Robin Cass
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 Robin Cass at the Hot Docs Premiere of As Slow as Possible | |
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Robin Cass is a Canadian film and television producer. His projects include the feature films High Life, Falling Angels, and Lilies (for which he won a Genie Award for Best Picture). He has also served as an associate producer on the ground-breaking Zero Patience, and as an executive producer on Emotional Arithmetic and Amal.
Biography
Robin Cass brings to Triptych Media a diverse background that includes work as photo and electronic-based visual artist, as well as a decade of experience in series television as a writer, director and field producer for CFT0 and Global. He is a graduate of the Experimental Arts Department of the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD). He is also an active board member and executive board member for the Canadian Film and Television Production Association (CFTPA), the Rogers’ Industry Centre for the Toronto International Film Festival, Crow’s Theatre and the About Face organization.
One of the founders of Toronto-based Triptych Media in 1994, Robin and partner Anna Stratton bring together their backgrounds in the theatre and visual arts to develop and produce bold, award-winning film and television entertainment. The company’s slate runs the gamut from comedy to drama, with properties chosen for the strength of their characters, innovative story-telling and social relevance. Triptych is best known for the features Falling Angels, The Republic of Love, The Hanging Garden, Lilies and the ground-breaking Zero Patience as well as for its television dramas Lucky Girl, The Tale of Teeka and Gordon Pinsent’s Heyday! The company is an active co-production partner internationally and within Canada.
Triptych’s latest films are Gary Yates’ feature High Life, based on the hit play by Lee MacDougall; Emotional Arithmetic, based on the novel by the late Matt Cohen, directed by Paolo Barzman, and starring Susan Sarandon, Christopher Plummer, Gabriel Byrne, Roy Dupuis and Max von Sydow. Currently in release is the documentary As Slow as Possible by Scott Smith and Triptych is executive producer on Richie Mehta’s feature debut, Amal.
Filmography
- Down the Road Again (2011)
High Life (2009) (producer)
As Slow as Possible (2008) (producer)
Emotional Arithmetic (2007) (executive producer)
... aka Autumn Hearts: A New Beginning (USA: DVD title)
Amal (2007) (executive producer)
Heyday! (2006) (TV) (producer)
Falling Angels (2003) (producer)
... aka Révolte des anges, La (Canada: French title)
Lilies - Les feluettes (1996) (producer)
... aka Lilies (Canada: French title: short title)
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