Pat Mills got his start in the industry as a child actor on the series ‘You Can’t Do That on Television’ (Nickelodeon/ YTV). He received his training at Ryerson University where he was the recipient of the Norman Jewison Filmmaker Award and City TV Best Film Award.

His first feature film, the dark comedy Guidance, which he wrote, directed and starred in, had its world premiere at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. Picked up by Strand Releasing in the US and Search Engine Films in Canada, Guidance was hailed as a “Grade A” comedy by the Los Angeles Times and was a New York Times Critics’ Pick. His performance as “David” was nominated for an Actra Award for Outstanding Male Performance.

An alumnus of NSI, CFC as well as TIFF’s Talent lab and TIFF Studio, Pat was named winner of TIFF’s Pitch This! for his second feature Don’t Talk to Irene. The screenplay won Best Comedy Screenplay at the Austin Screenplay Competition. The film stars newcomer Michelle McLeod, Bruce Gray, Scott Thompson and Geena Davis. Don’t Talk to Irene had its world premiere last September at TIFF 2017.

Pat Mills will be joining us for an audience Q&A after the screening of Don’t Talk to Irene at 4:30 pm, Saturday January 27.