Set still of Gabriel del Castillo Mullally from Amy George, Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis' debut feature film.

AMY GEORGE

Thirteen year old Jesse wants to be an artist, but believes that his mundane middle class Toronto life has left him unprepared. After reading a book on what it takes to be a "true-artist", he sets out looking for risk, ecstasy, wildness and women.

Amy George is a microbudget independent drama about the time in a boy's life when he's at his least likeable. Official Website.

AMY GEORGE DIRECTORS' NOTES

"I was not born in wartime. I was not born in pain or poverty. I need an addiction, the needed affliction, to cultivate a personality."
- Jarvis Cocker
They say you should write what you know, but where to start when there's two of you? Calvin was raised in the car-friendly, big-box suburbs and Yonah clutched transfers as he scurried from streetcar to subway in an urban metropolis. Our combined knowledge was great, but also greatly different and so, after much searching, we latched onto a common area of expertise: male adolescence.
Amy George is a work of fiction; its actions and narrative derived from our imagination, but its themes and emotion gathered from our collective memories.

When first freed from film school, it was our strict intention to set our screenplays outside of Canadian borders. Our immediate feeling being a youthful reaction against modern Canadian cinema. It was only in writing Amy George that we gradually warmed to and eventually embraced the idea of setting a film in our own backyard. At first imposed by financial necessity, we shaped our story around the areas we knew were easily obtainable, but after narrowing our sights on the bike-riding, organic-eating, lefty homes of Riverdale, Toronto, we grew attached to exploring the specificity of a world we had not seen portrayed on screen. In Jesse we wanted to create a character like us, initially bored by his seemingly mundane surroundings and then with a growing interest in the commonplace minutia of his own life.
- Yonah Lewis & Calvin Thomas
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NEWS FEED

Official Selection: TIFF 201108/09/11
Amy George plays in the Canada First! programme of TIFF 2011.
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BFF 2011 Awards06/12/11
Amy George wins the Spirit Award for Feature Narrative
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The Playlist review06/06/11
IndieWire's The Playlist reviews Amy George.
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Official Selection: Brooklyn FF 201105/16/11
Amy George plays the IndieScreen in Brooklyn, New York.
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