Making a very welcome return to the festival with her follow-up to her much-loved feature debut I LIKE MOVIES (KCFF23), writer-director Chandler Levack revisits her own past as a music journalist for this semi-autobiographical tale set in the bustling and ultra-cool indie scene of early 2010s Montreal. Barbie Ferreira (Euphoria) stars as Grace Pine, a Toronto scribe who heads to Quebec in hopes of writing her first book. While out at a club, she develops an interest – both professional and romantic – in the band onstage, a development that sends her Montreal summer in a more complicated direction. Besides capturing this time and place with great affection and vividness, Levack proves to be similarly astute when it comes to portraying her protagonist’s efforts to overcome her anxieties and uncertainties, avoid her slimy boss (Jay Baruchel), and figure out what she really wants.

Director: Chandler Levack

Cast: Barbie Ferreira, Emily Lê, Jay Baruchel, Devon Bostick

Language: English

Runtime: 111 minutes

Content warning: sexual assault, sexual content, crude content, nudity, coarse language, drug use, mature themes

Evan Dubinsky, Associate Producer 

Evan Dubinsky is a Toronto-based events and media producer. He’s produced concert and comedy events in Montreal, Toronto and Los Angeles and has been the music supervisor on several films including Goon, The F Word, Black Conflux, and Random Acts of Violence. He’s currently a senior programmer for the POP Montreal Music Festival and has several film and television projects in development.