Molly McGlynn

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Molly McGlynn
Born
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation(s)Director, screenwriter
Years active2010–present

Molly McGlynn is a Canadian-American film and television director and screenwriter. [1] She is most noted for her feature film debut Mary Goes Round , for which she won the Jay Scott Prize from the Toronto Film Critics Association. [2]

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Early life

Originally from Montreal, Quebec, [1] McGlynn and her family moved to New Jersey when she was five. She grew up in the United States but returned to Canada for university. [3] McGlynn studied film at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and television writing and production at Humber College in Toronto. [4]

Career

McGlynn began her career making short films, including Office Daydreams, I Am Not a Weird Person, Shoes, Given Your History, and 3-Way (Not Calling). [4] In 2013, Shoes tracked the life cycle of a pair of shoes and earned her a nomination for Best Short Film at the Female Eye Film Festival. [4] 3-Way (Not Calling)—which stars Emma Hunter, Kristian Bruun, and Emily Coutts—premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. [5] [6]

She made her feature film directorial debut with Mary Goes Round , starring Aya Cash. She developed the screenplay at the Canadian Film Centre. [4] It was screened in the Discovery section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. [7] The film centres on Mary, a substance abuse counsellor who loses her job after getting arrested for drunk driving. Returning to her hometown to visit her estranged father, she struggles to cope with the revelations that her father is terminally ill and that she has a teenage half-sister she has never met. [8] For her work on the film, McGlynn won the Jay Scott Prize for emerging filmmakers from the Toronto Film Critics Association. [2]

In 2018, she directed episodes of the web series How to Buy a Baby , for which she won the Indie Series Award for Best Directing — Comedy at the 9th Indie Series Awards. [9] Since then, she has directed episodes of the television series Workin' Moms , Bad Blood , Speechless , Little Dog , Grown-ish , Bless This Mess , The Wonder Years , Kenan and Animal Control .

McGlynn received Toronto International Film Festival's Micki Moore Residency in 2020. [10] She wrote and directed the film Fitting In , starring Maddie Ziegler and Emily Hampshire, which premiered at South by Southwest under the name Bloody Hell on March 13, 2023. [11]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Molly McGlynn's debut feature – a TIFF breakout – isn't a comedy or drama, just 'scorchingly true'". CBC Arts, September 15, 2017.
  2. 1 2 Pinto, Jordan. "Anthropocene claims top Canadian honours at TFCA annual gala", Playback , January 9, 2019.
  3. ↑ Kirkpatrick, Harvey (February 6, 2018). "Six Questions for Molly McGlynn". Kingstonist News. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Playback’s 2017 5 2 Watch: Molly McGlynn". Playback , September 11, 2017.
  5. ↑ "3-Way (Not Calling) by Molly McGlynn | Short Film". Short of the Week. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
  6. ↑ Molly McGlynn (September 15, 2016). "Rejection is How You Become a Filmmaker". TIFF. Archived from the original on October 18, 2016.
  7. ↑ "Toronto Film Festival Adds International Films, Talks With Angelina Jolie and Javier Bardem". The Wrap. August 22, 2017. Retrieved August 28, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Toronto Film Review: ‘Mary Goes Round’". Variety , September 15, 2017.
  9. ↑ Malyk, Lauren (April 6, 2018). "How to Buy a Baby wins best comedy at the Indie Series Awards" . Retrieved December 17, 2020.
  10. ↑ Kay, Jeremy (August 24, 2020). "TIFF sets Emerging Talent Award recipient, Halle Berry talk, 2020 Rising Stars". Screen Daily. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
  11. ↑ Harvey, Dennis. "Bloody Hell Review: A Teen Sex Comedy Thrown a Curveball by Mother Nature", Variety, March 14, 2023; and Saito, Stephen. "SXSW 2023 Review: A Dire Prognosis Opens Up Emotional Floodgates in Molly McGlynn’s Bloody Hell", The Moveable Fest,·March 14, 2023
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