Special Film Screening: A Quiet Girl
Date: Nov 1
7:00 pm
- 9:00 pm
Where: Theatre
FILM
In A Quiet Girl, Montreal filmmaker Adrian Wills discovers, on camera and in real time, the startling truths about his adoption and complex beginnings in Newfoundland. Shocking details drive Wills to the core of his birth mother’s resilience, and ultimately discovers his own resilience as well. In this moving NFB feature documentary that combines 16mm footage and contemporary images with deeply personal conversations, Wills’ voyage transforms from an urgent search for identity into a quest to give a quiet girl her voice.
This is a free event, but a ticket is required. Please reserve your ticket online or by calling 709-757-8090.
Presented by The Rooms, the National Film Board of Canada, and Nickel Independent Film Festival.
An Official Selection of the Atlantic International Film Festival, Halifax, NS (2023)
Adrian Wills
2023 / 86 mins 15 s
Documentary
English
About the Filmmaker:
Adrian Wills is an award-winning director, series co-creator and showrunner with a passion for character-driven storytelling across various genres. His projects range from the co-created sports drama series 21 Thunder (CBC/Netflix) to All Together Now: The Beatles Love, winner of the Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video. A Quiet Girl is Wills’ first film with the National Film Board of Canada and his most personal one yet—a POV feature documentary that begins as a mystery about his adoption in Newfoundland. In 2023, Wills will be releasing a new feature music documentary entitled Leonard Cohen: Tower of Song.
A citizen of both Canada and Australia, Wills studied Media at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia and Film Production at Concordia University’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Montreal, Canada.
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