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Written by: Michelle Deines
Genre: Comedy, Period Piece, Romantic Comedy
Length: 120 min.
Two very different sisters—Marianne, free-spirited and romantic, and Elinor, sensible and reserved—find themselves thrown into an unkind world when their father dies. Suddenly made poor and homeless by the rules of inheritance, Marianne and Elinor must leave their family estate with their mother and younger sister. They are not in...
Written by: Sara Graefe
Genre: Adaptation, Drama, Historical
Length: 90 min.
“Dreamspyre is a choral, image-based response to the 1989 massacre at l’Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal. Mary, a passionate young mathematician, struggles with sexism and hostility in a university engineering department. She is haunted both by events in Montreal and by Hypatia, the female philosopher and mathematician who in 415 AD was...
Written by: Lorena Lillian Gale
Genre: Drama, Historical
Length: 120 min.
“In the character of Angélique, Gale gives us a woman brave enough to try and shatter her bonds. A rich, poetic evocation of a graceful yet cruel time—a time when “civilized” people still bought and sold slaves.” (From the CPO Website)
Written by: Audrey Dwyer
Genre: Adaptation, Comedy, Satire
Length: 120 min.
“Julie, a young Afro-Canadian screenwriter, is retelling To Kill a Mockingbird. This time the story will be told from the perspective of… a Black woman. Calpurnia. The Finch family’s maid. In pursuit of perspective to cure her writer’s block, Julie upturns an important family dinner party. Hilarity and tension ensue...