- DATE: Saturday January 27
- TIME: 4:30 pm
When her only daughter goes off to university, an empty nest mother who has lost her purpose gets stuck taking care of her daughter’s heart-broken ex-boyfriend, who she can’t stand. Winner of the Canadian Narrative Feature Award at the 2023 Calgary International Film Festival, this heartwarming comedy was filmed in Hamilton, Ontario.
“In finding both the humour and the dramatic potential in personal and generational differences, Suze recreates the buddy movie in a new and surprisingly successful way.” – Monica Reid, Far Out Magazine
Co-Director Dane Clark will be attending for an audience Q&A following the film, moderated by host Ron Base.
Linsey Stewart & Dane Clark met during their Writers’ Lab stint at the Canadian Film Centre. They became best friends, fell in love, wrote scripts, and now they’re married. To each other.
Their short films, LONG BRANCH and MARGO LILY, were Short Of The Week winners and Vimeo Staff Picks, and BICKFORD PARK premiered at TIFF. They also won a WGA Award for their AwesomenessTV web series, THE COMMUTE. Their debut feature, the romantic comedic thriller I PUT A HIT ON YOU, premiered at Slamdance and was distributed by Mongrel Media, receiving a NNNN rating in Now Magazine.
They were both writers/consulting producers on the last four seasons of CBC’s MR. D and Linsey was a writer/producer on the last three seasons of Netflix/CBC’s WORKIN’ MOMS. They’re currently staffing on other shows you don’t know about yet, but hopefully will one day.
They sold their spec feature, MERV, to MGM/Amazon which is set to shoot next winter and are currently developing a TV series with Page Boy Productions, another with Sphere Media and one more with Adult Swim. Their second feature, SUZE, starring Michaela Watkins, was financed by Telefilm Canada and produced by Wildling Pictures.
- Shown with the short film Going Going, dir. Fiona Margaret Highet
A middle-aged woman’s plan to leave her marriage, foiled by a momentary loss of resolve, becomes surreal when her husband comes home to celebrate his own new beginning.
