Carly Stone
Carly Stone | |
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.jpg) Carly Stone at a Canadian Film Centre event in Los Angeles. | |
| Born | |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation(s) | Dancer, writer, film director |
| Known for | Winning the 2018 SXSW festival jury prize for best first feature film |
Carly Stone is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.[1][2]
Personal life
[edit]Stone was born and raised in Toronto, by parents who were immigrants from South Africa.[1] She gradutated from the University of Western Ontario with a Bachelor of Arts majoring in English and Writing Studies in 2011.[3]
She and her lawyer husband make their home in Toronto.[1]
Career
[edit]Prior to directing her first feature film, The New Romantic. She worked as a writer for the television series Kim's Convenience.[1] The New Romantic premiered in March 2018, at the South by Southwest Festival.[1]
Her second feature film, North of Normal, premiered at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival.[4]
References
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Chandler Levack (2018-03-30). "How first-time Canadian filmmaker Carly Stone's rom-com became the toast of SXSW". The Globe and Mail. Austin Texas. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
'I had no expectations for SXSW – zero,' says Stone, who is married to a lawyer, loves her dog and works in the writers' room of the CBC series Kim's Convenience. 'It's surreal to have a collective movie-watching experience with your film and a press day. I cried a little bit before it. Now, I'm just so tired. I go to bed pretty early in Toronto and I've been going to bed at 3 a.m. Before that, I hadn't seen midnight in a long time.'
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Andrew Parker (2018-10-17). "Old School, New School: Writer-director Carly Stone on The New Romantic". TheGATE.ca. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
Toronto based filmmaker Stone, who graduated from the AFI, used The New Romantic not only as a chance to pay homage to some of her favourite filmmakers (Nora Ephron, Sofia Coppola, and Jill Soloway, to name a few) and rom-com cliches, but to also have a frank and non-judgmental dialogue about what it means to be a modern young woman in a male driven society.
- ^ "'Romantic' effort finding indie success for alumna". Western News. 2018-04-19. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
- ^ Radheyan Simonpillai, "10 Canadian films to watch at TIFF 2022". Now, August 17, 2022.
External links
[edit]- Carly Stone at IMDb