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Robin Cass is a Canadian film and television producer. [1] He is most noted as the producer of John Greyson's film Lilies , which won the Genie Award for Best Picture at the 17th Genie Awards in 1996. [2] He has also been a supervising producer for the CBC TV series Kim's Convenience. [3]

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A graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, he joined with Louise Garfield and Anna Stratton in 1994 to form Triptych Media. [4] The company's other productions have included the films Falling Angels , [5] The Republic of Love , Zero Patience [6] and The Hanging Garden , and the television dramas Lucky Girl , The Tale of Teeka and Heyday! [7]

In 2020, he founded Cass & Co, a production company based in Vancouver. [8] Projects in development include an adaptation of Waubgeshig Rice's novel Moon of The Crusted Snow, and a docu-series based on Brian Goldman's non-fiction book The Power of Kindness. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ "Rights come home". The Globe and Mail , July 12, 1996.
  2. ↑ "Lilies stops Genie sweep by Crash". Kingston Whig-Standard , November 28, 1996.
  3. 1 2 "Season Two of CBC's Award-Winning Hit Comedy Kim's Convenience now in production". CBC. July 5, 2017. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
  4. ↑ Thomas Waugh, Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006. ISBN   9780773576803. p. 524.
  5. ↑ "How Falling Angels took flight". The Globe and Mail , November 14, 2003.
  6. ↑ "Zero Patience". IMDB.
  7. ↑ "Selected list of Gemini nominees". Canada NewsWire , August 29, 2006.
  8. ↑ Whittingham, Clive. "Cass sets up prodco in Vancouver". c21 Media.
  9. ↑ Townsend, Kelly. "Cass sets up prodco in Vancouver". PLAYBACK.
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