Garrity, Chernick Go To Camera on Seventh Feature
By Kelly Townsend
Playback; September 2, 2022
Director Sean Garrity and star, producer and co-writer Jonas Chernick roll cameras in Algonquin Provincial Park for Mockingbird ahead of the TIFF debut for their last collaboration The End of Sex
Filmmakers Sean Garrity and Jonas Chernick are already rolling on their next collaboration ahead of the world premiere of their feature The End of Sex at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
Mockingbird is directed by Garrity and co-written by Chernick, who also stars and produces, and Diana Frances (Corner Gas Animated). The romantic feature, about a complicated love affair between a cottage resort owner and a married woman, goes to camera Thursday (Sept. 1) in Ontario’s Algonquin Provincial Park.
Chernick is producing under his Banana-Moon Sky Films banner alongside Andrew Bronfman of Good Movies. Sphere Films International holds worldwide sales rights and Raven Banner Releasing’s specialty arm Northern Banner Releasing is the Canadian distributor.
The film also stars Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries), Joe Pingue (Station Eleven) and Tanisha Thammavongsa (Transplant).
Mockingbird was developed with financing from the Harold Greenberg Fund and Telefilm Canada. It is produced with the support of Telefilm, the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund, CBC Films, Hollywood Suite and the Canada Media Fund.
Frances is an executive producer alongside Fab Filippo, Jonathan Bronfman, Peter Harvey, Sam Posner, Sphere’s Anick Poirier, Lorne Price, and Bruno Dubé, Hollywood Suite’s David Kines, and Raven Banner’s Andrew Thomas Hunt, Michael Paszt and James Fler.
Mockingbird is the seventh feature collaboration for Garrity and Chernick since their 2001 debut Inertia, which won Best Canadian First Feature Film when it premiered at TIFF. Their sixth collaboration, The End of Sex, will have a TIFF world premiere on Sept. 10.
