Company Profile
New Real Films is proud to announce that its latest feature, Trigger directed by Bruce McDonald, written by Daniel MacIvor, starring Tracy Wright and Molly Parker has been selected to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival 2010. New Real is currently in pre-production on Leonard Farlinger’s end of the world comedy romance entitled, I'm Yours.
The Principals
Jennifer Jonas' latest feature is Bruce McDonald’s Trigger starring Molly Parker and Tracy Wright. She produced Reg Harkema's, Leslie, My Name is Evil, a comedy/satire about a juror who falls for a hippie death cult murderess , which premiered at TIFF 2009 for which she was nominated CFTPA’s Producer of the Year for the third year in a row. She also executive produced the feature adaptation of George Ryga’s Hungry Hills which also had its TIFF premiere in 2009. She produced Toronto Stories which premiered at the TIFF 2008. She produced Bruce LaBruce's gay zombie movie, Otto; or, Up with Dead People which premiered at Sundance 2008. In 2007, she produced All Hat starring Luke Kirby and Rachel Leigh Cook. She produced Monkey Warfare starring Don McKellar and Tracy Wright which won a Special Jury Prize at the TIFF 2006. She executive produced Cake starring Heather Graham and Sugar starring Brendan Fehr nominated for Best Actor and Best Adapted screenplay Genies. She produced Don McKellar's feature film Childstar starring Jennifer Jason Leigh with Rhombus Media. She produced The Perfect Son starring Colm Feore and David Cubitt nominated for two Best Actor Genies. Other feature film credits as producer include The Life Before This (co-producer), Perfect Pie (co-producer) and the Cannes Film Festival Prix de la Jeunesse Winner, Last Night (associate producer). For television, Jennifer produced Grammy nominated, Satie and Suzanne as well as Firebird and Elizabeth Rex for Rhombus Media. As 1st Assistant Director, Jennifer worked for François Girard on the Academy Award-winning The Red Violin and Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould.
Leonard Farlinger is a writer/director/producer. He is currently in preproduction for his next feature as writer/director, an end of the world comedy romance entitled, I'm Yours. He began 2010 producing Bruce McDonald’s latest feature, Trigger, starring Molly Parker and Tracy Wright. He produced Reg Harkema's feature, Leslie, My Name is Evil which premiered at TIFF 2009. In 2008, he co-produced the feature films, Otto; or, Up With Dead People and Toronto Stories. He directed All Hat written by novelist Brad Smith that premiered at the TIFF 2007. In 2006, he produced Monkey Warfare which won a Special Jury prize at TIFF. In 2004, he directed the Gemini-winning MOW, In The Dark starring Kathleen Robertson about Montreal’s famous LSD experiments. His first feature, The Perfect Son starring Colm Feore and David Cubitt was nominated for two Best Actor Genies. He is a three-time Genie Nominee for best short film. He is currently adapting Rudy Wiebe’s best-selling novel, A Discovery of Strangers.
New Real has diverse projects in development including A Discovery of Strangers, Gerontophilia by Bruce LaBruce and League of Monster Slayers by TIFF Discovery Award-Winner Aaron Woodley and Cougar Attacks by Hope Thompson.