Firecrackers is a 2018 canadian drama film written and directed by jasmin mozaffari. Jasmin mozaffaris atmospheric feature film debut stars michaela kurimsky and karena evans as best friends bursting to leave for the big city. Firecrackers edinburgh international film festival. Firecrackers director jasmin mozaffari frames rural. Jasmin mozaffari, director firecrackers michaela kurimsky, actor firecrackers bts 6ix stars rising are both the director and lead actress. Jasmin mozaffari s firecrackers is an incendiary, fourstar debut. Firecrackers beautifully captures the realities of living in rural canada. Firecrackers jasmin mozaffari film teaser\clip 2018. Firecrackers director jasmin mozaffari and skate kitchen helmer crystal moselle, who won stockholm film festivals best film and debut, respectively, sat with vari.
Jasmin mozaffari sparkles at the birks diamond tribute to. The title characters in jasmin mozaffaris bangup firecrackers are highschool grads lou redhead michaela kurimsky and chantal karena evans, who mouth off to people even when they know theres. September 12 congrats team firecrackers on 3 dgc award nominations. Firecrackers receives global accolades talent fund. Capturing teenage, feminine anger in smalltown canada. Lou and her best friend chantal plan to get out of their isolated town and move to the city. But in this maledominated environment, such revenge comes at a great price. Jasmin mozaffari is a major talent and one whom her fellow canadians had been tracking for some time and in this case, tiff deserves. Top stories about firecrackers written in 2019 medium. Toronto firecrackers director jasmin mozaffari knew telling a story about the grittier side of rural canadian life would require shooting in places scarred by neglect. When she was just 15 years old, filmmaker jasmin mozaffari endured a shocking act of sexual harassment that shaped her worldview and. Jasmin and caitlins next shorts, wave 2015 and sleep on the tracks 2017, screened at several festivals nationally and internationally.
F irecrackers follows the template of many a comingofage tale before it. At the 2018 stockholm international film festival, firecrackers won two awards for best film and best actress michaela kurimsky. A number of her short films including firecrackers 20, wave 2015, and sleep on the tracks 2017 screened at the toronto international film festival, the vancouver international. Her recent film firecrackers generated at lot of buzz at tiff this past year, where it. Two best friends plan to escape their destitute town becomes derailed when the consequences of a night of debauchery begins to dismantle their friendship and threatens their chance at freedom. Firecrackers director jasmin mozaffari and skate kitchen helmer crystal moselle, who won stockholm film festivals best film and debut, respectively, sat with variety after the. Director jasmin mozaffari shares the hills and valleys of making a lowbudget independent film. Much like the films protagonist, canadian writer and director jasmin mozaffari is. Canadian director jasmin mozaffari creates electrifying characters and a sense of edgy unpredictability in her impressive feature debut. Big fish in a small pond, or a small fish tank, to cite the 2009 andrea arnold film with which firecrackers shares so much dna. Simone smith for best picture editing feature film. Firecrackers beautifully captures the realities of. Chat w director jasmin mozaffari on her 2018 tiff film firecrackers rudy blair entertainment media.
When chantals unstable and possessive ex violates her during a night of partying. Firecrackers is not nearly as casually joyful as its title suggests, but it is absolutely as. Firecrackers jasmin mozaffari film teaser\clip 2018 cinegardens. With michaela kurimsky, karena evans, callum thompson, david kingston. A girl with bright orange hair takes a swing at another teenager as a crowd screams them both on. Were getting out, the redhaired female protagonist of jasmin mozaffari s incredibly assured feature debut firecrackers tells her best friend, over and over again. Jasmin and caitlins first feature film, firecrackers, based off of the 20 short, was selected by telefilm canada to receive funding from their talent to watch program previously microbudget program. Michaela kurimsky and karena evans in firecrackers directed by jasmin mozaffari.
Jasmin mozaffari for outstanding directorial achievement in feature film. A teenage girl and her friend run into problems when they plan to leave town. Firecrackers beautifully captures the realities of living in. Chat w director jasmin mozaffari on her 2018 tiff film. Rudy blair entertainment media chats with canadian director jasmin. But a literal dark cloud had been hanging over the last day of production on firecrackers and after everything the two stars michaela kurimsky. The femaleled comingofage drama made its world premiere at the toronto international film festival in. For firecrackers director jasmin mozaffari, rural canada.
The brawl continues as the redhead delivers hit after hit, until the screen goes black and the films title flashes up. Jasmin mozaffari is a director and writer, known for firecrackers 2018, firecrackers 20 and sleep on the tracks. And so the tone of jasmin mozaffari s incendiary comingofage story the best debut of the year is set, and continues as we follow foul mouthed playground banter merchants lou and chantal michaela kurimsky and karena evans, who are, to use the lingua franca of firecrackers, fucking incredible as they negotiate drugs, sex, friendships and. Firecrackers is a blistering and beautiful manifesto about what some girls must do to achieve their dreams, even if all that means is escaping their nightmares. Lou and her best friend chantal plan to get out of their isolated, rundown town and move to a city far, far away. Firecrackers, skate kitchen topped awards at stockholm. Her opening scenea scorching plunge into a disorienting world that is anything but happygoluckyis drenched in bright sunlight, while a shaky camera albeit predictably restless alarms in the way. Inspired by traumatic experiences in mozaffari s youth, firecrackers is an authentic story of female empowerment, told through a refreshingly unique stylistic approach. Jasmin mozaffari on sparking the imagination with firecrackers.
Firecrackers, jasmin mozaffari s astonishingly confident and perfectly named debut feature, opens with a flare of fury and ends on a note of anxious optimism. In the first scene of jasmin mozaffaris film firecrackers 2018, lous. Jasmin mozaffari s firecrackers and crystal moselles skate kitchen, a pair of bold and timely north american features, won best film and best debut at the 29th edition of the stockholm film. A number of her short films including firecrackers 20 and wave 2015 screened at the toronto international film festival, the vancouver international film festival and across europe. Firecrackers is a small town indie film daily times. Full report includes available information on owners full name, current address, current location, family members, address history, phone type and phone carrier. Firecrackers certainly pushes and shoves its way across the screen. Fresh off the heels of winning the 2019 canadian screen award for best director, jasmin mozaffari s firecrackers has enjoyed a whirlwind of critical success and a theatrical release. An expansion of mozaffari s 20 short film of the same name, the film stars michaela kurimsky and karena evans as two teenage girls trying to escape their small town the film has its world premiere on september 8, 2018 at the 2018 toronto international film festival. Jasmin mozaffari is a writer and director, known for firecrackers 2018, firecrackers 20 and sleep on the tracks 2018. Director biography jasmin mozaffari is a canadian writerdirector whose debut feature film, firecrackers 2018. In a recent interview with jasmin, we got a chance to learn more about her first feature film, firecrackers, and her thoughts on the evolving landscape of the canadian film industry.
Whenever the camera tilts upwards in firecrackers, the searing feature debut of torontos jasmin mozaffari, the stormthreatened sky seems to mirror the films human intensity. Firecrackers director jasmin mozaffari shares the hills. Firecrackers aesthetic is composed of glowing gas stations, dimly lit. Firecrackers isnt just a confident feature debut from mozaffari, but a daring one, the kind of fast and furious feminine filmmaking that heralds the arrival of several exciting new. Good deed entertainment sets off firecrackers deadline.
An expansion of mozaffaris 20 short film of the same name, the film stars michaela kurimsky and karena evans as two teenage girls trying to escape their small town. Jasmin mozaffari is a director to watch at this years festival and beyond. In the first fifteen minutes of firecrackers, young canadian filmmaker jasmin mozaffari demonstrates her ability to create a vertiginous tempo with an empathic well, more than just subjective camera following two teenagers that perfectly embody the cliche of the rebellious and disrespectful youth of the provincial lower class. Jasmin is an awardwinning torontobased filmmaker who studied film at ryersons school of image arts. This story of smalltown women yearning to escape is one. Wednesday march 27, 2019 breakfast television toronto. Writerdirector jasmin mozaffari wants you to know straight away that you will be in for a hardhitting ride with firecrackers, an expansion of her 20 short film with the same title. A ryerson university film studies graduate, she made the short films wave 2015 and sleep on the tracks 2018, as well as a short film version of firecrackers. Jasmin mozaffari s atmospheric feature film debut stars michaela kurimsky and karena evans as best friends. The title characters in jasmin mozaffari s bangup firecrackers are highschool grads lou redhead michaela kurimsky and chantal karena evans, who mouth off to people even when they know. Firecrackers when she was just 15 years old, filmmaker jasmin mozaffari endured a shocking act of sexual harassment that shaped her worldview and pushed her. The excitement for the filmic rush is quickly shut down by the. Jasmin mozaffari s feature debut has secured distribution stateside from good deed entertainment, deadline confirms.
Firecrackers friday, july 12 thursday, july 18, 2019 when chantals unstable and possessive ex violates her during a night of partying, the girls decide to exact their revenge on him through a night of vandalism and debauchery. When i tried to play with firecracker from amazon, i met problem at step 1. An expansion of mozaffaris 20 short film of the same name, the film. Her recent film firecrackers generated at lot of buzz at tiff this past year, where it screened to soldout audiences. Jasmin mozaffari is a canadian film director, who won the canadian screen award for best director at the 7th canadian screen awards in 2019 for her debut feature film firecrackers a ryerson university film studies graduate, she made the short films wave 2015 and sleep on the tracks 2018, as well as a short film version of firecrackers 20, before the feature films debut in 2018. Lou michaela kurimsky and her best friend chantal karena evans plan to get out of their. Lou and her friend realize that freedom will come at a high cost. When chantals ex violates her, the girls decide to exact their revenge through a night of vandalism and debauchery. Jasmin is an emerging director, is an awardwinning torontobased writerdirector who studied film at ryersons school of image arts. This futile promise of escape, of a better life, forms the running thread of the film, based on mozaffari s own 20 short. A teenage girl and her friend run into problems when. A pair of feisty teenagers dream of escape from canada to the bright lights of new york in writerdirector jasmin mozaffari s wonderful, energetic film, which bristles with energy and confidence and echoes andrea arnold. Lou michaela kurimsky and chantal karena evans have been saving money working as chambermaids.
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