Tracy Wright
Nacimiento : 1959-12-07, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Muerte : 2010-06-22
Historia
Tracy Wright was born on December 7, 1959 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 1989, she was a founding member of the Toronto's Augusta Company, along with her future husband Don McKellar and Daniel Brooks, and worked regularly throughout her theatre career with Brooks, McKellar, and Canadian writers and directors including Nadia Ross, Jacob Wren, Daniel MacIvor, Hillar Liitoja, Paul Bettis and Sky Gilbert.
In film, she worked closely with McKellar and Bruce McDonald, whose Highway 61 (1991) was one of her first major roles, and This Movie Is Broken and Trigger (2010) were her last. She was also known for her roles in films such as Monkey Warfare, Last Night, When Night Is Falling, Superstar and Me and You and Everyone We Know. Highlights of her television appearances include The Kids in the Hall and Twitch City.
Wright also acted in Bob Wiseman's video "We Got Time" in 1989, along with Leslie Spit Treeo and Don McKellar, and she is the subject of a song by Wiseman, entitled "Mothface@yahoo.ca" from his 2013 release Giulietta Masina at the Oscars Crying.
She was married to McKellar, her long-term partner, in January 2010.
Wright died on June 22, 2010, aged 50, from pancreatic cancer.
She wa known for Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), Trigger (2010) and Blindness (2008). She was married to Don McKellar. She died on June 22, 2010 in Toronto.
The Archivist
Several story threads about consciousness and perception intertwine in this film by video installation artist Daniel Cockburn.
Vic
Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.
Box Office Woman
Bruno wakes up in bed next to Caroline, his long time crush. But tomorrow she's off for school in France, and maybe she only granted this miracle as a parting gift for her long time friend. So tonight is Bruno's last chance. And tonight, as it happens, Broken Social Scene, her favourite band, is throwing a big outdoor bash. Maybe if Bruno, with the help of his best pal Blake, can score tickets and give Caroline a night to remember, he can keep this miracle alive.
Leslie's Mom
A young jury member becomes infatuated with Leslie, a troubled teenager and former homecoming princess, who became a follower of Charles Manson's cult and is now on trial for murder.
Rhonda
Thief's Wife
Una misteriosa epidemia de ceguera se propaga en todo un país. Las primeras víctimas son recluidas en un hospital sin recibir explicaciones. Entre ellas está una mujer que conserva la vista, pero lo mantiene en secreto para poder acompañar a su marido, que se ha quedado ciego. Dentro del hospital se impone la ley del más fuerte, lo que dará lugar a todo tipo de atrocidades. Mientras tanto, el caos y el terror dominan las calles. Adaptación de la novela "Ensayo sobre la ceguera", del Premio Nobel portugués José Saramago.
Elizabeth Dokes
Ray Dokes, un antiguo convicto recién salido de la cárcel, regresa a su hogar en Ontario para encontrarse con que el antiguo paisaje rural donde nació pretende convertirse en una urbanización, peligrando las granjas de la zona.
Linda
Two ex-revolutionaries living underground have their lives turned upside down by a sexy young radical who goes from smashing SUVs to fighting gentrification with firebombs.
Nancy Herrington
Christine Jesperson (Miranda July) es una artista solitaria que trabaja como conductora de taxis para mayores. Ella utiliza sus fantasías artísticas para sentirse más cerca de sus objetos de deseo. Richard Swersey (John Hawkes), dependiente de zapatería recién separado y padre de dos niños, parece estar preparado para las cosas sorprendentes que van a pasarle, pero cuando conoce a Christine, siente pánico. La vida no es tan complicada para los hijos de Richard. Robby, de siete años, mantiene un peligroso romance por Internet, mientras que Peter, de catorce años, se convierte en conejillo de Indias de unas chicas vecinas suyas, que están practicando para sus futuros noviazgos y bodas. En este universo, lo prosaico es trascendente y las personas comunes y corrientes se convierten en personajes luminosos que hablan de sus pensamientos más íntimos, siguen secretos impulsos y experimentan momentos de sincera humanidad que a veces se acercan a lo surrealista.
Tabitha
An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother.
Detective Sweeney
Tras perder todas sus pertenencias debido al incendio de su piso de Montreal, Claire tiene que ir a Toronto para alojarse en casa de su novio. Allí será confundida con una asesina convicta.
Steve
A married journalist unexpectedly dials up true love over the telephone while doing research for a story.
Sister Anne
Todo lo que la adolescente Mary Katherine Gallagher desea de la vida es un beso. Pero no un beso cualquiera, sino un beso de los que se ven en las peliculas. Para conseguir su deseo, piensa que debe convertirse en una superestrella de cine.
Alex
Podeswa explora las relaciones humanas a través de cinco personas con una especial relación con cada uno de los cinco sentidos: gusto, olfato, vista, tacto y oído. Cinco historias, cinco sentidos. Todas ellas interconectadas a lo largo de tres días en los cuales una niña desaparece. Sus protagonistas son una voyeur; Richard, un oculista que pierde el oído; Ruth, una masajista viuda; Rona, una pastelera con un pronunciado sentido del gusto y Robert, un asistente doméstico con un desarrollado olfato.
Donna
Parece que, desgraciadamente, el fin del mundo se va a producir en la medianoche del 31 de Diciembre de 1999. Dos meses antes, cuando la noticia se hizo pública, cundió el pánico y la confusión; pero poco a poco, el terror se ha ido transformando en resignación, y la gente se esfuerza por tener un final perfecto. Es importante saber dónde y con quién estará uno cuando se acerque la hora cero. (FILMAFFINITY)
Dog Psychologist's Wife
Sex comedy takes a look at contemporary dating mores and hypothesizes that the new dating location may be the dog walk in the park. Follow one mild-mannered man who's consistently unlucky in love and dogs.
Female Dance Partner
Ever more bizarre criteria are used to eliminate couples from a secret dance event.
Joanna McVeigh
Set in Depression-era Eastern Ontario, "The Fires of Joanna" tells the story of a woman struggling to endure a harsh and unforgiving life. Joanna McVeigh is a young epileptic woman, who, burdened by an illness for which she is shunned, illuminates her isolation with the pleasures of her one great gift: her ability to set fires with her mind. A tale of sin, guilt, and redemption.
Emily
The film explores the relationships that a limousine driver, a doctor, and a real estate agent have amongst each other and with Yo-Yo Ma as he travels to Canada to perform Bach's Cello Suites.
Spot
Marlene Moore has spent most of her life in prison, and is considered so dangerous that the authorities want her locked up indefinitely — though she has never committed a serious crime.
Vivian Klitorsky
A bisexual female pornographer searches for sexual and economic independence in a male-dominated industry. But most of all, the girl just wants to have fun.
Marvette
Joe is a twenty-something gay man who decides to film people he meets on the street with a camera given to him by his boyfriend.
Dispatcher
Josephine has her eye on Joe, a hot-headed, petty criminal who taps phones for a living. When she finally worms her way into his heart she realises it's not a nice place to be. But is it too late?
Souvenir Shop Clerk
A round of unerotic sexual couplings in Toronto, interspersed with interviews about an impending total eclipse.
Tory
Camille es una bella profesora de teología en una universidad protestante de Toronto, y está comprometida con Martin, también teólogo, llevando ambos una ejemplar vida cristiana. Pero Camille no está del todo satisfecha con su vida, y cuando pierde a su mascota en un trágico accidente de coche Camille se siente devastada. En una lavandería, todavía deprimida, conoce a Petra, una joven que trabaja en un circo y de la que Camille se siente atraída, cambiando la visión convencional del mundo y del amor que tenía hasta ese momento. (FILMAFFINITY)
Matt, although married, is completely in love with a hustler called Dick. One night Matt leaves his wife and goes to Dick’s apartment where he waits for his loved one. But Dick’s roommate tells Matt that if Dick catches him there he will kill him.
Judy
Mixing conventional and new digital technologies, Judith Doyle also weaves a dialectic between reality and fiction linked by he casual introspection of the film's narrator, a video artist named Rebecca. Over black and white archival footage from a fifties tourism film about Wasaga Beach, Rebecca says "I videotape photographs and places that are gone."
A brief glimpse into the life a single urban gay male.
New carpet factory footage intercut with old porn creates a brief but telling glimpse into the human psyche.
Margo
A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse from Thunder Bay, Ontario to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to drive her, the corpse, and the drugs stashed within all the way.
