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Mary Sexton is a Canadian film and television producer, who is partnered with Edward Riche in Rink Rat Productions [1] and with Mary Walsh in 2M Innovative. [2]

She is best known for her 2001 National Film Board documentary Tommy: A Family Portrait, about her brother, comedian Tommy Sexton. Co-directed with Sexton's husband, Nigel Markham, the film received the 2002 Gemini Award for Best History/Biography Documentary program. [3] [4] [5]

Her credits also include the television series Dooley Gardens [6] and Hatching, Matching and Dispatching , [7] and the theatrical films Violet , [8] How to Be Deadly and Maudie . [9] She was also the regional producer in Atlantic Canada for Canadian Idol . [10]

Mary Sexton is a board member of the Canadian Film and Television Producers Association and the president of the Film Producers Association of Newfoundland. [11]

Her son Nik Sexton is a filmmaker best known for How to Be Deadly. [12]

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References

  1. ↑ "Local TV comedy ready to hit the ice". The Telegram , October 12, 1997.
  2. ↑ "'It was the nuns, the nuns'". The Globe and Mail , January 22, 2005.
  3. ↑ Macfarlane, David (12 November 2001). "The comic miracle that was Tommy". Globe and Mail. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  4. ↑ "Tommy... A Family Portrait". National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  5. ↑ Dwyer, Victor (10 November 2001). "Remembering Tommy". Globe and Mail. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  6. ↑ "Dooley Gardens -- a sitcom on the rock, served with a twist". The Telegram , June 21, 1998.
  7. ↑ "Hatched, then gobsmacked". The Globe and Mail , August 4, 2005.
  8. ↑ "Violet in bloom". The Telegram , October 15, 1999.
  9. ↑ "Homecoming for Hollywood vet". Toronto Star , September 15, 2016.
  10. ↑ "So, you wanna be a star?: Local producer looking for talent for Canadian Idol auditions". The Telegram , March 21, 2003.
  11. ↑ "Mary Sexton [Producer] - panl".
  12. ↑ Peter Simpson, "Review: Donnie Dumphy film rated 'deadly' out of 10". Ottawa Citizen , September 22, 2015.


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