl, Mikhaïl Ahooja, Nahéma Ricci, Shamier Anderson are Tiff Rising Stars.
Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) brass announced on Wednesday (July 31) the launch of a talent incubator for female content creators and unveiled the line-up of Canadian features, nearly half of which are directed by women.
Five features from indigenous filmmakers are among the selection of 26 Canadian features. Tiff also announced four Canadian Rising Stars, the annual Tiff Filmmaker Lab participants, finallists for Telefilm Canada’s Pitch This! competition, and the roster of Canadian short films.
The Canadian feature selections include seven first features and 13 works by returning Tiff alumni,...
Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) brass announced on Wednesday (July 31) the launch of a talent incubator for female content creators and unveiled the line-up of Canadian features, nearly half of which are directed by women.
Five features from indigenous filmmakers are among the selection of 26 Canadian features. Tiff also announced four Canadian Rising Stars, the annual Tiff Filmmaker Lab participants, finallists for Telefilm Canada’s Pitch This! competition, and the roster of Canadian short films.
The Canadian feature selections include seven first features and 13 works by returning Tiff alumni,...
- 7/31/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Heather Graham, Sophie Nélisse, Jodi Balfour, and Abigail Pniowsky are starring in the independent drama-comedy “The Rest of Us.”
Aisling Chin-Yee’s is making her directorial debut in “The Rest of Us,” the first feature film from female-driven production company Babe Nation Creations. She is directing from a script by Alanna Francis, which was the 2016 Academy Nicholl Fellowship quarterfinalist.
Graham portrays a poised, divorced woman, who has a tenuous relationship with her headstrong teenage daughter, played by Nelisse. The relationship is threatened when she invites her ex-husband’s second wife, played by Balfour, and young daughter (Pniowsky) to move in with them following his unexpected death.
The four women must contend with their own grief, truths, flaws and secrets while ultimately deciding if the past will dictate their future. The film has begun production Toronto.
“The Rest of Us” is produced by Katie Nolan, Lindsay Tapscott, Emma Fleury, and William Woods of Woods Entertainment.
Aisling Chin-Yee’s is making her directorial debut in “The Rest of Us,” the first feature film from female-driven production company Babe Nation Creations. She is directing from a script by Alanna Francis, which was the 2016 Academy Nicholl Fellowship quarterfinalist.
Graham portrays a poised, divorced woman, who has a tenuous relationship with her headstrong teenage daughter, played by Nelisse. The relationship is threatened when she invites her ex-husband’s second wife, played by Balfour, and young daughter (Pniowsky) to move in with them following his unexpected death.
The four women must contend with their own grief, truths, flaws and secrets while ultimately deciding if the past will dictate their future. The film has begun production Toronto.
“The Rest of Us” is produced by Katie Nolan, Lindsay Tapscott, Emma Fleury, and William Woods of Woods Entertainment.
- 6/18/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Principal photography has begun in Toronto on Aisling Chin-Yee’s directorial debut, The Rest of Us, the first feature film from female-driven production company Babe Nation Creations.
Aisling Chin-Yee will direct the 2016 Academy Nicholl Fellowship quarterfinalist screenplay of the same name written by first-time screenwriter Alanna Francis.
The dramedy stars Heather Graham, Sophie Nélisse and Jodi Balfour and Abigail Pniowsky (Arrival).
In The Rest of Us, a poised, divorced woman, Cami (Graham), threatens her already tenuous relationship with her headstrong teenage daughter, Aster (Nelisse), when she invites her ex-husband’s second wife, Rachel (Balfour), and young daughter, Talulah (Pniowsky) to move in with them following his unexpected death.
The four women must contend with their own grief, truths, flaws and secrets while ultimately deciding if the past will dictate their future.
Aisling Chin-Yee will direct the 2016 Academy Nicholl Fellowship quarterfinalist screenplay of the same name written by first-time screenwriter Alanna Francis.
The dramedy stars Heather Graham, Sophie Nélisse and Jodi Balfour and Abigail Pniowsky (Arrival).
In The Rest of Us, a poised, divorced woman, Cami (Graham), threatens her already tenuous relationship with her headstrong teenage daughter, Aster (Nelisse), when she invites her ex-husband’s second wife, Rachel (Balfour), and young daughter, Talulah (Pniowsky) to move in with them following his unexpected death.
The four women must contend with their own grief, truths, flaws and secrets while ultimately deciding if the past will dictate their future.
- 6/18/2018
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Heather Graham and The Crown star Jodi Balfour are top-lining the female-driven indie The Rest of Us, the directorial debut from Aisling Chin-Yee.
Sophie Nelisse and Abigail Pniowsky also star in the film about a quartet of women struggling with their own truths, flaws and secrets as their pasts color their future. Graham, best known for starring roles in Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights and The Hangover trilogy, will play a divorced woman who, along with her headstrong teenage daughter (Nelisse), invites her ex-husband's second wife, played by Balfour, and her daughter (Pniowsky) to move in with them following her ...
Sophie Nelisse and Abigail Pniowsky also star in the film about a quartet of women struggling with their own truths, flaws and secrets as their pasts color their future. Graham, best known for starring roles in Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights and The Hangover trilogy, will play a divorced woman who, along with her headstrong teenage daughter (Nelisse), invites her ex-husband's second wife, played by Balfour, and her daughter (Pniowsky) to move in with them following her ...
- 6/18/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Heather Graham and The Crown star Jodi Balfour are top-lining the female-driven indie The Rest of Us, the directorial debut from Aisling Chin-Yee.
Sophie Nelisse and Abigail Pniowsky also star in the film about a quartet of women struggling with their own truths, flaws and secrets as their pasts color their future. Graham, best known for starring roles in Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights and The Hangover trilogy, will play a divorced woman who, along with her headstrong teenage daughter (Nelisse), invites her ex-husband's second wife, played by Balfour, and her daughter (Pniowsky) to move in with them following her ...
Sophie Nelisse and Abigail Pniowsky also star in the film about a quartet of women struggling with their own truths, flaws and secrets as their pasts color their future. Graham, best known for starring roles in Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights and The Hangover trilogy, will play a divorced woman who, along with her headstrong teenage daughter (Nelisse), invites her ex-husband's second wife, played by Balfour, and her daughter (Pniowsky) to move in with them following her ...
- 6/18/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Forty Canadian and international producers will head to the Ontario Media Development Corporation’s annual International Financing Forum in Toronto.Scroll down for full list of projects
The ninth-annual International Financing Forum (Iff), a feature co-financing market for English-language projects, will run Sept 7-8 during Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 4-14).
The two-day event includes one-on-one meetings, an industry panel discussion, roundtable meetings, a networking luncheon, and a producers’ opening night networking reception.
Iff partners include Telefilm Canada, UK Trade and Investment (Ukti), and Toronto Film Commission & Entertainment Industries.
Among this year’s international projects are:
The Lunchbox producer Guneet Monga with sci-fi drama Punha, starring Kanal Nayyar of The Big Bang Theory;
Land Ho! producers Mynette Louie and Sara Murphy reteaming with director Aaron Katz on Settlers;
former Screen International Future Leader Sol Bondy of Germany’s One Two Films with Us-based Jennifer Fox with her thriller The Tale to star Laura Dern, Ellen Burstyn and [link...
The ninth-annual International Financing Forum (Iff), a feature co-financing market for English-language projects, will run Sept 7-8 during Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 4-14).
The two-day event includes one-on-one meetings, an industry panel discussion, roundtable meetings, a networking luncheon, and a producers’ opening night networking reception.
Iff partners include Telefilm Canada, UK Trade and Investment (Ukti), and Toronto Film Commission & Entertainment Industries.
Among this year’s international projects are:
The Lunchbox producer Guneet Monga with sci-fi drama Punha, starring Kanal Nayyar of The Big Bang Theory;
Land Ho! producers Mynette Louie and Sara Murphy reteaming with director Aaron Katz on Settlers;
former Screen International Future Leader Sol Bondy of Germany’s One Two Films with Us-based Jennifer Fox with her thriller The Tale to star Laura Dern, Ellen Burstyn and [link...
- 8/26/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Denis Villeneuve will have two films in the festival as it emerged that Canadian Features world premiere Enemy starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a man and his doppelganger [pictured] has joined the previously announced Prisoners, also starring Gyllenhaal.
The Canadian Features selection includes Michael Dowse’s Goon follow-up The F Word, Xavier Dolan’s Tom At The Farm and Chloe Robichaud’s Sarah Prefers To Run as well as work from Jeff Barnaby, Bruce McDonald and Bruce Labruce. Also receiving its world premiere is All The Wrong Reasons featuring the final performance by the late Glee star Cory Monteith.
Festival organisers also unveiled Producers Lab Toronto participants and Telefilm Canada Pitch This! finallists, the shorts programme and participants in the tenth Tiff Talent Lab.
“The scope of this year’s feature films is as broad as Canada’s filmmaking community and demonstrates the deep versatility of our filmmakers,” said Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock. “From clever...
The Canadian Features selection includes Michael Dowse’s Goon follow-up The F Word, Xavier Dolan’s Tom At The Farm and Chloe Robichaud’s Sarah Prefers To Run as well as work from Jeff Barnaby, Bruce McDonald and Bruce Labruce. Also receiving its world premiere is All The Wrong Reasons featuring the final performance by the late Glee star Cory Monteith.
Festival organisers also unveiled Producers Lab Toronto participants and Telefilm Canada Pitch This! finallists, the shorts programme and participants in the tenth Tiff Talent Lab.
“The scope of this year’s feature films is as broad as Canada’s filmmaking community and demonstrates the deep versatility of our filmmakers,” said Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock. “From clever...
- 8/7/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Denis Villeneuve will have two films in the festival as it emerged on Wednesday [7] that Canadian Features world premiere Enemy starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a man and his doppelganger [pictured] has joined the previously announced Prisoners, also starring Gyllenhaal.
The Canadian Features selection includes Michael Dowse’s Goon follow-up The F Word, Xavier Dolan’s Tom At The Farm and Chloe Robichaud’s Sarah Prefers To Run as well as work from Jeff Barnaby, Bruce McDonald and Bruce Labruce.
“The scope of this year’s feature films is as broad as Canada’s filmmaking community and demonstrates the deep versatility of our filmmakers,” said Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock. “From clever, biting satire to intimate social commentary, powerful dramas and even a truly magical comedy, the settings and themes vary, but the perspectives are always uniquely Canadian.”
The City Of Toronto and Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film will be given to one of many outstanding...
The Canadian Features selection includes Michael Dowse’s Goon follow-up The F Word, Xavier Dolan’s Tom At The Farm and Chloe Robichaud’s Sarah Prefers To Run as well as work from Jeff Barnaby, Bruce McDonald and Bruce Labruce.
“The scope of this year’s feature films is as broad as Canada’s filmmaking community and demonstrates the deep versatility of our filmmakers,” said Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock. “From clever, biting satire to intimate social commentary, powerful dramas and even a truly magical comedy, the settings and themes vary, but the perspectives are always uniquely Canadian.”
The City Of Toronto and Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film will be given to one of many outstanding...
- 8/7/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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