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Green Door (film)

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Green Door
Directed bySemi Chellas
Written byBarbara Gowdy
Produced bySonia Hosko
Stephanie Markowitz
StarringDon McKellar
Tracy Wright
Sabrina Grdevich
CinematographyDavid Franco
Edited bySandy Pereira
David Wharnsby
Music byRon Sures
Production
company
Foundry Films
Release date
  • September 7, 2008 (2008-09-07) (TIFF)
Running time
13 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Green Door is a Canadian short comedy film, directed by Semi Chellas and released in 2008.[1] Written by Barbara Gowdy, the film centres on the interactions between various residents of an apartment building, alternating between romantic comedy, mistaken identity farce and black comedy.[2]

The cast includes Don McKellar as Ron, Sabrina Grdevich as Brenda, Tracy Wright as Rhonda, Matt Gordon as Bob, Joris Jarsky as Rob, Matt Hopkins as Darrell, Amy Rutherford as Marilyn, and Matthew Edison and Matt Steinberg as paramedics.

The film premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival.[3]

The film was named to TIFF's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2008.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Bruce Kirkland, "Fest never short of small gems; Who loves short shorts? Why Bruce does". Toronto Sun, September 5, 2008.
  2. ^ Will Sloan, "Short and sweet". The Varsity, January 29, 2009.
  3. ^ "Film finders are always on the hunt; Fest programmers are movie sleuths, searching the globe for top flicks". Toronto Star, September 4, 2008.
  4. ^ "TIFF's Top Ten". Vancouver Sun, December 17, 2008.
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