As part of TIFF’s efforts to make the country’s rich cinematic heritage more accessible to audiences, the Canadian Open Vault programme presents free screenings of Canadian classics every season at TIFF Bell Lightbox.

On February 7, 2016 TIFF will present the 1999 East Coast film New Waterford Girl directed by Allan Moyle

Synopsis:

Teenage Mooney Pottie (Liane Balaban) is desperate to leave the small Nova Scotian town she’s lived in all her life. When she befriends her brassy new neighbour Lou (Tara Spencer-Nairn), Mooney is inspired to assert herself, and she finally finds her escape route when her teacher (Andrew McCarthy) helps her get admitted to art school in New York.

This screening will be introduced by film scholar Darrell Varga (author of Shooting from the East: Filmmaking on the Canadian Atlantic), and producers Jennifer Kawaja and Julia Sereny, actress Tara Spencer-Narin and screenwriter Tricia Fish will do a post-screening Q&A.

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