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Rozema to be given Female Eye Award
by Staff
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(March 25, 2009 - Toronto, Ontario) -- The 7th Annual Female Eye Film Festival has announced that the recipient of the 2009 Honourary Director Award is acclaimed director Patricia Rozema. Born in Kingston and raised in Sarnia, Ontario, director, producer and writer, Patricia Rozema is one of Canada's most accomplished and internationally recognized filmmakers. Throughout her narrative feature film work she has maintained an elegant female consciousness while drawing male characters with compassion.
Rozema’s debut feature remains one of Canada’s most celebrated and circulated success stories. I've Heard The Mermaids Singing was not only remarkably successful critically, but commercially. The film went on to win the coveted Prix de la Jeunesse at Cannes in 1987 and was recently voted as one of the top ten Canadian films of the century. Rozema followed up this success with White Room, an ambitious and dark contemporary tale of fame. Then, with the semi-autobiographical When Night is Falling, Rozema crafted a lyrical lesbian love story involving a Christian professor and a circus performer. Her subsequent project, the richly textured Six Gestures, part of the Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach series was awarded a Prime Time Emmy. Rozema's next two films were produced outside of Canada. Mansfield Park, produced in England, is a sophisticated revisionist adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel and Happy Days, an Irish production, is a filmed version of Samuel Beckett’s absurdly despairing play in which a woman lives partially buried in a mound. In 2008 Rozema co-wrote Grey Gardens, a feature film based on the Maysles’ documentary by the same name of the lives Big Edie (Jessica Lange) and Little Edie (Drew Barrymore) Bouvier Beale. She also directed a timely family film Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, starring Abigail Breslin as a determined 10-year-old struggling with changes brought about by the Great Depression.
The Female Eye Film Festival will pay tribute to Patricia Rozema by screening a compilation of her works at the Rainbow Cinemas Market Square – 80 Front Street East on Sunday, March 29th at 5:30PM. This special presentation will be followed by the awards reception and gala party which will take place at 7PM at Toronto's Hot House Café on Church Street.
For more information, click here to visit the Female Eye Film Festival website.
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