Carly Stone is a

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film director and screenwriter.

Personal life

Stone was born and raised in

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, by parents who were immigrants from

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring count ...

. She gradutated from the

University of Western Ontario The University of Western Ontario (UWO), also known as Western University or Western, is a public research university in London, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land, surrounded by residential neighbourhoods and the Thames Ri ...

with a Bachelor of Arts majoring in English and Writing Studies in 2011. She and her lawyer husband make their home in Toronto.

Career

Prior to directing her first feature film, ''

The New Romantic ''The New Romantic'' is a 2018 Canadian romantic comedy-drama film, written and directed by Carly Stone. The film stars Jessica Barden as Blake Conway, a journalism student whose romance column receives attention when she begins to write about ...

.'' She worked as a writer for the television series ''

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''. ''The New Romantic'' premiered in March 2018, at the

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. Her second feature film, '' North of Normal'', premiered at the

2022 Toronto International Film Festival The 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, the 47th event in the Toronto International Film Festival series, is scheduled to be held from September 8 to 18, 2022. Festival organizers have indicated that the 2022 festival will be staged primar ...

.Radheyan Simonpillai
"10 Canadian films to watch at TIFF 2022"
''

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'', August 17, 2022.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stone, Carly Canadian people of South African descent Canadian television writers Film directors from Toronto Living people Screenwriters from Toronto Year of birth missing (living people) Canadian women television writers