Sarah Gadon x Amanda Fix | Talent x Talent Conversation | TIFF 2023

Sarah Gadon and co-star Amanda Fix star in North of Normal and they joined us in Studio 9 to discuss the first time they met, working with women filmmakers, and share some interesting facts about themselves. Catch them in Carly Stone’s #TIFF22 gem now playing at TIFF Bell Lightbox. Based on Cea Sunrise Person’s memoir, Carly Stone’s accomplished North of Normal recounts the author’s tumultuous, unconventional childhood. In the 1970s, Cea’s hippie grandparents, Grandpa Dick (Robert Carlyle) and Grandma Jeanne (Janet Porter), flee the repressive climes of the United States for the untrammelled wilds of Alberta and British Columbia with Cea and her teenage mother, Michelle (Sarah Gadon), in tow. Surrounded by perma-stoned adults acting with little regard for any conventions (especially sexual ones), Cea lives a blissfully ignorant, near idyllic life. But when Michelle tires of her father’s criticisms, mother and daughter find themselves living nomadically on the margins of society. Caught between h