TIFF premiere a smashing success!

Sunglasses at night, 

practising not being me!

In an earlier post, I mentioned one of the f ilms in which I had a principal role was having its North American premiere, an event which occurred on September 11, 2012 in Lightbox 3 at 10 p.m.

The first two photos are of me - and the comment about sunglasses a night, pretending to be someone else, is just my idea of a joke. I'm a long way from being a 'movie star' who gets stopped on the street!

Yours truly, sans shades

I think all of us who participated in the making of "Tower" can echo the sentiments of one of the leads, who was interveiwed on stage, that to "get from an audition at a coffee shop to the stage of one of the world's premiere film festivals one year later" is quite a ride!

The "Tower" of the film title...?

Guests at the party

I'm enclosing some photos of the event. Prior to the screening, we all enjoyed a cocktail party on the roof deck of a building not far from TIFF Lightbox and then we went to the Lightbox itself for the screening, which was well attended.

As for the film, the producers, MDFF, are hoping for a general release some time this fall. To make certain you learn when, it may be best to go directly to the source and keep in touch with them; dan@mdff.ca is the contact.

L-R:TIFF's Agate, MDFF's Dan & Director Kaz, Leads Nicole & Derek

After the screening

Copyright Deborah C. Sawyer

Tower: World Premiere On The Horizon

Back in January 2011, I started working with two young filmmakers, who had embarked on their first feature film.

This film, "Tower", is now through post-production and is slated for its World Premiere at the 65th Festival de Film Locarno in Switzerland, in August.

My role in this film was Diane, the mother of the protagonist. The footage was shot over several months and subject to a lot of stop-start-stop, as all personnel were volunteering their time for much of the production.

One interesting aspect to this production is that the Director, Kaz Radwanski, allows his actors to improvise all the dialogue. That is, no scripts, no lines to learn. At times, some of the "takes" ran for 20 minutes as we improvised based on the direction we had been given.

MDFF, the company producing "Tower", has set up a site where you can learn a little more about the film. But, be warned, the website seems to be set up for mammoth screens only. You can find the details at the following link.

http://www.mdff.ca/tower

All being well, I've included a couple of snaps of two of my co-stars, one I worked with directly in the early days, and one I never met! (I'll let you guess which is which!)

Fore more details about the Locarno premier or about the website, Dan is the contact @mdff.ca

Copyright Deborah C. Sawyer