Carly Stone | |
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 Carly Stone at a Canadian Film Centre event in Los Angeles. | |
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| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation(s) | Dancer, writer, film director |
| Known for | Winning the 2018 SXSW festival jury prize for best first feature film |
Carly Stone is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. [1] [2]
Stone was born and raised in Toronto, by parents who were immigrants from South Africa. [1]
She and her lawyer husband make their home in Toronto. [1]
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]
Her second feature film, North of Normal , premiered at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. [3]
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'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.'
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.