Maudie
Based on the life and love of Maritime Folk Artist Maud Lewis
Description
Academy Award® nominees Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky, Blue Jasmine) and Ethan Hawke (Boyhood) star in the true story of Maud Lewis, who overcame the physical challenge of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis to become one of Canada’s premier folk artists.
Keith Ross Leckie has a reading tonight at THE CALEDONIAN on College Street together with authors Emily Weedon and Cathi Bond Bessi! Whoot!
If the sun is the blazing patriarchy and the Moon is Woman, this is our day ladies!!!
Extraordinary Women: The Folk Artist
Special screening of our special film! April 28th at the Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles Ave., Toronto. Guests for the Q and A include descendants of Maud! 12:00 noon showtime.
Extraordinary Women: The Folk Artist Producer Mary Young Leckie joins us for a screening and discussion of her film dramatizing the life of Nova Scotian artist Maud Lewis
Happy birthday Maud.
Michael Timmins of the Cowboy
Junkies composed the stunning score for MAUDIE
Silver Screenings: Maudie
https://tiff.net/events/silver-screenings-maudie
Silver Screenings: Maudie TIFF is a charitable cultural organization with a mission to transform the way people see the world, through film.
My mother's family were survivors of this catastrophic explosion. And in 2003 the screenplay by Keith Ross Leckie was produced in Halifax. Mom didn't live to see the four hour drama but she loved and approved of the script. And producing that drama has been a pivotal experience. I made lasting friendships with Glenn Charles Warner, Ted Dykstra, Zachary Bennett and Clare Shaesgreen (who played my Mom) and I got to work with pals Bruce Pittman, Stuart French and Trysha Bakker again.....true joys to create drama with. And the series SHATTERED CITY: THE HALIFAX EXPLOSION broadcast on the once great CBC enjoyed the highest ratings to date....even more than our series THE ARROW. Proof that Canadians love to see our own stories told in world class style. Today is the 106th Anniversary of the explosion where nearly 2000 people lost their lives and another 8000 were injured and maimed. Remember those souls.
More MAUDIE in the works!
