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THE PRINCESS OF SELKIRK AVENUE
13 minutes
Jill Riley ~ director/producer

The time is 1963, the place: Winnipeg, Manitoba. When Hannah finally works up the courage to tell her parents about her engagement to her non-Jewish boyfriend, Bob, her father, Hershel, suffers a major coronary. Hannah, certain that Hershel faked the attack to break up the young couple, refuses to visit her father in the hospital. But Bob does—determined as he is to get into the old man’s good books. Soon Bob and Hershel become the best of friends, leaving Hannah to wonder if she was better off when the two men in her life were sworn enemies.

Submitted by WIFT-T member Jill Riley.

Jill Riley’s most recent short, The Princess of Selkirk Avenue, received the Toronto Filmmaker Award at the 2009 Female Eye Film Festival. She currently has several projects in development, including her final short, Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon, and a feature tentatively titled, The End of Things.

Jill’s first short, the award winning With Wings, was broadcast on CBC Television’s Canadian Reflections. She also directed the film version of The hard facts of a rock n roll crush (originally a series of very short poems by Kathleen Olmstead), which was a hit on the film festival circuit from Coney Island to Calgary. An honours graduate from the University of Winnipeg’s Department of Theatre & Drama, Jill has worked as an actor (Gail Singer’s True Confections) and a producer of short films (William Phillips’ Milkman, Mark Wihak’s Ecstasy & Autoerotica).

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