Leila Basen

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Leila Basen (born 1955) is a Canadian film and television writer and producer, most noted as one of the writers of the 2006 comedy film Bon Cop, Bad Cop . [1]

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Leila was also the lead SHOWRUNNER for the critically acclaimed series HEARTLAND, which she also wrote many spisodes for.

A graduate of York University, she began her career as a writer for the CBC Television sitcoms King of Kensington and Hangin' In . [2] She later wrote the screenplays for films such as Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid [3] and Killing 'em Softly . [2] balancing her writing career with her family life with theatre director Alexander Hausvater. [2]

She was predominantly a television writer thereafter, [2] writing scripts for series such as Urban Angel , Max Glick , Street Legal , Road to Avonlea , African Skies , Bob and Margaret , Ready or Not , Riverdale , Emily of New Moon and Blackfly . [4]

After Bon Cop, Bad Cop she returned to television, serving as a writer and producer on Heartland , Strange Empire and Big Top Academy .

Awards

She received a Gemini Award nomination for Best Writing in a Children's or Youth Program or Series at the 9th Gemini Awards in 1995, for the Ready or Not episode "Am I Perverted or What?" [5]

For Bon Cop, Bad Cop, Basen and co-writers Alex Epstein, Patrick Huard and Kevin Tierney received a Jutra Award nomination for Best Screenplay at the 9th Jutra Awards, [6] and won the Canadian Comedy Award for Pretty Funny Film Writing at the 8th Canadian Comedy Awards. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ Peter Howell, "Guns, bon mots bridge two solitudes". Toronto Star , August 18, 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "TV scripts earn living for `housewife'". Montreal Gazette , September 8, 1991.
  3. ↑ Stan Shatenstein, "Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid". Cinema Canada , December–January 1979.
  4. ↑ Monique Pollack, "Screenwriter on her own odyssey". Calgary Herald , October 31, 1994.
  5. ↑ "The 1995 Gemini nominees". Playback , January 30, 1995.
  6. ↑ Brendan Kelly, "‘Cop,’ ‘Sunday’ lead Jutra nominations". Variety , January 23, 2007.
  7. ↑ James Reaney, "2007 Canadian Comedy Awards". London Free Press , October 13, 2007.


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