SAMMY SMALLS is an impish 21-year-old tomboy. Sammy is tiny, less than five feet tall. With a crazy mane of curly hair, tied in an elastic band, she possesses an offbeat beauty. She works as a store detective at Big Apple Food Town. Her job is to deliver shoplifters to her boss who beats them up so they never re-offend. Sammy feels guilty over her part in the dodgy scheme and wants to quit, but doesn’t feel like she has any other options. She certainly isn’t moving back home to live with her unhappy and over-protective parents.

Meanwhile, Sammy has an unrequited crush on scruffy Eugene Zaslavsky, 24, a musician who plays the most enchanting music. He’s perfect for her, funny, irreverent, charming and as much of an oddball as she is, but the problem is, he has no desire to be in a relationship. After a disastrous encounter that goes beyond the boundaries of their friendship, Eugene suggests they play the field to get more experience. Following his dvice, Sammy hatches a plan. Instead of delivering shoplifters to her boss, she blackmails them into giving her sex lessons in an abandoned shack in the woods behind the supermarket. While Sammy searches for sexual awakening, Eugene is on his own path to finding love, which ultimately leads them back to each other.

Cast:

Cristin Milioti

Mark Rendall

Ali Liebert

Emily Holmes

Eugene Lipinski

with Sheila McCarthy

with Kevin McDonald

and Will Sasso as “Dirk”

Dr. Magnusson is a brilliant geneticist racing to isolate a cancer-causing gene. All that’s standing in her way is competition from a well-funded French lab, her ticking biological clock, a risky office romance, and the fear that she might carry the same Huntington’s gene that prematurely ended her mother’s life. Based on the award-winning play by Electric Company Theatre, The Score explores the human elements and revolutionary implications of the rapidly advancing world of genetics and uses humour, music and dance to transform scientific ideas into universal themes of identity, freedom and creation.

Visit The Score website at www.thescorethemovie.ca.

“Adventurous views will want to know The Score, an ambitious item that succeeds on a number of challenging levels – without breaking too much sweat about it.”   — Ken Eisner, Variety

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Festivals & Awards

Awards & Nominations

2006 Awards & Nominations

• GEMINI NOMINATIONS: Best Photography in a Comedy, Variety or Performing Arts Program or Series and Best Original Music Score for a Program or Mini-Series.
• Nominated for Best Musical Score in a Feature Length Film – Leo Awards
• Nominated for Best Movie of the Week – Banff Television Awards

Festivals

2006 Screenings

• INPUT – Taipei, Taiwan

2005 Screenings

• Puerto Vallarta Film Festival – Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
• Vancouver International Film Festival – Vancouver, BC

Media Items

Download The Score press kit. (PDF, 56 kb)

Financing

Produced in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; Produced with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund created by the Government of Canada and the Canadian Cable Industry; CTF: Licence Fee Program; Telefilm Canada: Equity Investment, Produced with the participation and contribution of Genome Canada; With the assistance of The government of Canada Film or Video Production Tax Credit Program, CanWest Independent Producer’s Fund; the Province of British Columbia Film Incentive BC. Developed with the participation of British Columbia Film and with the financial participation of Rogers Telefund.

Sales Info

Educational Sales

Moving Images Distribution
402 West Pender Street, Suite 606, Vancouver, BC, Canada  V6B 1T6
Phone: (604) 684-3014 | Fax: (604) 684-7156
mailbox@movingimages.ca
www.movingimages.ca

National and International Sales

Screen Siren Pictures Inc
Suite 300, 291 East 2nd Avenue, Vancouver, BC, Canada  V5T 1B8
Phone: (604) 687-7591 | Fax: (604) 687-4937
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Produced in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Produced with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund created by the Government of Canada and the Canadian cable industry CTF: License Fee Program, Telefilm Canada: Equity Investment Program Produced with the participation and contribution of Genome Canada with the assistance of The Government of Canada Film or Video Production Tax Credit Program, CanWest Western Independent Producers Fund, the Province of British Columbia Film Incentive BC. Developed with the participation of British Columbia Film and with the financial participation of Rogers Telefund.

Ed (Callum Keith Rennie) goes through the motions of living. Still saddened and filled with rage over his wife’s death, he is distant and rarely speaks, least of all to his children. Flower (Jane McGregor), a pretty, warm-hearted 16-year-old, has assumed the mothering role, but the demands of caring for her brother have begun to weigh upon her.

Garnet (Colin Roberts), a quiet, inquisitive child, is most contented at Flower’s side. He spends much of his time alone – feeding popsicles to cats, eating dirt, collecting worms, keenly observing ants on the carpet, and listening to the puzzling sounds that come from behind the door of his father’s room.

The sudden news of Flower’s pregnancy splits the family apart and she decides to pack up and leave home. Ed, trying to bond with his son, buys a BB gun as a birthday gift, but this gesture only pushes the troubled Garnet further toward the edge. Left to his own devices, Garnet begins to unravel, growing aberrant and violent. Soon, Ed must decide whether to face this new suffering that his years of silence have sown.

“Close to perfection … Flower & Garnet pulls you in with silence – then proceeds to blow your mind with little more than a whisper … An astonishing achievement … It marks the arrival of a new visionary.”   — Katherine Monk, The Vancouver Sun

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Festivals & Awards

Awards & Nominations

2004 Awards & Nominations

• Keith Behrman nominated for Grand Prix Award – Flanders International Film Festival
• Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature – 2nd Annual Independent Film Festival of Boston

2003 Awards & Nominations

• Best Program, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Lead Actor and Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Actress, Best Cinematography and Best Music – Leo Awards, Feature Film Category
• Best Canadian Feature – Victoria Independent Film Festival
• Best Canadian Feature Film (2002), Best Canadian Director, Best Canadian Actor, Runner-up for Best Canadian Actress – Vancouver Film Critics Circle
• Named one of Canada’s Top Ten Films of 2002 – Toronto International Film Festival Group
• Keith Berhman awarded the Claude Jutra Award for outstanding achievement by a Canadian director in their first feature – Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television

2002 Awards & Nominations

• People’ Choice Awards for Most Popular Feature Film – Whistler Film Festival
• Best Performance By An Actor in A Leading Role (Colin Roberts) nomination – Genie Awards

Festivals

2004 Screenings

• Singapore International Film Festival – Sinapore, Malaysia
• Muestra de Cine Canadiese – Madrid, Valencia
• Festival de Cine Canadiense – Mexico
• Vail Symposium – Vail Valley, Colorado
• Sevilla Film Festival – Spain
• 2nd Annual Independent Film Festival of Boston – Boston
• Canadian Front: New Films – Museum of Modern Art in New York
• Toronto International Film Festival Group’s Film Circuit in the UK – Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen

2003 Screenings

• Flanders International Film Festival – Ghent, Belgium
• Pusan International Film Festival – South Korea
• Karlovy Vary International Film Festival – Czech Republic
• Cambridge Film Festival – UK
• Victoria Independent Film Festival – Victoria, BC
• Berlin International Film Festival – Berlin

2002 Screenings

• Calgary International Film Festival – Calgary, AB
• Whistler Film Festival – Whistler, BC
• Toronto International Film Festival – Toronto, ON
• Vancouver International Film Festival – Vancouver, BC
• Montreal World Film Festival – Montreal, QC

Financing

Produced with the participation of Telefilm Canada; the Canadian Television Fund created by the Government of Canada and the Canadian cable industry CTF: License Fee Program; the British Columbia Film Television and Film Financing Program; the Province of British Columbia Film Incentive BC; and the Movie Network.

Produced in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, with the assistance/participation of the Government of Canada Film or Video Production Tax Credit Program; in association with Boneyard Film Company; with the participation of CanWest Western Independent Producers Fund and in association with Movie Central/Corus.

Produced with the financial participation of Rogers Telefund. Developed through the National Screen Institute of Canada NSI Features First Program, in association with Telefilm Canada and British Columbia Film.

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Sales Info

Canadian Sales

Odeon Films Inc
121 Bloor Street East, Suite 1500, Toronto, Ontario Canada M4W 3M5
Phone: (416) 967-1174 | Fax: (416) 960-0971
www.allianceatlantisfilms.com

International Sales

AllianceAtlantis Communications Inc
121 Bloor Street East, Suite 1500, Toronto, Ontario Canada M4W 3M5
Phone: (416) 967-1174 | Fax: (416) 960-0971
www.allianceatlantis.com

Produced with the participation of Telefilm Canada; the Canadian Television Fund created by the Government of Canada and the Canadian cable industry CTF: License Fee Program; the British Columbia Film Television and Film Financing Program; the Province of British Columbia Film Incentive BC; and the Movie Network. Produced in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, with the assistance/participation of the Government of Canada Film or Video Production Tax Credit Program; in association with Boneyard Film Company; with the participation of CanWest Western Independent Producers Fund and in association with Movie Central/Corus. Produced with the financial participation of Rogers Telefund. Developed through the National Screen Institute of Canada NSI Features First Program, in association with Telefilm Canada and British Columbia Film.