Jasmine Road
A widowed conservative cowboy takes in a Syrian refugee family of Arabic ice cream makers.
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Warren SulatyckyDirectorApril in Autumn, Surrender
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Warren SulatyckyWriterApril in Autumn, Surrender
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Warren SulatyckyProducerApril in Autumn, Surrender
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Caitlyn SponheimerProducerApril in Autumn, I Want To Be Like You, Kitty's Naughty Knickers
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Greg EllwandKey Cast"Mac Bagley"Lonesome Dove
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Toni EllwandKey Cast"Belle Bagley"Mafia
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Aixa KayKey Cast"Layla"
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Ahmed MuslimaniKey Cast"Salem"
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Melody MokhtariKey Cast"Heba"
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Caitlyn SponheimerKey Cast"Loretta Bagley"April in Autumn
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Ryan NorthcottKey Cast"Seth"
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Brian MartellKey Cast"Charlie"
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Jason LongKey Cast"Bryon"
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Ivan CermakKey Cast"Barry"
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Jaslyn CollisKey Cast"Jaslyn"
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Nimet JanjiKey Cast"Nimet"
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Paul ZinnoKey Cast"Ben"
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David LeReaneyKey Cast"Merlin"
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Peter Strand RumpelKey Cast"Chuck"
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Wes LeggeDirector of PhotographyApril in Autumn
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Suad BushnaqComposerThe Curve
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Geoff AshenhurstEditorApril in Autumn, Altered Carbon, Penny Dreadful
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Megan KoshkaProduction Designer
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Warren SulatyckyExecutive ProducerApril in Autumn
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Allen SulatyckyExecutive ProducerApril in Autumn
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Don SulatyckyArt Director
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Kaleigh RichardsFirst Assistant Director
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David DraperSound RecordistApril in Autumn
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John ScottStunt / Animal Wrangler
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Jesse GriffithsCasting
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Megan KoshkaWardrobe
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Charles MayLocation Manager
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Lianne SmithContinuity
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Rabah SwaidekCultural Advisors
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Bernard StarlightCultural Advisors
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Centre for NewcomersCultural Advisors
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CCIS - Calgary Catholic Immigration ServicesCultural Advisors
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Immigration Services CalgaryCultural Advisors
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Propeller Audio StudiosPost Audio ServicesFargo, Hell on Wheels
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Deluxe TorontoPost Picture ServicesThe Shape of Water, Remember, Maps to the Stars
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Bill Ferwerda, ColoristPost Picture ServicesThe Handmaid's Tale, Altered Carbon, Alias Grace
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SuperGroup MusicMusic SupervisionOnce Were Brothers, Schitts Creek, Letterkenny
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Scotty Taylor, David Hayman, Cody PartridgeMusic Supervision
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Project Type:Feature
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Runtime:2 hours
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Completion Date:September 27, 2020
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Production Budget:800,000 USD
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Country of Origin:Canada
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Country of Filming:Canada
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Language:Arabic, English
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Shooting Format:Digital 4K
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Aspect Ratio:2.39:1
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Calgary International Film FestivalCalgary, Alberta
Canada
September 24, 2020
World/Canadian Premiere
Official Selection -
Edmonton International Film FestivalEdmonton, Alberta
Canada
October 1, 2020
Opening Night Festival Film
Best Canadian Feature Film Award - Opening Night Festival Film, Official Selection -
Calgary Arabic Film Nights FestivalCalgary
Canada
October 23, 2020
Opening Night Festival Film - Official Selection -
Reel Canadian Film FestivalFernie
Canada
January 25, 2021
British Columbia, Canada Premiere
Official Selection -
Milton Film FestivalMilton
Canada
January 30, 2021
Ontario, Canada Premiere
Best Canadian Feature Film Award, Allegra Audience Choice Award, Official Selection -
Berlin EFM - Telefilm Perspective Canada at Berlin EFM ShowcaseBerlin
Germany
March 1, 2021
World Market Premiere
Telefilm Perspective Canada at Berlin EFM Showcase - Selection -
Invermere Film FestivalInvermere
Canada
February 22, 2021
Audience Choice Award, Official Selection -
Collingwood Film Society FestivalCollingwood
Canada
March 1, 2021
Official Selection -
Ancaster Film FestivalAncaster
Canada
April 10, 2021
Official Selection -
Film.ca FestivalOkaville
Canada
April 23, 2021
Opening Festival Film, Official Selection -
International Filmmaker Festival of New YorkNew York
United States
May 21, 2021
US Premiere
Winner Best Lead Actor, Nominations Best Screenplay and Best Lead Actress, Official Selection -
Okotoks Film FestivalOkotoks
Canada
June 3, 2021
Opening Night Festival Film, Official Selection, Nominee Best Feature/Best Lead Actor -
Fine Arts Film FestivalVenice
United States
June 8, 2021
Western US/California Premiere
Official Selection, Winner: Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Original Score -
Sedona International Film FestivalSedona
United States
June 12, 2021
Southwest US/Arizona Premiere
Official Selection -
Love is Folly Varna Film FestivalVarna
Bulgaria
August 27, 2021
Eastern European Premiere
Official Selection -
Southern Cone International Film FestivalValparaiso
Chile
May 20, 2021
South American Premiere
Official Selection -
Jack Lake Film FestivalApsley
Canada
August 20, 2021
Official Selection; AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD -
Port Townsend Film FestivalPort Townsend
United States
September 23, 2021
Pacific Northwest US Premiere
Official Selection, AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD, BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE FILM -
Home Is Distant Shores Film FestivalRaleigh, North Carolina
United States
October 15, 2021
North Carolina Premiere
Official Selection -
Lebanese Film Festival in CanadaOttawa, Toronto, Montreal
Canada
September 30, 2021
Official Selection, AWARD OF RECOGNITION -
Immigration Film FestivalWashington, DC
United States
October 14, 2021
Washington DC Premiere
Official Selection, BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM AWARD -
Newport Beach Film FestivalNewport Beach, California
United States
October 21, 2021
Official Selection -
Ojai Film FestivalOjai
United States
November 6, 2021
Official Selection - Inaugural “Diversity and Inclusion for Social Impact and Vision” program; WINNER - SOCIAL IMPACT AND VISION AWARD - Sponsored by Panavision with a $60,000US film equipment package -
Central Alberta Film FestivalRed Deer
Canada
October 13, 2021
Official Selection, AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD/BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE, BEST LEAD ACTOR AWARD. Nomination: Best Lead Actress -
47TH ANNUAL ALBERTA SCREEN AWARDS - ROSIES, Calgary International Film FestivalCalgary
Canada
September 25, 2021
WINNER- BEST SCREENPLAY AWARD; Nominations - BEST FEATURE FILM, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENPLAY, BEST COSTUME DESIGN, BEST OVERALL SOUND -
East Lansing Film FestivalEast Lansing, Michigan
United States
November 14, 2021
Michigan Premiere
Official Selection -
MENA FILM FESTIVAL (Middle Eastern and North Africa Film Festival)Vancouver
Canada
November 21, 2021
West Coast Canada
Official Selection - OPENING FESTIVAL FILM -
UBCP ACTRA AWARDSVancouver
Canada
November 20, 2021
Best Lead Actress Award nomination (Aixa Kay), winners announced Nov 20,2021
Distribution Information
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Raging River DistributionDistributorCountry: CanadaRights: All Rights
Warren Sulatycky is a Gemini-nominated (Canada’s Emmy) and Dora (Toronto, Canada) Theatre Award winning interdisciplinary artist and writer working in the visual arts, film/video/television, theatre, photography, and performance. Most recently, Warren wrote, directed, and produced his second feature film “Jasmine Road". Previously, he wrote, produced, directed, edited and acted in his feature film debut, “April in Autumn”, a selection in Telefilm Canada’s Perspective Canada showcase at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival/Marche. Other creative career highlights include on-going gallery exhibitions of his visual artwork; professionally directing, writing and producing theatre in Canada and internationally since 1985; writer-in-residence at the Factory Theatre and Blyth Theatre Festival; a company member of Robert Lepage’s Theatre Ex Machina for productions in Glasgow, Scotland and the National Theatre, London, England; starred and produced in the off-Broadway US premiere hit of Claudia Dey’s “Trout Stanley”; an alumni of the Directors Lab at Lincoln Centre, New York, and Directors Lab West at the Pasadena Playhouse, Calif. He was Artistic Associate and General Manager of the Theatre Centre in Toronto from 1990-93 and from 2004 to 2008 was Artistic Director of Renaissant Workshop, an interdisciplinary theatre and visual arts space in Soho, Manhattan. He has received awards and grants for his writing and creative projects from many cultural agencies. Warren studied visual art and photography at The School for Visual Arts and the Arts Student League, both in New York and the Toronto School for Arts; theatre at the National Theatre School of Canada; filmmaking at SAIT in Calgary, Alberta; and English literature (BA Honours) from University of Alberta. His interdisciplinary work can be seen at www.warrensulatycky.com
Jasmine Road is my plea, as a filmmaker, for empathy, for compassion and for all that is beautiful in diversity in this culturally fractured world. Jasmine Road is a portrait of racially diverse characters coming to terms with universal themes of familial love, loss, identity, recent migration/immigration, and compassionate acceptance of others. The current political climate worldwide has countries (and political leaders) closing their borders or reducing access to them from refugees. This is a time of growing animosity towards “the other/strangers”. Jasmine Road is an olive branch of universal acceptance towards others. The film is a small detailed story which celebrates inclusiveness. Although Jasmine Road is set in a tiny rural corner against the vast Canadian Rockies, the challenges faced by the film’s characters (both Canadian and refugee) is a world-wide story, happening in real time in many countries. Immigration and nationalist populism are the primary issues facing our collective socio-political futures. These immigration challenges are sadly tied to fanaticism, racial intolerance/hatred, and employment/survival. These are as very real dilemmas in Canada as they are in Europe, South America, the middle east, Asia, indeed worldwide. Within this current contextual darkness, Jasmine Road explores the possibility for life’s lightness balanced against small human struggles, pitting political realities against the poignancy of a family story touched by an element of magic realism. Jasmine Road represents my deepening quest for an empathetic humanism in my filmmaking, where subtlety, understatement, family, love and society intersect.