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Amy Nostbakken Co-artistic director of Quote Unquote Collective and a core member of the international company Theatre Ad Infinitum.
- Tell Us About Yourself and Mouthpiece The Film.
- What Was It Like to Premiere at Tiff?
- How Did You Come Up with The Idea of Mouthpiece?
- How Does The Screenplay Differ from The Play?
- Can You Talk About The Other Women Involved in The Film?
- Can You Speak to The Music in The Film?
- Would You Do More Film?
- What Are You Working on Now/Next?
Norah Sadava: Both Amy and I went to school for physical theatre, we have a background in live performance. Physical theatre is kind of a broad term but it means we start by using our bodies instead of writing things down. We work from improvisation a lot. Amy went to school in France at a renowned school called École Jacques Lecoq, he was the gran...
NS:It was wild! It was a totally incredible experience for both of us. We went from nothing to the apex of film. We were the opening film of the Gala Presentations so it was a real honour for us to be in that position at the festival. We got to meet so many interesting people and mostly we just got so many eyes on the project. We’re both so used to...
NS:We were writing a play about two women, well, we were writing a play about female relationships, mother-daughter, lovers, friends and the very specific relationships that women have with each other that is both seeped in beauty and special closeness that can also be very good. We were trying to write that play and we were hitting a wall. We were...
NS:It was really fun. We got to expand a lot of things. They play is an hour, a tight, tight sixty minutes and we play her aunt and her friend and people calling and apologizing and we get to embody all those different people in her life. When we started writing the screenplay it had Patricia and Patricia has the experience of being a mother and be...
NS: Oh yeah so many! Our producers Christina Piovesan and Jennifer Shin are really incredible. They were really involved in the creative development of the script. Our DP Catherine Lutes is the best, she’s the best! It was such a collaborative and connected relationship working with her. Zazu Myers was the art director who blew us out of the water ...
NS:The play is really musical and is mostly just Amy and I singing in harmony acapella. When we were translating it into the movie we wanted to maintain the power of the female voice. The unfiltered, unadulterated woman's voice. Singing is so important to the nature of what this work is about so we wanted to make sure that crossed over into the fil...
NS: We are really interested in storytelling and whatever route that takes. I think that we’re really interested in creating new things. We’re dipping our feet into a few things and feeling out what the next project is. We loved making this film, we had such a good time. Patricia was a pleasure and a joy to work with. We also loved the tools, there...
NS:We have a play in development about childcare and we have started conceiving a TV project as well that is about egg freezing.
Amy Nostbakken. Writer: Mouthpiece. Amy Nostbakken is known for Mouthpiece (2018) and The New Canada (2016).
- Writer, Composer, Actress
- Amy Nostbakken
Amy Nostbakken is an award-winning playwright, performer and composer. She is co-artistic director of Quote Unquote Collective in Toronto. Amy has been a part of numerous Ad Infinitum projects including The Big Smoke, Ballad of The Burning Star and Bucket List.
Mar 16, 2021 · The film is based on a theatrical play by (and starring) Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava. It centres on Cassandra, a woman as she struggles, sometimes numbly, sometimes raucously, with the ...
Jan 25, 2017 · Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava's Mouthpiece is a journey into the female psyche — one that didn't reveal itself to them until they were creating it.
Sep 28, 2020 · Director Patricia Rozema and actors Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava, all of whom co-wrote Mouthpiece together, discuss adapting Mouthpiece from stage to screen, telling an unapologetically Canadian and feminist story, and much more.
