Don't Talk to Irene

Don't Talk to Irene
Directed by Pat Mills
Produced by
  • Alyson Richards
  • Mike MacMillian
Written by
  • Pat Mills
Starring
Music by Erica Procunier
Cinematography Paul Sarossy
Edited by Tiffany Beaudin
Production
company
  • Lithium Studios
  • Alyson Richards Productions
Distributed by Gravitas Ventures
Release date
  • September 11, 2017 (2017-09-11) (Toronto)
  • March 2, 2018 (2018-03-02) (United States)
Running time
 82 minutes[1]
Country Canada
Language English

Don't Talk to Irene is a Canadian comedy film,[2] directed by Pat Mills. It premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.[3]

The film centres on Irene (Michelle McLeod), a fat and unpopular high school student who wishes to be a cheerleader. After being suspended from school, Irene gets sent to a retirement home for punishment. She decides to indulge her passion for cheerleading by enrolling a group of the senior citizens for a dance competition.[2] The film's cast also includes Geena Davis, Scott Thompson, Bruce Gray and Anastasia Phillips.[2]

Mills won the Toronto International Film Festival's annual Pitch This! competition for emerging film directors in 2008 for the film's original pitch,[4] and the film's screenplay won the award for Best Comedy Screenplay at the 2013 Austin Film Festival.[5] However, Mills made Guidance (2015) as his feature film debut before proceeding with Don't Talk to Irene, which entered production in 2016.[2] It went on to win both the Comedy Vanguard Award and Audience Award at the Austin Film Festival[6], the Audience Choice at the Kingston Canadian Film Festival[7] and the Galet d'Or at the 5th Canadian film festival of Dieppe, France.[8]. In June 2018, Don't Talk to Irene won two Canadian Comedy Awards: Best Feature and Best Writing in a Feature.[9].

Gravitas Ventures acquired the film and released it in the United States on March 2, 2018.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Don't Talk to Irene". tiff. Retrieved August 15, 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Geena Davis to Star in Indie Comedy 'Don't Talk to Irene'". The Hollywood Reporter, June 23, 2016.
  3. ↑ "'Alias Grace,' film starring Evan Rachel Wood headline TIFF's Canadian slate". News 1130, August 9, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Offbeat coming-of-age tale wins $10K movie-pitch competition". CBC News, September 9, 2008.
  5. ↑ Screenplay and Teleplay Competition Winners Archived 2014-09-15 at the Wayback Machine.. Austin Film Festival.
  6. ↑ "2017 Winners" Austin Film Festival, December 18, 2017
  7. ↑ "KCFF'18 Award Winners" Kingston Canadian Film Festival, March 8, 2018
  8. ↑ "Les lauréats du 5e festival du film canadien de Dieppe...". Paris-Normandie, March 26, 2018.
  9. ↑ "Recipients of the 2018 Canadian Comedy Awards". Canadian Comedy Awards, June 3, 2018.
  10. ↑ Hipes, Patrick (February 15, 2018). "Toronto Pic 'Don't Talk To Irene' Lands At Gravitas Ventures". Deadline. Retrieved February 15, 2018.


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