Toronto International Film Festival

With the support of Telefilm Canada, Producers Carrie Wheeler and Laurie McLay are packaging the feature film, JOSIE & JACK, at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Written by Jaman Lloyd, based on the novel by Kelly Braffet, JOSIE & JACK is a modern day Hansel & Gretel meets Cruel Intentions. "Telefilm is coming on board at the polish stage and with this final draft we will be attaching an intense Director and going out to name cast.", says Wheeler.

Having read the novel and falling in love with the twisted story of beautiful, but socially inept Josie's inadvertent path to self awareness, Wheeler optioned the novel and hired Lloyd to do the adaptation. "People always ask how we met so I'll spare us both and include it here. I saw a short film at the Crazy 8's Film Festival in Vancouver called THE CRITIC. The film is a gothic horror set in 1830’s Philadelphia telling the tale of a literary critic’s last night on Earth when a spurned writer confronts him; all narrated in Edgar Allen Poe~esque poetry. The film totally blew me away and when I asked my friend Candice Elzinga, the Casting Director of the short, to please introduce me to both the Writer and the Director, she said that they were one and the same, Jaman Lloyd. I knew then and there that we would work together some day and JOSIE & JACK is the result of our collaboration."

Also being pitched at TIFF is our comedic feature, THE PRAYING MANTIS, which is officially in development with the participation of Telefilm Canada. Writer Chris Wilkinson has been working tirelessly on the second draft which has already garnered interest based solely on the story line of a down-and-out crime fighter who thinks he has super powers when in fact he is the puppet in a game of manipulation by millionaire media moguls. THE PRAYING MANTIS comes to the conclusion that courage is found in many forms, and sometimes, keeping the streets safe is easier accomplished in green tights.




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