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Anita Reilly McGee

Anita Reilly McGee

Directing

Biography

Anita Reilly McGee is an award-winning filmmaker whose shorts include "New Neighbours" (Canal+ Honorable Mention), "Little Dickie", (Venice, Toronto, Palm Springs, Sydney), and "Dinner For One", which won Best Short at Cinequest 2007 and the Runner Up certificate for the BAFTA/LA short film award. In 2003, she produced/directed her first feature "The Bread Maker", which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival. She also produced the Gemini award-winning drama "Clothesline Patch" for CBC Television and was the line producer on the Showcase series "Kink" and the feature films "A Stone's Throw" (DIR: Camelia Frieberg, 2006) and "Whole New Thing" (DIR: Amnon Buchbinder, 2005). Reilly McGee was born in Elgin, Illinois and grew up in St. Anthony, Newfoundland, Canada. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Theatre, from Toronto's York University, where she graduated with honors. Up until recently, Reilly McGee lived and worked on the East Coast of Canada. She has recently moved to British Columbia to further her career.

Known For

Bottled with Love
6.8

After being stood up, Abbey gets inspired to open her heart in a letter, put it in a bottle and toss it out to sea. Months later, a man fishing discovers it and opts to reach out.

Bottled with Love

2019
Wedding March 4: Something Old, Something New
6.8

With a wedding to plan, an engagement party to throw, and an inn full of surprise guests, the road to true love for Olivia and Mick takes a few unexpected twists and turns

Wedding March 4: Something Old, Something New

2018
Chronicle Mysteries: The Deep End
7.8

The latest edition of Alex McPherson’s true crime podcast centers on the death of a man whose wife seems certain to be convicted for his murder. Fairly certain that the woman did not kill her husband, it’s up to Alex to figure out who the real killer is as the trial heads toward its conclusion.

Chronicle Mysteries: The Deep End

2019
Valentine in the Vineyard
6.0

As partners in life and professional winemaking, Frankie Baldwin and Nate DeLuca have different personality types and styles. They’ve just gotten engaged when Frankie’s cousin Lexi and Nate’s brother Marco spring the news that they are getting married – and on Valentine’s Day. Agreeing to keep their plans a secret, Frankie and Nate offer to host Lexi and Marco’s big day.

Valentine in the Vineyard

2019
The Grand Seduction
6.7

A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract. When unlikely candidate and big city doctor Paul Lewis lands in their lap for a trial residence, the townsfolk rally together to charm him into staying. As the doctor’s time in the village winds to a close, acting mayor Murray French has no choice but to pull out all the stops and begin The Grand Seduction.

The Grand Seduction

2014
Fashionably Yours
6.5

After years of organizing fashion in the city, Lauren decides to move home. In exchange for her organizing services, mover Rob makes it his mission to help her see the beauty of Seattle.

Fashionably Yours

2020
Wedding March 3: Here Comes the Bride
6.2

It’s a full Valentine’s Day weekend at the Inn when Olivia and Mick host Mick’s sister Bonnie and her finance Sean, Mick’s daughter Julie and her boyfriend Wyatt, and Olivia’s mother Nora and her boyfriend Johnny. Bonnie brings her new fiancé Sean, and they plan to marry at the Inn that weekend, and Julie announces she plans to drop out of college to pursue her passion for cooking. While Olivia plans the wedding, Mick expresses his concerns to both Bonnie about the distant Sean, and to Julie about dropping out of college. Wyatt, too, is troubled by Julie’s decision to leave college, and the two have a fight that may end their relationship. As the wedding approaches, Sean reveals a secret that he has been keeping all weekend, and Johnny has a surprise of his own in store.

Wedding March 3: Here Comes the Bride

2018
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9.0

The work centres around St. John's poet Gerry Rubia and her poem Out On A Limb and takes a whimsical look at physical disability in a way that's truly Gerry. The piece hopes to capture her spirit and sense of humor.

Out on a Limb: a Poem by Geraldine Chafe Rubia

1993
A Dash of Love
6.2

A young woman who dreams of opening her own restaurant lands a job at a prominent restaurant whose head chef becomes her unlikely ally when the restaurant's unscrupulous owner, a Master Chef herself, plots to return the place to its former glory by presenting her new assistant's recipes as her own.

A Dash of Love

2017
Whole New Thing
5.7

Socially isolated by his parents, an androgynous teen enrolls in high school and develops a crush on his male teacher.

Whole New Thing

2005
Misery Harbour
4.9

A young writer named Espen Arnakke tells the story of his escape from the small Danish town of Jante. Espen boards a ship headed to Newfoundland, but the harsh conditions on board makes him jump ship, and he ends up in the little town of Misery Harbour. There he meets the girl of his dreams. But his passion shifts to jealousy when one of the men from the ship mysteriously appears in town, and sets out to make Espen's life a misery.

Misery Harbour

1999
Heartless Disappearance Into Labrador Seas
N/A

When a marriage is threatened by a long excursion for work, domestic trouble is buffeted by family and friends.

Heartless Disappearance Into Labrador Seas

2008
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4.0

Honey Reddigan is a celebrity at the Sweet Bea baking factory. She has just published her first romance novel, Carmen the Bee Keeper's Lover. Carmen, Honey's fictional heroine, is everything Honey ain't. In walks Edmund Goobie—a charming, commitment-phobic local TV personality. They begin a hot affair that quickly approaches relationship status. But happily-ever-after is not in the cards for this quirky couple. The affair comes to an end when they purchase a bread maker together and realize that they want different things. The monumental fight over the appliance forces Honey to change her life.

The Bread Maker

2003
A Stone's Throw
3.3

Olivia lives in a small town in Nova Scotia, Canada along with her son, Thomas, a daughter, Sarah, and has been separated from her French-speaking husband, Jean Marc. She has an estranged brother named Jack Walker who she has not seen for many years, as he refused to return her phone calls, and neglected to attend their father's funeral in Montana, U.S.A.. Due to opening of Cynaco and MacNeil Mining Company, the town expects to have about new 125 new jobs. One day she gets a surprise visit from Jack, both brother and sister update each other, and Jack also gets to meet Thomas and Sarah, as well as Olivia's attractive South Asian neighbor, Lia, a single mother. He soon starts an affair with her, and even moves in her house.

A Stone's Throw

2006
Little Dickie
10.0

A woman enters a bar and asks for a bit of conversation, but what she gets in return is a bunch of bad pickup lines sung to her by a cowboy and the bartender singing the cowboy's virtues.

Little Dickie

2002
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N/A

Alice, a bus tour guide in St. John's Newfoundland with a broken heart unexpectedly tells her tales of love and loss to a group of life-weary tourists and realizes the power of the moments she has experienced in the city.

The Tour

2015
Good Girls Don't
N/A

A Filipina-Canadian girl defies her mother's warning that if she plays sports, she will turn into a boy.

Good Girls Don't

2018
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1.0

Grande Dame is a short in two Stand-alone parts: SEX IN SEVEN AGES and ENCORE!. In SEX IN SEVEN AGES, LILA , a trans-gendered Grande Dame of the theatre, gives a farewell performance to adoring fans. In ENCORE! three women in a small rural town pay their final respects to an eccentric relative.

Grande Dame

2009
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N/A

Conceived, written and shot in Newfoundland, this study in grief and adolescent longing is a sure sign of local filmmaker Adriana Magg's huge potential. The plot centers on Crystal Janes, a young girl with an odd relationship to her dead brother. Typically moody and self absorbed, Crystal is nonetheless sensitive and smart. Growing up is hard enough in average families, let alone one still working through its grief and guilt. A strong performance by Marthe Bernard as Crystal helps to anchor the story in a strong sense of realism, ghostly presences and all.

I Dare Not Go

2004
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N/A

A woman looks past her insecurities in a time of change, self doubt and uncertainty.

Two Square Feet

2012