Actress and burlesque performer, Tristan Risk, who plays the exotic and captivating Beatress Johnson in AMERICAN MARY, is asked how her burlesque background came into use in the role.
Director and writer of AMERICAN MARY, Sylvia Soska, speaks about the creative process of the film and how much body modification was an inspiration for the project and the role that it played.
Leading lady of AMERICAN MARY, Katharine Isabelle, talks about the project and the character of Mary Mason.
Thank you so much to the First Weekend's Club for capturing this wonderful experience and the very first time that all five women of AMERICAN MARY, Jen Soska, Tristan Risk, Paula Lindberg, Katharine Isabelle, and Sylvia Soska have been together for a festival screening. So proud that it happened in Canada.
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Monday, December 03, 2012
Whistler Film Festival Photo Diary for American Mary
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| Jen Soska, Katharine Isabelle, and Sylvia Soska on the Red Carpet |
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| Jen Soska, Tristan Risk, and Sylvia Soska sitting pretty post screening |
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| Katharine Isabelle on the Red Carpet before the AM screening |
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| The beautiful miss Katharine Isabelle |
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| Jen Soska, festival director & founder Shauna Hardy Mishaw, and Sylvia Soska |
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| Jen Soska, festival programmer and badass Paul Gratton, & Sylvia Soska |
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| The Soska Sisters aka The Twisted Twins and the sensational Sparks Twins |
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| The Twisted Twins and The Sparks Twins, together at last |
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| The Twisted Twins chatting with the Hollywood Reporter at Whistler |
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| The Twisted Twins at the Sorel Suite with their beautiful new Sorels! |
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| Jen Soska, Katharine Isabelle, and Sylvia Soska at the American Mary Red Carpet |
The Twisted Twins with Glen Schaefer of The Province at Whistler Film Fest
"Twin writer-directors Jen and Sylvia Soska pushed some buttons at the
Whistler Film Festival with a late-night screening of American Mary,
their thriller about a med student who drops out to do black-market
body-modification surgeries.
Walk through the Whistler village centre with the self-styled Twisted Twins, and they stand out like a pair of ravens at a Canada Goose convention, as they have a good cackle about the wholesome mountain types who walked out in the movie’s first half.
“It’s been such a long time since we’ve had a quiet audience, or people walking out,” Jen says. The two just returned from a cross-country tour of Australia before Whistler, and earlier screened the film at festivals in Europe and the U.S. Whistler was the B.C. debut for the Vancouver-filmed movie.
“They’re not used to having extreme content, not that I would call American Mary having extreme content,” Jen says.
Indeed, if the film draw winces, it’s more through implied violence and gore.
Clearly, the Soskas clash with the Whistler vibe – the pair even got lost a couple of times."
~ Glen Schaefer
Fatally Yours,
Jen
Walk through the Whistler village centre with the self-styled Twisted Twins, and they stand out like a pair of ravens at a Canada Goose convention, as they have a good cackle about the wholesome mountain types who walked out in the movie’s first half.
“It’s been such a long time since we’ve had a quiet audience, or people walking out,” Jen says. The two just returned from a cross-country tour of Australia before Whistler, and earlier screened the film at festivals in Europe and the U.S. Whistler was the B.C. debut for the Vancouver-filmed movie.
“They’re not used to having extreme content, not that I would call American Mary having extreme content,” Jen says.
Indeed, if the film draw winces, it’s more through implied violence and gore.
Clearly, the Soskas clash with the Whistler vibe – the pair even got lost a couple of times."
~ Glen Schaefer
Fatally Yours,
Jen
Meet the Artists Behind AMERICAN MARY at the Whistler Film Festival
Sylvia Soska, Katharine Isabelle, and I get to chat about American Mary at the Whistler Film Festival.
THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF ROSALIND LEIGH
"Some people think that horror films are some
sort of second class filmmaking, and the only way to bypass that
thinking is being proud of the fact that we do it."
-Clive Barker
It is still true. The best film that I saw at the Whistler Film Festival? THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF ROSALIND LEIGH. A masterfully told, meticulously shot, and brilliantly put together suspenseful original piece that I'm still thinking about today by the wonderful Rodrigo Gudiño of RUE MORGUE.
It is a privilege and an honour to have the opportunity to make horror films. Anyone who sees the genre as a second class form of filmmaking has no idea what the fuck they are talking about.
Please enjoy and seek out this film as soon as it becomes available. It will be coming out from the ones who are bringing out all the best in horror, ANCHOR BAY.
-Clive Barker
It is still true. The best film that I saw at the Whistler Film Festival? THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF ROSALIND LEIGH. A masterfully told, meticulously shot, and brilliantly put together suspenseful original piece that I'm still thinking about today by the wonderful Rodrigo Gudiño of RUE MORGUE.
It is a privilege and an honour to have the opportunity to make horror films. Anyone who sees the genre as a second class form of filmmaking has no idea what the fuck they are talking about.
Please enjoy and seek out this film as soon as it becomes available. It will be coming out from the ones who are bringing out all the best in horror, ANCHOR BAY.
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