– The Toronto International Film Festival® today announced the four actors named the 2013 TIFF Rising Stars — Evelyne
Brochu
participants in a series of public events and industry meetings during the Festival. This year, the TIFF Rising Stars will be taken
through an intensive professional “boot camp” with international casting directors, agents, managers, producers, filmmakers and
development executives who will help them prepare for success in the film industry both on and off the screen.
“The Toronto International Film Festival draws industry, press and audiences from around the world and we feel privileged to be able to
offer this global stage and these valuable connections to Evelyne, Cara, Megan and Johnathan — the 2013 TIFF Rising Stars,” said
Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival. “We have no doubt that this year’s unstoppable quartet of
emerging artists is on the rise to enjoy sizzling careers like the stellar Rising Stars alumni before them.”
Evelyne Brochu
Evelyne can currently be seen at the Festival in Xavier Dolan’s
Tom à la ferme. Her major film break came when she had a supporting
role in Denis Villeneuve’s 2009 drama
Polytechnique. She has garnered critical acclaim, and a Canadian Screen Award nomination, for
her role in the 2012 Festival selection
Inch’Allah. She starred in Jean-Marc Vallée’s Café de Flore, an Official Selection at the 2011
Festival. Evelyne garnered three Gémeaux Award nominations for her roles in the popular Quebec television series
Aveux, Mirador
and
La Promesse. In 2012, she won a Gemini Award for Best Lead Actress in a Television Series. Evelyne made her English language
television debut in 2013 on the hit show
Orphan Black, a co-production between BBC America and Bell Media’s Space.
Cara Gee
Cara has landed a leading role in her first feature film — the 2013 Festival selection
Empire of Dirt, directed by Peter Stebbings. She
made her first television appearance as a guest star in the Showcase police drama
King. Cara has a roster of outstanding theatre
performances under her belt: starring roles in Daniel MacIvor’s
Arigato, Tokyo (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre) and Cliff Cardinal’s
Stitch
(SummerWorks Festival), which landed her the festival’s top acting award, and a role in the remount of Margaret Atwood’s The
Penelopiad
(Nightwood Theatre), which won the Dora Award for Best Ensemble. Cara was named a Top Ten Theatre Artist by NOW
magazine in 2011, and she topped both
Torontoist’s People to Watch list in 2012 and The Toronto Star’s 13 People to Watch in 2013.
Cara is an ensemble member of the independent theatre company Bird Town and Swanville whose show
Family Story opens in August
2013.
Megan Park
Megan stars opposite Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Karan in the 2013 Festival selection
The F Word directed by Michael Dowse. Megan
recently completed
Demonic, directed by Will Canon and produced by James Wan. Megan made her feature film debut in 2007 with a
role in the indie comedy
Charlie Bartlett. She next appeared in A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song, followed by the crime thriller
Girls, Guns and Gambling
with Christian Slater and Dane Cook, and, most recently, starred in So Undercover alongside Miley Cyrus.
After appearing in the Lifetime series
Angela’s Eyes and the Family Channel show Life with Derek, Megan Park landed the role of
Grace Bowman in the award-winning ABC Family series
The Secret Life of the American Teenager. Additional roles in HBO’s
Entourage
and The Newsroom have followed.
Johnathan Sousa
Johnathan Sousa can next be seen on the big screen in the 2013 Festival selection
The Animal Project, directed by Ingrid Veninger,
and in Maxime Desmons’ highly anticipated
What We Have. In 2011, Johnathan was chosen to participate in the inaugural Actors
Conservatory at the Canadian Film Centre, where he starred in numerous short films, including
Rattan and The Haymaker, which
travelled to 35 festivals. While at the CFC, he wrote, produced, directed, and starred in his first short film,
Home. Johnathan landed his
most significant role to date with a principal part in the upcoming season of Global Television’s hit show
Rookie Blue. He graduated
from the Ryerson Theatre School where he was the recipient of the Louis Taube Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement and
Dedication.
TIFF Rising Stars alumni
continue their trajectory with career highlights at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival and beyond.
Highlights include:
Sarah Allen
plays the lead female role in the 2013 Festival selection The Husband, directed by Bruce McDonald.
Katie Boland
stars in the 2013 Festival selection Gerontophilia, directed by Bruce LaBruce.
Charlie Carrick
stars in the 2013 release Molly Maxwell, directed by Sara St. Onge.
Sarah Gadon
stars in Amma Asante's Belle, Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy and Michael Dowse’s The F Word at the 2013 Festival.
Tatiana Maslany
was awarded the 2013 Critics Choice Award for Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Orphan Black as well as a
Young Hollywood Award for Breakout Performance.
Charlotte Sullivan
stars in Jeff Renfroe’s 2013 release The Colony alongside Laurence Fishburne and Bill Paxton.
About TIFF
TIFF is a charitable cultural organization whose mission is to transform the way people see the world through film. An international
leader in film culture, TIFF projects include the annual Toronto International Film Festival in September; TIFF Bell Lightbox, which
features five cinemas, major exhibitions, and learning and entertainment facilities; and innovative national distribution program Film
Circuit. The organization generates an annual economic impact of $189 million CAD. TIFF Bell Lightbox is generously supported by
contributors including Founding Sponsor Bell, the Province of Ontario, the Government of Canada, the City of Toronto, the Reitman
family (Ivan Reitman, Agi Mandel and Susan Michaels), The Daniels Corporation and RBC. For more information, visit
tiff.net.
The Toronto International Film Festival is generously supported by Lead Sponsor Bell, Major Sponsors RBC, L'Oréal Paris,
Visa and Audi, and Major Supporters the Government of Ontario, Telefilm Canada and the City of Toronto.
TIFF Rising Stars is generously supported by Presenting Partner The Brian Linehan Charitable Foundation and is supported
by Telefilm Canada, sponsored by Birks, L’Oreal Paris and Topshop Topman, with special thanks to the Canadian Film
Centre.
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