Last week saw the release of Gimme the Loot, the SXSW Grand Jury Prize winner by Adam Leon, which sees two graffiti artists seek revenge after their replica of the…
Picture Day is the first feature for director Kate Melville, and premieres in TIFF’s Discovery programme.
Synopsis
Rebellious Claire (Tatiana Maslany) is forced to repeat her final year of high school. Caught between adolescence and adulthood, she must juggle her own troubles and the attentions of two very different male admirers.
Why should you see it?
The TIFF programme book note calls it “one of the most charming and vibrant debut features in recent memory”. If that’s not reason enough, then let the awesome trailer below speak for itself.
Screening times
Picture Day screens on
- Friday September 7, 2012 at 9:45 pm at the Isabel Bader Theatre,
- Saturday September 8 at 3:30 pm at Cineplex Yonge & Dundas, and
- Sunday September 16 at 6:45 pm at TIFF Bell Lightbox.
Trailer
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Katarina Gligorijevic
Katarina Gligorijevic is a Toronto based writer and major movie nerd whose work has appeared in two Coach House Books anthologies, Point of View magazine, Exclaim!, Twitch, and several other online and print publications. In addition to Toronto Film Scene, she contributes to They Shoot Actors, Don’t They? and is currently working on a novel about abductions and communicating with pears, and a screenplay about a sexy werewolf.
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