Documentary Films - Competition 2013 / The Manor / Canada 2013
Shawney Cohen’s highly personal view of his Canadian Jewish family’s extravagant way of life, which includes running a strip joint. The home environment could hardly be described as ideal; even so, they are a remarkably close-knit family.
Thirty-six-year-old Shawney Cohen wants to be a filmmaker but he’s still working at the strip club his father has been operating for three decades. Shawney’s brother works there too, and one of the strippers turns out to be his girlfriend. But her origins aren’t Jewish, which doesn’t please his mildly despotic father. However, dad is even more concerned about his own serious weight problem, because of which he decides to have a stomach operation. He has other wrinkle-producing worries as well: his longtime employee Susan overdoses, one of his customers’ cars blows up, his assistant Bobby keeps getting thrown in jail, and his anorexic wife is overly solicitous. Shot with humorous detachment over the course of three years, Shawney Cohen’s highly personal film delves into the extravagant lifestyle of his Canadian Jewish family: although far from the ideal of family bliss, they are remarkably close. The film will be screened in its international premiere.
78 min / Color, DCP
International premiere
Director Shawney Cohen
/ Dir. of Photography Chris Mably, Mike Gallay
/ Music Jim Guthrie
/ Editor Seth Poulin
/ Producer Paul Scherzer, Laurie Gwen Shapiro
/ Production Six Island Productions
/ Cast Roger Cohen, Brenda Cohen, Sammy Cohen
/ Contact Six Island Productions
www: www.themanordocumentary.com
Shawney Cohen is a filmmaker from Toronto who works at his father’s strip club. His film career began in computer animation, and he has contributed his skills to more than a dozen feature films. In 2009 Shawney Cohen and Mike Gallay shot the short documentary Tagged, produced by the National Film Board of Canada and TVO. The Manor is his feature-length documentary debut.
Six Island Productions
192 Spadina Ave, Suite 307, M5T 2C2, Toronto
Canada
Phone: +1 416 538 3455
E-mail: [email protected]
Paul Scherzer
Producer
Shawney Cohen
Film Director
Laurie Shapiro
Producer
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