She Stoops to Conquer (2015 film)

2015 Canadian film

She Stoops to Conquer

Directed by	Zack Russell
Written by	Kayla Lorette Zachary Russell
Produced by	Marianna Khoury Ann Merriam Hanna Puley Zachary Russell Eva Saphir
Starring	Kayla Lorette Julian Richings Bruce Dow
Cinematography	Henry Sansom
Edited by	Marianna Khoury
Music by	Dan Werb
Distributed by	LaRue Entertainment
Release date	September 13, 2015 (2015-09-13) (TIFF)
Running time	15 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	English

She Stoops to Conquer is a 2015 Canadian short film directed by Zack Russell. It stars Kayla Lorette and Julian Richings, and had its world premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.

The film follows "a struggling talent-show performer who wanders into a nightclub disguised in a mask, and is inexplicably attracted to the real-life doppelgänger of her masked character." Lorette wore a prosthetic mask of Richings' face for the film.

The film has played numerous festivals worldwide, including the Vancouver International Film Festival, the Raindance Film Festival, and the New Orleans Film Festival.

The film has garnered critical praise and won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards.

References

"SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER | Premium Films". www.premium-films.com.
^ "She Stoops To Conquer". Toronto International Film Festival. Retrieved 2016-01-21.
Clarke, Amanda (September 12, 2015). "TIFF '15: Stepping into another skin with Kayla Lorette of 'She Stoops to Conquer'". Cinefilles. Archived from the original on September 15, 2015. Retrieved January 21, 2016.
"She Stoops to Conquer". Vancouver International Film Festival. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
"2015 Raindance Film Festival Calendar". Raindance Film Festival.
"She Stoops to Conquer". New Orleans Film Festival. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
Brownridge, William (September 12, 2015). "Tiff 2015 Review: She Stoops To Conquer". Toronto Film Scene. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
Wilner, Norm (September 9, 2015). "Short Cuts 2015: Canadian Content". Now Magazine. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
Furdyk, Brent (January 19, 2016). "2016 Canadian Screen Awards Nominees Announced". ET Canada. Archived from the original on January 23, 2016. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
"'Room', 'Schitt's Creek', 'Vikings' Among 2016 Canadian Screen Awards Winners". ET Canada. March 13, 2016. Archived from the original on March 15, 2016. Retrieved March 15, 2016.

External links

She Stoops to Conquer at IMDb

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Animated Short (1968–present)	Un enfant...un pays (1968) Walking (1969) To See or Not to See (1970) Evolution (1971) Dans la vie... (1972) The Family That Dwelt Apart (1973) The Owl Who Married a Goose (1975) The Street (1976) Spinnolio (1977) Afterlife (1978) Every Child (1980) The Big Snit (1986) Get a Job (1987) The Cat Came Back (1989) Juke-Bar (1990) Strings (1992) Pearl's Diner (1993) La vieille dame et les pigeons (1997) Bingo (1998) When the Day Breaks (1999) Village of Idiots (2000) The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg (2001) The Hungry Squid (2002) Falling in Love Again (2003) Ryan (2004) cNote (2005) The Danish Poet (2006) Madame Tutli-Putli (2007) Isabelle au bois dormant (2008) Runaway (2009) Lipsett Diaries (2010) Romance (2011) Paula (2012) Subconscious Password (2013) Me and My Moulton (2014) The Ballad of Immortal Joe (2015) Blind Vaysha (2016) The Tesla World Light (2017) Animal Behaviour (2018) Giant Bear (2019) Hot Flash (2020) Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman's Apprentice (2021) The Flying Sailor (2022) Where Rabbits Come From (2023)
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