FILMS
FEATURES
The Lotus Eaters – Screenwriter and Co-Producer
A magic book, a pregnant sixteen year old who refuses to get married, two pigs named Mortimer and Ogilvy, a father’s affair, a Beatles concert and a ten year old sorceress are just some of the elements in this charming comedy.
The Lotus Eaters premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was nominated for eleven Genie Awards, winning 3 including Best Screenplay and Best Actress. The film also won awards at the Vancouver and Halifax Festivals and played on television and at festivals worldwide.
Great story, droll script, terrific acting. Wry, wise and sweetly twisted.
Montreal Gazette
Better Than Chocolate – Screenwriter and Co-Producer
Better than Chocolate premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and was released at the US by Trimark Pictures where it played on over 300 screens. The film was both a critical success and a box office hit. Variety called it “A terrifically entertaining romantic comedy.” The film was released theatrically in many territories and opened in Germany in the Top Ten.
“Better Than Chocolate” is a comic rhapsody to romantic love, the possibility of happily ever after within an all-accepting subculture. For everyone there’s a someone, it insists. And once you have found her, never let her go.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Saint Monica – Producer
Monica misses being chosen for her church’s summer procession of the Virgin. But her life changes when she steals a pair of angels wings….
Saint Monica premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, played festivals worldwide, and won the Best Narrative Feature Award at the Sarasota Film Festival.
It would be rare in the Canadian canon to find a film as authentic as “Saint Monica”. It’s a little gem of a movie.
Take One Magazine
SHORTS
It’s a Party! (Genie Award Nominee) Screenwriter, Co-Producer
In Search of the Last Good Man (Genie Award Winner) Screenwriter, Co-Producer
Broken Images; the Photography of Michelle Normoyle Director
Sacrifice Executive Producer
Chanterelle Rain Producer
SELECTED TELEVISION CREDITS
The Beachcombers
Da Vinci’s Inquest
Weird Homes
Big Sound
DOCUMENTARIES
Bearded Ladies: The Photography of Rosamond Norbury – Executive Producer
Bearded Ladies is an engaged and engaging hour long documentary about Rosamond Norbury, a self-described “omnisexual” Vancouver photographer who explores gender and identity with a playful ‘wink and a nod’. The film follows Norbury as she creates her most recent show, a series of surprising and often hilarious portraits of women donning male drag for the first time. It also presents Norbury’s past work, including her groundbreaking homoerotic cowboy images and her intimate portraits of drag queens. We are taken out on the town accompanied by Norbury’s charming alter egos, the gay erotic photographer, Rod Bush, and the glamorous drag queen, Rose Bush.
Winner Best Canadian Documentary Female Eye Film Festival.
A groundbreaking artist fully entrenched in the communities she photographs, Norbury’s engagement with her work shifts the phallocentric culture of photography to an unknown place, or in her words: into a “surprise that unfolds in front of me”.
Katja De Bock, Reel West
The Oldest Basketball Team in the World – Executive Producer
This one-hour documentary follows the Retreads, a woman’s basketball team whose average age is seventy-two as they train for the World Masters Games where, alone in their category, they must play against younger, stronger and faster teams from around the world.
Coming back to the game after so many decades says another of the players, “is like wanting to go home.” This movie will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Stephen Osborne, Geist Magazine
BOOKS
Patti Smith on Patti Smith, Interviews and Encounters. (It’s Hot: A Patti Smith Interview), Chicago Review Press (U.S.A.) 2021 — Chapter. Editor Aidan Levy.
Writing Creative Writing, Essays from the Field. (It’s All About Structure: The Craft of Screenwriting), Dundurn, 2018 — Chapter. Editors Rishma Dunlop, Daniel Scott Tysdal and Priscila Uppal.
The Lost Journals of Mocha Chien, Volume 8 Constantinople, art press book, published by Perro Verlag, 2011
The Young The Restless and the Dead, Interviews with Canadian Filmmakers. two chapters. Editor George Melnyk, Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2008
“Granville Island” A book of pieces set on Granville Island published by the Vancouver Writers Festival. My chapter entitled “Granville Island.” 2000.
Adventure Stories for Big Girls, an Anthology of Radio Plays (includes CALAMITY JANE AND THE FAT BUFFALO MOON), Blizzard Press, 1993.
EDITED
Hard-Boiled: Great Lines from Classic Noir Films, Chronicle Books (U.S.A.) and Studio Vista Books/Cassell (U.K.) 124 pages, Introduction by Lee Server. 1996.
Viva Las Elvis! Quotations by and about the King of Rock and Roll, Arsenal Pulp Press. 1994.
The Little Black and White Book of Quotations from Film Noir, Arsenal Pulp Press. 1993.
SELECTED AWARDS + DISTINCTIONS
-
- 2016 – Bearded Ladies; The Photography of Rosamond Norbury Best Canadian Documentary Female Eye Film Festival, Toronto.
- 2015 – Chanterelle Rain, Legacy Award, Women In Film Festival, Vancouver
- 2004 – Women in Film and Television Vancouver – Lifetime Honorary Achievement Award – July 28th. Presented at Hycroft Manor for “outstanding contributions to the film and video industry.”
- 2003 – Saint Monica, nominated for 5 LEO Awards (British Columbia Film Awards) including Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Picture Editing, Best Sound Design, Best Overall Sound. The film won three Leo Awards., for Editing, Sound Design and Overall Sound. April 2003.
- Saint Monica, nominated for 2 Genie Awards (Canadian Film Awards), Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Song and won for Best Original Song. January 2003.
- Saint Monica, winner Cultural Expressions Award – Best Narrative Feature Film, Sarasota Film Festival, February 2003
- 1999 – Woman Of The Year, shared with producer Sharon McGowan, Women in Film and Television Vancouver
- Better than Chocolate, Millivres Audience Award, London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.
- Better than Chocolate, Audience Award, Best Feature Film, Inside Out Festival, Toronto.
- Better than Chocolate Audience Award Best Feature Film, Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
- Better than Chocolate Finalist, GLAAD Awards Best Independent Feature Film.1993 —
- 1993 – The Lotus Eaters (Feature film, screenwriter, and co-producer )
- The Lotus Eaters Nominated for 11 Genie Awards
- The Lotus Eaters, Genie Award for Best Original Feature Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Sound Design
- 1990 – In Search of The Last Good Man, Genie Award for Best Short Dramatic Film.
- 1986 – It’s a Party! finalist Genie Award for Best Short Dramatic Film. Personal nomination.
- 1985 – The Bittersweet Kid, Chalmers Award Finalist (Toronto) and Jessie Award Finalist (Vancouver) for Best Children’s Play.
- 1986 – “Let’s Go Tokyo” Western Magazine Writing Awards Finalist Best Travel Feature, Vancouver.
STORY EDITING AND CONSULTING
Peggy is available to work on your project. All consultations are kept strictly confidential.
