Robin Cass

Robin Cass is a Canadian film and television producer.^[1] He is most noted as the producer of John Greyson's film Lilies, which won the Genie Award for Best Picture at the 17th Genie Awards in 1996.^[2] He has also been a supervising producer for the CBC TV series Kim's Convenience.^[3]

Cass at the Hot Docs Premiere of *As Slow as Possible*

A graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, he joined with Louise Garfield and Anna Stratton in 1994 to form Triptych Media.^[4] The company's other productions have included the films Falling Angels,^[5] The Republic of Love, Zero Patience^[6] and The Hanging Garden, and the television dramas Lucky Girl, The Tale of Teeka and Heyday!^[7]

In 2020, he founded Cass & Co, a production company based in Vancouver.^[8] Projects in development include an adaptation of Waubgeshig Rice's novel Moon of The Crusted Snow, and a docu-series based on Brian Goldman's non-fiction book The Power of Kindness.^[9]

Filmography

Lilies - Les feluettes (1996, producer)
Falling Angels (2003, producer)
Heyday! (2006, producer)
Amal (2007, executive producer)
Emotional Arithmetic (2007, executive producer)
As Slow as Possible (2008, producer)
High Life (2009, producer)
Down the Road Again (2011)
Kim's Convenience (2016–17, supervising producer)^[3]

References

^ "Rights come home". The Globe and Mail, July 12, 1996.
^ "Lilies stops Genie sweep by Crash". Kingston Whig-Standard, November 28, 1996.
^ ^a ^b "Season Two of CBC's Award-Winning Hit Comedy Kim's Convenience now in production". CBC. July 5, 2017. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
^ Thomas Waugh, Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006. ISBN 9780773576803. p. 524.
^ "How Falling Angels took flight". The Globe and Mail, November 14, 2003.
^ "Zero Patience". IMDB.
^ "Selected list of Gemini nominees". Canada NewsWire, August 29, 2006.
^ Whittingham, Clive. "Cass sets up prodco in Vancouver". c21 Media.
^ Townsend, Kelly. "Cass sets up prodco in Vancouver". PLAYBACK.

External links

Robin Cass at IMDb

[rights-1] "Rights come home". The Globe and Mail, July 12, 1996.

[2] "Lilies stops Genie sweep by Crash". Kingston Whig-Standard, November 28, 1996.

[kims-3] "Season Two of CBC's Award-Winning Hit Comedy Kim's Convenience now in production". CBC. July 5, 2017. Retrieved June 18, 2020.

[waugh-4] Thomas Waugh, Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006. ISBN 9780773576803. p. 524.

[5] "How Falling Angels took flight". The Globe and Mail, November 14, 2003.

[6] "Zero Patience". IMDB.

[7] "Selected list of Gemini nominees". Canada NewsWire, August 29, 2006.

[8] Whittingham, Clive. "Cass sets up prodco in Vancouver". c21 Media.

[9] Townsend, Kelly. "Cass sets up prodco in Vancouver". PLAYBACK.

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