Cara aka Weirdgrrl
Screenwriter / Director / Producer
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Sanity is a type of conformity.
Female
41 years old
Calgary
Canada
Last Login: 6/8/2009
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Cara aka Weirdgrrl's Film Bio
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| Website | Limes with Orange (www3.telus.net/weirdgrrl) | | Influences | Alfred Hitchcock, Tim Burton, Joss Whedon, Ronald D. Moore, Aaron Sorkin, Maya Deren, Deco Dawson, James Reckseidler, Jason Long, Madeleine L’Engle, John Wyndham, Marrie Mumford, Marc Chagall and Emily the Strange. | | Directors | Denys Arcand, Darren Aronofsky, Luc Besson, Kenneth Branagh, James Cameron, David Fincher, Terry Gilliam, Richard E. Kelly, Christopher Nolan, Sandi Somers, Quentin Tarantino. | | Festivals | ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival 2008 (Toronto, ON); Great Northern Arts Festival 2008 (Inuvik, NT); Fear No Film Festival 2008 (Salt Lake City, Utah); $100 Film Festival 2008 (Calgary, Alberta); Herland Film and Video Festival 2007 (Calgary, Alberta) | | Professional Affiliations | Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers |
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Cara aka Weirdgrrl's Interests
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| General | Books, poetry, tattoos, art, music, film, philosophy, theology, insanity, surreality, politics, writing, language, cryptic crosswords, mathematics, theoretical physics, the meaning of life and nothing in particular. | | Music | Johann Sebastian Bach, Billy Bragg, Blue October, Dead Can Dance, Ani DiFranco, Flanders and Swann, Flogging Molly, Go Betty Go, Great Big Sea, Kidneythieves, Storm Large, Massive Attack, Melissa McLelland, Metric, The Mocking Shadows, Heather Nova, Athena Reich, Rachael Sage, Nina Simone, Sarah Slean, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Switchblade Symphony, Tapping the Vein, Jasmine Whenham. | | Movies | Aliens, Billy Jack, Bob Roberts, Brazil, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fight Club, Gallipoli, Jesus of Montreal, Leon: The Professional, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Moulin Rouge, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Matrix, Memento, Pi, Pride and Prejudice (AandE version), Pulp Fiction, Run Lola Run, The Terminator, The Tall Guy, Truly Madly Deeply. | | Television | Battlestar Galactica! Plus anything by Joss Whedon or Aaron Sorkin. And my latest discovery: Dexter! | | Books | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Douglas Adams), Emma (Jane Austen), Enquiry (Dick Francis), Writing Down the Bones (Natalie Goldberg), The Stand (Stephen King), A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle), The Clergyman's Daughter (George Orwell), Brat Farrar (Josephine Tey), The Seeds of Time (John Wyndham) and the short stories of Philip K. Dick. | | Heroes | People who stand up for what they believe in, regardless of the cost. |
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Cara aka Weirdgrrl's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Orientation: | Straight | | Body type: | 5' 5" / Slim / Slender | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Zodiac Sign: | Scorpio | | Smoke / Drink: | No / Yes | | Children: | Undecided | | Education: | Grad / professional school | | Occupation: | Writer |
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About me:
Although my formal education focused on veterinary medicine, I have been a writer my entire life. I transitioned into film in 2006 when I attended the Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers' 16mm Film School, during which I wrote and directed my first short workshop film, "No Time Like the Present." I went on to be accepted into Herland's IN:Camera Workshop, a juried, 10-day intensive film production workshop. My IN:Camera workshop film, "Persephone," was later screened at the Herland Film and Video Festival in 2007. My first independent short, "Coda in G Minor," screened at the $100 Film Festival in 2008. (Check out my "Coda" blog.)
So this is where you can read about my film life. But if you want to read about my day-to-day life, check out Limes with Orange.
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Who I'd like to meet:
Creative, think-outside-the-box types. Plus anyone who inspires me or anyone who is inspired, in turn, by my work. (Hmm, I think it's safe to say that the second group is probably a subset of the first.) Oh yeah... and Sarah Polley, so that I can give her my feature to read and see if I she would be interested in directing it!
I was posting Eventful demands here, for musicians that I would like to see play in Calgary. But for now, here's a poster for my screenwriting instructor's film, "Walk All Over Me." A film whose cast includes people that I was certainly thrilled to meet at the gala after party, including Tricia Helfer and Lothaire Bluteau.
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