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Toronto-based writer/director Cassandra Nicolaou has been making movies since 1995. Her award-winning shorts include WHY I'LL NEVER TRUST YOU (IN 200 WORDS OR LESS), DANCE WITH ME and WHEN SHE COMES BACK. Her films have screened at hundreds of international festivals and have been licensed for broadcast and home video/DVD distribution throughout North America and the UK.

Her most recent short film INTERVIEWS WITH MY NEXT GIRLFRIEND has been a particular favourite of both audiences and critics, picking up 11 festival awards and a 2003 Gemini Nomination for Best Short Program. It features a memorable cast of some of Canada’s finest comic actresses including Ann-Marie MacDonald, Cara Pifko, Diane Flacks and Shoshana Sperling.

Nicolaou is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre’s Directors’ Lab. SHOW ME is her first feature film.

Howard Fraiberg is a producer living in Toronto. His first documentary, Class Queers, premiered on CBC Newsworld’s Rough Cuts in April 2003 to wide acclaim. That same year, he produced a Bravofact funded short film Cross Talk.

Currently Fraiberg is in pre-production on a short drama, Small Avalanches, based on a story by Joyce Carol Oates. In development is a new feature from Cassandra Nicolaou, a documentary about the fat activist troupe Pretty, Porky and Pissed-Off, and a six-part series on teenagers inspired by the stories from Class Queers

The Feature Film Project (the “FFP”) was established by the Canadian Film Centre in the summer of 1992 as a not-for-profit programme dedicated to overseeing and providing 100% of the financing and mentorship needed for the successful development, production and marketing of low-budget dramatic feature films for first-time filmmakers.

Designed to further enhance the Film Centre’s national mission in advancing and serving Canadian talent, the FFP has afforded 73 writers, producers and directors and hundreds of professional actors and technicians the opportunity to test their skills and prove their creative talents on 16 features including Blood & Donuts (’93), Rude (’94), Cube (’97), The Uncles (’00), The Art Of Woo (’01), Khaled (’02), Show Me (’04), Head Games (’04) and Siblings (’04).  The Film Centre was founded in 1988 by Canadian-born Academy Award-winning filmmaker Norman Jewison.

The FFP is committed to serving the Canadian film community by driving forward the storytelling abilities, creativity, innovation and excellence of Canada’s best talent.  The films executive produced through the FFP have been screened at and selected by prestigious festivals around the world (including Cannes and the Toronto International Film Festival) and released commercially in Canada as well as major territories internationally to numerous awards and achievements.

Saul Pincus has edited such feature films as Hide and Seek (1999), My 5 Wives (2000), Going Back (2001), Rub & Tug (2002), and Direct Action (2004).

On many of these pictures, he supervised the creation of the film’s musical scores and visual effects. He has also edited or consulted on the editing of Cassandra Nicolaou’s award-winning short films Dance With Me and Interviews With My Next Girlfriend.

In the dual role of Associate Producer and Editor on SHOW ME, Pincus functioned as a creative producer in addition to cutting the picture. He consulted on the script and the film’s casting needs, brainstormed with producer Fraiberg on budget and organizational issues and managed the film’s post-production.

Cassandra Nicolaou
Writer/Director


Howard Fraiberg
Producer


The Feature Film Project/Justine Whyte
Executive Producer

Saul Pincus

Associate Producer