Fallen Angels Press Release
TRIPTYCH MEDIA AND MINDS EYE PICTURES ANNOUNCE PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY
ON
FEATURE FILM FALLING ANGELS IN SASKATCHEWAN
Directed by Scott Smith
(Rollercoaster, The Chris Isaak Show), Falling
Angels is based on the
critically acclaimed novel by Canadian author
Barbara Gowdy
Falling
Angels will be the first feature film to utilize the new
Canada/Saskatchewan
soundstage
September 20, 2002 - (Regina, SK) Award-winning producers
Triptych Media
and Minds Eye Pictures are pleased to announce the beginning
of principal
photography on the feature film Falling Angels in Saskatchewan
and the new
Canada/Saskatchewan soundstage in Regina this fall. The $4.3
million
production will move in to the soundstage on October 1,
2002.
Directed by award-winning director Scott Smith (Rollercoaster, The
Chris
Isaak Show) and written by screenwriter Esta Spalding (DaVinci's
Inquest,
The 11th Hour), Falling Angels recounts the humourous and poignant
story
of three teenaged sisters and their struggle for independence within
the
confines of their calamitous family. Adapted from the critically
acclaimed
Barbara Gowdy novel, Falling Angels hilariously explores a family
waging
an unspoken war about an open secret and charts the extraordinary
bounds
to which children will go to deny their gene pool.
Critic's
praise for Barbara Gowdy's novel Falling Angels:� "..it's like
Little Women
on acid!" by Time Out magazine and "sums up the irony of the
human condition
and drives its point home half laughing and half crying.."
by The Toronto
Star.
Dark, funny and sometimes tragic, Falling Angels is
produced by
Robin Cass of Triptych Media and is executive produced by
Kevin DeWalt of
Minds Eye Pictures.
"I can't wait to shoot in a facility like the
soundstage. I am equally
pleased to be working with the strong team at Minds
Eye, and with Val
Creighton and the gang at SaskFILM," says Robin Cass,
producer of the
film. "After seven years in development, it's great to see it
made."
"We are thrilled to join forces with Triptych Media on such a
brilliant
story based on an internationally acclaimed Canadian novel," says
Kevin
DeWalt, executive producer of Falling Angels. "We look forward to
bringing
a feature film with so much promise to Saskatchewan and to the
new
soundstage in Regina."
Established in 1986, Minds Eye Pictures is
a fully integrated production,
post-production and distribution entity with
offices across Canada. As
Western Canada's largest privately held film and
television production
company, Minds Eye Pictures is currently in production
with season one of
Just Cause (W Network, PAX TV), the television movie
Betrayed (CBC),
season two of 2030CE (YTV), season four of Mentors (Family
Channel) and
season two of Prairie Berry Pie (APTN). The Company website
is
www.mindseyepictures.com.
Triptych Media's feature films include
The Hanging Garden, which earned
the award for Most Popular Film and Best
Canadian Film at the 1997 Toronto
International Film Festival and Lilies,
which earned a Genie Award for
Best Feature Film. Triptych's television
dramas include Tale of Teeka,
1998 Banff Rockie and multi Gimeaux winner and
1999 Prix Italia nominee
and the MOW's The Bookfair Murders and Lucky Girl.
The company is
currently in development on the feature films, The Biggest
Modern Woman of
the World, and the adaptation of the international hit play
High Life.
Triptych is in pre-production on the adaptation of The Republic of
Love,
by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Carol Shields.
Falling
Angels is produced with the financial participation of Wild Bunch
Sales
International, Telefilm Canada - Equity Investment Program (Feature
Film
Fund), Canadian Television Fund - License Fee Program, Seville
Pictures,
Universal Studios Canada, Harold Greenberg Fund, Saskatchewan
Film Employment
Tax Credit, and the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax
Credit. Canadian
licenses include Movie Central, CITY TV and TMN - The
Movie Network/Super
Ecran.
Falling Angels is distributed in Canada by Seville Pictures and
worldwide
by Wild Bunch Sales International.