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Robin Cass

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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.

Usually with

Anna Stratton
Anna Stratton
(4 films)
Lone Scherfig
Lone Scherfig
(1 films)
Paolo Barzman
Paolo Barzman
(1 films)
Mark McKinney
Mark McKinney
(2 films)
Richie Mehta
Richie Mehta
(1 films)
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Filmography of Robin Cass (7 films)

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Producer

The Kindness of Strangers, 1h52
Directed by Lone Scherfig
Origin Danemark
Genres Drama
Actors Zoe Kazan, Tahar Rahim, Andrea Riseborough, Bill Nighy, Jay Baruchel, Caleb Landry Jones
Roles Producer
Rating64% 3.247333.247333.247333.247333.24733
Voici l'histoire de quatre personnes traversant la pire crise de leur existence.
Down the Road Again, 1h24
Directed by Donald Shebib
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Actors Doug McGrath, Kathleen Robertson, Anthony Lemke, Jayne Eastwood, Cayle Chernin, Tedde Moore
Roles Producer
Rating67% 3.3701653.3701653.3701653.3701653.370165
Forty years after the events of Goin' Down the Road Joey has died in Vancouver and Pete — who left Toronto with Joey after a violent incident — must return to the city to honour Joey's request that his ashes be taken back to Cape Breton Island. Betty-Jo, Joey and Betty's daughter, joins him in the journey, driving cross-Canada in the same 1960 Chevy Impala convertible that Joey and Pete used when they left home in 1970. The return to Cape Breton becomes Joey's final gift to Pete, as he reconnects with Betty, Selina and Annie, and learns about Matt.
High Life
High Life (2009)
, 1h33
Directed by Gary Yates
Origin Canada
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Timothy Olyphant, Joe Anderson, Rossif Sutherland, Mark McKinney, Michael Bell
Roles Producer
Rating59% 2.9989952.9989952.9989952.9989952.998995
Set in 1983, just after the birth of the Automated Teller Machine, High Life is a story of kinship, loyalty and honour amongst thieves. In a busy downtown hospital, a visit from his former socio-pathic cellmate Bug (Stephen Eric McIntyre) has led to Dick (Timothy Olyphant) being fired from his job as a hospital janitor. Unemployed and in need of fast cash Dick gets the idea to rob one of the brand new ATMs, to "buy a little self-respect", announces Dick to Bug and the team. Enter the charismatic, criminally-minded Donnie, (Joe Anderson) and the front-man, the sexy, sleepy-eyed charmer Billy, (Rossif Sutherland) and all of the pieces are in place. "It’s a precision job," says Dick the night before the heist: "No violence.
Emotional Arithmetic, 1h39
Directed by Paolo Barzman
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Gabriel Byrne, Roy Dupuis, Christopher Plummer, Susan Sarandon, Max von Sydow, Dakota Goyo
Roles Executive Producer
Rating60% 3.047653.047653.047653.047653.04765
Emotional Arithmetic focuses primarily on three people who formed a bond in the Drancy internment camp, where they were imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II: Jakob Bronski (Sydow), who saw goodness in two orphaned children in the camp, Melanie (Sarandon) and Christopher (Byrne), and who helped them to survive. Decades after their release from Drancy, their emotional wounds still affect their lives in different ways when they meet again.
Amal
Amal (2007)
, 1h41
Directed by Richie Mehta
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Actors Rupinder Nagra, Naseeruddin Shah, Seema Biswas, Koel Purie, Vik Sahay, Roshan Seth
Roles Executive producer
Rating74% 3.7451753.7451753.7451753.7451753.745175
Amal Kumar (Rupinder Nagra) is an honest, hardworking sweet-natured autorickshaw driver. who charges the metre rate and is never late to pick up his regular fares: store merchant Pooja (Koel Purie) and a schoolboy, son of exacting lawyer Sapna Agarwal (Seema Biswas).
Falling Angels, 1h49
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Callum Keith Rennie, Miranda Richardson, Katharine Isabelle, Kristin Adams, Mark McKinney, Kett Turton
Roles Producer
Rating66% 3.340713.340713.340713.340713.34071
The year is 1969, the place is an Ontario suburb, and the Field family's fragile domestic peace is coming to an end. The story is told in loops and flashbacks. With the opening and final scenes at Niagara Falls, the bulk of the film depicts the events leading to the funeral scene shown at the beginning. In the background looms the tragedy of the suspicious death years ago of the first-born son; a pervasive and never spoken of subject.
Lilies
Lilies (1996)
, 1h35
Directed by John Greyson
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Prison films, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films about religion, LGBT-related film
Actors Matthew Ferguson, Marcel Sabourin, Danny Gilmore, Brent Carver, Aubert Pallascio, Rémy Girard
Roles Producer
Rating74% 3.701523.701523.701523.701523.70152
Lilies is set in a Quebec prison in 1952. Jean Bilodeau (Marcel Sabourin), the local bishop, is brought to the prison to hear the confession of Simon Doucet (Aubert Pallascio), a dying inmate. But Doucet in fact has a very different revelation for Bilodeau: he has enlisted his fellow inmates to stage a play set in 1912, when Bilodeau and Doucet were childhood friends.