''Splinters'' is a 2018 Canadian
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...
written and directed by
Thom Fitzgerald
Thomas "Thom" Fitzgerald (born July 8, 1968) is an American-Canadian film and theatre director, screenwriter, playwright and producer.
Life
Fitzgerald was born and raised in New Rochelle, New York. His parents divorced when he was five years ol ...
. An adaptation of the theatrical play by Lee-Anne Poole,
["Lee-Anne Poole Splinters off"]
'' The Coast'', July 7, 2010. the film stars
Sofia Banzhaf as Belle, a woman whose relationship with her mother Nancy (
Shelley Thompson) has been strained since she came out as
lesbian
A lesbian is a homosexual woman or girl. The word is also used for women in relation to their sexual identity or sexual behavior, regardless of sexual orientation, or as an adjective to characterize or associate nouns with female homosexu ...
, but who now faces the prospect of coming out all over again as she now identifies as
bisexual
Bisexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior toward both males and females. It may also be defined as the attraction to more than one gender, to people of both the same and different gender, or the attraction t ...
and is dating Rob (
Callum Dunphy).
[
The film's cast also includes ]Mary-Colin Chisholm
Mary-Colin Chisholm is a Canadian actress, playwright, and co-assistant director of the theatre companies LunaSea Theatre and Frankie Productions.
Career
In 2000, Chisholm directed the theatrical piece called ''Frankie'', starring Mary Ellen Macle ...
, Deb Allen, Hugh Thompson, Bailey Maughan and Stewart Legere.
The film premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival
The 43rd annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from September 6 to 16, 2018. In June 2018, the TIFF organizers announced a program to ensure that at least 20 percent of all film critics and journalists given press accreditation to ...
.
Reviewing the film for the ''National Post
The ''National Post'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet newspaper and the flagship publication of the American-owned Postmedia Network. It is published Mondays through Saturdays, with Monday released as a digital e-edition only. '', Chris Knight noted some thematic similarities with Fitzgerald's debut film '' The Hanging Garden'', and concluded that the film "may try to cram one too many revelations into its brief, 87-minute runtime. And it doesn’t always transcend its stagey origins. But it’s a beautiful homegrown tale, and deserves all the recognition it can muster in these times."
Awards and honors
*ACTRA Award, Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Female Role, Shelley Thompson
*ACTRA Award, Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Male Role, Bailey Maughan
*ACTRA Award nomination, Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Male Role, Callum Dunphy
References
External links
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*
Splinters
' at Library and Archives Canada
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2018 films
2018 drama films
2018 LGBTQ-related films
2010s Canadian films
2010s English-language films
Canadian drama films
Canadian LGBTQ-related films
English-language Canadian films
Films about female bisexuality
Films about mother–daughter relationships
Canadian films based on plays
Films directed by Thom Fitzgerald
2010s LGBTQ-related drama films
English-language drama films
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