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Wholesome Foods, I Love You... Is That OK?

Touted "Slacker for millennial women", WFILY is the award winning comedy about a neurotic yoga teacher who sets out in search of love… at her favorite organic supermarket. A coming of age story - for people of a certain age - Wholesome Foods, I Love You... Is That OK? reminds us all that love, laughter, and a willingness take risks are the best remedies of all.

“[...] With a sly satiric sensibility that recalls the absurdist comedy of Mindy Kaling’s The Mindy Project and — in Hovsepian’s hilarious onscreen musings — the stammering, stream-of-consciousness whimsy of comedian Ellen DeGeneres...” - THE TORONTO STAR

  • Mazi Khalighi
    Director
    Clusterf*ck, Foraldaskrap, The Date
  • Krista Hovsepian
    Director
    fête, flow, good morning/goodnight
  • Patricia Marcoccia
    Director
    Shut Him Down
  • Tricia Lee
    Director
    Meeting Mommy, Blood Riders, The Room in the Elephant
  • Krista Hovsepian
    Writer
    fête, flow, good morning/goodnight
  • Krista Hovsepian
    Producer
    fête, flow, good morning/goodnight
  • Cailleah Scott-Grimes
    Producer
    She Got Game
  • Daniel De Santo
    Producer
    The Meaning of Life, The Dating Guy
  • Krista Hovsepian
    Key Cast
    "Julia"
    The Listener, The Date, fête
  • Daniel De Santo
    Key Cast
    "Marko"
    Mean Girls, Boondock Saints ll, The Indian Detective
  • Chris George
    Key Cast
    "Cartwright"
    Reign, Ransom, Spun Out
  • Jenny Raven
    Key Cast
    "Veronica"
    Designated Survivor, Black Mirror, Flatliners
  • Samara Stern
    Key Cast
    "Alex"
    Meeting Jeff, Manhattan Undying
  • Kyle Buchanan
    Key Cast
    "Fred"
    Suits, Lost Girl
  • Katerina Vitkoff
    Supporting Cast
    You Got Trumped
  • Angela Besharah
    Supporting Cast
    Bitten, The Kennedys
  • Tennille Read
    Supporting Cast
    Schitt's Creek, Condor
  • Danika Brysha
    Supporting Cast
    IMG Model/Wellness Influencer
  • Richard Waugh
    Supporting Cast
    Designated Survivor, Resident Evil
  • Connie Wang
    Supporting Cast
    Tokens on Call, Odd Squad
  • Navi Dhanoa
    Supporting Cast
    Taken, Warehouse 13
  • Margaret Lamarre
    Supporting Cast
    Open Heart, Hemlock Grove
  • Nina Rausch
    Supporting Cast
    Orange is the New Black, Mad Men, NCIS
  • Sana Asad
    Supporting Cast
    Kim's Convenience, Conviction
  • Aniela Kurylo
    Supporting Cast
    Man Seeking Woman, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
  • Freya Ravensbergen
    Supporting Cast
    Covert Affairs, Fucking My Way Back Home
  • Aniko Kaszas
    Supporting Cast
    The Umbrella Academy, Murdoch Mysteries
  • Cailleah Scott-Grimes
    Editor
    She Got Game, Slut or Nut
  • Danielle Thorn
    Cinematographer
  • Patricia Marcoccia
    Cinematographer
  • Max Segal
    Cinematographer
  • Cailleah Scott-Grimes
    Cinematographer
  • Sara Bortolon-Vettor
    Composer
  • Ferdelle Capistrano
    Music Supervisor
  • Bret Killoran
    Re-recording Mixer/SFX
  • Chris Russell
    Re-recording Mixer/SFX
  • Bojan Nedic
    Colorist
  • Sara Bortlon-Vettor
    Location Sound
  • Jeff Chapman
    Location Sound
  • Adam Laycock
    Location Sound
  • Stephen Lynch
    Location Sound
  • Cailleah Scott-Grimes
    Camera Operators
  • Marcus Lopez
    Camera Operators
  • Chris George
    1st AD
  • Project Type:
    Web / New Media
  • Genres:
    Comedy, Romance, Drama
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 32 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    April 25, 2018
  • Production Budget:
    185,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    AVCHD
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Miami Web Fest 2021
    Miami
    United States
    May 15, 2021
    Official Selection
  • Montreal Digital Web Fest 2020
    Montreal
    Canada
    September 12, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Bogotá Web Fest 2020
    Bogotá
    Colombia
    April 2, 2020
    South American Premiere
    Official Selection, Nominee: Best Int'l Comedy
  • Côte d'Azur Web Fest 2020
    Cannes
    France
    May 20, 2020
    Award Winner: Best Writing - Comedy, Official Selection
  • Santa Monica Web Fest 2020
    Santa Monica
    United States
    June 6, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Apulia Web Fest 2020
    Puglia
    Italy
    May 30, 2020
    Direct Selection via NJ Web Fest, Nominee: Best Comedy
  • Asia Web Awards 2019
    Seoul
    Korea, Republic of
    December 14, 2019
    Winner: Best Supporting Actress - Katerina Vitkoff, Early Bird Official Selection, Nominee: Best Comedy, Best Actress in a Comedy: Krista Hovsepian, Best Actor in a Comedy: Daniel De Santo, Best Supporting Actress: Katerina Vitkoff, Best Supporting Actor: Richard Waugh
  • Baltimore Next Media Web Fest 2019
    Baltimore
    United States
    November 3, 2019
    Official Selection
  • Minnesota Web Fest 2019
    Minneapolis
    United States
    September 26, 2019
    Official Selection, Nominee: Best Sitcom, Best Comedic Performance - Krista Hovsepian, Best Cinematography
  • NJ Web Fest 2019
    Montclair, NJ
    United States
    September 20, 2019
    Official Selection, Nominee: Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor - Comedy
  • Seoul Web Fest 2019
    Seoul
    Korea, Republic of
    August 22, 2019
    Asian Premiere
    Official Selection, Winner: Best Ensemble, Nominee: Best Dramedy, Best Ensemble, Best Actress: Krista Hovsepian, Best Supporting Actress: Angela Besharah, Best Supporting Actor: Richard Waugh
  • Indie Series Awards
    Burbank, CA
    United States
    April 3, 2019
    Nominee: Best supporting actor, supporting actress, and guest star in a comedy
  • Sicily Web Fest 2019
    Sicily
    Italy
    August 8, 2019
    European Premiere
    Official Selection, Winner: Best Actress - Krista Hovsepian
  • Miami Web Fest 2019
    Miami, FL
    United States
    May 2, 2019
    Nominee: Best Comedy & Best Comedic Actress, New Media Star Selection
  • NYC Web Fest 2018
    New York
    United States
    November 8, 2018
    Festival Premiere
    Official Selection
Distribution Information
  • Amazon Prime
    Country: United States
    Country: United Kingdom
  • Seeka TV
    Country: Worldwide
Director Biography - Mazi Khalighi, Krista Hovsepian, Patricia Marcoccia, Tricia Lee

MAZI KHALIGHI is an Iranian/Canadian filmmaker who immigrated to Toronto as a refugee at the age of four. Through his production company, Verbal Pictures, Mazi has written, directed and produced several award winning short films, web series and a growing number of music videos. He’s currently developing a slate of original projects while continuing to pursue his many creative and business endeavors. His most award-winning and ambitious project to date, entitled Clusterf*ck, is doing the festival circuit along with his latest short, Foraldaskrap, which premiered at Whistler.

KRISTA HOVSEPIAN is an award-winning Canadian storyteller of Armenian and German descent living in LA. She has predominantly worked as an actress, writer, cinematographer, and documentarian. She holds a BFA in Image Arts: Photography & Film from Ryerson University, and an MA in Visual & Media Anthropology from the Free University of Berlin. Her experimental ethnographic doc, flow, screened as part of the Culture Unplugged Film Festival. She recently directed her sophomore series, fête, and is one of Women in Film's 2019 mentorship circle mentees in the actor/content creator cohort under the mentorship of Sarah Finn (Casting at Marvel).

PATRICIA MARCOCCIA's professional background includes seven years of interdisciplinary experience as a documentary filmmaker, journalist, and digital media producer in Toronto. Her collaborative work includes a Telefilm multi-city national workshop series on online marketing and multiplatform distribution for film, and Melting Silos, a development workshop sponsored by Telefilm, NFB, CMPA, and BC Film designed to bridge the gap between narrative creators and digital programmers. Her recent documentary, Shut Him Down: The Jordan Peterson Story, has received international acclaim and was created in association with the CBC.

TRICIA LEE is an accomplished Chinese-Canadian director living in Los Angeles. She has sold projects to Hulu, NBC Universal’s Chiller Network and Superchannel, as well as premiering at Cannes. Recent dramatic short films include Meeting Mommy (starring Simu Liu from Taken, Kim’s Convenience) and Affection (starring Steve Lund from Bitten, Reign and Steph Song from Blood and Water, Smallville). Tricia completed the Corus Diversity TV Director’s Program through the National Screen Institute in Canada. and was selected to participate in the NBC Universal Development Incubator as well as the Whistler Feature Lab. She is attached to direct an upcoming feature for Viola Davis' production company this year.

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Director Statement

Where do I even begin? This show is my baby. While it's customary to include a director’s statement, this project is unique in that we have four directors. So I thought, hey, I created this. I wrote it. I’m the EP. I star in it. Why not take the lead on this part too?

I can honestly say that I’ve never been as proud of any of my creations as I am of this one. Never have I worn so many hats on one project alone…and never has the creative process been so deeply fulfilling. I’m talking soul-nourishing stuff here.

The process has come with huge learning curves for me, both personally and as an artist. Both in terms of learning to let go and trust the process, and also in terms of knowing when to put my foot down, to really stand my ground.

I’ve learned the importance of ensuring that collaborative work feels mutually beneficial. And that, as a neurotic-only-child-control-freak, it’s impossible to do it all alone.

I’ve learned that having passionate, trustworthy co-creators is everything - especially when those co-creators are working professionals who are accustomed to being paid union rates, but are willing to volunteer their time to help bring your vision to life.

I’ve cultivated a more robust understanding of what it means to express true gratitude, and how amazing it feels to have the unwavering support of so many brilliantly talented people who believe all that you do.

I realized early on that the key to avoiding discord was to keep people looped in - to ask for input, to create space for contributors to throw their wackiest ideas out, for actors to improvise, to give everyone’s creativity room to breathe. And then to tune into my Self to figure out how to maintain the integrity of my vision, too.

It was vital to me to create multi-dimensional characters instead of trying to fit each one into an easily labelled category as many shows do. That’s not real life, that’s not what being human is about.

The more I spoke to women in our target audience about this need for multidimensionality within female characters, the more I realized how hungry viewers are for just that. I didn’t want to put pressure on myself - or on my actors - to have to create representations of humans that were wholly likable, but rather the goal was to let feelings flow, to let it get messy. I think we’re all doing our best in life, but we’re also making it up as we go along. There’s this constant pressure to make it seem like we’ve got it all together, like we’ve got it all figured out. There’s freedom in owning the uncertainty.

Having lived with these characters for the past three years, I’m beyond excited to be launching them into this big old world of ours. I’m crossing my fingers that they’ll find their way into the hearts of whoever it is that needs them the most. - Krista Hovsepian