Completed - ENGLISH - Romance, Drama - 116 minutes
Maudie is an unlikely love story in which a curmudgeonly miser hires a tiny disfigured woman to be his housekeeper and ends up managing her artistic career as a she becomes a well loved folk artist. Inspired by the life story of Nova Scotia folk artist Maude Lewis.
Year of production : 2016 Director(s) : Aisling WALSH Writer(s) : Sherry WHITE Cast : Sally HAWKINS, Ethan HAWKE, Kari MATCHETT, Gabrielle ROSE, Zachary BENNETT, Billy MACLELLAN Producer(s) : Mary SEXTON (Rink Rat Productions Inc.), Susan MULLEN (Parallel Films ), Mary young LECKIE (Screen Door Inc.), Heather HALDANE (Screen Door Inc.), Bob COOPER (Landscape Entertainment)
MAUDIE, based on a true story, is an unlikely romance in which the reclusive Everett Lewis (Ethan Hawke) hires a fragile yet determined woman named Maudie (Sally Hawkins) to be his housekeeper. Maudie, bright-eyed but hunched with crippled hands, yearns to be independent, to live away from her protective family and she also yearns, passionately, to create art. Unexpectedly, Everett finds himself falling in love. MAUDIE charts Everett's efforts to protect himself from being hurt, Maudie's deep and abiding love for this difficult man and her surprising rise to fame as a folk painter.
Country(ies) : CANADA, IRELAND Financing plan : Screen Door, Parallel Films, Mongrel Media, Telefilm Canada, The Newfoundland & Labrador Film Development Corporation, Ontario Media Development Corporation, Bell Media's Harold Greenberg Fund, The Irish Film Board, Corner Piece Capital LLC, Citadel Canadian Films Inc. Start of shooting : September 2015
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Atlantic Film Festival 2016 (Best Atlantic Feature Aisling Walsh )Atlantic Film Festival 2016 (Best Atlantic Screenwriting Sherry White )Cinéfest Sudbury 2016 (Cinéfest Sudbury Audience Choice Award Best Feature Film Aisling Walsh)Vancouver International Film Festival 2016 (Super Channel People's Choice Award Aisling Walsh)Windsor International Film Festival 2016 (LIUNA People's Choice Award)Writers Guild of Canada 2017 (WGC Award Sherry White)San Diego Film Critics Society Awards 2017 (Best Actress Sally Hawkins )Montclair Film Festival (MFF) 2017 (Audience Award Narritive Feature Aisling Walsh)Available Light Film Festival 2017 (Audeince Choice Best Canadian Feature)Canadian Society of Cinematographers Awards 2017 ( CSC Award Best Cinematography in Theatrical Feature Guy Godfree)Women's Image Network Awards 2018 (Outstanding Feature Film)Women's Image Network Awards 2018 (Outstanding Actress Feature Film Sally Hawkins )Canadian Screen Awards 2018 (Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role Ethan Hawke )Canadian Screen Awards 2018 (Original Screenplay Sherry White )Canadian Screen Awards 2018 (Achievement in Editing Stephen O'Connell )Canadian Screen Awards 2018 (Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Sally Hawkins )Canadian Screen Awards 2018 (Achievement in Direction Aisling Walsh )Canadian Screen Awards 2018 (Best Motion Picture Bob Cooper Mary Young Leckie Mary Sexton Susan Mullen )Irish Film and Television Awards 2018 (Best Director Aisling Walsh)Irish Film and Television Awards 2018 (Best International Actor Ethan Hawke)Irish Film and Television Awards 2018 (Best Production Design John Hand)