When filmmaker Whit Stillman released his debut feature Metropolitan, we were all over it.
According to writer Cameron Bailey – now co-director of the Toronto International Film festival – Stillman’s movie showed an eye for detail and an ear for authentic dialogue coming out of the mouths of his rich-kid characters.
Stillman’s made only four films since, but his newest entry, Damsels In Distress, about college women trying to shake up their grunge-obsessed campus, was a big hit at this year’s TIFF. NOW’s always known how to uncover new talent. (Page 24 of the issue)
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