Exclusive: Sheila McCarthy, who can currently be seen in Sarah Polley’s Oscar-nominated film Women Talking, has signed with Atlas Artists for management.
McCarthy appears opposite Frances McDormand, Claire Foy, Judith Ivey, Rooney Mara, Jessie Buckley, and Ben Whishaw in Women Talking, nominated for two Oscar nominations including Best Picture. For her role as Greta, McCarthy was awarded the Career Achievement Award at the 2022 Denver Film Festival and shares in the Film Independent Spirit Awards’ Robert Altman Award, given to one film’s director, casting director and ensemble cast.
Over a four-decade career, the Toronto-born McCarthy is a two-time Canadian Screen Award winner for I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing and Lotus Eaters. She also received two Canadian Television Awards for Sesame Street and Emily Of New Moon, among other honors.
McCarthy recently wrapped her first short film in the director’s chair, Russet Season, and starred in Little Black Dress,...
McCarthy appears opposite Frances McDormand, Claire Foy, Judith Ivey, Rooney Mara, Jessie Buckley, and Ben Whishaw in Women Talking, nominated for two Oscar nominations including Best Picture. For her role as Greta, McCarthy was awarded the Career Achievement Award at the 2022 Denver Film Festival and shares in the Film Independent Spirit Awards’ Robert Altman Award, given to one film’s director, casting director and ensemble cast.
Over a four-decade career, the Toronto-born McCarthy is a two-time Canadian Screen Award winner for I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing and Lotus Eaters. She also received two Canadian Television Awards for Sesame Street and Emily Of New Moon, among other honors.
McCarthy recently wrapped her first short film in the director’s chair, Russet Season, and starred in Little Black Dress,...
- 1/27/2023
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Montreal-based film sales and marketing consultancy Film Associates International has unveiled a slew of international deals on new 4K restorations of the work of celebrated Canadian director Patricia Rozema.
New York-based arthouse distributor Kino Lorber has acquired North America for her second and third features White Room (1990) and When Night Is Falling (1995) and U.S. rights for more recent work Mouthpiece (2018).
Regarded as a classic in the LGBTQ+ cinema canon, the lesbian love story When Night Is Falling revolves around a literature professor in a religious college, in a relationship with a male colleague, who embarks on a passionate affair with a female circus performer.
Following its debut at the Berlinale in 1995, its North American release prompted unexpected controversy after Canada’s ‘The Globe and Mail’ dropped an advertisement for the film showing two women kissing, and in the U.S. the Motion Picture Assn. of America applied an Nc-17 rating.
New York-based arthouse distributor Kino Lorber has acquired North America for her second and third features White Room (1990) and When Night Is Falling (1995) and U.S. rights for more recent work Mouthpiece (2018).
Regarded as a classic in the LGBTQ+ cinema canon, the lesbian love story When Night Is Falling revolves around a literature professor in a religious college, in a relationship with a male colleague, who embarks on a passionate affair with a female circus performer.
Following its debut at the Berlinale in 1995, its North American release prompted unexpected controversy after Canada’s ‘The Globe and Mail’ dropped an advertisement for the film showing two women kissing, and in the U.S. the Motion Picture Assn. of America applied an Nc-17 rating.
- 8/23/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow and Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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The Toronto Film Festival has set Canadian director Patricia Rozema as chair of its 2022 Platform competition jury.
Rozema, whose director credits include I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing, Mansfield Park and co-writing HBO’s Grey Gardens, will be joined on the jury by Iram Haq, a Norwegian Pakistani filmmaker, and Mumbai-based filmmaker Chaitanya Tamhane.
Haq’s feature debut I Am Yours premiered at Toronto in 2013, and her second feature, What Will People Say, competed in the Platform program in 2017. Tamhane’s debut feature film, Court, premiered at Venice in 2014, and his second film, The Disciple, debuted in Venice in 2020, where it won the Golden Osella for best screenplay before landing at Netflix.
This year’s Platform competition will open with the Emily Brontë movie Emily, with Sex Education breakout Emma Mackey playing the author in the movie from writer-director Frances O’Connor and U.S.
The Toronto Film Festival has set Canadian director Patricia Rozema as chair of its 2022 Platform competition jury.
Rozema, whose director credits include I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing, Mansfield Park and co-writing HBO’s Grey Gardens, will be joined on the jury by Iram Haq, a Norwegian Pakistani filmmaker, and Mumbai-based filmmaker Chaitanya Tamhane.
Haq’s feature debut I Am Yours premiered at Toronto in 2013, and her second feature, What Will People Say, competed in the Platform program in 2017. Tamhane’s debut feature film, Court, premiered at Venice in 2014, and his second film, The Disciple, debuted in Venice in 2020, where it won the Golden Osella for best screenplay before landing at Netflix.
This year’s Platform competition will open with the Emily Brontë movie Emily, with Sex Education breakout Emma Mackey playing the author in the movie from writer-director Frances O’Connor and U.S.
- 8/18/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Patricia Rozema's I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987) is showing exclusively on Mubi in most countries starting March 23, 2022 in the series Rediscovered. In many countries it is showing alongside Mouthpiece (2018) in Divided Selves: A Patricia Rozema Double Bill.Some context. Where I grew up, in a Dutch immigrant community in “Chemical Valley” also known as Sarnia, Ontario, Canada surrounded by some 60 chemical plants, there were no artists in my orbit. Not even in the farming community in the north of the Netherlands where all my family come from. I once asked my grandmother whether any of our family wrote stories or songs or poems or made paintings. She didn’t need to think for long to say, (in Dutch), “Nee, ze waren allemaal normaal.”“No, they were all normal.” And there were virtually no films in my world, really. My parents took the knob off the TV, or the “idiot...
- 3/22/2022
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: The Temenos screening in Lyssarea, Greece.Registration for Temenos 2022, which will premiere a new section of avant-garde master Gregory Markopoulos's epic Eniaios, is now open. This very special event, which usually takes place every four years, will be taking place June 9-19 in Lyssarea, Greece. For more information on the Temenos screenings and the ongoing restoration of Eniaios, visit here.Hou Hsiao-hsien has announced two new projects: the long-gestating, Shu Qi-led film Shulan River, an adaptation of the Hsieh Hai-meng novel about a river goddess; and a yet unnamed project starring Chang Chen about "an elderly father and his son." Filmmaker, painter, writer, Nick Zedd has died. In addition to his darkly funny no-budget films like They Eat Scum (1979) and his zine Underground Film Bulletin, Zedd is coining the term "Cinema of...
- 3/2/2022
- MUBI
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World - this documentary about the role of Native Americans in contemporary music history — featuring some of the greatest music stars of our time — exposes a critical missing chapter, revealing how indigenous musicians helped shape the soundtracks of our lives and, through their contributions, influenced popular culture. Photo: Courtesy of Greg Laxton The Canada Now festival will return to the UK this spring, launching in London from May 3 to 6 before a ten-film tour of cinemas across the country.
The festival will open at London's Curzon Soho with documentary Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World revealing the indigenous influence on contemporary music and close with Let There Be Light, which documents scientific attempts to build an artificial sun.
Alongside recent Canadian films including Black Cop, Meditation Park and Mary Goes Round, there will also be a retrospective screening of Patricia Rozema’s 1987 film I've Heard The Mermaids Singing.
The festival will open at London's Curzon Soho with documentary Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World revealing the indigenous influence on contemporary music and close with Let There Be Light, which documents scientific attempts to build an artificial sun.
Alongside recent Canadian films including Black Cop, Meditation Park and Mary Goes Round, there will also be a retrospective screening of Patricia Rozema’s 1987 film I've Heard The Mermaids Singing.
- 4/11/2018
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Thunderbird, Sandpiper Entertainment and ScreenWest are developing "Modo," a film adaptation of Arthur Slade's steampunk novel "The Hunchback Assignments".
The first novel in a series, the story follows a child hunchback plucked from a freak show and raised in isolation as an agent for the Permanent Association - a spy agency for Brittania and its efforts to oversee its empire.
At age fourteen, he's dumped on the streets of London and, with another Association agent, uncovers a plot by the Clockwork Guild behind the murders of important men.
Paul Barron ("Serangoon Road") and Alex Raffe ("I've Heard the Mermaids Singing") will produce.
Source: Variety...
The first novel in a series, the story follows a child hunchback plucked from a freak show and raised in isolation as an agent for the Permanent Association - a spy agency for Brittania and its efforts to oversee its empire.
At age fourteen, he's dumped on the streets of London and, with another Association agent, uncovers a plot by the Clockwork Guild behind the murders of important men.
Paul Barron ("Serangoon Road") and Alex Raffe ("I've Heard the Mermaids Singing") will produce.
Source: Variety...
- 2/23/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Toronto: Why 'Into the Forest' Filmmaker Patricia Rozema Is Only Making Female-Led Films From Now On
Read More: Patricia Rozema, Sophie Deraspe and Other Female Canadian Talent To Be Feted at Tiff Canadian filmmaker Patricia Rozema has long been captivated by films that focus squarely on women and their experiences in the world, as evidenced by features like her seminal lesbian dramedy "I've Heard the Mermaids Singing," the murder mystery "White Room" and the Jane Austen adaptation "Mansfield Park." For her latest film, however, Rozema turns her eye to something slightly different -- still women and their experiences, but ones that take place beyond the existing world. In "Into the Forest," sisters Nell (Ellen Page) and Eva (Evan Rachel Wood) live through some kind of cataclysmic event -- the film, based on Jean Hegland's book of the same name, never quite clarifies what has happened, a narrative choice that Rozema effectively translates to the big screen -- and then attempt to carve out a new...
- 9/16/2015
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The Toronto International Film Festival has revealed the shorts and Canadian portion of their line-up. Highlights include Patricia Rozema’s (“Mansfield Park,” and “I've Heard the Mermaids Singing”) “Into The Forest” starring Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood, and “Born To Be Blue” which stars Ethan Hawke as famous jazz trumpeter Chet Baker. ‘Woods’ centers on two teenage sisters (Page and Wood) who struggle to survive in a remote country house after a massive, continent-wide power outage, in what Tiff describes as a “gripping apocalyptic thriller” which also boasts a score from the great Max Richter. In ‘Blue,’ Hawke stars in this remarkably creative reimagining of the legendary jazz trumpeter's struggle to overcome his drug addiction and stage a comeback. Another great highlight is Guy Maddin's deliriously strange "The Forbidden Room," which we reviewed in Berlin. Read More: The Best, Worst And Most Disappointing Films Of The 2014 Toronto International Film.
- 8/5/2015
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Patricia Rozema's 1995 film When Night is Falling followed the story of Camille, a "straight" woman who is trying to find happiness in the things that are going right for her. But when her dog dies and she meets an alluring circus performer at the laundromat, things begin to shift, and she can't tell if it's for better or for worse.
Whatever came of the actors and director behind the '90s circus-lesbian flick? We'll tell you!
Pascale Bussières as Camille, a professor at a religious university who falls for another woman
The redheaded French Canadian beauty has starred in several films in her home country, including another gay-themed film, Set Me Free (1999) and one called Replay, in which she was obsessed with her best friend. In more recent years, she's appeared on French TV shows Belle-Baie and Mirador, while continuing to make films. (She's starred in two that came out this year already.
Whatever came of the actors and director behind the '90s circus-lesbian flick? We'll tell you!
Pascale Bussières as Camille, a professor at a religious university who falls for another woman
The redheaded French Canadian beauty has starred in several films in her home country, including another gay-themed film, Set Me Free (1999) and one called Replay, in which she was obsessed with her best friend. In more recent years, she's appeared on French TV shows Belle-Baie and Mirador, while continuing to make films. (She's starred in two that came out this year already.
- 9/22/2011
- by Trish Bendix
- AfterEllen.com
You likely have your own views on The Kids Are All Right, whether you've seen it or not. We've had several viewpoints shared by contributors of different opinions, but people in some parts of the country still haven't been able to see the film. Today, The Kids Are All Right is released on DVD, which means anyone with access to the internet can purchase a copy and watch it for themselves.
Out writer/director Lisa Cholodenko is behind the film that got people talking about lesbian partnerships, gay parenthood and sexual fluidity. The release of The Kids Are All Right also coincided with a new study about children of gay parents being well-adjusted, prompting many reports on the film to signal it as proof that there's a new "normal" when it comes to the nuclear family, and it's not always about having one mom and one dad.
But with power comes great responsibility.
Out writer/director Lisa Cholodenko is behind the film that got people talking about lesbian partnerships, gay parenthood and sexual fluidity. The release of The Kids Are All Right also coincided with a new study about children of gay parents being well-adjusted, prompting many reports on the film to signal it as proof that there's a new "normal" when it comes to the nuclear family, and it's not always about having one mom and one dad.
But with power comes great responsibility.
- 11/16/2010
- by Trish Bendix
- AfterEllen.com
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