Carly Stone
| Carly Stone | |
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| Born | 1996 Toronto |
| Occupation | dancer, writer, film director |
| Known for | she won the 2018 SXSW festival jury prize for best first feature film |
Carly Stone is a Canadian film-maker and screenwriter.[1][2]
Personal life
Stone was born and raised in Toronto, by parents who were immigrants from South Africa.[1] Her mother is a journalist, her father "an entrepeneur, with a passion for wildlife photography." She has two older siblings, one of whom is also a film-maker.
She and her husband, a lawyer, make their home in Toronto.[1]
Career
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] In a profile in The Globe and Mail the film was characterized as the festival's darling. Stone was awarded Special Jury Recognition for First Feature. Her brother's first feature film also premiered at the festival.
Stone says the second film she is working on will be based on her experiences in Toronto's competitive dance scene.[3] She is also developing an idea about a film centred around mentally unstable poets.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Chandler Levack. How first-time Canadian filmmaker Carly Stone’s rom-com became the toast of SXSW, The Globe and Mail, 2018-03-30. Retrieved on 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.'”
- ↑ Andrew Parker. Old School, New School: Writer-director Carly Stone on The New Romantic, The Gate entertainment magazine, 2018-10-17. Retrieved on 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.”
- ↑ Anne Brodie. Carly Stone on Sugar Daddies in ‘The New Romantic’, What she said radio, 2018-10-22. Retrieved on 2019-12-03. “According to filmmaker Carly Stone, sugar daddies are with us still and her new film goes inside for a peek. Stone’s film The New Romantic stars Jessica Barden as Blake, a university student researching the sugar daddy / baby relationship for her student column. She’s frustrated with the men she meets of her own age, so she decides to dive in. We asked Stone what The New Romantic says about society now.”
- ↑ Norman Wilner. Q&A: Carly Stone, writer/director, The New Romantic: The first-time Toronto filmmaker discusses finding the film's talented cast, being excited about her limited budget and dealing with the millennial label, Now magazine, 2018-10-18. Retrieved on 2019-12-03. “Oh yeah. I have two scripts that I’d love to make. They’re both about girls probably screwing up. [laughs] Different worlds, though. One takes place in the competitive dance world, the other is about mentally unstable poets. I haven't been a poet, but I was a lit person, and I was a competitive dancer, so I like taking my own personal experiences and then asking “What’s the darkest side of this?” and then building towards it.”