Carly Stone

Carly Stone
Carly Stone at a Canadian Film Centre event in Los Angeles.
Carly Stone at a Canadian Film Centre event in Los Angeles.
Born
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Occupation(s)Dancer, writer, film director
Known forWinning the 2018 SXSW festival jury prize for best first feature film

Carly Stone is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.[1][2]

Personal life

Stone was born and raised in Toronto, by parents who were immigrants from South Africa.[1] She graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a Bachelor of Arts majoring in English and Writing Studies in 2011.[3]

She and her lawyer husband make their home in Toronto.[1]

Career

Prior to directing her first feature film, The New Romantic. She worked as a writer for the television series Kim's Convenience.[1] The New Romantic premiered in March 2018, at the South by Southwest Festival.[1]

Her second feature film, North of Normal, premiered at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Chandler Levack (2018-03-30). "How first-time Canadian filmmaker Carly Stone's rom-com became the toast of SXSW". The Globe and Mail. Austin Texas. Retrieved 2019-12-03. 'I had no expectations for SXSW – zero,' says Stone, who is married to a lawyer, loves her dog and works in the writers' room of the CBC series Kim's Convenience. 'It's surreal to have a collective movie-watching experience with your film and a press day. I cried a little bit before it. Now, I'm just so tired. I go to bed pretty early in Toronto and I've been going to bed at 3 a.m. Before that, I hadn't seen midnight in a long time.'
  2. ^ Andrew Parker (2018-10-17). "Old School, New School: Writer-director Carly Stone on The New Romantic". TheGATE.ca. Retrieved 2019-12-03. Toronto based filmmaker Stone, who graduated from the AFI, used The New Romantic not only as a chance to pay homage to some of her favourite filmmakers (Nora Ephron, Sofia Coppola, and Jill Soloway, to name a few) and rom-com cliches, but to also have a frank and non-judgmental dialogue about what it means to be a modern young woman in a male driven society.
  3. ^ "'Romantic' effort finding indie success for alumna". Western News. 2018-04-19. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
  4. ^ Radheyan Simonpillai, "10 Canadian films to watch at TIFF 2022". Now, August 17, 2022.